Exploring the 4MS Ensemble Oscillator! 

Also, I subscribed ages ago. Come on everyone who hasn't done so yet, hit that subscribe button and lets get him over that 10k figure. He absolutely deserves it for this quality of content.

Bought two weeks ago, this module is amazing. A little bit wild to manage but easy to get creative moments... Matthias Puech designed this module like a polyphonic and overtone singing. Thanks a lot to made this video full of beautiful examples!

That 80's bass patch you performed was unreal. Loved it! I've been considering this module for a while now.

love seeing new videos on this timeless module. it was my introduction to modular and I think everyone should have one of these.

Your musical sense is always tidy.

Wonderful video on this module. Taught me some things tonight! Love your example tunes as well.

Wow, I really enjoyed listening to this! It sounds so lush and satisfying.

Cheers Ali, I've had Ensemble for ages but discovered much more about it here. Good luck for 10k; I reckon this video will do it for you..😊

Great patches - definitely the best demo I’ve heard of this module! Was never too sure about it from what I’d heard previously, but you’ve coaxed some serious loveliness out of it, as always!

I Watch all your video’s !!! You are a big inspiration

I always have more to learn... thanks for this video!

Another great video, and super helpful. I've been struggling a bit with the Ensemble, as a relative beginner, and this has given me some really great starting points!

excellent video! good job ;)

The freeze section of this video has a strong tonal resemblance to the crazy mid-sections of "The Carny" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. I guess it's probably something to do with the minor chords, but there's also a rhythmic feel that's akin to it. Not quite circus mode, but off-beat enough to draw the association. Really nice.

Mate are you kidding me, A year and a half ago I stumble on your Beads as a Sampler video and think "okay I'm finally ready to take the plunge let's do this" and after a year of watching you closely I figured "okay I've learned everything I can from this guy, time to get a 168hp 6U case and fill it" Then literally a day later you go and prove I'm never done learning and there's never enough HP in the case. Ugh. Beautiful, as always. Just beautiful. Best example of how to use this oscillator from anyone I've seen.

It's just one of the most beautiful modules! I jammed with it at superbooth two years ago and fell in love. I just turned knobs and an incredible SONG came into the world. I recorded it because I was hunting samples and I listened to it over and over again. Had to buy it! Such an experience. Thanks for the great relaxing content!

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Love this oscillator, good stuff!

Really beautiful sounds in this video! I kinda wanna buy one now !!

yeah. you just informed my decision to buy this module. Thank you.

Wow, that thing sounds massive!! The feeling reminds me of that mad QPAS jam of yours. So I need this and a QPAS now. Thanks. ;-) Thumbs up for 10K!!

Thanks for your video about the Ensemble Oscillator, that one being a module I recently also have in my want-list

Excellent this sound

I actually have another youtube account that I rarely ever use. but I just logged into it to get you one subscriber closer to that 10k.... I love your vids so much!! thanks bunches for them, ollie... ali... however it is that you go about spelling it, sir. bravo!! &, again... thank you!!

this module is fiiiiiiiire! Really considering getting one now :D

Part 2 please! I love this module!

Hey man, great jams, I love listening to the sounds that you come up with. I'll definitely check your music ! Just a quick question, where's your fx aid output's going into ?

Great video, cheers. Happy to sub.

I've had one of these for over a year. Can be very beautiful sounding or it can get seriously gnarly if you start mixing the twist, warp and cross FM stuff with anything other than simple octave multiples. Really good for sonic explorations. There are good and very different takes on it on YT by Red Means Recording and Cinematic Laboratory among others. Great fun indeed

The ensemble oscillator through a lpf/lpg 🤤 Sounds so good. It’s funny, I had one for a few months and loved it but sold it because I just wasn’t using it much. I’ll rob one buying another one. Matthew really knows his code.

Yay 10k!

Goodness that module sounds so dang good in the first patch! Had to stop to comment right away! Wild!

Wild, I just went to check out your Spotify and randomly hit play on House only for it to completely sync up with the video I was playing here. Like really really sync, I listened to it for a solid minute and a half tripping myself out 🤣🤣

Love ours. its a beast

Amazing as always, keep doing these videos please! Can you do a video of this module into rings???

Awesome video as usual, thought I was done buying modules for a bit, looks like I now to to get myself one of these now, my bank account thanks you very much for doing a video on this 😂

I like those ALM effects. sounds great.Excellent advice on switching up from minor to major, I dont hear that often.I picked ensemble oscillator up at Knobcon two years ago, it blew me away, they had it combined with the duel envelope vca, I wanted to grab both, but the envelope vca wasn't for sale untl October..

The 'He, He, He' at 8:50 was worth the price of admission right there.

yesssss

I love this thing so much! It's the last thing i bought and I can't stop evangelizing for it lol. It's idea, manual and layout made me rethink the way i looked at musical key and temperament- and i know how hyperbolic that sounds🙃😋 Edit: Btw, i used it for a bit just to make crazy metallic tones for cymbals and strange percussion. You can make it sound like you're hitting a fence with a hammer as well as a choir of angels lol

👍Seems musical, Thanks🙏💚🧡🌄

First of all I really like your style of playing! I am not a fan of the TE Field because for the price, I (I mean you, because I already have one) a top of the line M2 IPad that will do so much more. I actually use the Pocket Operators for that type of thing too. You probably thing I’m a price snob, but I have some ridiculous costly gear as well, obviously anyone into Eurorack, doesn’t care about cost as much as innovation, I have the Ensemble too and love it! Great video and you have a new subscriber that hopefully won’t be more of a pain in the ass than it’s worth! Lol

awseome man !!! i should play more with spread knob !!!!

Maybe you could make a part two on this module at some point? Go a bit deeper? Like using that Learn button?

If you havent't got the module ... you wanna have one now!! Great video Ali. Love the patches. But... I do have a question: when I connect my Arturia KS 37 to the module (pitch out to 1v/oct on the enosc) I can't play more than one octave or the module will sound completely detuned / off octave. Any ideas? Is it the Arturia? Is it the module? Been trying to make scales, no luck. I can;t play the module using a keyboard, it sounds horrible. Must be something stupid I'm overlooking. Appreciate your thoughts. Thanks.

Amazing video for an amazing module! I always struggle to keep the EnOsc in tune when using the Keystep with it. Have you run into this? The only fix I’ve found for it is recalibrating the 1v/oct and root every single time I turn the module on, which is… not ideal. I’ve been wondering if I was just doing something wrong or if others are experiencing this as well?

i love this. how do you connect the keyboard to the modular? are you using a midi input module?

I sometimes regret selling this module, but at the time I remember just being so creatively frustrated with it (only after using it as a main sound source for over a year). Maybe I'll pick one up again sometime.

In the "Chord Switching" part... what´s modulating the Root Input? You mention a S&H? is that gated in quarter notes? The periodic ramp modulating the cross fm with Maths is suuuper nice. Trying to get my head around this amazing patch!! Very nice and musical Goldfrapp vibes :) cheers Tom

Would you recommend for 4ms for a beginner dark ambient build? What are your thoughts on digital oscillators and are they any good as analogue?

What’s the module you’re using in the beginning intro jam??

This module is nice but is also basically the Xaoc Odessa, perhaps with more control over specific scales?

Done

which vst are you talking at 17:30?

It's quite a thing, isn't it? I've made some _very_ happy sounds with this one.

A simple chord oscillator that you soon discover is far from simple when you tweak the lower knobs

Finally I have found someone making real music with modular synths instead of just blips and bloops. I am also glade you finally started zooming in on the modules you are demonstrating. Keep up the great work, you are inspiring me to get back into modular. 👍👍👍

OK so I once asked someone who was well in with the major players of the synth industry, I asked him, what is the actual voice of the synth, he never answered straight away, he almost struggled to tell me. It wasn't a loaded question, but he still struggled to get to the answer of "oscillator". So it doesn't matter how good everything else is, if your source is weak, doesn't matter how much you try, you're just masking that og voice and that is a bad thing. So when I buy a synth, I look at the whole package, this is sequencer (if it has one), FX (if they're there) etc. So I have dabbled with some Moog gear and I just never really liked my M32s I had, they were extremely expensive for just 1 oscillator, the UI was cluttered imo and you needed a cheat sheet for the sequencer. The oscillator was creamy though, I get the sound, it just wasn't for me as there wasn't enough variations of it to make me want to keep pouring money into this format. This is where modular comes more into play as you get to design your own synth, you get to partner the best bits that you want, at a cost mind you, but it's your baby with off the shelf gear. I have seen people pour a ton of money in desktops and they have a wonderful sounding synth, only to ruin it with post FX smeared in verb that kills the quintessential character of that osc. So I make sure that with my gear, I am using the built in FX, or I do some soul stealing with external fx pedals. Which leads me to my next point, you can get an FX pedal to make synths sounds almost the same, not always, but that the soul stealing that I mean, you destroy the osc and use the pedal as a synth in place. It's good and bad, depends on your approach. With regards to this video, the osc is 1st and foremost, it is the character of what we want, without the burger helper and added MSG to alter the taste. This is why I stick to older music, it seems the tech used back in the day, was why the artists used it, and well there was nothing else really available. Give me a good sounding raw osc, and a usable UI and I would be as happy as a pig in mud.

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dude you did a video hell ya man lol. one question i had for you was with the dual dagger, when i have lp,res, and hp all the way counterclockwise i cant hear anything but watching your video i see you have perfectly loud signal coming through with your knobs turn all the way counter clockwise. how are you able to get sound this way? sorry still a newb here. thanks for doing this demo.