it's fun to watch 2017 andrew just getting into eurorack from 2021 where he's got a massive wall of eurorack

@neuzethmusic131

2 жыл бұрын

I had the same thought right in the first seconds of the video 😂

@AMFiMusic

Жыл бұрын

Especially funny to me since Andrew’s setup and videos are what got me really into Modular!

Great start to this series, I look forward to more perspectives. I really enjoy the aspect of music discussion and getting into the things that make us tick. There are so many things to be gleaned from this sort of angle of just a couple of musicians sitting around talking about music, while exploring how it all fits in with the format. Very informative and enjoyable to watch! Cheers!

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Great, thank you very much. This was my idea and hope for the series and I think it's off to a good start.

great interview, more like this! It's so fun to watch different people from musical world meet and talk like this :)

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Nice one thanks Benas.

I loved that you mentioned the cardboard case. I used that video to help make my first cardboard case.

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah nice idea, the Lego case is also worth checking out.

Great idea. Waiting for next parts. Thank you.

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Great cheers.

Great idea, great video, Div!

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ben.

HP has always been, and shall always be Hit Points. GET. IT. STRAIGHT!

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Hit Points haha nice.

@Sprossenzuechter

6 жыл бұрын

Not Harry Potter?

@SoundmanCH

5 жыл бұрын

Whole Life Crisis or Horrifying Price?

Great idea, looking forward to see more of this series - thanks very much for making and sharing this! \m/ ~ Michael

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael.

Thanks DivKid, I subbed. I am sticking with semi-modular for now, and hoping for a new, everyone-friendly/safe power format for eurorack. Loving my vcv rack!

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Interesting RE power, most are very safe. It's anything messing around with mains voltage you should be wary of. But I don' think anyone sells anything direct where you have to deal with that. Cheers for the sub I appreciate it. Hopefully the videos will also give some tips for general synthesis too both semi-modular and non modular too.

I like how Andrew said that he keeps his field recorder ready just in case he stumbles onto a sound he can't get back to. I know very little about Eurorack or even modular but its something that has an appeal the more I learn about it. Great channel. Liked and sub. Notification button on.

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

quick and immediate options to record is really important. I tend to get the computer on and set up before I turn gear on for that reason.

Great idea. Looking forward to the next episode. Keep up the good work.

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Coming THIS SUNDAY! Join me live with Bo Beats if you can.

@alexmklebust5750

6 жыл бұрын

Oh cool. At what time?

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

8pm UK/GMT this Sunday (the 11th). Live on this channel here - kzread.info/dash/bejne/d5t3qdibdMmrl5M.html

Great interview, lots of cool info for everyone.

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Cheers Mitch.

S&H, Function generators, modulation with LFOs and Slew Generators are great for adding spice and generative patches. I am learning with a simple Doepfer A100 system and having a blast.

This series are a very good idea!

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

thanks Thom appreciate that.

Awesome video man!

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Cheers Peter.

Subscribed!! Thanks for the video series. I'm considering getting into modular synth. This has been a great help.

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Great to hear that Joseph. Hopefully the second episode with BoBeats and future episodes (Noir Et Blanc Vie, Robin Vincent / Molten Modular) will all be helpful too.

@josephmills3864

6 жыл бұрын

DivKidVideo oh!! I enjoy Noir et Blanc..will need to check it out

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

nice one

The PEG and Maths are also both powerful and dynamic Envelope Generators. It's really interesting how the discussion here was largely about them being LFOs. A testament to how one module its one thing to one person and something else to another.

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah definitely. PEG I tend to always use looping, I don't have a Maths but it's nearly always a triggered envelope when I do use it in someone's system.

@LukeKillen

6 жыл бұрын

I always thing of the PEG as the robotic cousin of MATHs. Using the ASYNC triggers in conjunction with CVing the divider is great for just getting precise envelope length modulation. Also as you suggest an amazing Dual LFO.

@ZedCactus

6 жыл бұрын

Great for processing signals as well, such as asymmetrical glides, envelope followers, etc., not just generating them. Maths is probably my most used module. 😍

@LukeKillen

6 жыл бұрын

Indeed. Maths is essential for my practice also

Nice find. I am getting into modular finally after many years of traditional synths. Very exciting. Looking forward to hearing/seeing this series......

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

great cheers, last person that was scheduled for the next episode hasn't got back to me so I'll plan another one with someone else soon.

I have been followinng Andrew for a year and man ..this one is purely amazingg..i hope seeing him on a much bigger platform

Didn’t know that you studied drums Ben! I like this series! Keep em’ comin’ !

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Great cheers! Yeah Drums is my first instrument, followed by guitar and bass quickly after as a kid. My "day job" is actually teaching instrumental lessons in schools/colleges/privately.

@jeanse27

6 жыл бұрын

I’m a drummer also! I’m having fun intergrating acoustic drum trigers and modulars. Surprises at every bar!

the thumbnail looked like a spongebob interlude for a sec

@DivKid

2 жыл бұрын

not sure if that's good or bad.

Maths is loosely based on the Serge DUSG. Tony designed it to go with the Make Noise QMMG (which is out of production). As the QMMG has many CV inputs, Maths was made to feed many CV inputs with just one module. As Make Noise was quite early in the Eurorack game, there wasn't anything like it in this format before. Keep in mind that at the time there weren't many Eurorack manufacturers... hence not many modules, compared to todays choice, available at all. I think to this day Maths is the most sold module.... though Mutable might have surpassed that with Clouds temporarily, but I don't think any single module has been sold more than the Make Noise Maths over all.

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Maths deserved it's placed as the on going joke "PM'd for Maths" on the forums and groups and is a great module. It always feels like a little "home" in someone else's system when I go to patch a system I've not used before. You're right about the design coming from the Dual Universal Slope Generator and I know Tony really worked on moving it forward for the format. I didn't know it was pretty much direct for the QMMG though. I haven't made that connection as I'd think a quad gate would want a quad function source.

At 18:00 minutes now do consider using the free virtual eurorack VCV Rack. And that has a free library of mutable instrument software modules.

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Jam E, I like VCV Rack great for learning, nice to patch up if I'm away with just a laptop. Well worth grabbing.

Great video, really helpful for a noob like me! Thanks!! :) Subbed

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kieren, glad to hear from someone starting out that's found it useful.

Great Show !! I think you and mr. “One Upon a Synth” should talk as well.

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Yes good call! :) I'll get in touch with him to do it this year. Although I have the next few shows planned out.

behringer semi modulars are a great place to start. You can just mess around with a Neutron or Model D for a while, get a proper case and a few effects and just expand from there

@rmanpojo8485

4 жыл бұрын

so true I did this. start with Neutron and add some basic doepfer modules

Love Andrew's work, I think he is helping his audience to be more open about what music is and what one can do with do with creativity. I enjoyed modular synth compositions before I stumbled on Andrew's channel, but one thing he really did for me was get me to think that maybe, just maybe I might be able to get into this thing practically. Before seeing Andrew it seemed too out of my reach, but having seen him introduce some of the basics and seeing the what he has produced definitely piqued my interest.

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Great to hear, Andrew's a talented guy. I've got a lot of time for him and it's been great getting to know him a bit over the past few months.

Finally the man behind the Scottish voice!

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Scottish voice? I'm a good way from Scotland! About half way between Edinburgh and London.

Interesting video lads. FYI a good human drummer can be on the beat for the kick and behind the beat for the snare, hats etc. The major 'selling' point with modular is the tactile nature. Software is superior but nothing beats knob twiddling and software doesn't look as cool. The fact the word money is mentioned so often in this video tells you how costly modular is. Hence the term EuroCrack. So yeah, you won't make anything on a modular system that you cannot already do with SW but you'll 'feel' special making music with a modular system, and that is important in itself.

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

as a "good human drummer" I'd agree. My day job is teaching drums and has been for a few years in schools, privately and in a college. The magic of course for feel and groove is finding a good bass player who can also do that with his lines or counter your lines. I'm lucky in that I have a bass player to call upon for that. I agree about the tactile nature, analogue or digital doesn't matter to me it's interface and tactility through and through.

in terms of cases... you can start with something like the Happy Ending Kit or this: www.thonk.co.uk/shop/thonk-104hp-skiff-and-4ms-power-bundle/

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's a way to go that I know many do.

I’m thinking about putting a dfam and mother 32 in a case, morphagene, and Strymon magneto. Anything else I could benefit from in a 208 hp case? Any pointers anyone??

@DivKid

5 жыл бұрын

I personally wouldn't waste the case space if I could help it and I'd keep them out of the case. HP gets expensive both in physical space and actual module price so I you can keep the Moog units in there own cases. Unless you have a specific idea about one instrument in one case of course. In terms of other things to get it totally depends on what you want to achieve. Morphagene I'd say needs some modulation, Magneto is nice with modulation too.

@aidanvinum

5 жыл бұрын

DivKidVideo thanks. I want less cables...I’ve always dreamt of ONE case containing all I need. So all in one case for now. Until I outgrow the Moog stuff or etc. I’ll get Maths...and another oscillator to pair with the 32-STO, maybe.

@DivKid

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think you'll necessarily outgrow the Moog stuff. Taste and approach may change but it's still good gear. Maths is useful and a module you can keep learning with. STO a solid oscillator too.

@aidanvinum

5 жыл бұрын

DivKidVideo I would love to not bring my vocal processor along either...would uClouds work with vocals? And Ears module, perhaps? Or is the bus enough on that Make Noise shared system case?

VCV rack is a free software that is basically virtual Eurorack.

I might just rebel and never get Maths

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

I don't have one.

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

It's great though, and funnily when I use it in anyone else's system it feels like a comfy central point to work from.

@brianbrill

6 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see what someone could do with only 6 or 8 Maths.

@crypt_id

6 жыл бұрын

Brian Brill probably not much without a sound source! Lol

@brianbrill

6 жыл бұрын

Maths is a sound source. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oYZhmKh9j7exh8Y.html

Can you link the message boards you mentioned?

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Which message boards? Got names of those? Or specific times where we mention them.

What is the band Andrew refers to @ 28:50 ? Coyote ?

@dscottdrums

4 жыл бұрын

Alexis Crête-Lafrenière m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/omeop9STZa-7erw.html

his headphones are NOICE

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

:)

@hern19

6 жыл бұрын

Grumbledore Music *Noice* 👌

Hey divkid, any advice for Eurorack modules if I want to create those "wow" preset patches from analog desktop Synths? Only have "std modules" and a delay so far but don't get there

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Hey, I aren't sure what you mean by "wow" and "std modules". Do you just mean "wow" as in something impressive? And "std" as in plain and simple modules? Either way it's all in the patching more often than the modules themselves.

@djfree5435

6 жыл бұрын

DivKidVideo yea those impressive presets.. And I only have the bread and butter modules.. Vco, vcf, vca, adsr, lfo, sequencer and a pll - all doepfer - only got std Synth sounds, nothing impressive, really frustrated.. Do u know of any source to look up patches?

@overseasterritory8983

6 жыл бұрын

DJ Free I'll throw out an idea: maybe you should get a more dramatic fx module such as clouds or rainmaker

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Is that one of each of those modules? Will the filter self oscillate? Try making the filter self oscillate then use that as an FM source for your VCO. If you'd like a Skype tutorial for an hour to really dig into this in person (I can write notes, make up patch examples as we go etc) message me here or on any other platform to chat. I'm of course happy to comment here but it's obviously not the same as a focussed session with someone.

Excellent vid as always Ben. PEG was the first module I built and I love it. My system has grown quite a bit since then (18u) and have about half a row left. I keep telling myself when it's full, that's it ;-) . I'm Seriously tempted by a Rampage (Mostly after seeing your vid but also playing with it VCVRack more recently) but Maths is the one that always comes up in these conversations. Can anyone talk me out of the Rampage and into the Maths? Pros and cons to both? Cheers.

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

They're both very good and it would be hard to be totally definitive about which to choose. The beauty of Maths is the four channels of attenuversion but then Rampage doesn't have those but does have ins and outs that Maths doesn't have. The function generator shapes are also different either been expo, linear or log and variable between on Maths or having log rise and expo fall through linear to expo rise and log fall on the Rampage.

@MinPlanck

6 жыл бұрын

Cool. Thanks for the reply. Pretty sure I'll go with Rampage especially with the substantial price difference and easy availability of DIY in the UK. Keep up the great work. Love your content! (Although, my wallet, not so much, lol) Cheers Ben.

Andrew Huang is one of my favorites!

Why not build the modules yourself,Sam Battle (Look Mum No Computer) does it ?

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Not everyone wants to get into DIY, or has the time. But it's a good point. I'll ask Sam if he wants to come on a show sometime.

@kentxx12

6 жыл бұрын

Thats just great Ben...and thanks for that :)

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

no worries

Man Modular seems so fuckin dope. I wish my broke ass could afford it.

Andrew then “playing around with the few modules I have…” Andrew now “this system is worth more than the car I drive”

@DivKid

2 жыл бұрын

it should be worth more than the car, all about priorities :)

@Indijammer

2 жыл бұрын

New to modular. Even a small eurorack 108 hp is costing me about $2k u.s.

@666DemonCleaner

2 жыл бұрын

@@DivKid for sure. I don’t even own a car haha

@666DemonCleaner

2 жыл бұрын

@@Indijammer relatable

funny now he has a system which costs more than my house and car together and over 2 millions subscriber......yaiiiikkksss!!!

Ben, you disappoint me, even you don't seem to know that red channel = right channel (Sennheiser hd 25 with the cabel on the left side = somebody who doesn't know about stereo)

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

"disappoint" wow bit of an over statement. I'm well aware of stereo and which way around they go, however for the cable staying on the side of my head that's nearest it's socket and just listening to two microphones in mono it really doesn't matter.

@el_dani

6 жыл бұрын

ok, you get a point, just so many people doing it, not beeing aware of it, just thought you also one of them, nevermind and cheers, Bibi

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

no worries BiBi, I'm aware of it :) ... if I wasn't I would have appreciated that though. Cheers.

i like andrew huang but i can't take the jokes and trendy funny nature of his videos.

@DivKid

6 жыл бұрын

Fair enough, not everyone takes to everyone.