Haha, same here - just grabbed one via eBay. Also have a Grids clone which is a bit more flexible I think... need to work out how to get them to play nicely together now. 😊
Great patch... I've said it before but I really appreciate how you're using cheaper and DIY modules to get inspirational results. This makes the ideas very accessible! Thanks Tom.
Cheers Chris! Yeah, it's partly out of necessity (i.e. I could only afford cheaper and DIY modules when I was starting out) and partly because it's just nice to show what's possible with some more 'basic' stuff. I always think it forces you to be a bit more creative if you don't have loads and loads of the latest shiny gear but focus on digging deep into what you have.
Great shout - need to explore that a bit more! I've also now acquired an Ornament and Crime which opens up a load more multi-quantising/harmonising options...
I'm new to synths all together, so excuse my ignorant question. What is the rack that you are using? I'm really curious to get a small collection like this for a small desk setup. I don't have thousands of dollars for the make noise black and gold or the red means recording perfect circuit thing. I wanna make my own with used synths. But I'm so overwhelmed. I definitely want to make beats, crazy noise, and beauties like you made here. I currently have a MiniFreak and SP404 mk2. But I'm really gravitating to euro rack and non eurorack device synths. Any advice on setups and synth to look at and to point me the right direction would be cool. Keep up the great beautiful noise my friend.
I'm using an Intellijel Palette case here. It's quite a good way to get started as it has a decent power supply and a few built-in utilities (mults and summers).
Great video and use of modules. Never thought about the Zularic Repetitor but now I'll have to consider it. Love the rhythms and seem so much more fun than trying to dial the rhythms all in on my bsp.
Thanks, glad you like the video! Yeah, the ZR is very handy and quick for generating rhythm patterns, and with the offset controls it’s easy to get loads of variations. There’s also the Numeric Repetitor which is similar but I think is a bit more ‘mathematical’, rather than based on real-world music theory - all depends which set of rhythms float your boat I guess!
An interesting exercise, and one I think I can get close to replicating in my system. However, your explanation of how you got offset voltages out of Pam’s was rather sketchy- were you suggesting setting ‘level’ and ‘offset’ to the same percentage value on each channel by trial and error? I’ve always thought that it was impossible to extract exact note relationships from Pam’s as an octave is represented by values 10 apart (yes?) while there are twelve semitones in an octave. How would you precisely dial in three semitones (minor third) or ten semitones (minor seventh) on a scale of 1 to 10? Or is it not done with level/offset at all?
Great question! You're right, at first I thought it would be difficult to dial in precise semitone intervals on Pam's. The outputs are 0-5V, meaning a 20% setting for level = 1 volt = 1 octave, so you could do 5% for 3 semitones, 10% for 6 semitones, 15% for 9 semitones etc, but you couldn't easily dial in other intervals (e.g. the 7 semitones of a perfect fifth does not equate to a whole number percentage in Pam's!). However, since the firmware update a couple of years ago, Pam's lets you *quantise* the output - just scroll along to 'Quant' and you can pick from a bunch of scales. 'Ch' is just chromatic semitones. So with the output quantised, a level of 12% results in a perfect fifth, for example. Hope that helps/makes sense!
Some nice ideas here with the way you’re creating moving arps. A quantiser would work as would a Clep Diaz but I think you’ve already got it complex enough. Nice video.
Thanks! Yeah, I now have an Ornament and Crime in the case so I've got four potential channels of quantising to play with, which should open up a lot more ideas in this vein :) And Clep Diaz definitely looks like it could be useful - will investigate further - cheers!
This is really good man! I’m new to Eurorack so things like this are perfect, I’ll have a dive through your other vids. A new sub for thee here squire, cheers! 👍
@@TomChurchill I’ve just watched this again and realised I need a ZR in my rack. I jam quite a lot with a djembe player so this would be perfect. Using the Euclidean function on Pam’s a lot at the moment, controlling the rotation of the rhythms and step length with external CV from Maths, which makes for some evolving interest. Cheers for the vids man, they’ve certainly helped demystify a lot of modular witchcraft over the last few months since I embarked on the journey.
Great info as to modules used, multi Rhythm s ,clock divisions Loike it TOM just wish if time permitted that you would show the patching , rather than clicking fingers, I’m new to this so patch configuration s really important to me but superb escapades ACE 🖐👍🆒🎶🔱🕸⚡️🌀
Thanks Martin! Yeah, good point on the patching - I’ve tried to strike a balance here so there’s not too much footage of me just plugging in cables, but can see it might be useful to show a bit more detail. Food for thought! If there’s any specific patches here you want to know more about, just ask 😀👍
@@TomChurchill thanks Tom, yes this whole episode with PNW, Zuleric intrigued me, I havnt got these Modules so wonder what alternatives could do similar job, I have 4MS Quad Clock Distributor is this in PNW dividing area?????? Voices I have VCO Mindphaser, Lequelic iteritus, Godspeed, Brains Any suggestions would be welcome👍🆒🎶
@@martintaylor9205You could maybe try just sending the same v/oct signal to three/four of your voices, then tuning them individually to the notes of a chord (e.g. A, C, E, G), then using three or four different clock outputs of the QCD, set to different divisions, to trigger them (or to trigger envelopes that are opening the VCA for each voice). That would get you in the same kind of ballpark as what I'm doing here. I've never used the 4MS QCD (or any of the voices you have) but I believe you could use it to generate some complex trigger patterns with a bit of cross-patching between the channels...
@@TomChurchill many thanks that’s putting me in the Ballpark, I will get Zuleric eventually, also an adsr looping module, looked at your adsr looping but I can’t build that, next purchase is PNW Cheers Martin👍🌟🆒
It sounded really nice. You have some good modules. Do you have an Ornament&crime? Sequins app from the original firmware would send 2 sequences which can act independently, but related, each to 2 of the 4 oscillators pitch. Endless possibilities with eurorack, if you have the hp and deep pockets.
Thanks! Yeah, I've acquired an Ornament & Crime since I made this one. I started with the Hemispheres firmware but I switched back to the original to check out Acid Curds, Quantermain and Meta Q - need to dig into Sequins too!
Yeah, I'm definitely tempted by the Eloquencer! Not sure the Nerdseq's tracker style is quite right for the way I work, but I totally get why people love it :)
@@TomChurchill I have both... Very differents... Eloquencer is more easy to use, but Nerdseq is way more powerful ! Easy to transpose with the Eloquencer and cv1/ cv2 inputs...
Thanks! And yeah, they’re in my second rack which is out of shot. Might try getting hold of a second camera so I can cut to that occasionally in future videos…
Did you build your thru zero module? I’ve been eyeing one for a while now, but i’m picking up a tiptop buchla 258t, so not sure it’s necessary besides the fun of soldering kits.
Yeah, I built it myself - I’m not super-experienced but it was pretty straightforward, no surface-mount stuff. Does the 258t have through through-zero FM? I could be wrong but thought it just had logarithmic FM (which the EN129 also has). Very tempted by all the Tiptop Buchla stuff though!
@@TomChurchill i think aside from the extra waveform options in the dannysound module, the 258t pretty much covers the rest (not sure about linear vs log) but i was under the impression that the dannysound module was based off the buchla, minus the second oscillator. And yes! The entire Buchla 200 series via TipTop is extremely enticing!
Ah, so I think the Dannysound Cali Osc is the one that’s based on the Buchla, with the waveshaping etc. The EN129’s main selling point is the through-zero FM, which not too many oscillators have. Divkid has done great in-depth videos on both of them, which are well worth a watch! But yeah, if you’re not too concerned about TZ FM and just want a Buchla oscillator (or two!) then it’s hard to see past the Tiptop option! 😀👍
@@TomChurchill ohhhhhh, that’s probably what I’m thinking about! I think at this point i just need to get another case lol. So many modules out there that I end up blending them in my mind. The through zero module is particularly interesting to me because my first synth ever was a DX-7 :) thanks again for the replies!
I love this patch and the way you presented the ideas behind it! Your “one note becomes harmony” idea inspired me to create this patch in VCV rack, though I had the luxury/shortcut of using Harmonaig for it: ruclips.net/video/UFN_25-jFKI/видео.html Trying to think of how I can go further by automating musically sensible voicing changes like you mentioned.
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That’s the most musical eurorack video I’ve seen in a loooooooong time!
I watched this for the third or fourth time this weekend and it was enough for me to pick up the ZR. Can’t wait to start experimenting with it!
Excellent - have fun! :)
Haha, same here - just grabbed one via eBay. Also have a Grids clone which is a bit more flexible I think... need to work out how to get them to play nicely together now. 😊
Very cool! This was such a great tutorial. I learned a lot. Your pace was perfect for a relative newcomer like myself.
Cheers! Appreciate the feedback and really glad you enjoyed the video 😀
Incredible tutorial, thanks for sharing, very melodic
Thank you!
What a great patch. Thanks for bringing us along on it!
Waiting for my Zularic Repetitor tomorrow. Will use it with the Queen of Pentacles...
Great patch... I've said it before but I really appreciate how you're using cheaper and DIY modules to get inspirational results. This makes the ideas very accessible! Thanks Tom.
Cheers Chris! Yeah, it's partly out of necessity (i.e. I could only afford cheaper and DIY modules when I was starting out) and partly because it's just nice to show what's possible with some more 'basic' stuff. I always think it forces you to be a bit more creative if you don't have loads and loads of the latest shiny gear but focus on digging deep into what you have.
I know what I'm doing tonight, thanks for the inspiration!
That's just lovely. Very inspirational
I love the disting's Quant 2, which gives you two quantized notes, one a harmonised to the other and cv control. Great for similar patches.
Great shout - need to explore that a bit more! I've also now acquired an Ornament and Crime which opens up a load more multi-quantising/harmonising options...
Wow! thanks so much for your time Tom :)
This is GOLD! Thanks for sharing this very creative and beautiful patch!!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Love this. I just picked one up!
So cool man. Thank you for sharing this.
I'm new to synths all together, so excuse my ignorant question. What is the rack that you are using? I'm really curious to get a small collection like this for a small desk setup. I don't have thousands of dollars for the make noise black and gold or the red means recording perfect circuit thing. I wanna make my own with used synths. But I'm so overwhelmed. I definitely want to make beats, crazy noise, and beauties like you made here. I currently have a MiniFreak and SP404 mk2. But I'm really gravitating to euro rack and non eurorack device synths. Any advice on setups and synth to look at and to point me the right direction would be cool. Keep up the great beautiful noise my friend.
I'm using an Intellijel Palette case here. It's quite a good way to get started as it has a decent power supply and a few built-in utilities (mults and summers).
@@TomChurchill cool. I'm gonna research more on that. Thank you!
Great video and use of modules. Never thought about the Zularic Repetitor but now I'll have to consider it. Love the rhythms and seem so much more fun than trying to dial the rhythms all in on my bsp.
Thanks, glad you like the video! Yeah, the ZR is very handy and quick for generating rhythm patterns, and with the offset controls it’s easy to get loads of variations. There’s also the Numeric Repetitor which is similar but I think is a bit more ‘mathematical’, rather than based on real-world music theory - all depends which set of rhythms float your boat I guess!
Really well explained. Look forward to checking your other videos
Nice patch, Tom, and really clearly explained. Definitely following this subscription.
Cheers Alan!
Fantastic stuff!
Keep it up. Really love the use of Noise Engineering modules in beautiful melodic music.
Thanks, glad you like it! 😀
An interesting exercise, and one I think I can get close to replicating in my system. However, your explanation of how you got offset voltages out of Pam’s was rather sketchy- were you suggesting setting ‘level’ and ‘offset’ to the same percentage value on each channel by trial and error? I’ve always thought that it was impossible to extract exact note relationships from Pam’s as an octave is represented by values 10 apart (yes?) while there are twelve semitones in an octave. How would you precisely dial in three semitones (minor third) or ten semitones (minor seventh) on a scale of 1 to 10? Or is it not done with level/offset at all?
Great question! You're right, at first I thought it would be difficult to dial in precise semitone intervals on Pam's. The outputs are 0-5V, meaning a 20% setting for level = 1 volt = 1 octave, so you could do 5% for 3 semitones, 10% for 6 semitones, 15% for 9 semitones etc, but you couldn't easily dial in other intervals (e.g. the 7 semitones of a perfect fifth does not equate to a whole number percentage in Pam's!). However, since the firmware update a couple of years ago, Pam's lets you *quantise* the output - just scroll along to 'Quant' and you can pick from a bunch of scales. 'Ch' is just chromatic semitones. So with the output quantised, a level of 12% results in a perfect fifth, for example. Hope that helps/makes sense!
Some nice ideas here with the way you’re creating moving arps. A quantiser would work as would a Clep Diaz but I think you’ve already got it complex enough. Nice video.
Thanks! Yeah, I now have an Ornament and Crime in the case so I've got four potential channels of quantising to play with, which should open up a lot more ideas in this vein :) And Clep Diaz definitely looks like it could be useful - will investigate further - cheers!
i like it, i like it a lot. jam on it.
This is absolutely fantastic, thank you a bunch! Will try to learn from it ;-)
Cheers, glad it was helpful!
Excellent work ! I learn from the best ! Thanx , man,-
This is really good man! I’m new to Eurorack so things like this are perfect, I’ll have a dive through your other vids. A new sub for thee here squire, cheers! 👍
Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it!
@@TomChurchill I’ve just watched this again and realised I need a ZR in my rack. I jam quite a lot with a djembe player so this would be perfect. Using the Euclidean function on Pam’s a lot at the moment, controlling the rotation of the rhythms and step length with external CV from Maths, which makes for some evolving interest. Cheers for the vids man, they’ve certainly helped demystify a lot of modular witchcraft over the last few months since I embarked on the journey.
Great info as to modules used, multi Rhythm s ,clock divisions
Loike it TOM just wish if time permitted that you would show the patching , rather than clicking fingers, I’m new to this so patch configuration s really important to me but superb escapades ACE
🖐👍🆒🎶🔱🕸⚡️🌀
Thanks Martin! Yeah, good point on the patching - I’ve tried to strike a balance here so there’s not too much footage of me just plugging in cables, but can see it might be useful to show a bit more detail. Food for thought! If there’s any specific patches here you want to know more about, just ask 😀👍
@@TomChurchill thanks Tom, yes this whole episode with PNW, Zuleric intrigued me, I havnt got these Modules so wonder what alternatives could do similar job, I have 4MS Quad Clock Distributor is this in PNW dividing area?????? Voices I have VCO Mindphaser, Lequelic iteritus, Godspeed, Brains
Any suggestions would be welcome👍🆒🎶
@@martintaylor9205You could maybe try just sending the same v/oct signal to three/four of your voices, then tuning them individually to the notes of a chord (e.g. A, C, E, G), then using three or four different clock outputs of the QCD, set to different divisions, to trigger them (or to trigger envelopes that are opening the VCA for each voice). That would get you in the same kind of ballpark as what I'm doing here. I've never used the 4MS QCD (or any of the voices you have) but I believe you could use it to generate some complex trigger patterns with a bit of cross-patching between the channels...
@@TomChurchill many thanks that’s putting me in the Ballpark, I will get Zuleric eventually, also an adsr looping module, looked at your adsr looping but I can’t build that, next purchase is PNW
Cheers Martin👍🌟🆒
super good stuff dude
It sounded really nice. You have some good modules. Do you have an Ornament&crime? Sequins app from the original firmware would send 2 sequences which can act independently, but related, each to 2 of the 4 oscillators pitch. Endless possibilities with eurorack, if you have the hp and deep pockets.
Thanks! Yeah, I've acquired an Ornament & Crime since I made this one. I started with the Hemispheres firmware but I switched back to the original to check out Acid Curds, Quantermain and Meta Q - need to dig into Sequins too!
Hi Tom, thanks, great tutorial! What is the base tempo of channel 1 of PaM? (120 bmp modifier x3?)
Thanks! It was a while ago now, but pretty sure it was x4 (i.e. semiquavers) from PNW to the the clock input of ZR
yes... nice ! But you can do the same (and better) with a sequencer like the elonquencer or the nerdseq...
Yeah, I'm definitely tempted by the Eloquencer! Not sure the Nerdseq's tracker style is quite right for the way I work, but I totally get why people love it :)
@@TomChurchill I have both... Very differents... Eloquencer is more easy to use, but Nerdseq is way more powerful ! Easy to transpose with the Eloquencer and cv1/ cv2 inputs...
Great patch breakdown. Are the BD and HH modules off-screen?
Thanks! And yeah, they’re in my second rack which is out of shot. Might try getting hold of a second camera so I can cut to that occasionally in future videos…
Did you build your thru zero module? I’ve been eyeing one for a while now, but i’m picking up a tiptop buchla 258t, so not sure it’s necessary besides the fun of soldering kits.
Yeah, I built it myself - I’m not super-experienced but it was pretty straightforward, no surface-mount stuff. Does the 258t have through through-zero FM? I could be wrong but thought it just had logarithmic FM (which the EN129 also has). Very tempted by all the Tiptop Buchla stuff though!
@@TomChurchill i think aside from the extra waveform options in the dannysound module, the 258t pretty much covers the rest (not sure about linear vs log) but i was under the impression that the dannysound module was based off the buchla, minus the second oscillator. And yes! The entire Buchla 200 series via TipTop is extremely enticing!
Ah, so I think the Dannysound Cali Osc is the one that’s based on the Buchla, with the waveshaping etc. The EN129’s main selling point is the through-zero FM, which not too many oscillators have. Divkid has done great in-depth videos on both of them, which are well worth a watch! But yeah, if you’re not too concerned about TZ FM and just want a Buchla oscillator (or two!) then it’s hard to see past the Tiptop option! 😀👍
@@TomChurchill ohhhhhh, that’s probably what I’m thinking about! I think at this point i just need to get another case lol. So many modules out there that I end up blending them in my mind. The through zero module is particularly interesting to me because my first synth ever was a DX-7 :) thanks again for the replies!
I love this patch and the way you presented the ideas behind it! Your “one note becomes harmony” idea inspired me to create this patch in VCV rack, though I had the luxury/shortcut of using Harmonaig for it: ruclips.net/video/UFN_25-jFKI/видео.html
Trying to think of how I can go further by automating musically sensible voicing changes like you mentioned.
That's awesome! Brilliant patch. Definitely lusting after Harmonaig even more now :)
@@TomChurchill Thanks very much, me too! 😂
So good! 🙈 Break it down for us please....?
Subscriiiibed! (;