How does an all Mannequins Case sound? // 5 ambient patches with breakdowns // Silhouette

video upload by Lesjamusic

"A sequel to my Mannequins Silhouette ( • Silhouette by Mannequins // What is i... ) intro video. Pulled together all of the Mannequins by Whimsical Raps modules into one case, and created these 5 ambient drone patches, with a little help from Norns and some Intellijel utilities.

Gear used:
Just Friends
Crow
Mangrove + PPM
Sisters
Cold Mac
W/ (Wdel)
Intellijel 1u VCO, Duatt, Stereo Mixer and 62hp Palette Case.
No external effect processing used, apart from some dynamic processing to bring it all up to level. No reverbs / delays etc - everything comes from the case.

00:00 Introduction
01:42 Patch 1: Tidbits and Mangrove
04:12 Patch 2: Free running hyper growl 🐯
06:48 Patch 3: Scary constellations
09:15 Patch 4: All Mannequins monosynth
11:18 Patch 5: Just Harmoni-Friends"

In The Overgrowth Again

video upload by Wake Rise Fall

Gear Used:
Prophet Rev2
Moog Grandmother

Mutable Instruments Marbles
Mutable Instruments Tides V2
Mutable Instruments Stages
Mutable Instruments Elements
Mutable Instruments Veils
Big T Music LTD Rings
Big T Music LTD Clouds
Squarp Instruments Hermod
Mannequins Just Friends
Mannequins RIP

Walrus Audio Julianna

Canon R5
Canon 24mm 1.4

Maps w/ Trent: SxE1 Silhouette

video upload by Whimsical Raps

"A stroll through the new SIlhouette module, describing functionality & the use cases that I've had in mind while creating the module. A little bit of description of some technical details, and other novelty items.

Preceded by a 20ish minute performance trying to dig into the radical timbral transformations possible with the module, driven by a pair of simple arpeggios."

Silhouette by Mannequins // What is it? // 1st day patch

video upload by Lesjamusic

"Welcome to the latest Mannequins module by Whimsical Raps: Silhouette.

OK so please excuse a few things here.

Firstly, I think this is genuinely the first vid posted with Silhouette outside of Mannequins official launch (I have no cheat sheet except the WIP manual!), and so some of the function descriptions aren't super crisp - if you like this video then I will record a follow up with more of an in-depth look.

Secondly, there's only one patch here, and I haven't yet even got around to trying mixing CV!

Finally, I have a horrible cold, and so apologies for the mouthbreathing. Not even a noise gate could filter it out!

That said, here's my first day intro to Silhouette by Mannequins. YMMV!"

Timeless Garden Horizon: An enigmatic instrument for sonic exploration

video upload by CatSynth TV

"Trent of Whimsical Raps gives us a tour of the Horizon, a collaboration between Whimsical Raps and Meng Qi. It has an intriguing interface and contains a wide variety of features including arpeggiators, pinged filters, resonant filter banks, and delays."

Additional posts here.

Silhouette by Whimsical Raps

video upload by Whimsical Raps

"~Braided signal combiner illuminated in two planes~

Sounds and shapes outlined in SILHOUETTE. Animated foregrounds of analogue delay, set among a backdrop in texturized stereo. At once mixer, scanner, bus compression and reverb.

The new Mannequins module from Whimsical Raps. December 2024"

SILHOUETTE

BRAIDED SIGNAL COMBINER ILLUMINATED IN TWO PLANES

Sounds and shapes outlined in SILHOUETTE. Animated foregrounds of analogue delay, set among a backdrop in texturized stereo. At once mixer, scanner, bus compression and reverb.

Built around a focal system defined by SPOT, lighting signals from a ring of 6 inputs. Here we find LIGHT and SHADOW, the latter pushed out in time through a dynamically filtered BBD delay. Together defining a foreground; a point of interest; focused; sharp.

The remaining assortment collected; a background; context and shape. A second stereo pair, LEFT and RIGHT, dynamically peering through a LENS. Control dynamics in simple VCA style, side-chained to the SPOTlit signal, or expanded to shorten transients and make space. Fill in the gaps with BLUR, smearing the background in time for rich ambient trails leaning into lush sweeping strings.

At its heart patch-programmable -- internally for dramatic feedback & oscillations -- cross-patched for extra drama. Very capable in a large system to fold complexity, but shining in tiny cases with feedback. A joyful micro-modular with Just Friends and crow, shaping sounds, or sounding shapes.

Beyond mere combination, SILHOUETTE pulls signals into relationship. Whether in full quadraphonic space, cohesive stereo sets, or dynamic & nimble singularities. See your sounds; hear great sights.

Ambient Eurorack performance // Nerdseq //Just Friends // Bib

video upload by Lesjamusic

"More with the Nerdseq+302 setup 🤘"

Underneath & Over Again | Modular, Moog Grandmother, Prophet Rev2, Nord Piano, Fender Jazz Bass

video upload by Wake Rise Fall

"Let me score your animated adventure show

Patch Notes
Mangrove sending square into both Tides V2 for harmonic oscillator.
Stages modulating Tides V2 and Rings.
Marbles sending Gate/CV to Tides V2 and Rings.
Just Friends modulating Veils.
Everything is sent into TXn to pan and into Clouds.

Gear Used:
Prophet Rev2
Moog Grandmother
Nord Piano 3
Fender Squier Jazz Bass
Mutable Instruments Marbles
Mutable Instruments Tides V2 2x
Mutable Instruments Stages
Mutable Instruments Rings
Mutable Instruments Clouds
Mutable Instruments Veils
Mutable Instruments Links
Mannequins Mangrove
Mannequins Just Friends
Mannequins RIP
Squarp Hermod"

PPM + MANGROVE 2023

video upload by Trent

"The 2023 redesign of MANGROVE brought a full rework of the module, introducing a number of new integrated circuits. While most behavior stays the same as the original design, there are some notable differences which are all outlined in its web documentation ( https://www.whimsicalraps.com/pages/s... ).

This video focuses on the accompanying module, PPM, which breaks out many of MANGROVE's internal signals & connections to patch points, so you can reconfigure MANGROVE into a wide range of complex oscillators.

00:00 intro
01:03 new core outputs: PWM, SAW and SINE
03:04 mode switch
06:13 TRIGGER input
07:50 TO AIR input
09:35 HOLLOW output
11:27 HOLLOW and AIR
12:52 outro"

Mannequins trio // Soma Cosmos // Djupviks Shakti

video upload by Lesjamusic

"Voice 1 is Mangrove ➡️ Three Sisters
Voice 2 is Just Friends via Norns / Just Play
Everything runs through Soma Cosmos ➡️ Strymon Timeline ➡️ CXM 1978 ➡️ Oto Boum
Modulation from Pamela's New Workout"

SUPERBOOTH 2024: Timeless Garden - Horizon Experimental Synth

video upload by sonicstate

"At Superbooth 2024, Sonic State got a sneak peek at the Horizon*, a new collaborative instrument by *Trent from Timeless Garden *and the developer of the Wing Pinger. The Horizon* features a resonator system built around the Wing Pinger device, with delays, a filter bank, and a touch sequencer/play surface to tie it all together. The unique design of the Horizon allows for exploration and inspiration, offering both melodic and experimental sound possibilities.

Trent demonstrated the capabilities of the Horizon, showcasing its ability to create strange and interesting sounds through feedback, FM modulation, and stepped modulation effects. The touch sequencer enables users to create melodies with variable step lengths and pitch quantization controlled by sliders. With analog signal processing and rich bucket brigade delay sound, the Horizon offers a unique sonic experience for musicians looking to push the boundaries of traditional synthesis. Stay tuned for the release of the Horizon in 2024, with an estimated price range between one and two thousand US dollars. For more information on the Horizon visit the link below:

https://timeless.garden/" Note the bottom of the page notes Meng Qi + Whimsical Raps.

Follow-up to this post.

"Horizon celebrates a world of ambiguous dualities~~ harmony/chaos, smooth/stepped, intuitive/practiced, manual/automatic. Built around an invertible heirarchy of pinged-filter cores, and a resonant garden of delays and filters. A rapid and responsive playing surface, smoothly blurring between textures or precisely sculpting a spectral landscape. Honed musicians and freeform experimentalists alike will find their own personal expressions within.

At centre, two Mountains of pinged filters, cross-coupled with smooth and stepped frequency modulation. These pings flow into a resonant filterbank and stereo delays, guided and recirculated by Tide sliders. The filterbank follows the path of 5 Bird sliders, collecting resonances from a playful just-intoned scale generator. Between these worlds flow Currents controlled by the touch surface, capable of wrangling chaos into pure tones or latching into sequences for otherwise busy hands. As the Tides ebb and flow, sequence & delay times are modulated in rhythmic/harmonic steps transforming relationships and shifting priorities.

Sitting proudly at the centre of a performance, or nestled into a larger setup with Eurorack CV i/o. Process external sounds, or use global feedback for an added layer of unpredictability."

ER-301 Mannequins Black Ambient System

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via this auction

"Massive Ambient Modular System

Includes:

Orthagonal Devices ER-301

Xaoc Devices Zadar

Mannequins Mangrove

Mannequins Three Sisters

Mutable Instruments Beads

Michigan Synth Works F8R (Custom Black)

Intellijel Dual VCA 1U

Intellijel Quadratt 1U

Instruo Ochd

Intellijel Ins 1U

Intellijel uMidi 1U

Intellijel Dual Stereo Outs 1U

Intellijel Pallette 104

original silver panels will be included with modules as well as most of the original boxes."

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Mannequins Mangrove

video upload by Wake Rise Fall

"Running 2 independent voices from Mangrove only. One controlled by Marbles and the other controlled by CV/Envelope from Moog Grandmother."

Mcdonald's song, modular synth

video upload by Meng Qi

"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."

Formants - Noise Lab Formantic and Mannequins Mangrove

video upload by John Schussler

"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!"

Mannequins Just Friends as a Sound Source ✨ | Eurorack Ambient Jam

video upload by Andrea Marzilli

"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).

Sometimes keeping it simple is the key.

Headphones. 🎧"

Just friends, Monome ansible kria, beads, STO | exercise caution

video upload by patchesinblue

"exercise caution

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"

Worth the Hype? The Mannequins by Whimsical Raps Mangrove Formant Oscillator

video upload by pitch patch

"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."

Sound on Sound / Ciat-Lonbarde Sidrax, op-1 and Make Noise Strega

video upload by Takeyuki Hakozaki / Pollypraha

Recording Date : 2.24.2022
Sounds and Video by Takeyuki Hakozaki

Featuring
Ciat-Lonbarde : Sidrax
Make Noise : Strega
Teenage Engineering : OP-1
Mannequins : Just Friends
Divkidvideo : ochd

Cocoquantus 2 w/ Sidrax, MakeNoise RxMx | gentle reminder

video upload by patchesinblue

"gentle reminder

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"