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Bochner–Riesz - live vid of my first modular-only noodle

edited July 2021 in Other

I’m approaching my burgeoning interest in ‘DAWless’ modular in the same way as I approach apps in AUM - pretty much randomly, from a strong, solid base of incompetence and ignorance. (Except of course each ‘app’ here is orders of magnitude more expensive! But lovely… there’s a reason they call it Eurocrack…)

For this reason, I’m setting up the rack to be constantly recording while I noodle, in case coherence should break out at any point. Of course, I haven’t actually got that sorted yet - I think my old Zoom R8 visible in the background there will do the honours when a longer power cable for it shows up - so this time round, knowing I absolutely, positively wouldn’t get this to sound the same a second time round, I, er, ‘captured’ it just on the IPad mic and camera, hence the unintentional Lo-fi vibe. I’m also starting to play around with video coz, you know, why not? So here it is:

Early impressions, fwiw, and I know that these are cliches of the genre by now, but the Mutable Instruments apps, sorry, ‘modules’ :) are almost uniformly amazing, and the clone ‘u’ versions produced by After Dark pack all the functionality and more ( in the case of Typhoon, for example, their version of Clouds, you get the original Clouds spec plus all the alternative firmwares) into a smaller space. Since I’m not performing with the rig, and am more a ‘tweak a single knob a bit and see what happens’ kind of person, this gain in rack space at some cost in widdly widdly is a good trade off.

Re the cost thing: yes, it is expensive if you compare a standalone instrument against the modules you’d need to replicate it. But you can take a ‘part work’ approach (‘builds month by month into the synth of your dreams’), and, the complete openness of modular (what happens if I plug this into that?) leads to very different head spaces from a keyboard synth, or anything controlled by MIDI instead of cv. I notice this with the physical rack in a way that neither MiRack nor the Holy Drambo managed for me.

Maybe it is precisely because I can’t play a conventional instrument thatI feel this way, but, yeah - modular rules! (Spoken like a true addict.)

I have however resisted the small potted plant.

Comments

  • Very nice, good to see the setup as well, looks like a great bunch of stuff to explore!

  • Cool!!! I keep getting enticed by the modular aspect and wanting to obtain a few………. Hundreds of items. But then I go to a meeting and admit that I have a problem. 😁😂. No really cool posting. And like the lofi vibe.

  • edited July 2021

    @Krupa @onerez : thanks both :) Re. ‘enticement’… fwiw my pitch to you, @onerez, is this noob thinks if you go into modular with the aim of doing something different to what you could achieve with conventional synths and samplers, you can in fact get a lot of bang for a (relatively) small buck, especially if you base it off a decent semi modular as a way of getting a few of the basics and less interesting utility functions down at bargain basement prices.

    A second hand Neutron would be hard to beat, though my modular 114 https://www.sound-machines.it/product/modulor114/ would be a good place to start too, as it feels a lot more like a compact collection of discrete modules rather than a regular synth with a few break out points (though it can work that way too with the push of a button). Plus it brings goodies like a multifx and a ribbon controller to the party.

    Tim Shoebridge shows how you can get something interesting going with a minimal, affordable Behringer 110 clone based set up -

    Imagine adding the soon to be released ‘Brains’ £128 oscillator to that (basically a Microfreak in a module) https://www.thomann.de/gb/behringer_brains.htm,

    • and you won’t have completely broken the bank. Key point of course, is you can just add a piece as you go.

    Yes, I have drunk the Kool Aid. ;) C’mon… the first taste is (almost) free…

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