The DYSMETRIA DIY kit is a desktop and Eurorack format analog groove synthesizer. It’s a full voice analog modular groove synthesizer that can be used as a Desktop or Eurorack synthesizer. It comes along with a dedicated USB to Eurorack power converter, so you can use it in both formats without any problems! The DYSMETRIA…
Hello everyone. We’ve been on a Budhist retreat in a cave on the dark side of the Moon for the last two years and literally just returned to Earth today. Did we miss anything whilst we were gone? Anything exciting happen? Signal Sounds Roundup May 2022 Now that we’re back, fully enlightened and settled in…
Looking for an all-analog stereo signal processor with dual mono channel lanes? Look no further than Transit Eurorack Mixing! This amazing eurorack module has two channels of audio with its own input gain control, mute button, and ducking input. The Ducking input on each channel operates like traditional side-chaining on a compressor, allowing you to…
Today the Endorphin.es 1U modules are launched and I had the privilege to make a launch video. If you have an Intellijel 1U row in your case, you may find this video of interest. If not, you may need one! Endorphin.es made the modules compatible with Intellijel case outputs and I happen to have a…
Just looking at the number of plays a typical Healing Frequency video gets, I’d say they’re in high demand and highly appreciated. So in this video I wanted to share some tips and tools so you can make your own scales and tunings, and maybe turn your modular into a spa/wellness center to make people…
Please note, I am preparing for my first live gig ever, so I have to cut down on the video release frequency a bit. If you’re near Utrecht/Holland, I’ll be in the ModulationxUnCloud opening show at October 30, 2021. This week, two new firmware for the Noise Engineering Versio platform were released: Melotus and Lacrima.…
Here’s my take on Mr. Loopop’s amazing Superbooth 2021 ‘Unreleased Synth Sample Pack Mega Contest’. Make sure you give it a try too because there are super prizes to win. Check out the linked video above for the rules and the downloads. Please note you can ONLY use sounds from the pack, no other sources.…
In this video I’ve picked a set of modules by task or function, so types and brands are less important. Today, the focus is on converting a mono voice to a more engaging stereo soundscape, where a quantizer can make a difference between letting the machine do all the work, or actually composing your own…
éphémère (french for ‘short-lifespan’) is a dual-channel CV recorder that can record, sync, splice, and playback two independent modulation sources. It supports unipolar and bipolar ranges, but also audio rate sources. It can record up to 4 secs of audio in 44,1K if you wish to allow access to some ‘musique concrete’ applications. Finally, the…
On September 16th, ModularWorld launched the first worldwide (modular) TECHNO challenge and I was happy to be part of it. I am not sure if I can join all forthcoming Patch-On shows, but I’d like to commit to all challenges just for fun and inspiration. So maybe I’ll see you next time on ModularWorld. If…
It took me a while to figure out the Melotus Versio, which was recently introduced by Noise Engineering as a granular texturizer. The name refers to both a badger (animal) and a cactus. It sits somewhere between a grain delay and a texture synth (clouds), but with the unmistakeable touch of Stephen and Kris who…
The fantasy is always better than the real thing. Or is it? I’ve been waiting for my Pulsar-23 for months and it arrived yesterday. I had this sound in my head after playing with my Mutable case, but the real thing felt dull, uncomfortable, and sonically cramped at a first patch. The 23 is nothing…
After spending two years on YouTube, I did my first live gig ever with the modular at the Uncloud Festival in Utrecht. Unfortunately, it wasn’t filmed so I had to glue some visuals together with some phone footage from the audience and great photos shot by Paulus van Dorsten (by-pauluz on insta). The audio, however,…
First Patch Orbit is an effect module providing bit crushing, harmonizing, and filtering. It doesn’t do anything on its own, so it needs an external source. It’s a great module if you want to turn a simple sound into something huge, and it also works very well with drum and bass sounds, providing lots of…
Harrington 1200 + Quantermain It’s been great fun to make this video. Harrington 1200 is an app to help you make triads (three-note chords). I totally suck at music theory so making this video wasn’t easy. I can imagine this app isn’t widely used because you’ll need three tuned voices to make chords, a lot…
CopierMaschine Here’s episode 01 of my new O_C/Hemisphere series. I suspect there will be a lot of episodes coming because this thing is deep. Please note I’ll use this series myself to learn how to use it so I’ll probably make stupid errors along the way – like spelling ‘aeolian’ wrong. In this episode, I’ll…
Tasty Chips ECR+ and ECR-1 Hi all! This video is about having fun with creative, realistic, and totally unreal reverbs. It’s no secret I love reverbs a lot more than VCA’s and I can’t have enough of them. This video features Imitor Versio, Desmodus Versio, the Tasty Chips ECR-1 and its successor, the ECR+. I…
Getting somewhere with Noise Engineering I know this isn’t really a starter kit episode, it’s more ‘get as many modules from one brand as possible’. But a starter kit needs to go somewhere. If you love techno, grime, drum & bass, industrial or dark ambient, Noise Engineering offers a lot of modules that can make…
Creating your Own FX banks There are plenty of videos on YT about FX-Aid, but one of its best features is the ability to pick your own favorite effects from a huge library that frequently grows. You can use a web-based editor (https://fxaid.app/), but you can also download a desktop version. After creating a firmware…
Weather Drones 1.5 Weather Drones started as a DIY project a few years ago but is now available as an affordable prebuilt module. Weather Drones is a great module for creating evolving drones, textures, and soundscapes, but it also responds to pitch very well. It has a mix out for the final result, but it…
Morphagene PMOD & Envelope Follower In this episode, I’ve modified options.txt on the Morphagene SD card to set PMOD to 1. With this setting enabled, Morphagene only plays when the Play CV receives a gate and plays as long as the gate is high. This makes it easier to control what will happen to the…
The Jukebox – Shared System Tutorials In MakeNoise’s latest Maths ‘bouncing ball’ video, Tony Rolando spoke about a patch you could start with one button/trigger and would then play a ‘song’ by itself. Aleatoric Music.
Soma Pulsar-23 with Mutable Instruments First of all, this video is not about the Pulsar-23. Not really. I have it in pre-order for a while so hopefully, I can offer you a real skydive soon. But I noticed Soma posting a lot of new videos, so I am suspecting it’s on its way to the…
CosMix A lot of cool stuff is coming from the Netherlands like NerdSeq, Error, Tasty Chips, and TINRS. But a relatively new brand is Cosmotronix that already gave us the super handy Delta-V dual function generator with built-in VCA, and now the CosMix, a small and straightforward mixer with four mono inputs, two stereo inputs,…
The Art of Making Good Choices When you’re getting started with modular, it’s impossible to build the perfect system – and very easy to create a combo that doesn’t really work. So in this episode, I’ll make a few bad choices, and show you how every choice will affect the next one. So this video…
Reflections A convolution reverb uses recordings of a reflected sound (e.g. a gunshot) in a room or space, thus creating super realistic reverbs. However, you can also use any sound file to create spaces that will never exist in real life. In this video, I’ve been using the new ‘angel hair’ Morphagene reel which was…
Free Plug-ins for your DAW Ever wanted a Ruina Versio but don’t have the budget? Always wanted to have a polyphonic ‘iteritas’ oscillator that blends, bubbles, screams, and morphs into amazing pads, metals, beats, basslines, and leads? Noise Engineering just released public beta’s of their 95% finished DAW plugins. I normally don’t cover plug-ins on…
MakeNoise Mysteron eight years later Today I also uploaded a new Rings into Clouds video to create another magical forest. But I can imagine you’re not into that, and prefer a darker ambient setting. So in tandem, I created this Mysteron video, which was introduced a year before Rings came out. Both Rings and Mysteron…
Rings Into Clouds … I recently added a second Rings to my lab. I was wondering how using two Rings modules would add to a patch. Looking back, using VCV rack would have been cheaper to find out but that would only lead to the same conclusion. I’ve created a big feedback loop with two…
Data Bender Definitely one of the most chilling new modules in my rig that can bring character, complexity, and pure chaos to your patch. Big fun and highly recommended.
Melodic Splices – Morphagene In my previous video (see link), I found a cool way to work with granular synths by creating granular buffers in a melodic scale. This makes it much easier to pick a segment and use it as a pitched voice without affecting playback speed. Obviously, people wanted to know if such…
Intellijel Stealth 7U case hack The main reason that I prefer the MakeNoise CV case above the beautiful Intellijel 7U Stealth case is the middle row. It’s so much easier to patch when the 1U row is in the middle. I’ve been thinking about drilling extra holes but when the row came off I figured…
1010Music BitBox Micro | feat. Monome Grid This video started as a ‘starter kit video, but Grid is a bit too exotic to start with. BitBox Micro could be a great starting point for modular exploration, with a very high production value. This is a simple showcase of BitBox Micro and a few factory presets.…
Cinematic Laboratory I recently reached 5.000 subscribers and I wanted to express my thanks with a musical treat. I had no idea I would reach this landmark after starting the channel in 2020, about 1,5 years ago. The channel is like my personal diary, getting through isolation day by day. This is also the reason…
Metropolix – One Of The Best Sequencers Just Got Better I sold my old Metropolis a year ago and always missed it a bit because of the ‘stages’, a unique way to make a simple eight-note sequence come to life. I was really happy when the new Metropolix came out that has all the cool…
Monome TeleType In this episode I’ve created another drum machine that creates simple patterns from random CV, triggers and LFO’s. Here’s the script: I Initalization scriptM 125X 0Y 0The initialization script only sets the metronome to 125 milliseconds, which adds up to 120 BPM. Every clock tick is a 16th note. It initializes two flags…
Bewitched Moody patch for a Sunday afternoon. I wanted to experiment with Strega and two Phonogenes creating a stereo soundscape, but while fooling around Strega took over and rewarded me with a beautiful dreamy piece. I tried again in the second part of this video, but after a while, Strega started to take over again.…
Rhythm by Code The third episode in my Teletype series. This time, I will create a simple rhythm machine with a bit of Grids-like density control on the hat. Easy to learn, lots of fun! Here’s the code with some explanations. Intitialization Script IPARAM.SCALE 0 100M 2000 In plain English:Set the parameter knob scale to…
Two-channel sample player New Arrival! The Two of Cups is a two-channel sample player supporting pitch and sample selection with CV control. The knobs can be set to change the initial sample, pitch, and decay. 2OC comes with an SD card packed with sounds created by Julia Bondar, which include percussion, bass, and leads. The…
Preset Manager & Macro Controller New Arrival! The 6HP Total Recall module adds eight presets for three CV values to your system. This means you can store settings for three modular destinations like filter cut-off, resonance and reverb level. But it also means you could store melodies and three-note chords – and make chord progressions…
Westlicht Performer The Westlicht Performer is a great sequencer on its own, but it’s taken to the next level of accessibility when you hook up a Launchpad…
Rush In this video I tried to speed up Tempi into audio rates by using a fast Maths cycle and clock Tempi with the ‘end-of-cycle’ trigger. Then I created very high clock divisions on the channels to trigger Rene and clock the clocks of other modules like Mimeophon and Erbe-Verb. My first attempts were very…
Intellijel Shapeshifter Exploration Here’s a second session with the ShapeShifter, an amazing complex oscillator with digital waveforms and an analog wave-folder. In this video I wanted to explore some ‘normal’ sounds but it’s hard to resist the sonic power of two high resolution wavetable oscillators and an arsenal of features to combine, sum, fold, shape,…
Monome Teletype – Metronome Demons I’ve created my first script for the Teletype, called ‘Metronome Demons’. It samples the IN cv input once a second with the M (Metronome) script. CV outputs A & B are initialized (I script) with a slew of 1 sec. In the Metronome script, the incoming CV is stored in…
Teletype First Patch It’s been nine (!) days since my last video and that’s because I had to rebuild my production PC – and learn a few Teletype commands. The Teletype may not be for everyone, but if you’re not afraid of writing some code, this thing will be able to do some amazing stuff.…
Qu-Bit Nebulae V2 NOTE: This is a first patch video and there’s a lot to figure out by trial on error because the manual doesn’t provide a typical workflow for certain scenarios. So I will definitely revisit this module and try to help you understand it. There are many granular solutions for Eurorack, where Arbhar,…
Ensemble Oscillator I’ve been intrigued by this module for a long time but hesitated to get one until I saw Jeremy’s demo on the Red Means Recording channel. I’ve included a link to his video so I don’t have to explain how it works. The Ensemble Oscillator is a 16 sinewave sound design dream that…
Telharmonic Retirement Tribute Make Noise has decided to retire the Telharmonic, System Cartesian – and Brains. The Telharmonic has been one of my most underappreciated modules for a long time, but that’s completely changed since Walker’s digital foam video. Also, the MakeNoise FB April Fools post from 2019 was also great fun to revisit –…
Harmonaig Poly After building a mono patch with the Harmonaig and Strega, it’s now time to have some fun with three Plaits and the 1v/oct input of Arbhar. Music theory is very valuable when you need to compose something, but with Harmonaig, you can easily get away with not knowing any of it. I used…
Harmonaig Solo | with Strega The Instruo Harmonaig (harmony) is designed to drive four voices into all kinds of chords and progressions. In this video I am using the Harmonaig to control Strega’s pitch and delay speed into some amazing new sounds. So when you spend some time with the Witch, don’t forget to mult…
Get more out of ring modulation & crossfading Today we go in-depth with the brand new Erica Synths Black Ring-Fade, a eurorack module with two ring modulators, a build-in crossfader, and VCA. Both the ring modulators as well as the crossfader can be used as independent modules, but the internal routing makes it very suitable…
Sound Destruction Device The Sound Destruction Device is a variable resistor distortion with a twin T-notch filter that distorts, glitches, clips, and filters sound into unearthly shapes. Five parameters allow for creating super thick fuzz, starved splatters, and sonic malformations. CV control over 3 parameters takes the damage to another level. Warp, contort, and twist shapes to…
Vult DSP New Wolv Waveshaper For Eurorack Over the last years, Vult DSP built a lot of synthesizer circuits. On a few occasions, Leonardo (Vult DSP) make full eurorack modules. For example, some years ago Leonardo designed the PCBs and panel for a Steiner-Parker filter. Leonardo gave away the boards to some of my friends…
WMD Performance Mixer I had the Performance Mixer lying around for too long because it requires a lot of space. But then I tried to make a case for it, adding all the effects I use most and it really helped to bring all the sounds in my 2×104 HP ‘islands’ together. Also, I couldn’t…
The Centre a Eurorack Modular Wavetable Synth “The Centre” started as a prototype wavetable oscillator over time has transformed itself into a fully-fledged synth with LFOs, LFO shapes, envelopes, voltage-controlled amps, digital) filters and effects. A unique Synthesizer bringing software sounds to a hardware package for tactile, PC-free controls. Powerful yet easy to use! The…
ModularWorld Anniversary Performance I’d sincerely like to thank Johno Wells for translating the concept of tape degradation to the human body. The ModularWorld Anniversary show started live at 12 noon PST and was supposed to end 24 hours later, bringing 140 artists from all over the world together and sharing more than 30 hours of…
Binaural 3D Audio – Introduction One of the coolest things I’ve been exploring is Binaural 3D audio. It’s 3D audio for normal headphones, coded in normal stereo. We’re living in a world where people consume most music with earbuds, so I am hoping the modular world will be inspired to give these ‘poor’ people a…
EPHEMERE by patching panda for Eurorack EPHEMERE is a high-resolution dual-channel recording interface for your signals. You can record from 1014sec at 172Hz up to 4 seconds at 44.1kHz of signal on each channel, change the playback speed also it scans through the recorded CV. EPHEMERE comes with an Oled display to monitor your signal to adjust…
Error Instruments’s Error Drums It’s always fun to explore a new module from Error Instruments, and this one is quickly becoming one of my favorites. It’s weird, fun and great to generate all kinds of percussive quirks if you want to escape the mainstream XOX sounds – or combine them.
ILLEGAL | Music video It’s no secret I love modulars, but I love to create ‘normal’ music too! Ok, not totally normal, I love to create cinematic adventures. Illegal is the opening (techno-ish) track of my forthcoming album with the same name. It’s about a world where music has become forbidden, so it’s not allowed…
