Mutable Instruments - Stages *In Depth Demo / Tutorial*
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- 00:00:00 Hello!
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00:01:49 What is Stages?
Feature rundown, manual snippets, walkthrough, linking multiple modules, grouping, patches
00:06:41 2 stage AD envelopes
Creating 1-3 AD envelopes, Feedback patching modulating modulators
00:11:08 4 stage GATED ADSR envelopes
Creating the classic ADSR CV & shape control over each stage.
00:13:14 4 stage TRIGGERED ADHR envelopes
Gate length not needed! Using hold with level and time controls instead of an incoming gate length to determine sustain.
00:14:37 5 stage AHDSR envelopes
Adding a hold stage between the attack and decay.
00:16:59 5 stage DADSR envelopes
Adding delay to the start of an ADSR for a 5 stage envelopes for a delayed start.
00:18:43 6 stage DAHDSR envelopes
Delayed, attack, hold, decay, sustain, release envelopes!
00:20:43 6 stage DAHDHR envelopes
Loosing the sustain for a hold on stage 5 gives us a 6 stage triggered envelope that doesn’t rely on incoming gate length.
00:21:41 6 stage DASDHR envelopes
This is getting silly! :D where have you ever seen a delayed attack sustain decay hold release envelope!
00:22:31 5 stage ADSRH envelopes
Adding a hold stage at the end of an ADSR to give us an end of cycle trigger and also a non-zero rest level.
00:24:33 Patching feedback to trigger extra sounds
This is the same patch as above but taking the end of cycle trigger to trigger another single segment and sound
00:26:01 6 Single Segment Decay envelopes
6 decay envelopes all independent but then with feedback patching for interactive modulated modulation
00:28:28 Why you need multiple decay envelopes for percussion synthesis
Using 3 decay envelopes for amplitude, pitch FM and noise level
00:31:07 Single looping Segments - LFOs
Green ramp mode looping gives us LFOs that can be manually controlled, shapes crossfaded and CV control over rate or clocked LFOs going from x4 to /4 of the incoming clock and they can still be CV modulated
00:33:55 Chaining multiple looping segments
Looping ADs, Looping AHRs, function generator looping action! Each stage has it’s own shape control. This also covers using a hold stage with zero hold time to control output level with can be CV modulated like putting an envelope through a VCA and using another voltage to control it’s depth.
00:37:30 Trapezoid Generators
Creating a looping Trap. as found on the EMS VCS3. Attack into a hold, into a release that then has a resting level. This will rise, hold, fall then hold. With control over the shapes peak (mid hold) and it’s resting bottom voltage (end hold).
00:39:57 S&H - orange step mode
Using a single orange step mode to create a sample and hold. Using the gate input to “sample” CV input as the input for “what to sample” and the output gives us the stepped sampled version of our CV input. You also get a glide control on the pot at the top.
00:43:36 Step sequencing
Linking multiple orange segments will step through linked segments and the sliders will set the CV output for each step. We also get glide on the mini pots up top.
00:47:50 Sequential Switch - CV
This builds on the patch above by using the CV inputs to add varying CV to each stage we can then step through the orange step mode on the segments to create a sequential switch. You can still glide between stages here too.
00:51:06 Sequential Switch - Audio
Audio is degraded and crunchy through Stages (which can be a nice sound of it’s own) but we can also sequential switch through audio sources by patching audio into the CV inputs on each segment rather than the CV (as we did in the example above).
00:53:02 Gated VCA
With the red mode looping (hold to make it flash) we can input CV or audio into the CV input and use a gate to turn that signal on and off. Again with audio we get a degraded crunchy sound.
00:53:56 Gated VCA with rising “sidechain”
This is the patch above with a gated VCA style function on one segment. But linking that to a green ‘ramp’ section before it we can gate the group to create a swell or rise into the CV or audio input.
00:55:33 Gate to trigger or trigger to gate - get length adjuster!
A single red segment (non looping) will take a gate input and the mini pot up top will adjust the output time regardless of incoming gate length. So patch any gate or trigger into the gate and use the mini pot to adjust it from a tight short trigger to a long held gate.
00:58:00 CV Delay / Gate Delay
A single segment red mode while looping (hold the button to flash) will act as a CV / Gate delay over what you play live on the slider or over what comes into the CV input on that segment. Here I use a gate into the CV input and set the delay time with the mini pot.
00:59:44 Breakpoint envelopes - multiple rising of falling stages
Here I make a 5 stage and a 6 stage multi-breakpoint envelope. The first example is a A D1 D2 S R then an A D1 D2 S R1 R2.
Oh my. This is both one of the best modules and tutorials I've seen! Cheers!
Divkid, thank you for making these awesome tutorials. I've just purchased a Stages and can't wait to make music with it. Cheers!
Oh man, I underestimated the possibilities of this module. Thanks for the tutorial!!!
Thank you for taking the time for this awesome demonstration of that beautiful module.
Happy to do it, thanks for watching.
Great demo Ben, thanks for getting the video up so quickly
Took some real work to do this so it's great to see it's appreciated. Thanks for the comment Dave.
Awesome explanation, especially with the visualization by the DATA. Thanks a lot for your effort. 😊
Divkid, I come back to your vids multiple times to learn and remind myself how to use modules. Thanks so much. Really excellent videos.
thanks Nick that's much appreciated. Happy to able to make them.
Such a thorough overview Ben! Great job in putting this all together.
Cheers Matthew.
This is not only a tutorial on Stages. It's a master class on sound design. Thanks man! This is so useful 🚀
nice one, always the intention to share a lot more than just what the module does on it's own.
Having got Stages a couple weeks back, I think I've watched this vid either end to end or in segments about a dozen times, and I haven't really got into the real depth of the module yet.
@divkid what a great community resource. Thank you from me.
love watching your vids. always so much great info. thank you.
Oh yes, this is definitely on the shopping list, but I'll wait till the initial feeding frenzy is over - great comprehensive vid Ben.
Cheers, I'm sure plenty will be available in time.
this thing looks bonkers complex! You do it great justice with this tutorial thanks!
Wow what a powerful machine! Big up, this videos wicked!
Cheers Sol!
This is pure genius and precisely why I love modular: deconstructing every step of a sound!
Absolutely, cheers Alexnadre.
clearly the work of a genius! damn , want one now
:D
like always great video, and also great module, indeed mutable & versatile but without menu diving etc, really smart concept
absolutely.
Great job on the presentation Ben. I want three of these now. 🖖🏻
I have 3 in mind now too, seem to be magic number for them.
bravo! ok I'm sold! becoming a Patreon patron now. you have helped me get so much more value out of modules i already have! thank you!
Awesome video! Made me get two stages and couldn't be happier! Wanted to share a little something that I recently discovered. You can use a solitary looping green stage as an audio subdivider to beef up a voice. It's nice and gritty and makes a killer bass out of any meager oscillator! The waveform can be chosen with the dial since it is a LFO and they all sound great but the bass from the squarewave is insane. Enjoy! Thanks again, Ben for all your awesome work!
I'm curious .. can you say if the device powers up with the 6 mode buttons/lights in the same state you powered down in? Does it save those button settings between runs automatically?
Yes it does
Thank you so much for this video. Great work. I'm learning so much from you
nice to hear, thanks Simon.
Great module and fantastic video, thank you!!
This is far too useful to pass up.
I love this direction Mutable is taking. Putting the creativity into the patching and the user's brain instead of a computer and a tiny screen.
Thumbs up to this new module and your excellent video on it.
cheers Noi
Brilliant module and great demo.
Thanks Nektar.
This module is sold on just 10 minutes into the vid, feedback patching. :) Absolutely brilliant walkthrough, hats off!
Cheers Oli.
Damn, Olivier knocks it out of the park yet again! Great demo too Ben, do you ever sleep man? How you get the time to do all these in depth Demos as well as interviews and Modular Podcasts is beyond me, Keep up the Great work!
It's a tonne of work, but I appreciate the support and acknowledgement especially from those that know how long this stuff takes.
Hey Ben this is so super useful. Thanks Man ! great work, as usual
nice one, thank you.
I love how simple the module is to operate but it can have very complicated uses
yeah me too, all in the patching and that's fantastic.
MI is really killing it with these new modules!
absolutely.
After a long deliberation as to what complex envelope generator I wanted to get, it came down between Stages, Zadar, and Quadigy. They all have their merits but I'm glad I went with Stages - mainly I wanted to get away from screens and I feel like as you've shown here Stages really forces you to think hard and creatively about patching without any reliance on presets or screens. I'm definitely not knocking Zadar or Quadigy, I'm just saying Stages IMHO is the way to really learn patching inside and out. Your video was so helpful in getting me up and running - thank you!
I don't know if i'm getting better at english but your voice is more clear to understand now :) Awesome videos! Awesome modules!
I take on board feedback and try to be clear and a bit slower so hopefully it's a bit of both :)
So much potential with this one. 10 minutes in and a ton of ideas were already coming to mind. Olivier Gillet is a bloody genius, how does he do it? Excellent tutorial!
Cheers Jerod, Olivier is great!
Full on - thanks Ben - on the never ending list
nice one Derek, cheers.
genius module idea. so adaptable from such finite initial rules.
(just like serge, as you mention with the dusg)
yeah exactly a real building block of any modulation you can think of.
Love it just picked it up thinking of a second thanks for this video!!!! 🤙🤙
nice one
i really appreciate you doing these videos, stages i think is one of my underused modules because it seems so daunting to me besides using it as lfos. trying to expand that by understanding adsr. somehow adsr seems to work more immediately with clear feedback and repeatability on a semi modular or non modular synth than on a modular, dunno why
oh my gosh, this is about as cool as maths!
Une vidéo très utiles. Des explications très claires.
Merci beaucoup.
Great demo! Thanks!
Cheers Martin.
Wow , thanks for this amazing video. The "Stages" Thesis! or Stages Bible
haha thanks Sabina!
Lovely stuff.
Thks Kid,i just got mt Stages!At first ,i patched as a 6 point enveloppe and the out goes in Tides V/oct and the fm is randomized thru a quantized random voltage source!..great sounding sequence...
oh nice! Sounds pretty crazy sonically. Especially if you start modulating the third wave knob to bring in some folded harmonics on top.
Yeah thks K!..i just try but i this,but doesnt sound the same...thats a mistery
This module is the work of a brilliant thinker, not only because of the simplicity of use, but also because of the many possible uses.
Thanks for the video.
well said, thanks for the comment.
Saw comment on facebook..came here to check it out :)
nice one! :)
Holy Moly! Seems like I could ditch my entire rack and just work with a Plaits-Marbles-Stages combo. MI rules the world.
You could built a mini system definitely.
good vid, awesome module
Nice one KILP
Mind blown.
:)
Great tutorial
thanks
Thanks for another great video. Spoiled we are... ;)
Absolutely, another solid module.
thank you!
MI Stages is awesome. 👍👍👍
Yep
Woah! Better settle into this one with a cuppa i think ;)
Yeah get a good drink and your feet up.
Would love to see an overview of the qiemem features!
Very nice! I've been looking for something comparable to the dx7's mod env's.
Yeah complex multi segment shapes are easy with it. Nicer to edit than through Casio CZ range of Yamaha DX screen.
Hi Ben, greetings from Puerto Rico! Love all your demos!! I was hoping you could tell me what brand of patch cables you used while filming this demo?
Kind Regards!
There's 6. Analogue Solutions, FoMu, Tiptop Audio, Glow Worm Cables, Erthenvar (out of business/closed now), Mushi.one LED cables and maybe even more.
I think this could have been more comprehensive ;3
mylarmelodies cheeky.
Lol
Chris Bennett It irony
both :^)
maths is dope!
Ben very nice demo as usual. We so rely on you buddy. Could this be a Maths beater? Great module from Olivier.
It'a a great module. Each building block of modulation and you can do you want with it.
Great, great video! Have you tried feedback patch with that crazy lo-fi crunch? Or six of them in series? How does that sound? And how fast are those LFO modes? This might be also a complex graphic oscillator?!?
LFOs go up to low audio rate but can be pushed further. I'm going to make a follow up video with oscillator stuff.
a proper video to compensate for the facebook leak, champion!
Nice one.
How to get that that "more interesting gate pattern than a steady clock" (with pause) 45:05?
@ 34:21 if I patch that dummy cable to a clock source do I get a 2 segment clocked lfo?? That would be super useful.
No because that's an input, not an output. So you wouldn't be outputting anything. Unless you're thinking about re triggering or syncing the LFOs? But I don't think you can sync an LFO across two stages.
amazing video, thank you! Ben, can you help me clarify something? Knowing that a single segment can become a clocked LFO that scales from x4 to /4... could 2 segments ping-ponging together also be clocked to make an LFO that scales from x16 to /16? Is that how 2 or more segments in looping mode behaves? (I've tried this in VCV rack and can't get it working but the interface of the module isn't exactly the same... ) Thanks!!
you would need to just clock the second one slower than the first. I'd use an external clock source and divider to do that. But you could patch the output of the first one (the LFO) and patch that at /4 into the second as a clock input and divide that down even further. But you'll only get /4-x4 in terms of control from the base clock rate you input to that channel.
@@DivKid thank you! that makes sense 👍
i went to the "Gate to trigger or trigger to gate - get length adjuster" section with the hope of finding a way to modulate the gate length, but it seems there's no built-in way to do this. anyone know a workaround? fwiw i'm using the vcv rack version
Hi, thanx a lot for your explanations ! wich module does the melodie sequencing ? around 31:10 ?
That's Tuesday from This Is Not Rocket Science, video here - ua-cam.com/video/mCShOr-zQME/v-deo.html
Can this module attenuate itself by using those red, hold stages? I always figured it would need plenty of external attenuation in order to get the most out of it.
Has anyone used Stages as sample and hold for supplying pitch to your quantiser? Does it have a voltage droop? I need a stable sample and hold that I can pair with my Shakmat Bard Quartet. Apparently, all analog sample and hold have a voltage droop, which is not great for pitch quantization. Wondering if Stages can solve that.
Hi! Does segments stays as it was preprogramed after power is turned off and back on? Thanks!
At about 30:00, when you say frequency modulate the kick sound, do you just mean putting a modulation signal/ramp into the VCO‘s 1V/Oct? Because I thought that the name FMing is only used when you modify audio with audio?
Any sort of modulation of frequency is FM. FM synthesis is modulating audio with audio but 1v/oct is frequency modulation, vibrato, envelopes etc is also FM as it's modulating the frequency of the oscillator. When you want to do typical FM synthesis you can put the audio into the 1v/oct input too. Not just inputs marked FM.
Great video. Getting into Eurorack do you think you could start with jut stages and plaits (plus having a 0-coast) and have a good time? Plan is to build up over time. Thanks in advance
Starting with a couple of modules and really learning them is definitely the best way. What do you feel is potentially missing from the 0-Coast or what would you like to add to it?
its more about getting a new instrument to be honest,move aware from making sounds on the computer and make them on hardware. i like the flexibility of modular, plus it will satisfy my electronic music toy buying habit ha. its not really about building around the 0coast, more about using the 0coast so i dont need to start with 10 different modules (eg midi to CV, has some maths and random voltage). I was also look at Akmies Castle instead of Plaits. Which of those would you recommend? Thanks a lot
The 4 and 2 sequence at 47:47 didn't work? Does it need time to adjust?
I’m late to the party...I was looking at getting Stages for the harmonic oscillation, but then DivKid as usual, blows me away with his vids. Might have to get two Stages!
This or the varigate 4+? I'm new and cant really decide on what I want as a segment gen/sequencer. I have a Piston Honda mkII, Loquelic Iteritas Percido, Maths, 2hp tm, mother 32. 0 coast, and intellijel mixup in my setup.
Hi Kirk, Stages won't do pitch and gate sequencing anywhere near the same as the Varigate 4+. The Varigate 4+ won't make envelopes and LFOs though. So you need to decide on the function first then the module that fulfils that function.
Yeah, I really need to weigh in on what I want to do. I guess its more of a personal battle haha. Do you think stages would compliment the mother 32's sequencer? Or would the expanded sequencing capabilities of having both the m32 seq and varigate 4+ prove to be more powerful?
Love this module would to see it patched with variegatr as I want both
Wish the knob acted as attack in single segment envelope mode. Would have been sweet with up to 6 simple envelopes in 14 hp.
Amazing tutorial. I’m trying to figure out how this has 118k views when MI probably sold several thousand of this module. Are VCV Rack and clone modules that popular? Or do people watch this who will never even use Stages? In any case, it’s an excellent guide on how different envelopes work and everything is explained so clearly.
Hi Eric,
Yeah it's far from one owner one view of videos like this. People watch multiple times and lots of people watch who don't own the module. Often watching ahead of time to see if a module is for them or not. People also watch videos to take patch ideas and musical ideas to apply to other gear and formats too.
That's based on me asking similar questions of people over the years.
Thanks for the kind words about the video too, all the best.
Wow!
Yep
The most modular of modules, it's a modular system in itself. Excellent video as always DK!
I want one. NOW!
:)
Are my pentomiters the opposite way round or is it just the camera. For example, at 16.40 when you do AHDSR, my Decay only acts as such when the pentomiter is all the way to the right. Where in the video its all the way to the left. Am i going nuts?
It only acts as in it only does something when it's that way? The shape knob on decay stage should be expo left through linear then log shape to the right. It might be that with faster envelope shapes you're hearing a quick exponential drop that sounds like it almost steps to the next phase.
On the ADSR and AHDSR, the expo on the Decay and Release when knob to the right. Which is confusing me somewhat. If I set the knobs and sliders to match your video, and test through my DATA, that is the result i get. Go figure.
The attack on the AHDSR has the expo to the left. And yes Hold and Sustain are Red (Hold mode).
33:10 Jesus... the saturating ffilter sound blew my mind! is that all plaits or is there a LP involved? If so which one? (semi full screen of possibly involved modules at 26:10 & sneak peak at top row at 58:38) Is that just the filter or do I need a VCA that "overdrives" nicely aswell? What would be the building blocks for me to create such a fat sounding and modulated patch (clock and divider stuff included)?
After learning more about modular and cominng back to this video, I just realized it is only the morph parameter of plaits being modulated, hence the waveform morphing between less and more harmonics - no filter involved!
I wonder what module did you use in the 45:10 minute that suddenly the sequence slows down and speeds up...
What filter module are you using for the AHDSR demonstration?
Hard to be exact as I filmed that a good while back but it could be Ripples over an already grungy tone.
that bass at 48:15 is nasty.
This module makes MN Maths easy to understand ah!
Well it's a beautifully simple interface for a series of simple to complex functions. It's really reward once you learn (my video should help do that of course) what each segment can do.
Hi again ! one thing i didn't get is how to have 2 ou 3 singles LFOS running free with the segments patching ?
thanx
so you would patch the elements you want to link together with the gate going from the right. So a two stage envelope put the gate into segment 5 then you can loop stages 1 through 4 all as individual segment LFOs.
ok !! i get it ! i was beginning my LFOs from the right, that what was wrong i guess, thanx a lot !
no worries.
An impressive module. A bit dissapointed by the audio degradation when using it as a seq. switch. Guess it's all about those 14-bit converters... Great presentation/demo nonetheless 👍
Cheers N. Yeah not meant for audio but I thought I'd try it and push it anyway.
37:22 where is the Gate jack coming from?
the "dummy" cables? That just means plug something in that isn't connected to anything. It's just to change the behaviour of the module not to influence it with any external signal.
is it weird that my shape/time pot seems to be giving me opposite shapes for what youre getting?? (Full CW = getting the whips & Full CCW = getting the more curved shapes)
it's dependent on whether it's a rise of a fall. They work opposite ways with rising stages to falling stages.
it was in moments of your video here where i was following exactly what you were doing. Maybe I was too sleepy or something, ill try again. But youre saying because it depends on the order of colored "type" lights for the segments that determines the sequence of shapes from the pots?
the lights do dictate the stage behaviour. But if you're set up for a two stage envelope. Rise and fall, or attack and decay. Then the pot for shape control log-lin-expo work in opposite ways for a falling or rising voltage.
as i said it only weirded me out because i was doing exactly what you were doing but getting the opposite results. thanks for your help. ill try again =-)
I couldn't find your trademark 'slewed and bendy ' phrase...
oh I didn't know that was a trademark phrase! I'll have to use that for something.
Hello! Good video, but I can't understand why when you turn the knob to the left (counterclockwise) the shape of the curve becomes exponential, but when I turn the knob to the left it becomes logarithmic? :)
is this to do with the stage you're on? I think they change if the voltage is rising or voltage.
Hey Ben, your third index (time 1:49) on the table of contents says "Marbles" instead of "Stages"
well spotted, thanks Mark.
both in the description and the index in the video
can't edit the video without taking it down but edited elsewhere.
So it can output negative voltages if you patch a negative cv into the level input but only has 0-+8v built in?
Yes.
Awesome! You've created a unique spin on a basic building block that's both straightforward and capable of highly complex patches. Great work as usual.
Absolutely with you on that Matthew. Totally unique spin on small basic building blocks of modulation. Really cool.
Is there modulation on your voice? For some reason I hear a chorus-y effect on your voice through the video
No chorus on the voice. Don't have the project to look back but I wonder if there's any phase issues or anything giving it that feel.
Always incredible demos. Random side question. What oscillator do you use in these? It always sounds so fat
HI Andrew, can't really say what these are looking back now but ... I can say it won't have been anything "special". Which is to say it didn't really matter, I can hear some typical analogue mono synth type stuff and some digital things which might have been Plaits as it was to hand in the case. If you can highlight a specific time in the video I can tell you what's happening in the patching, which should be reproducible with a range of similar gear.
@@DivKid all good, it’s no biggie. It just sounded so good. What’s strange is I have several not special oscillators in my Moog stuff that are square, saw, or triangle… and they don’t seem to sound like that, lol. Maybe it’s just how you have it EQ’d.
I don't EQ or "master" the videos in anyway at all. So it's always raw and true to the patching.
I will use in rack compression on beats and things if say I'm demoing a sequencer, but if it was drum modules or a drum synthesis technique I wouldn't so you could hear it raw and unaltered.
You'll get masses of mileage out of what's in the Moog the oscillator in the GM is great.
this module though....geez! :O
:)
this module for some reason is so hard for me to grasp. I get the Attack/Decay setting but after that I get lost.
Hello, yeah I get that it's so open in terms of what a "stage" is (voltage up, down, held etc) that it can be complicated. One way to approach it would be to look at the functions it offers, explore those in isolation (away from researching this module specifically) then come back when you feel comfortable. Then you can try to apply the idea from other things with this, so it's a case of learning how Stage does something, rather than what that thing actual is functionally.
Just a thought, hope that helps.
I take it this has no loop mode for the AD enevelope?
Stages, or the streamline concept's incarnation
can Stages do the "bouncing ball" that we can do in Maths?
yeah you can patch that up.
Could Stages be used as a voltage controlled slew generator?
Or a gated slew generator maybe?
I guess
V/oct -> CV in into a stage with Step Mode set
Gate -> Gate of respective channel
Gated slew Output -> VCO
HI Rimar, that's not something I've tried as the unit doesn't work like that. It doesn't process voltages as inputs per say. Might be possible though, I'll have a think about that one.
DivKidVideo One more question; how small of a gate pulse can it receive? Have you tested that?
I have a René and when you put it to snake mode the X-gate pulse is preeeettty slim.
If it’s fine then i’m buying this thing ASAP
Incredibly well done video btw, if i didnt mention that
small or slim? Small as in low amplitude output? Or slim as in a very short gate length such as a 1ms trigger. It's taken every long or short gate/trigger I've thrown at it.
... and thank you
I meant slim! Ok nice, then I guess my dual ADSR is going out and Stages is going *in*.
With apologies to all, I have a newbie question. I have a plaits and a Data, so I'm trying to replicate what you are doing here to learn. At 6:41 Plaits' output is going to what? And from there it is routed back to Data so that we can hear the audio, correct? I watch all of your videos and through lots of effort I learn a lot and I am very appreciative (I need to be make a donation for sure). But some of these "I should already know this" holes keeps me scratching my head. Any clarification will be most helpful.
In this example only the envelopes are being monitored through Data, not the sound. The envelope outputs are routed into Data via three patch cables- white, purple & orange- where we see a visual representation. They are then patched out via the yellow cables underneath to trigger three vcas.
Since there is an open channel on Data (no. 3) you could visualize the end mixed sound by patching the mixer out to the channel 3 input and patching channel 3 output to the monitor. Or you could visualize just one of the sounds by patching its vca out to channel 3 and then patching to the input of the mixer.
@@earthboundaudio Thank you!
Would this finally be a good replacement for Maths? I need a function generator, but I don't really feel like getting a Maths. I really want an ADSR capable module and Maths is only AR/AD (I know you can patch an ADSR, but actually having one is better). Also the Maths is a little too big for the system I'm making.
"Finally" - in what sense? Like it's needed a replacement for some time? There's a few other options for Function Generators around. This missing the level control in the middle of Maths and the logic outputs at the bottom. You'd have to patch an ADSR here to some extent, but as the video should illustrate it's simple. If you're not using this for envelopes though there's still plenty to go at.
Sorry, I could've worded it a bit better.
I've been quite frustrated about the fact that it seems like every system must have a Maths, but at the same time, because I'm trying to make a small 3U x 84HP system, Maths seems to be a little excessive. Stages seemed to me to be a good replacement because it is a little smaller and still very flexible. Maybe I'm wrong though.
I've been looking for a function generator that could work better than Maths for my specific situation for some time, that's what I meant with "finally".
EDIT:
I'm maybe too over-enthusiastic about smaller modules. It's not really rational.
Yeah I know what you mean "everyone must own a Maths" mentality. That's because it's very good though, it deserves the title. Tony did great work bringing the Serge DUSG into the format and tweaking and building upon that to make Maths what it is.
Stages would be great in a small system. You loose the mixing and offsets/attenuversion that Maths has which is a great thing on it's own. You could add in a Shades, Triatt, 3xMIA to make up for that feature loss though. Then you'd have something really flexible.
Alright, thank you for the advice. I'll look into those modules
XYdamage just sold my maths.. Dont regret it