Repro-5

[Urs]

Are some of these wires like some of ACE/Bazille patches in which their purpose is for decoration only ? You unplug wires and nothing happens. Anyways, GREAT jam !

Hahaha, no, I dispise decorative wiring. They all have a purpose and they all do something

One of the cables I unplug then replug is the sequencer transport (clock input). I wanted a constant tone. However, on first attempt I pulled the cable too slowly, which suddenly moved the sequencer to the wrong note. Typical modular cable accident. So I replugged it and unplugged it again and it was right.

The second cable I plug creates excessive feedback in the delay. I plug it into the first attenuverter of the Maths module (channel 2), where I then control the feedback. However, it's very difficult to get the knob into an exact zero-position. Hence I unplug it again, otherwise I'd run at risk to get some unwanted metallic artifacts in the delay.

[Urs]

Urs,
You have my permission to wrack your brain, but please don't wreck you brain, it is too valuable.

BTW, I took about 2 1/2 years of Deutsch in school, but because I hardly use it, your English is 100 times better than my German.

Oi! I've been using wreck for years... never noticed I should've used wrack

[spunkmuffin]

I'm actually wrecking my brain over the implications that my modular experience has for Zebra. There are two or three very radical concepts that I'm going to try out. Fingers crossed that these work, but I can't really begin to explain these just yet.

One of them however is kind of easily explained to someone who knows what Argos Bleak is, which is the idea of a set of voice-level modules called "Pitches & Glides" which contain scale quantizer, microtuning tables, slew rate limiter, general pitch modulation (e.g. Vibrato) and note priority modes - and a choice of processing orders of these. The idea is that any source for Key Tracking (oscillators, filters, whatsoever) can subscibe to any of the P&G modules, and any of the P&G modules can either inherit any of its settings from a default "mother module" or use their own. It's something that (I hope) can be done in a very easy and intuitive manner.

If you can get something like this working I think it would be incredibly cool. It's not a MSEG, not an arpeggiator and not exactly a sequencer but like a strange new amalgum.

What is great is if you change any parameter the whole musical line changes or shifts or warps - you don't have to edit each note or curve one at a time.

To my mind the key is the scale quantiser. Trying to think how you would get that to work melts my little mind.

[Stollmeister]

This week I went to Sigur Rós and watched Blade Runner 2049. I couldn't resist trying the Vermona Retroverb and figure out some dense, noisy soundscape. It became quite a fest for accidents, some happy some cringeworthy. Nevermind the coffee mug and clipping. Melodic parts start at about 3 minutes into it.



Anyhow. Weekend fun.

(Argos Bleak will feature in next one, I'm almost certain of it)

That was REALLY good! Now I feel inspired to go jam on my own Euro system. I have twice the amount of modules but my pieces do not sound as complex. Time to practice!

[Urs]

This week I went to Sigur Rós and watched Blade Runner 2049. I couldn't resist trying the Vermona Retroverb and figure out some dense, noisy soundscape. It became quite a fest for accidents, some happy some cringeworthy. Nevermind the coffee mug and clipping. Melodic parts start at about 3 minutes into it.



Anyhow. Weekend fun.

(Argos Bleak will feature in next one, I'm almost certain of it)

That was REALLY good! Now I feel inspired to go jam on my own Euro system. I have twice the amount of modules but my pieces do not sound as complex. Time to practice!

Thank you

I find it very difficult to create similar results on a larger system.

Apart from this (https://cdn.modulargrid.net/img/racks/m ... 1508140553) I also have https://cdn.modulargrid.net/img/racks/m ... 518339.jpg and it's not even close, even though it somewhat resembles the structure of the smaller one (less the PanMix, but this system is hooked up to an external mixer, which works just as well)

I think I found the cause though. The little utility Attenuators/Mixers in the Vermona do the trick. They attenuate, mix and subtract two sources at the same time. I get A, B, A+B and A-B post fader, and I have two of those. This is how I create flow throughout the piece, without having a large mixer with an AUX send. I might have to try Xaoc Samara for this purpose. Or add two Links post MixMode. Ah, next weekend maybe.

[lnikj]

I don't think there is an emoticon on here for 'green with envy'.

[Urs]

I don't think there is an emoticon on here for 'green with envy'.

Being able to buy, uhm, everything comes as a perk of running a synth company. Unfortunately there are only so and so many hours to actually check that stuff out, so I have to make it count (which may also be a reason why I don't like modules with memory... it's gotta be there and then). Would love to take a case on a road trip like Ann Annie does. That might be part of my retiring plan, in twenty years or so.

Another perk is, my wife's assistant loves to swap modules for me. I'll hand her a screenshot from Modulargrid and a few hours later I have a fresh case. It's almost like swapping modules by mouse click. The marvel...



(that said, we're renting more space from December and I'll have a permanent modular setup with cameras and gear ready to record, also because we want to produce some more videos for the upcoming website)

[lnikj]

I don't think there is an emoticon on here for 'green with envy'.

Being able to buy, uhm, everything comes as a perk of running a synth company. Unfortunately there are only so and so many hours to actually check that stuff out, so I have to make it count (which may also be a reason why I don't like modules with memory... it's gotta be there and then).

Must be really tough

(that said, we're renting more space from December and I'll have a permanent modular setup with cameras and gear ready to record, also because we want to produce some more videos for the upcoming website)

I'll certainly look forward to seeing more videos like that. It was excellent

[spunkmuffin]

...tries to imagine u-he in 20 years...

Another perk is, my wife's assistant loves to swap modules for me. I'll hand her a screenshot from Modulargrid and a few hours later I have a fresh case. It's almost like swapping modules by mouse click. The marvel...

I thought you were joking when you mentioned your wifes assistant earlier. Hmm...I'm still not sure. If true then wow.

[Urs]

I thought you were joking when you mentioned your wifes assistant earlier. Hmm...I'm still not sure. If true then wow.

Hehehe, wasn't a joke. My wife has an assistant, but she's also our office manager or something. And she indeed puts my Modulargrid designs into actual racks. My own assistant (who also exists) travels past Schneidersladen on his way to work, so if I urgently need something he'll pick it up for me. It's not the center of our world though, just something that comfortably happens on the side.

I also want everyone at u-he to spend some time with the systems. Anything that translates into better understanding of synthesis is good.

[clangorous]

Anything that translates into better understanding of synthesis is good.

Truer words were never spoken

[spunkmuffin]

Well wow that sounds more like a dream than a real company. Hehe, though from the last 'inside u-he' video I saw I seem to remember everyone there was working not noodling. Nothing like a noodle though. I learn best by doing...or actually seeing something done in front of me. That's why I love people on youtube so much. Look forward to more modular videos come December.

[EvilDragon]

If I ever worked at u-he they'd fire me in a week because all I'd ever do would be noodling

[Elektronisch]

The wait is killing me

[SJ_Digriz]

The patch was awesome! But, that video is the exact reason I can't do Euro. To small, too many short cables in the way.