Dual #XPO | Shared System 'X' | Episode 02 | 259 is here again

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"This series is about getting creative within the confinement of the 7U case with black and gold modules which are available in retail. The goal is to build something like the original Shared System B&G where the collection and order of modules deliver a logical and intuitive synthesizer ecosystem.

The heart and soul of the original Shared is the DPO, which is a dual complex VCO, inspired by the Buchla 259 from the '70's. There's 'two five nine was here' printed on the circuitboard. While the DPO is still available, it's only available in silver, and it may not be restocked in the EU because it has a vactrol to strike the wavefolder. Without speculating too much, DPO will either leave the stage, or return as a 'green' revision borrowing a DXG strike. Who knows.

Even though I love Spectraphon, which also has a '259 inspired' design, it doesn't sound like an analog DPO. It doesn't have the raw sound of fresh timber. I've been experimenting with dual XPO's for a while now (there's a link to my XPO vs DPO video) and I've 'discovered' that adding a moddemix as a bus really approximates it, but can also go beyond any complex VCO I've heard. The output count is outrageous, and having the 'FM/MOD bus' on the outside brings you very close to a Serge design. It takes a bit more patching, but it also delivers tons of fun.

I am aware this series is a bit like a buying guide mixed with a MakeNoise ad but I am not affiliated with MakeNoise except that I am a groupie. I make fan films. We all have our favorites and MN was my entry into modular. I am totally biased. But these layouts also work with other brands and they're shared for inspiration. It's not the brand, not the modules, it's the roles, order and interaction of modules that turn a patch blanket into an ecoystem."

Making Noise With 0Coast // SFX & Music

video upload by Michael Manning

"In this video I show why I think the Make Noise 0Coast is the best piece of hardware to learn and experiment with modular synthesis. I show an overview of the instrument before then applying it towards making SFX for a 2D video game I'm making, showing my sound design process and some more advanced tips and tricks."

Möbius Gong

video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"Let’s use a few oblique feedback paths to make a nice thick gong sound using DXG and QPAS."

http://www.makenoisemusic.com

Modular Synth Sampler | Make Noise Morphagene

video upload by Akihiko Matsumo

Morphagene Reels from : https://akihikomatsumoto.bandcamp.com...
Make Noise Modular Synth Sample Pack: https://akihikomatsumoto.bandcamp.com...

Interlude 2 /// Neutral Labs Elmyra 2, Strega & Pulsar-23

video upload by Jon Gee

"Before the finale of my Dream series, another Interlude.

Featuring the great Elmyra 2. This track was inspired by @JayHosking 🙏🏻✨✨✨"

monOB-X Sequenced by Make Noise 0-Ctrl

video upload by Polydata

"Oberheim OB-X voice card with PWM being modulated by the 0-Coast."

Planet β

video upload by Ebotronix

Make Noise System
Spectraphone,
Tempi,
2x Pressure Points / Brains,
Rene´,
QMMG,
Mysteron,
2x MMG
2x Optomix,
4x Xpan,
2x Mimeophone, CV by 16n Faderbank,
Morphagene (Fujara),
XPO,
QPAS,
4x STO,
4x Moddemix,
2x Telharmonic (Shepard Generator) ,
2x Wiard Wogglebug,
2x Maths V1,
Maths V2,
Function,
Contour!
Jouranalogue Filter 8 (octa LFO) ,
Befaco Stereo Mixer,
Tunefish Modular 3 x Ornament and Crime , Temps Utile.
Bhairavi Scale number of notes: 7
notes (in cents): 0, 89.8, 385.9, 497.7, 702.3, 792.2, 1088.3
Doepfer R2m ,A 151,A 156.
4ms Peg,
Strymon AA1 Level Shifter and 2x Cloudburst ~ Midi CC by 16n Faderbank!
16.03.2024
video # 2354

BOUNCED / Venus Instruments VENO-ECHO / as a looper / also some PHONOGENE / not a tutorial

video upload by BRiES

"I made a send out of my joystick (it has built in vcas) so I could route new sounds through the looper. Additionally I have a manual gate routed through the Herzlich Labs OMEN lpg to create a soft envelope that modulates the filter frequency for my main sound (in a way acting as a vca as well).
The bulk of the looping is done with the VENO-ECHO. Phonogene is used as an 'on the side looper' set at a shorter time. I had monitoring on for both VCOs that I used (which I didn't record) - otherwise it would be impossible to stay somewhat in tune."

Planet μ

video upload by Ebotronix

"Make Noise System
Spectraphone,
Tempi,
2x Pressure Points / Brains,
Rene´,
QMMG,
Mysteron,
2x MMG
2x Optomix,
4x Xpan,
2x Mimeophone, CV by 16n Faderbank,
Morphagene (Fujara),
XPO,
QPAS,
4x STO,
2x Telharmonic (Shepard Generator) ,
2x Wiard Wogglebug,
2x Maths V1,
Maths V2,
Function,
Contour!
Jouranalogue Filter 8 (octa LFO) ,
Befaco Stereo Mixer,
Tunefish Modular 3 x Ornament and Crime
Mimal Microtonal Scale number of notes: 8
notes (in cents): 0, 203.9, 293.8, 497.7, 702.3, 884.4, 996.1, 1088.3
Doepfer R2m ,A 151,A 156.
4ms Peg,
Strymon AA1 Level Shifter and 2x Cloudburst ~ Midi CC by 16n Faderbank!
15.03.2024
video # 2353"

Make Noise Linear Sequencing

video upload by Ebotronix

Make Noise System
Spectraphone,
Tempi,
2x Pressure Points / Brains,
Rene´,
QMMG,
Mysteron,
2x MMG
2x Optomix,
4x Xpan,
2x Mimeophone, CV by 16n Faderbank,
Morphagene (Fujara),
XPO,
QPAS,
4x STO,
2x Telharmonic ,
2x Wiard Wogglebug,
2x Maths V1,
Maths V2,
Function,
Contour!
2x XAOC Batumi,
Befaco Stereo Mixer,
Tunefish Modular 2x Twiigs, Temps Utile,
Doepfer A 151,
2x Strymon Cloudburst CC by 16n Faderbank!
13.03.2024
video # 2352

Ringin' & Pingin' | Make Noise

video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"Karplus Strong "rings" and resonant filter "pings" are two fun ways to generate malleable sounds from short pulses, clicks, gates, etc. In this video, let's combine the two techniques into one!"

http://www.makenoisemusic.com

Sonic sculptures (generative modular music)

video upload by Electrum Modular

"(For Paula)

This patch was inspired by hours (weeks?) of listening to Morton Feldman’s exquisite music. It ended up quite different harmonically from Feldman’s pieces, partly due to the limitations of a modular system. The envelope generators and attenuators required some tweaking to get that balance between repetition and divergence, revolving and evolving. In retrospect, I could have left longer silences between notes.
NOTE: no delay effect used here, as it would have reintroduced a pulse.

“Almost all of Feldman’s music is slow and soft. Only at first sight is this a limitation. I see it rather as a narrow door, to whose dimensions one has to adapt oneself (as in Alice in Wonderland) before one can pass through it into a state of being that is expressed in Feldman’s music. Only when one has become accustomed to the dimness of the light can one begin to perceive the richness and variety which is the material of the music...Feldman sees sounds as reverberating endlessly, never getting lost, changing their resonances as they die away, or rather not die away, but recede from our ears, and soft because softness is compelling, because an insidious invasion of our senses is more effective than a frontal attack.”” -- Cornelius Cardew, quoted by John Tilbury in “On Playing Feldman”

Video sequences from Works of Calder (d. Herbert Matter, 1950), an experimental film featuring a soundtrack by John Cage; available at archive.org.

Title image: Tentoonstelling Kinetische Plastiek Am. beeldhouwer Alexander Calder in Stedelij, Bestanddeelnr (October 2, 1969); creative commons.

Modules used:
Expert Sleepers’ Disting EX
Disting mk4
ALM’s Pamela’s New Workout
Behringer Neutron
ALM’s Pip Slope x2
Make Noise Maths
Intellijel Quad VCA
Tesseract’s Sweet Sixteen"

Make Noise Shared System | Long Tone Bass

video upload by Akihiko Matsumoto

"Make Noise Modular Synth Sample Pack: https://akihikomatsumoto.bandcamp.com..."

Landscape Noon - Dual

video upload by Bata

"Using a Make Noise 0-CTRL to sequence/modulate channel 2 (Dual) on the Landscape Noon.

This is a patch for 1 voice on the Landscape Noon. Some other voices might be influencing the sound due to how the Noon works but no CV/Gates are going to the other channels except through the mod inputs (which go to all channels)."

Lo-Pass Gates (LPG) | From the Buchla 292 to Mutable Streams

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"I've been using a lot of LPG models, including a few that don't use vactrols. However, I use the Buchla 292 as a reference because it represents the original design. If it doesn't (at least) sound like a 292, it's not a LPG in the classic sense. But it can still be something better or cooler. Manufacturers have the freedom and creativity to build on it, and make it their own, like the QMMG, Streams and the Steady State Gate.

The MakeNoise modules are strongly represented, because it's cool to see all the subtle (and not so subtle) differences between modules. They're all unique signs of the times.

I wish I could include the Rabid Elephant Natural Gate because it may be the most natural gate around, and seriously missing in this collection. It is advertised to be 'strike speed aware', and it also knows that a high note rings shorter. I managed to find a reasonably priced one in Germany and it's on its way to the Lab. It also seems the Rabid Elephant website came back to life, so hopefully they're producing again.

It's funny, but I got Mutable Streams about six years ago and couldn't position it next to the Veils VCA. I remember buying it for the compressor. At the time I had no idea what a LPG was. The manual talked about Buchla, but what the hell did I know. I remember watching DivKid's video, but at the time it sounded like Russian poetry.

Now I know what an LPG is, but my encounter with Streams is about 24 hours young. I remembered a little vactrol symbol on Streams (I am blessed with photographic memory), so I looked it up in my box of forgotten modules, read the manual and was surprised to read it's a dedicated LPG module. All modes have something to do with a low pass gate. I patched it up and was blown away by the possibilities you probably already know about. But I need to learn too, especially stuff I have lying around unused for many years.

00:00 Introduction
00:21 Plaits 2 OP FM as a source and the built in LPG.
01:27 Buchla/TTA 292T - The Reference
03:32 MN Optomix LPG
04:26 MN Dynamix VCFA
05:46 MN LxD
07:29 MN DXG
08:51 MN QMMG
10:18 SSF Steady State Gate
12:39 Noise Engineering Sinc Bucina
13:28 Endorphines Sqwk Dirty
14:14 Mutable Instruments Streams"

Hangin' Basslines with FUNCTION | Make Noise

video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"The Function’s Hang input can be used to extract or derive simplified versions of a melody, which is great for creating basslines on the fly."

http://www.makenoisemusic.com

make noise o-coast & ibanez fl9 demo no talking

video upload by Outdated Gear

"Here is a demo with my make noise O-coast and the Ibanez FL9 guitar pedal. The FL9 is a flanger. The first part of the video is the O-coast on it's own. The second part has the FL9 engaged."

Het Concreet Scanner 2023

video upload by

"In November 2023, I joined the team at Het Concreet in Tilburg, The Netherlands for a week long residency.

Het Concreet is a Dutch sound collective dedicated to finding new sounds by experimenting with analog electronic devices, magnetic tape and acoustics. Their analogue ambitions are rooted in their studio space, where they seek to find new meanings of sound by working with techniques that have become largely obsolete in today’s world. Their main instrument is magnetic tape, so I collaborated with my own analogue gear.

Radio Concrète was a a 12-hour broadcasting marathon that explored radio as a compositional tool and included contributions from Margherita Brillada, Veerle Pennock, Clara Byom, Bas van Druten, Nele Möller, Marieke van de Ven, Sharon Stewart, and was hosted by Steph Byrne.

During my stay, I fell in love with the Elektor Formant, a vintage Dutch synth handmade by Jos van Ras. In addition I used my SOMA Ether, Lore Mill Keyed Mosstone and Make Noise Strega synth. At the end of the broadcast, I made an intimate performance for a live and dedicated audience in collaboration with Het Concreet. This is an excerpt from that show."

Make Noise Spectraphon Noise Mode | Noise Drone

video upload by Akihiko Matsumoto

Make Noise Modular Synth Sample Pack: https://akihikomatsumoto.bandcamp.com...
Morphagene Reels Pack: https://akihikomatsumoto.bandcamp.com...

Patch Tips & Tricks for Improving Basic Waveforms!

video upload by The Unperson

"In today's video I explore some synthesis techniques and patching tricks for getting the most out of basic waveforms. I had a big list of ideas for this video but I'm not great at being concise so here is half of them, and the other half will be released in a part 2 video out next week! Hope you enjoy.

Cheers!

Ally

#synthesis #eurorack #modular #patch #synth

CONTENT
0:00 - Intro/Vibrato
4:09 - PWM
6:36 - Wavefolding
9:51 - Glissando
12:17 - HP Filter
15:24 - LPG
18:11 - Outro"