I have the Contour 1, Pams, and the Quadrat and never thought to use them together in that way. Brilliant! And the jam you had going by the end also sounded GREAT. Thanks for sharing!
Beautifully walked through and explained. I’ve not got the Contour module, but I do have the excellent Thorn VC LFO, which can both attenuate and sample-and-hold itself, which is cool. I’ve not explored the Disting’s quantiser functions though, so thanks for the suggestion! Subbed too. Good advice is hard to find…
I love the Contour 1 but never thought to use it in this way. I also have Pam’s, Plaits, Disting, and other versions of the modules you’re using here so definitely going to be recreating this patch tonight. Great video and I can’t believe I’m just finding your channel. Subscribed!
Amazing demonstration! I'm currently just starting out in modular having recently bought a case with a couple of cheap modules and a semi modular synth (as well as some other hardware synths/sequencers). This type of thing is EXACTLY what I want to achieve with modular. Controlled randomness. PNW in the coming months and have a question for you. With the quantise functionality in Pam's, could you use that to send out a synced, quantised, offset LFO to Plaits and achieve the same thing? Potentially cutting out the disting, sample and hold and the envelope generator? Or am I overestimating the functionality of PNW?
Hey! Thanks for the feedback and glad you enjoyed it. To answer your question - I think you could get pretty close with PNW alone, but I think the main difference would be controlling the rhythm of the notes. If you had a tempo-synced LFO in Pam's with the output quantised, it would just change note values as the LFO's level reached each threshold, which probably wouldn't correspond to the rhythm you want (although it might sound cool!) - if that makes sense? The advantage of a dedicated quantiser is you can use a separate trigger pattern to choose exactly when it will grab a note value and how long it will hold it. Plus with an external envelope/function generator it's probably easier to modulate the rise/fall time and their curves (although you can definitely do some of this in PNW if you assign the CV inputs). There might be a way to do it that I haven't thought of using multiple channels on Pam's though - I'll have a play around and let you know if I come up with anything!
@@TomChurchill thanks for getting back to me. So I know on PNW you can do things like euclydian sequencing so perhaps I haven't quite got my head around how this works vs how the LFO's work. I don't have have PNW yet anyway so for now I've just picked up a cheap quantiser and a cheap S&H so will give this all a go! I've just built out something similar in VCV Rack and it sounds so complex and lush so really looking forward to trying it out with hardware! Getting so much from your videos. Thanks a lot!
