Modular Adolescence
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- First there were modular baby steps, then there was modular adolescence. Let's talk about my awkward teenage years. Thank you, Adam, for your insanely generous gift of modules.
Watch the modular baby steps video: • Modular Baby Steps
Watch more modular experiments: • Modular Synthesis
My current modular rig:
Squarp Hermod: reverb.grsm.io/hermod
Empress Effects ZOIA: reverb.grsm.io/zoia3787
Make Noise 0-Coast: reverb.grsm.io/0coast
Erica Synths Pico System 3: reverb.grsm.io/picosystemiii
Arturia Rackbrute: reverb.grsm.io/rackbrute
Arturia Keystep Pro: reverb.grsm.io/keysteppro
Arturia Microfreak: reverb.grsm.io/microfreak
Make Noise Maths: reverb.grsm.io/maths
Mutable Instruments Plaits, Streams: reverb.grsm.io/plaits
Intellijel Quad VCA: reverb.grsm.io/intquadvca
IME Piston Honda MKIII: reverb.grsm.io/pistonhonda
After Later Monsoon: reverb.grsm.io/almonsoon
QD Quad Drum Module: reverb.grsm.io/vpmeqd
Busy Circuits Pam's New Workout: reverb.grsm.io/pams
Erica Synths Pico Drum2, Pico Voice: reverb.grsm.io/espico
Quart: reverb.grsm.io/quart
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This escalated quickly … 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I use a BeatStep Pro for gate sequencing my Eurorack. I use the #acesequencing technique from @MylarMelodies sharing the same pitch with all voices and gating them differently.
I learn from musicians humbly talking about how they've made decisions and what they think they've gotten out of those decisions - not advice at all. Really digging how you are presenting your journey in that spirit so far. Thanks!!
Modular has pulled you in man. Deep dive.
I really appreciate that you choose to leave in moments where you have to put up with your "non-gear gear". It makes me feel much better about how much time I spend swearing at camera stands and light fixtures. :D
Excellent video, as always, it's great to see your process in this journey. :)
I love electronic music, but I know that I will never be an electronic musician. Money being one obstacle but there's just too much to learn. So I come here for my booster shot and pretend that I know what you're talking about while loving the things you produce and the toys you play with. For now I will stick to my fingers, strings frets and vocal chords and live the rest in my dreams.
Thanks for sharing your work.
Red Means Experiencing the Passion of Wonder Through a Friend You've Never Met's Eyes (ft. Modular Synthesis)
Came for the modular
Stayed for Jeremy trying to work the microphone
Also stayed for cat
Bear with me, this gets more relevant. Back in ‘73 I was smitten by the Synthi A, and aware that I could never ever come up with the £329 (!) needed to buy one, I wrote to EMS and asked if I could have one on a sale or return basis. They said no, and within a year I had discovered Rory Gallagher, then Dr Feelgood, and then punk happened... so it wasn’t until my late fifties that I found soft synths, just six months ago that I got my first hard synth. For my birthday in April I asked for, and got, a Crave. Forty-seven years on from the Synthi A I had a semi-modular synth. Then I had two. Now I’ve got a Neutron on its way. I can’t wait for retirement, cos there are simply not enough hours in the day- and I’ve got nearly half a century of catching up to do, and an awful lot of noise to make. I’ll never know as much a a tenth of what the others below the line here do, but me and my ignorance are gonna have a lot of fun.
Ok, story over. Moral? You’re NEVER too old...
Yessss
Recently went back to this video to watch what a glorious and lovely ride you have shared with us. Much Appreciation Sir!
So glad to have another modular video
Great that you recorded this modular journey, its very useful for others embarking down the same tunnel
I somehow ended up here after watching the video about the gigantic case you have now 😅 what a ride!
I finally started my modular journey after your last video, after being on the fence about it for a long time. I can't wait to follow more of yours, thanks for all the inspiration!
groovy! loved the patch and final jam.
nice to see the baby grow. it's addictive, i know.
I love watching videos of your progress in learning modular. I always feel like its easiest to understand from someone a few steps ahead in the process than a master because you're well aware of the things you've recently had to learn. Thanks so much for this and all your videos.
Less than a minute into the video and it has to be said how one of the things so enjoyable about your channel is the fact that you are so candid. Thank you for your hard work, passion and inspiration.
This is really cool because I too am currently getting into modular and its just nice to see such a wonderful content creator document their journey, which is something seldom seen
Great video and fantastic sounds. I love that you’ve gotten into modular 😍🤓 More of this weeee
Modular gave me a new awakening to making music! Your a fantastic musician, I'm glad to see your getting the modular bug too!! Keep up the good work!
I love this! Your videos are so inspiring and fun to watch!!
I absolutely love Modular Synths!!! Great job Jeremy!
Wow that was totally amazing in terms of ease of comprehension/actual music/time of video ratio! The jam actually bridges ambient and groove in a very nice way.
Piston Honda MkIII is an amazing module, glad to see more use it :)
Amazing vid as always
Mother of God, talk about a change of pace (musically). Really digging the new soundscapes from you - looking forward to a lot more content of this character! :)
Love your modular jam!
Nice, that you found the way to modular, deep dive and much fun!🖖☺️
Really cool man, keep it up! The visuals from the end of the video were cool aswell
Really hooked on your videos, thank you!
love your vibe man.
i love all those guys you mentioned, but hey i watch each of your videos....each one not only once!!!
ONE PUNCH! But seriously awesome set-up. Digging your evolving modular
great video and you're looking wonderful jeremy!!
Later Empress Effects will release Zoia Euroburo, that have cv ins and outs. That will be SICK.
Nice. Thanks for breaking down each trig module etc. Most modular videos sound dope but I really have no idea what's happening.
"good bye", the young man said as he stepped into the abyss. We never heard from him again. I'm only mostly kidding - have fun exploring this world. I bet you'll come up with some cool tunes.
Genuine sense of sonic exploration with the jam. Nice 1.
excited to see more modular man!
Thanks for the walk-thru on your setup. Congratulations on growing your build out. Great idea to record the evolutional journey. I'm cutting my teeth with modular using VCV for now. Between you Loopop and Ormi Cohen I'm destined to put a toe into physical modular this year. First step is complete with the Arturia KSP and VCV. Lots to chose from but I like the gear and choices you've invested in so far. The standalone modular pieces like the O coast and Erica seem like a good place to start. Well back to the research. Building out a VCV microfreak next. Gratefully.
Excellent video, was waiting for you to do some eurorack stuff. After 4 years in Eurorack, I scaled back from almost 10 rows of 104hp to about 5 x 104 and continue to cut. Its gear acquisition syndrome (or plague) thats easy to fall into, lots of replication in eurorack, without changing the results. Not to mention the internet tax now that adds to modular and all gear costs...
In my 4 years of eurorack experience, I have learned that making a 'song' with Eurorack is nearly impossible, with lack of modulations and progressions easily achieved., but you can make tracks that can flow into eternity (as many do).
Then a year ago I decided to go with Elektrons and their versatile sequencers and ability to save tracks. Now I just picked up Ableton Live 10 Suite, Push 2, and have Keystep, and OP-1, so coming full circle from my DAW background in the 80's, that caused me to lose interest in music for 15 years. Ableton Live is like having the ultimate modular system, or anything you want it to be for that matter. I can see the hands-on control and potential with Push 2 can be awesome. That said, I will keep my eurorack setup and my Elektrons, they have a very useful place and purpose.
Also been taking clips, chunks, sequences as short samples from Eurorack and loading and manipulating them in Ableton Live can be an excellent way to use Eurorack pieces, often makes them more interesting mixed in with Live's tracks than just a Eurorack piece.
yesssss goooood, let the harvestman modules flow through you
Yess, I was so looking forward to this
Nice jam. I'm not sure modular is necessary for me but it's nice to see someone getting a "tune" out of it.
I just got my Deluge and am loving that thing!
Illuminating! Thanks.
I love your vids and sense of humor :P
That song at the beginning fiddling with the mic, that's (almost) good enough for me.
I'm attempting to get into SOME of this stuff and i already have a headache. Just bought my 3 pack of pocket operators because of you. Im in the middle of trying to figure out DAWS and what interface to buy and it's been a roller coaster. But thank you for the inspiration and keeping me entertained in these weird days
What I love about this is that you got such a great sound design. I really love your music from an artistic perspective, you are an awesome composer and performer and overall artist. But I would spend much more time with your music if the sound design was a bit better. Since I sadly chose to quit electronic music production I spend my money on speakers and headphones and I notice myself gravitating towards music that focuses on sound design even though it is musically not as interesting as your stuff. I know that is preferring lipstick over a nice conversation, but hearing you building deep soundscapes makes me very happy and I am excited and curious about where it will lead you.
You might love the Doepfer 151 or even 150 - one of the purest joys of modular is to switch between two abstract signal sources using a gate
Oooh good call
nice vibe !!
When i told my wife I want to get into modular she said I had to choose between her and modular.
I miss her sometimes.
the addition is real. i'm glad i filled my case and really need to save to move so i can stop buying things. but there's still a bunch i want.
Hot edit as well! Check out the Noise Engineering blog. They update weekly and while there's a focus of their modules, they give alts and subs regularly and tackle all aspects of modular system design, patching strategy and all that fun stuff.
Great tip
Thanks for the upload as always! I find eurorack to be expensive and extremely frustrating yet fulfilling and meditative at the same time.. my 3 yr dive has been great... I now consider myself a newbie =) with 4 different instruments that can pretty much create any sound and noise... gl with the time suck called eurorack!
Great sounds
I just got into modular myself and I must agree - the KeyStep Pro is an incredible brain.
That was great, thanks!
Hey a modular jam that actually jams! Nice!
Good luck getting the Disting EX. Ordered it on release day and haven't seen it yet.
Sounds mega dude. 👍🏻
It's really cool to watch you get into this, and to see how excited you are by this stuff. It mirrors my experience pretty well, actually -- I didn't go all in *quite* as quickly as you did, but I did go from first purchase to almost 420HP in about a year hahaha. Definitely a completely new way to explore music, and it a great creative outlet for being stuck at home for a few months, imo ;)
I know you like the ZOIA for effects, but I'd highly recommend looking into actual effect modules! You'll get a taste of the possibilities with the disting EX, but having CV control over a wide variety of delay and reverb parameters, or stuff like waveshaping and distortion, can open up a whole new world. I see you've got a Monsoon likely coming; I'd also recommend looking into Mimeophon (which can be used for Karplus-Strong synthesis as well as a highly configurable delay/reverb) and Morphagene (which I think you might love due to your interest in sampling).
Looking forward to what's next!
Nice. 420.
@@RedMeansRecording I'd be lying if I said I didn't see this coming. My case size has forever consigned me to a life of "Nice"-ness xD
I agree, Mimeophon is a wonderful fun(and playable) module
What do I expect? A dark ambient. Give it a go.
THE COUNT omg I was learning and then I lost it right there.
"ONE zoia, ah ha ha. SIX modules... ah ha ha. TWENTY modules, ah ha fuck my wallet"
Noise Engineering’s Lapsus Os has made my life much easier controlling hard to reach knobs with cv inputs. Highly recommended checking it out.
Jeremy, you already have a very powerful CV sequencer in your gear: Op-Z! buy a midi to CV module or the oplab! Just buy one of the two and record a video ASAP! ;)
Look at Enrique's (Ricky Tinez) video of the QuBit Bloom and definitely check out Make Noise's Mineophon. These two modules would make a great jumping off point towards creating a killer modular effects box.
Pamelas new workout - you’re gonna like that for gates and such.
It's crazy powerful
We will play our synthesizers in the face of this Armageddon, fuck the ones responsible for it...loved the jam Jeremy, thank you for sharing your journey with us man!
red means negative voltage! we want MOAR modular!
i feel like modular is useful for expanding your thinking box in a DAW, because the amount of experimentation you can do there is very limited and slow, whereas here you can just say like 'oh what happens if i do this?' and try it in a matter of seconds. simply plugging a cable in at two ends could be equivalent to setting up a complex interaction between multiple VSTs in your DAW, iykwim.
You sit on the edge, about to fall into the eurack rabbithole. May I urge you to get an ES-8 or ES-9? It will make the inevitable DAW integration infinitely easier. Also this sounds amazing, love what you are doing with plaits.
Plaits is an amazing module and I *really* don't want my DAW involved in this process.
@@RedMeansRecording Maybe the DAW isn't the right angle. As someone who has spent tens of thousands of dollars on eurorack, I will say the ES-8 is the one module I recommend you buy. I understand that modular as an island ecosystem is refreshing and the ES-8 works in those cases too. I plug in an iPad and use Audulus to make CV and more sounds, transforming it into an omni module. Best wishes!
I agree with Jeremy. I have an ES-8 that I barely use. When you deal with audio stuff all the day staring at a screen is refreshing to avoid a computer to make music. It is a different way to meditate somehow. Also be aware of all the too menudivey modules, they tend to pack lots of functions but for this reason they can worsen the joy of patching.
Hello Jeremy! A few little gems to checkout: the bastl 1983 which can quantize anything according to the midi notes that you send to it, any clone of Clouds, intellijel tetrapad+Tete and the liebniz system from xaoc device to generate any kind of triggers from any signal you send to it (and it is a cool waveshaper too). Also the OP-Z pairs very well to the Hermod!
Monsoon is on its way, a clone of clouds!
@@RedMeansRecording I have the same from After Late Audio. It's awesome and full of functions to explore! Also Rings (obvious choice) is beautiful and with the Easter eggs and the additional modes is really deep as Plaits is!
Rings and Element clones are both on my Maybe list
damn you fell deep, fast.
N. I. C. E.!
Man, I am very interested in what you are telling in your releases, but alas, I don’t know English so well, maybe you can at least sometimes release a video with subtitles, at least in broken Russian through an interpreter) I would be glad about this)
The only CV jacks in my setup are on my Analog 4. I filled them with cement.
Rewatching some of these videos because... maybe...
Hungry now. The questions are, bolognese or carbonara, tagliatelle or linguine, maths or rampage?
Talking about menus. Plaits is not plates as in a bed for food, but closer to spaghetti and cables, like hair in your soup. It's predecessor is Braids so there you got it. Next oscillator module from MI is Dreads probably.
I needs some sound design on the 707 when you pry yourself free from this.
Sublime as ever...How are you liking the Arturia Rackbrute? Would you recommend it as an entry point into eurorack...at the 3U level?
Love that animation at the end, Jeremy! Is that done in After Effects with expressions or maybe a Max for Live patch?
It's beeple
Now you know how i feel.
What do you tune your oscillators to when using cv/gate from your Keystep Pro?
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet... 👌
Modular synthesis is still a big black hole for me, it's hard to understand how this all works together. So it's very helpful to follow you on your journey getting into it more and more. Keep it up!
Damnit Jeremy... My bank account hates you ;)
LOL. In all seriousness I watch the crap out of all your videos. Thanks for what you do!
Pico modules are great, but yeah those knobs are tiny and not great for performance. I'd recommend having them more spread out in a system and getting some controller modules like a joystick like Planar and faders like acid rain navigator so you can have more control of during performance. Made a huge difference for me, but will also send you deeper down the rabbit hole...
I've stuffed my new rack with modulators and sound sources, but I think at some point I'll definitely want some performance tools.
Nice little Jam. And... Like the Plaits (plats) in your hair, not the Plates on your table ;-)
Isnt it funy when a youtuber you yook by "serious" starts to make more and more jokes on his videos hahahaha :p
This is awesome. Would you consider using the Digitakt as the master brain instead of the key step pro?
No. Because the Digitakt doesn't offer any CV outs.
@@RedMeansRecording Mutant Braiiiiiiins (or CV.OCD)
Red Means Recording right, although Mutant Brains gives a good way to split the midi to cv and not too expensive (well its all expensive but....) 😊
Great vid as usual. Need some quick advice though... I don't as yet own a sequencer and looking to invest in the Keystep Pro or the newly released 37 to control modular and a hardware synth. I can't afford to buy and return as I live outside the US and shipping costs are astronomical. As such, would hate to pick the 37 then find out that its inadequate in the near or longterm... Appreciate the feedback.
Get the pro
@@RedMeansRecording Cool. Thanks. I ordered it.
@@RedMeansRecording Ok. Have another quickie for you.... 0 Coast or Erica Pico?
Thanks
Thank you!!
@@RedMeansRecordingeep. I think that must be a default (dry but succinct) "Thanks" it added from me... The personalised version would say: This is invaluable, because it's like a popping round for a studio hang-out with a smart friend who clearly invests time on each piece of gear and sees the possibilities. That and the communication level, pace, ratio of talking to tweaking to hearing results all feel just right and keep me coming back. I'm truly grateful. I hope everyone who feels the same way can contribute something, because we live in a world of sales pitches and skewed perspectives.. And these direct, honest, personal takes just cut through so well. (I know.. Just "thanks" was enough.)
😁👍
I saw the Hermod in your "Maybe" spot. I recently got one myself as the "brain" of my system (now that it's big enough to need one). I think you'd find it can fill a similar role as your Keystep Pro, if slightly more unwieldy in operation (without a midi keyboard input, setting pitches means using the knob). It's a really amazing sequencer with all the interoperability you might need and a bunch of effects. Very fun to explore with! I'm planning to try using mine with a Linnstrument and the Doepfer polyphonic quad modules (like this: www.doepfer.de/a1434.htm) to get some nice chords and poly into my system, but that's later down the road!
Actually I think the Hermod has moved to a definite
@@RedMeansRecording Just reading their manual gave me the "oooh man" buzz. If you have any specific questions or experiments you want answers to let me know!
@@RedMeansRecording More Doepfer - less Hermod. For me one reason to go into modular was my approach, to get more happy accidents and less DAW-programming. The Hermod felt too much like a DAW to me (and the screen is insanely small). What is Sample & Hold for? Ringmodulation? Switches, Divider, Mults, Precision Adder, how do I get the bits crushed without a bit crusher and get multiple sequences out of just one? It's getting more and more exciting when you'll get in touch with the actual 'modular' part of Eurorack. At least it was for me. :)
Hi, does someone know how the last bit of visuals in the video was made? at 13:33
Beeple
@@RedMeansRecording Great! Thank you
you should incorporate VCV rack for sure , cheers i like modular for feedback loops
the GRID is good in bitwig 3 also
and i thought you sucked at making music until like , 12:30
Ok
Can you theoretically plug OP-1 into a modular CV system?
You can get an OP lab. They are pretty expensive and buggy at times but that way you get midi in/out, din sync out, and CV1,2 and gate in and out. My CV/ gate conversion has been testy so I don't really rely on it.
Or just get a Kensington USB to midi converter and a modular midi interface of your liking. It's cheap and super reliable.
I have both the Oplab and a intellijel micro midi and things are working well. I just use the OPlab for midi and din sync and let the micro midi handle the CV/gate and clocking...
😍😍
All thanks to you, buddy. Huge love.
Red Means Recording I’m in for nothing!! You are the genius here!
My brain hurts.
"Lots of in and out options in the back" huh huh
Fuck yea
This is way too confusing. for me. I need a website that is very, very basic. Like I know nothing about this stuff. Nothing. Do you have a link to a website that is beyond basic? Also, you mentioned a few other places to learn. Can you link them? Love our music. Nice gear.