Illumination Ceremony // Digitone + Digitakt + Analog Heat

Published on Mar 29, 2018 r beny

"A ceremony of illumination with the Elektron Digitone, Digitakt, and Analog Heat. With a special guest who may or may not be a rubber duck.

I am really digging this combination, this is only barely scratching the surface of what these little boxes of magic can do. More soon."

Old-growth // Elektron Digitone Ambient

Published on Feb 23, 2018 r beny

"Hello Digitone."

The Magnetic Sea // Eurorack Modular Ambient

Published on Feb 17, 2018 r beny

"The Strymon Magneto is here. This is what it sounds like when you feed it 2xRings and 2xPlonks"

Mutable Instruments Clouds as a Lo-fi Tape Delay

Published on Jan 1, 2018 r beny

"Demonstration of Mutable Instruments Clouds Texture Synthesizer as a Lo-fi Tape Delay. Lovely warble and disintegration on the repeats. Reverb, filtering and diffusion for tone and texture control.

Note: works best on the Parasite Firmware pre-V2.0. To access the delay, it is the third mode known as Looping Delay. The quality setting should be set to one of the 8-bit modes. Position sets delay time. Texture is a multimode filter. Density adds diffusion, I personally like it at 0. Size has no effect unless the buffer is frozen.

Video starts with a simple monophonic sawtooth arp sequence from the Novation Peak. I slowly bring in the wet signal with the Blend control. I also bring up the feedback and reverb with the Blend control. There is a sweet spot for feedback. Too much feedback and things get out of control. Near the end, I take the incoming signal out and just let the repeats feedback into themselves before freezing the buffer and playing with that for a bit."

Holding a Feather | Ambient Eurorack Modular Synthesizer

Published on Dec 21, 2017 Lightbath

How to Eurorack - Holding a Feather | The Lightbath Zone - Modular Synthesizer Tutorial

Published on Dec 21, 2017 Lightbath

"Get exclusive bonus content, patch notes, album downloads, monthly hangouts, and one-on-one lessons → http://patreon.com/lightbath

Watch the original modular piece 'Holding a Feather' → https://youtu.be/ESb-pNDmJnM

✶TABLE OF CONTENTS ✶

00:00 The Lightbath Zone
00:17 Welcome/Overview
00:55 Voice 1: STOs
04:04 Panning
04:37 Voice 2: Rings
06:57 Voice 3: Plonk
07:04 Story of Inspiration (r beny + Emily Sprague)
09:04 Back to Plonk
09:54 Voice 4: ER-301
10:37 Modulation
13:15 Demonstration (Improvisation + Insight)
18:29 Quantum High Five

Detailed patch notes archive available through Patreon rewards: https://patreon.com/lightbath"

Electribe 2 | Ambient XIII

Published on Dec 20, 2017 r beny

"Happy Holidays"

KORG Electribe emx2 Ambient Session 1

Published on Dec 12, 2017 014london70
Update: Re-Published on Dec 13, 2017

"First performance on the emx2, so a bit rusty, but starting to get the hang of it.
First Ambient track for me, inspired by a great electribe user 'r beny'."

ANDREW HUANG on Modular

The instrument I've secretly worked on for 13 years

Published on Oct 26, 2017 ANDREW HUANG

"Check out this collab I did with White Noises: [posted here]

More modular videos on my second channel: http://youtube.com/suturesound

★ SHOUTOUTS FROM THIS VIDEO ★

Enjoy their beautiful videos and tell them I sent you!

Ann Annie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJWfc...
Datach'i https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp-Gk...
DivKid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loPv5...
Emily Sprague https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC61G...
Intellijel https://youtu.be/oAWJ8LhDF-M
James Cigler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTSbc...
Jogging House https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HASef...
Kenny Peagler / Pittsburgh Modular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSHSa...
Learning Modular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuEDD...
Lightbath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q_dg...
Mylar Melodies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvRTk...
r beny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIO8H...
Richard Devine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Z-V...
The Tuesday Night Machines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9tMF...

Also not a synth friend YET BUT ONE DAY SOON: Rob Scallon http://youtube.com/robscallon"

ER-301 Ultraviolet Granular // Custom Unit Clouds Clone

Published on Sep 17, 2017 r beny

"Orthagonal Devices ER-301 Custom Unit - Ultraviolet (Clouds Clone)

As a challenge, I set out to make a Clouds 'clone' custom unit on the Orthagonal Devices ER-301. It's not strictly or exactly a clone, but rather a Clouds-inspired custom unit that expands on the Manual Grains unit in the 301. It adds a few Clouds-inspired controls, as well as a few other twists. I ended up with 2 different versions for now (more on that later). It's heavy on the CPU (65%-75%) and there were two features I played with swapping out. There are two main Clouds features missing - one is the reverb and the other is the texture control that shapes the envelopes of the grains.

This current version was built with and was only tested on firmware 0.2.18!! It may work with previous versions, as long as it has the highpass filter. I would recommend only using it on 0.2.18 for now. It's only in stereo for now as well. The input is automatically set to IN1, but may be changed.

Shoutout to Lance Drake and Bryan Noll for helping me test this! And shoutout to Joshua Saddler for notes and ideas.

Here is a list of the paramters and what they do (everything can be put under CV-control)

Wet/Dry - Sets the wet/dry mix between the input source and the granular unit
In Gain - Sets the amount of the input signal feeding into the recording buffer/granular unit
Freeze - Gate input, stops the recording buffer from recording
Trigger - Trigger input, triggers the grains
Reverse - Toggle input, reverses the grains
Density - Triggers the grains internally without the need for a trigger input
Position - Sets the start point for the grains
Size - Sets the size of the grains
Cut - Cutoff of the filters
Res - Resonance of the filters
Pass - "Spread" of the filters
V/Oct - Volt per octave pitch control of the grains
Warble - Adds a small amount of pitch warble to the grains. Has a chorus effect when you can still hear the dry signal
Spread - Stereo spread and panning amount of the grains
Mod - Adds internal random modulation to the Position and Size parameters that are synced to both the Trigger Input and the Density Input
Gain - Grain gain

There are two versions of Ultraviolet - one has a feedback control which feeds the grains back into manual grain unit. The other has a control called Refract that is a distortion/bit crushing unit. I'm including a custom unit with both controls, but it's prone to pops after a while.

The recording buffer is set to one second, just like Clouds, but it can be changed pretty easily.

Hope you enjoy!

You can downlaod these units here - https://www.dropbox.com/s/zv0xxseb5za..."

Cathedral Redwoods | Eurorack + Peak

Published on Sep 3, 2017 r beny

"A simple patch inspired by a recent hike.

Voices are Intellijel Plonk, Mutable Instruments Rings, Mutable Instruments Clouds Resonator, and Novation Peak.

ER-301 is being used as a mixer, as well as a noise / exciter source for Rings and Clouds Resonator.

The Eurorack voices are all going through Mutable Instruments Clouds on looping delay mode.

Sequenced by Korg Electribe 2."

Novation Peak | Ambient

Published on Sep 2, 2017 r beny

"First go with the Novation Peak."

dustechoes, another sunset

dustechoes, another sunset from ioflow on Vimeo.

"experimental ambient. live performance for modular synthesizer and effects.

a rhodes improvisation was recorded into an ER-301 looper unit. that audio runs through mutable clouds as a send effect, then out through delay and reverb pedals.

the ER-301 also generates the vinyl-like crackles with a custom unit: white noise processed via wavefolder, into ladder filter and EQ. r beny and i have been working on this unit for a little while.

two monome ansibles are used. the first, running Cycles, sends unsynced LFOs into attenuators, and then into clouds parameters. the second ansible, running Levels, controls the ER-301 with three encoders on the arc: wet/dry mix, crackle density, and playhead position.

monome earthsea, via buttons on the grid, triggers the looper's reset, which starts playback at the position set with the third arc encoder.

the qubit mixology manages the audio from the ER-301 and clouds, then pushes it through a mackie 802-vlz4 with additional sends to strymon el capistan and bluesky effects. audio recorded with ableton live, video edited with davinci resolve 14b6."

Conifer | Eurorack Ambient

Published on Jun 30, 2017 r beny

"Summertime blues. Testing the Roland Go:Mixer"

Morphagene Program I (Pillars)

Published on Apr 10, 2017 r beny

"Exploring the Make Noise Morphagene. Different hand played loops of Mutable Instruments Elements on several splices. CV modulation from Maths, Voltage Block and Tempi. Audio modulation from DLD and Clouds."

Slow Lake | Eurorack Ambient

Published on Mar 9, 2017 r beny

"Exploring the melodic side of the Malekko Varigate 8+ and the Malekko Voltage Block.

::Patch notes::
Varigate 8+ (song mode) gate 1 out -- Mult -.- Voltage Block clock in / ER-301 a1 in (triggering white noise w/vca and asdr) -- Rings ext. in
Varigate 8+ gate 2 out -- Elements gate in
Varigate 8+ clock out -- DLD ping in -- Tempi tempo in

Voltage Block cv out 1 -- Rings v/oct in
Voltage Block cv out 2 -- Elements v/oct in

Rings left out -- DLD in a -- Analog Manhattan Mixer x2 (for stereo mix) -- Clouds 1 (looping delay mode) -- stackable 1 -- Clouds 2 (granular mode) / outboard mixer

Elements stereo out -- Analog Mahattan Mixer x2 -- Clouds 1 (looping delay mode) -- stackable 1 -- Clouds 2 (granular mode) / outboard mixer

Clouds 1 -- stackable 2 -- Doepfer A-189-1 -- Three Sisters -- Zvex Junky -- ER-301 input 2 (stereo variable delay, ladder filter, 3-band eq) -- outboard mixer

Tempi out 4 -- Maths ch. 4 trig in -- Maths ch. 4 variable out -- Clouds 2 blend (reverb)

Tempi out 5 -- Maths ch. 1 trig in -- Maths ch. 4 variable out -- Clouds 2 size

Tempi out 6 -- Nano Rand clock in -- Nano Rand stepped random output -- Clouds 2 position

Maths ch. 3 variable out -- ER-301 b1 input (bass freq on 3-band eq)"

Winter Tracks | 4-Track Cassette & Eurorack Ambient

Published on Feb 21, 2017 r beny

"Playing the 4-Track cassette recorder into the modular. Hand-played Mutable Instruments Rings loops and field recordings. The Tascam is being fed into dual Clouds, one in pitch-shifting/time-stretching mode and the other in granular.

CV modulation from Maths and Voltage Block."

Pipe Dreams | Eurorack Ambient

Published on Feb 16, 2017 r beny

"Ambient piece with eurorack modular and Audiothingies P6 synthesizer. Patch notes upon request.

Sort of a lost video...I thought I had lost any good takes I had of this patch, recorded a few weeks ago. Found this one tonight."

Electribe 2 | Ambient XII

Published on Dec 1, 2016 r beny

Moss | Eurorack Ambient

Published on Oct 13, 2016 r beny

"Patch centered around the lovely Zvex Lofi Junky."

Maree | Eurorack Ambient

Published on Sep 8, 2016 r beny

"Attempt at making a full piece using just one sound source, processed in multiple ways at once.

Patch notes:

_ Main Voice _
Mutable Instruments Rings (easter egg string synth mode, 4-voice polyphony, chorus effect)

_ Sequence _
Korg Electribe 2 to Mutable Instruments Yarns to v/O and strum of Rings

_ Processing/Audio Signal Chain _
Rings odd out into Mutable Instruments Clouds 1 (time-stretching mode, 8-bit stereo quality setting) and Doepfer A-189-1 (mode 1)

Clouds 1 stereo out multed to outboard mixer, Clouds 2 (time-stretching mode, 16-bit stereo quality setting, pitch set to one octave below) and Intellijel Rainmaker (custom preset that uses interal audio-rate modulation to produce textured noise)

Clouds 2 stereo out to outboard mixer. Rainmaker stereo out to outboard mixer

Doepfer A-189-1 out into Mannequins Three Sisters all in (formant mode)

Three Sisters into outboard mixer

_ Modulation _
Qu-Bit Nano Rand 1 (stepped random out to Clouds 1 blend - reverb, sample and hold out to Three Sisters span)

Nano Rand 2 (stepped random out to Clouds 1 size, sample and hold out to Clouds 2 size, noise out to Nano Rand 1 sample and hold in)

Make Noise Maths (channels 1 and 4 in cycle mode, channel 1 unity signal out to Rings brightness, channel 1 variable out to Clouds 1 position, channel 4 variable out to Three Sisters quality, sum out to Three Sisters frequency)

Korg Electribe 2 to Ladik M-211 MIDI to Gate to Clouds 1 freeze"