YouTube video can be seen here: https://youtu.be/9_KcMb0KMoE

This jam uses a sample from a film from the 1950s. The woman in the film was a research subject where they gave her LSD (acid!) and watched how she responded. You should watch it, she’s lush – she goes there.

The sample was chopped up in Ableton then sequenced in the Digitakt. One of the loops is nonsense (but sounded good), the others are her best bits. Digitakt is also on drums and sequencing the 0-Coast. Scanned and Basimilus Iteritas Altar are on the dirty beats and squelches. Last but not least, the Mono is producing the cathedral-like pads (with help from the RV-500), as well as sequencing the modular rig.

I feel like I have found a setup where the Mono Station is fully complimented by the gear around it. Not too complex and each sound has its place.

Vocal sample video: https://youtu.be/miCDPzJHvjk

Equipment used

Sequencer and samples: Elektron Digitakt
Sequencer and synth: Novation Circuit Mono Station
Synth: Make Noise 0-Coast
Granular sampler: Instruō Arbhar
Drums (and squelches): Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas Altar and Qu Bit Scanned
Resonator: Mutable Instruments Rings
Attenuverter: Make Noise Maths
Mixer: Make Noise XOH and Intellijel Mixup
Software: Ableton Live and Fab Filter Pro R
Sound card: Focusrite Scarlett 18i8
Camera: Canon M50

#eurorack #modular #circuit #instruo #arbhar

Technicolor Curtain - Digitakt, Circuit Mono Station, Scanned and Arbhar

Original video: https://youtu.be/7KvU5KTh87w

Two amazing modules working together. Morphagene is 'sliding' and 'morphing' its way through the main sample, which is fed into Arbhar for its granular magic. Both are then going through the FX Aid stereo shimmer reverb. It's a simple but beautiful patch. The big synth notes are from Plaits (Dual detuned) and Intellijel 1u Effects.

This was a challenge for the Facebook group Hardware Jams. The challenge is as follows:

You find your self in an old part of town, walking crooked alleyways drawn to an old shop you have never been before. An old man behind the counter watches as you are drawn to a dusty shelf at the back of the room. On it is an old wooden music box. You try to pick it up but it is unbelievably heavy. you notice a small winding key on the side. You turn it until it becomes tight you open the lid and…

(Andrew Coogan, Group Admin and Founder)

What an amazing challenge! It has always slightly bothered me when people say they can hear a song in their head before they produce it. It doesn't work that way for me. This description, however, conjured all sorts of sounds and sequences in my head. This is my way of hearing before production. Thank you for the inspiration Andrew.

Ben Wellby