Eurorack jam featuring Metropolix, Manis Iteritas, Prok Drums, Zen Delay, and electric guitar

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"A live, semi-improvised modular performance performed entirely on hardware, with one guitar overdub.

This jam started with a simple exploration of the Intellijel Metropolix, a neat sequencer that helps you stumble into inspiration, along with two voices (the Noise Engineering Manis Iteritas and the Acid Rain Chainsaw). My ambitions were no more than "play guitar with eurorack". But as the song found itself, and more and more was added to the table, it became clear I'd have to add guitar after the the fact.

A big highlight here is the Prok Drum modules being sequenced by the Mutable Instruments Grids. Not only is Grids fast and inspiring, but its modulation allows you to add performability (like the snare rolls I add via a touch pad here) and variety (through its chaos and frequency controls). Special thanks to Michael, a good human and also a member of my Patreon community, for allowing me to commission him to build the Prok modules! You're the best, Michael.

And of course, the Erica Synths Zen Delay works its magic again. Here, it runs everywhere from flanger to filter to gonzo delay, and I just love what it adds to a jam.

The patches would take a very long time to explain, but here are the modules:

Voices:
- Noise Engineering Manis Iteritas
- Squarp Rample
- Acid Rain Chainsaw
- Qu-Bit Chord
- Frequency Central Product
- Prok drum modules

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Acid Rain Technology Chainsaw Polyphonic Oscillator

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"Chainsaw is a powerful digital oscillator designed to bring polyphony to your rack in a compact and playable interface. We were inspired by the super-saw; a mainstay of electronic music production, and a waveform rich with harmonics for filters and effects to chew on. Chainsaw features 3 voices of 7 waves, with individual pitch control per voice. All waves morph from super saw to super square for giant hollow basslines and more."

You can find demos in previous posts here.

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Modular Christmas Carols [Steve's MS-22, Twin Waves MkII, Chainsaw, Quadigy, Ensemble Oscillator...]

video upload by Threetom Modular

"PATCH NOTES BELOW! :)

SEASON GREETING TO EVERYONE IN THE MODULAR COMMUNITY FROM THREETOM MODULAR! I HOPE YOU HAVE THE MOST EXCELLENT HOLIDAYS AND I WISH YOU THE BEST FOR THE NEW YEAR! :D

* Voice 1 (Bass): A mix of a triangle wave and a square sub coming from Klavis Twin Waves MkII into Steve's MS-22. Low pass cutoff is modulated by the Klavis Quadigy envelope generator.

* Voice 2 (Lead): A supersaw coming from Klavis Twin Waves MkII going into Steve's MS-22. Low pass cutoff frequency is modulated by the TipTop Z8000 sequencer, asynchronously clocked by the Doepfer A-145-4 quad LFO.

* Voice 3 (Pad): Acidrain Chainsaw into a stereo pair of Steve's MS-22 filters. The Chainsaw's waveshape is slowly modulated by the Doepfer A-145-4 quad LFO.

* Voice 4 (Bells/counterpoint): 4MS Ensemble Oscillator, manually tweaked throughout the sequence.

All voices go through the ZlobVnicursal VCA, into the Befaco Hexmix and Hexpander combo. The Hexpander sends an effects mix into the Happy Nerding FXaid for reverb (which is then mixed back in through the Hexpanders effect return).

This performance was sequenced by Ableton Live and the Endorphin.es Shuttle control (outside of the shot), based on the midi file 'A Christmas Carol Suite' by Richard Ian (you can find it here: http://midkar.com/holidays/christmas/... )"

Music Thing Modular Mini Drive | Ambient Modular Synthesizer | Sworn64

video upload by Sworn64

"Having a little jam with the Music Thing Modular Mini Drive module from Thonk designed by Tom Whitwell.

The Mini Drive is a 4hp incandescent lamp based Overdrive/Distortion module inspired by the classic Moog Minimoog input gain. If you’re looking to get into DIY, this is very quick and easy kit to build.

Main voice is a Mutable Instruments Plaits through a Mutable Instruments Ripples, through the Mini Drive. Sequenced by the Make Noise Rene 2, clocked by the Korg SQ-1. Mutable Instruments Clouds provides the granular delay effects while the Happy Nerding FX Aid XL provides the Reverb. WMD AXYS crossfader controls the reverb send amount which is modulated by a Steady State Fate RND STP random sample and hold voltage to give the voice random splashes of reverb. The droning voice is the Acid Rain Technology Chainsaw through the System 80 Jove and 860 filters slowly modulated by an LFO. This voice is also sent through the TipTop Audio Z-Verb."

https://www.thonk.co.uk/product-category/mtfk/?=m

Polyphony in Eurorack with The Patch Pals

video by Perfect Circuit

"If you’ve ever thought about exploring polyphony in Eurorack, chances are you might have felt some level of intimidation in terms of which method of generating 'chords' and 'harmony' works best. But in reality, there’s no one right way to go about it, and in this video our Patch Pals Wes and Jacob share a few of their favorite ways to make polyphonic patches without too much fuss.

A modular synthesizer’s open-ended patching workflow encourages new ways to think about creating sounds, and polyphony is no different. From Supercritical Synthesizers’ MIDI-controllable Demon Core oscillator to a chord or multi-note oscillator such as the 4ms Ensemble Oscillator, or even making use of loopers or other effects to approximate polyphony, there’s no shortage of creative ideas waiting to be explored.

Read the article here: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal...

Modules Featured in this video:
- Demon Core: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/superc...
- Chainsaw: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/acid-r...
- Morphagene: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/make-n...
- Mimeophon: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/make-n...
- Ensemble Oscillator: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/4ms-en...

Timeline:

00:00 - intro
01:30 - overview
02:21 - super saw oscillators
03:43 - polyphony or paraphony
04:30 - Demon Core
05:37 - Chainsaw
09:00 - approximating polyphony
09:59 - looper (Morphagene)
11:00 - delay (Mimeophon)
12:18 - chord oscillators (Ensemble Oscillator)
14:51 - outro"

A Friendly Chat with Ryan Hume (Acid Rain Technology)

Red Means Recording

"Let's chat with Ryan Hume of Acid Rain Technology! They make Eurorack modules like Chainsaw, Maestro, Navigator, and more."

Chainsaw VCOs through Moon Phase Filter

Precarious333 Music

"Just a little test of Acid Rain Chainsaw stereo supersaw VCOs used with Patching Panda Moon Phase. Both are stereo so seems a good fit. All 3 voices of Chainsaw are being sequenced separately by 3 channels of Industrial Music Electronics Stillson Hammer mkII with the 4th sequencing Erica Synths Pico Voice in acid bassline mode through G-Storm Electro 101-VCF and into 2hp Delay. It's a pretty rich sound for so few modules. It helps that Moon Phase allows for enhancement of the stereo field, and I begin to apply detune to Chainsaw's VCOs at the 01:20 mark. Recorded into Ableton as 1 stereo and 1 mono track. Reverb, compression, and EQ added in post."

What's On My Sampler? Halloween Horror Sample Edition Synthesizer Rik Marston

Rik Marston Official

"What's On My Sampler?" NEW Series on Rik Marston Official!
Showing off my personal sample collection I have obtained thru
the years. I have loaded these samples on countless samplers.
There will be many samples you will recognize from Horror's BEST!
I love SAMPLING as much as I love Analog & Digital synthesizers!
It is an ART for sure & a BLAST to use them in music!
Yamaha Motif XF6 is our master sampler today :)
"Beetlejuice" @ 00:41
"Evil Dead" @ 01:17
"Exorcist" @ 01:30
"Friday The 13th" @01:51
"Halloween" @ 02:02
"Hellraiser" @ 02:43
"Lost Boys" @ 02:59
"Night Of The Living Dead" @ 03:11
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre" @ 04:06

Meteorite friends featured at the very end:
Two North West Africa 869 Chondrite Meteorites!"

You can find additional What's On My Sampler? posts by Rik Marston here.
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And tunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/rik-marston/1057646302

Eurorack Techniques: Chords with Modular

Patchwerks Seattle

"In this video resident expert Matthew Piecora (aka EZBOT) shares with us a few techniques for making and controlling chords in a eurorack system. Chords in eurorack can be complex and difficult to control, luckily there is stepped voltage and quantizers to help reign in control over our chordal melodies. This video features WMD Metron, WMD Arpitecht, WMD Triad, WMD Voltera, Mutable Instruments Plaits, Acid Rain Technologies Chainsaw, WMD C4RBN, WMD Performance Mixer, and the Blue Lantern Simple ADSR.

Order WMD Metron here: https://bit.ly/pw-metron
Order WMD Voltera here: http://bit.ly/wmd_voltera
Order WMD Arpitecht here: http://bit.ly/wmd_arpitecht
Order WMD C4RBN here: http://bit.ly/wmd_c4rbn
Order WMD Triad here: http://bit.ly/wmd_triad
Order WMD Performance Mixer here: http://bit.ly/wmd_performance_mixer
Order Mutable Instruments Plaits here: https://bit.ly/mutable_plaits
Order Acid Rain Technologies Chainsaw here: http://bit.ly/acidrain_chainsaw

https://patchwerks.com/
Video by: Matthew Piecora (aka EZBOT)
https://www.ezbot.live"

Synth Sounds of the Narwhal

Some LFO action there.

"With the help of Inuit hunters, geophysicists recently recorded the various calls, buzzes, clicks and whistles of narwhals as they summered in a Greenland fjord. The recordings help scientists better understand the soundscape of Arctic glacial fjords and provide valuable insight into the behavior of these shy and mysterious creatures, according to the researchers.

This animation illustrates how narwhal vocalizations match their behavior. The researchers captured several types of sounds made by narwhals, including social calls, or whistles, and clicks used for echolocation, the biological sonar used by dolphins, bats, some whales and other animals to navigate and find food.

The closer narwhals get to their food, the faster they click, until the noise becomes a buzz not unlike that of a chainsaw. This terminal buzz helps the narwhals pinpoint the location of their prey.

The recordings help the researchers provide a baseline of the kinds of sounds that permeate the narwhals’ pristine habitat. In combination with sightings, they also show narwhals get closer to glacier ice than previously thought for this area and the animals do forage for food in summer, contrary to some previous findings."

I always thought they could speak (magic unicorn of the sea and all) :

TB-303 Acid Ambient Eurorack Modular Synthesizer | Happy 303 Day

Published on Mar 2, 2020 sworn64

"Roland TB-303 through an MXR Distortion+ pedal, synced to the System80 880. Moog DFAM on the ambient, noise percussion. Main lead synth is the Noise Engineering Manis Iteritas through a Make Noise Mimeophon. Melody is created from clocked stepped random of a Make Noise Wogglbug with occasional voltage sweeps mixed in from a cycling Maths, all quantized by an Intellijel Scales. Super saw chord pad is an Acid Rain Technology Chainsaw filtered in stereo by a System80 Jove and 860.

Xaoc Devices Batumi is sending various LFO modulations throughout the patch to make it ebb and flow. Delay on the 303 from the 4ms Dual Looping Delay. Reverb is the Halls of Valhalla on the Tiptop Audio Z-DSP. Mix is through the WMD Performance mixer.

Did you celebrate 303 day? Have you ever made ambient music with an acid bassline? Let me know in the comments.

#tb303 #eurorack #acidbassline"

Prophet X User Samples Examples (Fairlight, D50,Synclavier,Film Clips)

Published on Feb 17, 2020 EverettDudgeon138

"A quick video showing some of the User Samples I've put in my Prophet-X.

I highly recommend you go to www.cyborgstudio.com for some delicious food for your Prophet-X.

The samples I'm showcasing in this video are as follows:
1.) Roland D-50: Digital Native Dance
2.) Roland D-50: Soundtrack
3.) Roland D-50: Time.
4.) Roland D-50: Slap Bass
5.) Roland D-50: Fantasia
6.) Synclavier II: Bell Gong (Beat It)
7.) Fairlight CMI: Arr1
8.) Fairlight CMI: Various Rhythms
9.) Fairlight CMI: Orch5 and Orch6
10.) Opening Narration from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
11.) Chainsaw Sound Effect
12.) Nails On Chalkboard Sound Effect"

https://www.sequential.com/product/prophet-x

Chainsaw Symphony - Acid Rain Chainsaw meets Instruō Harmonaig

Published on Dec 12, 2019 Precarious333 Music

"Wow, a match made in heaven. Never thought I'd get such beautiful harmonies so easily on modular. Just received Acid Rain Technology Chainsaw today. This is the first patch. Chainsaw is an amazingly powerful 4hp module capable of producing 3 voices of 7 detuned waves. I'm already in love with this thing. Coupled with Harmonaig, which produces chords, and I'm in heaven.

Recorded as a stereo track into Ableton. EQ to tame the lows and a little compression.

Signal path is three pitch CVs from Harmonaig into Chainsaw. Chainsaw stereo out into two VCAs of Erogenous Tones VC8 controlled by envelopes from Erogenous Tones RADAR, stereo signal into Qu-Bit Electronix Prism (as a stereo filter with no resonance) opened by another RADAR ENV, into Endorphin.es Milky Way's creamy big reverb. Very simple patch."

Acid Rain Technology Chainsaw // A stereo 21 oscillator swarm in 4HP (Eurorack demo)

Published on Dec 3, 2019 DivKidVideo

"Here we have the 4HP wide 21 oscillator stereo oscillator - Chainsaw from Acid Rain Technology. This is 3 voices of 7 oscillators each that are spread across the stereo image with controls for detune and blending between saw and square waves. Huge super saws and super squares are easy to fine tune and tuning is simple with an elegant encoder for coarse semitone tuning and then a button press for fine tune. It's a simple to use module that just pushed my enjoyment of making music and patches so there's lots of examples in the video. As always skip around with the timing index and sections listed below.

TIMING INDEX // SECTIONS
00:00 Hello & video previews
01:18 What is chainsaw? Feature rundown
02:58 Basic sound demo
04:03 DNB with open jazz voiced chords
05:16 Pulsing chords
06:24 Deep space drones
07:17 Creating wider stereo images & droning chord tones
09:08 NASTY techno
09:58 Percussion synthesis
11:00 Thickening musical lines with octaves
12:09 Aggressive noise oscillator vibes with FM
13:20 BEAUTIFUL cinematic chords"

Switching, supersaws, kicks & more from Acid Rain Technology // Superbooth 2019

Published on May 12, 2019 DivKidVideo

"It was a pleasure to meet Acid Rain Technology and hear about their Switchblade utility module that switches, mutes and mixes Eurorack signals. The new Chainsaw, Jackhammer & Navigator offer more CV utilities, supersaws and super pulses and Simmons style drum synthesis modules all to come later this year."

Roland JUNO 60 Ambient Psychedelic HALLOWEEN Korg VOLCA Bass ELKA X705 tubbutec juno66 #44

Published on Oct 31, 2015 VolcaRock

"AMBIENT Psychedelic HALLOWEEN SPECIAL with additional video from Horror Nights (with our girlfriends under zombie & chainsaw attack :)
ROLAND JUNO 60 with Tubbutec Juno 66 Mod (Portamento, Duophonic/Unison, Supersaw/square, Detune, MIDI, Chord Memory, ...),
Space Organ ELKA x705, Korg Volca Bass, Elektron Octatrack & Guitar.

Tubbutec Mod is a must have for experimental Juno 6/60/106 owners turning the amazing Juno into a more flexible & more VCO-sounding REAL BOUTIQUE synth (greetz to all Ju-6 owners :-) The developer did a great job! Unbelievable that you get a new firmware upgrade for a synth from 1982!

Horror Nights is an amazing event at Europapark Rust/Germany . It's like being in your own horror movie. 6 big houses with different topics and lots of zombie , mummy and monster action on the whole outdoor area. additional video also contains some modern and vintage ghost trains and fantasy worlds @ Europapark Rust.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN MY FRIENDS, hope you enjoy my music video :-)

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Instruments used:
ROLAND JUNO 60 (1982) (with Tubbutec Mod & Peavey Studio Mix controller) String FX: Vermona PH-16 phaser
ELKA X705 (1978) space organ with two Rhapsody 610 string machines & Solist 505 synth (string FX EHX small stone)
Korg Volca Bass
Elektron Octattrack (drum& percussion loops, guitar post FX, vocal samples)
Godin LGX-SA guitar

All instruments have been filmed while recording!"

Erwin rocking the Monotribe

YouTube Uploaded by henrrrikkk on Aug 31, 2011

"Yeah!"

The Holmlia Pocketpiano+chainsaw massacre

Uploaded by henrrrikkk on Jan 9, 2012

"Erwin playing some real horrormusic using the FM synth of the Pocketpiano, then killing me with the chainsaw."

And it begins...


monotribes on eBay
Critter & Guitari on eBay - Note there are two versions, one with MIDI and one without.

chainsaw

YouTube via SuperRoss007 | September 03, 2010

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ANALOG CHAINSAW

YouTube via popitem
"At first i was aiming to make a fully self playing tune but finally i'd needed some more patch chord and multiple.
What you ear is the mfb kraftzwerg modul and analogue solutions black coffee thru plan b m12 doepfer quad env/lfo, freq divider, sequenced via mfb seq-02 and doepfer seq. switch."

"Tags: modular synth mfb kraftzwerg doepfer a-100 plan-b m12 analogue solutions black coffee phobos chainsaw massacre"

16bit Chainsaw Calligraphy live jam/remix

YouTube via timexile
"A live mashup of this amazing 16bit tune using a patch I made in Reaktor using the Maschine controller from NI. FX on the pads and twisters, bar progress on the top 8 buttons, track section on the 8 buttons to the left of the pads."