WMD CLUTCH - Hi Hat Percussion Eurorack Module - In Depth Overview

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"The long-awaited Clutch module is a dual sample player built specifically for creating dynamic, expressive hi-hat sounds through an immediately playable interface.

With two layers of samples, Clutch lets you blend dependable “bread-and-butter” built in hits with a massive library of sample pairs hosted on a memory card. The controls for the card based samples are always accessible and intuitively arranged, making it easy to dial in sounds quickly during performance or patching. And yes, you can load your own samples!

In this video, Alex goes through the module from top to bottom, demoing all of the controls and features Clutch has to offer. Starting with the connections, and ending with a jam using CV modulation, the built-in FX, and feel control to create a super unique groove in a matter of minutes. Clutch is a tool for creating the best quality and unique hihat and auxilliary percussion to your modular jams in a fun and intuitive way.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:10 - Quick overview
01:10 - Trigger inputs, mono output
03:20 - Surface A banks walk-through
06:24 - Pitch A
06:40 - Release
06:57 - A/B Blend
07:14 - Assignable knobs
10:30 - Effects Mode
14:00 - Feel Control
15:30 - CV Control / Jam Time

WMD designs electronic hardware for musicians longing for a balance of precision and exploration. Our quality control is the absolute finest, with service to match."

Update:

Performable, musical & “produced” sounding modular hi hats // CLUTCH from WMD

video upload by DivKid

"Here we have the eagerly anticipated CLUTCH from WMD. It's a dual layer, closed and open hi hat module based around the playback of samples. With 'samples' said ... you can swap them and turn this into a percussive sample player for non hi hats too - which we do in the video. There's built in FX, seriously impressive 'feel' and dynamics controls that are incredibly musical incredibly easily and a whole host of features to layer sounds, sit them in a mix and to perform with them."

Timestamps:

00:00 Hello & previews

01:35 What is Clutch?

02:43 Detailed feature run

CLUTCH RAW SOUNDS

07:57 Clutch built in sounds - Surface A and B
// 08.15 Surface B sounds
// 09.12 Surface A sounds - White - Classic Drum Machines
// 09.48 Surface A sounds - Red - Multi sampled real hi hat
// 10.01 Surface A sounds - Green - Combined real hats
// 10.12 Surface A sounds - Blue - Real hi hats played with mallets / attachments
// 10.34 Surface A sounds - Orange - Techno Shakers
// 10.45 Surface A sounds - Cyan - Arp 2600 Noises 1
// 11.00 Surface A sounds - Violet - Arp 2600 Noises 2
// 11.09 Surface A sounds - Yellow - Lo Fi Tape Hats

CLUTCH PATCHES / TECHNIQUES

11:50 DivKid Bank 808 & 909 Rimshots - FX Dub Echo

12:16 Performative bending of the weird & wonderful against stable regular sounds

16:12 DivKid Bank Plastic Block & Cowbell - FX Bitcrush

16:33 Hi hats ARE the groove - the head bob, the swagger and feel

20:07 Accents, velocity & dynamic patterns
// 20.21 Creating accents
// 21.42 Velocity modulation
// 22.28 Surface modulation + LFO to velocity tricks
// 23.28 All together now! Dialling in for the mix

24:14 DivKid Bank Hi Hats - FX Glitch

24:49 Techno - classic drum machine hats balanced & performed with
// 25.40 The anatomy of a modular techno patch
// 26.28 Performance shifting hi hats

28:13 DivKid Bank Shakers - FX Reverb

28:40 Feel - your shortcut to musical interesting velocity patterns
// 29.12 Enabling and explore ‘feel’
// 29.51 Accent resetting feel patterns

30:59 DivKid Bank Darduka + Riq - FX DJ Filter

31:30 FX modes explainer - from crush through ambience and glitch
// 32.25 White - Sputter Distortion
// 32.54 Red - Bitcrush Distortion
// 33.16 Green - Comb Filter
// 33.38 Blue - DJ Filter
// 34.03 Orange - Dub Echo
// 34.37 Cyan - Chorus
// 34.59 Violet - Reverb
// 35.17 Yellow - Glitch

35:46 DivKid Bank Shakers - FX Sputter Distortion

36:14 Momentary FX parameter changes
// 36.55 How to momentary control FX parameters

37:43 DivKid Bank Glitches - FX Chorus

38:09 Making bursts swell sidechain style

40:18 DivKid Bank 808 Clav & Cowbell - FX Comb Filter

40:54 Audiorate Clutch - a mega harmonic hard sync style oscillator