Creative Eurorack Distortion & How To Use It // HEAD BANGER from Setonix Synth & Robots Are Red

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"Distortion has been an essential tool for my music making for most of my life, whether that was playing guitar, working with synths in amps, re amping synths and production stems through pedal FX or smashing mixers, tape machines and other gear I've always found it fascinating and with the options to CV control distortion in modular it's even better!

Head Banger from Setonix Synth & Robots Are Red takes the Swedish Death Metal sound of the Boss Heavy Metal pedal, heavily re vamps it for a wide range of input sources, adds CV control and a creative feedback path and presents itself in Eurorack form. While the name and styling lean on the metal heritage it's been interesting to find a subtler warmth and crunch, synths in tube amp like tones and blown out noisy cassette style grunge for more ambient music.

There's a 5% off code for sales of Head Banger at https://www.setonixsynth.com/ with code HEADBANGER5. If you're a Patreon supporter there's an exclusive 15% off code for you at / divkid"

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SumpPump Stereo Noise Gate/Compressor by Robots Are Red || Full Walkthrough and Demo

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00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Overview
01:24 - SumpPump Demo
03:15 - How Does it Work?
05:34 - Drum Demo & Patch Tips
11:09 - Dynamic Synth Voice
15:15 - Pseudo PWM Mangling
18:08 - Audio Rate Modulation
19:55 - Duck Input
21:43 - Engage Input
23:10 - Sidechaining
25:38 - Self Patching
27:25 - Modulation & Effects
31:36 - Guitar Noise Suppressor
34:02 - Envelope Generator
36:47 - VCA
38:46 - Call & Response Effect

"It's a noise gate, it's a noise suppressor, it's a compressor, it's an expander, it's stereo.

Want a SumpPump? Get one here

Special thanks to Jack from SetonixSynth for making this whole module thing possible!

The Specs and Stats:

Width: 6hp

Attack and Release knob for envelope(s)

Threshold for suppression/compression (0V - ~8V)

Floor controls the amount of suppression/compression from -100dB to Unity and even up to +10dB for expanding the louds louder or make the quiets a bit louder.

Level controls your overall output level

Gate/Comp switch: When in "Gate" mode, whenever the input falls BELOW the threshold level, the envelope will engage towards the floor setting. When in "Comp" mode, the envelope will trigger when the input rises ABOVE the threshold setting.

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ALA + RAR Mingles

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Mingles - Dual Autopanner and Dual 3 Channel Mixer/VCA || After Later Audio + Robots Are Red.

video upload by Robots Are Red

"Mix a synth patch and use Mingles as the VCA.
Blend a signal between two different outputs.
Autopan a mono signal.
Stereoize even more, an already stereo signal.

Mingles is a 12hp Dual 3 Input Mixer with attenuators for each signal, and a large panning knob for each of the two channels. There is a stereo output for each of the two channels, and a mixed stereo output of both channels. There is an internal LFO (Triangle or Pulse) that can be applied to each of the two channel’s panning. The LFO is inverted on channel 2 to allow for mirrored panning between the two channels.

There is also a VCA and external panning CV input in each of the two channels, along with a CV input for control of the LFO rate, and there is an LFO output.

The LFO can be switched between Triangle and Pulse waves with a jumper on the back of the module.

A huge thanks to After Later Audio for helping make this idea I had over 2 years ago a reality!

You can jump to any section of the video here:

00:00 - Opening
00:38 - Introduction and Rundown
02:50 - Stereo Oscillator Synth
04:36 - LFO Rate
05:09 - Back to Stereo Oscillator Synth
05:40 - Modulating the LFO Rate
07:38 - Mixing Drums
09:55 - External Panning CV
10:57 - End of Chain Panning Effect (Pulse LFO)
12:35 - Other Patch Suggestions
13:18 - Some Music"