Thank you for the nice video and highly digestable musical output!!! The world needs more people like you who know how to PLAY a modular system!!! Why do I know that? I was a shadow citizen in SCHNEIDER'S WORLD... and even in eight years... I heard so many expert talk and what rocks and what not... but never any creative-relevant audio output. THUMBS UP³ mylarmelodies.
You actually gave me an idea to combine Grids with Numeric Repetitor from Noise Engineering. It shifts patterns very well, especially for techno. Great tip!
@@mylarmelodies Yes, that was another excellent tip from you. It gets CV from pressurepoints so I have three rows of stuff and can't predict what's going to affect what. Like an endless groove of real people having fun. And Ochd to shift things around. Thanks for sharing your 'problems' because they're fun!
@@mylarmelodies Hi Alex, I have been experimenting with Grids + Zularic + Numeric repetitor and it's pretty. In case you're interested (and not too busy) here's a video of my patch. ruclips.net/video/-I3opUsEQjM/видео.html
Thanks for more great material! Not sure if someone else has suggested this, but one of the things I do for 'incidental' stuff is use MI Branches. Sometimes I use it like you do a sequential switch, where I send the outputs from Branches to two devices. or, another thing I have done, is send the 2nd output to a burst module.. also on occasion I will double up the coin toss, as in the previous burst example, I will run the 2nd output from Branches into the input of the 2nd unit in Branches, so when the burst trigger is sent, there is another layer of chance that it will go through.. lastly, sometimes I just use one output from Branches, to skip some triggers. and, as always, playing with the probability knob allows nice dynamics during the performance.I have a Skipmin on backorder, but I am interested to get that in the flow as well.
often use clouds in the same why myself, feed it a steady clock and any sound source and it makes instant percussion plus you can crank the density by hand for when you want neat industrial hardware noises, VREEEEEEE. as for distributing triggers a switch matrix would be my goto. one of my favorite things is to run some clocks / euclidean patterns / funky tap tempoed lfos into the wmd ssm, then you can mix and match the triggers and even use the comparator outputs in tandem with a slow clock on the compare in input to get that periodic percussion effect you were talking about, food for thinks
There's a 2hp TM, which you might actually prefer for the live case.... I really like these videos and the evolution of your live set and the case. Bless.
I feel like plaits is trying to play the role of the classic IDM poly synth playing those off kilter progressions. Could you pre record some Juno progressions into the slample instead? It might give some grounding to those great rhythms.
Your 4/4 kick idea is something I’ve been working on! I was thinking you mult Euclidean, then having a switch so you can send Euclidean + the other sequencer, OR just Euclidean. Would make it a lot easier to access a 4/4 whenever you need it
mylarmelodies yep! Let me know how it works out? In my system I use beatstep pro for sequencing so I’ll have channel 8 of gates be ALWAYS 4:4 kick on every single patch, and have my switch flick between that and more complicated rhythm. Curious how it will work with something you’d have to dial into 4/4 with just a little bit more thought :-)
An obvious change would be to remove the Metropolis (I know you love it), and change it with a Five12 Vector. You'll keep the repeats/stages but gain tons of variations and sub sequences with almost the same HP real estate. With the expander you'd get 8 tracks instead of two (but even two is one more than the Metro can deliver). I would say you'd want an Ochd, but it's there :). Finally I believe your life (live) be a lot easier with a Polyend Preset. I guess these aren't really 'problems', it's evolution and you're still at the absolute top of the food chain.
Ahhh the massive cable dreadlock - a hindrance in any system 😂 I know it’s probably not at practical, but you could double the cable lengths in that part of the patch, and sort of lay a large portion of that IT server’s worth of patch cables, onto the table and to the side of the case... but that’s all I can think of off the top of my head. You could also set up preset changes on pams for alternative rhythms and then use cv to rotate them... but I could see how that may muddle things - also, the SSSR Matrixarchate is a killer programmable switch.... maybe a bit large for the system though 😞
Regarding the tuning - absolutely... yup, just tune by ear or to intervals as you did with bringing in the 5ths. (unless of course you are going to overdub later - this is important!) However - it all goes a bit pear shaped when your mate turns up with his bass or guitar. At this point, no easy way out: you have to set all your oscillators to a standard tuning, or of course get them to tune to you (and then you are an unpopular bunny!). So yes, a guitar tuner is very handy. I'd start by getting my sequencer / controller / quantiser playing an E if you are working with guitar buddies, as this tends to be a natural easy to play key for them in most circumstances, since the lowest string is standard tuned to E. Then I'd tune all of my oscillators to that, probably though at various octaves depending on the voices function (bass, drone, sequence, top line etc). After you have done that, then all should be harmonious :) Of course, if your guitar buddy is a jazz headcase who wants to play everything in D flat.... then tune everything to that.
I’m about 30 minutes in and have a couple thoughts about controlling Squid Salmple. You’ve got those 3 CV ins that could probably be used to switch to different samples, instead of repatching cables. My other thought is to use a switch like the boss bow tie, where you send it 16th notes or perhaps something from Euclidean Circles, with trigger outs to The Squid, and use a random voltage to select which input gets triggered.
You definitely need to look into the Noise Engineering: Variatic Sequent. It's small and works very simply and is perfect for 4/4 stuff. Minimum input with maximum interest. Add the variatic multium expander for more functionality.
The 2 pattern kick sounds amazing, but if you want to do it without 2 seperate Euclid modules you could probably just sequence the number of steps with CV.
hey alex, what's the snare at 4 mins? Honestly are your samples up somewhere on patreon? May as wel just snag them since i ask so much haha. Would be cool to load my op1 and octatrack w them
I really enjoyed this, all your videos are really helping me with getting to know different modules! I am currently designing my first rack ever and I'm really trying to figure out exactly which modules to get before buying anything. Also doing my best to start small, but finding it to be extremely difficult :D Thank you so much for your videos, they are a huge learning resource for me!
Thanks!! Defo check this one for 'doing a lot with a little'. might help with thinking about the first modules to get ruclips.net/video/4jCCzpWBsFs/видео.html&lc
Thank you for this great video! (and all your videos which are all so great) I'm about to buy a Lyra-8. I love the interactivity of making music that way. But I can't find one to demo locally. I'm very much in line with what I think you love musically and sonically. Is the Lyra-8 a keeper for you over the years?
15:30 Perhaps SSSR Labs Matrixarchate will do the job for routing triggers and CV. It is similar to EMS Synthi modulation matrix and allows to save route combinations as patches and then sequence them.
I'm building a custom case soon and I've been pouring over modules and thinking of ways to make the perfect 240ish hp case. This video is perfect timing. Looking forward to it!
have you thought about moving from grids to NE's repetitors? they are 4 outputs each and are smaller. :) Personally I think they're amazing. Super fast and rewarding
I just got rid of all the PROK Drums, because i was fed up spending too many hours inside the editor. I am going with a VPME QD, which is 4 selectable voices of drums, either synthesized or samples, has a compressor, mixer and mutes included and a performance oriented interface. Check it out, might replace your SALMPLE and PROKS altogether. The freed up HP might go to other control modules like more switches.
I haven’t figured out the editor yet for my snare, but I did leave 1hp free in the bottom of my 6u case to run the USB cable out so it’s easy to access when I do finally get around to it. So snare is mounted in top row and the cable comes out at the bottom. Someday......
About the second Grids: why not go with a Shakmat Gallop? 2 outputs, lots of patterns and it gives a shift button to move the pattern in time so thats your reset “time shift”
With what you were saying around 14:00 about having three inputs and being able to send them to different things, Frequency central where? is the one. Send one thing through a rotate switch to four outputs! Great video, really useful to see how you progress on the system :)
Great tip that, I hadn’t seen it! Also see Doepfer A-182-2 which someone pointed out to me, and is amazing - basically exactly what I was wanting as a switched mult isn’t quite it
@@mylarmelodies The recent WMD SL3KT seems to be an interesting choice here too: www.modulargrid.net/e/wmd-sl3kt 3-ins (from grids), 2 groups of 3-outs (to the salmple), the switches are normalled down so you could flip all 3 with a single manual switch or a gate. If you want to get weird, you can complicate that switching mesh appropriately with the other 2 switches or gates.
Mylar your beats and lovely voice still takes me to that place, thank you Sir. For the rig an idea, passive mults need not eat HP, they could be grafted into any kind of box/shell/just tapped to the side of the case, ya know if you just have to have more more. :)
Muting audio < muting gates (the same modules that do this can also reroute and combine gates...) my live rig is 6u and it slays. Struggling with 12u... Lord have mercy on your soul
When you're talking about the Grids with 3-out for every input, mixable/switchable, are you thinking of, like, a voltage controlled switching mixer-mult? That sounds like an interesting project!
@@mylarmelodies I'm sorely tempted to try to build it myself. If you're interested in providing input please feel free to DM me the things you'd like to see in something like that.
Mate, it's an hour to midnight. I can't say I'm staying fully focussed through 80 minutes, even though I want to.. Planning this in for a watch-later when I'm not due for bed. See ya tomorrow ;)
Interesting question you ask at 24:00-- "how much is me...?" I say go ahead and take the credit. It's you. Someone (you) had to put it together in a certain, highly specific way with something in mind before there was anything to respond to. And when those wild, ecstatic accidents happen? It's like Eno says: "Honor thy mistake as hidden intention."
Very cool! This might inspire me to get back into "groovebox" territory with my modular, just been doing the ambient stuff lately. Do you ever mess with using the accent outs on grids to trigger completely different drum sounds? You could even combine with a gate delay. Seems like you don't have the accents patched at all in this vid at least.
I’d like to get them doing accents really - given the nature of when the accents fire, I think they’re best suited to reinforcement rather triggering a completely different sound, tho maybe I’d be surprised if I tried.
@@mylarmelodies The 'accent' under the second channel almost always runs a steady 16 tick bar. I have no idea why but it's great as a free clock mult with some unpredictability built in. Hey I get it while writing this. A switched mult could control drum rolls on the snare! Must be something worth exploring.
Hey, comment 1 year later, but maybe helpful. Did you consider 16n fader bank Berlin edition, rack mountable or desktop? Could solve your problem with controlling multiple destinations simultaneously.
Seems like it could be useful to have the modular equivalent of a stage snake. Single cable with bundles of 3, 4, 5 connectors, and leave maybe 5" of reach for the individual cables at each end.
Excellent. Entertaining and informative. I am digging my prOks (BD/SN/HH/CP) as well. I am utterly amazed by those modules. Very well thought out devices in a small footprint.
Unsolicited thoughts incoming. 2x Noise Engineering Zularic repetitors take up about the same space as 1 grids, that's 8 knob based patterns. System 80 has an 8hp Jove filter that can save you some space. Using some sort of Envelope modules with vcas built in could save a lot of space and power connectors, for example Noise engineering Sinc Bucina could replace your pip slope and youd get a vca or LPG functionality added in the same space. Cosmotronic Delta v is basically Maths in 10hp with built in vcas. Filters that have built in vcas like Ripples Or Mum M8 also centralize patching more, less cables less modules. Tiptop One as drum sequencer - You could save a bunch of CV trigger sequences on SD and chage drum patterns with one knob, it can play back CV/gate. Squid Sample also has DC coupled sample inputs and outputs to send triggers elsewhere.
I concur, I have both the Numeric and Zularic in a case along with the Confundo Funkitus and it's a killer combo. www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/886126
Instead of the Turing machine taking up valuable HP Noise Engineering have a module called Mimetic Sequent (6hp) that can take your pitch cv from your sequencer and then record it. You can then let ir add xtra quantized or unquantized notes to your sequence. You can lock the pattern like a TM and it can save three patterns to memory it can also just be random like TM with just a clock source. If you add the expander it will give 3 more lanes of cv which can all be different or the same and it will add 4 random gate outputs. I like running my TD-3's cv out to the module, then to all of the oscillators and then having the ability to add or change the whole pattern on the fly
The Hikari Quad Switch could be a useful addition to your trigger routing problem. I solved my trigger count problem by buying the WMD Metron; now I just have a pattern composition problem :P
for the V/Oct of plaits you could use just a quantizer as well. I'm using ornament and crime witch gives me the possiblity to transpose plaits by a fitht or any intervall I like. Just trigger the quantizer and the envelop of your voice at once.
May I suggest Four Bricks Rook (or two of these) + Maze matrix? Lately I have been experimenting with that combo and its really immediate and flexible. Also - great video. You have been inspiring me for a long time.
Great video, as always, Mr Mylar. So...you're using 2 modules to generate kick patterns...both eculid type modules...yet one of them has 3! channels of euclidean patterns. Why not simply use two channels of that vpme module for your kicks?
about the bassdrum: if you only use 4 channels of the circles, why don't you use 5 and 6 for the other bassdrum part, and lead/switch the two via an a-b switch to the sequential switch. that way you don't have two pull cables from the sequential switch. that's how I'd do it. or split channel 4 and use 4 and 5 via the a-b switch.
Also a great shout!! Only catch is it (like the ones I mentioned) only has as many outs as ins. The Doepfer A-182-2 is the dreamiest solution I’ve found as it’s selectable 4 > 4 but with actually 8 possible destinations - so you can flip switches to send any one of 4 sources to two different places each!
At 1:18:52 we have the last Boards of Canada tranmission, right? Really appreciating that sixty-seven, sixty-seven... that was two years before the huge "1969 in the Sunshine"! :)
really helpful! learn a lot, but one question, at 23:19 the sample from squid sample channel 8, how you trigger it, it does't like other sample triggered by Grids or Euclid circles, it just doesn't play that often, it plays like once 4 bars? really want to know how you trigger it not that often.
Hi I'm subscribed and love your stuff. Just noticed YT didn't notify of anything you uploaded in January despite hitting all notifications. I checked my feed it's odd. csn bingewatch though. (: Hope I'm the only one! Cheers! Your rig sounds awesome btw. you really hit your stride huh? (:
Hey Alex! I've been thinking about delving into making modules and I have a pretty solid design for a gateway of sorts, with one input and four outputs. The input is sent to a certain output, which is selected by a control voltage on the location input. Fully audio rate switching, I'm just wondering if you personally would find this as a cool way to send around gates or cv's. Thanks, and cheers :)
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This is a gold mine! I have learned so many modular techniques watching your videos. Many thanks!
Thank you for the nice video and highly digestable musical output!!! The world needs more people like you who know how to PLAY a modular system!!! Why do I know that? I was a shadow citizen in SCHNEIDER'S WORLD... and even in eight years... I heard so many expert talk and what rocks and what not... but never any creative-relevant audio output. THUMBS UP³ mylarmelodies.
You actually gave me an idea to combine Grids with Numeric Repetitor from Noise Engineering. It shifts patterns very well, especially for techno. Great tip!
Nice, flipping them with a Sequential Switch?
@@mylarmelodies Yes, that was another excellent tip from you. It gets CV from pressurepoints so I have three rows of stuff and can't predict what's going to affect what. Like an endless groove of real people having fun. And Ochd to shift things around. Thanks for sharing your 'problems' because they're fun!
@@CinematicLaboratory A problem shared is a problem halved!! Had some great suggestions from the community ✅♻
@@mylarmelodies Hi Alex, I have been experimenting with Grids + Zularic + Numeric repetitor and it's pretty. In case you're interested (and not too busy) here's a video of my patch. ruclips.net/video/-I3opUsEQjM/видео.html
Thanks for more great material! Not sure if someone else has suggested this, but one of the things I do for 'incidental' stuff is use MI Branches. Sometimes I use it like you do a sequential switch, where I send the outputs from Branches to two devices. or, another thing I have done, is send the 2nd output to a burst module.. also on occasion I will double up the coin toss, as in the previous burst example, I will run the 2nd output from Branches into the input of the 2nd unit in Branches, so when the burst trigger is sent, there is another layer of chance that it will go through.. lastly, sometimes I just use one output from Branches, to skip some triggers. and, as always, playing with the probability knob allows nice dynamics during the performance.I have a Skipmin on backorder, but I am interested to get that in the flow as well.
often use clouds in the same why myself, feed it a steady clock and any sound source and it makes instant percussion plus you can crank the density by hand for when you want neat industrial hardware noises, VREEEEEEE. as for distributing triggers a switch matrix would be my goto. one of my favorite things is to run some clocks / euclidean patterns / funky tap tempoed lfos into the wmd ssm, then you can mix and match the triggers and even use the comparator outputs in tandem with a slow clock on the compare in input to get that periodic percussion effect you were talking about, food for thinks
another Mylar Melodies amazing, insightful, and personal video ! Thanks :)
This is so good on so many levels. Thanks, Alex.
My dusting brush (via your link) just arrived! My modular and synths are so clean now. Thank you!
🙌🙌🙌 Thanks for using the link!! Its a better world with sparkly clean synths
That drum sequencing! Seems like you cracked the code, sounds a lot like what Floating Points did on Crush, what a groove!
There's a 2hp TM, which you might actually prefer for the live case....
I really like these videos and the evolution of your live set and the case. Bless.
I feel like plaits is trying to play the role of the classic IDM poly synth playing those off kilter progressions. Could you pre record some Juno progressions into the slample instead? It might give some grounding to those great rhythms.
This has to be one of the best modular vids I've ever watched. So much great info - thank you for sharing!!!
Thanks!! 🙌
Some really great ideas in this breakdown. Thank you Mylar.
Your 4/4 kick idea is something I’ve been working on!
I was thinking you mult Euclidean, then having a switch so you can send Euclidean + the other sequencer, OR just Euclidean. Would make it a lot easier to access a 4/4 whenever you need it
Oh that’s a great shout - I have a fourth channel on the A-182-2 I bought I can use that for too!
mylarmelodies yep! Let me know how it works out?
In my system I use beatstep pro for sequencing so I’ll have channel 8 of gates be ALWAYS 4:4 kick on every single patch, and have my switch flick between that and more complicated rhythm.
Curious how it will work with something you’d have to dial into 4/4 with just a little bit more thought :-)
An obvious change would be to remove the Metropolis (I know you love it), and change it with a Five12 Vector. You'll keep the repeats/stages but gain tons of variations and sub sequences with almost the same HP real estate. With the expander you'd get 8 tracks instead of two (but even two is one more than the Metro can deliver). I would say you'd want an Ochd, but it's there :).
Finally I believe your life (live) be a lot easier with a Polyend Preset. I guess these aren't really 'problems', it's evolution and you're still at the absolute top of the food chain.
Just wanted to tell you that I absolutely adore your videos!
For what it's worth, Make Noise's Function can also do pitch accurate sample and hold. Overlooked feature in Maths baby cousin.
Ahhh the massive cable dreadlock - a hindrance in any system 😂 I know it’s probably not at practical, but you could double the cable lengths in that part of the patch, and sort of lay a large portion of that IT server’s worth of patch cables, onto the table and to the side of the case... but that’s all I can think of off the top of my head.
You could also set up preset changes on pams for alternative rhythms and then use cv to rotate them... but I could see how that may muddle things - also, the SSSR Matrixarchate is a killer programmable switch.... maybe a bit large for the system though 😞
Regarding the tuning - absolutely... yup, just tune by ear or to intervals as you did with bringing in the 5ths. (unless of course you are going to overdub later - this is important!) However - it all goes a bit pear shaped when your mate turns up with his bass or guitar. At this point, no easy way out: you have to set all your oscillators to a standard tuning, or of course get them to tune to you (and then you are an unpopular bunny!). So yes, a guitar tuner is very handy. I'd start by getting my sequencer / controller / quantiser playing an E if you are working with guitar buddies, as this tends to be a natural easy to play key for them in most circumstances, since the lowest string is standard tuned to E. Then I'd tune all of my oscillators to that, probably though at various octaves depending on the voices function (bass, drone, sequence, top line etc). After you have done that, then all should be harmonious :) Of course, if your guitar buddy is a jazz headcase who wants to play everything in D flat.... then tune everything to that.
I’m about 30 minutes in and have a couple thoughts about controlling Squid Salmple. You’ve got those 3 CV ins that could probably be used to switch to different samples, instead of repatching cables. My other thought is to use a switch like the boss bow tie, where you send it 16th notes or perhaps something from Euclidean Circles, with trigger outs to The Squid, and use a random voltage to select which input gets triggered.
You definitely need to look into the Noise Engineering: Variatic Sequent. It's small and works very simply and is perfect for 4/4 stuff. Minimum input with maximum interest. Add the variatic multium expander for more functionality.
And it has tied gates, very cool to control the freeze of Clouds. I am going to get one too!
The 2 pattern kick sounds amazing, but if you want to do it without 2 seperate Euclid modules you could probably just sequence the number of steps with CV.
Perhaps this was an ergonomic problem. But sonically ... it's lovely!
31:19 I fucking LOVE how everything sounds there. It's almost emotional how good it is.
Thanks for this. I haven't watched yet, but I can't wait to study it and unpack it all!
how I appreciate your videos, filled with practical information
This is so sad watching and seeing it was posted Feb 2020
Hope you still got to enjoy the system regardless!
hey alex, what's the snare at 4 mins? Honestly are your samples up somewhere on patreon? May as wel just snag them since i ask so much haha. Would be cool to load my op1 and octatrack w them
I really enjoyed this, all your videos are really helping me with getting to know different modules! I am currently designing my first rack ever and I'm really trying to figure out exactly which modules to get before buying anything. Also doing my best to start small, but finding it to be extremely difficult :D Thank you so much for your videos, they are a huge learning resource for me!
Thanks!! Defo check this one for 'doing a lot with a little'. might help with thinking about the first modules to get ruclips.net/video/4jCCzpWBsFs/видео.html&lc
@@mylarmelodies Had already watched it but worth the rewatch!
Thank you for this great video! (and all your videos which are all so great) I'm about to buy a Lyra-8. I love the interactivity of making music that way. But I can't find one to demo locally. I'm very much in line with what I think you love musically and sonically. Is the Lyra-8 a keeper for you over the years?
Another masterclass in live modular 👍 highly enjoyed it
15:30 Perhaps SSSR Labs Matrixarchate will do the job for routing triggers and CV. It is similar to EMS Synthi modulation matrix and allows to save route combinations as patches and then sequence them.
euclidian switch kick ! so clever , will try that
The squid could have a mode where samples shift from channels to channels. Instead of having to use switch multiples/switching sequencers
Re Grids And Squid, there are also 3 accent outputs if you’re not using the clock out. And what about those trippy 4ms modules like the RCD?
Try using a swiffer, the one on a stick, instead of your brush. It should pick up more the dust instead of moving it around
I'm building a custom case soon and I've been pouring over modules and thinking of ways to make the perfect 240ish hp case. This video is perfect timing. Looking forward to it!
have you thought about moving from grids to NE's repetitors? they are 4 outputs each and are smaller. :) Personally I think they're amazing. Super fast and rewarding
Those Prok modules sound really good and "modern", IDM-y, like something I haven't heard before.
The kick reminds me of the jomox 09 module. Expect 1/4 the price... hmmmm
They are a lot of fun.
Stages is amazing as a S&H. No voltage drop, and the added bonus of glide. Great walkthrough!
great shout. I’m really criminally underusing Stages, but dang if it isn’t handy as an EG
@@mylarmelodies so true, it sure is. It took me over a year to realize that it was exactly the S&H I was looking for.
23:52 and how much of your system is inspired by selected ambient works?
How much of everything in life, more like!
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I just got rid of all the PROK Drums, because i was fed up spending too many hours inside the editor. I am going with a VPME QD, which is 4 selectable voices of drums, either synthesized or samples, has a compressor, mixer and mutes included and a performance oriented interface. Check it out, might replace your SALMPLE and PROKS altogether. The freed up HP might go to other control modules like more switches.
Do love our man Vlad and really liked his QD when I tried it!! But I also reaaally like the Proks and still haven’t touched the editor!
I haven’t figured out the editor yet for my snare, but I did leave 1hp free in the bottom of my 6u case to run the USB cable out so it’s easy to access when I do finally get around to it. So snare is mounted in top row and the cable comes out at the bottom. Someday......
About the second Grids: why not go with a Shakmat Gallop? 2 outputs, lots of patterns and it gives a shift button to move the pattern in time so thats your reset “time shift”
finally someone else found those twisties! been using these for years in production work.
With what you were saying around 14:00 about having three inputs and being able to send them to different things, Frequency central where? is the one. Send one thing through a rotate switch to four outputs!
Great video, really useful to see how you progress on the system :)
Great tip that, I hadn’t seen it! Also see Doepfer A-182-2 which someone pointed out to me, and is amazing - basically exactly what I was wanting as a switched mult isn’t quite it
@@mylarmelodies The recent WMD SL3KT seems to be an interesting choice here too: www.modulargrid.net/e/wmd-sl3kt
3-ins (from grids), 2 groups of 3-outs (to the salmple), the switches are normalled down so you could flip all 3 with a single manual switch or a gate. If you want to get weird, you can complicate that switching mesh appropriately with the other 2 switches or gates.
Mylar your beats and lovely voice still takes me to that place, thank you Sir. For the rig an idea, passive mults need not eat HP, they could be grafted into any kind of box/shell/just tapped to the side of the case, ya know if you just have to have more more. :)
Muting audio < muting gates (the same modules that do this can also reroute and combine gates...) my live rig is 6u and it slays. Struggling with 12u... Lord have mercy on your soul
opening jam = utterly mental and awesome 😁 edit: just realised I was listening at 1.25x 😂 1x speed maybe a bit less mental. 😊
“If only grids had 8.” It’s called Amoeba / Microbe. But hard to control. Emelie is right to stick with just 3, imo.
Came here to say this! Love the beasteks
Dude wasn’t expecting this jam 5 min in fantastic.
When you're talking about the Grids with 3-out for every input, mixable/switchable, are you thinking of, like, a voltage controlled switching mixer-mult? That sounds like an interesting project!
Of course it could be something you could potentially make from separate modules!
@@mylarmelodies I'm sorely tempted to try to build it myself. If you're interested in providing input please feel free to DM me the things you'd like to see in something like that.
Mate, it's an hour to midnight. I can't say I'm staying fully focussed through 80 minutes, even though I want to.. Planning this in for a watch-later when I'm not due for bed. See ya tomorrow ;)
Interesting question you ask at 24:00-- "how much is me...?" I say go ahead and take the credit. It's you. Someone (you) had to put it together in a certain, highly specific way with something in mind before there was anything to respond to. And when those wild, ecstatic accidents happen? It's like Eno says: "Honor thy mistake as hidden intention."
Light strip ordered. Thanks mate been waiting for this video. Keep them coming.
Very cool! This might inspire me to get back into "groovebox" territory with my modular, just been doing the ambient stuff lately.
Do you ever mess with using the accent outs on grids to trigger completely different drum sounds? You could even combine with a gate delay. Seems like you don't have the accents patched at all in this vid at least.
I’d like to get them doing accents really - given the nature of when the accents fire, I think they’re best suited to reinforcement rather triggering a completely different sound, tho maybe I’d be surprised if I tried.
@@mylarmelodies The 'accent' under the second channel almost always runs a steady 16 tick bar. I have no idea why but it's great as a free clock mult with some unpredictability built in. Hey I get it while writing this. A switched mult could control drum rolls on the snare! Must be something worth exploring.
Hey, comment 1 year later, but maybe helpful. Did you consider 16n fader bank Berlin edition, rack mountable or desktop? Could solve your problem with controlling multiple destinations simultaneously.
Seems like it could be useful to have the modular equivalent of a stage snake. Single cable with bundles of 3, 4, 5 connectors, and leave maybe 5" of reach for the individual cables at each end.
very nice! whats the tuner you use?
SSR labs matrixarchate (thonk) gives a huge amount of routing and control can even be sequenced - would this be useful?
Excellent. Entertaining and informative.
I am digging my prOks (BD/SN/HH/CP) as well. I am utterly amazed by those modules. Very well thought out devices in a small footprint.
Yeah love em! And they continue to sound great on a big system
The best part of this video is from 0:00 to 1:20:40
Unsolicited thoughts incoming. 2x Noise Engineering Zularic repetitors take up about the same space as 1 grids, that's 8 knob based patterns. System 80 has an 8hp Jove filter that can save you some space. Using some sort of Envelope modules with vcas built in could save a lot of space and power connectors, for example Noise engineering Sinc Bucina could replace your pip slope and youd get a vca or LPG functionality added in the same space. Cosmotronic Delta v is basically Maths in 10hp with built in vcas. Filters that have built in vcas like Ripples Or Mum M8 also centralize patching more, less cables less modules. Tiptop One as drum sequencer - You could save a bunch of CV trigger sequences on SD and chage drum patterns with one knob, it can play back CV/gate. Squid Sample also has DC coupled sample inputs and outputs to send triggers elsewhere.
Great ideas there!! Thanks
I concur, I have both the Numeric and Zularic in a case along with the Confundo Funkitus and it's a killer combo.
www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/886126
Get some Tendrils cables m8. They'll change yer life.
Instead of the Turing machine taking up valuable HP Noise Engineering have a module called Mimetic Sequent (6hp) that can take your pitch cv from your sequencer and then record it. You can then let ir add xtra quantized or unquantized notes to your sequence. You can lock the pattern like a TM and it can save three patterns to memory it can also just be random like TM with just a clock source. If you add the expander it will give 3 more lanes of cv which can all be different or the same and it will add 4 random gate outputs. I like running my TD-3's cv out to the module, then to all of the oscillators and then having the ability to add or change the whole pattern on the fly
The Hikari Quad Switch could be a useful addition to your trigger routing problem.
I solved my trigger count problem by buying the WMD Metron; now I just have a pattern composition problem :P
As far a percussive clock sources the Noise Engineering stuff is ace.
I'm looking at the MPC One and its CV outs. Seems like it would be excellent for tempo and sampled percussion with full envelope control.
Maybe an Amoeba from Beast-Tek would fit instead of Grids, it has the eight outputs...
Cant help but think Tempi would be great for you with six clocks you can individually retime with a tap. It works really good for me at the moment
for the V/Oct of plaits you could use just a quantizer as well. I'm using ornament and crime witch gives me the possiblity to transpose plaits by a fitht or any intervall I like.
Just trigger the quantizer and the envelop of your voice at once.
disturbingly awesome, and here I went all my life thinking people with their watch on the right arm are not my kind of people..
Always been a rightie and righthanded, but then so was my grandfather (who is in this video!).
mylarmelodies Same here
@@mylarmelodies As someone who wears a watch on my right, Im horrified that you do so while righthanded. Stop appropriating my left handed culture.
Andrew Weatherall died just 15 days after the mention here :( RIP. Two Lone Swordsmen was a big influence on me.
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May I suggest Four Bricks Rook (or two of these) + Maze matrix? Lately I have been experimenting with that combo and its really immediate and flexible. Also - great video. You have been inspiring me for a long time.
Ya had me at automation of 303 sounding just like it should...help..serious danger of going modular...is there help group in a shed somewhere😬😬😬😂🎶🎶🙌
Inky AT DaMm CaT studios I thought exactly the opposite - first minutes of the video I skipped because the 303 sounded so irritating..
@@mishpult 😂😂😂fair point I was a techno DJ in 90s so yeah understand I was overloaded with 303s everywhere...too much lol
Can't help with not going modular, as I don't regret it. 😉
@@hardcoreherbivore4730 That not helping is helping me into it, which is not helping😂😂😂🙌🎶🎶🎶
Great video, as always, Mr Mylar. So...you're using 2 modules to generate kick patterns...both eculid type modules...yet one of them has 3! channels of euclidean patterns. Why not simply use two channels of that vpme module for your kicks?
Hey man, great video, as always. Wanted to ask if ur Acidlab 303 have also how output level as mine? And how did u solve it if so?
Shittily Incidental Percussion is going to be a track on my new album. Thanks!
Frequency knob off the Plaits? Makes sense though.
You see what I did there
You should check out the Nerdseq. Perfect for building full, complex, evolving and changing sets.
And when combined with a launchpad, you have some cool Ableton-style pattern launching!
about the bassdrum:
if you only use 4 channels of the circles, why don't you use 5 and 6 for the other bassdrum part, and lead/switch the two via an a-b switch to the sequential switch. that way you don't have two pull cables from the sequential switch. that's how I'd do it. or split channel 4 and use 4 and 5 via the a-b switch.
a-b switches are extremely useful for this. I use one to switch between circles and tempi, or swt16+ for that matter
concerning switches (around 15:00), you want Ryo Paths. Does exaxctly what you need.
Also a great shout!! Only catch is it (like the ones I mentioned) only has as many outs as ins. The Doepfer A-182-2 is the dreamiest solution I’ve found as it’s selectable 4 > 4 but with actually 8 possible destinations - so you can flip switches to send any one of 4 sources to two different places each!
@@mylarmelodies oh yeah, that's a good one, and only 4hp. Also, I got a good quality barbers brush for dusting. so great!
M8 do a video on the Acidlab M303! Make it a banger!
@mylarmelodies Hi there! Love the video :) I was wondering, are the Ls1 Lightstrips clockable? Or do you just have to time it right?
Krikey! I thought my system got cobwebbed out! Nice sounds BTW
At 1:18:52 we have the last Boards of Canada tranmission, right?
Really appreciating that sixty-seven, sixty-seven... that was two years before the huge "1969 in the Sunshine"! :)
16:40 onwards is pure monolake vibes
OH MAN!!! That LS1 Lightstrip Touch Controller is what I've been looking for!!!!! A recordable fader is clutch. Thank you so much!
have you looked into Livestock Maze? operates like WMD SSM, but not quite as immediate, but is smaller and has more interesting performance options
I just ordered a brush thank you.
really helpful! learn a lot, but one question, at 23:19 the sample from squid sample channel 8, how you trigger it, it does't like other sample triggered by Grids or Euclid circles, it just doesn't play that often, it plays like once 4 bars? really want to know how you trigger it not that often.
With a Sequential switch!
@@mylarmelodies yeah I see, thank you so so much happy new year!
@@mylarmelodies what is the name of it? just hard to see from the video
Nice to see your workflow. Take a look at Stoicheia, it has the switching between two euclidian sequences built in so you can shave off some hp.
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@@mylarmelodies oh, I missed that one! :D
Also a rotating clock divider from 4ms might give you what the clockworks wasn’t doing for you?
What about connecting top and bottom with Doepfer A-180-9 by a single ethernet cable to get rid of this nest?
Hi I'm subscribed and love your stuff. Just noticed YT didn't notify of anything you uploaded in January despite hitting all notifications. I checked my feed it's odd. csn bingewatch though. (: Hope I'm the only one! Cheers!
Your rig sounds awesome btw. you really hit your stride huh? (:
Ahh weird!! And not something easily diagnosed or solved really - Maybe just a glitch :(
Hey Alex! I've been thinking about delving into making modules and I have a pretty solid design for a gateway of sorts, with one input and four outputs. The input is sent to a certain output, which is selected by a control voltage on the location input. Fully audio rate switching, I'm just wondering if you personally would find this as a cool way to send around gates or cv's. Thanks, and cheers :)
the metropolis bit reminds me of kraftwork
Have you checked out the doepfer a-150-8 vc switch?