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Eurorack – Melodicer Formant Trance

finished another video

Experimenting with formants from Hieroglyphic’s Plume formant pulsar generator.
Modular synth didgeridoo trance vibes…
Melodic pattern via Vermona’s Melodicer.
All voices and effects are heavily modulated by envelopes and LFOs.

Equipment used:
Sequencer – Vermona Melodicer Voices – Hieroglyphic Plume/4ms Ensemble Oscillator/Neuzeit Instruments Warp/Behringer Brains Modulation – Instruo Ochd+Expander/Xaoc Devices Zadar Clock – ALM Pamelas Workout VCA – Bastl Aikido/Molten Modular Motion MTR FX – Happy Nerding FX Aid/Oxi Meta/Endorphines Milky Way Mix – After Later Audio Bartender+Barbeck Drums – Endorphines Queen of Pentacles Others – Mordax Data, Doepfer A160 ClkDiv, Doepfer A180 Mult

Audio recorded from my #eurorack synthesizer into Logic Pro.
Video recorded via iPhone and iPad combined in Final Cut Pro.

Eurorack – Vermona Melodicer Trance

Just an experiment with randomized rhythms and melodies from Vermona’s Melodicer. All voices and effects are heavily modulated by envelopes and LFOs.

Equipment used:
Sequencer – Vermona Melodicer Voices – 4ms Ensemble Oscillator/Bastl Pizza/Neuzeit Instruments Warp/Behringer Brains Filters – Bastl Ikarie/Bastl Cinnamon Modulation – Instruo Ochd+Expander/Klavis Quadigy Clock – ALM Pamelas Workout VCA – Bastl Aikido/Molten Modular Motion MTR FX – Happy Nerding FX Aid/Endorphines Milky Way/After Later Audio Fuse(Parasites) Mix – After Later Audio Bartender+Barbeck Drums – Endorphines Queen of Pentacles/After Later Audio Baker Others – Mordax Data (XY scope)/DPW Switch(freezing dicer)

Audio recorded from my #eurorack synthesizer into Logic Pro.
Video recorded via iPhone and iPad combined in Final Cut Pro, with effects by Magic Music Visuals Performer.

Latest additions to my Eurorack

Cycle Instruments Tetrachords

a 4 track tetrachord sequencer, allowing for easy harmonics, without studying too much music theory

Oxi Meta

a multieffect module, easy to loop in with DJ style knob

Befaco Oneroi

an ambient sound engine, sounds like it was used in every horror movie ever produced

Expert Sleepers Tiny Midi Breakout

just a convenience breakout board for the Disting EX module MIDI functions

Oxi Coral

a 8 channel VCO + Env + FX, good alrounder especially together with the OXI One sequencer

After Later Audio Stairs

a stereo Moog ladder filter, the one I missed so far…..

Eurorack – N5 from Outer Space

A tribute to the absolute masterpiece by Alexander Robotnick and Ludus Pinsky called “N5 from outer space”.

I really love this tune, and tried to re-create it but horribly failed.

Using 12 tracks at the same time, orchestrated via Akai Force and Hermod+, the mixdown was a real catastrophe since the phase shifts from various effects were cancelling out each other.

Re-mixing every single voice separately within Logic Pro helped to finally push out this video.

Equipment used:

Sequencer – Akai Force/Dnipro DOT/Vermona Melodicer Midi/CV – Squarp Hermod+/Expert Sleepers ES-9 Voices – 4ms Ensemble Oscillator/SWN/nanoRings/Bastl Pizza/Neuzeit Instruments Warp/Klavis Twin Waves/Behringer Brains/Moog Mariana Filters – Bastl Ikarie/Joranalogue Filter 8/Bastl Cinnamon/After Later Audio Popple Modulation – Instruo Ochd/Klavis Quadigy/Behringer Four LFO Clock – ALM Pamelas Workout VCA – Bastl Aikido/Behringer Four Play FX – Happy Nerding FX Aid/QuBit Nautilus Mix – After Later Audio Bartender+Barbeck/Logic Pro Drums – Endorphines Queen of Pentacles/After Later Audio Baker

Audio recorded from my #eurorack synthesizer and drum+bass boosted via Logic Pro.
Video recorded via iPhone+iPad combined in Final Cut Pro, with effects by Magic Music Visuals Performer.

a few more eurorack additions

Another week of OnCall passed, time to invest the extra money into some more eurorack modules….

Squarp Hermod+

not using the sequencer functionality right now, for me it is more or less a 8/8 channel USB bridge from my Akai Force

Expert Sleepers ES-9

I use this one to connect to VCV Rack and have DC coupled modulation going from my mac to the eurorack

Instruo EAS

yes probably the most expensive logic module, but I had the money…. 😉

Eurorack – Blade Runner Vibes

Blade Runner Vibes – on Modular Synth

Since I’m a big fan of the old and the new BladeRunner movies, I simply had to do this tribute synth patch. Please enjoy and re-watch the movies.

The Blade Runner style melody pattern is randomly advanced by Qu-Bit’s Bloom fractal sequencer. No pre-recorded melody here.
Bard Quartet arpeggiator plays the bassline on Brains.
A rainy soundscape is generated by Ensemble Oscillator waveshaped into pink noise, which is then delayed and processed in Nautlius.
Mixed together with some random envelopes triggering an VCA to form kind of raindrop sounds impacting from time to time.

Typhoon, FX Aid and Milky Way shift all sound layers into an appropriate atmosphere using long delay reverbs.
Fractal sequencer – Qu-Bit Bloom Voices – Bastl Pizza (main synth) / Behringer Brains (bass) / 4ms Ensemble Oscillator (rainy noise) Modulation – Behringer Chaos (Marbles) for clock and random filter CV Filter – Bastl Cinnamon EG – XAOC Zadar with slowly randomized envelopes ARP – Shakmat Bard Quartet VCA – Behringer Four Play FX – Qu-Bit Nautilus (De-Shimmer Cascade) / Endorphines Milky Way (Tape Echo) / After Later Audio Typhoon (Spectral Clouds) / Happy Nerding FX Aid (Delay Magneto)
Mix – Endorphines Cockpit Samples – 2HP Play with a sample Remix FX Vocal Warp FX 03 from Apple Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools (pitched up and mixed into rain noise)

Audio recorded from my #eurorack synthesizer and video recorded via iPhone combined in Final Cut Pro in HDR.

Eurorack power up issues

Spent the whole weekend reorganizing my eurorack modules, but I still have powerup issues for some modules, so I decided to buy one more WMD softstart adapter. Hopefully this will help, otherwise I need another expensive power supply.

WMD Softstart

delays the power on current flow for a “low energy module” so that the bigger ones can get the startup juice first 😉

And of course I could not resist to get some extras….

DPW Design SW-1

the module version of my self mode simple A/B switch boxes, much more convenient, I use them a lot

Erica Synths Pico Input

always good to fill some tiny gaps with useful modules…. this one allows for quick audio input from various sources shifted to eurorack levels

Eurorack – Stepper connected

Stepper connected – on Modular Synth

An improvisation inspired by the era of accustic modems, when FidoNet was more affordable than internet. And printers and floppys were using stepper motors that we made music with.

The main arp voice is steadily modulated by random envelopes, and gates and notes are also triggered with probabilities from Black Sequencer.

Typhoon gets triggered from time to time and freezes into an interesting long spectral reverb cloud….
Sequencer – Erica Synths Black Sequencer Voices – Bastl Pizza (bass) / Behringer Brains (Plaits super saw arp) / 4ms Ensemble Oscillator (stepper sound)
Modulation – Instruo 0chd / Behringer Chaos (Marbles) EG – After Later Audio Baker modulating Brains VCA – Doepfer A130-8 for gating
Clock – ALM Pamelas New Workout FX – Endorphines Milky Way (Gated Reverb) / After Later Audio Typhoon (Spectral Clouds) / Neuzeit Instruments Quasar
Mix – Bastl Aikido / Endorphines Cockpit
Samples – freesound.org-546450 Internet Dialup / Remix FX Vocal Warp FX 03 from Apple Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools

Audio recorded from my #eurorack synthesizer and video recorded via iPhone combined in Final Cut Pro in HDR.

Eurorack – Bloom v1

Bloom v1 – on Modular Synth

My first try creating a melody with Qu-Bit’s Bloom fractal sequencer.
I tried to let it sound a bit underwater bubble like, with some whale like noises in between.
Almost everything is modulating everything else, hard to tame….

Fractal Sequencer – Qu-Bit Bloom
Voices – 4ms Spherical Wavetable Navigator SWN / Bastl Pizza / 4ms Ensemble Oscillator / Neuzeit Instruments Warp
Filters – Bastl Cinnamon / Bastl Ikarie
Modulation – Instruo 0chd / Behringer Four LFO / Joranalogue Filter 8
EG – After Later Audio Baker / Klavis Quadigy
Clock – ALM Pamelas New Workout FX – Endorphines Milky Way / Qu-Bit Nautilus / After Later Audio Typhoon / Neuzeit Instruments Orbit
Mix – Bastl Aikido / Behringer Four Play / Endorphines Cockpit Drums – Endorphines Queen of Pentacles
Visualization – Mordax Data

Audio recorded from my #eurorack synthesizer and video recorded via iPhone combined in Final Cut Pro, first try HDR.

Eurorack – Endorphines Cockpit Firmware Update video

Since a lot of people are asking in forums how to update firmware on STM devices like the Endorphines Cockpit, I decided to make a few slides and record this process so people can follow easily.

Just mute if you don’t like the background track.

I was just doing a quick 3min patch with my Ochd and Quasar to see if all went fine.

Thanks to Endorphin.es for continously improving their firmware releases.

Sequencer – Dnipro Metamorph
Voice – Behringer Brains
Modulation – Instruo Ochd
FX – Qu-Bit Nautilus, Neuzeit Instruments Quasar
Mix – Endorphines Cockpit