Holly cow, this patch is insane, my absolute favorite from all your patches so far, please create more patces like this ;-) ....... VCV modules in dark mode looking awesome and Prince of Persia needs a dark skin too...VCV modules with Surge XT are my favorite modules, sound and look awesome ... keep it comming ;-)
One very fun thing you inspired for me to do was to use a field recording of water dripping into puddles to trigger drums (Tala, is what I went to) - I used Ableton to make the transients in the water drops more pronounced, then used an envelope follower + comparator to get some triggers. I ran those triggers into a sequential switch which switched with each trigger, so each drum hit was a different voice in tala. I found there were points that were too chaotic because sometimes the comparator triggering really quickly in a way that sounded really odd on drums. So I came up with the idea of using a Sample & Hold that triggered every 16th note and ran the triggers that the comparator created through that before going into the sequential switch. And it was awesome! It kept everything very much in time but also was unpredictable, since yhe rhythm was generated purely by the recording of water dripping. Well worth trying out if you have a nature recording with a semi-regular series of soinds you could pull triggers from!
Nice idea, would be cool to trigger a few Rings and try different field recordings. You could also pitch the sample down a few octaves so it evolves more slowly. I lived in Germany for 18 months and always wanted to visit the Baltic coast, but unfortunately we had to move before I got the chance. Having said that, waves sound the same anywhere so I'll have to settle for sampling the North sea in Scotland instead. We usually get bonus wind/storm sounds too 😂
Absolutely lovely patch and tutorial! It has definitely inspired me to incorporate field recordings in more ambitious ways! For anyone interested in ambient generative patches like this, one thing I love to do in my ambient patches that helps seperate some of the voices if you are feeling like it is getting cluttered is to do this: run the Right and Left of your voices through separate filters and use different, very slow, LFOs to modulate the frequency of the filters, and id the LFOs are at different rates, you will have an ever-changing atmosphere where the voice comes in and out in different areas of the stereo field and will also automatically bring in areas where the voice is silent. It also has a different feel than using panning, because the color of the sounds change as well. I like bringing the right and left of that sound back into a lilush reverb after their separate filtering for this really flowing wash that swells across the stereo field. Could be a lot of fun exploring using field recordings to control the filter modulatuon as well!
Yes! Waves! Thank you Omri! One of my favorite things I liked to emulate. Another one would be the singing of birds. I remember Yes used it on Close to the Edge many moons ago. ✨ 🌟 🌜 🌞 🌻 🙌🏼 💛 🕊 🕉 🙏🏽
Incredible! I tried this idea when you first did it but it’s nothing like as gorgeous as this… I’ll keep trying I guess. On another note, that function in the Surge modules where you can right click and tell it where to go is such a quality of life upgrade for VCV and I hope it gets implemented throughout the whole thing. For so long now I’ve been wanting the ability to connect stereo with a single click, here’s hoping… Amazing stuff as always squire, thank you! 🍄
This is fantastic. What if you wanted to modulate using the frequency of the sample instead of the amplitude? Is that what the LFO is doing with the fm input?
Thanks! For using the frequency of an audio source, you will need a pitch follower, I guess. I do this often with my flute, but since pitch is frequency and frequency is pitch, you can use other sources, also not melodic. If it's something more rhythmic, like drums, you can still use an envelope follower, and then, with the help of a comparator, you can extract the rhythm.
Dude this is incredible! I had a question about the shift register and merge modules. Since you are feeding it the quantizer v/oct information, does it just randomly pick 3 notes close together? What happens when you still use three cables but spread them out across the outputs of shift register? Can't wait to get home and work this patch myself!
Thank you! The shift register will shift the pitch down one output with each trigger it gets, so it's not doing this randomly, but rather each time delayed by one trigger pulse. I hope it makes sense. The lower you go, the more delayed the signal is.
I love this idea. I wonder if different seas give you different expressions with the same set-up? I've been reading stuff about psychogeography recently (a school of thought mainly allied to urban geography), which is about how people experience and feel the city as they walk through it....strikes me that this could be a neat way of encapsulating such a random walk, by taking soundbites as you wander around the landscape and making them into a series of generative pieces. How did you record the original sample? How long was it? I guess the sample sets the tone for the flavour of the generative music that comes from it - so waves are gentle, pulsating, and rarely uniform but somehow rhythmical...other soundscapes should be very different, and give different results. Once you have a patch you like, you can almost leave it alone and let the outside world do the rest....
Yes, that is such a great idea. The sample itself has great affect on the result, so using different sources will result in various sounds. I just recorded this with my phone. It was a quite spot I found.
Such a lovely patch, I love whenever you make videos with generative patching, you always have tons of useful tips, thanks again!
Glad you enjoy it!
Holly cow, this patch is insane, my absolute favorite from all your patches so far, please create more patces like this ;-) .......
VCV modules in dark mode looking awesome and Prince of Persia needs a dark skin too...VCV modules with Surge XT are my favorite modules, sound and look awesome ... keep it comming ;-)
Thanks so much!
One very fun thing you inspired for me to do was to use a field recording of water dripping into puddles to trigger drums (Tala, is what I went to) - I used Ableton to make the transients in the water drops more pronounced, then used an envelope follower + comparator to get some triggers. I ran those triggers into a sequential switch which switched with each trigger, so each drum hit was a different voice in tala. I found there were points that were too chaotic because sometimes the comparator triggering really quickly in a way that sounded really odd on drums. So I came up with the idea of using a Sample & Hold that triggered every 16th note and ran the triggers that the comparator created through that before going into the sequential switch. And it was awesome! It kept everything very much in time but also was unpredictable, since yhe rhythm was generated purely by the recording of water dripping.
Well worth trying out if you have a nature recording with a semi-regular series of soinds you could pull triggers from!
Such an inspiring tutorial, thank u very much 🙏🏽
Glad you enjoyed it!
We climbed another step in our learning...
Thank you, Omri! 🙏
Thank you!
Lots of great ideas in here! Looking forward to see how far I can get with this in hardware.
Thanks so much!
Absolutely love these deeper patch videos. Please, more content like this!
Thank you!
Educational and inspiring! ❤
Thanks so much!
Nice idea, would be cool to trigger a few Rings and try different field recordings. You could also pitch the sample down a few octaves so it evolves more slowly.
I lived in Germany for 18 months and always wanted to visit the Baltic coast, but unfortunately we had to move before I got the chance. Having said that, waves sound the same anywhere so I'll have to settle for sampling the North sea in Scotland instead. We usually get bonus wind/storm sounds too 😂
As usual, so many great ideas in this video! Thanks a lot, Omri!
Glad you liked it!
Thank you omri 💎
Cheers!
Absolutely lovely patch and tutorial! It has definitely inspired me to incorporate field recordings in more ambitious ways!
For anyone interested in ambient generative patches like this, one thing I love to do in my ambient patches that helps seperate some of the voices if you are feeling like it is getting cluttered is to do this: run the Right and Left of your voices through separate filters and use different, very slow, LFOs to modulate the frequency of the filters, and id the LFOs are at different rates, you will have an ever-changing atmosphere where the voice comes in and out in different areas of the stereo field and will also automatically bring in areas where the voice is silent. It also has a different feel than using panning, because the color of the sounds change as well.
I like bringing the right and left of that sound back into a lilush reverb after their separate filtering for this really flowing wash that swells across the stereo field. Could be a lot of fun exploring using field recordings to control the filter modulatuon as well!
That's an amazing tip! Thanks!
As usual… Wahoo ! 😊 And I discovered Slope Detector module. Really exiting!
Thank you!
Yes! Waves! Thank you Omri! One of my favorite things I liked to emulate. Another one would be the singing of birds. I remember Yes used it on Close to the Edge many moons ago. ✨ 🌟 🌜 🌞 🌻 🙌🏼 💛 🕊 🕉 🙏🏽
Thank you!
Incredible! I tried this idea when you first did it but it’s nothing like as gorgeous as this… I’ll keep trying I guess. On another note, that function in the Surge modules where you can right click and tell it where to go is such a quality of life upgrade for VCV and I hope it gets implemented throughout the whole thing. For so long now I’ve been wanting the ability to connect stereo with a single click, here’s hoping… Amazing stuff as always squire, thank you! 🍄
Yeah, it's such a great workflow improvement! Cheers!
That was a nice tutorial. Bunch of good ideas in there.
Thank you!
Love this so much
Thanks!
Fantastic and inspirational ❤ Thank you 🙏🏻
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing! So many amazing ideas in one video
Thank you!
many thanks Master, it is a very cleaver approach to create a very nice piece of sounding art. Saludos desde Buenos Aires.
Many thanks!
This is fantastic. What if you wanted to modulate using the frequency of the sample instead of the amplitude? Is that what the LFO is doing with the fm input?
Thanks! For using the frequency of an audio source, you will need a pitch follower, I guess. I do this often with my flute, but since pitch is frequency and frequency is pitch, you can use other sources, also not melodic. If it's something more rhythmic, like drums, you can still use an envelope follower, and then, with the help of a comparator, you can extract the rhythm.
Maybe I am missing something but how do you get the dark version of the VCV modules?
It's under the View menu. This will have an effect on other modules as well, though
@@OmriCohen-Music Use Dark panels if available (experimental) aha
Cudos! I've got a week off work; let's see if I can cook something up and share it on your Discord. Thanks again!
Thanks so much!
Dude this is incredible! I had a question about the shift register and merge modules. Since you are feeding it the quantizer v/oct information, does it just randomly pick 3 notes close together? What happens when you still use three cables but spread them out across the outputs of shift register? Can't wait to get home and work this patch myself!
Thank you! The shift register will shift the pitch down one output with each trigger it gets, so it's not doing this randomly, but rather each time delayed by one trigger pulse. I hope it makes sense. The lower you go, the more delayed the signal is.
I love this idea. I wonder if different seas give you different expressions with the same set-up? I've been reading stuff about psychogeography recently (a school of thought mainly allied to urban geography), which is about how people experience and feel the city as they walk through it....strikes me that this could be a neat way of encapsulating such a random walk, by taking soundbites as you wander around the landscape and making them into a series of generative pieces.
How did you record the original sample? How long was it? I guess the sample sets the tone for the flavour of the generative music that comes from it - so waves are gentle, pulsating, and rarely uniform but somehow rhythmical...other soundscapes should be very different, and give different results. Once you have a patch you like, you can almost leave it alone and let the outside world do the rest....
Yes, that is such a great idea. The sample itself has great affect on the result, so using different sources will result in various sounds.
I just recorded this with my phone. It was a quite spot I found.
sounds adriatic to me - jus sayin :)- it does sound amazing!
Thank you!