Mutable Instruments - Peaks 

Greg Gibbons thanks Greg.

+Sysex|Studio yeah Braids I think is a total no brainer. Does so much stuff and sounds great!

+DivKidVideo just got my Peaks installed tonight. Such a great module. You can tell Olivier your demo sold it. This is my first MI module and I love the build quality, graphics and look and feel to the module. Like that the knobs are bolted on too. Might get another one. :) thanks again for the demos.

Yeah it's a densely packed little module.

+H4NDCRAFTED hey, no worries about day dreaming. I can only begin to fathom what I'd get done in a day without day dreaming. Matttech Modular has some clouds left too for anyone looking for one. Glad to hear the videos are useful. Feel free to send any questions my way or message to chat.

Did he just get some in ? I looked there first because I thought I'd try him out for a change, bought from nearly everywhere now, amount of places that sell modular now seems to be ever increasing! seems as little as 2012 I was having to order from Germany, now mainstream places sell it, , anywayI didn't see any last night, maybe I missed them ? Keep keeping on, I don't have questions atm, mainly bc as soon as I think of one you seem to answer it in your next sentence ;)

+H4NDCRAFTED Yeah Matt has some in, 4 left yesterday. That's good RE questions. Always happy to chat though, spend a fair bit of time discussing set ups and stuff so let me know if there is anything.

DivKidMusic Well I had already bought Clouds and Yarns , but I did check. They either came in straight after or I just misread the stock info, oh well. Will you be doing a vid on Yarns ? I Sonic did one but I like the way you explain things tbh. What I really want is somebody to do a deeper look at TipTop's CR sequencer, ,lke get into the details of how the swing etc sounds. It is a lot of money when the BSPro does similar, but knowing TipTop they have some decent tricks up their sleeve. I have all the drum modules I need for now. Modular is the ultimate analogue drum machine really. Even if you are not into patching it has to be the best options for drums right now.

+マキュージャス good buy :)

darksideothetune thanks

Thanks for the comment appreciate it. Yeah Peaks is great I tend to use the drums (as it's the only drums in my demo case) and LFOs.

sokoleski cheers

+Forehea d yeah it's great. Does take a bit of learning though to be fair. I keep forget about the probability gate stuff and the gate delay. Which are really useful.

Forehead lol, hello Moomin Papa

I've had a peaks for 6 months and watching this video (again) made me realise it can do that from actually watching the screen. Oddly enough i've never seen this mentioned anywhere except here.

gary morrison haha nice one Gary. Two really does make sense, dual envelope and dual LFO or 4 voice drum kit. Opens up some good options. Especially when triggering each other.

Milkpiece yeah pretty nuts the amount that gets crammed into the Mutable Instruments stuff. I'm really like a second one! :)

TRaddcliff cheers

D U B K A yeah certainly, the Disting in interesting, haven't got one yet though.

i think Streams is underrated. That's great too. You're right about Rampage.

DivKidVideo in Detroit, a lot of us rock streams, but now that you mention it.. i don't see much talk about that or kinks online.

no not much talk about either.

darksideothetune I don't need any encouragement!

Bennelong Bicyclist Thanks, when I get back to my set up at home I'll be trying this. Cheers!

thanks

After Later Audio has 3 versions of the Peaks clone. Rainier being the best as they've added attenuverters on all knobs and two outputs. Also added an alternate firmware that adds even more functionality which comes stock on all their Peaks clones (doesn't interfere with original functionality).

Pretty much works that way, yes.

You have three vowel modes on Braids Plaits as one. But Plaits refines and pulls in modes so you can morph between wider sound sets and internal patches.

Pablo Duran Seoane Thanks Pablo, glad it's useful. I haven't experienced much with the mini sequencers as I use them for other things mainly (got other sequencers I use more regularly). I've heard issues with that as I think the first trigger moves through steps while the second is a reset. So trigger the second channel also resets the sequencer. Effectively turning it into a one channel device. That's just "what I vaguely remember seeing" on some Facebook threads. I'd email Olivier directly if you're having issues.

It's happy with a wide range of clocks. MIDI into a MIDI - CV module, 4ms SCM or RCD, sequencers, logic etc.

Hey, yeah you can split the modes and have a drum on channel one and LFO on channel two etc. These aren't made any more though so if you want one I'd snap it up when you see it.

Just press and hold the top button so that its' LED flashes. It will either flash once to indicate "channel 1" or twice for "channel 2" from there you just have to pay attention to the flash pattern to know which channel you're modulating.

No that doesn't work. A green stackable would do the trick though.

+Sascha Haber haha

Seriously, if my GF catches you, you got a problem ;)

After a bit of searching: www.utopb.com/order/ £10 a cable plus pp

Sonny Brown Thank you.A bit expensive but kind of cool

Sonny Brown yeah those are the ones. All hand made, not in bulk I understand hence the price. But well worth it, especially in bigger patches where lots of modulation is routing and feeding back in a patch. Good visual indicator that not all modules have.

TheSynchronon haha my bad! Feeding the addiction.

DivKidMusic Yeah cannot disagree...I want moaaaar! But hey Eurocrack might be the hardest drug I've ever been on but since it only destroys my credit card and not my health I can live with that ;) Keep up the good work!

TheSynchronon Yeah it's definitely "eurocrack"

Hey, all three modules are very very different. So there's no comparison really. Warps processes two inputs (audio and/or CV) and offers lots of processing (Ring Mod, Crossfading, Vocoding etc - check my video) Korgasmatron is a dual analogue filter and Peaks is a modulation source. Which vowel / voice effect? If you can tell me the timing in the video I'll listen and try to figure it out.

Formant type @ 4:44...thx

You'll have the Dead Mans Catch alternative firmware on it. I'd speak to who you bought it from to check. You can get the default firmware back onto the unit, so it's nothing to worry about.

AS always, thanks for your quick response! I have some reading to do..

No worries, cheers for watching and the comment.

+Yanneck Gaensebluemchen hey, thanks for coming back with more comments! :) Rather than the In/Out module have a look at the XAOC Devices Sewastopol. It's an FX insert module (Doepfer make a cheaper similar module the A-138d, but you loose some functions). That would take your audio in (be that a desktop synth, laptop software, drum machine or whatever). Then take the audio input from the module (the return) to the Doepfer Wasp filter and take the Wasp's output to the output on the Sewastopol (the send). You can treat that like an in and out. But you also get a Envelope follower which is great for adding a modulation source that's tied the dynamics in your input signal. That would be a good modulation source for the Dopefer Wasp. Regarding modulation you'll need some midi to CV functionality so you can patch LFOs into the Wasp. Let me know if you have any more questions.

+DivKidVideo Back again. :-) I now have Peaks, Clouds Warps and Wasp with some mults and 2 iouts running. I now think I want to buy makenoise moddemix because it can act as attenuator and vca (for warps int.osc). Do you think that this is a good idea? I have a fairly small case atm. My other idea is to replace Wasp with ripples.

cane creek yeah it's nuts, one of those "I need more than one" modules.

it can do if you're in the advanced split mode. The standard split mode is 2 2 steps. Read the manual to see the difference between standard split and the advanced split mode. Hold the split button to get in and out of it. Flash once for channel one advance split and flash twice for channel two advance split. You have to bounce between one and two flashes to move between channels as the 4 knobs can only control one thing at once.

Thanks for the reply. From what you describe and from having read the manual as well, I'm thinking something is wrong with my Peaks. I have it in advanced split mode with channel one sequencing a VCO but as soon as I input another clock to channel two and try sequencing another VCO, channel one changes to two steps and channel two becomes four. The same vice versa - that's why I was thinking you can only have a two on one channel and a four on the other, but not both. Baffling!

That's strange, is it a factory module with the default firmware?

It's factory with default firmware yes. Looking at the manual again, I noticed channel 2 resets channel one, so maybe that's what I'm experiencing, i.e. channel 1 is constantly being reset so only playing 2 steps.

so does channel 1 clock both channels?

SirCat Hi, don't hesitate to ask any questions nooby or not. I don't quiet get your question though? Whatever you were using to trigger Peaks would make more sense to trigger the Braids trigger input (which can be a sync in, set of internal envelopes etc). Peaks has two trigger ins to trigger the two internal functions (say two drums) but that isn't tied to Braids in anyway.

Oh, I didn't see at first that Peaks had 2 outputs. Oops. One more thing, do you need an external clock for Braids to work or no? Thanks for your help!

SirCat you don't need a clock for braids to work. It works completely by itself with your 1v/oct input for pitch and that's it. With the trigger input and timbre and colour you can take things further but they aren't essential for use.

cool thanks!

DivKidMusic lol I'm reading this old conversation and I said Braids...I meant Grids. Dear god....

PWMaarten haha sorry, I keep getting called the Eurocrack dealer! Feeding the addiction.

DivKidMusic Different from other dealers I came across in my life, you give full and honest information about the product at hand... ;)

cheers! Appreciate that. Yeah, I'm trying to just give my views and what I've been using the module for while trying to make it a professional overview of features at the same time. Still, I get all sorts of ideas speaking to others as well. Glad it's useful.

The only one I had at the time was the ADDAC 207, which I still use a lot. So must have been that.

Kellen Majcher tough one, long time back when I did that video. But it will have been clock or square wave LFO signals from around my system. If it was clock it could have been the clock outputs on my Vermona qMI (if I was using midi) or from the 4ms RCD and 4ms SCM modules. But the trigger in can be from anywhere it's not something to really worry about. Are you considering building up a system or getting a Peaks module? Feel free to message me for any help.

Mr Mürk Hi, they are here - www.utopb.com/category/led-patch-cables/

Splendid!

neutron7 They are from "Igor Berlin" on Muffs here's his site for the cables - (argh! can't find site but here's a video directly from him) LED Patch Cables - get Enlighted

spaceman Yeah it's pretty crazy how much it does.

Hi Nathan? Sorry for what? Which step-triangle? If you can give me a time stamp (such as 11:13) for where this happens in the video I can take a look and answer for you.

this video is over 4 years old I think things have improved since however yes ... this caters to the modular crowd and not particularly beginners, I can appreciate that.

Paul Johnson haha my bad!