While I can't say any of this screams DC to my ears (Maybe we're thinking of different albums/periods. I certainly haven't heard them all as there are so many), I am curious to hear what he'd do with granular synthesis treatments of his own playing.
Lovely stuff! I've done some similar patches mainly using free modules in VCV Rack. There isn't a software equivalent of this yet, at least not that I've seen.
I get the sense that Arbhar is a bit easier to do real-time processing-- feed an input into the Onset and it'll trigger capture automatically. That's a huge feature IMHO...
I watched a video where the guy commented below that he views Arbhar more as a live effect and Morphagene more as a pre-preparable instrument. You have the card slot on the front of Morphagene where as you have it on the back of Arbhar.
@@Jimbo386000 wowzah... card on the back is a very intentional design statement. "Don't copy from a computer" or "Only record the input" --- which is a cool statement to make. Wondering what other technical differences in the way the grains are manipulated? Obviously I need to do some reading, but nice to hear from the informed. What else?
Xin Only other thing I’ve noticed is that Arbhar seems more visual and intuitive, but Morphagene seems more melodically oriented. EDIT: I don’t own either, this is just what I’ve noticed from research.
@@joshk2181 I found Morphagene to be reasonably good at finding random happy accidents, but when I had something specific I wanted to do or a specific adjustment to one of those happy accidents I wanted to make, I didn't really find it made things convenient for that. And I ended up using the Morphagene's stereo inputs simply as a means of mixing in an extra stereo signal rather than doing any processing of live inputs.
It seems to me that there's a misunderstanding here. Lubadh is the Morphagene of Instruo and Arbhar is the Clouds of Instruo. If i would start now with my modular adventure i would probably start with Instruo's awesome modules but now that I already have both Morphagene and Clouds, I don't think I'll switch.
in my opinion, lubadh ist a dual looper and not a morphagene. arbhar is a granular modul like clouds. clouds and morphagene can also be used as a looper.
I agree with you. Arbhar also has a reverb, access is only a little complicated. I hope that Instruo releases a new firmware, which brings a more intelligent storage option on the internal USB card:-)
He used an instrument interface from befaco to get his guitar at euro level on the input of arbhar. I dont recall this module having a preamp except the built in microphone on the front panel. I highly recommend an instrument interface module because otherwise you have to crank up the gain and your noise floor can get really loud and your headroom is butchered.
@@roboslobonator Arbhar does have an input preamp, it says so in the specs. Obviously an interface wouldn't hurt especially for balanced cables, but I was wondering whether the built-in preamp can decently replace a dedicated interface at least for a while.
@@rabidboards Ask Jason! His email should be on the contact page of the instruo website. I took a look at the specs listed on the website. Sorry, I should have looked at that before my last comment. You may be okay to plug in line or instrument level straight into the module with a 1/4" to 3.5mm mono cable supposing theres enough gain on the input. If not, youll have to supply another source of gain such as with an interface module or some other means. But I think you may be right, good catch.
Hey Divkid... I have read the manual and watched so many videos on this module but can't seem to find; can you play back the 10 second samples fully i.e like you would on a Morphagene?
Wondering the same thing. I already swapped my Morphagene out for the Nebulae V2. And I've an Arbhar in the pipe. But I'm thinking I'll keep both-- the Nebulae is awesome for time stretch, and it's ability to handle CSound programs and USB storage makes it incredibly flexible for all sorts of things. Real-time or semi-real-time granular is a big interest area of mine so the Arbhar was a no-brainer, at least until I get some serious experience with it. The real question is, do I swap out my Mantis for a Behringer Go to make room for them both?
@@Syncopator yeah the Nubulae is ace at timestretching! The ability to alter both speed and pitch independently is just awesome and not a feature of any other module as far as I know? Saying that, the granular section is nice, but not as interesting as Arbhar or Monsoon in my case (but the two together is fantastic!). The live use if Nebulae is good, but not as intuitive as Arbhar... Hmmm decisions decisions!
Ben, I notice your Sense and Hold pots are fully CW, yet the microphone isn't triggering recording-- is there a way to disable that on board microphone? Just got my Arbhar last night so I'm still new , but it seems like having those two pots past fully CCW enables a triggering w/ the mic.
@@sneakyfatcat I was trying to work the harmonaig into my build, but i ended up just getting the Triad expander for the Arpitecht I'd already committed to. Harmonaig is more functional, but for the space consumption.... i just couldn't justify it.
@@Syncopator The Valhalla Reverb is what it is all about. If it does not have those Valhalla algorithms then it will not compare, They are the best of the best in my opinion. Also you said "really lush reverb". Never a cheap thing but always so worth it! ;)
Just picked one of these up. You've gotten it to sound amazing here!
3:16 Instant Durutti Column for a brief moment there. Thanks for the video, Div!
God, yes! Instant Vini!
While I can't say any of this screams DC to my ears (Maybe we're thinking of different albums/periods. I certainly haven't heard them all as there are so many), I am curious to hear what he'd do with granular synthesis treatments of his own playing.
Sounds great! I’m really loving the design of that arbhar panel.
I love everything instruo does! 🤯
Oh man, this is amazing... I can't wait to get mine already!
Can't wait to see/hear this on your channel!!!
This is the kind of control scheme that I wish my nebulae MK II had! Visualizing grains is a must for granular synthesis for me...
Absolutely, that’s basically the only reason I’m still interested in software granular synths...full visual aspect
Agreed. This is the main reason I eventually had to part with morphagene
@@kidko what did this have to offer over the morphagene in your opinion ?
Shoegaze Granular! Beautiful work. Got one of these on pre-order and it can't come soon enough.
Sounds gorgeous and looks sharp next to the mighty Ochd!
Thanks god I haven't got any rackspace left... Very cool demo!
Been waiting for this!! Can’t wait for the full video.
I really like that sound at 2:12. I could see this modular being lot of fun with a zvex lofi loop junky pedal.
This gives me so many ideas
Is there full review of this ever coming?
Lovely stuff! I've done some similar patches mainly using free modules in VCV Rack. There isn't a software equivalent of this yet, at least not that I've seen.
Just incredible.
Only from a technical perspective... What are the main differences between Arbhar and Morphagene? Seem extremely similar from first glance.
I get the sense that Arbhar is a bit easier to do real-time processing-- feed an input into the Onset and it'll trigger capture automatically. That's a huge feature IMHO...
I watched a video where the guy commented below that he views Arbhar more as a live effect and Morphagene more as a pre-preparable instrument. You have the card slot on the front of Morphagene where as you have it on the back of Arbhar.
@@Jimbo386000 wowzah... card on the back is a very intentional design statement. "Don't copy from a computer" or "Only record the input" --- which is a cool statement to make. Wondering what other technical differences in the way the grains are manipulated? Obviously I need to do some reading, but nice to hear from the informed. What else?
Xin Only other thing I’ve noticed is that Arbhar seems more visual and intuitive, but Morphagene seems more melodically oriented.
EDIT: I don’t own either, this is just what I’ve noticed from research.
@@joshk2181 I found Morphagene to be reasonably good at finding random happy accidents, but when I had something specific I wanted to do or a specific adjustment to one of those happy accidents I wanted to make, I didn't really find it made things convenient for that. And I ended up using the Morphagene's stereo inputs simply as a means of mixing in an extra stereo signal rather than doing any processing of live inputs.
It seems to me that there's a misunderstanding here. Lubadh is the Morphagene of Instruo and Arbhar is the Clouds of Instruo. If i would start now with my modular adventure i would probably start with Instruo's awesome modules but now that I already have both Morphagene and Clouds, I don't think I'll switch.
in my opinion, lubadh ist a dual looper and not a morphagene. arbhar is a granular modul like clouds. clouds and morphagene can also be used as a looper.
I agree with you. Arbhar also has a reverb, access is only a little complicated. I hope that Instruo releases a new firmware, which brings a more intelligent storage option on the internal USB card:-)
Wow this sounds amazing!
I'm still hesitating with addac112 which, I think, is more versatile and preset store/recall seems very nice.
This with an Afterneath would be totally wicked.
awesome as usual Ben.
please make a CS-L video!
Really Beautiful soundz
Nice
gotta catch 'em all ;) one day I will have watched at least 75% of your stuff, boss :)
makes me smile
“Full demo coming soon”... How soon is _soon_ ? Asking for a friend :)
sad that it is not happeing , i guess
Oh man I just discovered these modules when I had made the decision: NO MORE NEW MODULES. Great. Sheesh. :)
Does the fact that it has a preamp mean that I can feed line level audio into it without having to run the audio through a dedicated interface?
He used an instrument interface from befaco to get his guitar at euro level on the input of arbhar. I dont recall this module having a preamp except the built in microphone on the front panel. I highly recommend an instrument interface module because otherwise you have to crank up the gain and your noise floor can get really loud and your headroom is butchered.
@@roboslobonator Arbhar does have an input preamp, it says so in the specs. Obviously an interface wouldn't hurt especially for balanced cables, but I was wondering whether the built-in preamp can decently replace a dedicated interface at least for a while.
Bastl Hendrikson does the trick for me.
@@rabidboards Ask Jason! His email should be on the contact page of the instruo website. I took a look at the specs listed on the website. Sorry, I should have looked at that before my last comment. You may be okay to plug in line or instrument level straight into the module with a 1/4" to 3.5mm mono cable supposing theres enough gain on the input. If not, youll have to supply another source of gain such as with an interface module or some other means. But I think you may be right, good catch.
@@roboslobonator thank you man, never occurred to me to message the dev directly
Nice one!
Nice thanks
Hey Divkid... I have read the manual and watched so many videos on this module but can't seem to find; can you play back the 10 second samples fully i.e like you would on a Morphagene?
off the top of my head the max grain size is 3 seconds.
Looking forward to the full review! The question is do I swap out my Nebulae v2 for Arbhar...??
Wondering the same thing. I already swapped my Morphagene out for the Nebulae V2. And I've an Arbhar in the pipe. But I'm thinking I'll keep both-- the Nebulae is awesome for time stretch, and it's ability to handle CSound programs and USB storage makes it incredibly flexible for all sorts of things. Real-time or semi-real-time granular is a big interest area of mine so the Arbhar was a no-brainer, at least until I get some serious experience with it. The real question is, do I swap out my Mantis for a Behringer Go to make room for them both?
@@Syncopator yeah the Nubulae is ace at timestretching! The ability to alter both speed and pitch independently is just awesome and not a feature of any other module as far as I know? Saying that, the granular section is nice, but not as interesting as Arbhar or Monsoon in my case (but the two together is fantastic!). The live use if Nebulae is good, but not as intuitive as Arbhar... Hmmm decisions decisions!
VCV Rack please!
Ben, I notice your Sense and Hold pots are fully CW, yet the microphone isn't triggering recording-- is there a way to disable that on board microphone? Just got my Arbhar last night so I'm still new , but it seems like having those two pots past fully CCW enables a triggering w/ the mic.
Instruō makes some very L A R G E modules.
no, everybody makes too small modules
@@SebastienLeger I like my modules 10 hp or smaller
Tell me about it. I picked up a harmonàig without measuring my free space and ended up having to remove my mult for it to fit....
@@sneakyfatcat I was trying to work the harmonaig into my build, but i ended up just getting the Triad expander for the Arpitecht I'd already committed to. Harmonaig is more functional, but for the space consumption.... i just couldn't justify it.
i'm just getting into modular. what would anyone recommend for a really nice big lush reverb module?
My fav reverb in modular is Tiptop Z-DSP with Valhalla card
@@damiansalza7297 I wonder how that compares with Tiptop's ZVERB. Z-DSP is expensive and takes up a lot of space, ZVERB not so much...
You could try the Music Thing Modular DIY spring reverb if your handy.
@@Syncopator The Valhalla Reverb is what it is all about. If it does not have those Valhalla algorithms then it will not compare, They are the best of the best in my opinion. Also you said "really lush reverb". Never a cheap thing but always so worth it! ;)
thanks for the replies people! ill take a look :)
Xenakis should be proud
Hey was wondering how to load samples into the usb key for the Arbhar? Hope you can help!
Sounds like Clouds.
they are very similar in function
epic!