Whimsical-Raps Mangrove - INSTRUMENTAL SPECTRUM SHAPING

Published on Jan 5, 2015 kuxaan sum

"Just plugged in the Whimsical-Raps Mangrove Formant Oscillator. Drums courtesy of Drum Dokta via Mutable Instruments Grids with some CV over Map X & Y & Chaos.

I didn't realize my ER-101 was not updated so I didn't get the ER-102 working in this patch tonight...soon...soon."

This is the first Whimsical-Raps post. Just spotted it via kuxaan sum's video above. Below are details and a couple of videos from Whimsical-Raps. The first video was from Dec 15, 2014, so technically they are new to 2014.

"Mangrove holds the essence of an instrument in the form of an oscillator. Sounds are defined not only by pitch but by spectra. As the earth shakes under foot, a whistle blows on the wind.

FORMANT represents the timbral structure of the instrument, defined independent of its pitch. Waves shift across the range, bringing to life a series of undertones. There is quicksand between these divisions – tiny moments of uncertainty – where multiphonics reside. These underbranches fold melodies onto themselves far down into microtones.

Frequency modulation feels altogether different, with a pair making the most corporeal of complex oscillators. With integral FM indexing, a cross-modulated duo will unleash a snarling Bunyip. With SYNChronicity they will sing the same tongue through their own voice. Self-patched tones open another box of uncertainty. Divided FORMANTS to control frequency; shapeless SQUARES modulating AIR pressure."

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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.

Whimsical Raps JUST FRIENDS: An Introduction

Published on May 2, 2016

"'JUST FRIENDS' a Mannequins module by Whimsical Raps.

Envelopes / Cycles / Oscillations / Impulses"

via Whimsical Raps

"JUST FRIENDS
MANIFOLD GENERATORS FOR NAVIGATING SOCIAL CONTOURS

Just Friends discussing the many facets of their empathic geometry. In generating manifold envelopes, projecting impulses, cycling on parallel gradients. Together navigate the sixth nexus into your own personal patch communion.

Six vectors in similar shapes, asymmetrically skewed by RAMP. Once linear trajectories soften to sines with CURVE, or bend through exponentials, trapezoids, to variably widthed pulses. All members are temporally based by TIME as they slow from taut snaps to oceanic undulations, with tempic relationships constructed from INTONEs integer fractions. MODE employs the west-coast archetypes to all, while separate TRIGGERS and outs promote rhythmic independence. The complex MIX output twists on tradition for rippling semi-cyclic topographies.

Shifting into Sound, accelerates to a fleet of oscillators or Mangrove-styled impulse generators. TIME becomes pitch, while INTONE defines a harmonic argument, pivoting utone through otone. TRIGGER normalization allows for collective sets, with unjust chords combined in a final MIX. Through-zero FM embodies collective contortions in two timbres of depth or discernment.

Explore interpersonal dynamics with RUN. Define retrigger sensitivity for variable tempo and frequency division of shapes and sounds. A level of sustenance adds an additional stage of decay, or cook up pseudosequences with self-modifying burst generation. Discover attunement for and within harmonic pings of variable timebase, then engage complete polysyntheticism with Just Type."

Patching W/ Confidence: W/Del

video upload by Whimsical Raps

"W/ is a 2hp module from Whimsical Raps which provides three different engines for traversing the present moment. 'Patching W/ Confidence' is a video series which offers educational walkthroughs of W/ 2.0's various functionalities. This video focuses on W/Del, which provides a varispeed delay and looper with modulation."

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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.

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."

Social Contours

Social Contours from Bryan Noll on Vimeo.

"'Mannequins making friends with Mutable Instruments'

Performed on a modular synthesizer.

http://soundcloud.com/fourhexagons/social-contours

PATCH NOTES

Just Friends and Three Sisters arrived this week and brought life to the melody voice in this patch. Whimsical Raps makes some seriously amazing modules: http://whimsicalraps.com.

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cambria sessions pt1 • cambria [ambient modular synth + OP-1]

Published on Feb 23, 2019 Hark Madley

Part 2 below.

"'cambria' for modular synth + OP-1

from the cambria sessions, a tidal meditation

patch notes:

// MODULAR SYNTH

Inspired by the waves and tides, a breathing filter modulation
Make Noise MORPHAGENE playing ambient guitar recorded to cassette
Whimsical Raps THREE SISTERS processing the morphagene in stereo, LOW to one channel and CENTRE to another
Mutable instruments TIDES modulating the cutoff with an LFO

Squarp HERMOD sequencing PLAITS, MANGROVE, STO
uO_c on PIQUED for envelopes
TIDES modulating: MORPHAGENE Phase modulation, MORPHAGENE Slide, VCA of STO, SISTERS Span (filter modulation)
All voices processed by MAGNETO and MERIS Mercury 7

// TEENAGE ENGINEERING OP-1
Tape loop of ambient FM bell synth melody played back at half speed (and thus octave down)"

cambria sessions pt2 • terrace [modular synthesizer composition]

Published on Feb 28, 2019 Hark Madley

"'terrace' for modular synth

from the cambria sessions, a tidal meditation

this modular patch is inspired by a walk along the coast.

patch notes:

// MODULAR SYNTH
Squarp HERMOD sequencing Intellijel PLONK, Mutable Instruments PLAITS, Make Noise STO
MARBLES sequencing Whimsical Raps MANGROVE
SISTERS for filter
Strymon MAGNETO for delay
TIDES modulating MANGROVE Air
1U QUADRATT (upper left) assignments:
1: STO VCA Amplitude
2: MANGROVE VCA level
3: SISTERS Cutoff
4: TIDES Frequency (for tremolo effect"

New Synth Gear and Makers in January 2015

After this year's massive New Years post, I thought it might be interesting to see how many new makers and new gear announcements we received in a single month.

This may or may not become a monthly theme on the site depending on interest.  If you think it's worth while, leave a comment.

At a high level we had 12 new makers, one new old maker previously never featured on the site, and a whopping 193 new synth related products. Check out the module list below.  The list is a combination of what was either announced or released this month.

The list in order of appearance:

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THREE SISTERS Linked Filters

Published on Mar 20, 2015 Gil Michell

"Mannequins by Whimsical Raps:

'THREE SISTERS'

Three linked filters for spectral mixing, tone clusters and resonant sculpting.

Here three Mangroves are the only sound sources which the Sisters dissect, combine and commute."

Modular Dub1 - a 128BPM Eurorack modular synthesizer patch.

Published on May 20, 2016 Luke Killen

"I've decided to play some dubbed modular music fro an upcoming gig so for the next little while i'll be making videops that follow suit.

Patch notes.
Subb bass: Mutable instruments Braids in Fold mode running throughg a Doepfer A-106-5 SEM. Channel 1 of a Makenoise Maths provides an envelope for the Filter cuttoff and the CV for one channel of a Intellijel Linix.

Chords: Noise from a Steady State Fate Ultra-Random Analog, filtered through a RYO Aperture in 'both' mode with a very high resonance (just short of self oscillation). This is used as the input for a Mutable Instruments Rings for excitation. The CV of the Aperture is modulated by the quantised output of a Make noise Rene that is also multed to the 1v/oct of the rings as well as being sent via an attenuator to shift a Intellijel uScale 2 which is also receiving an arpeggio from an Abstrct Data ADE32.

The uScale 2 is feeding the 1v/Oct of the sub bass and the timbre without the shift.

Melodic Tinkle:
Whimsical Raps Mangrove, has pitch modulated by Channel 1 of a Tiptop Z8000 sequencer, 'Air modualed by Channel B of the Ultra-Random Analog and 'barrel' modulated by an attenuverted channel one of the make Noise Maths. This is filtered through an intellijel uVCF in Band pass mode with High Q and Frequency cutoff modulated by channel 1 of a 4ms PEG. The PEG's ENV output is also modulating the CV ot the opto integrator which it providing aplitude CV for the occasional sine tone that appears here ansthere through the patch.
Sin Tone: Sin tone is the sIN out of a WMD/SSF Spectrum that is fed to a Intellijel LiniX where a gate from a Delphtronics Trigger man is being smoothed by the Ultra random's Opto integrator.

Ticks:
Final output from a Make noise DPO with it's 'angle' modulated by a a Frequency Centrl Wave runner, Feeds a WMD/SSF Pole-Zero driven hard and having it's frequency cutoff negatively by channel 2 of a 4ms PEG whose EOF is triggering channel 4 of a z8000 Sequencer.

Kick: Mutable instruments Peaks in expert drum mode. three patterns are available via manual switching of a Low-gain short bus.

Snare: Noise Engineering Basumilus Iteratus with some decay modulation from channel three of Tiptop z8000 is passed to a Intellijel uVCA where it is also dynamically controlled by channel three of the Z8000.

Reverb and delay is controlled via a Novation Zero SL MKii and is applied live via my DAW. Some Compression and EQ is also applied for channels that need it."

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"

All Creatures Festival

Published on Dec 9, 2016 Lightbath

"All Creatures Festival

4-part suite performed live on a modular synthesizer and mixed in Ableton Live.

1. While Everyone Sleeps, Tiny Creatures Decorate (Extended)
2. Arise for Celebration! (Extended)
3. Welcome the Larger Beasts (Extended)
4. And They All Rejoice ‘Til Dawn (Extended)

Visit http://lightbath.bandcamp.com to download a studio edit of the suite along with the four extended versions featured in the videos.

PATCH NOTES
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This suite explores four variations within a single modular synthesizer patch.

René generates the initial pitch and rhythm. Ornament + Crime’s Quantermain app re-quantizes (and re-re-quantizes) pitch from René while Just Friends modulates the rhythmic triggers from René and creates envelopes with those triggers. Ornament + Crime is also running a Turing Machine as CV source in Quantermain to generate pitches for Rings, which is being heavily processed by Kamieniec and Belgrad.

Detailed patch notes can be found here: https://goo.gl/fSvQbU

GEAR USED
==========

XAOC devices, O_C, Ornament + Crime, Kamieniec, Belgrad, Batumi, Mutable Instruments, Yarns, Tides, Rings, Clouds, Shades, Make Noise, STO, René, Optomix, Rosie, Whimsical Raps, Mannequins, Just Friends, Three Sisters, Expert Sleepers, Disting, WMD, SSF, SPO, ALM, Tangle Quartet, 4MS, Dual Looping Delay, Black Market Modular, Intellijel, modular synthesizer, synthesizer, Eurorack, fourhexagons"

Mannequins Just Friends

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via this auction

"Multi-function, multi-purpose module. Purchased new from Whimsical Raps in about 2015 or 2016."

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FLOAT II :: Plaits + Plonk + Rings (and a few other modules)

Published on Mar 16, 2018 Genshi Media Group

"::| TO HEAR THE FULL RANGE OF FREQUENCIES, A GOOD PAIR OF HEADPHONES ARE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED |::

A reworked and refined version of the previous tune, recorded live in one take on a Eurorack Modular system using the following modules:

• Mutable Instruments - Peaks, Braids, Warps, Plaits, Rings, Clouds
• Intellijel - Metropolis, Planar, Plonk, Tetrapad
• Erica Synths - Black Wavetable VCO, Black Hole DSP, Pico TRIGG, Pico DRUMS (x2) Pico DSP, Black Stereo Mixer
• Make Noise - TEMPI, René, Optomix, Morphagene
• Whimsical Raps Manniquins - Three Sisters
• Malekko - Varigate 4+
• Music Thing Modular - Radio Music (x2)
• XAOC Devices - Batumi
• Empress Effects - Echosystem (off screen; on the output of Morphagene.)

Audio only version can be heard here - https://soundcloud.com/genshi/float-ii"

Spectra Mirror External Clock

Published on Nov 21, 2016 Mystic Circuits

"Here is a demonstration of the kinds of sounds that can be achieved by using an external clock with the Spectra Mirror. Wavetable oscillators and other oscillators which have CV control over their timbre make especially good external clocks as they create complex clock signals for the track and hold.

Modules used in this demo:

Mystic Circuits Spectra Mirror

Mutable Instruments Sheep Wavetable Oscillator (with Magpie Modular panel)

Whimsical Raps Mangrove Formant Oscillator"

Mangrove banger eurorack modular synthesizer patch/performance.

Published on Jan 29, 2016 Luke Killen

"Today i patched up a techno patch using the fantastic Mannequins Mangrove VCO as the bassline without a filter of VCA. Just an envelope to effect some parameters. So, I though today's video should be a live composition using the patch."

Mannequins is by Whimsical-Raps.

Before the Dawn

Published on Nov 15, 2015 kuxaan sum

"Modular Patch consisting of Mutable Instruments: Braids, Elements; Noise Engineering: Loquelic Iteritas, Variatic Erumption, Tonnetz Sequent, Sinclastic Empulatrix; ALM: Akemie's Castle, pipSlope; Qu-Bit: Eon; Mannequins Whimsical Raps: Mangrove, Three Sisters; Jelly: HexVCA, Roland Demora, Korg SDD-3000 & Strymon BigSky"

COLD MAC: An Introduction

Published on May 5, 2015 Gil Michell

"Mannequins by Whimsical Raps: 'COLD MAC'

Analog Utilities with Mixing and Patch Surveillance

http://www.whimsicalraps.com"

COLD MAC: Patch Surveillance

Published on May 5, 2015

"'Patch Surveillance' with Mannequins' micro-system."