How I use Moog DFAM to have shape kick / bass drum during my live set and control the energy and the attack / hit of the kick during live with VCF modulation. In the video I did not mention, but I clock the DFAM from the Analog Four mk2.
Same here man. I am buying the DFAM mostly for sorting the kick out for good. It's very versatile. One can get 90s underground hip-hop kicks, techno kicks or just weird experimental percussions... I think the DFAM is generally underrated as hell.
funny thing is that a lot of people use it for everything else but the kick, since the synthie is quite performable. So nice to switch from melodic to percussive sounds back and forth. Try combining it with euclidean circles or something that triggers it accordingly ;)
@@minoclue Yeah, otherwise you don't hear the other two envelope tails, although I guess there can be some interesting effects from breaking the rule (as always!)
Starts out with a pretty good sounding kick, and ends up sounding like two chalkboard erasers being whacked together. Not sure we have the same taste in kicks, but I appreciate the ideas. Thank you.
Probably, to a 12V bank, if you can the connector. I think its standard 5.5/2.1mm connector. I cannot imagine it takes a lot of juice, but analogs in general do take more. I tried in September to drive my volca nubass from rechargable batteries and it died after 10 mins in performance, so I was out of my beloved, onhand acid patterns. I will not risk that again.
@@minoclue right, it would have to be from 12 v batts, but I'm really trying to find out if ir what type if dc power would be dangerous to the machine. It's a bad idea to use anything besides the manufacturer provided power source, but moog does not suggest or provide any alternative to the transformer that come with it, and they didn't reply when I asked their chat "helpline".
I use the clock input. Most of the times the clock comes from Analog Four, but for some reason its not behaving well and I feel it has some minor delay. Last time I had the Subharmonicon with me which has midi in and clock out and that is great to drive the DFAM.
I think sooner or later people that own it will start tinkering with other possibilities, after getting over the amazing kicks it can provide... I was all over the place about the kicks, in the meantime it's my lead/bass synth along a dedicated drum machine for kicks :P
Oh, I could not agree more. DFAM is one of my best kick sound source but its just one of the endless sound and noise you can get out of it. But in my live setup I am not confident enough to do experiments with it and at the same time I need a constant source of kick that I can mutate during the act. In studio work I patch it around and come up with all kind of different percussive or other synth sounds which I record for a certain tracks. Some of my released and unreleased tracks have a DFAM channel in it, each has a different sound.
yeah when i use my dfam im using it for weird percussive sequences that are always morphing. using a dfam for a kick is totally a waste as there's plenty of usable kicks in almost every drum machine
