Man, I canNOT believe I hadn't already watched this! Made up my mind...Kompas will be my first DIY modular build. I have the Hendrikson & Little Nerd and juuuust got their Kastle Drum to bring my whole journey full circle. Started with a Bastl Kastle 1.5...then the Hendrikson was module #1...cut to almost 2 years later and a full Mantis case. Long story long, I've always wanted to do a build and I love the whole concept of the Kompas. Your demo totally shows why I should. How cool! Fits right in with the way my system has grown...once I really dug in learning about gates & triggers, the whole chance/random/probability control and generation has fascinated me endlessly. My girlfriend is even on board and is going to fund my build for a birthday present. Can't get better. I shall be referring back to this video when my kit arrives. Thanks man. Big love to Molten Modular from Obscurity, USA. Thanks for helping me not feel so alone in my noobness along the way.
Bastl little nerd is great for drums too. Really worth looking into that module. Basically 5 outs of assignable logic modules (dividers/flipflops/repeaters/Euclidean sequencer/probability/ and a square lfo so it can self trigger). From 2 gate/trig inputs with the second input and a probability knob in between the 3rd and the 4th outs. So you can get multiple layers of probability/Euclids/whatever. And it’s cheap! Can’t stop recommending this thing.
Robin, I'd be building the module in exactly the same way you are. Complete with missing whole sections :D I have to confess I got someone to build my Radio Music module...
You need a board vise! I use a Proxxon 28608. Worth every penny. Frees up a hand and makes jobs like 11:20 a snap. You can mount a board vertically, insert the part from the right, and bend on the left. Or solder on the right and pliers in the left.
Great Vid. Loving the Kompas, and that manual is wonderfully bonkers. I made exactly the same mistake with the incorrectly placed component, obviously a problem in the manual (not). I've been using mine to trigger envelopes on my neutron, very rhythmic and strangely compelling. But what is the reset actually doing?
Yeah I’m not sure about the reset 😀 being thinking about the ways it could be used beyond kick and hi hats, although then again it doesn’t have to be any more clever than that. I’ll see what I can come up with.
I *think* (mine only came this morning, not built it yet), that the pattern length is set at 32 steps so the reset is used to make shorter patterns using a slower clock.
I would say the RandomRhythm has a habit of lapsing into regimented forms whereas Kompas is simpler, warmer, more organic and pleasing - that’s my take anyway
varigate 4 is also cool for probabilistic triggering I know you don't get on well with the varigate as a sequencer but it's worth another look for drums the only thing that bugs me about the kompass is 5HP (odd numbers are a bitch :) but i do plan on getting one personally I use Mutable Grids in Euclidian mode which is really cool (I use that for about 99% of my percussion triggers) coupled with my pico logic I can get some really cool and varied patterns Regarding the BIA feed some random CV into the morph and fold (sample and hold works really well or random gates into attack to get some snare sounds) and if you're feeling saucy feed more randomness into Harmonics BIA was one of the 1st modules I bought so I'm pretty familiar with it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BH-TgbUGkiU.html this is S&H into morph,fold ,harm and S/L/M (but different S&H sources) it's not gonna sound that good if you feed all of them the same signal, again even random gates would work but S&H gives the best results. apart from the hats and snare (pico drums) this is all BIA sorry for the crappy video but I was just starting out on this journey at the time and had no clue how to sync recorded audio with video so its just a clip from my phone if you put it into skin mode it also makes a cool FM sounding oscillator ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lOHghmHDbMg.html
They are both just a bunch of triggers if that's what you mean? Kompas has a probabilistic approach to trigger generation which gives it a level of unpredictability and discovery which i find interesting.
