Here's a quick video exploring a few different ways you can incorporate keyboard velocity into your patches using the amazing Moog Matriarch 4-note paraphonic semi-modular synth!
For people with eurorack, I found that you can get a better velocity curve if you plug the velocity into a variable curve VCA. For me, the velocity is WAY too sensitive, and its impossible to reliably play anything quietly without a note abruptly jumping out because I pressed slightly too hard. So what I do is plug the velocity into the CV in of a VCA with variable curve response (in my case from exponential to linear), and then plug an offset into the VCA main input (+5V if you want the same range as the default velocity, but this essentially sets the maximum velocity amplitude). By varying the VCA curve response, you can get a much more musical and dynamic velocity response. I also found that I like to put a little bit of slew after this conversion, so its not as discrete. With the matriarch on its own, the easiest implementation of velocity I found is to just put the velocity into Env Amount for the filter. That does exactly what you did when you patched the Amp Env into the cutoffs, but instead uses the filter env. Also, BTW, the cutoff 1 is normalized to cutoff 2, so no need for the splitter!
You can patch velocity into an attenuverter vca on the matriarch and use the other attenuverter as an offset. Idk about the curve response there though. But you can still attenuate the velocity range and offset it that way internally. I like your way though. I have an extra 84hp case with just a doepfer ethernet cable unit going to my eurorack so I can patch 8-14 points and route them easily back and forth.
This, Sir, is by far the best explanation of how a synth can be used to most of us who don't understand the complexity of internal electrical wiring but who want to use features like this and/or others. I watch lot of of stuff and presentations of several synth gurus but all I am getting just an expert gibberish that doesn't get me an inch further in understanding how things might work. I (and I suspect there are more of us) want to play music and nor spend the rest of my life becoming an expert on the internals of these instruments. I think your very friendly presentations could be watched by exponentionally more synth players because you cut through the BS while still offering some logical oversight that is easily understood and can be revisited in case it is forgotten. Please do more of such presentations so we can learn to operate synths without having to go to university. Just like some people can be excellent race car drivers without having to be expert mechanics, there are many musicians who can play but are intimidated by synths to such degree that it slows down their creative juice. Thank you again and keep it up. You are an expert who is very much needed in this matrix of synth world
most boomer shit i've read in some time. it's not rocket science to understand normalled connections in a synthesizer and if you think so, might want to find a new hobby
Tim, thanks for another very helpful and informative video on patching the Matriarch for those of us just dipping our toes into what can be done with it! This is about much more than having to use 4 cables just to get some keyboard velocity. For those of us new to modular synths, it provides a solid foundation for understanding how this beautiful machine is "wired" (meaning both literally and figuratively)! Tim, please keep the informative videos coming. Thanks! P.S. Again, I agree with the previous comments regarding the Global Settings frustration with Moog. It would be a wonderful thing to have software to view them.
If only Moog had put an extra control knob and a CV input socket on each of the envelopes so one could control the amplitude of the envelope outputs without having to faff around with so many cables. Even a direct velocity sensitivity control on the envelopes, like the JP-6, would have been useful.
Our perception of loudless is not linear but the kb vel out and vca in probably are. This non-linearity makes it so that the response might feel "off" when modulation the volume I guess.
Oh my ! FOUR cables to just obtain some key velocity mod ? I know why I’m so reluctent to join the everchanging world of modular fantasies and delights ! I’ld be so freaked out to just fire up some basic features I wouldn’t even think to make music:-))) despite the Matriarch to be awsomely sounding - played with her in a store.
Totally agree, its probably very satisfying dialing in a patch, but this much patching just to get KB velocity does not hold any appeal. It would feel life putting up unnecessary obstacles to achieve something very basic.
It's not that difficult, and a vast array of amazingly musical sounds require no patching at all. This is my first modular synth and I don't even think about it anymore.
@@marcusjohnson2995 It may not be that difficult, but its more difficult that I care for. I'm very happy to put time into interesting or complex modulation setups, but that much tweaking just for velocity sensitivity is a pass from me.
I'll offer up the flipside - I also have a Novation Summit with its deep mod matrix, but the Matriarch is much more intuitive for me. Once you start picking up on how the patch points interact it becomes easier than finding something in a menu.
Are Moog going to produce software to view/change global settings any time soon do we think? Having to change global settings in the current way on these synths would drive me insane!
