I can't even quantify how much I just learned from this one video. You cleared up so much not just about this machine but synthesis & modulation in general. Thank you.
Really glad to hear that! If you have a Minibrute, I have 3 or 4 other videos like this with increasing complexity of how it can be pushed and pulled to do cool stuff - hopefully you'll find those useful too!
@@OscillatorSink Dude I've been watching all of them!! They're fantastic. I dont have a minibrute but I found this video while researching it and I think I'll be going for it as my next piece of gear.
You set me on the right path for the opsix, and GAS brought me here but you gave me some things to try with gear I already have… possibly one of the best analog synthesis introductions I’ve watched.
Only few days ago did I realise that Oscillator Sink did pads patches collection for Microfreak - I am using it for some time now, but I was not aware it was you - thanks so much for that and also for Volca Drum kits. The way you build patches is a perfect balance of knowledge, engineering and beautiful randomness synths respond to our desired results.
Hehe, yeah, it's a pretty angry one. I'm enjoying my time with the Minibrute, it's very hands on in a good way. There'll be another patch walk through out soon!
Love these vids. I recently bought a minibrute2 as my first synth. No idea what I'm doing, so these vids are fantastic! To automate the FM dive at the end, I added a patch from LFO1 to vco1.FM
If oscillator 2 won't quite get an octave below, just use the fine tune knob on oscillator 1 to make oscillator 1 a little higher, and use the global tune to compensate if you need the whole thing to be in 440 standard.
Fuck me, this is a learning curve and a half. My 2S arrived a few days ago, I was watching your videos a lot before it did. Now that I have it in my hands, I'm revisiting and following along, trying to get my head around what affects what else, and it's completely mad. I have a lot of time with the cookbook and youtube ahead of me.
It's a pleasure to watching you have fun making that "Evil Doomed Bass" which could be in a Sci Fi Horror movie ! I think this series will be very interesting and informative ! Great job Oscillator Sink !
This vid shows me well the character. I can now say: my Grandmother has instant fat classicness in bass, my Perfourmer has instant creamy sounds, but the Minibrute could fill a lot of gaps in crazy onboard sequences and patching possibilities :)
@@OscillatorSink Ha, guess we both have an excellent taste in synths, then! :D This video made me buy a Perfourmer: ua-cam.com/video/fGZHjBJIeRU/v-deo.html I was very happy to find a second hand "silver but with coloured knobs edition" for about 500 euro. Think its as good as the newer one. There was a minor difference bit cant remember what.. And dont forget.... 4 voice poly with each voice independently editable, or duo, or mono. Each voice can be set up in same or different midi channel. Yeah, she has something special ;)
I've got a DRM-1 that has gone criminally under-used this past year, I think I'm going to have to sell it to fund another piece. It's terrible to say because it's a sublime drum machine, but I don't think I can live with it not getting regular use.
@@OscillatorSink Can imagine. As far as I "researched" it, looks like a great and exotic (non-cliché) drum machine..extremely controllable with all the knobs... haha actually thought of buying it. If you said this a month earlier and lived in Holland, I might would have been going for it haha. But i guess thats a bit of the gripe for non-millionaire electronic music enthousiasts. Partly because of that I almost bought a second hand Deluge for its fantastic sequencer...but turned back to FL Studio and a Tascam 4x4 AI, controlling hardware..but having ultimate flexibility in producing. (This YT channel is only for fiddling around with some hardware ;) ) What do you plan to buy next?
@@dawlessstrolling5306 the top of my list is a Soma Pulsar23. It's the perfect drum machine for where I am now musically. But it's not cheap and there's a waiting list. But yeah. That's my main gear lust now after picking up Zoia finally.
I kept meaning to watch this video-Im a total noobee to hardware-an old dj so I get a lot of it but this machine--evil -love it and also all of the diffrerent layers-hidden or like hacks Please can you do any more videos for getting it programmed to work as in for a project Thanks without your clear direction in your videos id of been stuck-its finding time to experiment where I stay now I have more Hraedware Im dying to break her in-Thanks man love your vids
i have testet it simultan, but sounds not so good as yours. a millimeter on one knob makes a lot difference. i will test it again. good work ! this kind of tutorial vids is good for me, i can learn from your vids and had a lot of fun ! i have microfreak/monologue/minibrute2 and tb-03 and uno synth. can you make a video with minibrute2 and tb-03 with patch bay what for options i can do (tb-03 have cv and gate out) i have also a mpcx with cv outs but its another storry. i dont have modular systems ,i want to understand it, perhabs i bye one or more moduls. Sorry for my bad English im from Germany
Yes, and I dig into the Mod tracks a lot more in later videos. I was talking more about manually playable envelopes in this case. It'd be great to be able to re-purpose those tracks to just be an extra envelope or LFO that was key triggered. Actually I wonder if you could do that with the clock and reset inputs patched to the gate signal with the sequencer on 1ppqn? Never thought of trying that.
Yeah, that totally works, I stand corrected. Set the Mod track length to 1, patch keyboard gate into clock, make sure the sequence is 'playing' and the envelope on step 1 is an independently playable envelope. Obviously you can't use the sequencer conventionally then, but thanks for pointing that out.
As long as the mb2s is getting a clock from the DAW, there's a sync switch for each LFO - set it to Seq (for sequencer) for tempo sync. See section 5.2.1 (page 29) of the manual. The other way to do it would be to use one of the Mod tracks (sequencer track 3 or 4) in one of the LFO modes.
@@OscillatorSink yes, it syncs to the midi input, but the lfo does not restarts when a new note is pressed. i mean, that when i press a note the lfo is always at the random start position. And that is very important for the bass
I'm confused, you linked the LFO output to the VCA envelope? Doesn't it have a fast attack? Initially I thought you were linking it to the filter envlope, which has the longer attack, hence the delay of the LFO coming in.
Or is it that the LFO is linked to the VCA, so the overall amplitude/output, which increases naturally as the filter opens up, due to the filter envlope settings?
I think the confusion comes from the fact that you have the "Amp" (which is also a VCA), but also a utility VCA which isn't linked to the output - it's just used to amplify signals *inside* the patch. I used the utility VCA here. The LFO goes into its input (so that's the signal I'm amplifying / controlling); the output of the VCA is going into the filter cut off (via the attenuator), so the LFO is controlling the filter cut-off; then finally I'm controlling that utility VCA using the ADSR envelope (the one that's normalled to the filter FM) so that the amplitude of the VCA, and therefore the "strength" of the LFO is going up as the filter opens up, following the ADSR. Does that clear things up?
@@OscillatorSink Thanks, I needed this explanation too :-)I'm not sure if this would involve these mixing operations, but I am trying to think of a way to recreate the pitch wheel and pitch bend range knob found on the keyboard version or Minibrute 1. Connecting the Keystep means you're stuck to only one pitch bend range unless you go into the software. I like to be able to use either a fifth or a whole tone, so I wonder if I could patch something using attenuators and the tuning button or even FM. So an attenuator could become a pitch wheel somehow and maybe the FM knob would set the range? Maybe I'm dreaming here...
If you want it to happen 'automatically', you can send the LFO to the utility VCA and then patch another CV source into the CV input of the VCA (and then the output of the VCA to whatever you want the LFO to control). If you just want a knob to control the modulation amount, then you can just patch the LFO's output via one of the two attenuators.
@@OscillatorSink well in my daw i have aftertouch routed to my controller mod wheel so i can control filter cutoff with my modwheel .. i'd like to control lfo amount with my mod wheel but i'm having a hard time wrapping around how to accomplish this. im guessing something to do with the attenuators but when i start to think about it my brain goes into inception of inception mode
I'm pretty sure that by default the Mod Wheel should come up out of one of the two mod tracks, as long as it's sending the midi CC that is expected (which is 1 I think?). And if it's not, you can change what the mb2s is expecting in the Midi Control Centre software. So assuming the channel is set correctly etc. patch a mod track output into pitch and wiggle the Mod wheel. If it doesn't work, then try the other one, if that doesn't work then you'll need to play with the settings in MCC. Hope that helps!
Nice video. I will go through those settings and experiment. I was wondering: how would you achieve a bass sound similar to that can be heard at point 0:32 in this video: ua-cam.com/video/Kifn_WVGReM/v-deo.html Thanks in advance for your comments
I can't even quantify how much I just learned from this one video. You cleared up so much not just about this machine but synthesis & modulation in general. Thank you.
Really glad to hear that! If you have a Minibrute, I have 3 or 4 other videos like this with increasing complexity of how it can be pushed and pulled to do cool stuff - hopefully you'll find those useful too!
@@OscillatorSink Dude I've been watching all of them!! They're fantastic. I dont have a minibrute but I found this video while researching it and I think I'll be going for it as my next piece of gear.
Instantly to the top of the best Minibrute videos on UA-cam. Can't wait to try this. Looking forward to your next videos!
Thank you so much! I hope you'll enjoy the next few I have planned.
You set me on the right path for the opsix, and GAS brought me here but you gave me some things to try with gear I already have… possibly one of the best analog synthesis introductions I’ve watched.
Thanks! Lots of neat ideas here. I sometimes get lost even before the patch bay but this is clear and fun. Mean sounds here!
Only few days ago did I realise that Oscillator Sink did pads patches collection for Microfreak - I am using it for some time now, but I was not aware it was you - thanks so much for that and also for Volca Drum kits. The way you build patches is a perfect balance of knowledge, engineering and beautiful randomness synths respond to our desired results.
Thanks a lot for the video. I've owned minibrute for 6 month and still discovering it. And you're contributing to this process!)
Thanks for watching!
Oh man, that's an angry bass! I love also what the FM is adding, and this brute factor has so much grit!
Hehe, yeah, it's a pretty angry one. I'm enjoying my time with the Minibrute, it's very hands on in a good way. There'll be another patch walk through out soon!
@@OscillatorSink One can see that you're having fun :) Will you also combine it with the Digitakt?
I certainly won't rule that out...
Dark Magic this. Really enjoyed following along, thank you x
As Always Brilliant!!!
Love these vids. I recently bought a minibrute2 as my first synth. No idea what I'm doing, so these vids are fantastic! To automate the FM dive at the end, I added a patch from LFO1 to vco1.FM
Thank you. Definitely buying this now.
Keep making videos on this especially on the sequencer great video thanks
Yessir!
Thank you. Beginning to get to grips with mine. Needs lots of help!
What a perfect video. Your content is so engaging and entertaining. Thanks so much for what you do!!!
I've been taking notes. You explain it very well. Thank you!
Have fun making BASS!
Juno-esque bass style here, I love my 106
If oscillator 2 won't quite get an octave below, just use the fine tune knob on oscillator 1 to make oscillator 1 a little higher, and use the global tune to compensate if you need the whole thing to be in 440 standard.
That thing is gorgeous. My cheap mini midi keyboard is Arturia. Good stuff.
Arturia make great controllers and sequencers! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Fuck me, this is a learning curve and a half. My 2S arrived a few days ago, I was watching your videos a lot before it did. Now that I have it in my hands, I'm revisiting and following along, trying to get my head around what affects what else, and it's completely mad. I have a lot of time with the cookbook and youtube ahead of me.
Convinced me too pur...chase this ting..good work lad
thanks, it's fun to play around with and makes a nice lead as well. good job!
It's a pleasure to watching you have fun making that "Evil Doomed Bass" which could be in a Sci Fi Horror movie !
I think this series will be very interesting and informative !
Great job Oscillator Sink !
Really glad you're enjoying it!
@@OscillatorSink U are very welcome and i'm waiting the next episode for a new insane patch ;)
I have enough already recorded - should edited and released next week!
@@OscillatorSink Cool ! It's a good news !
Oooh, that will go nicely with the Valhalla Supermassive.
Expertly paired. Your are a Synth Sommelier.
Arturia time!
Affordable and quality gear, got a BSP and Impact love it.
Those frogs make some nice stuff. One day i will own a MatrixBrute!
awesome video! We want more))
Another one coming next week!
Damn, that’s filthy! I’m treating myself to one of these next month for my birthday. Great vid man, a new sub here, peace ✌️
Hello and welcome to the channel!
This vid shows me well the character. I can now say: my Grandmother has instant fat classicness in bass, my Perfourmer has instant creamy sounds, but the Minibrute could fill a lot of gaps in crazy onboard sequences and patching possibilities :)
I want both of those other two synths you mentioned. Excellent taste.
@@OscillatorSink Ha, guess we both have an excellent taste in synths, then! :D
This video made me buy a Perfourmer:
ua-cam.com/video/fGZHjBJIeRU/v-deo.html
I was very happy to find a second hand "silver but with coloured knobs edition" for about 500 euro. Think its as good as the newer one. There was a minor difference bit cant remember what..
And dont forget.... 4 voice poly with each voice independently editable, or duo, or mono. Each voice can be set up in same or different midi channel. Yeah, she has something special ;)
I've got a DRM-1 that has gone criminally under-used this past year, I think I'm going to have to sell it to fund another piece. It's terrible to say because it's a sublime drum machine, but I don't think I can live with it not getting regular use.
@@OscillatorSink Can imagine. As far as I "researched" it, looks like a great and exotic (non-cliché) drum machine..extremely controllable with all the knobs... haha actually thought of buying it. If you said this a month earlier and lived in Holland, I might would have been going for it haha.
But i guess thats a bit of the gripe for non-millionaire electronic music enthousiasts. Partly because of that I almost bought a second hand Deluge for its fantastic sequencer...but turned back to FL Studio and a Tascam 4x4 AI, controlling hardware..but having ultimate flexibility in producing.
(This YT channel is only for fiddling around with some hardware ;) )
What do you plan to buy next?
@@dawlessstrolling5306 the top of my list is a Soma Pulsar23. It's the perfect drum machine for where I am now musically. But it's not cheap and there's a waiting list. But yeah. That's my main gear lust now after picking up Zoia finally.
Thx for Tutorial, verry helpful, thx!
I think you do have a spare envelope in the sequencer, no?
I kept meaning to watch this video-Im a total noobee to hardware-an old dj so I get a lot of it but this machine--evil -love it and also all of the diffrerent layers-hidden or like hacks
Please can you do any more videos for getting it programmed to work as in for a project
Thanks without your clear direction in your videos id of been stuck-its finding time to experiment where I stay now I have more Hraedware Im dying to break her in-Thanks man love your vids
this is excellent
You're excellent.
What about 17:50 patching that FM to a patchbay mod wheel out?
Thanks for the vid. I patched along with you :-)
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it!
i have testet it simultan, but sounds not so good as yours. a millimeter on one knob makes a lot difference. i will test it again. good work ! this kind of tutorial vids is good for me, i can learn from your vids and had a lot of fun ! i have microfreak/monologue/minibrute2 and tb-03 and uno synth. can you make a video with minibrute2 and tb-03 with patch bay what for options i can do (tb-03 have cv and gate out) i have also a mpcx with cv outs but its another storry. i dont have modular systems ,i want to understand it, perhabs i bye one or more moduls. Sorry for my bad English im from Germany
17:44 fyi you technically do have two more spare envelopes by using the sequencer mod outputs :)
Yes, and I dig into the Mod tracks a lot more in later videos. I was talking more about manually playable envelopes in this case. It'd be great to be able to re-purpose those tracks to just be an extra envelope or LFO that was key triggered. Actually I wonder if you could do that with the clock and reset inputs patched to the gate signal with the sequencer on 1ppqn? Never thought of trying that.
Yeah, that totally works, I stand corrected. Set the Mod track length to 1, patch keyboard gate into clock, make sure the sequence is 'playing' and the envelope on step 1 is an independently playable envelope. Obviously you can't use the sequencer conventionally then, but thanks for pointing that out.
que diferencia hay con un groovebox ?
Found the voice too quiet and the synth too loud for listian here in the office - pity, Have just bought one of these and am liking it :)
Sorry. It seems like this is an impossible balance to strike to please everyone in every environment. Glad you're enjoying the synth though.
@@OscillatorSink Sure! :D
Great vid tho - subscribed! :)
great bass! but how do i sync LFO to the tempo of my DAW? or restart lfo each time i hit the note?
As long as the mb2s is getting a clock from the DAW, there's a sync switch for each LFO - set it to Seq (for sequencer) for tempo sync. See section 5.2.1 (page 29) of the manual.
The other way to do it would be to use one of the Mod tracks (sequencer track 3 or 4) in one of the LFO modes.
@@OscillatorSink yes, it syncs to the midi input, but the lfo does not restarts when a new note is pressed. i mean, that when i press a note the lfo is always at the random start position. And that is very important for the bass
@@radjan666 I think for that you'd probably want to use the A/D envelope in loop mode then.
I'm confused, you linked the LFO output to the VCA envelope? Doesn't it have a fast attack? Initially I thought you were linking it to the filter envlope, which has the longer attack, hence the delay of the LFO coming in.
Or is it that the LFO is linked to the VCA, so the overall amplitude/output, which increases naturally as the filter opens up, due to the filter envlope settings?
I think the confusion comes from the fact that you have the "Amp" (which is also a VCA), but also a utility VCA which isn't linked to the output - it's just used to amplify signals *inside* the patch.
I used the utility VCA here. The LFO goes into its input (so that's the signal I'm amplifying / controlling); the output of the VCA is going into the filter cut off (via the attenuator), so the LFO is controlling the filter cut-off; then finally I'm controlling that utility VCA using the ADSR envelope (the one that's normalled to the filter FM) so that the amplitude of the VCA, and therefore the "strength" of the LFO is going up as the filter opens up, following the ADSR.
Does that clear things up?
It does, thank you! @@OscillatorSink
No problem! Sorry that wasn't totally clear in the video.
@@OscillatorSink Thanks, I needed this explanation too :-)I'm not sure if this would involve these mixing operations, but I am trying to think of a way to recreate the pitch wheel and pitch bend range knob found on the keyboard version or Minibrute 1. Connecting the Keystep means you're stuck to only one pitch bend range unless you go into the software. I like to be able to use either a fifth or a whole tone, so I wonder if I could patch something using attenuators and the tuning button or even FM. So an attenuator could become a pitch wheel somehow and maybe the FM knob would set the range? Maybe I'm dreaming here...
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is there any way to modulate the lfo amount ?
If you want it to happen 'automatically', you can send the LFO to the utility VCA and then patch another CV source into the CV input of the VCA (and then the output of the VCA to whatever you want the LFO to control). If you just want a knob to control the modulation amount, then you can just patch the LFO's output via one of the two attenuators.
@@OscillatorSink well in my daw i have aftertouch routed to my controller mod wheel so i can control filter cutoff with my modwheel .. i'd like to control lfo amount with my mod wheel but i'm having a hard time wrapping around how to accomplish this. im guessing something to do with the attenuators but when i start to think about it my brain goes into inception of inception mode
I'm pretty sure that by default the Mod Wheel should come up out of one of the two mod tracks, as long as it's sending the midi CC that is expected (which is 1 I think?). And if it's not, you can change what the mb2s is expecting in the Midi Control Centre software.
So assuming the channel is set correctly etc. patch a mod track output into pitch and wiggle the Mod wheel. If it doesn't work, then try the other one, if that doesn't work then you'll need to play with the settings in MCC.
Hope that helps!
i accidentaly laded here, after a minute i wanted to leave and then i skipped to minute 4. now i am staying
Glad you chose to stick around friend.
April fools, he's wearing human gloves he stole from his last victim, actually a lizardmun. Idiots! Lulz.
Seriously tho... noice vid.
Cheers friend.
Nice video. I will go through those settings and experiment. I was wondering: how would you achieve a bass sound similar to that can be heard at point 0:32 in this video: ua-cam.com/video/Kifn_WVGReM/v-deo.html Thanks in advance for your comments