Polyphonic Plaits: Canon in G Minor, in Four Parts
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Trying out the new Macro Oscillator2 algorithm on the Disting EX, which gives you four independent Plaits voices. I'm using the iPad app, Fugue Machine, to sequence the four Plaits.
Gear used:
Qu-bit Bloom
Behringer Neutron
Mutable Instruments’ Beads
Make Noise Maths
Expert Sleepers’ Disting Mk4
Expert Sleepers’ Disting Ex
Pamela's New Workout
Quad VCA
Dnipro Metamorph
Intellijel Steppy
ALM's MFX
#modularsynth #eurorack
Oh my goodness Omri; that's so beautiful. Captivating. 👏👏👏
Thanks Probbie - and confusing me for Omri is the greatest compliment of all!
@@electrummodularmusic 🥴😃
@@electrummodularmusic indeed!
@@calbars I stand by my comments though! 👌
Nice and chill. I've been playing with the ported Plaits on my Hector a lot lately. Set it up with Marbles and a quantizer and I can easily lose a couple of hours.😊
Thanks Wade. The Hector looks very tempting...
Really nice man!
Cheers!
Sounds really good 👍 thanks
Thanks for listening!
This is really lovely. Most of the MIDI solutions I've seen for iPad involve controlling it with a keyboard, rather than getting MIDI out of it. Could you explain how your iPad MIDI is getting to your Eurorack system? Which adapters / interface devices are you using?
Thanks jbum. So I'm using a standard camera connector for the ipad, then a USB-to-midi cable, then a 5 pin midi to 1/4 trs adaptor, which connects to the MIDIXO module, which is connected in the rear via a i2C cable to the back of the Disting EX module. Ie. quite a complicated series of connectors/adapters!!
@@electrummodularmusic I eventually was able to connect it. I use a Presonus Audiobox iTwo, which connects to the iPad via USB-C, and connects to the Expert Sleepers MIDI expander via 5-pin MIDI cable. That in turn is connected to the Disting Ex, via the same 4-pin ribbon cable you are using, I imagine. Thanks for the inspiration!
yeah I was gonna say this is totes Fugue machine stuff
I'm digging how, if I get it right, the playback direction signs/inverts the interpretation of the note gates 1/-1 for on/off. hrm.
Hmmm, not sure I noticed anything like that, but maybe?!
Closest thing i can get with hardware to this is my Polyend SEQ, it allows ping pong and different speeds?
So you always get this interspersed variations and takes a long time to repeat on 32 steps.
I think I had 4 sequences going, 1 at 1:1, 1:2, 1:3 and 1:4.
All overlapping but coming together then separating and doing their own thing.
Polymetrics I think, wonderful and whilst still mathematical, it wasn't as random as what you have here.
Thanks for listening and commenting. The Polyend SEQ sounds fun!
beautiful, what models of plaits are you using?
Thanks! It's 2-op FM.
Since you are using an iPad here, what is the advantage of this over just using the polyphonic Plaits in Tera pro? Wouldn’t that be simpler and easier?
I'm not familiar with Tera pro, but yes you could just route the Fugue Machine to iOS synths - and I sometimes do that. But I personally prefer to connect it to Eurorack, for the tactile control, and to avoid having to switch between windows on the ipad. And the limitations of a modular are also helpful for me.
Could be worth sonifying the playback head direction if you mirror each voice, and its direction, with a rhythm-line playback and if it is going in reverse, of course, have the samples queue in reverse. could be new for fugue demos
Ah, so you're talking about using Fugue Machine with a sample player? I might have to try that...Thanks for the suggestion!
@@electrummodularmusic I tried making a fugue-ish machine patch in max like.. 10 years ago when I heard about it? but totally didn't handle the note on/off stuff right.
I doubt fugue machine sends out the direction data (and only sends note info, right?). would be cool if the thing also had CC param lanes that were swept thru at the same time.
it's such a "simple" but really badass concept & execution, the fugue machine app.