John L Rice Modular Synth Performance at the 2018 Seward Park MOTS

Published on May 14, 2018 John L Rice

"This is a recording of my performance at last Saturday's MOTS event and a still shot of my setup. This is an ambient/atmospheric drone with some sequencing. (so no drum beats, vocals, guitar solos or any sort of predictable structure! ;-) It will sound best when listened to on a great system that can reproduce very low frequencies (sub woofer needed) although I'm not sure yet if the YT compression will ruin the sound or not.

I used my briefcase sized eurorack modular synthesizer featuring Synth Tech E330 VCOs and E102 Quad Temporal Shifter, and a Strymon Magneto delay etc and a TC Electronic T2 reverb pedal."

Moog Sub Phatty (disassembly and filter pot repair)

video upload by John L Rice

Checkout additoinal posts featuring John L Rice & the Moog Sub Phatty here.

"When I dove into this repair I had no idea how it was put together but I thought "how hard can it be?"! 😅 Now that I know, it would take me less than half the time I spent to do this repair so I hope someone else finds this video useful. 😎

Index:
0:00 - Beginning With Demo Of Control Defect 👶
0:56 - Introduction 👋
1:36 - Knob Removal 🤏
3:06 - Adventures With Control Panel Removal 🙄
6:06 - Adventures With PCB Replacement 🤓
13:06 - Adventures With Reassembly 😤
14:06 - What You Need To Know In A Nut Shell 👍
15:36 - Finishing Up 😅
16:46 - Post Repair Test 💪
17:56 - End 👴

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Thanks for watching, rating, sharing, and commenting! 🥳"

GRP Synthesizer R24 Sequencer - First Test

Published on May 9, 2017 John L Rice

"Unpack and let the camera roll! I wasn't happy with the lighting
and focus so I threw an effect on the video.

More info at: http://www.grpsynthesizer.it/index.ph..."

Update:

CLICK FOR MORE »

Winter NAMM 2018 Moon Modular Booth Pics by John L Rice

A great set of NAMM 2018 pics at the Moon Modular booth in via John L Rice. You should recognize a few faces. :)

Mouse over the image for arrows to appear over the left and right edges. Click on them to flip through the pics.

JLR's Modular Synthesizers - System Breakdown #8 -

video upload by John L Rice

John L Rice System Breakdown posts

"This is my eighth video breakdown/rundown, this time for my custom folding 5U system. Please subscribe to my channel and click the 'bell' button to be notified when I post new videos! (because as you may know, I post inconsistently and change the schedule at random! 😒😊)

Index:
0:00 Beginning
0:20 Introduction
1:14 Contents Rundown
4:26 Module and System Modifications
14:17 Shirt
14:52 Gig Bag and Additional Power Supply Talk
17:12 Final Words
17:42 Demo 1 - Simple Drone
18:49 Demo 2 - Four Voice Polyphonic
20:55 Demo 3 - Two Voice Polyphonic
22:10 Demo 4 - Percussive Rhythms
24:04 Demo 5 - Simple Sequence
28:03 Demo 6 - Another Drone
31:55 Demo 7 - The Final Noodle
35:20 End

List of the modules in this system:
Martin Jan Koehler - Tidal Modulator
Grove Audio - GMS-742 MIDI To CV, GMS-714 Quad VCA
Soundtronics/M2Synth - Sequencer 192
Synthetic Soundlabs - 1600 YuSynth Triple Clock Divider, 1660 The Matrix Algorithmic Composer
Free State FX - Digital Utilities, Dual Trigger Processor x 2
Noise Engineering - Basimilus Iteritas Magnus (or Dove Audio WTF VCO)
Moon Modular - 501D Dual VCO x2, 501M Oscillator Mixer x 2
Happy Nerding - Fun VCF x 2

You can see details of the modules on my ModularGrid page:
https://www.modulargrid.net/d/racks/v...

As always, thank you for watching, rating, following, subscribing, and commenting! 🥳 If you found the content of this video helpful, interesting, or entertaining, please consider showing your support so I can stay stocked up on coffee and cookies. 😋 https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JohnL..."

Squarp Instruments Rample - Eurorack Sample Player

video upload by John L Rice



Squarp Rample Sample Part 2

video upload by John L Rice

"Same basic patch with a different sample set and Mutable Clouds added."

One Half Of One Million

Published on Dec 28, 2015 John L Rice

Congrats to John L Rice!

"Another bit of messing around, this time with a lot of Modcan modules.

The 'sequence' was created with all 4 outputs of a Modcan 66B Control into to two Modcan 55B quantizers whose output fed 4 Synth Tech MOTM-300 VCOs. The VCO saw outputs were passed through 2 Happy Nerding FUN VCFs for a little fixed filtering and then on to a Modcan 31B quad VCA which was controlled by a Modcan 60B quad EG and the mixed output of the VCA was run through a Modcan 73B dual delay before getting to the final line mixer, a Samson SM10. The EG and quantizers were gated by a Moon Modular 568+568A trigger sequencer setup and the 568 and 73B were clocked from a Modcan 53B clock.

The Mellotron M4000D was noodled by hand but while some of its output went right to the SM10 mixer, it was also routed out to a Modcan 40B dual multimode VCF, that was being modulated by a Synth Tech MOTM-380 LFO, and the 40B's output was sent through a Club Of The Knobs (COTK) C1660 VC Phase Processor before returning to two inputs on the SM10 mixer.

Strymon BigSky and Roland RSP-550 reverbs were used on the SM10 mixer's effects loops and a little bit of reverb plug-in was used in Sony Music Studio during editing.

Thank you again everyone! :-) I hope to do a lot more in 2016 including increasing performance and production quality and maybe even finally getting one or more albums released . . . FINALLY! ;-) Have a happy and productive New Year, all!"

Spirits Of The Temple Electric - ForbiddenPlaces

Published on Feb 15, 2015 John L Rice

"And another in this series. This one is more just an exploration of manually manipulating various parameters of the Modcan 58B digital oscillator while watching the oscilloscope. By using both the normal and 90 degree quadrature outputs of the Modcan 58B VCDO into the X and Y inputs of an oscilloscope so interesting patterns were discovered. Strymon BigSky reverb pedal featured.

I have a quick overview of how I make these videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHW5I... [below]

I made a video playlist that contains all videos in this series in order of creation chronologically: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list..." [below]

Spirits Of The Temple Electric - Secrets Revealed -

Uploaded on Dec 13, 2009 John L Rice

"I created this video so people wondering how I created this series of videos would have at least a general idea of what took place. Definitely not a step by step tutorial but maybe enough to inspire you to try it yourself. I encourage you to stay vigilant for "happy accidents" and go with the flow of what happens, since this whole series came out of something totally unexpected! :-)"

Spirits Of The Temple Electric

MMTA SUMMER SYNTHFEST 2012 - John L Rice

YouTube Uploaded by matrixsynth on Jun 4, 2012 Update: updated the gear featured:

Just a brief flyover of John L Rice's monster modular system. The 5U system features Modcan, Moon Modular (aka The Lunar Experience), STG, Synthesizers.com, COTK, a Cynthia Zeroscillator, Synthesis Technology aka MOTM, Happy Nerding – Super Sawtor, Oakley/Krisp1 – Croglin VCF, and MegaOhm - CdS VCF/A. You can also see a Sequentix Cirklon and a Novation Supernova racked. The video also features his eurorack system including Modcan – Touch Sequencer, Synth Tech – (all available!) 340, 350, 560, 580, Malekko/Wiard – NoiseRing, Circuit Abbey – Unify, TipTop – frames, uZeus, drum modules etc.

Remember to see the MMTA SYNTHFEST 2012 label for more.

http://www.mostlymodular.com/

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Modular On The Spot At Seattle's Gas Works Park

Published on Jul 30, 2017 John L Rice

"I quickly threw this together from random video clips and still shots I took during the MOTS concert at Gas Works Park in Seattle WA USA July 29th 2017.

I was experimenting with my little Canon M5 mirror-less camera and 22mm lens to see how well it would work recording video and I was surprised that the audio quality turned out to be not half bad considering I was only using the built in mic! I would have recorded more than just short clips of all the performers if I had known before hand. (video quality suffered because I had the wrong mode set! d'oh)

Many thanks to Bradley Millington for all his efforts in making this happen and thanks also to http://www.patchwerks.com/ for their support! More info at https://www.facebook.com/modularonthespotsea/

Index:
0:09 Bradley Millington (introduction)
2:02 John L Rice
2:46 Horse With One Leg
3:16 Dark Side of the Tune
3:55 Products
4:40 Donald Crunk
5:34 Dosenöffner
6:19 Pulling Out the Light
7:20 Swift-Tuttle

#modularonthespot #modularpicnic"

Moon Modular 501D + 501M ~ Wave Watching ~

Published on Jan 26, 2014 John L Rice·244 videos

"This one is better to watch than to listen to, at least for most people! ;-)"

Moon Modular 501D ~ Wave Watching 2 ~

Published on Jan 27, 2014 John L Rice·245 videos

"Another test of the Moon 501D Duel VCO module, this time keeping the two waves unmixed and panned hard left and right."

Moon Rise by John L Rice

Published on Jun 29, 2015 John L Rice

"One from my archives, wow, 28 years ago! Time sure flies! :-("

What you are hearing:

"In order of appearance:

The dog/wolf howls is Roland MKS-50 preset B83 ‘Dog Bark’ I used some pitch bending on it
http://www.synthmania.com/Roland%20MKS-50/Audio/Factory%20examples/B83%20DogsBark.mp3

The ‘wind’ sound I’m pretty sure is Mini Moog Model D

The sort of gong/deep bell sound is a Roland S-10 sampler with a sample I made of part of an old coffee percolator.

The strings . . . the first strings to enter are one of the Roland MKS-50 presets but though out the piece I think there are also Roland S-10 sampler strings and possibly some from a Yamaha TX81z also?

The massive bass is Mini Moog Model D of course! ;-)

The soft bell line is a Yamaha TX81z preset I think, probably from bank D (or Roland MKS-50?)

The acoustic guitar is from a Roland S-10 sampler.

The noise burst (supposed to be 'lightning crack/thunder'! ;-) is sort of interesting. This is from a modified PAiA 4750 LFO/Noise module. I was experimenting with different noise transistors and I happened to try a zener diode that was in a transistor like package. (the noise circuit only used two of the three transistor leads so the diode was try-able) I put a switch on the front panel select the normal transistor or the zener diode. And I found that by switching to the zener would cause a burst sound that would die out in a sort of random way.

The lead solo line is Yamaha TX81z preset C20 ‘Lyrisyn’

The drums are from a Roland TR-505 drum machine, played by hand via MIDI on the Roland S-10 keyboard.

I think the only effect unit I had at the time was a Yamaha SPX90 which was used for reverb and possibly chorus on the guitar sample.

Mixing board was a Studiomaster 8 Into 4"

Mellow Moon

Published on May 9, 2016 John L Rice

"The video here is a closeup of my Moon Modular 569 sequencer shot with a Canon 135mm f/2.8 soft focus lens, set to the #2 soft focus setting and then dialed completely out of focus. Don't get hypnotized! ;-)"

Update:

Mellow Moon II

Published on May 12, 2016 John L Rice

"More of the same music from Moon Modular and Synth Tech modules, out of focus sequencer video plus some Moon video footage I shot from my driveway Wednesday night.

Moon Modular 569 sequencer shot with a Canon C100 MkI camera and Canon 135mm f/2.8 soft focus lens, set to the #2 soft focus setting and then dialed completely out of focus.

The actual Moon was shot with a Canon C100 MkI camera and
Opteka 500mm f/6.3 mirror lens for the first two clips and then I added in the 2x converter for the second two clips, effectively making the reach 1000mm.

Both times the C100 A/V output was recorded to an Atomos Ninja Blade using the DNxHD 4.2.2 x codec.

Thank you for watching, rating and commenting! :-)"

5U Modular Pics by John L Rice

Some 5U wallpaper in via John L Rice

"Here's some pictures I took this morning of my big 5U + MIDI synth: light dark, shaken and stirred"

JLR Live On KSER 90.7 FM Radio

Published on Sep 11, 2018

http://imjohn.com/

"Stream live and find out more about KSER FM and The Tunnel at:
http://www.kser.org/content/the-tunnel

List of gear used for this performance (right to left in picture):
* Yamaha MSP3 (for monitoring and Kazooka feedback)
* Kazooka
* Vermona PerFOURmer MkII
* PedalTrain - novo 24 (contents listed left to right / top to bottom)
Micronta - Dual Timer
Strymon - Ojai (and Ojai R30 underneath)
TC Electronic - Ditto (not used)
John L Rice - custom pedal patch bay
Mackie - 802-VLZ3
Retro Mechanical Labs - Custom Fuzz
Strymon - DIG
Meris - Mercury7
Caroline Guitar Company - Météore
JHS Pedals - Firefly
Electro-Harmonix - Mel9 (not used)
Montreal Assembly - Count To Five
* Mellotron - Micro
* Novation - Ultranova
* 5U modular - Moon Modular 569 and 552 used out of it
* Eurorack modular - (for second piece if needed - not used at all)
* Yamaha MSP3 (for monitoring and Kazooka feedback)

Original audio recording by KSER.org
Post production by John L Rice using Sony Vegas Pro 13
Video clips provided by https://www.pond5.com/

Find out about synthesizers and electronic music at the following:
https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/index.php
https://www.matrixsynth.com/
http://www.synthtopia.com/

Thanks for watching/listening/commenting/subscribing! :-)"

Modular on the Spot Seattle.

Let's Do Each Other, Again! by John L Rice

Published on May 2, 2014 John L Rice·258 videos

"More of the same, this time with a sequencer."

Not What I Should Be Doing by John L Rice

Published on Jun 5, 2014 John L Rice·275 videos

"Some quick fun in the style of my typical "wind chime background" electronic sounds."

John L Rice - Return To See

Published on Jul 13, 2015 John L Rice

"A super quick one because . . . I start to go crazy if I feel the need to do some music but don't! ;-) Just a repeating sequence with a bit of unrehearsed noodling over the top. Large 5U modular and drum sounds from an Alesis DM5 (controlled from the modular)"

Here is the patch:
M-Audio KeyStation 88 ->
MOTU MIDI Timepiece AV ->
MOTM-650 MIDI to CV converter ->
Moon Modular 501D (CV), custom dual MOTM-800 EG and Moon 511c EG (Gate)

Two 501D saw wave outputs ->
Happy Nerding Super Sawtor ->
Happy Nerding Fun VCF and Grove Audio G294A VCF ->
MOTM-190 dual VCA

Dual MOTM-800 EG ->
MOTM-190 dual VCA

Moon 511c EG ->
Fun VCF and G294A VCF

Wrong Number by John L Rice

Published on Sep 1, 2015 John L Rice

"A quick drone patch featuring heavy use of a Modcan 73B, Roland RSP-550, and Strymon BigSky."

John L Rice: MOTS At Lusio, A Night To Awaken

Published on Aug 31, 2019 John L Rice

"As per my usual, I didn't have any idea of what I was going to perform until the day before the performance, but for what it's worth, here it is! ;-) I had fun none the less and a big thank you to Mollie, Bradley, Chris, Philip, Justin, James, Kevin, everyone else who helped out, all the other great performers , and big hugs to the wonderful members of the audience!

If you want to know more about MOTS (Modular On The Spot) and Modular Nights shows, to either be part of the audience or to perform yourself, contact Modular Seattle:
https://www.modularseattle.com/

Learn more about Lusio here: https://www.lusiolight.com/

As per the MOTS tradition, I only used a modular synthesizer, you can get a good look at it at 2:35. I had three stereo patches on the modular, a sequenced background and then two different lead voices I controlled with an Arturia KeyStep keyboard and Mutable Instruments Yarns MIDI to CV/Gate module:

1) The background patch was the most complex, it was a four voice shift registered sequence featuring an Erica Synths Black Clock, a Division6 SQ816 sequencer, a VPME T43 precision adder, a Synth Tech E102 shift register, an Instruo Quad Performance Quantizer with micro keyboard, 4 Synth Tech E330 VCOs, a Modcan Quad LFO, a 2hp clock divider/multiplier, a Doepfer quad envelop generator, a Xaoc Devices stereo mixer, and a Strymon Engineering Magneto delay/reverb.

2) The rich fat typical synth voice was a Modcan Triple VCO into a Synth Tech E440 low pass filter along with an Erica Synths EG and VCA for voicing and an Audio Damage reverb module and then finally to a Circuit Abbey mixer.

3) The plucky voice was simply a Mutable Instruments Rings into Clouds and then to a second Circuit Abbey mixer. I had the patch set up in stereo where the output switched sides every time I played a note but unfortunately there was a problem with one of the cables so only every other note was heard! Whoopsie! ;-)"