Arturia MiniFreak: How to Sing the Ancient Songs of the Krell
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2023
- Let's talk about Krell patches. They are a type or genre of alien-sounding, self playing generative patch, originally associated with west coast synthesizers and in particular Buchla systems, but which can be applied to a great many other electronic instruments.
As an occasional purveyor of generative music, I'm a fan of the songs that the Krell can sing and I've previously featured videos of various synths being patched this way. But one synth I've somehow managed to overlook for this task is the Arturia MiniFreak, which is a crime, because it has a range of features that make it suited to not only the classic implementation of Krell patches, but also iterating on the core ideas to take the Krell to new sonic and musical galaxies.
Here's Jeremy's video on KRELL: • WTF is a Krell Patch?!
KRELL
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This went from "Soundblaster having a stroke" to goosebumps-inducing magic in just a few knob twists. Thanks for this journey!
Haha, I have to admit that I'm partial to a malfunctioning sound card!
I'm not sure I'd ever use this patch but I always learn a lot from watching you work!
There is still so much more this device is capable of.
Man I love this one!!
Thanks ever so much for sharing!!! Followed your directions to about 19mins then added buckets of reverb and started playing chords!!!! WOW!!!!
Thank you so much for this! The sounds I'm getting out of the mini following along are incredible, every once in awhile one really strikes gold! So much fun 😁
Enjoy singing along with your new alien friends!
Krell being the extinct alien race from Forbidden Planet. It is considered the first entirely electronically created soundtrack for a movie. A favorite of mine.
Would really love to get the mini, the micro is a bucket of fun.
The Minifreak really builds on what they did on the micro, but the micro still has a lot going for it. Hopefully Arturia continue to support it with updates even with the Minifreak out now.
The microfreak so far still has that wavetable magic! But hopefully that makes its way over to the minifreak as well
@@d3tuned378 an expanded custom wavetable option for the minifreak would open up a lot of sonic possibilities
@@OscillatorSink this aged well! Now Micro has sampling & granular... mind blown!
Great tutorial.
Might try this on my Hydra today!
Keep up the great work.
Yes, the Krell shall sing for you too!
I am blown away, very atmospheric. What you did in the last 10 minutes took it from a few long phrases like what elder krell might utter to a full on discussion :D
Would love to see something like this with the MicroFreak! 👍🏻
The microfreak is a little trickier to pull this off right at the moment - without involving the sequencer anyway... I'll have a think.
@@OscillatorSink did you figure anything out for MicroFreak to do krell? Thanks!
@@SuperGrizardyou still have an lfo and a cycling envelope so I think it should be possible, but with less outcomes than a 2 oscillator synth maybe
The Micro is gimped compared to this, at least where it matters.
Great video. Have ported these ideas to the Modwave! And that gives you the stereo!
That is impressive! It does a pretty good Krell there!
Thank you!
Excellent!
Cheers!
Stunning piece of patching ! Has the Minifreak ever seen it’s like ‘afore ? 👏👏👏🎶👍
That was so fun! I followed along making the patch on mine and it was great. I've saved it as OS Krell for future alien chats :)
All the variations you tried were cool, I didn't try any new ones yet but I did find that the karplus + comb filter one was really cool if you switch to arp mode, maybe set Oct 4 on and hold a few notes. Then you can click the distortion knob on and off to switch between angry aliens and calm aliens 😆Bonus nightmare, turning on Poly mode on the arp bar!
Oh poly arp is a nightmare any time you're not expecting it! I'm glad you've got your own aliens to chat with now!
I really want to see what the Barrons did back then. The creature from the id was what started my journey into electronic music
I have to imagine that a lot of it was synthesized using test equipment and then effected and chopped up on tape - there must be some literature on it somewhere though, given how iconic the work is...
@@OscillatorSink I remember reading something that they would make their own circuits that they would call lifeforms that they would feed em electric overpowering them and record the sounds of them going back to their normal state using the first two prototypes of the tape recorder. I’m just surprised that their really isn’t much that can be found about their process. It’s a shame really as they should have a lot more recognition for what they did a decade before the first synthesizer.
@@Autistic_Artist that sounds almost like the Noon from Landscape - it's all about letting circuits die away to get interesting sounds.
@@OscillatorSink btw, thank you so much for your videos, they have really helped me out with the korg monologue and minilogue. The thing I am next diving into is using the audio inputs with aspects of input less mixing. It would be great to see you do a video on this. I get nervous sometimes about mixerless as when i was a teen when I first experimented with it the amp i was using started to smoke. I suspect that phantom power was on and it created a feedback loop that increased the power output? I don’t know I’m still trying to figure it out as there isn’t much out there about it most likely because of the risk to equipment and our ears
Wikipedia says they used ideas from the 1948 book Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine to create their circuits
Oh well. I modulated osc 1 type with lfo 2 and now there are dancing green lights outside my house.
Well, you did call for them 🤷. It's fine they're mostly friendly.
Very interesting composition.
You make me realise I've not even scratched the surface of my MiniFreak... now where's that manual 😮
Cheers. Reading the manual is my speciality - my secret synth technique!
@Oscillator Sink - interestingly I note much fewer videos about compositions on the MF. Instead, there seems to be loads of patch creations...
I suspect more people need to read the manual and dive as deep as you do 😉
I wonder if it's possible for them to add panning per voice in a firmware update. Since I've started using stereo LFO's on Vital, I realize how musical it is to use stereo in patches. The part starting 30:45 is so beautiful!!
It depends on whether there are stereo VCAs in there - I suspect not, but there might be other ways of doing stuff with DSP.
Any chance of sharing this patch?
I wonder if this can this be done on a deepmind 12.
Most of the concepts can be applied yes!
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Thats the strangest synth patch ever
I try.
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Do we get some free drugs to hear about Krell patches?
I found your content very interesting, but I STRUGGLE to hear you voice
I just realized pan isn't a modulation destination on the minifreak. Woah.
What a strange limitation given the gung-ho attitude towards modulation in every other respect
To my knowledge the VCAs are mono, so the voices cannot be panned at all - only the effects are in stereo, not the voices.
@@OscillatorSink ahh, makes sense. Yeah it's a shame there's not a 'utility' effect with things like PAN and maybe width etc. The cobalt8 has this feature and it's nice
We need the 12 voice matrixfreak with 4 osc, dual filters, 4 lfos, and 4 envelopes.
I love the direction you took it in the end!
I would be curious to see what steps would need to be taken to maybe get some of the triggers to be more rhythmic in frequency. Could you theoretically get the second oscillator to amp mod to a different but complimentary rhythm than the first? 🤔
That pitch quantize is powerful. One of my favorite features. The hidden/extra macro and matrix destination menus are also fantastically useful. Am modulation on an LFO? *Chef's kiss*
Well you can lock the stages of the cycling envelope to be tempo divisions so that would definitely, almost instantly get you there - I've actually done it myself on other patches, but forgot to mention it here.
@@OscillatorSink Oh wow, that sounds useful! Is it a specific option or menu, or is it something you have to dial in manually, by ear to make it sync?
@@d3tuned378 it's in the Sound Edit menu, under the Cycling Envelope section. I think it's just labeled "sync".
Thank you!!
>I would be curious to see what steps would need to be taken to maybe get some of the triggers to be more rhythmic in frequency. Could you theoretically get the second oscillator to amp mod to a different but complimentary rhythm than the first? 🤔
Maybe something with the custom LFO shaper