Cool video. FWIW, on cello or other bowed string, to play legato means to play without changing the direction of the bow -- basically to play without retriggering the envelope, but playing discrete pitches. Changing pitch by sliding is pretty rare. It's notated as "portamento" on the score.
I miss playing with my eurorack. It's literally right in front of me and I haven't really dove deep into it in months. Work life balance is a rough mental obstacle. Amazing tutorial here!
This was exactly my answer to a recent question of the day in DivKid's chat for what we thought the biggest "game changer" in eurorack was for us. It's so powerful and soooooo much fun!
I like this approach. It's really about combining the best of both worlds and finding out what works together and sounds good. Thank you for being there.
Hey I just did an experiment using disjointed note/gate using two SQ-1 sequencers. Also Rex the Dog did a cool experiment with the two tom triggers from the TR-606. That's worth a watch too.
There’s a Max for live device that’s called MDD Snake that is greatly inspired by Make Noise René. It lets you separate the gate from the note as well.
one of the not-so secrets of the monomachine is this inherent decoupling, trigless trigs or trigs that only fire on one, two, of the trio of control lanes. This kind of functionality has waxed and waned on elektron boxes but never again was so plain on the UI as it was there.
I'm a little confused about what the attenuverters are doing in relation to the quantizers... are they controlling what octave ranges each voice is allowed to play in, or something else?
all of the problems people have would be solved by getting a modcan touch sequencer. its not divey (basically just one screen) and three lanes where you just draw gate pitch and slew and then easily chain then together
Love this content! For someone who’s thinking about getting more into euro rack it’s so good to know what is the actual opportunity with modular compared to other forms of music making. If it was about making the same music but with slightly different tools it doesn’t make so much sense to me but if it opens up a new world of rhythmic and melodic possibilities then I totally get it. Thanks so much for making this. Eye opening stuff 😀👍
This is one of my fave ways of patching too! The Bard Quartet has been amazing to glue melody together and allow so much flexibility. I’ve been loving using veils 2 to add two shorter sequences together but attenuating the sequences with cv to make longer patterns. Not to mention using the offset or response curve to change up the pitches and group them closer together. Fun jams as always. I like how there’s a stability provided by playing in bass lines. I’m gonna try that!
as a beginner on his music journey who started with an op-1 field, you just gave me that heureca moment, when you explained the different playing styles in more detail. i saw that i can change them on the op-1 but i didnt understand their actual use cases/differences. thank you so much!
Yep, there's a "keyboard" mindset. I play my gear from a wind synth. The only converter that I have that responds the way I need is the Behringer Neutron. 1. It recognizes that legato only has an initial trigger. 2. It doesn't have a null near the centre of pitch bend and therefore I can control vibrato with bite cleanly. 3. It has aftertouch to CV conversion so I can send it breath as aftertouch. It is the only converter I've found that ticks all those boxes and I wish they'd put it in a module.
Yeah it's a good technique. Gate length is especially fun to play with, constant gate length is idiotic to use, you'll totally be missing out. Gatsby from Ladik is awesome for that, hooked it up to the PreenFM2 (euro version), noticed that i could make completely new sounds just by gate length alone (e.g randomized or random but it sync).
Love the way you present these ideas, reminds me of lectures at university, beautifully broken down and very accessible, great stuff... Also I just watched the video about not buying more gear, and now you're showing me oodles of gear and how fun it all is to play with... ha
This is a really interesting idea and made me want to create music. I like the videos like this that talk about cool ways of making music. Thank you for your video.
when I built the 4MS clock modules I had a lot of fun using the various multiplied and divided clocks to trig envelopes, clock a delay on the Disting and toggle sequential switches. Self patching all of this with a couple VCLFOs and Doepfer A160-5 ratcheter got very fun. Next thing I knew it was wayyy past dinner and I had to go to bed.
I love this technique, thanks god in VCV there is unlimited number of quantizers while in my modular rig only one . I have patch created and its simple beatifull how that dual offset modules are influencing melody also I like separation of gates
Hey Hey Hey - You stole MY Modus Operandi ! - If you wasnt such a damn nice guy - i would ...... nah , not that ... but.... Thank you for being you , the way you are you , - Youre such an inspiration , and i learn so much from watching your stuff ,- 😘
Glad I found this video, still extremely new to eurorack and got in a qu bit pulsar yesterday try to pull off this same technique but wasn't entirely sure if I was on the right path or not, definitely happy I was
Lovely content as always :) You're a great (and enthusiastic) teacher. Kinda bummed out you didn't put the greenscreen to good use and have yourself dancing over the video on the outro-jam ... ;)
Here’s a random questionie - what headphones do you use? Do you use closed backs for jamming and open backs for mixing / mastering? I’m in the market for some cans. I don’t have any monitors, so do all my jamming through headphones. Thanks man! You da real MVP 🙏🏻🧡
This is actually important information if someone wants to understand musical and technical terminology, specially in combination with MIDI what still is relevant to this day.
One thing I never understood in modular is why gate signals are always either full ON (+5V) or full OFF (0V). You could have a gate have any level between 0 & 5V, therefore carrying velocity information as part of the gate line, which your ADSR module could directly use instead of needing a separate signal path for velocities.
Isnt that kind of what the whole idea with CV is ? I think you maybe got "trigger",. "volts per octave" and "gate" confused ? Or maybe im the confused one here 🤗 im a newbie so im deff. Not sure on anything - i know i believe , but in what , i have No clue...but my faith is STRONG !
You're not wrong, but maybe I can help clarify - a gate is useful outside of just driving a volume envelope, and they're also quite easy to generate from a circuit standpoint. So it makes sense to have modules (or interface elements like a keyboard, etc) generate gates, and then to use that gate to trigger an ADSR envelope to control the volume . The ADSR also, by definition, generates a signal that extends beyond the gate signal (the "R" section is how fast the signal falls off to 0, after the gate goes away). So... there's nothing stopping you from using a gate to control volume, but it's just not as flexible as a purpose-built envelope generator. If you haven't played around with VCV Rack, you really should, it's free, and really helps to make some of these concepts make more sense in a practical way
@@jeffripley9062 Yes, but (unless I'm mistaken) ADSR modules usually have 2 inputs: one for gate, one for velocity. The first one (gate) determines when to start attack & release phase, the second one (vel) determines the level that the attack phase will reach. My point was that all that information could be carried the same via the same signal: a gate whose level (when opened) would also encode the velocity (ie. the peak amplitude to reach at the end of the attack phase)
@@ywenp ADSR modules don't commonly have velocity inputs in euro (based on my experience). You can modulate the amplitude of an ADSR (or any other flavor of) envelope via a VCA, where the input is the envelope signal and the modulation input is a cv signal with the velocity level. I reckon the envelope generators with velocity inputs actually do just that internally. The thing about carrying velocity info in the gate signal is that the gate signal has to pass a certain threshold (cv level) to be "understood" as a gate signal by the envelope generator, so you wouldn't be able to carry all the possible velocity values in it anyways. However, you can use a slew limiter to generate a sort of ASR envelope that will have an amplitude equal to the gate level.
