5 Ways to build a Hybrid Setup / VCV Rack & Eurorack & How to Live Loop in VCV Rack

Omri Cohen

You can find additional resources from Omri Cohen at https://www.patreon.com/omricohen

00:00 - Midi to CV with uMidi from Intellijel
06:05 - Midi to CV with the VCMC from Befaco
09:52 - Expert Sleepers ES-9
18:03 - Expert Sleepers Disting mk4
20:48 - Using a DC-coupled audio interface

How to Live Loop in VCV Rack
Omri Cohen

00:00 - Lilac Looper Unsynced
05:05 - Lilac Looper Synced
09:31 - Looping Drums
17:47 - Simpliciter and Delay
23:55 - Sonus Looper Modules

Darkroom patch example

Published on Sep 7, 2019 Expert Sleepers

"This clip from Darkroom (https://darkroomtheband.bandcamp.com) demos a variety of Expert Sleepers modules. The whole thing is driven from an FH-2, clocked by the laptop (running Live). The FH-2 is generating Euclidean patterns, LFOs, and running an arpeggiator for one of the synth voices.

The General CV in Chord mode is generating some of the chordal sounds.

Two disting mk4s are being used as crossfaders/LFOs. A third is running in AD envelope mode.

A fourth disting mk4 is playing the voice sample you can hear, chopped up & mangled by LFOs and triggers from the FH-2 and Xaoc Batumi.

Other patch notes - the bass line is sequenced from the Xaoc Moskwa, quantised by the uScale. The VCO for this sound is the Birdkids Bateleur. The voice played by the FH-2 arpeggiator is two Doepfer A-110-1 VCOs. The General CV and disting sample playback are being processed by the Xaoc Belgrad, the Pittsburgh Analog Delay, and the Doepfer A-125 phaser."

Live Jam #113 - Techno/ Improvisation - Eurorack modular synth and Arturia Beatstep Pro

Published on Nov 22, 2017 Monotrail

"I was messing around with some sounds on the modular and decided to record a quick techno session. No melodies from the Beatstep Pro, just triggers for the drums. Some clap(ish) sounds and the high biep are a sample snippet from the Disting mk4...

Stuff used:
Eurorack modular synthesizer with:

Doepfer: a-118, a-119, a-124, a-143-4, a-156, a-160-2, a171-2
Erica synths: Black wavetable VCO
Expert Sleepers: Disting MK4
Intellijel: Dixie II, uFold, Quadra, 2xTriat , Linux, mult
Malekko heavy industry: Unity mixer
Make noise: MMG, Lxd
Mutable instruments: Clouds, Peaks
MFB: OH/HH/CY
Synthrotek: Echo, Deluxe power
Tiptop Audio: BD808
Diy: Quad passive attenuator"

80 MODULES IN 4HP?! Disting MK4 review and my top 5 algorithms

Published on Mar 26, 2018 loopop

"The Disting has an ever expanding library of onboard modules or algorithms that can do very different things - currently about 80 but probably more by the time you watch this, all embodied in a 4HP module.
​
If you like modules that are clearly labelled knob per function, the Disting is not for you, but if you’re in a pinch for a module that’s missing from your setup, it’s more than likely that the multifunction Disting from Expert Sleepers has a version of it - ​ranging from oscillators, envelope generators and LFO’s all to way to audio recording, sample playback, physical modeling and effects.

The new, fourth version of Disting – the MK4, introduces a dot matrix screen, that while is relatively small, makes the module substantially more accessible.

In this video I give an overview of Disting's layout and how to use the compact module, as well as sound examples for my personal top 5 modules."

Micro Transmission 001: Eurorack - Hermod Plaits Pluck Disting Black Hole Zoia

Published on Nov 7, 2019 A Box In The Sea

"Micro transmissions is a series combining different Eurorack modules in a 62hp Intellijel case with the 1010 Music Black Box, the Empress Effects Zoia, Midi Fighter Twister, Touche and the Launchpad X.

Ver 001 = Squarp Hermod, Mutable Instruments Plaits, 2HP Pluck, Music Thing Radio Music, Expert Sleepers Disting MK4 and MK3, Erica Synths Black Hole DSP, Ornament and Crime, Intellijel Zeroscope, VCA and Outs."

disting mk4 - Phase & Frequency Shifter

video upload by Expert Sleepers

disting mk4 - Frequency Shifter

New Experts Sleepers disting mk4 Demo Videos

Published on Feb 19, 2018 Expert Sleepers

Note this playlist starts at video 13, which starts the latest run of videos. You can use the controls in the player to jump to any video in the playlist.

Sonic sculptures (generative modular music)

video upload by Electrum Modular

"(For Paula)

This patch was inspired by hours (weeks?) of listening to Morton Feldman’s exquisite music. It ended up quite different harmonically from Feldman’s pieces, partly due to the limitations of a modular system. The envelope generators and attenuators required some tweaking to get that balance between repetition and divergence, revolving and evolving. In retrospect, I could have left longer silences between notes.
NOTE: no delay effect used here, as it would have reintroduced a pulse.

“Almost all of Feldman’s music is slow and soft. Only at first sight is this a limitation. I see it rather as a narrow door, to whose dimensions one has to adapt oneself (as in Alice in Wonderland) before one can pass through it into a state of being that is expressed in Feldman’s music. Only when one has become accustomed to the dimness of the light can one begin to perceive the richness and variety which is the material of the music...Feldman sees sounds as reverberating endlessly, never getting lost, changing their resonances as they die away, or rather not die away, but recede from our ears, and soft because softness is compelling, because an insidious invasion of our senses is more effective than a frontal attack.”” -- Cornelius Cardew, quoted by John Tilbury in “On Playing Feldman”

Video sequences from Works of Calder (d. Herbert Matter, 1950), an experimental film featuring a soundtrack by John Cage; available at archive.org.

Title image: Tentoonstelling Kinetische Plastiek Am. beeldhouwer Alexander Calder in Stedelij, Bestanddeelnr (October 2, 1969); creative commons.

Modules used:
Expert Sleepers’ Disting EX
Disting mk4
ALM’s Pamela’s New Workout
Behringer Neutron
ALM’s Pip Slope x2
Make Noise Maths
Intellijel Quad VCA
Tesseract’s Sweet Sixteen"

Devourer Of The Dead (Ambient Eurorack Modular Synthesizer)

Published on Aug 9, 2018 sector

"Live dub tech ambient Session using Eurorack Modular Erica Synths Pico System II + Blue Lantern Sir Mix Alot , Disting mk4 , Black Hole dsp. Recorded directly into the line in of a canon d600 with magic lantern.

Stream or download this track on soundcloud:"



More modular eurorack jam session videos from sector:



Playlist at the time of this post:
Dub Tech Ambient Session with Eurorack Modular Pico system Expert Sleepers
Dub Tech Ambient Session with Eurorack Modular Pico system Expert Sleepers
Dub Tech Ambient Session with 2 Nintendo DS electroplankton Eurorack modular Pico system
Ambient jam with Dreadbox synths Murmux Erebus Nyx semi Modular
Hydric desires - ambient session with 3x nintendo ds electroplankton 12 min relaxing music
Refusing the signs, mutilating the prophecy (eurorack modular ambient jam)
Time Of The Corpses (eurorack modular ambient jam)
Years Spent Sleeping (eurorack modular ambient jam)
The Second Permadeath (eurorack modular ambient jam)
Globular Cluster (eurorack modular ambient jam)
Devourer Of The Dead (Ambient Eurorack Modular Synthesizer)

Micro Transmission 002: Eurorack Modular - Hermod + Pluck + Disting + Black Hole + Zoia

Published on Nov 30, 2019 A Box In The Sea

"Micro transmissions is a series combining different Eurorack modules in a 62hp Intellijel case with the 1010 Music Black Box, the Empress Effects Zoia, Midi Fighter Twister, Touche and the Launchpad X.

Ver 002 = Squarp Hermod, Mutable Instruments Plaits, 2HP Pluck, Music Thing Radio Music, Expert Sleepers Disting MK4 and MK3, Erica Synths Black Hole DSP, Ornament and Crime, Intellijel Zeroscope, VCA and Outs."

A Box In The Sea Micro Transmissions

When two become one: DISTING EX by Expert Sleepers // Review, tutorial, vs DISTING MK4

Published on May 20, 2020 loopop

TIMELINE:
0:00 Intro
0:35 What is Disting
2:15 Dual MK4 control
3:45 1+1 are more than 2
5:20 EX Overview
7:30 EX Algorithms
10:45 Using EX
13:40 Presets
14:00 Mappings
19:05 Auto-sample
22:25 Pros & cons

Mob of Emus + Beads + Chord Machine Ambient / Plaits Maths Ensemble Oscillator

video upload by Wac- Lounge

"Thank you for watching!
Here is the simple patch notes, a list of the gear and more information.

Grain delay voices = Mob of Emus (sine wave) processed by Beads sequenced by Chord Machine2
Chord voices = Mob of Emus (sine wave×4) sequenced by Chord Machine2 program controlled by MATHS modulation from A-145-4LFOs
Arpeggio voice = Qu-bit Chord sequenced by Chord Machine2(triggered by MATHS)
Synth pad = Ensemble Oscillator modulation & sequenced by Disting(clocked LFO attenuated by MATHS) triggered by Steppy
Strings-like voice = Rings with modulation from Disting(clocked LFO) sequenced by 2hp Arp filtered by A-120 VCF1(modulation from A-140ADSR triggered by Marbles)
Lead square wave voice = Plaits with modulation from Mob of Emus & A-145-4LFOs sequenced by Marbles(CV)
Chord & random percussive voice = Nebulae sequenced by MATHS
Master clock = MATHS (divided by Steppy)"

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Live Jam #92 - Techno / Upbeat - Eurorack, Korg er-1, Volca Sample, Microkorg, Plugiator, Microbrute

Published on Jun 28, 2017 Monotrail

"Sometimes you are just in the mood for a more upbeat song. Hope you like it!

Monotrail is now on Patreon! If you want to be part of my project, support future video's and receive special patron bonuses, check out: https://www.patreon.com/monotrail

Site: http://monotrail.blogspot.de

Stuff used:
Arturia Beatstep Pro, Akai APC key 25, Arturia Microbrute, Korg Microkorg, Korg Volca Sample, Korg electribe er-1, Use Audio Plugiator and Eurorack modular system with:

Doepfer: a-118, a-119, a-124, a-143-4, a-148, a-156, a-160-2, a171-2
Erica synths: Black wavetable VCO
Expert Sleepers: Disting MK4
Intellijel: Dixie II, uFold, Quadra, 2xTriat , Linux, mult
Malekko heavy industry: Unity mixer
Make noise: MMG, Lxd
Mutable instruments: Clouds, Peaks
MFB: Dual LFO
Synthrotek: Echo, Deluxe power
Tiptop Audio: BD808
Diy: Quad attenuator

Audio via the Mackie 1202vlz4 mixer to a Moto Ultralite MK3 hybrid.
External effects: T.C electronics M350 for reverb

Hoof Fungus and Moss Patch - Scion, BIA, Beads, Arbhar

video by Omri Cohen

Consider joining me on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/omricohen
Patching techniques and ideas that I continue updating - https://bit.ly/3o1Q3Sg

"I took a small setup to the woods, and with the help of a mushroom and some moss, I recorded these sounds. I'm using the Polyend Anywhere and a USE block to have power outside, and the Scion from Instruo is the bridge between Nature and the modules. The Zoom H6 recorder is recording it all, and it's also recording the birds around.
These are the modules I used:
Noise Engineering BIA, Instruo Scion, Expert Sleepers Disting MK4, Mutable Instruments Beads, Instruo Arbhar, Befaco STMix.
Thanks to MycoLyco for the inspiration."

Two by Four //Subharmonicon/Mother 32/Plaits/Rings/Tides/Mimeophon/Magneto//

video upload by Aleatoric Machine

"The fun part about this patch is that all of the pitch sequencing comes from the Moog Subharmonicon. Including the bass line. Subharmonicon starts doing its thing with the two four note sequences. It goes through Make Noise Mimeophon to double up the polyrhythm pattern. Mutable Instruments Rings follows the pitch of sequence one, while Mutable Instruments Plaits (in a Rings-ish voice) follows sequence two. Moog Mother 32 samples and holds a pitch from sequence two at random intervals. Both sequences run into Expert Sleepers Disting mk4 in min/max mode. Mutable Instruments Tides and Make Noise STO double up on the base line, which is the min value of the two sequences, periodically switching to the max value (when it sounds like it goes to the 4 chord). The overall mix sequencing is handled by Malekko Voltage Block, with 2x Make Noise Maths controlling the slow fade between settings.

Also starring Intellijel Steppy sequencing Mosaic drum modules, XAOC Zadar and Qu-Bit Chance for modulation, Mutable Instruments Stages for some LFOs, Strymon Magneto on Plaits, and Chase Bliss Mood and Happy Nerding FX Aid on Mother 32."

Live Jam #87 - Downtempo / Chill / Techno - Eurorack, Arturia Beatstep Pro, Korg Volca Sample

Published on May 24, 2017 Monotrail

"Another run with a compact setup. The Beatstep Pro is sequencing the Modular and the BD808 kick. The volca sample adds some extra drums.

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Bandcamp: https://monotrail.bandcamp.com
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/monotrailmusic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/monotrail

Stuff used:
Arturia Beatstep Pro, Korg volca Sample and Eurorack modular system with:

Doepfer: a-118, a-119, a-124, a-143-4, a-148, a-156, a-160-2, a171-2
Expert Sleepers: Disting MK4
Intellijel: Dixie II, uFold, Quadra, 2xTriat , Linux, mult
Malekko heavy industry: Unity mixer
Make noise: MMG, Lxd
Mutable instruments: Clouds, Peaks
MFB: Dual LFO
Synthrotek: Echo, Deluxe power
Tiptop Audio: BD808
Diy: Quad attenuator

Audio via the Mackie 1202vlz4 mixer to a Moto Ultralite MK3 hybrid.
External effects: T.C electronics M350 for reverb"

Sea People - Hardware / No DAW Jam #36

Published on Sep 6, 2018 Jay Hoskins

Title: Sea People
Genre: Electronic Melodic Ambient Downtempo
Artist: Rite Rain Causality - Jay Hoskins

In this track the Tonestar 2600 provides the bass line sequenced by the Timbrewolf. I wanted to try longer patterns in the eurorack so all four channels of the Timbrewolf are used and switched through a sequential switch. The gates are independent of the cv and generated by the Turing machine. The Minilogue provides an initial pad and then a melody is recorded live into the sequencer. The circuit is doing drum duty and additional bass reinforcement. Finally the MS-20 is adding some lead pads. Delay and reverb are from the Flashback and Hall of Fame.

Played live without a computer and recorded directly from the mixer outputs.

Equipment

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Live Jam #126 - Cinematic / Melodic - Arturia Microbrute, Dave Smith X4, Eurorack synthesizer

Published on Feb 21, 2018 Monotrail

Stuff used:
Arturia Microbrute, Dave Smith X4 and Eurorack modular system with:

Doepfer: a-118, a-119, a-124, a-143-4, a-156, a-160-2, a171-2
Erica synths: Black wavetable VCO
Expert Sleepers: Disting MK4
Intellijel: Dixie II, uFold, Quadra, 2xTriat , Linux, mult
Malekko heavy industry: Unity mixer
Make noise: MMG, Lxd
Mutable instruments: Clouds, Peaks
MFB: Duel LFO, OH/HH/CY
Synthrotek: Echo, Deluxe power
Tiptop Audio: BD808
Diy: Quad passive attenuator

A Digital Voice for Drums Bass and Lead: The Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas Alter

video upload by pitch patch

"This is a demo of the Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas Alter. I go through all knobs and functions and show you two patch ideas.

The Basimilus Iteritas Alter is an improved version of the discontinued Basimilus Iteritas. The 10HP six-oscillator additive synthesizer comes with adjustable waveform, harmonic spread, attack, and decay summed and fed into an infinifolder. They call it a parameterized digital drum synthesizer.

You can get further information and the manual here: https://bit.ly/basimilus

I use 100% raw audio: no preamp, no compression, no effects.

TIMELINE
00:08 Overview
01:46 Waveforms
03:01 Patch idea 1: A whole track with the Basimilus
06:00 Patch idea 2 feat. Korg Volca FM

All audio was recorded with a Motu M4 and Ableton Live 11.
I am using the Intellijel 4U x 42HP case and ALM Busy Circuits patch cables.

Other modules (from left to right)
· ALM Busy Circuits Pamela's New Workout
· Make Noise Morphagene
· Expert Sleepers Disting Mk4

Special guest: Korg Volca FM"

Modular Mario (Overworld Theme Eurorack cover)

Published on Mar 23, 2019 chisel316

"Modular synth rendition of Super Mario Bros. Overworld Theme.

Eurorack modules:
Mordax Data - oscilloscope (red-square, blue-triangle, green-noise)
Expert Sleepers Disting mk4 - Wavetable oscillator for 4-bit triangle
Ornament & Crime Hemisphere - ADSR envelope for triangle
Mutable Instruments uBraids - Noise burst and banner
Intellijel Korgasmatron - used as a mixer for square oscillators
Intellijel uVCA - VCA for square oscillators
MFB Kraftzwerg - dual square oscillators & ADSR envelopes
Doepfer A-138c - used as a mixer for triangle & noise burst

iOS apps:
Seven Systems Xequence - MIDI sequencer
Kymatica AUM - mixer
Audio Damage Eos2 - a touch of reverb
FAC Maxima - maximizer"