Klavis GRAINITY / Multimode and 'Granular' VCF for eurorack / extensive playthrough

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"In this video about the so called granular filter GRAINITY (by Klavis) I run through the basic filtersweeps for the multimode section and then I spend a lot (a lot a lot) of time trying to explain and demonstrate what the different granular patterns (called structures) are and what they sound like.

To be clear about what 'granular' is and isn't when we're looking at Grainity I'll try to explain in a few words. Grainity does not sample incoming audio so it's not like any other gear or software with the word granular attached to it. In Grainity incoming audio is routed through the filter, there's no buffer or recording, there's no grains or scattering. What Grainity in granular mode does is send the audio sequentially through different types of filters with different settings (these sequences are all presets). The speed at which it cycles through these is determined by either the phase/frequency (zero crossings) or by another signal of your choosing that you can send in seperately and by the setting of the division. The length and type of the sequence is determined by the 'structure'.
In a very simplified way you could think of a sound going through a filter that gets modulated by a stepped LFO at audio rates.

PS: If you think you're hearing a delay and a reverb, it's probably because I added those. Grainity does not provide delay or reverb effects, it's just a multimode/'granular' filter. The effects used here are a Quadraverb (reverb) and an MPX500 (delay) rack effect.

For the bulk of the video I'm using the TWIN WAVES Mk2 dual oscillator as a sound source.

Thanks to Klavis for sending over these units for me to test and demonstrate.

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Keep in mind that this module is degraded from being a production unit to being a pre-production unit. Unfortunately I didn't learn about this until after I made the video.

I'll copy and paste Eric's quote about this from Modwiggler: 'After receiving our first production batch of the Grainity, we noticed operating inconsistencies due to the variability of certain parts.
In order to maintain the highest level of quality and to avoid jeopardizing the reputation of the brand, we have decided not to put these modules on sale. A redesign is required, which postpones the availability of the Grainity to a later date.

Thank you for your patience while waiting for a Grainity that meets your expectations. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.'"

Schlappi Engineering THREE BODY / 'ratio locked' modulation madness ft. Xaoc KOSZALIN

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"Here i'm running the outputs of all the vcos into a mixer. There's a lot of stepped modulation going of for the FM and phase indexes (indices?).

After a while I add left and right outputs of Koszalin which is processing a multed output of the mix of waves coming from Three Body.

I didn't know what to expect from a frequency shifter but it sounds like a mix between a very unique chorus and 2000 era talkbox synths (Boys Noize)."

Soundforce µCHORUS 6 + CHORUS 6 / the real juno experience (and a lot more) / extensive playthrough

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"This video demonstrates the behaviour of the Soundforce modules µCHORUS 6 and its full sized counterpart CHORUS 6. I also spend some time comparing the sound of the Soundforce modules µDCO, µVCF 6, µCHORUS 6 and CHORUS 6 to my vintage Roland Juno 60 (that I bought about 15 years ago when prices were still a power of ten lower).

When Nicolas of Soundforce asked me if I would be up for making a video about his upcoming Roland Juno inspired chorus modules, I was already excited (it might not be apparent but I'm a huge Juno fanboy) and it's safe to say the µCHORUS 6 delivers when it comes to genuine authenticity. The fact that the big version of his chorus called CHORUS 6 goes far and beyond was something I couldn't really phatom until I tried the unit out. Especially the ability to use audio rate modulation and external CV to modulate just about every parameter turned out to be very interesting indeed.

I use the Soundforce µDCO and µVCF 6 extensively in the video as well. The combo of these modules is very much enjoyable for a fan of 80s era DCO polysynths (even when they're just one mono voice) but they're certainly not limited to sounding like your favourite cheese or Roman goddess."

PHD / eurorack (generative) jam / not a tutorial

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"I recently learned a neat new trick to create subharmonic/pll type sounds with a filter thanks to Kinga. We're still figuring out what's causing this (my discord server is proving to be a very powerful and awesome think-tank) so it's a bit too soon to explain. Anyway, I made this patch (is this a drone?) based around the concept of PLL and subharmonics."

TRANSPHAZED / another phase mod jam with Schlappi's THREE BODY featuring the Joranalogue system

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"There's chords hiding in THREE BODY. Having exact ratios makes for such a rewarding fm/pm experience. I do love a distorted dirty fm tone like the ones you get from analog oscillators like Generate 3, but it's nice to be able to make cleaner fm/pm sounds.

In this clip I used self-patched phase modulation with modulators modulating the indices to create dynamically changing (dare I say modulated) timbres."

FREIGHT / full system eurorack jam / THREE BODY

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"A jam where I used THREE BODY for the melody and bass."

Malstrom ARKAN / dual ringmod VCA with variable curve / smart voltage utility hub

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"This video is all about the features of ARKAN, a dual voltage polarizer by Malstrom. ARKAN is a two channel four quadrant multiplier (bipolar vca or ring modulator) with built-in amplification, clipping, ofsetting, inversion, ... and a variable curve response (linear - exponential). It can be used to clip, scale, attenuate, reshape, mix or straight up mangle the stuff you send through one of it's several inputs."

Joranalogue Audio Design DELAY 1 / a playthrough of all the features / a proper high-end BBD

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"In this not so extensive but still quite long video I walk you through all the features (and a few sounds) of DELAY 1 by Joranalogue Audio Design.

Don't think of it as a classic delay and even as a BBD delay it's still very unique because DELAY 1 has none of the whine but ten times the amount of inputs, outputs and knobs to tweak. It can be used to waveshape and combfilter, to create (stereo) chorus and flanger. It can be used as a voice by itself (with immaculate tracking) or as an all in one noise bass drone synth."

Schlappi Engineering THREE BODY / sync and crossmodulation / more experiments

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"For this clip I tried syncing the outer VCOs of THREE BODY to the center VCO. Pairing up sync with any kind of frequency- or phase modulation is always a good idea, so I turned eveything up. You'll see and hear that it's fairly straighforward to go back to a cleaner sound.

All the VCOs are in free mode (which means the FM inputs or the outer VCOs actually do FM. Should they be in ratio mode, the FM inputs become Phase Modulation inputs)."

Joranalogue Audio Design / BIAS 2 / ROUTE 4 / PIVOT 2 / DELAY 1 / patch from scratch

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"This is a video that I recorded a few months ago to share with my supporters. Keep in mind that some insights might be wrong, but of course the sounds are always up to date.

This was the caption for the video as I posted it privately on the 11th of may 2023: 'This is a messy first video with a few of the new Joranalogue Audio Design modules that they just announced yesterday. There's a 5 minute version of the jam at the end listed on youtube, but I wanted to share something more and up close with my supporters. So there you go. Please keep in mind that I haven't elaborately study ROUTE 4 (nor DELAY 1) so any insights could be wrong due to lack of thorough experimentation.'"

Top 3 Favorite Eurorack Oscillators Picked by Our Pals ALX-106, SURCO, and BRiES

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"Our pals have seen their fair share of oscillators in their time—and now they share some of their favorites.

In this video, our pals ALX-106, SURCO, and BRiES talk about their favorite Eurorack sound sources: the Xaoc Devices Odessa, OXI Coral, and Joranalogue Generate 3. Covering everything from additive synthesis, polyphonic sound generation, and thru-zero modulation potential, this is quite the trio of sound generators...each offering something unique to the Eurorack modular synth format.

Check out these rad oscillators here:
Xaoc Odessa: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/xaoc-o...
OXI Coral: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/oxi-co...
Joranalogue Generate 3: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/jorana..."

LEBAB / (not) a generative patch / Xaoc MOSKWA 2 / Joranalogue Audio Design system

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"I was going for a patch that I could caption with 'you don't need a lot of modules to make a great patch, but you do need a sh*tload of cables!'. Unfortunately I'm really bad at keeping things simple.
Honorable mentions: Soundforce CHORUS 6 and Xaoc Koszalin for stereo movement of the voices/hats.
Outboard effects: Lexicon tap delay, Alesis Quadraverb."

GENERATE 3 (x2) vs THREE BODY / a quick fm and pm comparison

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"In this video I try to show off some exponential and linear fm sounds as well as phase modulation on both GENERATE 3 by Joranalogue Audio Design and THREE BODY by Schlappi Engineering. These versatile oscillator modules are at first glance very different but they both offer a toolset that let's you do more than what you'd expect from a classic vco. The inclusion of phase modulation offers extended timbres (like wavefolding or DX type modulation). They both have their strenghts and weaknesses, but in this video I mainly try to show the similarities."

Joranalogue Audio Design ROUTE 4 / DELAY 1 / exquisite tracking / stacking and alternating gates

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"ROUTE 4 by Joranalogue Audio Design takes care of alternating between and mixing gates (several divisions of the clock). The top output of ROUTE 4 is then sent through a slew limiter which controls the frequency of a low pass filter (offscreen). When the gates get stacked/mixed (latch and multi) the amplitude of the envelope is higher then when the gates just alternate (solo), thus creating a lot of dynamic movement.
DELAY 1 is used as the voice that gets filtered. The pitch tracking on DELAY 1 is pristine.
PIVOT 2 alternates between 2 gate patterns for the kickdrum."

Schlappi Engineering THREE BODY / triple layered groovebox patch / controlled feedback

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"For this video I tried making drums (kick, snare and hats) and a seperate melody all coming from the VCOs on THREE BODY. I used a few external vcas and envelopes where I routed the seperate outputs of THREE BODY through, to take control over the modulation and feedback paths. Patching feedback is something that I encourage you to explore on every vco and even lfo."

Jouranalogue Introduces Bias 2

Joranalogue Audio Design BIAS 2 / quick but extensive playthrough / offset, mix, average, scale, ...

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"In this video about BIAS 2 by Joranalogue Audio Design I showcase how the module operates and how you can use it for precision mixing, dividing or averaging, offsetting, amplification, scaling, etc. I added 2 pratical use cases to demonstrate BIAS 2s usefulness."

"Voltage control is the basic tenant of modular synthesis: parameters may be modulated by changing control voltages (CVs), simply by plugging in a patch cable. However, during patching it's common to encounter incompatible voltage ranges, with signal outputs and inputs having different amplitudes and sensitivities.

An indispensable utility module, Bias 2 provides a compact yet precise solution to quickly interface signals between modules within a Eurorack modular system, without interrupting your creativity.

Comprising of two independent sections, each with dual inputs and dual outputs, its carefully selected combination of normalised reference voltages and amplification/attenuation factors makes it a breeze to convert between the most common signal ranges: –5 to +5 V, 0 to +5 V and 0 to +10 V.

Precision comes standard on Bias 2, with meticulously engineered analogue signal paths providing absolutely transparent performance for any Eurorack signal: CV, audio or gates/triggers.

Beyond the voltage conversion application, Bias 2 is a true all-rounder, capable of functioning as a pair of dual input unity gain mixers, –6 and +6 dB audio gain stages or a multi-output fixed voltage source."

Schlappi Engineering THREE BODY / perfect ratio phase modulation / DX sounds in eurorack

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"It's something we probably all tried to do at some point: tuning 2 or more sine VCOs in exact ratios to each other to create clear FM or PM tones like the digital 'fm' synths of the mid 80s like the Yamaha DX and the Casio SZ series... I know I have... and while usually I love the ever so slight but inherent instability of most eurorack VCOs it's the one scenario where they caused me to figuratively pull the (still literal) hair out of my scalp.

Well... Three Body takes care of that, so we (the mostly XY chromosoned segment of us at least) can keep our manes intact just a little bit longer."

HEARTBEATS - The Knife (BRiES cover) / Schlappi Engineering THREE BODY

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"THREE BODY by Schlappi Engineering takes care of 100% of the bass arpeggio in this video (aka the main synth). It's very interesting to be able to get all this grit without losing the ability to turn it down for a less harsh sound and without having to worry about relative pitches of your carrier and modulators. No processing was done to the audio coming from THREE BODY afterwards (apart from some low and mid cut EQ and a smidge of compression).

The sequencing for the bass (and part of the higher pitched arp and hihats) is done with eurorack sequencers, I recorded the main part in one take (which I recorded). The poly synth stabs were created with my own plugin PLL-102 (which you can buy as part of my VST pack 'SYNTHS one' on the Decent Sampler webshop).

There's no play-back going on in this video, everything you see happening was recorded live and used unaltered (apart from gentle eq, some compression and autotune - Melda Productions MPitch - for the vocals).

Your boi BRiES takes care of 100% of the singing (which I autotuned in this version of the upload) so be prepared for some vocal cringe.

I spent most of my birthday recording the audio and video for this cover. It's something that I've been wanting to do for a long time (recording a cover where the main part is taken care of by a eurorack system). The song 'heartbeats' (the José Gonzales version) popped into my head a few days ago and I just had to give it a try.

To whom it may concern:This is a cover of the song 'Heartbeats' by The Knife. This video isn't monetized nor is it sponsored (no one is making money off of this video). All rights to the song and lyrics are reserved to The Knife."

Schlappi Engineering THREE BODY / gentle chords

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"THREE BODY's audio palette is not limited to noise, harsh fm and destruction, it's actually very easy to get nice chords out of the unit. I'm using STEP 8 by Joranalogue Audio Design for shift register duties (creating chords out of a sequence coming from MOSKWA 2 by Xaoc Devives). µCHORUS 6 by Soundforce is used to create width. Additional external effects (delay and reverb) take care of the spaciousness.

What's not demonstrated in this video but very easy with THREE BODY: you can create supersaw sounds where the 3 VCOs are either drifting in and out of phase or slightly detuned for a more thick unison sound. All you need is some external modulation and a way to mix the 3 (or more) outputs."

Schlappi Engineering THREE BODY / first patch / hell yeah

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"After being held hostage for over 2 weeks THREE BODY is finally here.

This is a first test minutes after taking it out of the box. Just ace. I love it when modules are self explanatory, yet take some deep understanding to get to the bottom of it (aka instant satisfaction but a lot of room for abuse and exploration).

Schlappi Engineering surely did a terrific job with this one.

Featuring MANDRAKE by Malstrom Audio for kicks, ORBIT 3 by Joranalogue Audio Design for the snare and hats and CHORUS 6 by Soundforce for some tempo synced stereo movement of those hats (aided by Dual LFO)."