Excellent demo and tips. I love my WMD Crater and Fracture super amazing and you convinced me to get Crucible and Chimera. I think with all four plus Plonk and Plaits then I can do a full drum modular synthesizer in case. WMD Metron is great sequencer for percussion.
I'm loving Crucible as well! Great right alongside the other WMD percussion modules. I'm using Crucible with Erica Synths Drum Sequencer. I use separate channels for Edge and Mid with accent from the Edge channel running to Choke. That way I can get a total of 5 sounds. I suppose I could mix accent from both channels to choke to get 6 variations. I'm really loving the organic feel to this module. Great work, WMD! And thanks to you for the video.
Well, if you're talking _percussion_ patterns, most of those tend to be just triggers - brief +5v signals - so you would get just very brief bursts of a high value of that parameter (such as tone) during the attack transient. What I prefer to do instead is patch sample & holds into these, or slow smooth random voltage sources.
Great module, but I haven’t managed to get it really sound like a hihat, specifically an open one, and I have tried a lot. Sincerely hoping they will release a dedicated realistic sounding hihat module. If there is a company that could pull it off, it’s WMD.
@@thinthinwalls Thanks, haven't tried modulating the pitch at audiorate. Will give that a try. While users tell me they use it as a hihat and are able to mimic an open hat, I have yet to hear it.
Jarrett Towe Not Maths (on its own at least)! Better think of 2-3 Module combinations, Comparative Irrelevance (YT) provides a great deal of possibilities ✌️
The joke answer would be "a good power module." The more serious answer is: If you're new to modular, I'd start with a patchable semi-modular synth (Mother-32, o-Coast, Neutron, etc.) to get used to the idea of patching without the frustration of "how do I get this thing to make a sound?!?", and then start adding modules as you realize "I wish I had a...what I'd like to try is a..." etc. I've actually designed an entire course based around that idea: Eurorack Expansion. You can get into that course for as little as $5 for one month on my Patreon channel (or through a public library that has a Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning subscription for the short version of the course), and watch the intro movies to get a feel for which types of modules are going to give you what capabilities. The description is at learningmodular.com/register/learning-modular-synthesis-eurorack-expansion/
@@LearningModular agree and my first venture to modular was a Make Noise 0-coast which I still have, use and love. However, I would have picked a more traditional semi modular like mother 32 that has the various components labeled and easy for a beginner to understand.
Excellent demo and tips. I love my WMD Crater and Fracture super amazing and you convinced me to get Crucible and Chimera. I think with all four plus Plonk and Plaits then I can do a full drum modular synthesizer in case. WMD Metron is great sequencer for percussion.
I'm loving Crucible as well! Great right alongside the other WMD percussion modules. I'm using Crucible with Erica Synths Drum Sequencer. I use separate channels for Edge and Mid with accent from the Edge channel running to Choke. That way I can get a total of 5 sounds. I suppose I could mix accent from both channels to choke to get 6 variations. I'm really loving the organic feel to this module. Great work, WMD! And thanks to you for the video.
What if you ran a pattern into every modulation input of the crucible…?
Well, if you're talking _percussion_ patterns, most of those tend to be just triggers - brief +5v signals - so you would get just very brief bursts of a high value of that parameter (such as tone) during the attack transient. What I prefer to do instead is patch sample & holds into these, or slow smooth random voltage sources.
Great module, but I haven’t managed to get it really sound like a hihat, specifically an open one, and I have tried a lot. Sincerely hoping they will release a dedicated realistic sounding hihat module. If there is a company that could pull it off, it’s WMD.
ive heard using audio rate modulation on the pitch gets hi hat sounds. you can get an open hat sound by modulating decay probably.
@@thinthinwalls Thanks, haven't tried modulating the pitch at audiorate. Will give that a try. While users tell me they use it as a hihat and are able to mimic an open hat, I have yet to hear it.
What should my very first eurorack module be?
Jarrett Towe Not Maths (on its own at least)! Better think of 2-3 Module combinations, Comparative Irrelevance (YT) provides a great deal of possibilities ✌️
The joke answer would be "a good power module." The more serious answer is: If you're new to modular, I'd start with a patchable semi-modular synth (Mother-32, o-Coast, Neutron, etc.) to get used to the idea of patching without the frustration of "how do I get this thing to make a sound?!?", and then start adding modules as you realize "I wish I had a...what I'd like to try is a..." etc.
I've actually designed an entire course based around that idea: Eurorack Expansion. You can get into that course for as little as $5 for one month on my Patreon channel (or through a public library that has a Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning subscription for the short version of the course), and watch the intro movies to get a feel for which types of modules are going to give you what capabilities. The description is at learningmodular.com/register/learning-modular-synthesis-eurorack-expansion/
I had considered the neutron so I think it’s probably the best bang for the buck as an intro.
@@LearningModular agree and my first venture to modular was a Make Noise 0-coast which I still have, use and love. However, I would have picked a more traditional semi modular like mother 32 that has the various components labeled and easy for a beginner to understand.