I'll be going live with Instruo THIS SUNDAY (the 27th of September) at 8pm UK BST here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4wOm4MC6SbA.html - come and ask your questions, talk new modules (there's also Tain just released) and we'll also check out their new studio and work space. The link will tell you the live start time in your region.
Not wanting to dedicate a module to encoding and decoding mid/side. Could anyone explain if there's an algorithm on the disting that would invert the signal to achieve this mono to stereo trick? Perhaps one of those first algorithms that I've always overlooked. Thanks.
Such a different approach to mixing. I've watched this several times now, and I can see how it could be used in every patch. Attenuating each note differently in the chord was the game changer for me
That Mid/Side audio sorcery, blew my mind. first I've heard of it, so clever. Been fiddling around with my mono effects for the first time since i "upgraded" to stereo.
This is probably my most importantly module. I usually use it for mixing and audio routing. But a cool and useful patch I often use is to taking a gate input and using a split cable to send a gate and return an audio source for two extra audio inputs.🌳
A little late here, but now considering this module. Ben my man, you usually nurse us along for a minute or so, but you jumped right in with this one! I kept checking to see if I didn’t miss a gentler introduction 🤔. I guess I’ll make better sense of it once it’s here 😅 and replaces (hopefully for good) my last entry in an expensive chain of failed matrix mixer/router experiments. I so miss my 210e/CSR from Buchla-land!
Looks cool and I need a good matrix mixer in my setup as well as more logic modules and switches. Utility support modules don't get the love they need but are vital for good patch variety.
Nicely done video--appreciate the x-y eye candy on the Data, and the snippets of nice sounds. Love the EMS/Hordijk-inspired design with inserts for nodes instead of the usual pots on most of the euro matrix mixers. It opens up some nice possibilities for node processing. The Hordijk system has a companion node processor with a range of handy functions that accepts trs cables--would be nice to have something similar for the Lion. Excited to get this, I think a matrix mixer is a good core module for any system.
Would be cool to get some pre-made inline attenuators (like the KOMA one), already hooked up to that TRS jack. Also this would pair well with some dense VCA modules like the Octal VCA from Doepfer (8 VCAs in 6HP) to add some CV to the mixing using the send/return loops. Very cool module, definitely plan to get one once I make a bigger system!
Neato! Seems like a module that takes a couple hours to sink in, but once you’re using it, becomes second nature. This is an adaptation of a Hordijk design, yes?
Such a great video on a module I never thought I’d be interested in! Separately, what voices are you using in the 6 voice chord cluster patch? Sounds incredible
Listening back that sounds like 6 individual triangle waves that I've just tuned by ear. So 6 separate oscillators. Can't be certain what they are (not too important here) but there's then also some drive from the rest of the patch downstream, a nice VCA overloading by the sounds of it. Sorry I can't be specific I've no notes to go from but I hope that's helpful.
there's definitely room for a more advanced video of patch ideas. Things like taking different filter band outs and routing to different FX, blending FX returns to different parts of a mix etc.
Hello, that's one reverb. By the sound of it the internal 'digital brick' on the Music Thing Modular Spring mk2. It's a digital emulation of a spring but it's more of a reflective room sound, a nice splash of space for a patch I find. The insert cable is taking the sound (mono) to the reverb and bring it back in again. Hope that's helpful, follow up/reply if not and I'll figure it out with you.
@@DivKid thanks divkid. I guess I'm blind to the fundamentals of it. I mean you have 2 pigtails coming out and the MTM Spring Reverb has just one output. Is it summed or mixed/stacked somehow?
ah ok so the jacks on the Lion patch bay are TRS meaning they have tip ring and sleeve. Normal unbalanced mono cables (typical patch cables) are tip and sleeve. Which carry ground and the signal. TRS can be stereo (two separate signals for left and right) and ground, or balanced with one mono signal. Instruo are using the TRS like you would find on an analogue mixing desk where you have inserts. An insert on a mixer channel would be a single socket but it would SEND and RETURN signal. That's what's happening here. So it sends my signal out of Lion to the input of the MTM Reverb and then I take the output of the MTM Reverb and return that back into Lion.
Torn between this or the FSS Matrix (the module, not desktop), but I can't find much information on the latter. The FSS is 9x9 and buffered, but has a banana pin matrix instead of dedicated jacks. So... I wonder if this has more connectivity. Just wish I could find a demo or tutorial on the FSS (or even an online manual) so I could compare.
HI Johnny, watch the MTX8 content you can find as they're very similar (the MTX9 eurorack). The Euro version can be passive or active (buffered). As you say it's 9x9 so 3 more i&o but doesn't have the TRS for send/return patching in the patchbay itself.
Do you know of any good video explanations (RU-vid or elsewhere) of Mid/Side encoding? Both stand-alone and in context versus stereo & mono processing?
Mid side takes a left and right stereo image and breaks it into the parts of the audio that's in the mono signal (in both left and right) and a signal that's just what is present on the side signals (the unique stereo information). To get mid side you take left and right, I'll abbreviate to M S L R. The mid signal is equal to the L+R. So simply mixing those at unity (equal) level. The side signal is equal to the L-R. So inverter (phase flip) the right signal and then mix at even level with the left. This gives you two mono signals, the mid and the side. You might want to say compress your mid signal with a great characterful mono compressor you have but keep the stereo side information more dynamic. If you have a lovely mono spring reverb you could make that stereo in effect by putting the side signal (which again is mono) through the spring reverb and bring that back into decode the mid side back into stereo. I highly suggest watching my LRMSMSLR demo which a great module from WORNG Electronics (I'll link that below). Once you have your processed mid and side signals you bring those back to a left and right stereo by the follow. M+S = L. So mid + side equals left signal M-S = R. So mid - side (again phase invert for the -) equals the right. A simple reason to use MS processing is making the S signal louder to widen the stereo image. Hope all that helps. LRMSMSLR - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PYj-WK7cGjs.html
Great memes to : ) What is it with Scotland and music? I used to listen to several scottish bands in the 80s and last week I learned that Boards of Canada are from Scotland to. What the h?
@@JHJLIM Also in the 80's it was so much crime in Glasgow that people prefer to study or practise. It's interesting that the best art schools are in dumps where there is little else to do. How come there is no good music from Bergen, they basically has the same weather as in Scotland? To much money?
Just in time! I have been looking for a solution to send drums, synth voices, etc out to fx and back in. Can this be done in stereo? Say 3 pairs of L/R ins sum them at the master LR and mult those out to fx or use the send and return cables and bring them in on a separate stereo mixer like the Befaco StMix? I’m wondering if I can sell a few modules and use this as an fx bus. Thanks!
How do you do so many back to back demos of similar or competing products? Surely you must have some preference or pick of the litter for certain types of module..
