1 Hour Generative Ambient Eurorack Modular Synth Music // Marbles // Rings // Beads // Clouds 

thanks, David - really happy to hear this

😀

Thanks - yes!

thanks, I really appreciate your kind words 🙏

cheers! glad you're feeling it 😊

Thanks! One day I'l get around to doing something like this

Cheers! glad you're feeling it 🙏

Cheers! Just a few samples of rings can go a long way

@@star.trails Feel like this is appropriate for all of modular. In the thrill of new modules we can overlook the straight-forward building blocks that make awe-inspiring ambient music. That's not to say what you have done is easy, it's an amazing beauty, feels like the skill is in the space, the gaps, the breathing.

thank you! This makes me happy to hear this 🙏

Woah! It's birthday music 🎵I love hearing coincidences like this

thank you ☺

🙏🥰

thank you, it's taken a while to get to this point

thanks 😊

thank you 🙏 much appreciated

thanks 🙏

thank you 🙏💫

you're welcome! Pleased you're feeling it

thanks, I really appreciate it. As long as there are some parameters that are set for generative playback it shouldn't go to far over the edge

cheers! Glad you enjoyed it 😊

thanks so much 😊

thanks so much, Probbie! 😊🙏

Thanks for the sub! Glad you enjoyed it. And yeah, I love the mutables too, such great tools

thanks! I have basically done that today. I did a similar patch tonight using the SWN which sounds really nice

@@star.trails Nice to see there's no dedicated reverb module in the patch. All are the included algorithms inside Beads, Clouds and Mimeophon. What's your opinion about Halo parameter? it could replace a reverb module in any way or is it too rare for that? I'm still listening to this now, hehehe, super airy and evolutive. 👏

@@music4screens I love the reverb in Beads, it's sounds so nice. The Halo reverb is kind of like a strange spring verb. I personally wouldn't have it as my only reverb in the case, others might - I guess it comes down to taste

cheers!

cheers

thank you 🙏

Thanks, David - I really appreciate your support, it means a lot to me. As a sufferer of migraines I completely understand how difficult it is to function with a headache. It's good to know that this patch helped you out 😊I will always be making music and putting it out there, it helps to keep me stay positive about life in general. I'll get this piece up onto my Bandcamp page for you sometime today.

Hey David, I uploaded this piece to my Bandcamp page, the link is in the video description.

@@star.trails Awesome! Thank you so much. I'm gonna go grab it now.

@@davidledoux1736 Thanks I'm eternally grateful 😊🙏🙏🙏

@@star.trails As am I. Have a great day!

Thanks so much 🙏🙏 ​ It can be quite intimidating at first. The best way is to always start out small, buy a few core modules and start from there. The fundamentals don't actually change from fixed architecture synths to modular synths. The same applies in modular except you connect the oscillators, envelopes, VCAs and filters with cables. ​ @Lightbath has a patreon and he does lessons. He also has a large selection on videos on his yt account. I highly recommend that you watch his ‘Joy of Patching’ videos. Part 1: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mKT5MAW1RlA.htmlsi=Ae_6Y9ar8kPnQ1di

thanks! The scale on Marbles is set to the first scale (Major). I sometimes program my own scales, but not in this instance

Thanks mate! The case is the Intellijel 7U 84HP. The other modules in it are the Disting EX, Zadar, Ripples, Plaits, 2hp Loop, Disting mk3, FX Aid XL, Veils, Ornament & Crime (1U), Intellijel Duatt 1U/Stereo Mixer 1U/Buff Mult 1U and Stereo Line Out 1U

how long did it take you to set up all the patches? How long did it take you to learn how to do it? I’d like a nice basic ambient setup like this for my plant room, but I don’t have the time to invest in learning because I have special needs children and also a full time job. Im so sorry to say, I’m so boujee (busy?) that I would love to just buy a full stack like this that’s been set up by a passionate creator and be able to ask questions here and there. Any suggestions for busy mom like me? @@star.trails

There's nothing unusual about this patch! Veils is attenuating the signal from Rings because it was coming into Mimeophon a bit too strong. Clouds is definitely active, holding a 4-second sample in its buffer with freeze mode enabled. I'm using some nice slow CVs from uTides to modulate the position and density on Clouds. uTides is also modulating Morphagene (organise) and Marbles' X bias. Zader is nice, but the developer used low-quality encoders, which makes it almost unusable. Patches don't always have to be complex. I create music that sounds good to me, and when I enjoy it, I consider it finished.

@@star.trails Aah, cool man! Thanks for explaining! :D There's definitely beauty and elegance in simplicity. Nice work. :)

thank you 🙏 The case is the 7U 84HP Performance - Stealth Black

thank you. that module beside Clouds is a Mutable Instruments clone of Tides (v2). It's from Michigan Synthworks and is a 8hp uTides. It's sending CV to density and position. CV into pos chooses the segment of the recording buffer from which the audio grains will be played. CV into density affects the grain density. In this case I'm sending a slowish sine wave to change the grain overlap.

Thanks, man. The morph has some samples (splices) of Rings. Yeah, tides and veils are great and highly recommend having them in a system.

Thanks so much 🙏💫 I'm using the major scale in this instance. Occasionally I'll put my own scale into Marbles.

@@star.trails Thank you for your answer! 🙏🙏

Thanks so much. This system is around the 2K USD point including the case.

@@star.trails ah well then not so bad, l thought modula was more expensive :)

The t2 output on Marbles is the clock output which is going into Tides clock input giving me a tempo lock between both modules. Tides is modulating the bias input on Marbles which is skewing the distribution towards low/high voltages over time with a slow sine wave. This affects the quantised note spread (higher/lower) coming out of x2. The rest of Tides outputs are modulating Clouds and Morphagene. Marble x2 is sending pitched CV to Rings.

I've actually moved to a bigger case now (Structure 420 Case). I used this case for a short period because the Make Noise case was under powered and I couldn't house the modules I wanted without power issues. The make noise case is now redundant and will be sold soon. This intellijel case now houses my Buchla 200t modules.

Yes, there's several splices of Rings on Morphagene with uTides sending CV to cycle through the splices. Clouds has it's buffer frozen with another Rings sample playing from it. Clouds position and density are receiving CV from uTides.

I have frozen the buffer. There is a 4 second granulised sample playing back (audio quality: 16kHz 8-bit µ-law stereo 4s). uTides is modulating the CV inputs of position and density. The buffer contains audio from Rings. Since I'm using rings as the main voice I've unpatched it from clouds to send directly into the Mimeophon (via veils for some attenuation). I'm operating Clouds in Granular processor mode (normal operation)

@@star.trailsEnglish please

Not necessarily. I'm using jitter to create randomness for clock timing. I'm also sending a random envelope to the bias input to bias the decision of the voltage range. Marbles acts a random generator without the t and X engaged.

it's Start Trails. But I've always thought that it could read as start rails

it's 84hp

There are some aspects to this system that are analog, however, in this patch it's nearly all digital except for the use of Veils (VCA). Veils is completely analog

It's the Intellijel 7U 84HP case. Definitely can say that it's a great case