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@@ondraJams Thanks! Yeh I was really happy with this series, glad you enjoyed it, there are definitely more… similar videos in the works 😉 but who knows I’ll never say never on the wine glass returning in the future! Just have to think of a good enough idea for its return!

Great! I’m glad you enjoyed it! More of this to come too 👍😀 Thanks for giving it a listen and a watch!

Yeh me too! Good to know we’re out there, I love feedings rings through different granular effects and experimenting! Glad you enjoyed it! Stay tuned for more 👍

Wow! Eerie! I haven’t sold all my gear, but I definitely go through phases of pairing down to simpler setups, still glad I have the modular though, and I’ve been interested in the Panharmonium for ages, the closest I got was a firmware for Desmodus Versio, which mimicked Panharmonium but with fewer voices I think, not sure about software, you’d think there’d be something for ableton? If I think of anything I’ll let you know! 😀 this was a fun idea for me though, so glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks! And yeh it is, it was the V2 announcement that finally persuaded me to get the Arbhar, it had been on the wish list for a while!

@@megamodularis Really cool.....I have Arbhar as well.....your video really inspired me to work with it again. Cheers

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

Nice thanks for the tip, I’ll check it out, that would be a great solution!

Thanks! And enjoy! It’s a lovely little device, I love its design!

Thanks! And you’re absolutely right, I do! I always try and keep it clean, then after I film and go through the footage it always looks so dusty!! It’s an annoyance for sure!

@@megamodularis 😉

Oh nice, I’ll have to check that out, I love granular fx stuff and use it a lot, always wished the OP-1 had a granular fx!

Cheers!

Thank you! Yeh one more video in this mini-series to come! (Although I still have all the recordings & sample instruments so they’ll get used again for sure!) I have a few more similar videos in the works (taking found sounds & field recordings and using only them to make ambient patches) all coming soon! 👍😀 stay tuned!

Thank you! I was very pleased with this video 😀

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 😀

Thanks Hessence! Yeh, I couldn’t agree more, great module, has been a constant in my case since I got it, and I don’t see it moving anytime soon!

Thanks! I was quite happy with the results of this one, glad you enjoyed it!

Nice one! I’m sure you’ll enjoy it! It’s a lovely module for sure 😀

Thank you! And apologies, you’re right! Still trying to figure out how best to name videos etc, I may make a change to this title so it’s less misleading, glad you enjoyed it despite that!

@@megamodularis An idea: Do you even need the synthesizer and the engine you use as a title? What are your videos about? I don't get the impression that you want to advertise Teenage Engineering. I think it would be nicer (and more honest) if the music you make was in the foreground, including the content. In the worst case, the musical material degenerates into a background painting for your product video. In the end, UA-cam is full of these fancy videos (with or without succulents) that ultimately only serve to further fuel the music industry (and GAS). After buying a wickedly expensive modular system, I figured maybe I should make videos like this too (if only to show how cool all these lights look). But in the end I decided to do what is most important to me: music. And that comes up a bit short in your videos (at least in my perception). It seems like you're still undecided whether you want to make a tutorial (which I don't think is necessary) or share your music. Just my honest, unfiltered thoughts on this.

Yeh I think this is pretty spot on, I definitely want to put my music at the forefront (I do also love the craft of making and filming videos and always want to improve that) I guess I figured that including pieces of gear in the title means people looking for videos about that gear would stumble across my music? But you’re probably right that I’ve been wrestling with wanting to put my music/exploration first and that other side of this stuff (although you’re right I don’t want to do tutorials etc) but I’m still trying to find a balance, and be relatively happy with my creations (the videos & music combined) Perhaps sometimes it is relevant what module is the focus of the exploration, often that’s a basis around me starting a piece, wanting to explore a certain module, setting myself constraints etc, I want to put the music first, but I suppose it would be nice to be informative/helpful, and not misleading either?

Thanks for the support! Will do! 😀 I have a part 2 of this wine glass ambient music mini-series coming soon!

Yeh! That was how I felt when I first heard about it, it’s the TP-7 by Teenage Engineering, a portable studio recorder with the tape reel, when I first saw it I absolutely fell in the love with the design! It’s a superbly designed little field recorder (in my opinion!) with studio level recording capabilities and one thing I love is that the ‘tape’ motorised reel adds a lovely tape like warble to recordings in playback, like a real, physical tape emulation, that you can interact with and ‘play’ if you want to, there are definitely other more affordable field recorders that are as capable specs wise, but in terms of beauty of design and playability, nothing beats it (again in my humble opinion!!) and like you say, it’s surprisingly mesmerising to watch on screen too!

I think in this video I used it to record the signal from the OP-1 for the video audio, I do this so when I’m exploring and figuring stuff out but not recording on the OP-1 I still capture it, in case I want to use it in the video, I also used it to record some wine glass sounds, in case I want to use those recordings again in the future 😀

@@megamodularis Thanks for your reply

I’m still enjoying it, and use it a lot for sure, very immediate and usable, I always find myself making great little beats/pieces, I suppose my complaint would be at making more finished, fuller pieces, although that could also be my skill level, as I know plenty of people make great music with it, so it’s definitely capable, unfortunately I don’t have experience with the digitakt or push, but they do look interesting, (for me the digitakt more so) I think you probably can’t go wrong with any, but it depends of what you value most, and what type of music you want to make? I think they approach music making differently, and I personally like the way the OP1 approaches it, if that makes sense!

Thank you! Very kind, I’m glad you enjoyed the video (there’s a part 2 coming soon!) thanks for subscribing and welcome to the channel!

Hmm, I actually am visually impaired, so I definitely think about the limitations of my videos for visually impaired watchers/listeners, however my purpose is to make the most pleasing, relaxing music I can and tie it to the best visuals I can make, for me the music comes first, and the text is just there to supply additional information, I have thought about doing voice over stuff which a lot of modular UA-cam people do, and I may still do this, but I think this can take away from the music you’re trying to listen to, you don’t have to read anything if you don’t want to, how would you suggest to make this more useful?

@@megamodularis First of all I failed to mention that your videos are very lovely. Maybe the title is what throws me off. “How I use the OP1 field with my modular synth” sounds like an instructional video. Since your purpose is to focus on the music and visuals, which is great, just know that I clicked on the video to learn how to better integrate my OP-1 (not field version) with my modular setup. So when I watch the video it’s frustrating as i can’t get up to go to get a snack or whatever without pausing the video to not miss something. My comment was directed to your video as an instructional one not an entertainment video as you intended.

Ah yeh I see what you mean, I’m still trying to figure out how best to name videos, I guess there’s a balance between a catchy title and doing what it says exactly, yeh I suppose it’s more a bit of fun, and hopefully (as you say, through the text) informative in some way as to how I do it etc. I’m trying to strike the balance between step-by-step/patch from scratch and more fluid entertaining videos? If that makes sense. But like I said, I’m just trying to make pleasant music and nice visuals, and be entertaining? I mean hopefully informative to some degree of course, but I’m still new to making videos and everything so just trying to figure it all out as best I can! Glad you enjoyed some of my videos, despite the ambiguity!

@@megamodularis For your intended purpose your videos are great! If this was titled something as simple as “Making music with my OP-1 and modular”, that changes it to more of a performance than instruction. At least to me. Anyway, I do like your content! Just not to learn from. 😊

Yeh fair enough! I’ll take that on board, and have a think about it, I just changed the title of this video, which I’m happy with, still gets the message across I think, anyway, glad you enjoy the videos! 👍

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! That’s the aim, fun & cozy!

Thank you! 😀 Yeh it’s such a cool mic, so incredibly designed, I tried my best to capture it, and the process of using it, I definitely want to use the mic more too, got a part 2 of this wine glass series coming soon too, so look out for that if you’re interested! 👍

Cheers! 👍

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video! 😀

@@megamodularis :)

Thanks! Unfortunately I don’t have any music elsewhere at the moment, just here on UA-cam, I’d be happy to release just the track on here if you’d listen here! I am planning on working on a release, EP or Album in the future though 😀👍

Thanks Jamie! I’m glad you enjoyed it, I put a lot of work into this one, so glad it’s appreciated! There may possibly be a part 2 and part 3 coming soon! 😉👍

Thank you! 👍

Thanks Novak! Glad you enjoyed it 👍

Cheers! There’s a second part coming soon!

Thank you! Stay tuned for the part 2!

@@thejapexican101 thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!

@@joeymc5272 Hey! Yeh they can be quite similar for sure, and I definitely know Morphagene better than Arbhar so that’ll cloud my opinion a little, I’d have to say Morphagene (although again a large part of that is the controls, workflow and my familiarity with them) but for some reason I view Arbhar still as something more like Beads (even though it has a lot of similarities to Morphagene too) so I tend to use it more in that way, as an effect I suppose, as well as a sound design tool, whereas I still primarily use Morphagene as the sound exploring tool, the new V2.0 really improves the capabilities, and it’s probably a more complex and capable module than Morphagene? (I don’t know that for certain) you could probably intentionally use Arbhar in an almost identical way to Morphagene (I might try this for a video if you find the idea interesting?) plus is can do more proper granular things too, so it’s worth thinking about, I’d suggest going somewhere to try it out if you can which might give you a little more of an idea, it’s definitely a great module and can definitely do things that Morphagene can’t (which is why I’ve got both!) I guess my habit would be to go for Morphagene but if I was starting out again with a limited budget and could only pick one of Morph/Beads/Arbahr - Arbhar might be the best pick? It’s a really tough choice for me though! (Sorry, I hope that was helpful and I apologise for rambling a little!)

@@megamodularis lol exactly man what you said is right where i am at. I have beads and morphagene and i am trying to justify the price tag as i have mojave too by qu-bit. I wouldn’t say im a huge granular fan but every time i hear someone sample through arbhar its always awesome sounding. Hence your guitar lick through it. Having stereo inputs now is the only reason i have interest in it. I would absolutely love a video if you have the time to do a comparison. By chance does arbhar have the noise morohagene is accompanied by out of curiosity? I mainly use eurorack as an fx processor but i do like some sequencing of vcos but mainly just the fx for guitar and into pedals or daw for verb. Loved video 1 and 2 by the way. Sounded so bliss lol.

@@joeymc5272 Thanks! I think there’s a couple more in this Arbhar series, and I’m putting out some Morphagene videos soon too! I’ll try my best to do a comparison video, but I’m away from the synth for a while, so not sure when it’ll be exactly! I think if you watch some of my Arbhar videos and then these new Morphagene ones over the next few weeks, that might show well how I use the two in different ways? (I hope so anyway!) I think Arbhar does have some noise to it, but deffo not as much as Morphagene, and both Morphagene and Beads are stereo, but I do like having a full stereo signal chain… And you’re right it is an expensive module, so if you’re not huge into granular (which I would say I am, hence why I got it) then you can definitely achieve great results with Morphagene and Beads, as I’m sure you do already! I think for me the interest in Arbhar was the different approach to granular stuff, with the different controls, I think different controls make you work differently, so it just depends which you’re drawn to the most! I’m certainly interested in Mojave too, but I’ve never tried it

@@megamodularisoh ok thanks man! That makes sense to me. Everybody i watch has arbhar and uses it pretty frequently so i wonder if i am missing out not having it. Read you can actually use it like a vco whatever is recorded can be given pitch information which is pretty sweet actually. Wonder if you can load single cycle waveforms or even wavetables and use it like a vco? I like granular but it has to be useable granular. Mojave is cool no doubt but at least for me it can be hard to use and dial in good useable sounds with it. All depends on what you are feeding it. Ill wait and watch for an videos you make. Right now trying to decide between arbhar or a complex osc like cs-l/brenso. Both is similar price range. Have not decided yet.

@@joeymc5272 Oh yeh that’s true you can play it 1 V/oct for sure, although its not something I’ve ever actually tried, for me personally, I think Beads gets the best most immediate granular results, the kind of thing that comes to mind when you think of granular, but I love how it operates with reverb and feedback controls and how you can modulate them together too, but for me it is the most usable, no shade to Arbhar, which i use a lot, but still! To me it does sound like you have a good amount of granular modules, so depending on your whole setup, and what you want to achieve, might be best looking in that other direction, like complex osc, Instruo have a lot of interesting modules worth looking at, so it seems like your looking in the right places! (All IMO of course!) But good luck and don’t hesitate if you have any other questions!

@@kaerkiu9815 Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video, and thanks for subscribing to the channel! Yeh they can work well together, there is some crossover for sure, but they definitely excel in different ways, and together they create plenty of new possibilities (in my opinion!)

Nice! Glad I didn’t give too much away, the video will be out next week 😀

Thank you! I certainly do, so I’m glad you noticed! I feel like I’m gradually improving with each video, so hopefully that’s the case, quite happy with the most recent video, and the next few I’m working on too!

Thanks Hessence! I couldn’t agree more! The portability and immediacy of it are fantastic, it’s so easy to get ideas started with it!

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! Got some more fun stuff coming in the next few videos 👍

Thanks! It’s a lovely filter (although I think my favourite is still Ripples - but that’s a single filter in the same hp I think, if there was a stereo ripples in 8hp that would be my dream!) but for size/functionality I haven’t seen a better filter than Ikarie (not to increase your GAS any more!)

Oh nice! That’s very useful, thanks, I’ll have to look at that (always more to explore for another video!) I do like having the stereo signal though

That's the reason why I clicked this video. I wanted to know how somebody else would implement it. Then I was drowned in mesmerising music. Where was I?

Cheers!

Thanks! Yeh I had a lot of fun with this one, and it’s triggered a few more explorations, taking external recordings and manipulating them between the two (more in some upcoming videos!)

I have neither so don’t mind me if this isn’t helpful but it could be because of the level coming out of the OP1 isn’t modular line level which is higher than normal line level. Are you often amplifying or boosting the signal going in at all before it hits Morphogene? Disregard of course if you do and it’s solely Morphogene that has any issue.

Thank you! Hmmm yes the Morphagene can sometimes be noisy, I do often forget to use it’s auto levelling which I think would help a bit, depending on the source signal, sometimes it can be a bit too noisy, but often as a patch develops that gets lost, and it’s usually in the quieter parts of recordings that you can hear it, but it’s never stopped me too much, I guess you just have to accept it as a part of the module and move on, try and work around it etc

@turbotambourine yeh this could be a part of it, I go through the Ikarie which can boost the signal a lot, I do think this method is inherently a little noisy, there may be workarounds, for example I often prepare the reels in Logic and export them straight onto the Morphagene’s micro SD card, and I think, if prepared properly, you could eliminate a good amount of the noise, but again, I like this quicker method, cable straight into the modular, so I’ll take a bit of noise in exchange for speed of workflow!

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video! 👍