This is really enlightening because most people think that electronic music is made by clicking a "make music" button on your laptop. Looking forward to more of these!
As an electrical engineering student, this was extremely cool to watch. It's pretty neat to see and hear the applications of the stuff I'm learning about.
man, a 17 min video and free samples. he's just such a cool real dude too. I'm still waiting to meet sombody or some kind of mentor like this in my area but I feel like that's reaching for stars lol. Thanks again
You did a nice job explaining this. Although I don't make music, I'm sure the right people will appreciate this. Playing with all that stuff looks so fun and intriguing!
thanks so much Klayton i love the Surface or Skardonia and im really interested in producing that ambient sort of pad style of of track i might just have to invest in a Hertz Donut now
Having gotten an electrical engineering degree in the past... I feel like I am even more impressed than I would have been if I didn't realize what was happening in the background with this gear. One way or another, this is just really quite awesome to watch.
Nice video. I was really clueless about how that stuff worked but now at least I know a little. Looks like it could be kind of fun actually. In a later video, can you show us a little of how you get these sounds to your computer, then how you work with it there?
that was awesome to watch, wish I had the money to start my own mod synth collection.. but for now spending a few quid on plugins is all I can do :) not the best but it keeps the dream alive haha.. Cubase ftw
This was awesome. Before encountering this I had no idea what modulars were or that they even existed for that matter. Totally unexplored territory for me, so it's really cool to learn more about them and how they work. Thanks for taking the time to show how you do things :)!
I'm not sure you're right there. I looked it up and I could find evidence of him doing charitable work for Cystic Fibrosis, but no reference to him having the condition. Remember, Cystic Fibrosis is an extremely delibilitating disease, most people don't make it past their late 20's early 30's. The longest you can live is 40's or 50's. While I couldn't find any solid source for his actual age, judging from the fact he started out in the early 90's, as a teenager/early twenties, he's most likely in his 40's. He seems pretty healthy to me. Someone with Cystic Fibrosis at his age would look a lot less good than that. Maybe it runs in his family and he carrries the gene, but doesn't actually have it himself?
I've always wondered how electronic music like this gets made. Thanks for the video! The sounds towards the end would be really interesting for a alien invaders type game
After watching this, I believe that you are a spaceman operating your spaceship that creates awesomeness that's called music. Yep, you are a music spaceman.
Pretty sweet, I've only come to know Expert Sleepers through talks with the hardware guys in forums producing stuff that I only dream about. I'm all tucked away in my cozy little room with a minimal setup, but it's enough to do software based work! Perhaps the most amazing thing about Expert sleepers for hardware junkies around the globe: synchronicity! Nothing cooler than getting complete, exquisite control of your hardware in sync with your DAW :)
I wanted to write something like "awesome!" or "my respect for you just skyrocketed towards andromeda" first... but then I realized that words can't express it...
Watching you play with your toys brings back both horrific and fun memories for me. Sometimes I feel like getting back into making music, but then I have to bring myself back down to reality and remember that I was always shit with it. And are you being modest about the 'not-knowing-math' thing? You seem to understand the concepts with what you're doing (trig & calc), so I wonder if you're referring to numbers specifically. Anyway, all I can say is the majority of people can actually be really good with math. It just takes a little time, a little patience, and possibly a good teacher to explain the concepts and numbers just right, for different ways of thinking, since not all people think the same way. This is why I hate standardized math classes in high school and college. Most of these classes are really only geared for a certain type of person. Ugh... /getsoffsoapbox
lol I frequently question my existence with the gear I have too :P thankfully I occasionally make pleasing and interesting sounds that make me go "oh, glad I'm doing this!" :)
I have a question. I've seen you own all of the Korg Volca series. So are they a good introduction to the analog world? Because they're the cheapest stuff out there and i would like to start with analog production (Only use Cubase, Massive and stuff at this time). Thx
Klay, you are the man. Just wondering though, what would you recommend as a minimal setup for someone like me looking to purchase modules and expand as I go? Specific modules would be amazing, there are so many!
Thank you Klayton. I've been hoping you'd do something like this one day. I've always just been curious how all this works. I'm not a musician at all but I do like to play around with the Animoog app on my iPad and Garage Band. I was wondering once you've created a sound you like how then do you use it? You said you'll just record for an hour at a time just changing things around. Do you then just take those recordings and cut out what you like and use them as samples then? How do you use a send for a effect on like a guitar or keyboard to get a whole range of sound? I look forward to seeing more of the videos. Thank you for finding the time to put them together and share with us. Can you use an effect for vocal work too? If so how?
Awesome video Klayton, wish i had all that gear! Was really looking forward to this :D Are you going to be showing us your effects like reverb, compressor and such aswell? Interested in seeing your API stuff and how you use it
@Mark Rushow I use audacity to make remixes of some songs that sounds as if it has potential for being a good one but I can´t make own sounds except changing/modify already existing sounds from other songs only.
lol i dont know anything about this at all and im just watching this like O_O it looks really complicated.... which when pp watch me edit a video they same the same lol
The sample you made at 15:00 - 15:15 is so cooooooool! Woohoo! Thanks for showing us your killer recorsing process. I can't believe my eyes and ears ahhaha.
I now wish that I had a large board of modules to mess around with... i literally have this computer and only know very little at this time... can the same principles aspects of running wires be applied in a strictly computer based environment?
Same principles apply. You can download some VSTs (Virtual Instruments) and they work the same way. Propellerheads Reason software actually uses visual representations of cables. I'm not personally a fan as I find it very limiting, but some people love it. You can get all kinds of free instruments and software DAWs (like Audacity) to record in. I love the Cakewalk's Z3TA synth, it has tons of functionality. TAL has some great freebies and so does U-he with the free Zebralette synth. Good luck!
It is awesome to watch this. I have a question about it, okay we prepare the sound on a hardware, but where we are listening it from ? The output of the module goes to a monitor ? or it goes to the pc, then it goes out from a speaker attached to pc ?
Klay seems to have some loudspeakers on the top of all his modular setupfor the output of the moduls. We can see them in the video, as the camera films the entire studio...
@celldweller, Question. What are you using to eliminate all the hum-hissing noise from each of those? Reason, why I'm asking is because they remind of guitar stomp boxes.
I guess he probably has some hardware which syncs high-pass/low-pass filters with the other ones, so when a part of the sound is too high or too low in frequency, it's simply cut or very diminished from the original part (I hope I understood what you were trying to ask, else feel free to reply me and tell me I was wrong :)).
Klayton = Musical Invoker
lol at seamless's face when the bass kicked in XD
Amazing. Watch this and then go to future music magazine Martin Garrix video, compare and say: Klayton is the fucking god of music.
This is really enlightening because most people think that electronic music is made by clicking a "make music" button on your laptop.
Looking forward to more of these!
how much money did you have to truck in to by all that heavy equipment? Just asking. And your power bill has to be a monster every month..
As an electrical engineering student, this was extremely cool to watch. It's pretty neat to see and hear the applications of the stuff I'm learning about.
man, a 17 min video and free samples. he's just such a cool real dude too. I'm still waiting to meet sombody or some kind of mentor like this in my area but I feel like that's reaching for stars lol. Thanks again
You did a nice job explaining this. Although I don't make music, I'm sure the right people will appreciate this. Playing with all that stuff looks so fun and intriguing!
thanks so much Klayton i love the Surface or Skardonia and im really interested in producing that ambient sort of pad style of of track i might just have to invest in a Hertz Donut now
Oh my - all those toys you have...
So that's how it feels to fly around in space. Amazing video Klayton
Having gotten an electrical engineering degree in the past... I feel like I am even more impressed than I would have been if I didn't realize what was happening in the background with this gear. One way or another, this is just really quite awesome to watch.
Nice video. I was really clueless about how that stuff worked but now at least I know a little. Looks like it could be kind of fun actually.
In a later video, can you show us a little of how you get these sounds to your computer, then how you work with it there?
Daaaaamn.
Awesome! It will help a lot of producers!
I didn't understand a word he was saying but it sounded cool as hell.
15:05 I was dancing in my seat to that!
Whoa this is like watching the food network of awesome!
that was awesome to watch, wish I had the money to start my own mod synth collection.. but for now spending a few quid on plugins is all I can do :) not the best but it keeps the dream alive haha.. Cubase ftw
Pssht. Not a rocket scientist.
Nice, my favorite blog now! ;)
This was awesome. Before encountering this I had no idea what modulars were or that they even existed for that matter. Totally unexplored territory for me, so it's really cool to learn more about them and how they work. Thanks for taking the time to show how you do things :)!
dude the ends of your fingers are massive
I'm not the only one who saw it! LOL
+GamingMad247 He has Cystic Fibrosis.
I'm not sure you're right there. I looked it up and I could find evidence of him doing charitable work for Cystic Fibrosis, but no reference to him having the condition. Remember, Cystic Fibrosis is an extremely delibilitating disease, most people don't make it past their late 20's early 30's. The longest you can live is 40's or 50's. While I couldn't find any solid source for his actual age, judging from the fact he started out in the early 90's, as a teenager/early twenties, he's most likely in his 40's. He seems pretty healthy to me. Someone with Cystic Fibrosis at his age would look a lot less good than that. Maybe it runs in his family and he carrries the gene, but doesn't actually have it himself?
Zoog from Angelspit also has some videos on modular synthesis if anyone wants to go deeper.
I've always wondered how electronic music like this gets made. Thanks for the video! The sounds towards the end would be really interesting for a alien invaders type game
It's from a track of his called 'Unshakeable'
nonono not that, I mean what he was making lol
Could you point that out in mm:ss? Now I'm curious lol
the second one he started mixing that he said he may use himself
you should record all your work and then publish video of you creating some masterpiece :)
Hertz Donut MK3 is my favorite Sound source
man it would be crazy getting my hands on mk1 and mk2 especially
Sick Sounds
After watching this, I believe that you are a spaceman operating your spaceship that creates awesomeness that's called music. Yep, you are a music spaceman.
Really Interesting klayton
Am I the only one who can't stop staring at his huge fingertips?
Despite my love for his music and analogue synthesizers.
Hertz Donut + Cjweman were sounding sick together! Happy to be the 666th Like on this video 🤘🏽😈
Awesome Klay! Just what I needed. Nice to know how THE GREATEST ONE makes music. ;D
Btw what are those metallic button envelopes called 14:10?
Pretty sweet, I've only come to know Expert Sleepers through talks with the hardware guys in forums producing stuff that I only dream about. I'm all tucked away in my cozy little room with a minimal setup, but it's enough to do software based work! Perhaps the most amazing thing about Expert sleepers for hardware junkies around the globe: synchronicity! Nothing cooler than getting complete, exquisite control of your hardware in sync with your DAW :)
I wanted to write something like "awesome!" or "my respect for you just skyrocketed towards andromeda" first... but then I realized that words can't express it...
Watching you play with your toys brings back both horrific and fun memories for me. Sometimes I feel like getting back into making music, but then I have to bring myself back down to reality and remember that I was always shit with it.
And are you being modest about the 'not-knowing-math' thing? You seem to understand the concepts with what you're doing (trig & calc), so I wonder if you're referring to numbers specifically.
Anyway, all I can say is the majority of people can actually be really good with math. It just takes a little time, a little patience, and possibly a good teacher to explain the concepts and numbers just right, for different ways of thinking, since not all people think the same way. This is why I hate standardized math classes in high school and college. Most of these classes are really only geared for a certain type of person. Ugh... /getsoffsoapbox
lol I frequently question my existence with the gear I have too :P thankfully I occasionally make pleasing and interesting sounds that make me go "oh, glad I'm doing this!" :)
I have a question. I've seen you own all of the Korg Volca series. So are they a good introduction to the analog world? Because they're the cheapest stuff out there and i would like to start with analog production (Only use Cubase, Massive and stuff at this time). Thx
Klay, you are the man. Just wondering though, what would you recommend as a minimal setup for someone like me looking to purchase modules and expand as I go? Specific modules would be amazing, there are so many!
Thank you Klayton. I've been hoping you'd do something like this one day. I've always just been curious how all this works. I'm not a musician at all but I do like to play around with the Animoog app on my iPad and Garage Band. I was wondering once you've created a sound you like how then do you use it? You said you'll just record for an hour at a time just changing things around. Do you then just take those recordings and cut out what you like and use them as samples then? How do you use a send for a effect on like a guitar or keyboard to get a whole range of sound? I look forward to seeing more of the videos. Thank you for finding the time to put them together and share with us. Can you use an effect for vocal work too? If so how?
Awesome video Klayton, wish i had all that gear! Was really looking forward to this :D Are you going to be showing us your effects like reverb, compressor and such aswell? Interested in seeing your API stuff and how you use it
No dislikes...
Damn! That sound you just made just by messing around was pretty good. Hope I'll hear it in a full song someday.
Should have taken my damn headphones off when I read Hertz, I'm a fucking idiot.
Thanks a lot! My father is building a sequencer and with this information at least i would know how to star messing around. Keep it going man!
Ever considered a livestream of you just messing around with this glorious machine?
i dont know anything about this stuff but still found everything so interesting. great vid klayt0n!
First i could barely bear the sound and then it escalated quickly to awesomness. :D
That's fabulous but I still nothing understand :D XD
I really wish I could play with that rack, just for a couple hours...
this has inspired me to get into modular setups! Thanks Klay!
i like how you can mod the oscs with that sine and then gradually increase the input, damn
the best modular synth walk-through / demo on the webz imho
I'm sorry but is that an OG Jambox on the top right of that rack?
@Mark Rushow I use audacity to make remixes of some songs that sounds as if it has potential for being a good one but I can´t make own sounds except changing/modify already existing sounds from other songs only.
Really interesting. I´d really like to see more stuff like that !
sounds like what you used in the Through the gates remix.
This sound is vibrating my head and it feels awesome.
lol i dont know anything about this at all and im just watching this like O_O it looks really complicated.... which when pp watch me edit a video they same the same lol
great video :D
That was the funniest reaction from seamless I've ever seen.
I can't imagine all the neuro stuff I can make with this
Lol...that meaty fingers :D
what was the first name in the shoutout?? sry i didnt get it !!
Great series you've got here thanks a lot. Also, so glad you've come to good terms with your existence and the owning of your modular :D
He produces like a red skunk Trent Reznor
Well, lost a pair of headphones today...
The sample you made at 15:00 - 15:15 is so cooooooool! Woohoo! Thanks for showing us your killer recorsing process. I can't believe my eyes and ears ahhaha.
I now wish that I had a large board of modules to mess around with... i literally have this computer and only know very little at this time... can the same principles aspects of running wires be applied in a strictly computer based environment?
Same principles apply. You can download some VSTs (Virtual Instruments) and they work the same way. Propellerheads Reason software actually uses visual representations of cables. I'm not personally a fan as I find it very limiting, but some people love it. You can get all kinds of free instruments and software DAWs (like Audacity) to record in. I love the Cakewalk's Z3TA synth, it has tons of functionality. TAL has some great freebies and so does U-he with the free Zebralette synth. Good luck!
very interesting how this works :D
Looks really fascinating.
it can be spread out to keyboard notes?
It is awesome to watch this. I have a question about it, okay we prepare the sound on a hardware, but where we are listening it from ? The output of the module goes to a monitor ? or it goes to the pc, then it goes out from a speaker attached to pc ?
Klay seems to have some loudspeakers on the top of all his modular setupfor the output of the moduls. We can see them in the video, as the camera films the entire studio...
that thing is AWESOME!
Ooh! Interesting!
What is the thing called that holds all the different modules?
Typically called a rack or a case. he's got a rack, a smaller version might be a case because it's portable.
good intro, thanks
I love these series!
@celldweller, Question. What are you using to eliminate all the hum-hissing noise from each of those? Reason, why I'm asking is because they remind of guitar stomp boxes.
I guess he probably has some hardware which syncs high-pass/low-pass filters with the other ones, so when a part of the sound is too high or too low in frequency, it's simply cut or very diminished from the original part (I hope I understood what you were trying to ask, else feel free to reply me and tell me I was wrong :)).
yes, thanks for response.
you're welcome ;)
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mmm... donut
Nice :D
awesome
Bass!