Great video! I agree with the "practice like it is a real gig" advice, but it's a specific type of practice, helps with endurance and learning to let go when you screw up, but at the same time, I believe it is also helpful to have other types of deliberate practice sessions during which you work on a very specific aspect of your live that you want to make better. Like for example a special type of transition that you want to nail every time, some tempo change routine, make your sound evolve in a certain way. Those kind of moments can be improved with repeated specific practice, and will certainly help during the longer sessions
I’ve come away from 1 week of binging Mylar Melody videos at time during the days & just have the utmost respect and admiration for him. He’s taught me a lot and I’m inspired in so many ways.
I could spend the rest of my life listening to you talk about modular synths. I got into modular after watching your review of the akemie’s castle, bought one, and built a system and am now deep down the rabbit hole. You’re the man!
Very interesting... I saw William Basinsky this weekend. He stood there in front of a mac for an hour and played loops from Ableton (I think) thru a distortion mixer - but it was amazing. He was so assured of his right to be there, made us listen and engage through his confidence. Gave meaning and value to ambient for me, as a live form.
Man! Your videos about modular and performance are amazing and so informative! You totally sold me on the DFAM in your other vids. Keep doing what you are doing. Fantastic. Your ability to take a subject that can appear fairly impenetrable up front and make it accessible is a gift. Keep it up!
I have never listened so intensely to any talk before! You have a lot of responsibility for my modular addiction! - So thank you! - BTW, On your rig update some time ago, you talked about DI and you did not understood why sound engineers insist on use them. Here is the awnser: The main reason is to make a unbalanced signal - a ballenced signal. (Allso: The most stageracks have only XLR in, so a DI converts the jack to XLR aswell, AND most DI have a ground lift, so you can use the DI to deal with hum aswell) Like you pointed out in the video, not all DI are the same, so bring your own (high end) one is a GREAT advice, so thanks for that! :D
Bouns, bouns tip: If you dont bring your own DI, and it distorts when you turn your rig up, ask the sound engineer to Pad - 20 dB (sometimes 30 or 40) the DI. Even the very cheap LD Systems DI have a Pad -20 dB switch on it :)
DJ SHADOW still one of the best shows i have ever been to, total performer, i remember him in his MPC heyday and the shit he pulled on stage via MPC linked to lighting, mind blown
A looper pedal has become my definite safety net! Im sending different sections of my system, and sending it back into a filter and my aux reverb, so very easy to make nice changes and progressions without stoping the sound or having to loose your patch
Thanks for all your enthusiastic lectures on modules. Good to see your face, looking as sympathetic as you sound. You are a brilliant teacher and as you seem like a patient and welcoming person I hope some kids ever get the chance to learn something from you to.
Great talk! I've learned a lot from watching your videos and podcast and would love to attend one of these talks. For the last 6 months I've been exploring modular, slowly building a 3u 104 hp skiff piece by piece. The system I had in my head in the beginning and how my current system actually turned out are completely different. Even the way I play it is completely different than how I imagined I would use it. I set out to build the groovebox of my dreams and ended up with an instrument I had never imagined possible. Besides drums and percussion, I can't think of any other musical instrument in existence that offers the player both the empowerment of determining it's functional design and an almost infinite flexibility of how it's played.
Love your bit on live performances. So much have I had these same thoughts , came all the way from a vinyl dj to a eurorack enthusiast in my quest for more interesting production of music
Hi, always like your vids and listened this (intro)talk while setting up the studio for an upcoming gig... You spoke about monitoring --> my approach is (some venues don't understand until they see me playing later on) I play off stage in front of the audience my back turned towards them, so they can see what I do, they can approach me but most important I experience the music the same as the audience, no monitors needed :-) (I have adjustable tables when I tour with my own car) Just thought I share this :-) Hope you don't mind \0/
what a cool approach! i may borrow this. kinda like that professor student inversion trope where a young professor will start the first day of class while being seated among the students.
Cheers for putting this up Alex, LOTS of useful info and things to think about even for non modular peeps. Don't try and do too much, you won't enjoy it and neither will your audience, amen.
This talk is so excellent. I got so much out of it in terms of workflow and live approach. And I feel much more confident about my upcoming gig where I’ll be doing modular for the first time live.
Suzanne Ciani Live Performance at P2 Art’s Birthday Party in Stockholm Sweden brought me back to this, to reflect on the importance of stage position and what the audience see. ‘Reverse Birds Eye’ has to be in the top 3!
good talk! to add one thing during the QA at the end you mentioned that the metropolis doesn't have presets, but as of the latest firmware update it does! it's a bit funky though, you have the standard save which saves the entire config setup but not the slider and switch positions, and then a quicksave that saves slider and switch info but only the config setup stuff that directly pertains to the sequence so things like scale, root note, sequence length, etc. now you can do actual for real on command key changes without having to use an aux input :D
Elektron Analog 4 is a great way to sequence and control modular plus you get 4 voices on top of CV control. Modular drums are very expensive so I use the Elektron for that and samples. Frees up modular for cool stuff like bass lines and ambient textures and weird spice.
Amazing story about the ARP2500 and Close Encounters - I hadn't heard that before! Wow. Tangentially... my son and I were in Wyoming in 2017 (we watched the solar eclipse a few days later in Idaho) and we visited Devil's Tower. At the campground there, they have regular showings of the movie - and you can sit outside to watch them. Devil's Tower itself is literally looming behind the TV screen as you watch!
I'll tell you who has no safety net during a stream or performance. Marc Rebillet.. granted he's doing somewhat of a simpler style of music, it's all improvised. Great chat. Love your videos.
Ace stuff. I've filled my BeatStep Pro's projects with "complemetary" rhythms..16 projects of 16 patterns per seq and 16 drum patterns..I can kind of just go between each one and it still sounds good and quite random..I'm building up to playing out..
Wow, thanks for this. The whole talk was extremely approachable, informative, and helpful. Any chance you could share the link to that Steevio comments google doc? I, for one, would be very curious to read through that
If you’re interested in any of Stevio’s early vinyl releases, check out his label ‘MindTours’ - good enough for Jeff Mills to have included in his sets : )
I like the idea of playing with out being seen, I think the audience should be facing each other listening rather than looking, it is a strange thing whether to do live or prepared, I think there must be a middle way, but the more you do live stuff, the more you want to perfect it, because its fun, putting yourself through that panic😂
I don't play live but there's loads of great food for thought here around simplifying the interface to the modular and making it easier to get good noises out of. I'm going to try some of this stuff on mine - should make it much more fun and less hard work to play! Thanks :D
I recently got a pulplogic pelican case 54hp, and I've been trying to work in the limitation of that space. working in that boundary has taught me more than anything I've encountered in modular. Like you said, I dunno if big clunky cases are the future, I've really come around to idea focused mini systems
I've been tuning Plaits in chord mode but using the simple waveform on the AUX out but I have to put Timbre at 12 o'clock and Morph full left. Oh and pull the trigger so it drones
Cool video (as always)... Without a buffered multiple though, do your pitches track properly if your pitch CV is split off from the Metropolis so many times?
Hello. Amazing vid. What you are describing in the way you multiply / gate the sequence from Metropolis is called "hocket". A method popular among monks a few centuries back as well as Skrillex on his first two albums. Super interesting. BTW - what's your modular sidechaining method? Maths + VCA? etc?
P Godaz For me it’s to run your kick thru a envelope follower or simultaneously trigger an envelope, invert that, then multi it to control the other channels, then mix them. You need a lot of VCAs is the catch!
Im a groovebox kid. Desktop synth. Semimodular syth. I would have to sell all that gear to fit modular and then its even more money more stuff more wires. The thing is if you listen to a recording of soundwaves as you said most ppl dont know how you get it done. I think ppl obsess too much over modular gear like its the mecca
@@mylarmelodies its a ffffat one! Just started watching your videos as I recently got into modular, I appreciate the knowledge and listening to your patches keep it up!!
I don’t, but I’d need to envelope follow the kick (or have an AR envelope trigger simultaneously to it), invert that, then use that signal to dip all the other channels volume (eg. 5+ VCAs).
is that the Elite case? I'm waiting for one. How are you making it stand upright? is it leaning on a stand of some sort or it just opens and stays like that due to its dimensions/design? Thanks!
you talk about sequencer (Metropolis) sending CV and 'several gates' to create everything and make the different rhythms... how do you sequence the gates?
Definitely interested in this. When the patch yields a melody worth building a song around, it can be a drag to manually transcribe/transfer it to something else that can preserve it, if it wasn’t already sequenced on something that can do so. Seems that CV-to-MIDI options are sparse, but I suppose it’s the way to go? I need to try this with Disting but haven’t done so yet... other solutions?
Great video! I agree with the "practice like it is a real gig" advice, but it's a specific type of practice, helps with endurance and learning to let go when you screw up, but at the same time, I believe it is also helpful to have other types of deliberate practice sessions during which you work on a very specific aspect of your live that you want to make better. Like for example a special type of transition that you want to nail every time, some tempo change routine, make your sound evolve in a certain way. Those kind of moments can be improved with repeated specific practice, and will certainly help during the longer sessions
Good advice - particularly for beatbox users needing to have transitions to give time to switch songs on their MPC or whatever.
I’ve come away from 1 week of binging Mylar Melody videos at time during the days & just have the utmost respect and admiration for him. He’s taught me a lot and I’m inspired in so many ways.
Thanks m8 ✌️
I could spend the rest of my life listening to you talk about modular synths. I got into modular after watching your review of the akemie’s castle, bought one, and built a system and am now deep down the rabbit hole. You’re the man!
Thom Montecchi Very similar story here. It was the 0-coast though..
Lol that video was definitely envolved in my fall down the euro hole
Thom Montecchi Atlantis one for me
yeah, I have a ton of stuff because of this dude, but I really want a Metropolis now :D
The Dfam Rainmaker got me hooked. I still pull that up on my phone and play it through my truck stereo on my commute just for the jam
that voice ... you are my personal morgan freeman of eurorack ;D i bet even listening to you reading the telephone book would be awesome xD
david attenborough of eurorack for me ;)
Couldn’t have said it better myself!
@@fx_berg Probably the greatest compliment ever.
Ace!!
It's like Richard Hammond and Paul McKenna all rolled into one...
That was brilliant - really didnt feel like an hour went by there.
Wow! How?! That was an hour?!!!
It’s his soothing voice 😂
you are the wisdom, sir
“Don’t just fill the sound spectrum like a big sausage” = Favourite piece of advice ever :)
Very interesting... I saw William Basinsky this weekend. He stood there in front of a mac for an hour and played loops from Ableton (I think) thru a distortion mixer - but it was amazing. He was so assured of his right to be there, made us listen and engage through his confidence. Gave meaning and value to ambient for me, as a live form.
The gopro idea is genius
Man! Your videos about modular and performance are amazing and so informative! You totally sold me on the DFAM in your other vids. Keep doing what you are doing. Fantastic. Your ability to take a subject that can appear fairly impenetrable up front and make it accessible is a gift. Keep it up!
Really respect the openness you have in talking about your modular journey, very helpful for others messing round with this stuff! Thanks
This was an amazing talk my man ❤
I have never listened so intensely to any talk before! You have a lot of responsibility for my modular addiction! - So thank you! - BTW, On your rig update some time ago, you talked about DI and you did not understood why sound engineers insist on use them. Here is the awnser: The main reason is to make a unbalanced signal - a ballenced signal. (Allso: The most stageracks have only XLR in, so a DI converts the jack to XLR aswell, AND most DI have a ground lift, so you can use the DI to deal with hum aswell) Like you pointed out in the video, not all DI are the same, so bring your own (high end) one is a GREAT advice, so thanks for that! :D
Bouns, bouns tip: If you dont bring your own DI, and it distorts when you turn your rig up, ask the sound engineer to Pad - 20 dB (sometimes 30 or 40) the DI. Even the very cheap LD Systems DI have a Pad -20 dB switch on it :)
It also protects your gear in the event of phantom power being incorrectly ON on your mixer channel(s)
DJ SHADOW still one of the best shows i have ever been to, total performer, i remember him in his MPC heyday and the shit he pulled on stage via MPC linked to lighting, mind blown
This was such a wonderfully informative talk and demo!!!
Just stumbled on this whilst checking out your playlists. Brilliant talk.
A looper pedal has become my definite safety net! Im sending different sections of my system, and sending it back into a filter and my aux reverb, so very easy to make nice changes and progressions without stoping the sound or having to loose your patch
Thanks for all your enthusiastic lectures on modules. Good to see your face, looking as sympathetic as you sound. You are a brilliant teacher and as you seem like a patient and welcoming person I hope some kids ever get the chance to learn something from you to.
ahhh thanks mate! x
Great talk! I've learned a lot from watching your videos and podcast and would love to attend one of these talks. For the last 6 months I've been exploring modular, slowly building a 3u 104 hp skiff piece by piece. The system I had in my head in the beginning and how my current system actually turned out are completely different. Even the way I play it is completely different than how I imagined I would use it. I set out to build the groovebox of my dreams and ended up with an instrument I had never imagined possible. Besides drums and percussion, I can't think of any other musical instrument in existence that offers the player both the empowerment of determining it's functional design and an almost infinite flexibility of how it's played.
I literally use your voice as a lullaby. Soothing.
And then your techno videos wake me up :D
It's your enthusiasm that went a long way towards turning these tools into the specific tool I needed.
Love your bit on live performances. So much have I had these same thoughts , came all the way from a vinyl dj to a eurorack enthusiast in my quest for more interesting production of music
Same here
Hi, always like your vids and listened this (intro)talk while setting up the studio for an upcoming gig... You spoke about monitoring --> my approach is (some venues don't understand until they see me playing later on) I play off stage in front of the audience my back turned towards them, so they can see what I do, they can approach me but most important I experience the music the same as the audience, no monitors needed :-) (I have adjustable tables when I tour with my own car) Just thought I share this :-) Hope you don't mind \0/
what a cool approach! i may borrow this. kinda like that professor student inversion trope where a young professor will start the first day of class while being seated among the students.
Cheers for putting this up Alex, LOTS of useful info and things to think about even for non modular peeps. Don't try and do too much, you won't enjoy it and neither will your audience, amen.
learned a bunch from this, thanks!! will play with using the same sequence for multiple voices but using different trigger sequences
This talk is so excellent. I got so much out of it in terms of workflow and live approach. And I feel much more confident about my upcoming gig where I’ll be doing modular for the first time live.
Suzanne Ciani Live Performance at P2 Art’s Birthday Party in Stockholm Sweden brought me back to this, to reflect on the importance of stage position and what the audience see. ‘Reverse Birds Eye’ has to be in the top 3!
good talk! to add one thing during the QA at the end you mentioned that the metropolis doesn't have presets, but as of the latest firmware update it does! it's a bit funky though, you have the standard save which saves the entire config setup but not the slider and switch positions, and then a quicksave that saves slider and switch info but only the config setup stuff that directly pertains to the sequence so things like scale, root note, sequence length, etc. now you can do actual for real on command key changes without having to use an aux input :D
This was the best talk yet that you've given on live performing! Fantastic.
thank you, very inspiring info.
Great! That bass at 35:10 is insane...
Thank you for this video, really inspiring and you’ve got a lovely way of speaking, super refreshing and easy to understand
what a grat guy this man is. i am a fan of his. Big shout out to him & much love and support from munich germany
😘
@@mylarmelodies right back to you my man!
Such a handsome fellow! How nice to add your face to your lovely face! Now, to watch this video! Thanks for doing what you do!
Elektron Analog 4 is a great way to sequence and control modular plus you get 4 voices on top of CV control. Modular drums are very expensive so I use the Elektron for that and samples. Frees up modular for cool stuff like bass lines and ambient textures and weird spice.
Thank you for sharing your insight! This resonates with me hugely.
Really nice talk, thanks for this ...
Fantastic talk, and inspiring! Thank you for sharing this.
Amazing story about the ARP2500 and Close Encounters - I hadn't heard that before! Wow.
Tangentially... my son and I were in Wyoming in 2017 (we watched the solar eclipse a few days later in Idaho) and we visited Devil's Tower. At the campground there, they have regular showings of the movie - and you can sit outside to watch them. Devil's Tower itself is literally looming behind the TV screen as you watch!
I really enjoyed your talk. Keep inspiring us!
Really interesting. 'Just slow down', great advice. Wish I could achieve this (in life as well!). Great post.
You're a great RUclipsr and reviewer.
brilliant! felt like watching a high quality lecture :)
love your work! good links to Steevio videos please :)
I'll tell you who has no safety net during a stream or performance. Marc Rebillet.. granted he's doing somewhat of a simpler style of music, it's all improvised. Great chat. Love your videos.
Great talk. I enjoy your insight. I definitely play mine more akin to free jazz. Thanks for the extended talk
Ace stuff. I've filled my BeatStep Pro's projects with "complemetary" rhythms..16 projects of 16 patterns per seq and 16 drum patterns..I can kind of just go between each one and it still sounds good and quite random..I'm building up to playing out..
Braincoral for melody too? Any tips on writing sequence progressions for melody? As a drummer who is new to melodic theory I’m having a hard time
Braincoral. Great tip.
Great talk pal. The Kenny Everett of Modular (in a good way!)
All in the best possible taste
oh and great talk btw pal, as usual great delivery, natural.
love these talks
Wow, thanks for this. The whole talk was extremely approachable, informative, and helpful. Any chance you could share the link to that Steevio comments google doc? I, for one, would be very curious to read through that
If you’re interested in any of Stevio’s early vinyl releases, check out his label ‘MindTours’ - good enough for Jeff Mills to have included in his sets : )
Can you link to the “techno test 2” you mention at 26:00 ? Would love to hear Metropolis and trigger riot jamming together.
Et Voila x soundcloud.com/mylarmelodies/technotest2
I really enjoy your sincerity.
I like the idea of playing with out being seen, I think the audience should be facing each other listening rather than looking, it is a strange thing whether to do live or prepared, I think there must be a middle way, but the more you do live stuff, the more you want to perfect it, because its fun, putting yourself through that panic😂
"The MORGAN FREEMAN OF EURORACK" Wonderful, that will stick!!!!
lolol
I don't play live but there's loads of great food for thought here around simplifying the interface to the modular and making it easier to get good noises out of. I'm going to try some of this stuff on mine - should make it much more fun and less hard work to play! Thanks :D
I recently got a pulplogic pelican case 54hp, and I've been trying to work in the limitation of that space. working in that boundary has taught me more than anything I've encountered in modular. Like you said, I dunno if big clunky cases are the future, I've really come around to idea focused mini systems
I've been tuning Plaits in chord mode but using the simple waveform on the AUX out but I have to put Timbre at 12 o'clock and Morph full left. Oh and pull the trigger so it drones
I have not yet sipped the modular kool-aid but I think much of what you said is applicable to making live electronic music in general!
THAT BEAT AT 39:56 THO!!!
You are a genius! I've learned so much from you in this video!
Great Alex - really absorbing stuff.
Cool video (as always)...
Without a buffered multiple though, do your pitches track properly if your pitch CV is split off from the Metropolis so many times?
Oh also, the 2hp Compressor does sidechaining I believe. A good/small solution!
Yeah I find I get surprisingly good results with just normal multing vs. Buff mult, though buffered is best if you can!
Hello. Amazing vid. What you are describing in the way you multiply / gate the sequence from Metropolis is called "hocket". A method popular among monks a few centuries back as well as Skrillex on his first two albums. Super interesting. BTW - what's your modular sidechaining method? Maths + VCA? etc?
P Godaz For me it’s to run your kick thru a envelope follower or simultaneously trigger an envelope, invert that, then multi it to control the other channels, then mix them. You need a lot of VCAs is the catch!
Couldn't you just stick one VCA after the mix, so it'd be a sidechain bus, so to speak? Or a Mixer with a VCA on the output if such thing exist...
Optimix turns out to be a really nice, simple, side chain compressor. Plus, you get two of them in 8hp if needed.
Any link to Steve-o videos or music?
Im a groovebox kid. Desktop synth. Semimodular syth.
I would have to sell all that gear to fit modular and then its even more money more stuff more wires.
The thing is if you listen to a recording of soundwaves as you said most ppl dont know how you get it done.
I think ppl obsess too much over modular gear like its the mecca
My body is ready for this
HAH
I personally think that your music chap is fucking mint! It'd be great to hear more! Really huge fan of your work. thank you
Very informative and up front honest particularly the homage to Steevio.That has to be a daunting experience,playing live modular.
27:15 - Hooser? Name help on this product, please?
Query Delacroix Hosa!
@@mylarmelodies Many thanks!
Awesome video! I'm sorry if I missed it, but what are you using for your kick?
Tip-top The One! As in it’s a sample
@@mylarmelodies its a ffffat one! Just started watching your videos as I recently got into modular, I appreciate the knowledge and listening to your patches keep it up!!
Great talk - thanks! How do you do the side chaining in this rig?
I don’t, but I’d need to envelope follow the kick (or have an AR envelope trigger simultaneously to it), invert that, then use that signal to dip all the other channels volume (eg. 5+ VCAs).
Aha, I must have misheard what you said in the talk. Thanks for the explanation, though!
When he talks about requiring the user to specify the function, this trend is led by Expert Sleepers, with the endless menus.
Great channel brother
That kick sound is incredible. What were
you using for it? Great vid and good advice thank you.
is that the Elite case? I'm waiting for one. How are you making it stand upright? is it leaning on a stand of some sort or it just opens and stays like that due to its dimensions/design? Thanks!
It’s on little 3D printed stands! Ask MDLR and they should be able to fill you in
Great thanks!
I don't use modular in my setup but the gig advice is extremely useful.
@mylarmelodies, can you share the Google doc you have of Steevio? I’m on muffwiggler as InsectInPixel
Which Feedback module EQ do you have and why did you choose that EQ and not the other flavor that they offer? How are you patching/using it? Thanks..
Great video! What are you using for a mixer in the bottom right?
Eighth_Wave Befaco Hexmix! Click the modulargrid link in description for everything
can you share the steevio word doc plz!
Great video. Probably i´m wrong but, In the explanation of the Radio Music module, is the "Synthesizer" Legowelt Meme?? XDXD
hah, yep
Great talk thanks.
Well done mylar
Yup, we do have a problem with 12u cases that “closes all patched”, and the necessary bundling of cables (and using Stackcables), don’t we?
you talk about sequencer (Metropolis) sending CV and 'several gates' to create everything and make the different rhythms... how do you sequence the gates?
See Metropolis demo, it sends different gates with the bottom row of switches
doesn't that only give you one gate channel? I gotta watch the Metro demo again...
Thank you for the video. What kind of case is that?
MDLR 94hp travel case, not sure if it’s on his website yet but if you email he can fill you in.
Great talk! Now I need to listen to stevio. Where should I start?
Saving melodies: How about CV recording?
Yup it’s a thought, tho maybe better suited to have a sequencer with memories, just in case
Definitely interested in this. When the patch yields a melody worth building a song around, it can be a drag to manually transcribe/transfer it to something else that can preserve it, if it wasn’t already sequenced on something that can do so. Seems that CV-to-MIDI options are sparse, but I suppose it’s the way to go? I need to try this with Disting but haven’t done so yet... other solutions?
Bishops Miscellany is a very capable CV recorder which I use to record and mash up CV patterns from my touch plate.
Did you say you *haven't* found a good sidechain solution in Eurorack? Dynamix is ace!
Thanks..
Dog bark freaked me out.
Surely that's not the new ALM wavetable oscillator next to Dixie?
It is...
Is your case an E416 Portable 12U? If not - what? Thanks!
Sidechaining should work well with endorphin.es cockpit.
Great workshop. :-)
Re: Stillson Hammer in Q&A: Metropolis can save/recall 8 patterns as of firmware 1.30.
Hey Mr. Amazing, when will you come to Austria? ;-)
groove @ 40:00 is siiiick :)
thanks babes x
Love your channel bro!... fucking Ace!!¡!🎹🎧👊💨💥💫😵👌👍✌
Do you recommend a subwoofer for live jamming on a modular?
For fun yes, alternatively the SubPac is actually properly ace, and doesn’t annoy the neighbours
@@mylarmelodies Thx I just installed the yamaha hs8s and the modular sounds so much better now than with the hs7's alone 👍😎
Heh, I've got a gDoc full of Steevio gems too.