Beyond the Basic Sample & Hold: SSF RND STEP, Mutable Instruments Marbles, and Frap Tools Sapel
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- Sample & Hold modules are a lot of fun. However, there are variations on the basic sample & hold available that give you a lot more control - from sounding more “human” to creating sequences to providing you with an expressive performance control. Here are three of my favorites.
00:00 - Normal Sample & Hold
01:09 - RND STEP - overview
01:32 - RND STEP - bipolar output
02:24 - RND STEP - unipolar output
03:36 - Marbles - overview
04:34 - Marbles - initial settings
05:14 - Marbles - Y (smooth) output
05:41 - Marbles - Steps
07:14 - Marbles - Spread
09:01 - Marbles - Bias
10:06 - Marbles - Deja Vu + Steps
12:48 - Marbles - review
14:33 - Sapel - overview
15:27 - Sapel - initial settings
16:01 - Sapel - smooth random output
16:36 - Sapel - sample & hold output
16:55 - Sapel - 2n stepped random (semitones)
17:17 - Sapel - n+1 stepped random output (octaves)
17:34 - Sapel - Probabilty Distribution
19:00 - Sapel - "n" value controls
22:44 - conclusion
An article that fleshes out more of the background behind sample & hold modules is available to my Patreon subscribers: / 88103012
I assumed I knew Marbles pretty well. I was wrong :) Thank you Chris!
great source of information.. great video for modular addicts .. thanks a million Chris..
Thank you so much for all your videos, the way you explain things and speak over the background music and emphasize key parts is really amazing, I wish more people took notes on presentation, learned so much and just got the book as well for early Christmas gift.
Excellent explanation of practical usage of random voltages. Almost makes me wish I still had my marbles now.
Amazing work as always, Chris! I have both RND STEP and Sapel and thought I understood everything about them. I was wrong; you cleared up some misguidances I had!
seriously, there are some excellent tips that will help goal to make my patches more dynamic. thanks!
Find myself here courtesy of Mr Alex Ball :0) nice content, subscribed
Excellent video Chris
Another excellent video thanks, I finally signed up to your patreon!
Also great for soundscaping looking for a sweetspot or tweaking FX
THANK YOU !!!!
Really excellent video thanks Chris. I’ll be trying some of this out tonight using my Turing machine as I don’t have Marbles etc (although now I want one!)
lots of this stuff can be done using a regular sample & hold, using filters on noise modules. Use low pass filters to increase sampling from lower registers, high pass, and band pass filters on noise to pick the frequencies that you're looking for. You could also use different kinds of noise - pink, red, etc. Check out sample recordings as S&H inputs. These have different distribution of frequencies than white noise. Attenuators, and dc offsets modules can shift the ranges of the values that you're sampling. Send S&H output through a quantizer to restrict the number of values it can produce. Alternatively, use a sequencer to modulate things like filters.
@@russ254thanks so much what excellent advice. I had no idea about filtering noise in that way but it makes total sense. Thanks!
@@jonathanyoung6397 You can also get some interesting results with a S&H sampling different waveforms/sources other than noise, say an LFO, envelope, oscillator etc, or even triggering the S&H with a different gate pattern than the voice, say a euclidean pattern generator or something.
Very well done and informative video here. I do have one question for you: you mention more than once that you like to use this to add variation and simulate a human player. I noticed that you are human. Have you considered simply playing the instrument? Or is there more to what you like about that sound?
My music typically has several parts going at once, and I run out of hands to trying to add humanization to all of them at the same time. So I'm constantly trying to find ways to teach my machines to play their parts the way I would if I wasn't busy playing another part right at that moment. :-)
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Hah, I also love using randoms with my Korg 2600m :) Somehow it feels more epic with this little monster to inject things that are more standard strictly within the euro realm. Recently enjoying a version of this with my Five12 Vector Quad LFO..
But why no reverb on the 2600? :P
Yeah, the Five12 QV-L is a monster!
As for reverb, I had the spring cranked up all the way at the beginning and end! ;-) But otherwise, I tend to not use FX when doing "educational" videos because I don't want them confusing the listener as to what's coming out of the main patch.
How did you manage to trigger the gate on the ARP2600 without going to the pre amp? mine wont trigger from eurorack gates without using the preamp and triggering trig and gate both with that
For this video I was using an Arturia Keystep plugged into the 2600m via USB MIDI. But in the past I've also used the Keystep's gate output patched to override the S/H Gate below the AR generator. What modules have you been having trouble driving it with?
Chris, wow over 1K views in less than 24 hours. If you don't mind sharing, what's your average view duration? thx - O.Z.
Isn't that rather personal to ask on a first date? We barely know each other... ;-)
More seriously though, since it's indexed, with distinctly different sections (a user may have one of those modules but not the other), I don't think average view time will give an apples to apples comparison to some other videos. (That said, it's above my average video.)
@@LearningModular LOL yes it is personal. Thanks for the info and congrats!
You're in New Mexico?
Yes - foothills of the Sandia Mountains.
@@LearningModularlove the Sandia Mountains. Just been out here a year in Rio Rancho.
@@soundvandal3570 are you aware of New Mexico Control Voltage, the local modular group? Go to LearningModular.com and hit me up using the Contact form at the bottom of the page - we have both a meetup in ABQ and a concert in Santa Fe coming up in the next 2-3 weeks.
@@LearningModular I sort of heard about this. But it was on FB and I'm not on there. Thanks for this info. I don't have modular but I do have semi-modular and VCV... So... Yeah!
Back from the dead?
I never died; I just moved somewhere else - from my left brain to my right brain - for awhile... ;-)