A delightful sample and hold patch idea. 

Thoroughly excellent tip

@@mylarmelodies and if your lfo has a sync/reset input you can send it a trigger to restart the "sequence", do that every 2 bars or whatever and it's jam time :P

This!!!

I was just gonna say!

Yep this for me was the biggest revelation too!! Divkids RND Step is brilliant for this, as is Disting as you say!

@@mylarmelodies yeah I've heard good things about RND steps stability for that kinda thing (can't get one anywhere at the moment tho, Ben has said that they are having trouble sourcing chips for it) I had no doubt that you knew about that little gem :), I just thought I'd put it up there as info for other people to maybe use. as you say a lot of people just see S+H as a random thing to put on the cutoff of a filter but it can be so much more.

another little trick I like to use is have a basic CV sequence running into a mixer then have a random S+H (sampled noise) go into a quantizer then into another channel of the mixer. mix the 2 together for a constantly varying sequence that has a repeating basis. kinda like layering random on top of a repeating thing

Oh you - thanks m8, was an honour. x

They're pretty much the same thing when you think about it.

Definitely! Or a free running LFO, or anything that’s periodic really.

Yes! Didn't know about that one and another commenter mentioned it. Another thing I do know of that uses a similar trick is actually the ARP1601 sequencer random mode, back in 1976!

Ahh no it's cool - it's an experiment, I defo wondered if it would be an issue for some! Thanks for the feedback, I'm generally convinced that a static background (eg wooden table) is the sensible thing for anything where the visuals aren't the key factor!

Yep! With the Hypno doing the pattern

@@mylarmelodies I am disappointed. I was hoping that you would tell me that you literally live in a psychedelic dimension of spacetime.

Thanks!! I am but a messenger of tricks ;)

ahh yes - that’s a good point, it has a super tricked out S&H!

Nvm, I heard the Novation Circuit name dropped there. Sounded amazing, may need to get one

Yeah it’s legit good - an amazing device to combine with other devices and make small ideas making setups

Yes they're Tiptop Stackcables! And haha sorry, yes Mavis is pretty dang good, especially when you compare the cost of the included 'modules' vs buying individual Eurorack modules...

I dideded

Who’s Aphex Twin

@@mylarmelodies i don't know. I just thought youuuu know him!?

@@markus6409 No I am unfamiliar with the history of electronic music and equipment

@@mylarmelodies aphex twin is a very famous electronic music artist and he used exactly this method on various tracks, for example in the huge "analord" series. It was just an example. I am not into modular but i know what a s&h module is doing. There are some other synth that can do exactly that. Choosing the sample and hold source and rate. For example the 2600m which design is very old. I didn't like how you present this feature especially in relation to moog. You deliver it like they have created a very unique and own feature. And i think that some people received it like that when i read the comments. If you look at modular stuff there are a lot of designs worth to be integrated in the non modular synth world. Wavefolder with pre shaping circuits is a thing now. But there is a lot more and even so small things like another s/h source gets Appreciation for a reason. It isn't done maybe because we are still in the vintage hype time and most people want the old stuff back, still. Minimoog for 6k for example or prophet 10, obx8 which is a potato but with very great sound. I hope there will be a change. Why not craving for a synth with vintage sound charakteristics in the quality of prophet 5 or obx8 but with modern and more features like on polybrute and modular stuff? The best of all worlds! In my opinon the biggest proplem with synth people in relation to social media these days is that they put way more time in the synth market than in exploring the synth and synthesis in general. A synth is an exploration instrument. Explore your stuff inside out before or instead of searching or buying new stuff which you are just scratching the surface of. It needs really a lot of practice and time to know how all parameters influence each other and to know what you do. Learning subtractive synthesis in general, how it works and what the knobs do is extremely easy. But to "master" It is extremely difficult. For example i am sure most people are not aware of how big the sound potential even of synth like ob6 is. Now it is a very simple synth missing a lot features which are standard now a days but even though the sound pallette is very huge. In demos like the one from jexus you get an idea whats also possible. All in all i like your video very much for showing people stuff like that and this also in a musical context. And i really like the drums. But i don't like the presentation or the tone in relation to moog or the mavis. To come to the core: I am quite critical with synthtubers and synth influencer in general. If you are new to this game you get the idea very easy that you always need something new and that there is always somthing missing or better sounding you somehow need. Because there are a lot of channels which just contains that and nothing more.

@MB I'm not sure who you're addressing, but I guess you are new round here as I was joking. I've been doing this for nearly 25 years & once sold RDJ a Moog Modular(!) I'd also make a case that I don't think think he does use this trick much, his steppy sound is through very deliberate step sequencer programming to get the accents to hit exactly right and create specific phrasing, people think using random generators will get you the same results - only if you sample it and apply a lot of good taste. I see you're upset about the consumerist aspect of synth videos, but dear friend, this is a tutorial about exploring cyclic audio rate signals into a S&H to try and get more deliberate results, it's just using the Moog synth as a vehicle to talk about a patch idea, since it is the only semi modular synth ever made with that default routing. ARP may well have popularised S&Hs, but the 2600, and I can confirm first hand as I am sat three feet from one, has white noise as its default S&H routing which was the whole point raised in the video. You have gone on to conflate a tutorial with synth promotion in general - though that is something I do too. I'm not sure what you're hoping to achieve with the comment but if companies don't sell their gear successfully, you don't ever get to have your "best of all worlds" futuristic synth idea. Sorry you're upset, it must be very hard. You'll get over it, I'm sure.

Not really, not tried it but I bet it’s good?