An Inspiring Eurorack Toolbox for Audio & CV // Workshop Computer from Music Thing

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Also see Turing Machine, Workshop System & Planet of the Apes! // Music Thing Modular at Machina Bristronica

"Seeing the Music Thing Workshop System grow and develop over recent years have been a lovely thing and it made me happy to see part of it getting broken out into a Eurorack module and for that part to be the Workshop Computer. It's an 8HP Eurorack module that works as digital toolbox for audio and CV which offers all sorts of handy low level utility things, more exciting audio and CV generation and a range of more lo fi and hi fi audio FX.

Along with the release of the module are 3 new program cards from RYK, offering pitch shifting delay, vocoding, pitch to voltage and tape style recording and looping. You also get some default Music Thing cards and there's blank cards with a huge range of simple drag and drop a file over USB options for a range of community cards you can get for free too. Check out the links below, loads of info in the timing index to skip around. Enjoy!"

*TIMING INDEX // CHAPTERS*

INTRO

00:00:00 Hello & previews

00:02:37 What is the Workshop Computer?

00:04:11 Panel & feature run down

TURING MACHINE - Music Thing

00:05:37 Turing Machine - wonderful multi output random looping sequencing

SHEEP - Dune Desormeaux

00:12:03 Sheep - a fluffy stereo granular processor

910 PITCHED DELAY - RYK

00:17:39 RYK Pitched delay explaination

00:20:30 Pitched delays & harmonisers (Blue Nautilus Sitar)

00:23:02 Pitched Delays for Visconti ’80s drum sounds

00:25:58 Flanging & chorus for the 910 card

00:27:05 VCO thickener, unison and diffused room FX

00:30:27 Delay shimmers for poly synths (Nick Gilling pads)

MIDI - Music Thing

00:32:23 DAW MIDI control of analogue modular + modular control of the DAW

355 PITCH TO VOLTAGE - RYK

00:35:44 Pitch to Voltage explainer

00:38:34 Envelope following & gate extraction

00:40:47 Warp records want their pitch tracking back

350 VOCODER - RYK

00:43:33 Vocoder explainer with chord generator

00:46:57 Dub techno vocoder chord stabs

00:49:39 Beats & saw waves vocoder layering

SLOWMOD - divmod/@olt

00:52:03 Interweaving cross mod & cross fading quad LFO

REVERB+ - Music Thing

00:56:02 Reverb+ explainer

01:01:34 Short & heavy modulated verbs on drums

01:03:48 Long ambient verbs & modulation for chorus

01:06:02 Reverb feedback fun

B77 TAPE - RYK

01:07:58 Basic tape style recording, looping & reversing

01:12:50 Weirdly obsessing over cosmonaut communication noise profiles

01:14:42 Recording two channel drones for chords & re-using 1 oscillator

BACKYARD RAIN - Brian Dorsey

01:20:19 Rain as fantastic textures & how to use noise sources

01:22:14 Creating crunchy digital brittle noise

01:22:51 Exciting vocoder chords with rain

01:23:47 Noise as a tool for resonators & modal synthesis

01:25:17 Noise as a modulation source for basic synth sounds

GOD LEVEL UBER CARD - Chris J

01:26:17 hundreds of functional pairings

01:28:05 A Buchla playground - wave folding + LPG + random + 5 step sequence