I can’t tell why but thus studio layout is so “ ZEN MODE “ and inspiring to make music, the HUMAN INDIVIDUAL CREATIVITY free from CLICHÉ (909,808, Jupiter, Minimoog etc etc)
Stefan seems to be a really nice down to earth guy and his studio is ace! Would love to own a Quantum/Iridium one day. Great video/studio tour, thanks!
Interesting take. It's not that he's got no quality sources, he has a few well chosen synth sources. But, what he's gone all in on is the outboard processing, and especially analogue processors for sculpting. Makes sense too, since he said his approach to synths is to treat that as tools to make sample material. I also find this approach productive: just playing for a long time while recording then selecting out parts from that reel. Can sometimes generate material for more than one track. And it's more playful.
This is going to be in an upcoming album on Macro Recordings - fall 2023. At one point there's also an excerpt from 'In Aggregate', which is already released.
@@lizzOt Really looking forward to it! The one around 30 minute sounds like some raw primal energy. Would love to know how you made the evolving synths and the spastic high energy drums!
@@Cybercowboy_69 The main patch is a wavetable / arp thing from the Quantum, using internal clock patterns and shuffle. The variation is mostly just scrolling through the wavetable and shifting envelopes around dynamically. A lot of the high frequency percussion just comes from spiky, transient things going into different distortion / delay paths.
@@lizzOtThank you for answering. I had a couple questions: 1. Is there a way to route ableton channels through an analog mixer? How does that work for you? 2. Do you program and sequence mostly in hardware and ableton acts as a multi track recorder or do you sequence and record on ableton simultaneously? 3. Are there ways one could learn more about breaking away from 4/4 rhythms in dance music and working with interesting time signatures?
@@Cybercowboy_69 1. Sure, if you have a multi-channel interface, you can assign any channel to any output. You can also form mix groups this way. If you intend to do mixdown in Ableton again, you can use Ableton's External Instrument plug in. 2. I do a lot of the sequencing with hardware sequencers or the internal arps of some synths. In this scenario, Ableton is just an arrangement tool, as some sort of huuuge sampler. I currently don't record audio with it at all. Back in the day I used Cubase for MIDI only and did everything else in realtime, mostly on an Akai S5000. Now I find editing and processing just gives me better results. 3. What's worked best for me is to look into traditional tried-and-tested stuff. You could take any traditional music that uses irregular time signatures and look into its patterns. Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish... you name it. The rest is trial and error :-) .
Really nice video and explanations! Is the arrhythmia your only sequencer for euro? And what are you you using to generate cv for melodies/tonal sequences?
My main sequencer for modular (but also other patchy stuff such as the SEM & Micromac) is the MFB Urzwerg Pro. Its capabilities for polyrhythm & custom microtonal tuning are absolutely awesome. Very intuitive too with great visual feedback. The Arrhythmia works marvelously as a trigger sequencer for gating percussive stuff, or as a clock making other things wonky. Nothing else like it for designing custom shuffles and irregular grids on the fly. I've toyed around with a GRP R24, with its 3rd row modulating its own clock, but am not too convinced. Otherwise, for drum machines there's nothing like the Genoqs stuff (which is awfully cumbersome for melodies though) - I'll just mention: individual shuffle per row. For melodies it's just too cumbersome.
Sorry, aber das was er da Mischpult gemacht hat, hörte sich nicht gut an. Auch die eingestellten Effekte sind fürchterlich. Wenn er das so abmischt sind Probleme in den Phasen und der Monokompatibilität vorprogrammiert.
