This is a great idea for a module - nothing flashy, just solid. I imagine the majority of eurorack users have set up this kind of signal flow a million times.
I've been impressed with Befaco's designs-- really love their Burst module and I keep thinking of new ways to use the Muxlicer. Everything seems well thought out and there are lots of smart ideas I've not seen elsewhere. And this one is another good example of that.
I agree, I just realized the other day you could almost use the Muxlicer like a custom envelope for modulation. Also, yeah, the Burst module is essentially a generative essential in my book. I’ve loved everything I’ve bought from Befaco.
Out of curiosity Ben, what do you use for your trigger sequencer? I’m sure there’s a lot going on behind the scenes but your rhythms/beats always seem so effortless. Like, “oh, just threw this together” and it sounds better than most of what I come up with. 😆 Great demo as usual, thanks!
Hi Mason, they usually are threw together as I don't get time to finesse things really for making demos as it would if I was just working on productions or something. But to answer the question it's often a range of things. I like euclidean generators, clock dividers (sometimes with logic), Grids from Mutable Instruments, lots of Winter Modular Eloquencer going on, older videos might be a Beatstep Pro, could be the SWT16 from Robaux ... more recently Stolperbeats from Making Sound Machines. I'm usually pretty happy with whatever is close by and I try to change it up a bit. Drums were my first instrument gigged a tonne, drum sounds and beats were my first sound design and sample/loop making jobs after getting into production and I taught drums as my main job for a long time. So probably some inner drummer stuff going on. Not to inflate my own ego or anything, just saying drums has been a big part of my musical life since the beginning.
Hi, thanks for keeping us up-to-date on the modules as always! Love some of your patches too! So I would compare this to Punch V3, but this is a 4 way instead of 2 way.. with volume controls... would you say they are the two closest modules in this category? I have kickall, twincussion, and punch v3... I am telling myself this would be redundant :) Cheers, keep safe and healthy!
can this be used as a more traditional VCA for CV signals? looking to add another quad VCA (already have QMMG) and this looks awesome if i could use it for audio as well as CV
So this is similar to qty 2 bastl skis, but with choke function and 'strength' function? I'd like to see envelope outs compared between the two to see which is more snappy attack
you can break the functions down and remake it for the most part. The choking will be more complex and involve more modules. But quad decay envelopes, quad VCA, mixer. The reason this is as good as it is, is having all that to hand in a performable way on one module.
no there's no manual level control outside the decay envelope. The way I've been doing that is to just trigger the decay envelopes with the time up full.
yeah just anything really clocks, spare gate sequences etc. It's fun to use an already rhythmic sound (processed with envelopes and VCAs etc) but then use this to carve into the already rhythmic thing. Double gating is how that's often referred to.
The answer is no, it was verified in the stream chat and I've now built one and added it despite this. So not a deal breaker just an independent module.
Normally I love you demonstrations and can easily follow along, but fore this one I thought the pace of what you was demonstrating to be too fast and hard to follow.
