I watch this once in a while, when I need some creative inspiration. But as I absorb this now, (4th or 5th time, I think) I feel this is so much deeper than just as an impressive (understatement of the decade) expose of next level professionalism. There's real life wisdom here. I can say this cos I'm just some random on the web, how privileged are we, not only to get this insight but to play these amazing devises - to experience, interpret and yes, frequently lose hours to the love engineered into Emilie's work?
Wow - this is a gem - thank you for surfacing this. Sounds like Clouds always has been a struggle for her - (it's a bit of a struggle for me in its use, but with time it looks like it can be tamed :D )
Wow, such a humbling experience to learn from you, Emilie. I love your honesty and openness. I will be listening and watching this video at least 4 or 5 times in order to let things sink into my mind. I know how important it is to have the right type of person to test to the n-th degree, I also own a small graphics software company and spent 4-5 years developing a piece of software with a team from India. I kept telling the project manager how critical the QA person was on the team who is just as valuable as the developers. It's amazing how many more things you have to be good at and learn when it comes to owning your own business, the creation of the product is the best juicy part...running the business is a whole other thing. It would be wonderful if you could be in "creative mode" most of the time. I love your answers around what are your favorite products, I totally can relate having been an Oracle ERP support specialist for several years for large networking hardware company and how long it takes to test equipment (burn in and auto-test). I know what those machines look like that place components onto the boards, it's amazing how it all comes together from a manufacturing process. This was a wonderful presentation, thank you Emilie Gillet. Maybe someday we might run into each other? It would be as memorable for me as when I met Linus Torvalds (Linux) and Larry Wall (Perl) back in 1999 and Tim O'Reilly at the first Maker's Faire, much respect for innovators/creators like yourself who are both morally and ethically driven. Thank you,
Yes! I got hopeful for a minute that it would be one of her 2020 releases, but then she said she scrapped it. So excited to see what she has come up with!
Fantastic overview of one of my favourite modular manufacturers and innovators. It feels good to support someone who open sources such great work too, just put another 3 mutable modules on the shopping list 👍
It is so interesting to hear about the ‘Play Test’ phase. With things written in code, it seems like this the first ‘real’ experience with the vision. What a rush that must be - and stressful
21:52 i couldnt understand the name of the company in germany. can anyone help?? i heard something like vittal yaud or bittaly yaud..... cant find anything.
Interesting approach to measuring complexity. However it seems to follow a very engineering focused view (which is understandable, as she is an engineer herself). But still, I feel that the Main drawback for me when using her modules (which is - too many secondary functions and complexity in general) could have been solved by following a more user centric method to understand complexity for the users. Means - user research over code analysis ✌️
So Rings not always sounds the same... In my opinion this is the most uninteresting MI module BUT this opinion is based only on videos I saw on YT. You know those with a cup of coffee, houseplants and amethysts. I would really like to see how Rings can sound different and inspiring. I love Mutable Instruments modules and Rings is a tablespoon of salt in a sweet dish.
rings is basically one of the best sounding singular sound sources in eurorack hence why people mostly use it just at face value, but there are many videos exploring the experimental and interesting sounds that it can make. Not even considering the easter egg mode which there are very few videos of on yt
Emilie's notes Also, it seems to me that because the modules can be used on their own (you can plug something in Clouds and get a signal on the out without any other module, and you can plug a trigger or V/O signal into Rings and get something on the outs), people tend to treat them as black boxes and don't experiment much with them. Here's 10 things you can do with Rings that no video has shown so far: Create your own excitation signals with "long" signal chains like sample player -> VCA -> filter ; or envelope -> VCF -> delay. Feed back Rings' output into its FM input. Use simple noise as the excitation signal, and then shape the sound with an ADSR and VCA after Rings' output. Stack the sound of Rings on top of a more classic FM or subtractive tone. Use Rings' output to FM an analog sine or triangle VCO, then apply an envelope on this VCO coming from an envelope follower receiving Rings' output. Post-process Rings' output with a wavefolder. Use a crossfader to crossfade an external excitation signal (noise for example) with Rings' own output (feedback patch). Use a random source on all of its CV inputs to get drastic changes of timbre at each note. In non-linear string mode, send a negative CV to the V/O input and set frequency to the minimum to get a very low fundamental frequency - you get rhythmic-rate delay, and can use the module as a weird low-fi delay/reverb. Send a sawtooth or narrow pulse VCO into Rings' input, and use the same V/O sequence for both Rings and the VCO.
I watch this once in a while, when I need some creative inspiration. But as I absorb this now, (4th or 5th time, I think) I feel this is so much deeper than just as an impressive (understatement of the decade) expose of next level professionalism. There's real life wisdom here. I can say this cos I'm just some random on the web, how privileged are we, not only to get this insight but to play these amazing devises - to experience, interpret and yes, frequently lose hours to the love engineered into Emilie's work?
incredible video thank you so much
incredible, amazing sounds were made
Wow - this is a gem - thank you for surfacing this. Sounds like Clouds always has been a struggle for her - (it's a bit of a struggle for me in its use, but with time it looks like it can be tamed :D )
Wow, such a humbling experience to learn from you, Emilie. I love your honesty and openness. I will be listening and watching this video at least 4 or 5 times in order to let things sink into my mind. I know how important it is to have the right type of person to test to the n-th degree, I also own a small graphics software company and spent 4-5 years developing a piece of software with a team from India. I kept telling the project manager how critical the QA person was on the team who is just as valuable as the developers. It's amazing how many more things you have to be good at and learn when it comes to owning your own business, the creation of the product is the best juicy part...running the business is a whole other thing. It would be wonderful if you could be in "creative mode" most of the time. I love your answers around what are your favorite products, I totally can relate having been an Oracle ERP support specialist for several years for large networking hardware company and how long it takes to test equipment (burn in and auto-test). I know what those machines look like that place components onto the boards, it's amazing how it all comes together from a manufacturing process. This was a wonderful presentation, thank you Emilie Gillet. Maybe someday we might run into each other? It would be as memorable for me as when I met Linus Torvalds (Linux) and Larry Wall (Perl) back in 1999 and Tim O'Reilly at the first Maker's Faire, much respect for innovators/creators like yourself who are both morally and ethically driven. Thank you,
This talk is so inspirational. Vision, stamina, true to one self and care for the user...
This is a phenomenally insightful presentation. Thank you so much for sharing it!
A must watch
Truly interesting lecture on modular development!
9:54 She speaks about Trails, a module she never released. You can see a prototype of Trails in some of the Warps promotional photographs.
Yes! I got hopeful for a minute that it would be one of her 2020 releases, but then she said she scrapped it. So excited to see what she has come up with!
@Octavio P. How can you be involved in something as beautiful and transcendent as modular synthesis and be such a hateful idiot. Get lost.
Fantastic overview of one of my favourite modular manufacturers and innovators. It feels good to support someone who open sources such great work too, just put another 3 mutable modules on the shopping list 👍
Super professional, I’m very impressed 👍
It is so interesting to hear about the ‘Play Test’ phase. With things written in code, it seems like this the first ‘real’ experience with the vision. What a rush that must be - and stressful
I didn't know that my respect for this man could get bigger : o
This woman ;)
Korhan Erel true but the video still « quotes » olivier and not emily
@@thom-alphaxiii-5106 I wasn't really "correcting" Jonas, but still, it's appropriate to refer to her with the correct gender.
Korhan Erel i totally agree
@@KorhanErel but it's Oliver talking here, and not Emile right?
Amazing stuff and interesting. I found out about Mutable Instruments from miRack on iPad and now I aspire to own the real modules one day.
A super interesting workshop! Thanks for posting
WOW!
Good!
18:26 I was convinced the Ears was the original product! But yeah, having something from -Emily- Emilie is another story.
Who the hell is Emily ?
@@WizardBallz Emilie, corrected.
I’m assuming the covered module was beads
21:52 i couldnt understand the name of the company in germany. can anyone help?? i heard something like vittal yaud or bittaly yaud..... cant find anything.
beta layout
@16:00 "Dyes: Justin Bieber Simulator" (edit: Wow, I'm not the first the notice this gem.)
Interesting approach to measuring complexity. However it seems to follow a very engineering focused view (which is understandable, as she is an engineer herself). But still, I feel that the Main drawback for me when using her modules (which is - too many secondary functions and complexity in general) could have been solved by following a more user centric method to understand complexity for the users. Means - user research over code analysis ✌️
So the mistery module here is a new iteration of clouds right? -)
In part 2 it is revealed as the new Tides
So Rings not always sounds the same... In my opinion this is the most uninteresting MI module BUT this opinion is based only on videos I saw on YT. You know those with a cup of coffee, houseplants and amethysts. I would really like to see how Rings can sound different and inspiring. I love Mutable Instruments modules and Rings is a tablespoon of salt in a sweet dish.
rings is basically one of the best sounding singular sound sources in eurorack hence why people mostly use it just at face value, but there are many videos exploring the experimental and interesting sounds that it can make. Not even considering the easter egg mode which there are very few videos of on yt
Emilie's notes
Also, it seems to me that because the modules can be used on their own (you can plug something in Clouds and get a signal on the out without any other module, and you can plug a trigger or V/O signal into Rings and get something on the outs), people tend to treat them as black boxes and don't experiment much with them.
Here's 10 things you can do with Rings that no video has shown so far:
Create your own excitation signals with "long" signal chains like sample player -> VCA -> filter ; or envelope -> VCF -> delay.
Feed back Rings' output into its FM input.
Use simple noise as the excitation signal, and then shape the sound with an ADSR and VCA after Rings' output.
Stack the sound of Rings on top of a more classic FM or subtractive tone.
Use Rings' output to FM an analog sine or triangle VCO, then apply an envelope on this VCO coming from an envelope follower receiving Rings' output.
Post-process Rings' output with a wavefolder.
Use a crossfader to crossfade an external excitation signal (noise for example) with Rings' own output (feedback patch).
Use a random source on all of its CV inputs to get drastic changes of timbre at each note.
In non-linear string mode, send a negative CV to the V/O input and set frequency to the minimum to get a very low fundamental frequency - you get rhythmic-rate delay, and can use the module as a weird low-fi delay/reverb.
Send a sawtooth or narrow pulse VCO into Rings' input, and use the same V/O sequence for both Rings and the VCO.
16:01 Dyes: Justin Bieber Simulator