Distortion, filtering, feedback and parallel processing // Expert Sleepers Pandora

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Here we have the new Pandora from Expert Sleepers. It continues the 8HP Eurorack line of analogue synth modules. Pandora is an interesting combination of vactrol based band pass filtering and MOSFET distortion. You can use it like a low and high pass, manipulate bandwidths, saturate from gentle warming to fuzzy and full on. Feedback provides a resonance around the filter while also allowing for oscillations, the creation of LFOs and adding interest resonant wobbles to envelopes among other interesting CV processing. Pandora can shape, oscillate, wobble, slew, distort, resonate and feedback both audio and CV. So experiment with both input types as shown in the video.
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TIMING INDEX // SECTIONS
INTRO
00:00 Hello and patch previews
01:24 What is Pandora?
02:44 A detailed look at the controls
PATCHES
04:50 Parallel Beat Smasher! - ace
05:53 Synth voice back end - with mixed modulation sources
07:23 Double Rubber Band Band Pass - too silly?
09:09 Sub Bass Sine Shaping - tubby drive galore!
10:28 Smooth Morphing Drone Action
11:46 Kick Drums - deep pure booming 808 style bass
13:10 Pandora’s weird lo fi drum machine
13:47 Let’s form a Fuzzy Indie Band - guitar + bass with Pandora
14:26 AM Synthesis - musical audio rate overtones
16:00 Make FX “better” - feedback loops best buddy
17:55 Can Pandora be an LFO?
19:13 Creative CV Processing - slews, wobbles and waveshaping
20:34 An envelope wobble party - processing envelopes with unique results
22:07 Driven Dual Filter - with lots of modulation
23:53 Delicate Band Pass Filtering + ambient AM tones
25:23 Parallel Patch Enhancer
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Комментарии : 95

@GoGoGoRunRunRun Год назад

The example with the feedback loop and the delay -> is that some otherworldly smootheness!

@DivKid Год назад

Yeah that was fantastic.

@RedMeansRecording Год назад

Holy moly dude you're on fire

@DivKid Год назад

it's only slow embers at the minute, another new one Thursday the 24th, possible Monday 28th as well ... busy busy :) Always appreciate your comments and interests mate, chat soon.

@boydw1 Год назад

@@DivKid You might need to have the 🚒 on standby...

@binarybotany3218 Месяц назад

I'm really starting to love these Expert Sleepers modules.

@DivKid Месяц назад

I really enjoy them, simpler analogue modules done well with an interesting quirk or so per module.

@binarybotany3218 Месяц назад

@@DivKid At least Lorelei, Pandora and Ivo are already on my list! I like the focus on quality over features, they seem to do one thing and one thing good. That's kind of what I'm looking for in modules.

@binarybotany3218 Месяц назад

@@DivKid On a side note, are you going to review the Joranalogue Cycle 5? 🙏🏼 Really looking forward to that one.

@DivKid Месяц назад

Yeah that's definitely the "modular" way. Patching simpler focused devices to create the more complex behaviours and processing chains. I find that very appealing.

@DivKid Месяц назад

Currently no plans for the Cycle 5, though I'd be up for it as it's always a pleasure working with a nice oscillator.

@OscillatorSink Год назад

What a clever, useful little module. I love modules that balance utility and creativity so nicely

@jdavis.fw303 Год назад

When I saw the rubber bands in the preview I just about lost my mind! Sooooo cool!!!! What a great idea!

@l1fef0rm Год назад

I like that he's naming these analogue modules after Cocteau Twin songs. Pandora sounds great and the price is right. Thanks for the demo, glad to see you doing them on the regular again.

@tothefinlandstation Год назад

And just from their album Treasure!

@chitlun 9 месяцев назад

Oh wow! I’d not realised that before now… One of my favourite Cocteau Twins albums too.

@HeavyWeightGeek Год назад

Absolutely love Expert Sleepers modules. Blown away by the analogue modules they are doing.

@jimmy_jamesjams_a_lot4171 Год назад

WAY TO GO, MR. KID!!! You’ve just sold me the Expert Sleepers Pandora!! Edit: THANKS for showing me the newest most coolest thing to happen to synthesizers since Control Voltages, the rubber band!

@DivKid Год назад

I hope I've sold you on a trip to the stationary store haha

@dimensionalineage 3 месяца назад

13:13 I like me some creepy slower-tempo power noise! That sounds boss!! #industrialmusic

@DivKid 3 месяца назад

creepy power noise! haha

@chitlun 9 месяцев назад

What a fabulous wee thing! Loved the “Double-Rubberband” hack, proper made me chortle that did.

@DivKid 9 месяцев назад

Yeah it's a great sounding module, which applies to whole line of those Expert Sleepers modules. They've been enjoyable. Double rubber band, haha yeah I like that.

@chitlun 8 месяцев назад

@@DivKid I've just had to re-watch this in anticipation of mine arriving from Signal Sounds tomorrow... Really looking forward to trying out some of the techniques on display here!

@MikkelGrumBovin 3 месяца назад

Magician incoming !

@LYFoulidis Год назад

Now that's a rubbery bandpass filter!

@LYFoulidis Год назад

Or a...rubber band'y filter?

@TheMachinesWon Год назад

Looks like a great module, great demo Ben!

@scottdavidson3108 Год назад

the rubber band as macro controller is genius, im off down the shops for a bag of elastic bands and im going to go absolutely mental macro controlling my whole rig....cool module too

@DivKid Год назад

hahaha please do it, take a picture and tag me so I see it. One knob that fans out all sorts of behaviour across loads would be fun.

@wwaynec Год назад

You did it again! Ordered one and might need more.

@demoscenes Год назад

Wow! So glad to see you're back again. Been missing your awesome videos!

@DivKid Год назад

thanks, I appreciate that. Looking forward to sharing this one and lots more.

@benoftroy Год назад

Excited to see what's new!

@devtank Год назад

Double plus good on the robberbandpass.

@DivKid Год назад

haha thanks

@thomasfourth Год назад

Seems like a petite descendant of the test equipment filter/amplifiers that Hainbach (among others) is so fond of. Cool!

@DivKid Год назад

Hi Thomas, that's a good way to look at it, the leaning to pings, feedback, distortion and tuning of multiple filter points definitely plays into some test equipment technique.

@fosferus Год назад

master class in patching as usual. i usually go heavy handed, but seeing things used tastefully like parellel processing, feedback with a mixer and mxing modulation are things i need to do more. loved the feedback patch as well as frequency enhancer towards the end. os made a great sounding module.

@DivKid Год назад

thanks for the great comment I really appreciate it. I like to go heavy handy too, then reign it back and find the spaces between those to play in.

@im5341 Год назад

I did not find such a great modules review content, like yours.

@DivKid Год назад

thank you I appreciate that, hopefully you find lots to explore and try out on the channel.

@audeon_visual Год назад

I couldn't wait to finish the video to comment. I'm already really interested in this approach to bandpass filtering/spectral emphasis. the feedback distortion on that beat at 5:23 is mental! edit: that rubber band hack killed me 😂

@DivKid Год назад

haha yeah I liked the rubber band trick on this one.

@gamma_noize Год назад

Very cool module and as always an immaculate demo! Those Expert Sleepers modules are well thought out and have some features which aren't as wide spread, they're well built and very affordable. Almost perfect modules. ES is really on top of their game! Sadly i had to send the ones i had back wihtin the money back period of Thomman, because a financial emergency popped up, but i will definitely get them again, once my finances have recovered. :) I really miss the lorelei... The waveshaping, FM and X-Mod created sounds, i just can't create otherwise atm.

@DivKid Год назад

Hi Erika, I appreciate that thanks! Good point on the X-Mod on lorelei it does bring out some fantastic sounds. Hope everything ok with the finances and that you can enjoy these again soon.

@DanieleGiannattasio Год назад

8:34 you know too much, CIA will come get you. Cool video as usual and great new module!

@DivKid Год назад

haha it was going double rubber band that tipped it over the edge

@d42kn355 Год назад

lovely!

@bennos9588 Год назад

So cool

@wishbonebrewery Год назад

Is it a Module to explain the Disting MK4 Manual to me? 😂😂

@ExpertSleepersLtd Год назад

No, that's my job!

@Space_pulse Год назад

Seriously, if you have any questions, ask on modwiggler and Oz will probably answer.

@GeorgeLocke Год назад

It also makes toast.

@wishbonebrewery Год назад

@@Space_pulse I know he is good at support. I read the manual like Algebra, I'd say I've always been pretty 'techie' but for me at least the manual is like a list of ingredients without the recipe. Though that is not to say that I don't find the Disting Mk4 useful and well worth the price tag.

@wishbonebrewery Год назад

@@GeorgeLocke So long as each slice conforms to 3U high, other bread sizes do not fit.

@sebastianyoung2404 Год назад

Some mad Fisk Industries - On Thursday vibes going on at 24:00 👌

@DivKid Год назад

not a bad thing to get people thinking about. I enjoyed playing that piano pattern.

@drd8974 Год назад

It seems like a FoH Plague Bearer that actually does what you want it to?

@kenschestok9515 Год назад

late to this party and eventhough Andrew just put another new one out today .... I think I might have to pick this one up first! when are you dropping your acid album? thanks for all you are doing!

@DivKid Год назад

haha thanks Ken, no plans for an acid album anytime soon. The new envelope from Expert Sleepers looks great too, keen to try that one sometime.

@Eurorack_Goblinmode Год назад

Wish we could have heard a patch of it as a sound source, is it possible to coax a melody out of the thing ?

@DivKid Год назад

you can get it oscillating and sequence it. But it's not tracking 1v/oct so for quantised tunings you'll have to work hard to get it behaving that way. The vactrols on the filter controls aren't helping that either.

@Rockky67 Год назад

Ah some more ‘Treasure’ for the rack

@DivKid Год назад

I don't think of this as Moog "gone west coast" it's still a Moog synth just with that extra flavour from the wave folder. There's the saw wave on the oscillator and the square, then the triangle and square on the LFO. There's also no CV control on the folder, hence me explore a few ways to vary and modulate that in the video.

@Rockky67 Год назад

@@DivKid Did you mean to reply to me? I was just commenting on the ongoing Cocteau Twins album track name references from Expert Sleepers

@DivKid Год назад

I saw your comment and was replying to someone else but got a weird loading thing from RU-vid, so the comment shouldn't have gone as a reply to you. I'll copy/paste it into the right place. And yes to those track names from that album certainly seems that's the plan, I wonder what's next track/module name wise.

@Rockky67 Год назад

@@DivKid No worries. Treasure tracks 1-5 all used so far, track 6 is “Amelia”. With the ground covered already maybe a BBD or Chorus? Much as I love Cocteau Twins I’d love anything that could help me do the guitar sound on Felt’s Primitive Painters. A line from that song “Trail of Disgrace” would be a great name for a lo-fi delay.

@AdamDaughterson Год назад

Do you have an exported track for the first bit you show in the “here’s what’s to come in the video” bit? That’s some gnarlyassed acid mate! 🥹

@DivKid Год назад

Hi Adam, so the previews at the start and the first patch in those previews? The full patch for that is at 04:50 in the video. That's just distortion from the drum beat. I didn't make a separate track from that.

@modularjourney60 Год назад

Fabulous, as always! Thanks! I thought band pass filters were made by placing LP and HP filters in series, so what's the big deal about not calling Alpha and Beta the LP and HP controls?

@ExpertSleepersLtd Год назад

That's not typically how a bandpass is made, and this one certainly isn't.

@NickHchaos Год назад

@@ExpertSleepersLtd so then…do you mean more tapping 2 LP outs at different poles and inverting one?

@ExpertSleepersLtd Год назад

@@NickHchaos No.

@gladlawson61 Год назад

Best module ever isnt even an official module. The alm fizzle guts. 100% the coolest thing in euro. I wish I didnt sell it.

@DivKid Год назад

"best module ever isn't even an official module" - where did that come from? I didn't say anything like that in the video. Or did you just want to talk about the Fizzle Guts you find to the best / most exciting for you? Nice to see Fizzle Guts open source for those that can find the original part and make themselves one.

@aliasghar907 Год назад

what kind of camera did you use that the moduke screens werent distorted by framerates ?

@DivKid Год назад

The camera was nothing special a mk1 Canon M50, sometimes you get the distorted bands moving around but the Mordax DATA has ever been an issue with any camera I've used to film it.

@R3fuge Год назад

My guess is a fancy DSP like the FX Aid Pro

@ExpertSleepersLtd Год назад

Nope! The disting EX has that covered.

@R3fuge Год назад

@@ExpertSleepersLtd even fancier though. Hmm, what could it be

@DivKid Год назад

even fancier? A bow tie and canapes?

@bonzaihb3432 Год назад

Well, if the jacks are still as bad as in the Disting (see thread on MW) I am not interested at all... Returned two of 'em and gave up...

@daemonicflame Год назад

Gonna be analog my guess, chip shortage and all, maybe a mixer

@bennos9588 Год назад

Where can I buy one?? I can't find them

@DivKid Год назад

Hi Ben, the time of the video launch was the release and all stores that ordered should have taken product pages live at that time. Signal Sounds have it up www.signalsounds.com/expert-sleepers-pandora-eurorack-bandpass-filter-distortion-module Elevator Sounds have it up www.elevatorsound.com/product/expert-sleepers-pandora-eurorack-bandpass-vc-filter-module/ other shops shouldn't be far behind at all so you should see it this week.

@bennos9588 Год назад

@@DivKid thankyou Sir Divward, I must have been too early before, but I have preorder mine now. No wozzas

@RobKaiser_SQuest Год назад

1:09 she comes across like diamonds, diamonds...

@DivKid Год назад

what's the reference?

@james43774 Год назад

If you'd have told me that 13:10 was Nine Inch Nails, I'd have believed it.

@DivKid Год назад

I think it's that noise snare thing, it gets 'Closer' in sound pretty easily. I've turned single modules into weird drum kits a few times and there's always some nice odd results.