Amazing! 0-Control seems like a lot of fun! I’d love to collect one at some point! I love the focussed setups! They really pull a lot out of each module!

Goodness! Thank you so so much! I’m happy to keep making em! So many more ideas! Take care!

oh wait, youre a trans man, huh? sorry about that <3 respect

Not sure a synth video deems it necessary you know bits about my personal life but nah I’m straight. Is this meant to be an insult? I’m quite possibly autistic. Cheers goes out to the 2SLGBTQIA community celebrating pride month!

Thanks so much! Love that you’re into the videos and format! If you ever dive into eurorack, I hope it’s a really fun journey! Let me know if you ever have questions. If I know the answer or have any experience, I’m happy to share! Thanks for watching!

Also I'm amazed in front of the Triple Steeple. It's very powerful just like most of their modules.

Very much agree! Such a good balance! It makes their modules so compelling to use. Thanks so much for watching! Glad you’re digging the vids!

@@raktNewsletter Absolutely! It’s much more than just a stacked 3x envelopes and I love that!

My pleasure! These were really great modules to explore and yeah, like I said, we’re only at the beginning in terms of music I’ll be making with them. Super stoked about them!

Thank you again for sending them!

Thanks so much! Yeah! Double feature seemed like the best way to tackle this one as they played off each other so well and also they went into the case at the same time!

Woah! Thank you so very much! I love making stuff like this and the heart of any of the videos are the patches. I love putting together a compelling patch with whatever I might have on hand and as I learn and craft, I love sharing it! I hope I can continue to push it with good patches and stay creative and lively on the video side too. I think I’m slowly getting better at scripting and having more clarity or easier edits and have chilled out a touch on the many extra shots but only for a bit. I’m looking forward to the next full one coming up and I just uploaded one yesterday with a jam video in about a week. Honestly it’s a joy for me learning video stuff and to be able to share these many thoughts about modular and my experience that go on in my head. Thanks so much for watching and the kind words!

Thanks so much! The music I typically listen to has lots of changes in variation and beat so I wanted whatever I created in modular to have similar elements of flexibility and playability. I continue to be excited about gaining more playability in variation and control in the case. That and learning how to play patches for wider dynamics. So glad you’re liking what I’m putting out! Thanks for watching!

Thanks so much! So happy you enjoyed it! I tried to cover everything! More exploration in fm and pm will bring about more useful results and there more modes in use for Triple Steeple in the upcoming jams video. It may have a brief overview of each patch but I’ll try to keep in pretty simple so I can jump into work on my next video! Thanks so much for watching!

Thank you for the detailed answer. I am very excited about the next videos with this quality, I will be very happy to watch them here and give them a thumbs up. I'm particularly interested in the Shakmat Triple Steeple, as many people always talk about the Quadrax, but I think the Shakmat Triple Steeple is the cooler of the two ;-)

@@mit136speichenumdiewelt well, you can look forward to many videos with the Triple Steeple patched up as that’ll be my envelope module going forward. There’s some excellent additional patch ideas in the manual too! Brilliant how it works!

I already can't wait for that. You explain it really well . Rarely seen it like this in this context.

Thanks! So glad you enjoyed the walkthroughs! I think those are the hardest parts of these videos to do. I always want to make sure they are as smooth and clear as it can be. Wish I had had a lowpass gate in the case for the first demo though as the unfiltered saw for that long probably got a bit grating on the ears. Thanks for the sub.

Thanks so much! Yes the list can get rather long eh? Both of those are great modules! Good luck with the work! It took me a while to save for the Bard and even then, it was some funds as a birthday gift that made it happen. One of my faves for sure!

I agree! Very much digging the Shakmat stuff in my case!

Thank you so much! So glad you like em! I’m finding this size really fun and capable. So good to hear of so many others that are Shakmat fans! Dual Dagger looks sweet! So smart how the patching works on that. I remember watching a video on it and was so impressed at the depth! Anything coming out soon from them you’re looking forward to? They just keep creating!

@@turbotambourine yeah I really like Dual Dagger, such a smooth stereo filter with clever inputs, it has the same knobs that Triple Steeple so it´s very playable. definitely a keeper. I´m looking forward to Ballista Blast, because seems to be really versatile, can´t wait to get one.

@@pablobarria296 yeah! The knobs on the Shakmat stuff are some of my fave. Very smooth and sturdy. Ballista Blast looks awesome! Can’t wait to see a full run down of it on their channel as it nears release. From the demo’s I heard, it seems to have a ton of range.

@@turbotambourine that unison super saw and fm sounds amazing. I hope you could get one for a review, that would be so cool!

@@pablobarria296 that would definitely be a lot of fun! We’ll see!

Nice! They did so many things right with the Bard! Love that! I haven’t messed with the Mod Medusa as of yet but can only imagine it to be wonderful! What is something about it that you find you use a lot? Feel like I’m going to have to take another look at that manual!

@@turbotambourine rhythmic, euclidian modulation. very performable since you can easily change the shapes with knobs and you can't really go wrong!

@@bluenautilus I love that! Definitely something I’ve come to appreciate in patches, just setting things up for playability. I seem to like twisting knobs to positions more than timing button presses.

@@turbotambourineSecond this comment, I've really enjoyed Mod Medusa, it has way more capability than I've been able to realize, but it is musically cool to have the ability to form modulations/lfos that can vary in shape or other parameters but are rooted in a clock so even as they move they maintain that anchor with the form of the music

@@aquarelasof love that! It’s more powerful than you first think and I think this approach is a really wonderful one. It feels like you’re still able to embrace that variability of modular while maintaining intension. Thanks for letting me know about this! I’ll need to be on the hunt for one. I have a couple things on the list. Haha a couple…

Thanks so much! I agree! Their modules make big difference when it comes to making music. I’ll continue to keep my eyes open for releases from them. I’m gonna need a b-case though at this rate. I’d be stoked to set something up and get into Bard a bit more deep!

@@turbotambourine Time for a 7u case!

@@jeejeeBlaps 😂 the groovebox might grow. Of course at that point I’d have to do some side-by-side size comparisons!

@@jeejeeBlaps to a regular groovebox that is.

Thanks so much! It’s really cool! Didn’t think I’d be so stoked on the extra modes on it. Just having the 3 envelopes is great! What’s your fave thing about it?

@@turbotambourine So much power in such a small HP. I also love the fact that attack and release scale together.. 😊

@@Probbie agreed! Yeah the attack and decay scaling together is so nice! It keeps the intension pretty well intact.

Of course! It’s a travel eurorack setup. To be honest, I get motion sick on flights but say if I didn’t there are many other portables if I absolutely needed something while on the flight. The main purpose of this was to patch with my buddy and I don’t have another way of making music. I’ve been considering a hardware tracker for noodling but modular is definitely my go to.

Thanks so much! Agreed! I feel like with the right modules it’s easy to just get into it and get lost in creating.

Thanks! Love that! If you ever want any input on modular synth stuff if that’s the path you choose, feel free to message me with any questions. I can only answer from my perspective but sometimes it’s helpful to have person instead of a whole forum etc haha.

Nope! Zero relation! I’m in Canada but am Jamaican Chinese. Ricky’s awesome though! That’d be cool. I actually wonder who’s older haha.

So fair! I feel like that would be cool info for Shakmat to include. A friend of mine got this info from them. Table 1: from CO to D#0 2: E0 to C1 3 : C#1 to A1 4: A#1 to F2 5: F#2 to D3 6: D#3 to B3 7: C4 to G4 To clarify, those note ranges can be represented in volts as well if you follow the 1v/oct scale. Also, make sure that if you’re using those values that you have the harmony knob set to full counter clockwise as I believe it will act as an offset. I what the logic was of breaking it down in this way and not just having 8 octaves. If it were broken in 8 octaves you’d be able to feed your pre quantized values into harmony and thus be able to create non-octave repeating scales, so ones that take modes into account. Want me to follow up with Shakmat more about this? You’re the second person who’s mentioned it. Also, do you already have one or are looking at one?

Feel free to DM me on insta if that’s an easier place to have back and forth and figure this out for ya!

​@@turbotambourine ​ Thanks for the response. I've had a BQ for a while with expander, and I love it. What I'm trying to accomplish (using BQ or something else) is this: I want to use CV (gate/trigger/offset) to automatically transpose my melodic sequence musically in key. For example, let's say I've got a melodic CV sequence going in the key of "C" I want to use a gate/CV signal to automatically transpose the sequence up a 4th to "F" for 16 bars, then another gate/CV signal to automatically transpose it up again to "G" for 8 bars, then a final signal to automatically transpose back down to the original "C." I don't want to turn knobs manually, I want to program it to happen automatically (or perhaps randomly). I could perhaps use some adders, transposers and a sequential switch, but it gets complicated pretty fast. I thought BQ might be a better solution. Here's my idea: If I put my "C" quantization on Harmony 1, my "F" quantization of it on Harmony 2, and my "G" quantization of it on Harmony 3, then all I need is a single CV signal into the Harm input to move it along from harmony to harmony, essentially "transposing" the sequence. Less modules and less patching. Just so I have this straight: If I want the Harm input to jump from harmony 1 to 2, I need to feed it a pitch CV note that is somewhere between E0 to C1? What about just a standard CV offset value in volts? Can it just be a single note that bumps it up, or does that note have to sustain as long as I want the harmony? I emailed Shakmat, but they're probably at SuperBooth this week.

@@JayHughes-zv5qr I have another way at it but let me know if it doesn’t work musically for you. My knowledge in terms of theory is rather limited. By you mentioning you’d like to transpose your sequence up to the 4th, to me that would be just applying offset cv to that initial cv sequence in the time divisions you are hoping for. Is that what you’d like to do? You can use the transpose in on the quantizer and have that effect any or all of the channels and you can choose to do that via octave, pre-quantizer, or post-quantizer. Are you familiar with that setting and the menu? So you’d need 2 or 3 things to make that happen: 1) a cv sequencer that you can put in those voltages to offset the voltage up or down. 2) that sequencer needs to be running slower than the clock. That could be within the module (varigate has a div function) or with a clock divider. You just want to send that transposing sequence into the transpose in on the Bard. Then to activate the transposition, select the channel in question and press Edit to go into the Edit Menu. Then on the keyboard section bottom right quadrant you’ll see 3 options. The middle one is pre-quantizer. Press that one. Now any voltage above would transposing that whole cv sequence up. Now you just need to set up the cv values on that transpose sequence and you’re in business. You can make the length of that however long and epic as you want or it could be just the 3 transposition.

@@JayHughes-zv5qr If you want to utilize the minimal amount of modules though and you have the facilities to send just a gate pattern for transposition, you could use another channel of the Bard Quartet in arp mode. Set it to 0 octaves on the Edit Menu and 0 octaves on the Apr Menu, key in the notes that correspond with your transposition and then you can just send that channel a trigger to advance to the next note and then you want to send the out of that arp channel to the transpose TRSP in. Then have the channel receiving CV set up the same as my previous reply. Does this make some sense? Or does it work for your use? I love using it for transposing sequences or changing simple sequences over time. I was considering getting something like Ana 2 so I can also bring the upper limit of notes down or up while leaving the sequence in tact. I’m sure there might be a less involved module to do that also, still learning though. Might do a dive at some point to sleuth something out.

Thanks so much! I love that! That’s my hope for the videos. As much as modular can be about getting together that perfect system, I love how lost in music you can get with fewer modules than you think. That’s where a lot of fun is as relationships are almost guaranteed. And so glad the effort of the video stuff shows well. I really have liked learning more about that side to tell more cohesive “stories” etc too. Working on the next video and hoping it’s up in time for superbooth but we’ll see.

Thank you!!! Such a fun one! I love just discovering little melodies! Thanks for watching!

Just curious about what your question might be. Happy to answer though.

Haha thanks! Well, I cut out a lot of the parts that no one would want to hear. 😂 Cool to hear you’re building! Do you mean a case or modules themselves? Let me know if you have any questions you think I can help with!

Something you should try next… veils isn’t just a VCA it’s also a mixer. Patch in the output of bard quartet AND the steppy. Boom. They are added together. Chicken setting common melody, steppy offsetting for key changes. Get them out of phase with a prime number and whoooowheee. Ear candy.

I agree! Great idea with musical results! Yeah! That’s smart re steppy and prime numbers! And also could be interesting depending on the gate length of steppy as well! I could also requantize that if pitches were getting a bit off. I was doing some transposing on the Bard but you could definitely set up multiple harmonies on it too and cv that instead. I figured not to get too in-depth on Bard though for this one. Rare mind you I love setting up Harmony and chord changes that way especially as it can also have full octave shifts. There’s also a way to change root note so I should figure that out!

Thanks so much! I love squeezing what I can out of them while having good control over them. It would probably be a fun experiment to see how generative things could get in this case actually!!! I love compact sequencers! So much opportunity to get creative and build cool workflows off of them. And you have more space to do it!

Exactly! I think the collection of modules has been made one at a time, each really focussed on the idea of which module out of a couple options would enable patches to expand in interesting ways. I feel a couple gaps while patching but you can’t really notice in the jams cause I think it is fairly balanced. I would be happy with some additional attenuverting. I also really want a 1 in 2 out switch of sorts. I think the branches clone “Flip” would be really cool for this use cause it has a couple different modes with it’s function, one of which is probability. I think that’s just an example of my approach though, it may add one thing but compounding on the functions of the other modules, there’s lots of possibilities on where to use that. Another gap might be mixing haha. Veils is pulling a lot of weight here! Mixing in 1u is trickier especially as having something stereo would be sweet. Prox might be a good fix for that. Interested idea if you’re not familiar with it.

@@turbotambourine what do you want to mix exactly?

@@raktNewsletter oh for the 1u mixer? It’s more that I think I may not have space. For instance the STmix could fit now but not with a flip and 1u out. 🤔

@@raktNewsletter of course, I’m always up for suggestions to move about in my modular grid haha.

@@turbotambourine I meant, what type of signal do you want to mix?

Thanks so much! That was such a fun jam and it was tough to pick a section of it to show. It has a certain energy to it I just love. Makes me happy others appreciate it too! Getting to work on the next one in a couple days. I think there’s a couple new modules I’ll be swapping in. I’m excited to see where they’ll take the jams.

Thanks so much! Yeah! I almost picked up a Disting so many times! I have an ALA Baker which is a Peaks clone. I originally bought it for FM drums and now it’s mostly envelopes or LFOs. I love that it’s continued to be so useful (to the point that I haven’t bought another envelope quite yet) but sometimes the multifunction element of it made me feel like I wasn’t utilizing it to the most of it’s ability. In the end, I think multifunction modules are less my cup of tea. One exception would maybe be a Pams because of the options presented all work well together and aren’t completely different algorithms. It’s probably just that my brain likes to group functions. Undoubtedly though, the Disting platform is incredible! The sample recorder and player are not only so responsive, they’re so deep! Also brilliant the way they have the screen expander to the DX. So smart. And it uses that communication protocol from the back of the module too right! Who knows though, I will at some point need a small FX unit. Right now it’s a competition between Disting and FX Aid.

Thanks so much! Stoked you’re enjoying the videos! I’m glad that the workflow and different combinations are coming through. I think that’s something that’s really exciting about modular. There’s many ways to do very similar things and endless workflows you can use. I find I can easily get inspired by other modules or workflows that I don’t have because it gives me new things to try. I remember some Rene videos being incredible resources to even think about what was possible with sequencing. I have a couple modules to swap out for the next one but is there anything currently in the case you’d want to hear more about?

@@turbotambourine actually I just got a squarp rample, so I was really excited to see you had one as well, I would love to see any tips or workflow thoughts you have on it!

@@wildnotemusic love that! The Rample has been amazing. I’m admittedly poor at working with samples but love using it for drums. I haven’t touched on it too much as Red Means Recording has a pretty epic video on the Rample. I have an idea of doing a drum sequencing video though that might be a little while from now as I collect some more strategies. I’ll be digging more into the rample there to make use of the layers and other cv ins. I’ve also heard the sample chopping is pretty cool too. Is there anything about it you’re having trouble with or want to dig more into?

@@turbotambourine Yeah, RMR's video is good! One thing I don't think he got into much is using the chord abilities and pitch sequencing samples, which I would be very interested in. Might be something to look into!

@@wildnotemusic will do! That’s a fun idea! Chord stuff could be a blast actually. I don’t use the pitching too much but do like that Rample allows you to pitch things chromatically. Hmmm. Good thought! I’ll put this in cue I think cause I have definitely underutilized Rample and it’s capabilities could send me into pretty new territory!

Yeah! There’s so many ways to slice it! I know someone else who had just got a Hermod+, got a quad quantizer and then ended up getting back to Hermod+ as the brain of things. So curious how you’ll find it. Mind you, if it’s the original you have, it’s a bit less feature rich so maybe could use the extra help from external modules. I don’t have experience with Hermod but the + definitely has some features that are pretty sweet. That CV recording that can be played back as quantized pitch, or just modulation is suuuper cool. Mainly cause a lot of CV recorders you always have to have external scopes. Water is definitely an interesting way at it because you have differently phased cv of the same cv sequence right? With some sample and hold to have the notes change at different times, that could be really interesting especially depending on what you want and how you’re going about sequencing gates on Hermod. Add a switch, so much fun I bet. Not super deterministic mind you. Do you already have Water? So curious how this will work out and how you find it. If you ever want to chat options, I’m pretty much always down to nerd out haha.

@@turbotambourine i have the og hermod and I have struggle to get good melodies with it (even tho I think it’s a really great drum sequencer), and i’m not really a keyboard guy, and I want to use ableton less (no midi). So yeah using two chanels from water to sequence my two voices on the fly with the a156 from doepfer for quantization with some quick option to change the quantization really appeal me. I think I’m gonna stick with this plan when I get some money haha and I’d make an update in few months ! But this module really seems great for one voice, maybe in the future who knows ! Too much possibilities haha And definitively hermod + is something, I tried it on a friend’s system and it’s really good, but once again, money… probably will upgrade it in the future !

@@coopert4852 Oh yeah! I fully understand the slow changes. Money and patience haha. I like your plan a lot! It’ll offer up a pretty different workflow and a lot to play around with all together. You could also perceivably use your quantizer with sample and hold from hermod as an option to Water as well. I don’t know enough about how Hermod sequences melodies but imagine it could be worth a look. I’ve used strange workflows like sending an arp out of Bard Quartet and then passing it through attenuation and offset then putting it back into the quantizer to requantize it. Also, there’s always very simple 4 step sequencers that might be well suited to sequencing things like bass. Either way, hope you’re having fun and in the meantime, I hope you get a kick out of some stuff from hermod. I think I remember seeing an Ann Annie video with Hermod and Rings which was pretty fun.

@@turbotambourine yo ! So I have had a few patches with water + doepfer dual quantizer and I enjoy it a lot, really works for me to have so much control directly in hands. The two modes for random for water (the first one juste inverting a note and the second one creating a whole new sequence based on the value on the knobs) makes it really easy to create variations, and having 8 different stockage for drums sequencing on the hermod helps it to keep things interesting ! Gonna have to practice a lot more but it’s for sure a great combo

@@coopert4852 Love that! Funny enough, in this next video I'm working on, I decided to put Water in the case. It really is a great sequencer for hands on values, going from bipolar to unipolar and yes the randoms are great! I also like the 3 phased outputs as it presents different shifted sequences. Haven't messed with that and a switch but I feel like that would be a lot of fun as you'd be having a melodic line jump ahead and then back creating parts that get skipped and parts that will repeat. Really glad you're having success with that setup. So many ideas that pop up when you trade notes!

Thank you so much! So glad that you’re liking what I keep putting out there. Such a fun journey and I really appreciate those that watch. Heck yeah! I’m so happy my message resonates with you. Too much going on in the world to ignore, yet so much to learn. We can do so much if we stand up, unpack what came before us, learn from each other and figure out better ways forward. It’s cool to see so many young leaders standing up and speaking out. Hope in the future generations for sure! I feel like Jay Hoskings’ jams got me so stoked to check out more synths for real. Such good tunes every time! Ehsan Ghelsi too! To be put up alongside Jay means a lot to me. Appreciate that tons! Love to you to my friend!

I agree Mark! The more that I can mess with the module while I’m jamming the better!

What’s your go to compact sequencer atm?

@@turbotambourine I use Steppy as a playable gate sequence and Mimetic Digitalis into uScale for pitch. I’m more recently enjoying Rene but that’s one for a much bigger case!

@@markbooth So good! Rene is so sweet! It was some videos on Rene that made me think more critically on how I want to sequence melodies. The power of being able to control so much gate and pitch information, pitch range and cv addressing! Exciting stuff!

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I love that! Honestly, that was my first experience with modular and that was solid for like a year probably. I also went the route of buying a broken Beatstep Pro so I had some sort of hardware controller to twist some knobs. VCV Rack has come a long way in that time and with more modules popping up by great manufacturers, you really can’t go wrong. I’m a big believer in doing what works for you in the moment and making the most of it. That mentality will translate to whatever you get your hands on! Thanks for watching!

@@bastiaanvanhoorn6306 So agree! No one needs towering debt over a modular rig you’re just learning haha.

I agree! It’s a tricky module to convey because of the algorithm but I think the way it stumbles on melodies was pretty clear! It’s such a great idea and I was surprised how musical it is. Afterall, there’s a certain amount of repetition in music and this gets at some really cool bits of that. Wish I had a scope again for this video mind you to see all the different steps. I think breaking things down into a smaller case is something I’ll have to do even if I end up going to a larger case. It makes patches pretty straightforward to work around. I also bet as I continue this series I’ll come up with lots more playing strategies.

I highly suggest giving a sequencer a try if you haven’t as of yet! I had a Beatstep Pro for a while and that was fun but the flexibility of being able to move things around more freely was an amazing thing. Having a separate sequence to advance the sequencer and trigger and envelope and filter is just so much fun. Six Eyes is really great! If you don’t already have a quantizer though, I’d highly suggest that! It opens up a lot of options for simpler non-quantized sequencers. Then again, sequencers like Oct Tone, do both and can serve as a gate and pitch sequencer or just one at a time. Do you think you’d go with a larger or more compact sequencer?

@@turbotambourine A quantizer is also on my shopping list! (Along with more attenuators and filters!) I quite like the idea of a compact sequencer and I love the concepts behind Six Eyes where its less about plotting the specific notes and intervals and more about just entering some simple parameters and letting it produce the melodies for you. I bought Coherence by Metabolic Devices in the hopes it would satisfy those criteria, but I havent been able to make much sense out of it.

@@DougFromTheBayou That’s great! Ah the shopping list haha. I have one too that is ever changing. I agree! I like the way Six Eyes algorithm is pretty musical. I think part of it is strategy too around sequencing perhaps. Before I had a quantizer, things were much trickier but with a quantizer, it pulls a lot of things in line. Coherence seems like a module I’d love to see some demos of and will look them up. Seems pretty interesting for sure! I’m with you though, the more that’s sort of under the hood of something that you can’t get to makes it harder for my brain to make sense of. But if you did have a quantizer to stick after it, you could always take the pitch output from it and attenuate and offset it to different ranges which may help dial things into taste. When you get to that spot, feel free to drop another line. I’m down to help with that kinda stuff and get into stuff.

@@turbotambourine Thanks TT I will do, I'll follow you on insta now! Yeah I think a quantizer is biggest priority atm. Metabolic are an interesting company and worth following, I met them at superbooth a couple years back and theyre really friendly guys. Keep up the great videos :)

Thanks so much! And not really. This room has slowly morphed from a spare room / storage to an office and shelving has made all the difference in making it a functional space. At some point, maybe even over on Patreon, I’ll show the whole room and how it’s setup. My synth area is really just one opening and a flat surface in an Ivar 3 wide unit. It’s adjustable and fairly strong especially after you add some leveling out of the feet. (Super slanty floor in this house!) But yeah, it’s enough to hide away clutter and lots of things unrelated to synths and videos and over time I’m getting more comfy in using more of the space. You see a little more of the space in the video about the Biggest Foot. I do kind of want to add one more unit in the room for surprise, more storage, and to make that a cart that I can move about in the room offering up more flexibility in angles. Because of the little nook and having a bin right above where I film, I can’t zoom out any more haha. I think it’s an example of making the most of what you have for sure! I’ve been liking how it’s setup for the most part as the topdown stuff is always setup or very close to. Glad you liked the jam at the end. This case is so fun and the Bard is really great! Gamechanger for me!

I was the same! I was searching a while till it was announced and knew that was the one! Whats your fave feature in the Bard Quartet?

@@turbotambourine Love that it has 4 channels. I didn’t care much about the arp feature when I bought it, but have come to love that addition as well. And of course the harmony knob is great!

@@sonixivous agreed! The 4 channel was the main draw, the harmony presets have made a profound difference in my patching especially when that can effect the way the arp is set up. Kinda like all the extra uses I find for it like using it as a stepped lfo.

@@turbotambourineHave you figured out a reliable way to cycle through the harmonies using CV, like moving through chord progression? Was going to see if I could figure this out in the past then never got around to it.

Thanks so much! Yeah! I’m liking restricting to just the 4u format for the moment and having everything gelling really well. Definitely could use a couple little things in that 1u space. I don’t think when I started into modular I thought a 4u case could do as much, the joys of building up slow I guess.

@@turbotambourine yeh, I think the 1u stuff has grown a lot in the past couple years, one thing you might want to look into are 3u to 1u panels, I have 2 in my case, and have my two Ochd’s sideways up there, a great place for them, if you have the room (also probably my favourite lfos!)

@@megamodularis that’s an interesting way at it for sure! OCHD is a great module to go sideways like that! I’ll keep that in mind. Thank you!

So true! I had looked at both AE Modular and Midilar as options instead of going into eurorack but because both had small limitations, I decided to save slowly and go for eurorack. AE is really compelling and they had a bunch of classic modules at the time, some Roland style sequencers, grids, etc. Eurorack had an allure of the regular size patch cables and it being apart from a computer which I was definitely going for.

Thanks so much! I bought really slowly and looked for what I was missing at each step! Sometimes I strayed from that if there was a good reverb sale on something I was interested in but mostly I thought about how to make the 4u a solid instrument so that if I could move to a 7u later, it would extend those capabilities. The 0-Coast helped me out a lot to understand many things and still have yet to buy a lowpass gate or proper dual envelope. There were many different stages and goals along the way. A lot you can see with the older videos of the jams with the beatstep pro. After that it was getting some sequencing in the case then figuring out how to sequence within the case without getting a very large sequencer. But yeah, if you do it that way, you’ll definitely find a purpose for most modules in each patch. I’ll likely go over more detail about combinations and what might be missing and found in 1u to fit in the case in future videos. Thanks for watching! Ghost is amazing and was actually a gift! I honestly couldn’t afford to put it on my to buy list so it was a huge surprise to receive it. I also have a Mimeophon. Ghost has so many uses and offers reverb that is big with long tails and and interesting delay and a filter. I tend to use the filter as performance vs a typical filter fed by an envelope. I love the combination of distortion and reverb though and use it all the time.

Thanks so much!

Thanks so much! It’s so much fun! Now to figure out that 1u space. I have a couple ideas so far but not settled 100% yet.

Thanks so much! I really love how Six Eyes works in this small rack! It’s fun and very playable encouraging exploration vs being worried about going too far off course. It’s a very musical algorithm there and in this patch I haven’t even done any interesting resetting etc.

Thanks so much for watching! Yeah, the smallish size makes for shorter cable runs and a lot of freedom in the patching. Not too much worrying about loosing my place too. I’ve had patches in two cases where I’ve had to move them and goodness, that was stressful. I like that I can pick this up all patched up and move it around. Glad you enjoyed the jams! It was a fun one!

Thanks so much! Yeah! Big fan of Shakmat’s approach and a company to watch close! I’ve thought about a crossfader! The Intellijel one has a bunch you can patch up and it could be quite fun! I always thought having pitch cv going through a crossfader would be great as you could have one sequence, the other, or many options between. I’m not currently using the side chain in this patch because the bass actually isn’t going through Ghost (I don’t think). What I could have really used was an inverted envelope especially as I already have the bass going through veils! Creyspace (I think that’s it) has 1u2hp inverters that might be a good add to the case. I could also just apply the sidechain and take the envelope out. I think it’s attenuated by the knob though so it would need to be on whatever’s going through the effects as well. I should look closely at the latest firmware though to see if they’ve expanded that capability. Thanks for the feedback! I think that could have helped the patches a bit for sure!

@@turbotambourine Don't you have attenuverters? To me, a single inverter module is wasted space unless you use it all the time. An attenuverter will always be useful. But at the same time, you have Ghost which allows you to do exactly that! :) Your music will always sound greater with a kick sidechained to the bass. Cheers!

@@raktNewsletter so fair! Thus is the tricky bit in deciding on the rest of the 1u here. I forgot to reply as to quadratt! I think that’s a good move but I do have 3xmia so I don’t necessarily need all 4 channels. I was thinking the middle ground of a Duatt though would be great. That way I have a little more room for something else in the 1u. I was looking at After Later Audio Flip. It’s a Branches clone and would allow for some performable boolean probabilities and also interesting latching of I can remembering correctly.

@@raktNewsletter the 1u2hp inverter is an interesting ideas as I might already have an envelope for bass not running through ghost and then could use veils to apply the ducking. High cost per hp but also I may have 2hp to slide that into as 1u modules tend to be wider.

@@turbotambourine take your time. The right module will reveal itself as if by magic. The idea is to get a module that does something you can't, and that something should be something you want to do frequently ideally.

Thanks! I definitely will! Think I have a sense of what to start on for the next one!