"Chinese singer Eason Chan playfully changed the words of his love song to 'Mcdonald's is fantastic' @mcdonalds in a concert 16 years ago just for fun, and no-one-know-why it's suddenly gone viral recently, with many singers of varied styles imitating and recreating it online but none of them representing synthesizer players! That's why I made this to get involved in this exciting game."
"Noise Lab has recently released their latest module, the Formantic [see this post]. It's a
"formant filter," which in this case means it's really three filters in one: a low pass filter plus two band pass filters. The cutoffs and resonances of all three can be set independently, as well as be controlled through a common cutoff knob.
I was curious both about its sound when driven by a standard VCO (e.g. Dixie) and how it would sound with the Mangrove, an oscillator designed to produce formants on its own. If one formant module is good, surely two is better, yes?
You be the judge.
00:00 Intro
00:20 Mangrove
07:20 Formantic w/sawtooth
12:20 Formantic w/distorted saw
22:09 Formantic w/Mangrove
26:46 Now with reverb and delay!"
"Just Friends in FLOOM mode is incredible.
I’d like to spend few words for this really simple patch.
JF 1v/oct receives some randomic cv from uO_c, randomly triggered by my beloved @busy Pamela’s New Workout.
Plaits in chords mode (WTF) modulates the FM input on JF (WTF pt.2).
Monsoon for the long awesome reverb, modulated by a rampy LFO from @mutable Stages (Position).
an afternoon exercise with kria sequencing whimsical raps justfriends and the makenoise sto with sparks from mutable instruments beads.
at one point during the performance, my entire arm covered the frame while i was adjusting the filter cut-off on the whimsical raps three sisters, so i included some amazing clips of the sky that felt right for the music for that section.
@patchesinblue on instagram, twitter, bandcamp and soundcloud"
"This is a demo of the Mannequins by Whimsical Raps Mangrove formant oscillator. I go through all knobs and show you three patch ideas.
Mangrove is an analog formant oscillator that contains a triangle-core with a dedicated square wave output and a shaped impulse-train generator output through an internal VCA and waveshaper.
Many of the brands in the world of Eurorack modular are small businesses that produce in small numbers. To me, it is deliberating that not everything is immediately available all the time and every once in a while there are modules that are on backorder, out of stock, or out of production. With its unconventional and inspiring design, the Mangrove formant oscillator is highly regarded even years after its release. I think it is well worth the hype."
fall has brought with it mixed colors and feelings. i went through another patch in blue. i'm not sure if I'm out on the other side yet. making this was hard. but i'm here anyway
thank you for listening
Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus 2
Ciat-Lonbarde Sidrax Organ
Whimsical Raps Mangrove
MakeNoise Phonogene
MakeNoise fxdf/RxMx
Oto Bam"
"first time using i2c to have the Monome teletype speak to Whimsical Raps just friends. i started studying and got distracted
the MakeNoise mimeophon is there to preserve and repeat the history of what was said; occasionally; like little echoes of memories that surface suddenly, often blurring the lines between what was said and what was meant and understood
the er-301 adds grains of weariness from having to listen and remember
the Hologram Electronics microcosm creates much needed space to breathe
Thank you to vecteezy for their bird vectors that helped me created the animation"
"This first of two movies explains what’s going on behind the panel in this versatile filter module, and explores the different ways you can use it in a conventional one audio in/one audio out patch. The second movie (below) explores using its multiple inputs and outputs.
Index: 00:00 introduction 00:28 topology explained 01:01 use as a triple bandpass Formant filter 03:28 keyboard tracking 04:27 resonance and self-oscillation 05:14 crossover mode explained 06:09 use as a multi-mode filter 06:49 focus on the Centre band in Crossover mode 08:16 switching from sawtooth to square wave input 09:23 pinging for percussive sounds 10:52 notch rejection (“wet/dry” or “anti-filter” mixing) 13:36 signal level management 15:51 intro to the second movie"
"This second of two movies on the Three Sisters focuses on ways to use its multiple inputs and outputs, including tricks and spectral mixing and creating a pseudo-stereo image from a mono input.
"Dan released an update to cheat codes 2 that is so cool. Basically, each pad on a cheat codes bank can send notes to a just friends that is connected via crow. That can then come back into cheat codes as material for the live record buffers. Leads to some very fun exploration. Here's a few minutes of this morning's session. I have buttons mapped on the midi fighter twister to generate new patterns within cheat codes."
"In this video I use the 'remixer' method with my 104 7u case full of awesome modules including the new Noise Engineering Desmodus Versio and Mannequins W/ with the new beta firmware set to an FM synth. All the sounds come from the modular and the Octarack is a mixer, FX box, and resampler for looping.
"How Arturia is sounding with third filter, with a lot of other third filters :) I'm testing how Arturia working with different eurorack filters from Korg MS20, Roland Jupiter 6, Roland SH101, Oberheim SEM, Prophet 6, Polikvoks and Prophet 5. Also Three Sisters filter checking.
This is test from composer/producer to others composer/producers so don't expect engineer oscilloscope detailed test. I'm artist, not engineer so far :)
So here are full list of filters with same order as showing:
1. Korgasmatron II from Intellijel - Korg MS20 filter,
2. Doepfer A-106-5 SEM - Oberheim filter
3. Jove80 from System 80 - Roland Jupiter 6, Roland SH101 filter,
4. Curtis Filter from Dave Smith - Prophet 6 filter,
5. Z2040 from TipTop - Prophet 5 rev 2 filter,
6. Black Polivoks VCF from Erica Synth - Polivoks filter,
7. Three Sisters from Mannequins
I used FabFilter L2 at the end of signal, since I thing loudness isn't most important factor here. No other effects.
Also, when I put to much resonance to duck the whole signal for not destroying your speakers, headphones. So, it isn't truth how Arturia is sound with max settings of resonance, because signal is ducked.
And sorry SEM presented is 12dB, not 6dB, sorry of that!
English is my second language, so sorry for mistakes. Hope you'll like it, not mistakes of course, but filters :)"
"Raw Video of very initial shape exploring of the Mangrove Module through the Sirin VCF. Breath is changing the wave shape. Occasionally I growl and the CV brings it in. I'm only using the one Eurorack module going in to the Sirin, so imagine all the amazing shape changing you can do with even just a few more modules, even simple utility. I suspect this will sound even cooler when I drive VCA with breath instead of VCF. Just does better with wood wind things that way. Plus the Sirin has a VCA and VCF CV in, so with a Eurorack simple mixer you can send various %'s of VCA and VCF from breath and/or vibrato.... now that is how you do it. All analog here. And not yet even using the Sirin VCO's, which have tricks of their own."
"Mangrove plays the main meldoy, Just Friends the drones. Mangrove's melody is recorded and processed in Morphagene, Just Friends's drones are processed through the Three Sisters filter. Everything is sequenced via Kria, with some modulations from Cycles, both running on Monome Ansible."
"Massive Ambient Modular System
