@@mylarmelodies I appreciate your content so freaking much. Sponsored or otherwise. I got a Doepfer Precision Adder after watching your live rig breakdown. My current favorite thing to do is run multiple instances of Pigeons (off the O_c) and add and subtract them with it. You're awesome, and your sponsors should pay you more.
Yeah it all works well and I’m now littering my other cases with these modules!! Only thing I wish is that Ceres and Asset could submix, but I have mixers for that
Great concept! I immediately thought of some synths that have a similar approach, like the Korg Mono/Poly, Vermona Perfourmer and the infamous Akai Timbre Wolf (which IMO is actually a pretty decent synth, it's just the filters that suck, and they only do suck when the resonance is up). I love setting all 4 voices to round robin on my Perfourmer and playing arpeggios, bonus points if the number of notes in the arpeggio is not divisible by 4. As for Yarns, yes, there are plenty of clones, I recommend the ones by Tunefish, very affordable and high quality. I also have an OG Yarns that I hardly use these days. If you want it, maybe we can make a deal and I can send it over with the next shipment of Neutral Labs stuff that's going to happen eventually. 😉
This system sounds very nice. I normally go for a kind of paraphonic patch (playing all notes at once through one filter and vca) but maybe I should consider going full polyphonic. You have a DROID in the case there that can also do Midi to polyphonic CV or can create a chord out of a single note and also round robin etc.
Love it - as an alternative there are many possibilities for Yarns. After Later Audio has a 1U Yarns version called Threads. But there are so many possibilities e.g. old or new Befaco Midi Thing or Bastl 1983, Hexinverter Mutant Brain etc. I use Bastl 1983 for my 3 voice Super Chainsaw from Acid Rain my version of JP8080.
awesome video as always. wher do yall buy modular cases that are just the case, no tracks, or psu. also, can you list the all the devices you are using in this video pretty please? I'm a noob and trying to keep my GAS at bay but also growing a bucket list of devices when i win the lottery i refuse to play, lol.
You can make a case from wood. Also some aluminium curtain rails can hold the strip with holes. Not sure which of those should be called the rails. Diy in general is a good way to keep the money sink under control while keeping the GAS flowing
@@mylarmelodiesWhat pieces of gear do you use to record all of your jam sessions? Just looking for something that can record in midi/cv/USB to just record everything so I can maybe sample it later or whatever so I can keep a log of all my stuff really.
@@theAwakenedOne007 Only a computer could do all that I think. I have had great success with the Zoom F4 which is a very very good recorder, but they have even more specialised/appropriate stuff like Livetrak L6 which I haven't tried but looks amazing (FWIW I would advise at most bothering only to record multitrack audio, and even then so much great music was only recorded to a stereo mix - there's a lot to be said for making a decision in the moment and not having the option to reconsider it)
I’m new to modular. I have a grandmother, dfam and a mavis in a 104 hp case. Now, I have the extra 60 hp case that the dfam was in, just sitting there. I’m going to get a power supply and fill it up with modules. Does anybody have any suggestions of some modules that would complement that setup? I have my eyes on a Maths to start but I’m pretty sure that I have enough oscillators already, idk. 🤷🏻♂️
@@mylarmelodies i should've been more clear. I have everything hooked up to ableton with a beatstep pro if i want to use it. That’s why I’m stumped. I have all of the FX through ableton and max already. plus, i have a multi FX pedal if necessary. i just don’t know where to go. 🤷♂
Best answer I can give is forget buying extra stuff on principle, use what you have for now, and keep a note of anything you’re trying to do in use, but can’t, or are finding hard to work with - do research to see if there’s a sneaky way you can do that with what you have, and if not, that’s an indication of a module type that could help.
@@mylarmelodies Thanks, man! I’m going to enjoy what I have for now and do what you said. Also, do A LOT of research in the meantime. Keep up with the content. You’re my go to guy!
So, "suggested" but just in a way. I think this series might need a rename going forward. "Sponsored Systems 8" would have been a better video title, never even minding the small fact that building polyphonic synths is one of the most wasteful things to do in modular (and I say that even as someone with several thousand HP of Eurorack.)
Have you had a chance to watch the video? The brand of modules, or even which specific module is shown, is never made more important than the principles shown and explained. As I specifically mention in the video in fact, what I do here could be done with almost anything else (and I take great effort to point out how bonkers an effort making a poly modular patch it, but then it’s just that, a patch, it can be something else tomorrow). By seeking sponsors for these videos then I can afford the time it takes to make them. This is my day job now, I don’t have another safety net.
@mylarmelodies eh, folks are gonna bitch about whatever you make whether it's sponsored/items provided by manufacturer or something you bought yourself. I'm actually pleased to see polyphonic-oriented modular stuff regardless, because a lot of the polysynths on the market are just... not interesting to me. Or they don't have all the features I feel they should. With modular, you can piece together what *you* want and for *your* budget since you can make your own modules too.
@@markbooth look forward to that, also Ihor very quiet I used to love you two Modular tutorials, I’m selling a lot of my Modular as it’s all getting to expensive, complicated and our Electronic community hasn’t progressed much, I’m watching synths from 10 yrs ago making music not been surpassed with all latest gear
Sorry, no room in the spectrum for polyphony round this hoose. All the screeches, bleeps, bloops, crashes, feedback, noise, noize, and more noise, and too many delay loops have filled up all available audio space. I'll keep coming back and watching and learning though!
Awesome!!! A thoroughly enjoyable episode, as always...very entertaining, wholy informative, and totally inspiring... I gaze affectionatly at my recently completed Clacktronics BYOM and I'm thinking, 'I need more lfos/envs...now then, where did I put that perf-board..?' O-oh!! 🪛🤓🔧
Babe, wake up. Mylarmelodies dropped a new Suggested System.
Sponsored, not suggested.
Apologies for doing this professionally
@@mylarmelodies I appreciate your content so freaking much. Sponsored or otherwise. I got a Doepfer Precision Adder after watching your live rig breakdown. My current favorite thing to do is run multiple instances of Pigeons (off the O_c) and add and subtract them with it.
You're awesome, and your sponsors should pay you more.
So impressed that you still have the battery compartment door for that tuner.
Shows how much I use it 😬
Brilliant! Been seriously interested in the Vostok stuff for a while but not for polyphonic playing... just makes so much sense in many ways.
Yeah it all works well and I’m now littering my other cases with these modules!! Only thing I wish is that Ceres and Asset could submix, but I have mixers for that
The editing on this is super crisp. The arpeggio section at 18ish is awesome, it so easily turns into a sweet jam
Love the shout out to Doty lol. Great vid!
28:36 - Yum! That is exceptionally rich and tasty sounding. Especially when the rhythm comes in under it. Noice one, mate!
Fantastic Variety of Tone.. Worth the process🎉
Doepfer has a whole range of polyphonic modules too. From midi to cv interface to quad everything.
Great concept! I immediately thought of some synths that have a similar approach, like the Korg Mono/Poly, Vermona Perfourmer and the infamous Akai Timbre Wolf (which IMO is actually a pretty decent synth, it's just the filters that suck, and they only do suck when the resonance is up). I love setting all 4 voices to round robin on my Perfourmer and playing arpeggios, bonus points if the number of notes in the arpeggio is not divisible by 4. As for Yarns, yes, there are plenty of clones, I recommend the ones by Tunefish, very affordable and high quality. I also have an OG Yarns that I hardly use these days. If you want it, maybe we can make a deal and I can send it over with the next shipment of Neutral Labs stuff that's going to happen eventually. 😉
This system sounds very nice. I normally go for a kind of paraphonic patch (playing all notes at once through one filter and vca) but maybe I should consider going full polyphonic. You have a DROID in the case there that can also do Midi to polyphonic CV or can create a chord out of a single note and also round robin etc.
Sounding like a nutty professor on this one Alex :)
feeling like one!
Hey cool ! My Sena arrived today and I was just playing around with it for the first time a few minutes ago and then I saw your video lol 🙃
Try the alternative poly patch at the end if you have four lfos/VCAs!
@@mylarmelodies I will try !! You are one of my fav modular-synth-youtubers btw 🥰😇😅
I was looking for a video about this and could not find it...thank you
11:27 Had to check the screen, thought you pulled out a fish for a second😢
thank your for another great suggested system! What is the 2hp output module called?
Polyend Poly would do the MIDI to CV round robin. There are 7 for sale right now used as they have stopped making them.
This is the video that answers the question: why TipTop Audio ART modules ? 🤔
Thinking to myself "Badass!" as commodity fetishism finally kills my last remaining brain cell.
you might be interested into checking the MIDI MUSO CV12... This might make things just a bit easyer for the task...
Doesn’t doepfer have a poly series where if you don’t care about per-channel envelopes, you can get a bog-standard poly in less HP?
They massively do. As do Tiptop of course!
What a glorious, epic... faff! 💜
At this point I would consider getting a Vermona PERfourMER
Love it - as an alternative there are many possibilities for Yarns.
After Later Audio has a 1U Yarns version called Threads. But there are so many possibilities e.g. old or new Befaco Midi Thing or Bastl 1983, Hexinverter Mutant Brain etc. I use Bastl 1983 for my 3 voice Super Chainsaw from Acid Rain my version of JP8080.
Ahh yeah! Thanks -
Forgot about Mutant Brain, which is actually a licensed module version of CV.OCD, if I’m not going mad
Afaik the Westlicht Performer can also do the round robin midi to cv
its pronounced "ceres"
Can we talk about Molten’s hole? Have got questions? Analogue or digital? 🥳
If I stick an analogue digit into it is it both?
@@mylarmelodies Holy Hybrid! Best of both world !
awesome video as always. wher do yall buy modular cases that are just the case, no tracks, or psu. also, can you list the all the devices you are using in this video pretty please? I'm a noob and trying to keep my GAS at bay but also growing a bucket list of devices when i win the lottery i refuse to play, lol.
Thanks m8. Check the description but holla if anything missing! Regarding cases there’s lots of choice out there, maybe ask on Modwiggler?!
You can make a case from wood. Also some aluminium curtain rails can hold the strip with holes. Not sure which of those should be called the rails.
Diy in general is a good way to keep the money sink under control while keeping the GAS flowing
@@mylarmelodiesWhat pieces of gear do you use to record all of your jam sessions? Just looking for something that can record in midi/cv/USB to just record everything so I can maybe sample it later or whatever so I can keep a log of all my stuff really.
@@theAwakenedOne007 Only a computer could do all that I think. I have had great success with the Zoom F4 which is a very very good recorder, but they have even more specialised/appropriate stuff like Livetrak L6 which I haven't tried but looks amazing
(FWIW I would advise at most bothering only to record multitrack audio, and even then so much great music was only recorded to a stereo mix - there's a lot to be said for making a decision in the moment and not having the option to reconsider it)
@@mylarmelodies thank you!
Mother Hubbard 👌
21:50 sounds very Rez by Underworld
Never a bad thing!!
@@mylarmelodies definitely not
Or buy a Mutable Yarns + Veils VCA (remakes) and you already have a polysynth with 4 voices in very few HPs
I would like a Yarns!! It gets a shoutout
I’m new to modular. I have a grandmother, dfam and a mavis in a 104 hp case. Now, I have the extra 60 hp case that the dfam was in, just sitting there. I’m going to get a power supply and fill it up with modules. Does anybody have any suggestions of some modules that would complement that setup? I have my eyes on a Maths to start but I’m pretty sure that I have enough oscillators already, idk. 🤷🏻♂️
I’d stick a sequencer in there, the means to jam is more fun than more sound generation tools!! Intellijel Metropolix?
@@mylarmelodies i should've been more clear. I have everything hooked up to ableton with a beatstep pro if i want to use it. That’s why I’m stumped. I have all of the FX through ableton and max already. plus, i have a multi FX pedal if necessary. i just don’t know where to go. 🤷♂
Best answer I can give is forget buying extra stuff on principle, use what you have for now, and keep a note of anything you’re trying to do in use, but can’t, or are finding hard to work with - do research to see if there’s a sneaky way you can do that with what you have, and if not, that’s an indication of a module type that could help.
@@mylarmelodies Thanks, man! I’m going to enjoy what I have for now and do what you said. Also, do A LOT of research in the meantime. Keep up with the content. You’re my go to guy!
Did vostok pay you for this?
Yep, see description for details.
So, "suggested" but just in a way. I think this series might need a rename going forward. "Sponsored Systems 8" would have been a better video title, never even minding the small fact that building polyphonic synths is one of the most wasteful things to do in modular (and I say that even as someone with several thousand HP of Eurorack.)
Have you had a chance to watch the video? The brand of modules, or even which specific module is shown, is never made more important than the principles shown and explained. As I specifically mention in the video in fact, what I do here could be done with almost anything else (and I take great effort to point out how bonkers an effort making a poly modular patch it, but then it’s just that, a patch, it can be something else tomorrow). By seeking sponsors for these videos then I can afford the time it takes to make them. This is my day job now, I don’t have another safety net.
One person's wasteful is another person's fun@@jg_ultra
@mylarmelodies eh, folks are gonna bitch about whatever you make whether it's sponsored/items provided by manufacturer or something you bought yourself.
I'm actually pleased to see polyphonic-oriented modular stuff regardless, because a lot of the polysynths on the market are just... not interesting to me. Or they don't have all the features I feel they should. With modular, you can piece together what *you* want and for *your* budget since you can make your own modules too.
What madness is this…. 🤨
fresh madness
Hi Mark havnt seen any post s, YT tutorials, have you retired?????
@@martintaylor9205 a difficult story between then and now but I’m looking at getting back into tutorials again soon thanks Martin
@@markbooth look forward to that, also Ihor very quiet I used to love you two Modular tutorials, I’m selling a lot of my Modular as it’s all getting to expensive, complicated and our Electronic community hasn’t progressed much, I’m watching synths from 10 yrs ago making music not been surpassed with all latest gear
Sorry, no room in the spectrum for polyphony round this hoose. All the screeches, bleeps, bloops, crashes, feedback, noise, noize, and more noise, and too many delay loops have filled up all available audio space.
I'll keep coming back and watching and learning though!
Engagemometric boosting double tap
What if I told you your screeches could be polyphonic
21:44 everything everything everything
Awesome!!! A thoroughly enjoyable episode, as always...very entertaining, wholy informative, and totally inspiring...
I gaze affectionatly at my recently completed Clacktronics BYOM and I'm thinking, 'I need more lfos/envs...now then, where did I put that perf-board..?' O-oh!! 🪛🤓🔧