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It's been already a couple years since I started my YT... I started recording with only 3 or 4 modules and now I'm starting to get to a point where I feel the setup is starting to feel complete, I will probably switch a couple modules around still and I want an analog polysynth but the case is capable of making a full song on its own...

I love how the bass came up on this one, the GStorm SH-5 dual filter has an amazing sound, to my ears it really feels like a Roland filter... I'm running through it a couple waveforms plus some sub from a nano On, then adding some multi band distortion from the Cosmotronic Cosmix to get that crunch.

Hermod is the brain sequencing all the melodic voices and a clank chaos is triggering the percussion.

Let me know what you think!

Hey everyone, a new video is up on my channel:

What I did for this one is have the 4 pads on pressure points each going out to 2 destination with the Hosa splitter cables, so i can use 4 fingers to control a lot of different parameters as a kind of macro control over the patch, modulating the kick mute, Rings decay, Bass Attack or Release times, Filter cutoff and more. This helps me to play on the Rhodes while being able to quickly turn around the modular into a different place.

The Dreadbox Disorder is also doing a bunch of work here, using the mix of the envelope follower, with high res filter and fuzz to give me that powerful lead sound out of the Rhodes

Patch Notes

Voices:
- Rhodes MkII Stage 73 amped by Mutable Instruments Ears, using Dreadbox Disorder as Fuzz & Filter.
- NANO Modules ONA into @Stefan Tretau ST Modular Werner as bassline, sequenced by Clank Chaos with filter enveloped modulated by Pressure Points.
- Calsynth Rangoon sequenced by S.I.G. with decay modulated by Pressure Points.

Drums:
- Instruō Ts-L through Patching panda Punch v3 as kick.
- Blue Noise through Takaab LPG as high-hat.

Modulation:
- Clank Chaos as clock divider, gate generator and random CV generator.
- Mutable Instruments Stages as envelope generator.
- Instruō Ochd as LFOs

Utilities:
- NANO Modules ALT as VCA's and mixer
- joeSeggiola's Nearness as panning sub-mixer.
- Cosmotronic Cosmix as mixer, using Dreadbox Splash as send effect.
- Music Thing Modular Startup as mixer and output.

Could you list what all the possible input assignments are ? thanks!

New jam, using the new Dreadbox Disorder Fuzz & Filter pedal with my Rhodes as the lead, it's a bit longer this time but hopefully not boring.

This is the case I used:

Patch Notes

Voices:
- Rhodes MkII Stage 73 amped by Mutable Instruments Ears, using Dreadbox Disorder as Fuzz & Filter, run through Mimeophon as delay.
- Instruo Ts-L + Eowave Titan Oscillator into ST Modular Werner as bassline, sequenced by Doboz XIIO with filter cutoff modulated by expression pedal from ADDAC Floor Control.
- Calsynth Rangoon sequenced by S.I.G. doing counter melody, with decay modulated by Make Noise Pressure Points.
- Ensemble oscillator through Bizarre Jezebel Pkhia as background harmony, sequenced by Clank Chaos.

Drums:
- Erica Pico Drums as kick.
- Blue Noise through Patching Panda Punch v3 as high-hat, with decay modulated by Make Noise Pressure Points.
- White Noise through Takaab LPG as snare.

Modulation:
- Clank Chaos as clock divider, gate generator and random CV generator.
- Mutable Instruments Stages as envelope generator.
- Instruo Ochd as LFOs

Utilities:
- MIAx3 as attenuation, mixer, offset.
- Super Vcas as vca and mixer.
- joeSeggiola's Nearness as panning sub-mixer.
- Cosmotronic Cosmix as mixer, using Dreadbox Splash as send effect.
- Music Thing Startup as mixer and clock generator and divider.

Nice work :) Which version of your rack was this with?
-- wishbonebrewery

Hey thanks! What was your favourite moment?

The rack from the video is pretty much this, altough it may have 1 or 2 different modules in there...

Something a bit more uptempo this time, I just love running a keyboard through Ears to distort a bit and then into Mimeophon, having ears envelope follower control the feedback, so whenever I play I get sustained notes if the delay time is on the shorter zones... what's your favourite moment?

Patch Notes:

Voices:
- Studiologic Numa Compact 2x amped by Ears through Mimeophon, is playing chords and melodies.
- Eowave titan into ST Werner and Takkab LPG doing 2 syncopated basslines bassline,
- Calsynth Rangoon is doing the counter melody, controlled by SIG.
- Ensemble oscillator through Bizarre Jezebel Pkhia, controlled by Doboz XIIO.

Drums:
- Instruo Ts-l through Takaab LPG as bass drum
- Blue and White Noise from through Patching Panda Punch v3 as high-hat and snare.
- Erica Pico Drums through Dreadbox Splash as snare.

Modulation:
- Clank Chaos as clock divider and random CV generator, sequencing most drums and bassline.
- Mutable Instruments Stages as envelope generator and LFOs
- Instruo Ochd as LFOs

Utilities:
- MIAx3 as attenuation, mixer, offset.
- Super Vcas as vca, inverter, mixer and sidechain.
- joeSeggiola's Nearness as panning sub-mixer.
- Cosmotronic Cosmix as mixer, using Mimeophon as send effect.
- Music Thing Startup as mixer and clock generator and divider.

hey ryanthegecko! thanks for the awesome feedback! I appreciate your interest, you can check other jams on my YT channel and subscribe because I'll keep making them :) what was your favourite part?

Recorded on a single take, no pre-recorded loops, all the sounds are being generated by the modular.

Voices:
- Fender Rhodes Stage 73 mk2 amped by Ears is playing chords and melodies.
- Calsynth Rangoon is doing the pads, controlled by Doboz XIIO.
- Instruo Ts-l + Eowave Titan Oscillator through Serpens Sirius into Patching Panda Punch v3 doing bassline.
- 4ms Ensemble Oscillator through Bizarre Jezebel Pkhia into Mimeophon as background strings and weird sounds.

Drums:
- White Noise from ADDAC 215 through Super VCAs as snare.
- Erica Pico Drums as bass drum.

Modulation:
- Doboz XIIO sampled by Clank Chaos are sequencing the 3 melodic voices.
- Clank Chaos as clock divider and gate generator, into XODES LB5 to sequence drum voices.
- Mutable Instruments Stages as envelope generator and LFOs
- Instruo Ochd as LFOs
- Pressure Points as manual CV modulation

Utilities:
- Acid Rain Switchblade as CV controller switch.
- joeSeggiola's Nearness as panning sub-mixer.
- Cosmotronic Cosmix as mixer, using Dreadbox Splash as send reverb.
- Music Thing Startup as final mixer.

Patch Notes:

Voices:
- Fender Rhodes Stage 73 mk2 amped by Ears through Mimeophon, is playing chords and melodies.
- Calsynth Rangoon is doing the counter melody, controlled by Doboz XIIO.
- Instruo Ts-l through Takaab LPG into Serpens Sirius doing the bassline, sequenced by Novation Launchpad Pro mk3.

Drums:
- Eowave titan through Takaab LPG as bass drum.
- White Noise from ADDAC 215 through Super VCAs as high-hat.
- Erica Pico Drums as snare
- Ensemble oscillator through Bizarre Jezebel Pkhia as crash cymbal.

Modulation:
- Clank Chaos as clock divider and random CV generator.
- Mutable Instruments Stages as envelope generator and LFOs
- Instruo Ochd as LFOs
- Robaux LL8 as gate sequencer

Utilities:
- Noise Engineering Lapsus Os as attenuation, sum, offset and macro controller.
- Super Vcas as vca, inverter and sidechain for several voices.
- joeSeggiola's Nearness as panning sub-mixer.
- Cosmotronic Cosmix as mixer, using Dreadbox Splash as send reverb.
- Music Thing Startup as mixer and clock generator.

An improvised jam going into some acid techno grooves... Enjoy!

Patch Notes:
Make Noise Pressure Points CVs into Acid Rain Switchblade as 8 step Analog Sequencer. Pressure output as macro controllers.
Stages decay envelope modulating Eowave Titan Oscillator into LPG as bassdrum
Erica Pico Drums as weird synth percussion
Stages LFO into Tenderfoot Quad Quantiser into Calsynth Rangoon as plucked string arp
Instruo Ts-l into Serpens Sirius modulated by Rocinante's Gate into LPG as bassline
ADDAC Dual S&H noise into LPG as Snare
ADDAC Transition Controller as macro controller.
Dreadbox Splash as reverb
Mutable Instruments Stages as envelope generator and LFOs
Mutable Instruments Ears as distortion.
Robaux LL8 as gate sequencer
Super Vcas as vca and mixer
Synthrotek MIXIV as mixer
Music Thing Startup as mixer and clock generator.
Takaab LPG as low pass gates.

Patch Notes:
Erica Pico Drums = Kick
XODES LB5 ➫ Takaab LPG ➫ Dreadbox Splash = Snare
Instruo Ts-l ➫ Serpens Sirius ➫ Takaab LPG = Bass
Calsynth Rangoon ➫ Mimeophon = Ambient Glitches
Mutable Instruments Stages = LFOs and sequential switch
Doboz XIIO = arpeggiator and note controller.
Robaux LL8 = gate sequencer
Super Vcas = vca and mixer.
Synthrotek MIXIV = mixer
Music Thing Startup = mixer , clock generator and aux-in for keys.
Studiologic Numa Compact = Wurlix + Strings

you could kill two birds with one stone using passive LPGs instead of VCAs, if used for handling volume of different layers then LPG are great because you could potentially save on envelopes even, just send a trigger out of LL8 into the LPG voltage control and it should decay with a natural envelope, so you get vca + envelope in a tiny space, for example I bought a couple of takaab's LPG and they are 2hp for 2 LPGs, and it even comes with TONE control, so you can have longer or shorter decays... I've been using these since I got them and I love the sound of it.

Patch Notes:
XODES TP8 as finger-controlled mixer, mixing 4 different waveforms from Eowave titan and Instruo Ts-l as lead/bassline, going into Serpens Sirius to filter into a Takaab LPG and into Dreadbox Splash to get reverb.
Calsynth Rangoon as stringed instrument going into Mimeophon for real-time delay and beat-repeat.
Erica Pico Drums as bass drum.
XODES LB5 as logic noise into LPG as snare.
Mutable Instruments Stages as envelope generator and LFOs
Doboz XIIO as arpeggiator and note controller.
Robaux LL8 as gate sequencer
Super Vcas as vca and mixer.
Synthrotek MIXIV as mixer
Music Thing Startup as mixer and clock generator.
ADDAC Floor Control for Expression Pedal control.

Took the modular out to the rooftop for this one... ran into the red at parts, but a bit of clipping never killed anyone, right?

Patch Notes:
Instruo Ts-l into Serpens Sirius as bassline
Calsynth Rangoon as melody
Eowave titan as kick drum
Erica Pico Drums as high hat
Dreadbox Splash as reverb
Mutable Instruments Stages as envelope generator and LFOs
Doboz XIIO as arpeggiator and note controller.
Robaux LL8 as gate sequencer
Super Vcas as vca, inverter and sidechain.
Synthrotek MIXIV as mixer
Music Thing Startup as mixer and clock generator.
Takaab LPG as low pass gates.
XODES TP8 as manual modulation

Hi everyone, hope you're keeping safe!
Debuting the Serpens Modular Sirius as the first filter in the case, also trying something new with the intro, lemme know what you think!

Patch notes:
Eowave titan into Serpens Sirius as bassline
Calsynth Rangoon as melody
Instruo Ts-l as kickdrum
Erica Pico Drums as high hat
Dreadbox Splash as reverb
Mutable Instruments Stages as envelope generator and LFOs
Doboz XIIO as arpeggiator and note controller.
Robaux LL8 as gate sequencer
Super Vcas as vca, inverter and sidechain.
Synthrotek MIXIV as mixer
Music Thing Startup as mixer and clock generator.
Takaab LPG as low pass gates.

Hi guys, just uploaded a new jam today! some melodic techno this time, and all of it without a single filter in my system yet!

I've been waiting for the CV OCD to get here to use the launchpad mk3 as a controller/sequencer... this time I only used it as a grid keyboard to play the main melody, a nice touch was using the envelope which controls the tsl wavefolder, to also open the damping on rangoon, so whenever the melody plays the bassline "swells" along with it... anyway.. hope you guys enjoy it! if you do please subscribe in YT, I'm plannin on uploading regularly...

Patch notes:
Instruo Ts-l + Eowave titan as melody
Calsynth Rangoon as main bassline
Erica Pico Drums as kickdrum
Dreadbox Splash as reverb
Mutable Instruments Stages as envelope generator and LFO
Doboz XIIO as arpeggiator and note controller.
Robaux LL8 as gate sequencer
Super Vcas as vca.
Synthrotek MIXIV as mixer
Music Thing Startup as mixer and clock generator.
Novation Launchpad mk3 + CV OCD as controller

Hey guys! Thanks for the comments! If you want to subscribe over on YouTube I will be trying to upload regularly :)

The patch notes are also really interesting. I need to document my setups better, and your descriptions style should work quite well. I started actually documenting ins and outs of the modules but that's way to tedious.
-- zuggamasta

Yes, I was planning on documenting all the connections but my laziness won over me.. hehe I just thought that doing a quick rundown of what each module was doing would be enough.

Hi Brunomolteni,

Great track and nice video you got there! I loved that sudden change at 1:17, nice surprise :-)

Oh wow, that sound between 5:55 and 5:58, so fantastic sound, I love that! He, he, and the ending of your track is massive!!!
-- GarfieldModular

Thanks Garfield! Yes those sudden changes are hard to pull ( and a bit of a nerve wrack when recording) but when they work they really work hehe.

That moment at 5:55 is basically quickly muting the drums while at the same time triggering a fill on both the gates that trigger rings strum and the note changes on the XIIO arp, which is set to a c minor blues scale with up&down direction, basically results in quick melodic lines that contrast to the rest of the song where is mainly repeating the same note with slower triggers...

A bit of techno done with Rings ( Rangoon ) as the bassline, Ts-L as kick and Pico drums as Hats... Played around a bunch with LL8 performance view ( rolls and mutes ) and also used Dreadbox Splash frequently, making the bassline fully wet to create tension and release it by switching it to fully dry. Stages as a step sequencer moves Rings damping around to create the variation between long and short notes.

hope you guys enjoy!

Patch notes:
Instruo Ts-l as kickdrum
Calsynth Rangoon as main bassline
Erica Pico Drums as high hats
Dreadbox Splash as reverb
Mutable Instruments Stages as envelope generator and step sequencer
Doboz XIIO as arpeggiator and note controller.
Robaux LL8 as gate sequencer
Super Vcas as vca.
Synthrotek MIXIV as mixer
Music Thing Startup as mixer and clock generator.

EDITED Jan 22nd 2021, 13:14

Managed to record this one with a sunset in the background, hope you guys enjoy!

Patch notes:
Instruo Ts-l as kickdrum
Calsynth Rangoon as main melody
Erica Pico Drums as high hats
Mutable Instruments Stages as envelope generator, LFO and step sequencer
Doboz XIIO as arpeggiator
Robaux LL8 as gate sequencer
Super Vcas as vca and mixer
ST Rocinante's Gate as LFO and Env. for sidechain.
Music Thing Startup as mixer, clock generator and clock divider.

thanks guys! yeah the Ts-l was one of the first ones I got... it's really powerful for the hp it takes... and the stages panel is from magpie panels, one of the best :)

here is what I'm planning towards... I change some modules almost every day but the main idea is there already, having a "harmony" voice, a "melody" voice and a "bassline" voice plus some drums/perc, some fx, a mixer and stuff to control everything :)

EDITED Jan 11th 2021, 20:05

Here's the video, open to hearing what you guys think :)

Patch notes:
Instruo Ts-l as oscillator
Calsynth Rangoon as simulated strings
Erica Pico Drums as kickdrum
Doboz XIIO as arpegiator
Robaux LL8 as gate sequencer
Super Vcas as vca and mixer
ST Rocinante's Gate as LFO and Env. for sidechain.
Music Thing Startup as mixer, clock generator and clock divider.