This is much better than Divkid's explanations. I had to stop watching his videos. I don't care what my modules look like on an oscilloscope. I care what they sound like and what i can realistically do with them. I think he spent like an hour going through Marbles and it was mostly gibberish to me. Within 10 minutes of this video i understood both what Marbles does and how to patch it. Thank you.
I know he is the big gun of modular reviews, but I don't find his videos all that helpful, being a newcomer to modular synthesis. The sounds he produces are also why I avoided modular.
Yup, I watched part of that review and it starts out with a jargon salad. I'm sure it sold a bunch of modules, but for some of it it's pretty terrible, or in his language, rubbish.
Yes! Musicians do not need Oscilloscope. I play clarinet, piano, guitar, synths, and i never needed oscilloscope??!! What for to look music? No, i prefere to listen
The reason a lot of modular synth users have\use oscilloscopes is that many of them build their own modules, either from kits or they design them themselves. A scope is essential for calibration. You don't just build a kit, plug it in and it works 1st time. Especially if it's an oscillator that needs to work musically at 1 v\octave. Also, historically synthesisers were born from Lab test equipment where a scope was part of the furniture in an electronics lab. I've personally never used a scope for music (I've been playing synth since the late 70s) but I'm just taking my first steps in Modular synthesis in the last week and have found that a scope is going to be fairly essential. Also, it's more Blinken Lightzen and what synth player doesn't like Blinken Lightzen?!?😁
??? This “tutorial” was a jumbled hot mess. DivKid actually explains things very clearly and thoroughly. Maybe I’m not on the same ADHD drugs as the rest of you guys who understand this crazy dyslexia
I just received mine today, tried to wing it and came running to this video for help! I love how you laid out the simple signal path and just kept evolving the sound while you explained the functions. Thank you!!
Amazing video!! I am a complete newbie but just following the instructions here I am making music !! I wish all the videos are like this. Thanks so much !
Bart ! A fantastic way of having this explained. Set at a good pace, informative, no garble, to the point. I learnt more from you. Thank you so much.👍🏼
Yeah, I have watched every video I can get my hands on for VCV rack and Eurorack and I am as ignorant after watching them as I was when I clicked on them.
General Awareness and Matthias: much thanks, guys. I made this for a friend, in one take. Maybe I’ll do another one that’s a bit more thought out over the next few weeks
Thank you so much! This has been a huge game changer for me with my setup. Your explanations and demo here is so well done that I feel like I can retire a few modules from my rack lol. Thanks again! Btw, I love your song in the other video posted with this rig. To think so much sound can be generated by such few modules and HP real estate. Very impressive indeed!
I spent so much time figuring out the module. Then yesterday I had yet another really fun jam with it. It is literally my desert island instrument: I would keep it over my model d or anything else in my studio.
Hats off for Last Poets album in the background! I do hope you've heard the Be-Yond-Er section from "Delights of the Garden" - It's fucking amazing. Sadly, youtube demands it be split. On my CD copy, it's listed as 3 tracks, but plays uninterrupted as a single track that lasts almost 19 minutes. It's best heard as a single track.
Isn’t that the best feeling? Except that it took me so many hours of frustrated “ugh, this should be awesome but no music is coming out” before I got to this aha moment. Enjoy!
Hey man, great stuff but why use two quantizers? I understood you're choosing a scale on marbles anyway, so whats the use for Hysteria's quantizer then?
Hi Riad, great question! So Marbles is a sequencer, and you get to pick a scale (Minor, Major etc) on it. But it does not let you pick a root note. So the awesome thing on the Hysteria, our VCO, is that unlike most VCO's you don't need a tuner to make sure you're in tune. With quantized mode on, it'll always be tuned to some note. The OCT slider lets you move up and down whole octaves at a time. The SEMI slider lets you move up a semi-note at a time. So you can make a sequence, and then you like it, but you want to shift the root, say from A to G, or up a whole Octave, and that's what you'll do on the Hysteria. It's not a quantizer per se (forcing all notes to adhere to a scale), but instead it tunes your oscillator to a specific octave or semi-tone.
Btw the lingo a little confusing cuz general in eurorack when people say quantizer it means a tool that forces whatever cv that comes in to go out adhering to the notes of a specific scale. Hysteria uses the same word to mean that you can easily tune your vco by semitone or octave
hey I am thinking about making a mini system like this, using a 4ms pod 36 but it only has 2 shoulders for power. I am wondering, and sorry for the newbie question, what did you use to power all the modules?
1- Everything in eurorack is a little complicated. With the 4ms pod cases, when buying you need to consider (1) get the powered one. Else you have to separately purchase a power adapter and strip, (2) the hp size. I think mine is 48hp?, (3) the depth: if you get for instance the pod40x(powered) thst one is 51mm deep. I think x = deep. If you get a less deep one, many modules won’t physically fit in the case….
2- “shoulders”: all the powered 4ms cases have two plugs in the back where you can plug your power cable in. You just pick whichever one is closer to your outlet. Interchangeable- you use one. On the inside are the connectors. You need one connector for each module. So for instance pod40x(powered) comes w 4 connectors so will support 4 modules. However you can buy a “fly” cable to add more connectors, which is what I did in my case.
Fastest way to get it under control is to add a quantizer after marbles- I use the discontinued intellijel scale, but there’s also 2hp tune and many others. And don’t be afraid to hit that upper right button to lock in a sequence and then just knob mash and use it like a live instrument