Sloths 201: NLC Triple Sloths Explained! 

starlab is cheating, you could run a crinkle or a fart through it and it would sound amazing

Had one at one point. Only time I've ever had seller's regret in eurorack.

Great vid, @mcpm!!! If you have more NLC, please do more NLC! Especially Hyperchaos Deluxe, Delay No More, or Let's Splosh! Hilariously, the closed captioning interprets some of the higher-range frequencies of your end jam as [applause]. Indeed!

Lovely thorough explanation, and love the "I wrote a bit of software" to make the animation part :) Great work!

Great thank yes !!!!!!!’🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💫✨💫

Absolutely amazing video / tutorial / explanation. The amount of time and work to put this together is much acknowledged and appreciated. If this is your favorite module it immediately gets my attention. I’ll have to get one and I subscribed of course. Thank you !

Only vaguely knew what my sloths did & just plugged 'em into places. Thanks for this!

been using this thing for 3 years, it's nice to finally have an idea of what the hell is going on, more or less...

Love this video, thanks for putting it together! I would love some more about the NLC stuff -- it's so cool but I usually can't make heads or tails of the descriptions on the site (or imagine a way to use it in my rig). Lovin the Factory Records blank panel too!

Excellent explanation. Reminds me to spend more time with my sloths.

you know, id have to add a correction to your video. even though i dont own a sloth module, the thing about the CV you are adding to the sloth, is that the CV is too fast. if you add a sloths output CV , to the sloth module, then itll change the shape of the waveform much better. it would make them go longer, spiral out more, or inward more, and so forth, or , make it go longer. instead of wobble and warp like on your video. its just food for thought because, i realised this as you are speaking , i did not know what a sloth module is even though i been into eurorack a bit and modular synth and, just would be interested in a sloth module but when you were talking about CV into them it had me thinking this. that is all

Fantastic! I will be building one of these very soon I guess. And the patch at the end is almost exactly the sort of music that I imagine myself making on Eurorack. I will need to study what is going on and see what I can reproduce with the modules that I have. Sounds rather like Spaceman 3 or Sonic Boom. Lovely stuff!

Ooooh, I'm getting the feeling this module is very similar to the planets mode on the caudal module from vult.

Awesome, thanks for this. I've been on the fence about a Sloth and I need to get building one.

5:39. I agree... attenuator seems to be a big key in modules like this lately. Thanks for sharing this wonderful education video. I actually learned a lot from this.

Awesome video! Loved the animations. When are you releasing the mcpm custom panels? :-)

I just finished building two of these. Thank you for explaining what I've gotten myself into.

So random! I can’t believe you made this yesterday. Bravo 👏🏻

This module gets used in every patch!

Hi, it seems that Joranalogue has made a better sloth with the Orbit 3. what do you think? the mordax animation looks the same on both

Excellent video, one of my favorite modules too. Still I don't understand the knobs, does it make the strange attractors stronger?

Great video explaining things... i was about to list mine for sale.... Im gonna give it another go, & get some Attenuators involved!

Subscribed. Your videos are fantastic and geared for more technical thinking.

Best explanation I've seen! Thank You!

nice, more nonlinear circuits!

Thanks for this one! It was very revealing! Love the channel and I hope to see much more content from you in the future. 🤘😼🤘

I finally finished building mine just now, it's been in my to-do pile for a while. I've watched this fantastic video a handful of times before, and here I am again refreshing my memory on how Sloths works after ensuring no magic smoke came out and finally putting the knobs on. I'm going to attempt something inspired by your patch, maybe include Cellular automata as well. Your videos are such a gift. It's so clear you put a lot of effort into them. I revisit frequently. Thank you so much - I look forward to more!

Really enjoyed this video, really clear explanation , great videos and loved the performance at the end! please can you do this for more NLC stuff!!

love that distinction between randomness and chaos! Thanks for demystifying a pretty mysterious module

Such a crucial tutorial! Thank you.

love a skipmin

great video! maybe you get your hands on a Joranalogue Orbit 3 one day, for the 3 to 1 (or other way arround) comparison..

Great video!

Useful TY!

interesting

Subscriiibed!

What if you link multiple sloths together? What happens than.

Beautiful ty ty

GREAT explanation. This module has always been forever to be several deeep in my rack.. How do you like Genie aka Neuron? I think your way of explaining helps me to understand.. I suggest a video on that module if you got a spare slot. MAD RESPECT. Love these vids!

The CV ins are summed with the Z outputs. So if you want 'a faster sloth', input a faster LFO. Also the LEDs show the Z output and do show the summed output of Z and CV (blue negative, red positive). So I'm not sure what the 'CV control of nudge' at @3:47 means. The knobs do 'steer' the preferable output value (CCW negative, CW positive), but it only after x seconds, like it slews. The inputs do not control this, or at least, they have an immediate effect in Z out, not after a while.

Brilliant - top notch video. Now I love my Sloths even more. THANK YOU. :)

Just built Hyperchaos Deluxe and this thing is next (two of them actually!) I love NLC. Thanks for the deep dive.

This is so fascinating! And you have such a great narration voice. Amazing content!

That was awesome. Thank you. Also: subscribed. Just discovered NLC today, was immediately attracted to the sloths, which I’m now definitely buying, having seen your video. Probably also a mordax. Been very seriously looking at the Starlab. I’m into long form ambient, and just starting my eurorack journey. Had that ‘holy -- I get it!’ breakthrough moment a few weeks back (using VCVRack), and presently waiting for my first round of base modules to arrive. Anyhow, this was great.

Great content. Subbed

Such a high quality video!

Oh cool, just watched to the end and saw you're using a Skipmin. Awesome sounding patch!

Inspired me to build it! Thank you so much

I bought a Sloth because of the explanation here, and absolutely love it. It's made its way into so many patches already, not even necessarily slow sounds, but just anywhere that a dash of slow change would improve a performance.

My triple sloths just arrived today, can't wait to experiment with it!

Cool on my wishlist just like how Maths is another essential module

Are these available built?

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Amazing visuals! This looks like so much fun. You make what seems like a difficult subject much easier to grasp.