#2336

i just discovered these and thought they were very helpful and inspiring. not just for serge, but modular and just synthesis or sound design in general. he does some things based on roland kayn’s cybernetics approach. theres a whole series on his own channel from the video below this one

his workshop lps were my favorite back when i listened to a lot of house/techno *(edit: i confused gunnar haslam with kassem mosse, but his l.i.e.s. release “bera range” was p good), i think it’s so cool when we are able to get a glimpse of the ideas and processes that some of these lesser known artists use in their studios

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#2337

Hi
I was trying to send cv & pitch from ableton (using the cv tools) to my Plaits via an ES-9. It is working now the issue was that all my in very plugged first into VCA then to the ES-9 and then the signal was not great. All sorted thanks

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#2338

got my data bender today, in love with it after an hour. i might try and put together a little demo video since i spent a lot of time looking for one before trusting my gut and just buying it.

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#2339

Please do, I’m very curious as well!

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#2340

what a friday night, i made my first gear demo. hope this sheds some light on it for you.

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#2341

Woah that was way cooler than I was expecting.

Everything I’d seen to this point really leaned into the destructive glitch aesthetic + + I thought the modes were mutually exclusive. It’s like pseudo-granular. Nuts.

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#2342

Fantastic vid, thanks for that!

Glitch windowing affects the amplitude curve of the individual glitches, like an envelope. ”Poppy” on the left, smooth glitches on the right:

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#2343

yeah, I was surprised that you can dial in more subtle stuff. this thing is so fun.

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#2344

this + IME sound of thunder + Doepfer A-189-1 are my study tools for a norns engine someday. will check this out, thanks for making it !

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#2346

watched this this morning and have spent all day having a ball - i dont know if it was any particular patch advice, the philosophy he shared, or just rinsing the kinds of expetations i had from my brain - but man i remember wy i wanted to get into eurorack and synthesis again :slight_smile:

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#2347

exactly how i feel. when i’m away from my gear, i spend a lot of time trying to get inspired by new ideas on youtube or instagram or in something like wire magazine or some of my old electronic production books. but i find a lot of newer content online to be kind of uninspiring and very similar to one another. i do really appreciate in depth explorations of more abstract experimental original ideas with sound design. i was watching this one in particular last night and though i dont have a serge setup, it really made me want to get out my ciat lonbarde circuits and mix it in with some eurorack modules to get some raw chaotic feedback to build from. the whole series is really igniting my desire for a serge system though

speaking of the more experimental side of synthesis, this was another channel that really gave me some inspiration last night as well:

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#2348

Second the Comparative Irrelevance nod. It is a brilliant channel. His three module series is a treasure trove of patching techniques that I revisit often.

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#2349

Random question: what is the deal with some manufacturers (thinking XAOC) using year numbers on their modules? Is there a bit of history there?

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#2350

I have this module. The video helps.

#2351

It really is. It boggles my mind how his channel isn’t huge given how well put together and useful his videos are. I’ve learned so much from his patches, especially regarding utility things like Mutable Kinks

On my own little Euorack adventure, I’ve just built a Radio Music after struggling to incorporate actual SW radio signals. Turns out all I can actually pick up from my area is classic pop and rock stations, which isn’t the treasure trove of wonders I was hoping for. I’m absolutely in love with using it as an exciter for Elements and Rings

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#2352

Does a mixer / multi-VCA module with these features exist?

  • 4+ channels
  • DC coupled
  • CV over each channel’s level with visual feedback of CV signal
  • individual channel outs with visual feedback
  • summed output with visual feedback

I’m 95% happy with Intellijel’s Quad VCA and MI Veils, but they each only provide one type of visual feedback, and the normalization-breaking outputs are not always what I want. Come to think of it, a switch allowing you to choose whether or not a channel is part of the summed out would be a nice bonus.

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#2353

Morph 4 comes close, but it’s larger and lacks visual feedback for the cv signal (third bullet). You can control whether or not a channel is included in the summed output and this is under cv control.

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#2354

Happy Nerding 3xVCA fits every point except 4+ Channels. But 2 of those would give you 6 VCAs in 12 hp

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#2356

i have 20hp open in my 1u row that i’m wondering how i should fill out. intellijel format. what are your favorite small 1u modules? thinking about maybe grabbing two different rate NLC sloths, or a diff-rect, but I’m curious what other options are out there.

#2357

The sloths are a nice option indeed. I quiet like noise tools for providing quiet a lot of different types of randomness.
I also use the transient modules u3A quiet a bit for (sub)mixing (or quadratt as alternative, which does one channel more and provides bigger knobs, but is 28hp so too large for your 20hp space).

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