"The mmMidi is a simple & compact MIDI interface for your Eurorack synthesiser. It translates two independent channels of MIDI note, velocity and gate information to corresponding control voltage signals via either a classic MIDI DIN type connection or as a driverless USB MIDI device.
Here we take a look at how to configure the mmMidi's 3 channels for use with a hardware sequencer. This configuration works the same for USB MIDI as well as the original (USB-less) mmMidi.
The mmMidi also converts MIDI Clock to analog x24 fixed clock and run outputs (i.e DIN Sync). The optional mmT expander provides a third MIDI channel of 8 key mapped gate outputs.
Requiring minimal configuration and a pain free set up, the mmMidi makes it easy to sync Pam’s clock to your DAW, control multiple synth voices, and trigger drum or sample modules with the optional mmT expander. The new USB-C connection makes it easy to drive your modular not just from your computer but also via your tablet, phone or any USB MIDI Host."
"Here we take a look at how to configure Pamela's PRO Workout to sync directly with the mmMidi. This setup is the same with the original (USB-less) mmMidi and previous versions of Pamela's Workout."
"Performing a multi-voice ambient patch with the brand new Turismo. Here the TAZM-O and Osc A of the CIZZLE are used to create a plucky true stereo synth voice with resonant swells on top made from the Osc B of the CIZZLE - see below for more detailed patch notes. The Turismo is in stock and available now from all ALM stockists worldwide.
The Turismo is our fully modern Eurorack modular workstation, blending a curated mix of our flagship analog and digital modules for a versatile and creative patching experience. It offers a distinctive ALM character, designed for both precision and fun.
The workstation delivers everything from analog bass, bleeps and leads, lush chords, filtering, extensive sampling, and DSP effects combined with various sequencing styles and numerous modulation options plus full MIDI integration. It’s an all-in-one creative hub that’s endlessly explorable.
Designed also with live performance in mind, the travel-sized 84hp system fits in a rucksack and comes with a Decksaver cover for added protection. With MIDI, stereo line-level input, and headphone output, it’s perfect for live sets, DAWless jamming, and seamless studio integration. The system features a custom design with unique coloured controls and neodyme bronze anodized side panels.
The Turismo is a perfect starting point for Eurorack beginners, offering a seamless pain-free entry into modern modular synthesis that’s immediately playable. For seasoned users, it’s a ready-to-use and well balanced cutting edge system designed for effortless creative exploration.
Patch notes:
The TAZM-O and Osc A of the CIZZLE are used to create a true stereo synth voice with each oscillator patched through one side of the MCFx2. The 2 filters are linked to work in stereo, both responding to the same envelope modulation triggered by the ASQ-1. A second lead voice made with Osc B of the CIZZLE produces powerful CZ style resonant swells on top of the fast sequence and is sent through the MFX for long modulated echoes.
The stereo voice is uniquely sequenced in combination by a short step sequence from the Quaid Megaslope and a slow looped random from Pamela's PRO Workout, the 2 voltage sources are mixed with the MEGA MILTON and patched through the quantiser section of the ASQ-1 to be locked to a musical scale. In multiple places, additional triggered envelopes are provided by the Pam PRO using its special 'Trig' modifiers to allow the selected wave shape to be triggered by the ASQ-1. This is a great way to get more envelopes if Quaid and Pip Slope are both already used up.
"The Turismo is our new fully modern Eurorack modular workstation, blending a curated mix of our flagship analog and digital modules for a versatile and creative patching experience. It offers a distinctive ALM character, designed for both precision and fun. In this video we patch up a track from start to finish that includes a drum beat, bass line, chords and FX send all in the Turismo.
The workstation delivers everything from analog bass, beeps and leads, lush chords, filtering, extensive sampling, and DSP effects combined with various sequencing styles and numerous modulation options plus full MIDI integration. It’s an all-in-one creative hub that’s endlessly explorable.
Designed also with live performance in mind, the travel-sized 84hp system fits in a rucksack and comes with a Decksaver cover for added protection. With MIDI, stereo line-level input, and headphone output, it’s perfect for live sets, DAWless jamming, and seamless studio integration. The system features a custom design with unique coloured controls and neodyme bronze anodized side panels.
The Turismo is a perfect starting point for Eurorack beginners, offering a seamless pain-free entry into modern modular synthesis that’s immediately playable. For seasoned users, it’s a ready-to-use and well balanced cutting edge system designed for effortless creative exploration."
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:57 - Drum Beat
1:50 - Syncing the ASQ-1
4:09 - Bass Line
6:07 - Chords
8:16 - FX Send and Return
10:39 - Outro
Press release follows.
[London, UK] - ALM Busy Circuits are pleased to announce The Turismo - ALM’s complete Eu- rorack system providing both beginners and experienced users with a fun and flexible instru- ment with minimum fuss and setup. The Turismo is our fully modern Eurorack modular workstation, blending a curated mix of our flagship analog and digital modules for a versatile and creative patching experience. It offers a distinctive ALM character, designed for both precision and fun. The workstation delivers everything from analog bass, beeps and leads, lush chords, filtering, extensive sampling, and DSP effects combined with various sequencing styles and numerous modulation options plus full MIDI integration. It’s an all-in-one creative hub that’s endlessly explorable. Designed also with live performance in mind, the travel-sized 84hp system fits in a rucksack and comes with a Decksaver cover for added protection. With MIDI, stereo line-level input, and headphone output, it’s perfect for live sets, DAWless jamming, and seamless studio in- tegration. The system features a custom design with unique coloured controls and neodyme bronze anodized side panels. The Turismo is a perfect starting point for Eurorack beginners, offering a seamless pain-free entry into modern modular synthesis that’s immediately playable. For seasoned users, it’s a ready-to-use and well balanced cutting edge system designed for effortless creative explo- ration.
"Today I'll show you my "Infinite Acid Box", a small eurorack system made out of System80's 810 Mk2 and 860, all driven by the amazing toolbox that is Pamela's Pro Workout, from ALM Busy Circuit.
It's a system I use live but this how I like to use in the studio to come up with cool sequences on the fly, very much in the Turing Machine spirit. The System80 stuff is here for what it does best: sounding awesome.
"Back to Eurorack after a bit of a Buchla break! Jamming with:
Noise Engineering Debel, Basimilus & Manis Iteritas Alia, Cursus Iteritas Percido, Lacrima Versio, Numeric Repetitor, Pons Asinorum, Pura Ruina
Bastl Pizza, Ikarie
Mutable Instruments Rings, Plaits, Stages
Acid Rain Constellation, Maestro
Div Kid Ochd, RND Step
Nerd Engineering FX Aid Pro, FX Aid XL
ALM Pamela’s Pro Workout
Winter Modular Eloquencer
Malekko Voltage Block
BoredBrain Xcelon
Endorphines Cockpit
WMD MSCL, Overseer"
"This video details the process of transferring banks between Pamela's PRO Workout in VCV Rack and the hardware module, making it possible to replicate patches from the virtual world in your system and vice versa. VCV's context menu options ‘Export backup’ and ‘Import backup’ work with the standard Pam PRO backup files, making transferring saved banks work in either direction.
Note, for bank transfer to work properly the firmware versions between the VCV and hardware Pam's must match. To display the FW version in VCV see the 'info' section in the context menu. We reccomend making a backup copy of the bank files before transferring."
"Here we take a look at numerous ways to sync Pamela's PRO Workout with other hardware and software including syncing two Pams, external Din Sync, MIDI clock, LFO BPM modulation, the Pam Sync DAW plugin, and finally syncing the virtual Pam PRO in VCV Rack.
In general most forms of sync expect a standard 24PPQN clock and Run 'Din Sync' type signal set for the Clk and Run inputs. These settings can be changed from Pam's BPM menu to accomodate other common clock PPQN speeds and Run or Reset signals to align with the sync signals produced by other hardware devices."
"This is a rich, complex-sounding patch based around the Dual Harmonic Oscillator from AtoVproject. It’s a big, super-powerful module with two triangle-based VCOs that offer four octaves worth of harmonics, as well as regular sine, saw and pulse outputs via the expander. I’ll be covering it in more detail in a dedicated video soon, but in the meantime check out DivKid’s excellent deep dive if you want to know more about it: [posted here]
In this patch, it produces four melodic layers, with everything driven from a simple 8-step sequence out of the Jasmine & Olive Trees Traffic module switched over to the Water firmware. Joranalogue Filter 8 provides some quadrature LFO modulation to control the levels of the harmonics, and ALM Pamela’s Pro Workout provides clock, trigger patterns and transpose voltages. I’m also using the Nekyia Circuits Obsidian for some extra LFOs, and the Sosumi LPG on two voices - full video coming soon on all the Nekyia stuff, it’s great! Reverb is Valhalla Supermassive (in the box).
More on the DHO: https://atovproject.de/products/dho"
"Here we demo the full lineup of ALM VCV modules including Pamela’s PRO Workout, Tyso Daiko, MFX and our bundle of free modules in a variety of different patches.
All modules featured are available now to purchase from the VCV Rack store, including the Pam PRO, MFX and Tyso Daiko alongside our FREE collection that includes the MCO, Pip Slope, Beast’s Chalkboard, Tangle Quartet and O/A/x2.
Create simple clocked triggers, complex rhythmic waveforms, quantized melodic patterns or random chaos with the Pamela's PRO Workout, access a multitude of classic hardware effects processors with the MFX, and generate classic 12-bit digital wavetable drum voices via the ‘Tyso Daiko’.
Download the latest update of the VCV Pam PRO to share and back up banks with the hardware version. The new context menu options ‘Export backup’ and ‘Import backup’ act like the standard presets in VCV but can be loaded from a hardware Pamela’s PRO Workout.
"Here we take a look at the simple setup process for syncing the VCV version of Pamela's PRO Workout to a DAW via our free Pam Sync Plugin or VCV's built in MIDI to CV module.
This process should work with any DAW but requires the pro version of VCV Rack for use as a plugin within your DAW.
*Note the sample rate must match between both VCV and the DAW for sync to work properly.
Pam Sync is a FREE simple ‘just works’ DAW plugin for syncing Pam to your DAWs clock via low latency audio signals. It uses 2 audio (i.e. stereo) channels to provide a ‘DIN sync’ type signal consisting of a clock and a run signal to be patched into the Pam’s ‘Clk’ and ‘Run’ inputs. Once connected Pam will stop and start with your DAW and match the tempo.
The plugin should work with any DAW that supports VST or Audio Units. See the README.txt in the download for more setup documentation.
Pam Sync is available now as a free download for both Windows and Mac. Get it here:
busycircuits.com/almpg001"
CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
0:02 - Sync via Pam Sync Plugin
1:29 - Sync via VCV MIDI to CV
2:25 - Outro
"The pitch of Albers' 4 oscillators are being modulated with different rate sine waves from Pamela's Pro Workout. Albers' onboard pitch LFOs then create a stepped tone. The VCAs of the four oscillators are being controlled using two envelope generators and an envelope from Pam's Pro Workout. A fast decaying envelope is the sent to Albers' filter cutoff CV in.
Output to the microcosm set to one of the warp algorithms."
"Pamela's PRO Workout includes up to 4 built in (8 with AXON) freely assignable CV inputs that can control any and all of its parameters. This powerful feature allows for endless expressivity and complex modulation possibilities. Here we take a look at a few examples of how external CV can be used to broaden Pam's functionality even further, including the creation of a 'macro' modulation depth control, probabilistic rhythmic cross fader, and a 303 inspired acid bassline."
"Full ‘virtual’ software versions of popular ALM Busy Circuits modules are now available for VCV Rack, the virtual modular platform based on Eurorack modular synthesisers. Here we quickly demo a variety of patches in VCV.
Create simple clocked triggers, complex rhythmic waveforms, quantized melodic patterns or random chaos with the Pamela's PRO Workout, access a multitude of classic hardware effects processors with the MFX, and generate classic 12-bit digital wavetable drum voices via the ‘Tyso Daiko’.
All modules featured are available to purchase now from the VCV Rack Store alongside a selection of free modules.
And a press release for PAMELA'S PRO WORKOUT FOR VCV RACK:
The ubiquitous clocked modulator Eurorack module Pamela’s PRO Workout is now available virtualised as a software plug in for VCV Rack - a free popular cross platform software based virtual modular synthesiser.
It’s array of must have clocking and modulation capabilities are now accessible from within VCV. Add a powerful essential tool to your VCV Rack or simply audition its feature set before acquiring the physical module.
VCV Pamela’s PRO Workout provides 8 highly editable outputs producing various control voltage signals, all correlated and synced to a BPM based master clock.
Each output can produce anything from simple clocked triggers to complex rhythmic waveforms, quanitsed melodic patterns or random chaos with many parameters controllable directly or via assigned external CV. These features, combined with a proven, easy to use and quick user interface provide almost limitless synced modulation possibilities in a tiny amount of space.
VCV Pamela's PRO Workout plugin runs the exact same core DSP and user interface code as the physical Eurorack module. It includes the
‘AXON-2’ CV expander and offers additional features such as support for multiple instances plus keyboard and mouse control shortcuts.
Available now from the VCV Rack Store for $20
Launched alongside VCV PAM PRO are two new freely available modules; the popular MCO & Pip Slope (mkII) both available now alongside a selection of other useful free ALM VCV modules:
Other software versions of popular ALM Busy Circuits modules are also available for VCV
Rack including:
VCV MFX: a compact stereo digital audio multi effects processor offering 16 different full
featured effects programs plus a number of metering utilities. Available now for $20
VCV Tyso Daiko: a dual 12-bit wavetable drum voice that features a wide ranging pitch sweep section, tilt EQ, digital wavefolder, unique surface control, and CV control over all parameters. Available now for $15"
"The Pam PRO’s expanded looping functions provide a powerful tool for track building and composition, capturing and repeating any signals generated by the outputs. The new Wake, Nap and Shift parameters help to add musical structure and space to looped patterns and CV. Here we patch up a few examples showing how the new loop functions can be used."
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:51 - Deconstructed Beats - Loop Wake & Nap
4:07 - Melodic Call & Response - Loop Shift
8:02 - Adding a Drum Fill
11:42 - Outro
"The Pam PRO’s expanded Euclidean section provides a highly musical tool for generating patterns in both triggers or any CV produced by an output. Helpful realtime visual display plus the additional pad and shift parameters take Euclidean sequencing further, allowing for more intentional patterns and variation. Here we take a look a few examples of how Euclidean sequencing can be used.
This is part of our new video series where we take a closer look at the more unique and powerful features of Pamela's PRO Workout. Subscribe to stay up to date on upcoming videos in the series!"
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Euclidean Reset
6:15 - Placing Patterns with Pad & Shift
10:08 - Irregular Euclidean LFOs
13:42 - Outro"
