Wow. Fascinating patch, but above all, gorgeous! That sequence from Batumi is outstanding. Stunning timbres. This might be my new favorite piece from you. It's all the more impressive that it's being run from just one module. And I'd recognize that tape hiss anywhere at this point ;)

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

+r beny oh man, thank you. The support is really appreciated. In all transparency, I had almost let this one go. After making it I started doubting if it was even worth posting. Which is actually why it first ended up on KZread instead of my standard Vimeo playlist. All in all it's been a good lesson not to judge my own work too harshly.

this is mad impressive. so glad you didnt ditch this one!. i have batumi on preorder. thinking to add tempi as the clock source. anyways. thanks for sharing this is really dope! now on to read more on that alt firmware for batumi lol

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

+BBoy Tech Report Ha! Thanks! I'm sure you'll dig Batumi... and Tempi is great, too. Super deep, it's taking me a while to get a good feel for everything it can do.

I admire those who have the patience to compose with modular synths... well done. Sounds great.

Very inspiring. Made me explore building a track around Vermona's Fourmulator as main sequence/trigger/mod source.

i love the plucky timbres Bryan

I hear, or rather, I 'feel' subtle sounds, yet unheared atmospheres and smooth harmony.

Late to this party but still enjoyed. Great sounds and lovin stereo ping.

Very cool, thanks for posting!

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

ty!

nice sounds, keep it up!

Nice work on the patch. Excellent use of the Batumi.

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks again!

Very impressive! Thanks for including all of the patch notes. I found myself scrolling between the notes and the videos to match things up. I just bought a Batumi and am excited to dig into it...

@fredericvanwalleghem

6 жыл бұрын

How is the learning curve by now?

@tonymasiellomusic7352

6 жыл бұрын

The basics are pretty good. I'm still a bit fuzzy on the clock synced mode. I can certainly get very long cycles out of it, but I find it hard to determine exactly how long they are. I find myself using the Batumi when I don't need precision. I still use the LFOs in my sequencer (Audio Damage Seq-1) when I need something to cycle with precision.

Finally some actual music done with Eurorack. Good job!

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

Nice. Thanks.

Nice - thanks for this and extra thanks for posting your patch info!

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

You bet!

Please make more of these!!!

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

Haha! Thanks. Will definitely do.

gorgeous

Stumbled upon your video out of pure boredom and am impressed. You've got a lot of great sounds throughout.

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks

\Beautiful! Love it!! Thanks for sharing!

Beautiful rhythms!

This is downright inspirational! I am learning to use some of the same modules and it's wonderful to see how you've combined them.

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Very nice -

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

- thnx

lovely

Wonderful

So good! I really want a Batumi

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

+Flohr Yo, thanks man. Yeah, I absolutely love Batumi. Really looking forward to the forthcoming Samara companion module. I think of Samara sort of like what Maths is to a Function.

@Flohr

8 жыл бұрын

+Bryan Noll What's the deal on Samara? I couldn't find any info. Also that black panel looks dope!

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

+Flohr Agreed. Check out the new Batumi manual. The last page describes Samara. What it doesn't say, though is that it's a 10hp module.

VERY ENJOYABLE!

Brilliant !

@tokyoundergrounds

7 жыл бұрын

Bryan Noll gret

Nice!

great!!

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

thanks!!

supper good

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

yummerz!

Just added to www.modularmusic.tv! Keep an eye out this week!

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

oh, awesome - thanks!

i like when it gets denser

Very nice , like !

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks !

wow, just got a batumi and no idea it could do anything like this! very nice!

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Oh man, thanks Karl! Yeah, Matthias Puech did some great work on that firmware. I really look forward to his forthcoming project with 4MS (that Dan revealed recently at a Perfect Circuit event).

@karlsadler6614

7 жыл бұрын

oh cool! I'll have to try giving it a try. I have to admit, I'm still getting my head around what I already have with my new modules, but super inspiring like most of your patches. Thanks dude.

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Man, thank you. But yeah, I know what you mean. I change things up so often that half of my case seems to belong in the 'I have no idea what these modules do outside of the main thing or two I tend to use them for' category.

Super like. Big much. Wow very music!

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Woah nice. Many thank. Love your enthuse!

Hi Bryan, you have both Elements and Rings. Which one you enjoy more?

Thumbs up

Is that the ADDAC207 quad intuitive quantiser? How do you like that? It looks awesome- although hard to get hold of, and expensive... Nice work

@aeropilot4419

3 жыл бұрын

It’s deep, make sure it will fit in your case 🙂

This is awesome. As usual. Could you explain the Verhulst logistic map randomization to me like i'm five?

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I actually don't understand the math (or the concept, really), but just that when attenuated and then quantized it gives nice melodic shapes.

Nice patch! How would one go about ordering a black faceplate for this beast? I just ordered one.

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I don't think they're available just yet. Mine is a prototype ;)

Hope this one is on your release too! :)

@fourhexagons

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I actually just remastered it today to give a little more dynamic range. I do plan to include it on one of them.

@stethoscanomaly

6 жыл бұрын

Nice. I was wondering how you get the stereo image in your tracks. Do you just go out with multiple channels and then arrange the stereo field in the DAW?

Great patch! What case are you using?

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That's an Elite 208.

sounds great. how do you get a black panel?

@fourhexagons

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Directly from Xaoc Devices. Not sure if they still have them, though.

Great piece. Thanks. Are you giving the Batumi sliders those little rapid down and up movements (3:25) to offset their cycles for syncopation? Here is my latest Batumi centered patch: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n31-p8-tdZXVfpM.html

@fourhexagons

6 жыл бұрын

That’s how you choose a new channel to edit in expert mode. Wiggle a slider and it is selected. Then hold the button to edit additional parameters for that selected channel.

Really nice, watched this over and over.. Looking at you patch notes , it say random... Does the batumi also have a random output?

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

There's a brilliant expert firmware for Batumi (developed by Matthias Puech) that offers all sorts of amazingness: xaocdevices.com/manuals/xaoc_batumi_expert_fw.zip

@nefaco

7 жыл бұрын

one more question.. sorry , how did you get the shuffle into the elements?.. the way i get (sort of this) it is by modulation the mallet on the strike input.. thanks and i love this close up video of your case!

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

That's correct. By modulating mallet you can access tiny snips of those repeated samples and get a nice feel.

very nice performance! is there any particular module that generates the delay? can't find it :)

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks. By the look of my patch notes, it appears that Clouds is the delay (in looping delay mode). If you haven't checked out the patch notes, click "SHOW MORE" in the KZread description area.

@devmiles

7 жыл бұрын

Bryan Noll ahhh i see, cheers!!! :)

where can I get that blue crystal on top your case. beautiful music

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

thanks. it's a piece of Selenite with an LED light placed behind it

@djnosleeves85

7 жыл бұрын

thanks will look into. plan on playing your tunes while drawing my art from my playlist,great sounds

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Oh, awesome. Thanks for sharing.

i like ur sound is that a crystal on the top

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Yep, selenite.

If I'm understanding the signal flow that creates the melodic notes in the midrange arpeggios, that's Ch 4 of Batumi (random) going into the ADDAC207 Ch 3 CV IN. Am I right to understand that it's ADDAC207 that has been given a scale or chord of some kind-to my ears it sounds pentatonic major?-and is matching those notes to the Batumi's random voltages? From the ADDAC207's output into the Elements V/Oct to finally "play" the arpeggio notes via Beast's Chalkboard. If I've mostly understood so far, I'm having a hell of a time figuring out what Beast's Chalkboard is for. It's a "voltage source and adder" according to its webpage, and also says something about "dual octave switcher." Is this somehow taking the ADDAC207's output and telling it to sometimes play notes in a higher register?

@NutritionalZero

7 жыл бұрын

Also my local shop does not carry "ADDAC207." They have a "Tip Top Audio Quantizer." Can I substitute it in?

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Good ears. Totally pentatonic. Or nearly pentatonic, I should say. The red dots on the quantizer are the notes, so that's C, D, F, G. So, basically a Dm pent without the A. That TipTop Quantizer looks great. I'd say that it's probably the best commercial quantizer available today. I'd definitely recommend it over the ADDAC207. These days I use an Ornament & Crime DIY module for quantization. It's great because it has 4 separate channels that can be set to completely different scales/keys. Look it up and read the Github manual on it to see if it's something you're into. I can connect you with a builder if you're interested. They're very affordable. And yeah, Beasts is used to easily switch octaves. It's handy when finding an orchestration that fits. It's way easier to flip a knob to switch the octave/register then to retune the VCO. Beasts is also is a buffered mult which is handy if you need to send the same CV to multiple oscillators (which I'm not doing in this patch). If you use an unbuffered mult for melodic/pitch material, it'll sag and won't stay in tune. The only thing you missed about the voices is that the main melodic parts are coming from Tides & the Dixie (melody and bass) which are Channels 2 & 3 of Batumi and 1 & 2 of the quantizer. Elements is the hi-hat sort of part, the first sound you hear, that is triggered by Batumi 1, but pitched by Batumi 4 (or as you put it, telling it to *sometimes* play notes in a higher register). The key is *sometimes*, because Batumi 4 is slower than Batumi 1, so the notes are changing at the slowest rate of all note changes in the piece. Lastly, I'll mention that I've moved channels, so if you're not already subscribed to the new channel, head over to kzread.info.

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Oh, and yeah, a lot of the piece does lean on the major side of things, so F maj pent is probably more accurate.

@NutritionalZero

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you Bryan, this is a huge help to understanding how modular works! I've "migrated" to your new channel now but-what can I say-I often rewatch these older ones because they're just so good. Thanks gain.

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

You bet. And thanks. Yeah, a few of those old pieces are still some of my favorites. My all-time favorite is still Supermoon Preparation, which is only posted on my old Vimeo. I might repost them on my new channel at some point. Lately, I've been changing up my setup so often that I haven't had a lot of time to gel and succeed in raising the bar. But rest assured that in time the Lightbath channel will get some good ones of its own.

What's the source of the initial rhythm being heard from the very beginning and how this rhythm was done?

@AntoSous

4 жыл бұрын

rhythmic seems to be channel 1 of batumi (square ) into gate of element, channel 1 batumi (saw) into damping of element and channel 3 batumi (square) into mallet of element. For v/oct of element : batumi ? into quantizer into ALM002 - Beast's Chalkboard .. It seems for me to be that

What delay do you use in 0:17 ?

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Full patch notes in the description. Looks like it's Clouds.

Is all 'sequencing' done with the batumi?

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Yep. A powerful little module that Batumi.

@mpingo91

5 жыл бұрын

No sequencer at all? I can't believe this. I mean I trust you, it's only my noobie "knowledge" telling me it's not possible. :) Awesome!!! I want to learn such things. W H E R E E E E E E? :D

What's your experience been like with the 207? It seems to have a ton of potential yet it's hard to come by, expensive, and apparently somewhat buggy? I'm on the fence of that vs uScale.

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you voice a similar concern of mine. I have yet to really test the 207 to see how *much* better the firmware update made the tracking. I just tend to gate it all the time, and in that mode, it's great and has no tracking issues whatsoever. In fact, that's what is so special about the 207 - the fact that you have 4 channels of gate-able S+H. uScale has no gate in, so it's a very different approach. Using gates with different rhythms allows me to get very different results from each of the channels. I do however wish that the 207 had the ability to: • set different scales on each of the 4 channels • use the assign CV-in to not only transpose, but to SWITCH BETWEEN SCALE PRESETS! Switching between presets would be amazing as I could create chord progressions moving between different qualities of chords. I posted about this on the MW forum in the big 207 thread directing my post to Andre. Not sure, though, if he saw it, cares at all, or even has the ability to update the firmware to make it possible. If it were possible, I think it would slay all other quantizers currently on the market. Without that feature, I'm still keeping the module as it offers 4 channels with gates, but that's the only thing that keeps it in my case as opposed to a uScale (which allows for shifting via CV) or the Sonic Potions one (which doesn't have the shift function, but does have a gate-in).

@mylespotters

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the super detailed response! Agreed on switching between scale presets. I guess you could do it with your hands on the fly, but that's no different to any of the other modules with keys. As you say, I'm leaning towards uScale because of the shift via CV, such that you can make shifting chord progressions over time. I think if you had the right scale in place on the uScale relative to whatever other elements you have, modular or not, you could get some really interesting chordal associations going on. I'm looking to use the uScale (or 207) as a link between a fully expanded Turing mkII and a Rene - and what draws me to the 207 is the four gated channels, which between those two sequence sources would be quite useful, I think. At any rate, I do wonder if that scale switch you described is possible. My software programming skills aren't really up to that task yet! Nevertheless, it seems like a pretty heavy lift from a programming perspective, as people would likely come flooding in asking for 4 channels of switching independently from each other, 4 channels of presets...at least I know I would!

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

Ha. Well, I would be satisfied with the preset shift happening globally. That's still a very useful feature! My understanding of the uScale shift function is that it's the same as the current implementation of the 207 - that is it's a transposition and not a shift between presets. Do correct me if I'm wrong. Granted, the uScale's implementation of transposition does allow it to be transposed either pre- or post- quantize, so that it's either an in-key diatonic shift, or a full-on transposition. I'm pretty sure that the 207 can't do that. And about having CV control to perform the shift (or 'assign' as ADDAC calls it - because you can assign the CV-in to other functions), what I'm looking to do is to achieve the chord progressions programmatically, and not manually. I've already done some 'playing' of the keyboard on the 207 (Money Bunny Dub on my Instagram is an example) and it's just an unnecessary action when you're not looking for variation within the part, and instead to just have it always follow a pattern. Machines are best at playing unchanging patterns ;)

@mylespotters

8 жыл бұрын

Heh fair enough! And about the uScale, I think you're right too. So, I went in to Control yesterday afternoon to ask people smarter than me what they thought on the subject - and their response was more or less as follows: We've had a few of these come through with weird problems that we don't see on other modules, and the manufacturer won't pay to get the items out of customs and so customers haven't even been able to get them fixed. That being said, I'd heard that the Verbos Harmonic Oscillator was buggy for some people, and mine came and works like a charm, so YMMV.

@fourhexagons

8 жыл бұрын

Stuck in customs - yikes! Well, I don't propose to know the details of how those issues were handled on either side, but I am aware that manufacturers of digital modules can be flooded with requests to fix bricked or otherwise buggy modules when often the case is of user error. And without thorough troubleshooting, it can be difficult to determine the source of the error, user or otherwise. Whatever the case, wishing you the best on your choice! And tell Daren I said hi next time you're at Control ;)

what case is this mate?

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Elite 208

@dualtrx

7 жыл бұрын

cheers mate

He'S A MaStEr GuYz

sounds like a vst

@Rhapsodyinnoise

7 жыл бұрын

yeah, they definitely both produce sonic sounding sounds.

@schwajj

6 жыл бұрын

It would be "super fun" to program the automation to modulate the VST(s) to get those sounds out.

Yet another modular blip blop video with no interest and too much eurorack

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

I think you're looking for Dugan Nash: kzread.info/dash/bejne/kWthz6lsdpW3fbw.html

@neonking8441

7 жыл бұрын

i was meaning a lot of lack of structure and originality . It's maybe harsh , but being a full analog guy myself i'm kinda disappointed that the Eurorack mania , despite of great possibilities offered, does not bring more innovations into sounds and music . It's easy to play ambiant with a filter and and 8 step sequencer arps. I would like to see more structured things out of modular scene than only droning. Here was my meaning.

@fourhexagons

7 жыл бұрын

Well, Mr. King, complaining about it here won't get you anywhere. You could, however, go easy on the baseless criticizing and simply be the change you wish to see in the world.

@pizzamanmep

7 жыл бұрын

You're just blind or not looking enough. Maybe this isn't your genre, which is fine but plenty of good modular stuff is being made!

@hulkslayer626

6 жыл бұрын

Neon King Sooooo.... you're complaining that he's making the music HE likes and not making the music YOU like? Interesting....

lovely