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Modular for a Sunday afternoon: An Englishman In The Afterlife
“I died on the operating table, apparently. Fifteen minutes, they said. I went to Heaven. It was raining. Then they brought me back. Heaven is over-rated, I think.” - The Englishman.
So I decided to take my new Intellijel Palette arrangement (still waiting for a white noise module to arrive to plug the last gap) for a spin, recorded live via ES8 into AUM on my iPad .
I try to make each case function effectively as a standalone solo device, but also have a focus, so this one is currently sampler/rhythm orientated. Of course, being modular means everything is always up for grabs, so I might possibly swap out the Sequesizer (not used in this piece) for something else. All part of the fun… 
Beads seemed to receive a somewhat muted response in comparison to other Mutable Instruments releases, but this granular effect cum oscillator is really amazing. (If you leave it for 10 seconds with nothing plugged into the inputs, it turns into a wavetable oscillator.) It is providing the whole of the musical lines here, in the wavetable oscillator mode, in a single take, (well, plus a second identical AUM File Player loop at half speed) and the reverb, too, with relatively little knob twiddling on my part.
Sequencing courtesy of the Ornament & Crime running Phazerville, a very flexible firmware incorporating the best of both OG O&C and Hemi/Benispheres, one firmware to rule them all.
I used Dual TM, a very flexible double Turing Machine, as it’s name suggests, and drum triggers for the Pique (a clone of Grids, here running another clone of a Mutable Instruments device, Pique, a 4u take on Peaks - so, another two MI designs. Such a shame that MI genius Emilie Gillet has decided to retire, her impact on modular is so very great.)
Just a quick n dirty noodle, really, but it turned out ok, I think.
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This is great! I didn’t realize you used hardware as well! Modular is one rabbit hole I refuse to go down because I know I’ll spend way too much money lol. So that’s why I stick to iOS for modular and effect pedals. A lot of Beautiful sounds here though
Nice setup you have there. These little modules, all connected up, are pretty amazing (although way beyond getting my head around it!). I enjoyed that and love the quote/description too.
Excellent track, no idea how it all works but the end result is superb… can you make toast with it as well ?
Don't do it unless you have spare cash equivalent to buying a good car. One doesn't have to spend that much, but once you get started it can become addictive very quickly.
This piece has more form than most modular improvs. Simply bringing parts in and out is enough.
Notes while I listen:
It starts out sounding like a stone polisher… place stone in this resonant spinning chamber and the stone on metal sounds repeat in a pattern.
Then the real fun starts with some pretty classic synth pads in a massive space like the physical Taj Mahal. There’s a pure trumpet tone in the mix too.
The drums are massive heads thumped with heavy soft mallets.
Some ethnic flutes in the Taj Mahal mix. Then a bell tree like sound and ending with those stones in that turning metal drum.
Some great tones here. Loads of depth and very immersive. Beads in wavetable mode sounds amazing.
Oh I’m not gonna do it believe me lol for modular and effects I’m perfectly happy with my iPad outside of small things like the Bastl synths.
Have you gotten into Modular at all?
I have a lot. It's a disease my friend. I need to sell it all.
😂😂 I wish I knew the cure but I can’t help you there. MiRack is amazing for never getting started down the hole in the first place though lol I love hardware semi Modular’s like an MS20 but I made sure to never even pick up the rack because I know myself well enough to know I would sink thousands and thousands
Thanks all for the listens and comments. It’s nice to get feedback.
Especially impressed by @McD’s review of the sounds. Very imaginative! @GeoTony : I haven’t seen a toast module yet, but since I am already including everything and the kitchen sink in my modular quest, it can only be a matter of time.
@StudioES : Yes, I really like Beads, one of the more immediately usable modules I have. It doesn’t have a million complicated hidden Easter egg modes (as far as I know, anyway!) but it does a lot in a very user friendly way, especially the reverb, the wavetable, and the grades (or degrades) of the sound. In the red mode it is instant wobbly tape LoFi. Lovely!
@Alter_EgoUK: Trust me, I don’t know what I’m doing either! I fumble my way forward, and slowly things come together… or don’t. I bought my first Ornament & Crime partly because of the cool name (!), and because a lot of people seemed to have it in their racks on Modular Grid (yes, I’m that shallow).
I still don’t know how to use half the things it does, but boy, does it do a lot, including e.g. Bug Crack, a pretty decent analog bass and snare/hihat voice, (which you can trigger from a Mutable Instruments Grids drum pattern clone on the other ‘half’ of the display, btw), many sequencers, including a TB3PO, a TB303 style one which can do squelchy acid slides, and, ooh, quantisers, and loads of other cool things. I could easily add another couple of O&Cs to the rack and have them all doing different, useful things. See the full current list for Phazerville here:
https://github.com/djphazer/O_C-BenisphereSuite/wiki
I’m a tech noob, but updating the firmware wasn’t scary. I just followed Synthdad’s guide (for Hemispheres, but it applies to Phazerville too), here:
With the Phazerville firmware installed and unlike the other ‘Swiss Army knife’ module I’ve got, the Disting EX, I find the O&C just clicks with me. On the Disting, I drive myself mad hitting the wrong button in the wrong place in infinitely nested menus, screwing everything up and having to start again. I had similar issues with my Expert Sleepers ES8 interface - I think I just don’t click with the Expert Sleepers way of doing things. On the O&C, in contrast, in each mini app it’s almost one knob per function, and just so much easier to figure out.
@HotStrange , @Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr : yup, modular is definitely both addictive and very, very, expensive. Thing is, it’s like one of those magazine kit partworks, where each issue you get a part for a model Spitfire aeroplane or something, which builds month by month into a model which ends up costing more than an actual Spitfire, but because you can do it as one module at a time, it doesn’t feel that expensive… looking back, (bad idea), I’ve probably spent something close to ten grand (!) over the past couple of years on modular cases and units, and now I’m thinking I may have to literally move house to set them all up the way I would like. But no, no, I don’t have a problem… why do you ask?
I console myself slightly with the thought that most of these hold their value quite well, and some, which have gone out of production, like my Basimilus Iteritas Alter, are actually going up in value…
The irony of course is that I make nearly all of my most purposeful noises just with apps on iPad, but the modular gear scratches a different itch. It really feels like playing, not in a musical sense, but the child-like one, indulging my kid-memory enthusiasm for the mad scientist twisting dials on incomprehensible machines in some vast esoteric lab in all those lurid, cheesy sci-fi and horror movies I loved so much: ‘It’s alive! It’s alive!’
I suspect if I were a better, or indeed any kind of, musician, my enthusiasm for all the blinking lights and cables would be much diminished. (Doing modular in a darkened room turns every day into a Christmas light show.) I can think of nothing more boring than knowing how to use a modular well enough to, you know, produce exactly what you intended it to as part of a ‘well made song’. The joy for me is in my own ignorance - a boundless resource, admittedly - the sense of discovery, and experiment. If it occasionally provides something vaguely musical - well, that’s a bonus.
This is an incredibly clean-sounding piece on the entire spectrum used. It's calming and relaxing. Also, it's fascinating to me how you managed to tame all those high frequencies. But I’m certain this is more about your ingenuity than the devices you use. 🤩
As usual, it sounds great. Very creative use of a small number of modules!
Beads sounds lovely, The Unperson on YT seems to use it a lot, and I’ve been liking what he does with it, too. I guess it’s less ubiquitous due to still being uncloneable at the moment.
@HotStrange you have to watch it with MiRack - I’m convinced it’s a gateway drug!
I’m currently quenching my modular desires, having finally, after about a year of dithering, upgraded my iPad from my 6th Gen base model (2018) to a shiny new 11” M2 pro 1TB. Though a few weeks ago I pre-ordered an Albers - a new drone synth from Decadebridge who made the Cadence I’ve been using a lot, so my hardware lusts are being sated too, just more “cheaply”!
You have no idea how close I came to ordering a Make Noise Tape & Microsound Machine this BF, though…
Amazing work! Has a bit of a Bladerunner sound to it, haunting and mysterious. If only I had patience to learn modular (though not for a lack of trying lol).
Definitely got soundtrack written all over this one. Some really lovely sounds on this one, and it flows so nicely too.