Befaco Percall // a percussive quad decay envelope, VCA, choking, mixing Eurorack module
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- TIMING INDEX BELOW Here we have the new Percall Eurorack module from Befaco. It’s a 12HP module that is a percussive mix of features and functions. It has 4 VCAs, controlled by 4 decay envelopes. These are laid out in 2 pairs of 2 that can choke each other (think closed/open hi hat, but you can be more creative with your input sources) and all the channels can mix down to the fourth output as they normalise to the mixed out unless you patch an output - which removes it from the mix. You can CV modulate the decay times, control levels with a volume per channel and you also get the envelopes as outputs to patch back into your system.
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TIMING INDEX // SECTIONS
00:00 Hello & patch previews
00:33 Feature walk through
02:07 Getting started and making beats with Percall
05:14 Stereo patching with input & output normalisations
06:21 Choke demo - kick against bass
07:40 Scattering beats across ambient sounds with strength and decay modulation
08:51 Audio routing FX sends
09:53 Fake filtering & waveform layers
11:10 Double gating with pseudo echo / delay FX
THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY BEFACO - they have funded the creation of this demo video. It is not a review, the video aims to show raw sounds and features and provide musical use cases while focussing on synthesis and patch tips with the hope it’s educational for everyone. Any questions just ask.
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cool way to turn any source in to percussion. i bet a lot of people are gonna make cool stuff w this
Yea its really versatile hey
The playfulness of a boy, yet the knowledge of a fully grown man. Thanks bro
whoah! nice, man. This feels like the new most interesting VCA bank for small systems
Definitely way more useful than I'd imagined. I love the idea of using it for ducking and choking fully produced sounds. Wish I had space.
As always, great video and really informative!
This is a great idea for a module - nothing flashy, just solid. I imagine the majority of eurorack users have set up this kind of signal flow a million times.
I've been impressed with Befaco's designs-- really love their Burst module and I keep thinking of new ways to use the Muxlicer. Everything seems well thought out and there are lots of smart ideas I've not seen elsewhere. And this one is another good example of that.
I agree, I just realized the other day you could almost use the Muxlicer like a custom envelope for modulation. Also, yeah, the Burst module is essentially a generative essential in my book. I’ve loved everything I’ve bought from Befaco.
These module seems fantastic, a lot of features in one module!
It works well for any percussive, whether that's traditional percussion, weird percussion noises or just percussive melodies and bass etc.
@@DivKid I’ve seen some demos with just normal oscillator sounds, used for melodies etc. What’s your opinion of that use?
Befaco makes great stuffs.
Great video, just bought
Waiting for...
cheers!
Super cool
Well I ordered a build..... thanks again Ben ! lol
I like it - could be useful in a smaller rack and/or a drum rack.
Hi, thanks for keeping us up-to-date on the modules as always! Love some of your patches too! So I would compare this to Punch V3, but this is a 4 way instead of 2 way.. with volume controls... would you say they are the two closest modules in this category? I have kickall, twincussion, and punch v3... I am telling myself this would be redundant :) Cheers, keep safe and healthy!
Thanks!
Looking forward to Behringer's James Brown module - the Funkall.
I didn’t see you use the strength function. Is it a global accent in or a velocity cv input? Thanks!
7:20 YES! I have found my psytrance module! Let's gooooooo!
So this is similar to qty 2 bastl skis, but with choke function and 'strength' function? I'd like to see envelope outs compared between the two to see which is more snappy attack
can this be used as a more traditional VCA for CV signals? looking to add another quad VCA (already have QMMG) and this looks awesome if i could use it for audio as well as CV
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I want it, if only for creating a percussion submix.
Cool trick with the normalization and feeding back into it. What can audio rate modulation do here?
what particular sequencer were you using in this video?
Someone needs to do a video tying all the Befaco percussion modules together.
I have only a small case, I was thinking of getting the Percall as a quad vca mixer, which then has triggers and the envelopes. Is this sensible?
How long are the decays at their longest setting?
Out of curiosity Ben, what do you use for your trigger sequencer? I’m sure there’s a lot going on behind the scenes but your rhythms/beats always seem so effortless. Like, “oh, just threw this together” and it sounds better than most of what I come up with. 😆 Great demo as usual, thanks!
Hi Mason, they usually are threw together as I don't get time to finesse things really for making demos as it would if I was just working on productions or something.
But to answer the question it's often a range of things. I like euclidean generators, clock dividers (sometimes with logic), Grids from Mutable Instruments, lots of Winter Modular Eloquencer going on, older videos might be a Beatstep Pro, could be the SWT16 from Robaux ... more recently Stolperbeats from Making Sound Machines.
I'm usually pretty happy with whatever is close by and I try to change it up a bit.
Drums were my first instrument gigged a tonne, drum sounds and beats were my first sound design and sample/loop making jobs after getting into production and I taught drums as my main job for a long time. So probably some inner drummer stuff going on. Not to inflate my own ego or anything, just saying drums has been a big part of my musical life since the beginning.
Paired with an ER-101 you'd have a pretty freaking robust 4-part drum sequencer lol
I have been looking for one of these for a few weeks now , even asked on the muff wiggler FB page if anyone can make one of these for me ....
Did you find someone to build it yet?
do you think pams plus a a quad vca could do similar things? do you think pams/ stochastic envelope generator has surpassed this?
you can break the functions down and remake it for the most part. The choking will be more complex and involve more modules.
But quad decay envelopes, quad VCA, mixer.
The reason this is as good as it is, is having all that to hand in a performable way on one module.
Then after that, he can actually raise himself to the rank of Befaco user. He can become one of those…Befaco guys.
what?
I hope it comes to VCV Rack
7:23 SOLD
Psytrance !
Is it possible to bypass the envelope and just keep a channel on for the mixer?
no there's no manual level control outside the decay envelope. The way I've been doing that is to just trigger the decay envelopes with the time up full.
@@DivKid Ah thanks, yeah that makes sense. Just using an LFO with a high enough speed to retrigger before it drops should keep it open right?
yeah just anything really clocks, spare gate sequences etc. It's fun to use an already rhythmic sound (processed with envelopes and VCAs etc) but then use this to carve into the already rhythmic thing. Double gating is how that's often referred to.
Is this module considered part of the hexmix ecosystem? As in, a normalization mix out via ribbon connector?
The answer is no, it was verified in the stream chat and I've now built one and added it despite this. So not a deal breaker just an independent module.
Four decay-only envelopes... sounds a bit boring... oh wait.. Befaco is doing it. The wants... I have them now.
Normally I love you demonstrations and can easily follow along, but fore this one I thought the pace of what you was demonstrating to be too fast and hard to follow.