62HP EP3: Small Synth + Sampler

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"Episode 3 of 62HP is here! For this system we built a small single voice synth designed to make one sound at a time and combined it with an Elektron Digitakt. This allows you to sample a bunch of sounds into the Digitakt and then sequence a live voice on the synth and make a full song.

The system includes uses a Make Noise STO and ALM MCO as oscillators, the MCO can be used as a noise generator as well. We used an Aion 904A lowpass filter which is based on the Moog Modular filter, for VCAs we used a WMD DVCA (great for drums) and a Plankton Nutone which can also be used as a tube distortion. The Zadar gives us all of the envelopes we need, an Erica Pico DSP gives us some effects and mixing can be done with the Malekko Mix and Intellijel Quadratt. The Elektron Digitakt doesn't fit in the eurorack case but is an important part of this system since it provides the ability to sample the synth and then sequence it with midi.

All of the gear in this video available here: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/catalo...

Timeline:

00:00 - Intro
00:05 - Jam
03:10 - System Overview
03:47 - Drum Sounds
03:59 - Bass Patch
04:36 - Snare Patch
04:50 - Outro"

Nutone Demo 4K - Plankton Electronics

Published on Dec 12, 2019 Plankton Electronics

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Demo of the #Nutone, a dual channel #eurorack VCA with a #Nutube based distortion.

⏱ TIMESTAMPS ⏱

0:00 Intro
1:25 Module Overview
5:18 808 drum loop straight distortion
8:15 Acoustic drum loop straight distortion
10:55 CV input example
14:55 Dual input with mixed outputs
18:22 Inserting a VCF between the 2 channels
21:55 Compressor effect
24:05 Stereo synth patch
26:05 Sidechain effect with stereo synth
28:25 Outro

Plankton Nutone

Plankton Nutone dual tube VCA 2/2: in use (LMS EE)

Published on Oct 14, 2019 Learning Modular

"The Plankton Nutone is a dual tube VCA based on the Korg Nutube: compact fluorescent displays re-engineered to act as micro vacuum triode tubes. In this movie, I demonstrate using it as a VCA, as a saturator, as the two put together, and show how to add performance control to the depth of saturation:

00:00 overview
00:15 initial patch
00:53 using as a VCA
02:04 VCA with saturation on peaks
03:25 using as a saturator
04:56 demo
07:14 feedback
09:20 conclusion

The other movie [posted here] includes an extended no-talking demo of the Nutone, and studies how it changes the incoming waveform at different levels of drive.

Both movies are also part of the Learning Modular Eurorack Expansion course (https://learningmodular.com/register/...). Learning Modular Patreon supporters at the +5v level and above (https://www.patreon.com/LearningModular) also have access to supplemental posts for both movies in this series."

Plankton Nutone dual tube VCA 1/2: demo + explained (LMS EE)

Published on Oct 9, 2019 Learning Modular

"The Plankton Nutone is a dual tube VCA based on the Korg Nutube: compact fluorescent displays re-engineered to act as micro vacuum triode tubes. Its easy-to-use interface include controls for each stage to be fed back into itself, as well as for each stage to be fed to the other one. It can be used as normal VCA with minimal distortion, as a tube VCA with distortion only on the envelope peaks, or as a saturation device. At high feedback levels, it will self-oscillate and generally freak out in interesting ways.

In this movie, I give a no-talking demo of using the Nutone, and then look at how it changes the incoming sound:

00:00 demo
01:53 overview
02:46 setting up
03:50 triangle/sawtooth variations
06:24 using as a VCA vs. saturator

The other movie demonstrates the Nutone in use as a VCA, as a saturation device, and as the two put together – including performance control. It is exclusive to those who have access to the Learning Modular Eurorack Expansion course (https://learningmodular.com/register/...), including Learning Modular Patreon supporters at the +5v level and above (https://www.patreon.com/LearningModular). Patreon supporters also have access to supplemental posts for both movies in this series."

NUTONE, SPICEVCF, ENVF and ANTS

Published on Apr 1, 2019 Plankton Electronics

"Complex paching with the 4 units + MFOS VCF, The Jellyfish, Eloquencer, and a guitar reverb pedal. 2 oscillators of the Ants made the pad which is filtered by the SPICE VCF and drived to the Nutone CH1, which is CVd with the Envf and the Kickdrum. The other 2 Ants oscillators are seuqnced with the Eloquencer, filtered with the MFOS VCF, then to the Jellyfish delay and to the Nutone Ch2. The Kick drum is generated with the Ants filter resonance."

3 tracks on the Ants synth + Nutone, SpiceVCF and ENVF

Published on Mar 31, 2019 Plankton Electronics

"3 Ants tracks sequenced with the Eloquencer going directly to the Nutone. Playing one of the tracks through the SpiceVCF with a stepped LFO. Bass drum is driving the EnvF which modulates the Nutone channel 1 drive."

BTW, the Spice Kickstarter has only 4 days to go. They are currently at $43,338 pledged of the $47,132 goal. That's up from the $17,810 when first posted here.

Stereo Patch on the Ants - Nutone - SpiceVCF and EnvF

Published on Mar 29, 2019 Plankton Electronics

"Complex patching using 2 oscillators, the Ants VCF and the SPICEVCF, 1 Ants VCA and one Nutone channel as a VCA. The other nutone channel is adding subtle distortion. The envelope follower is triggered by a 4/4 drum doing some sidechain effects."

NuTone Eurorack Test

Published on Mar 28, 2019 Plankton Electronics

"Triangle wave on the Nutone eurorack distortion module. Basic patching and analysis."

PLANKTON ELECTRONICS - NUTONE STEREO PAD & MORE

Published on Mar 22, 2019 Plankton Electronics

Playlist:

1. PLANKTON ELECTRONICS - NUTONE STEREO PAD

An stereo pad to the Nutone distortion module. MOdulated with a Bass Drum via de ENVF envelope follower module.

2. DRUM LOOP ON THE NUTONE

Mono drum loop on the Nutone eurorack module. Channel 1 to channel 2 in series.

3. Two tracks on the Nutone

BD on Channel 1 and Bass on Channel 2. Playing with the sending controls between channels, envelope follower, and the feedback controls.

Plankton Electronics SPICE - Modular Saturation Unit on Kickstarter

17 days to go on Kickstarter here. Currently at 52 backers with $17,810 pledged of the $47,608 goal. Some details from the campaign:


"SPECIFICATIONS

Rackable (38HP eurorack) modular desktop unit.

8 CV inputs with led level indicators.

6 main functions: Prefilter / Digital / Analog / Mixer / Envelope Follower / Feedback

Prefilter: High Pass and Low Pass filters to shape the sound before being processed. Both controlable via fader + CV input.

Digital: 12 bit Bit Crusher + Sample Rate reducer. Both controlable via potentiometer and CV inputs. It also offer an analog input control with led clip indicator and a low pass filter to smooth the output signal. All the code will be Open Source

Analog: 7 analog distortion circuits selectable with a rotary encoder + a sweet resonant state variable filter. Drive and Cutoff parameters are controlable via potentiometer and CV inputs. 2 of the circuits use the new Korg NU-TUBE.

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Ants! synth percusion loop on SPICE (no talking)

Published on Feb 27, 2019 Plankton Electronics

"A kick and bass loop from the Ants! synth goinfg to the Spice saturator. With NUTUBEX2 and FUZZ circuits."

NUTONE + SPICEVCF + ENVF on a drum loop

Published on Feb 27, 2019 Plankton Electronics

"The 3 eurorack modules processing a drum loop"