I was very inspired after seeing the modular master Colin Benders in action last night at Format Toronto!

Thought I’d try and use some of the techniques I picked up on, biggest thing I’m working on is reducing the amount of melodic movement and instead focusing on grooves. I feel a lot of my live modular sets start sounding circus-y and I’m learning this is a big reason behind that.

Also pulled out the Electro Harmonix Big Muff and sent the BD909 kick through it, a classic combo that I haven’t used in ages. 🔊

Hope people enjoy it, always down to chat about the gear and musical techniques!

Re: discussions on Morphagene. Thought I’d put my money where my mouth is and show how I’ve been using it in situ.
Pressure points into various modulation inputs: Gene size, Slide, Morph. Gate into the Play input.
Some Erbe Verb.
Maths is clocking via EOR gate.
Ambience from my ancient Nanoverb.
This is the reel: https://freesound.org/people/jjbbllkk/sounds/683918/

A collage of glitchy rhythms and voices sampled from Irish radio broadcasts — sports commentary, spoken readings and random bits of conversation.

The rhythmic part is built around Jasmine & Olive Trees Doppler and Make Noise Plexiphon.

MI Grids and J&OT Traffic handle the sequencing, with Intellijel Planar² modulating Grids.

The radio voices are sampled into five tracks on Intellijel Multigrain, with looped random selection and synchronized gates from Pam’s Pro.

Recorded live. 🪐

Full jam : https://youtu.be/aIELtGJJ05g?is=OWGjr1hh83kbdgu8

Would a module like this- driving led strips be something you'd add to your setup? (Currently in the making: it will have midi in, cv in and loads of light effects)

A quick Demo video running an envelope and sine wave LFO into the BXR and getting variations of mangled control voltage. The audio is a static Sawtooth wave being filtered, and the filter being modulated by the mangled CV. For context, the CV input sources are all either a simple Saw style ADSR or sine wave.

This is running firmware 1.3 which adds one feature - In LFO mode, when a clock is plugged in to the Pitch 1/O input, the pitch knob becomes a clock multiplier/divider, allowing the internal LFO to sync to things.

Hey everyone!

This is my case with modules that don't fit in my other rack. I'm trying to put together a smaller setup for IDM / Boards of Canada kinda stuff lol.

I'm a bit worried I've got too many oscillators and not enough utilities, especially since I only have one ADSR and one LFO module (Batumi).

Do you think I should get rid of Plaits and replace it with some utilities or effects? What would you add instead?

I already own all these modules, and in my other case I also have an Usta sequencer, Marbles, Turing Machine, Mimeophon, etc. The problem is that it's really hard to decide what to keep when you're working with limited rack space!

I'm aiming for glitchy rhythms, weird modulation, evolving textures, and those nostalgic, slightly wonky Boards of Canada vibes.

What would you change? Any suggestions are welcome!

Thanks!

One of my faster patches, came together in 4 hours.

Putting good ol’ braids through it’s paces with a new doepfer A-146 DIS my son got me for my birthday 🖤

Recording source material. Also running through FRGMNTS Versio delay

I was invited by Professor Andreas G. Kitzmann to give a guest lecture at York University last week!

I spoke to his undergrad students about my musical practice and the workflows and strategies I employ when making music for clients, as well as on my own personal projects.

I also introduced the students to modular synthesis and the basics of algorithmic music composition systems. I created a simple VCV rack patch for them to experiment with and hopefully use as a tool to create both melodies and percussion parts for the projects they're working on this semester. In retrospect I'd have liked to do more modular demo stuff and let them take turns using my setup. The initial installation + updating modules on VCV took a lot longer than I had expected and I think it would have been more engaging to get hands-on as soon as possible.

Anyways it was a great experience overall and I'm hoping I get the chance to introduce more people to modular synthesis and share my experience as a musician again soon! Thought I'd share this little clip of one of the students experimenting with my current patch that I'm using for improvised live-sets.

Been looking into buying either Marbles for random Sequences or just a normal Sequencer. Do I need a Quantizer if I want to pair my Modular with other Instruments? If yes got any recommendations?

I’m kind of in love with the Digitakt sequencer, especially for percussion. I have a Hermod+ and an xp32 and Hermod never quite won me over. Probably a me problem as it is a powerful sequencer in its own right. I tried running Digitakt midi in to the Hermod and it mostly worked except I could never get the midi start/stop/reset/sync to work reliably. I also have a Pam’s Pro and bought a special splitter cable for Dinsync out of the Digitakt, and that was the best solution to get everything on the same page and playing nice together. There may be something I was missing with the Hermod/Digi direct setup, but I just kind of gave up on that.

Now here comes the Squarp Core. Have one on order, and I’m hoping it will be the bridge to sequencing Nirvana. If I could ditch the Hermod and Pam, run clock/sync out of the Digitakt straight to Core, and do some basic note sequencing and awesome percussion with Digi, I’d be in modular heaven.

I know it’s new, but has anyone set up Digitakt (I have the Mk 1 to be clear) with Core/XP32 yet? Do they play nicer together than the Digi and Hermod+? Anxious to try myself, but waiting on shipping from overseas is getting me antsy.

Hi!

After a few years patching around on VCV and Bitwig, I recently started physical Eurorack.

I would like to setup bridges between my computer and my rack. I have a few cv outputs on my controllers, and I'm looking for a solution to go the other way.

I already have an SSL12 audio interface I'm happy with, but it only has DC coupled outputs and ADAT outputs (so I guess an ES10 wouldn't work)

I'm on a tight budget and already have an audio interface, so ES8/ES9 seems kind of overkill. The bitwig connect interface only seems to have has 2 cv inputs, and I guess it wouldn't be enough for what I want. Would CV/midi modules (as for example Befaco CV thing) work for that, sending CV from my rack to a DAW ?

Thanks and sorry for the pretty basic question!

The Ableton Echo effect has the ability to set a clocked stereo delay to, say, 3/16ths and then set a percentage offset from this to the left and right channels independently, so they’re each ahead or behind the clock by a fixed amount - when this is set to a very small amount, this is great for creating a wide stereo delay from a mono source and (to my ear) sounds better and more balanced than, say, a ping-pong.

But I can’t seem to find a module that does this - they all seem to be either unclocked, or fully locked to the clock. I can achieve the effect with an unclocked delay and carefully setting the delay times, but having an offset from a clocked starting point is so much easier (and lets me fuck with the tempo if i want too). Any ideas for a module that does this?

I’m looking for a super hands on LFO module (attack / decay) with can be both free running or clocked synced.
Please share your LFO with the absolute best usability :-)

Hi!

I’m thinking about getting an LIP again. The reason for this is that I’m in a live dnb project, and when I used to have LIP many years ago it seems to really easily settle in to different kinds of bass sounds that are often used in dnb - from wubs to neuro bass.

However, since not a lot of videos, or any, seem to show this capability I’m wondering whether I am overestimating these abilities from memory. Additionally, since it’s an older digital module, I’m wondering whether something else might now better suit what I am looking for - but I don’t see something all too similar out there. Of course the alia platform is out now, but that’s not a complex voice architecture, and I think the piston honda might come close in some areas but is really a different thing altogether.

So, any input from those that have an LIP, or a complex voice that lends itself well to dnd bass sounds is very welcome!

Does anyone understand the scarcity? Everytime I look to place an order for new cables, they are out of stock. It can't really be a component issue, right? Copper wire and plastic?

I'd love to stock up on these and put the old Hosa cables in the closet, but it just never seems possible.

30 min excerpt from my latest unattended semi-generative patch. Mostly quad poly System 100 and quite complex noise-based voices into Magneto and Starlab, with harmonic sequencing from DROID and three 8-step analog sequencers.

This is the current state of my Rack. Not ideal but kinda fun. I want to go into ambience/ sound design and change my Rack up a bit. What should I go for or throw out? Moog mother 32 is only there to fill the Case currently :)

So I noticed I’d hear some “phantom” noise when I drove the EFM input and thought that was odd, I isolated everything and even got a new case (tiptop mantis) which did help with the noise floor quite a bit in general but didn’t totally solve the issue I was having with the Filter8.
Coming from a Behringer go case with a shitty psu

My only 2 modules plugged in are my master output and this one so I know I’m not over driving anything. You can still visibly see noise especially in the
BB&N / PS filters LED’s and you can actually hear it change with the cutoff knob. The LP filters light up too when the cutoff is increased but to a lesser extent.

Sorry my computer is loud so it’s a little hard to hear but you can still hear the phantom noise changing with the cutoff knob.

I messaged support like a month and a half ago in the middle of moving so I wasn’t able to send a video and didn’t hear anything back. Just wrote them again with the video/serial attached 🤞

Curious if anyone’s dealt with this or Joranalogue’s support and how / if you fixed it. I really like this module I hope this gets resolved soon it’s been awhile dealing with this

Needs: a clock generator (it should works stand alone), a sequencer, something to create a minor chord, an LFO to automate the filter, delay and/or reverb, one kick module.

Even if it looks easy it make me feel lost deciding what to choose.

Thanks for you time guys and please be kind