Rainmaker and Chill
The Intellijel Rainmaker is a 16 step spectral rhythm delay and comb resonator. That's a fancy way of saying "crazy echo". It's deep and wonderful, and I want to show it to you, so we'll use Morphagene to send it some samples and turn small sounds into swirling rhythmic wonderlands.
Modules in this video
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Rainmaker: bit.ly/pc_rainm...
Morphagene: bit.ly/pc_morph...
4MS Pod: bit.ly/pc_4ms_pods
Paratek visualizer: www.modulargri...
00:00 intro
02:04 exploring the delay
15:56 exploring the comb
29:13 comb and delay together
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i know nothing about making music or what any of those buttons or dials do, but something about listening to someone who knows what they're doing talking about something they're passionate about will always be soothing. i don't know how much it means coming from a scrub like me, but you make great work!
The music in here is completely hypnotic, I've just had this video on a loop for like three days
@RedMeansRecording
9 ай бұрын
It's such a lovely combo ❤️❤️
“Nice, my modular system is in a good spot. Don’t need any new modules for a while. Phew.” Jeremy: 🤗
This could not be better timed!
I never thought I'd want to get into modular but this video... I get a porter robinson vibe from that chopped piano.
That’s one of the coolest fuckin modules I’ve ever seen. I can only imagine what kinda glitter realms I could fall into with the Ensemble Oscillator + Rainmaker + Mimeophon. And here I thought I was planning to focus on techno lol
@RedMeansRecording
2 жыл бұрын
Techno can use that kind of magic
You made me get a Subharmonicon, got me on the verge on getting into modular and I'm not even mad about that.
I'm glad you tweeted this! KZread wouldn't have told me.
Rainmaker was one of my first modules, many things went away from my case, but rainmaker is still there, making its way to each patch
@wouterandeweg8386
3 жыл бұрын
i'm curious what your first modules were? i'm thinking of getting a Rainmaker in a Palette with a Plonk. :)
@v47_music
3 жыл бұрын
@@wouterandeweg8386 that's a good combo! But you'll need a sequencer for the plonk, take a look at 1U steppy. My first sequencer was metropolis
It’s videos like this that make me wish I had money
@anthonytamez170
3 жыл бұрын
Get a job
@anthonytamez170
3 жыл бұрын
@Fralorgrafon or you could quit being a negative nancy pointing out every possible circumstance that could fall upon someone and learn to budget instead of whining on youtube
@peladoclaus
3 жыл бұрын
A little compassion goes a long way. This guy could live in a favela and have a chronic illness which keeps him from being able to work. Thing is you don't know. Get some compassion!
@darksentinel082
3 жыл бұрын
@@anthonytamez170 My mother is paralyzed waist-down. Since I’m still under 18 and don’t have my own bills to pay, I’m putting all the money I make into taking care of her, or saving for the future. Once I turn 18 and child support stops coming in, I don’t know what I’m going to do. I wasn’t whining, I was simply wishing. There’s not much else I can do but wish. Sorry you didn’t know that previously.
I don't understand everything but your vid always kind of relax me. Everything is so smooth and the way you create music from scratch is mesmerising, seems almost magical sometimes ✨
The inteligence someone had to invent such machine. Very impresive.
despite other videos making it sound awesome, this is the first video to properly sell me on rainmaker by showing me not only what it does but also how it does. I always imagined it being way more menu dive-y than this. one improvement i can think of if intellijel decide to do a revision is to add more trigger inputs. being able to randomise different things with different signals, or even just use the different triggers in different ways would kill for me at least, especially if you could set trigger A to randomise what triggers B and C do.
Oh wow. I don't got anything to say that hasn't been said, this thing is simply amazing.
Thanks for this. I knew when I finally dove down the modular rabbit hole, a Rainmaker was definitely one of the modules I had to have. So far, I have mostly only fiddled with modulating presents and randomized settings, but your dive into the comb made me realize I have only scratched the surface.
the raimaker is not just a dealy... to me thats a synth. one of the deepest modules i've ever heard. souns sooooo beautiful!!!!
@xenostim
3 жыл бұрын
bUt iTs NoT a SoUnD SoUrCe
@TheNimasan
3 жыл бұрын
@@xenostim i know it isn't but it can act like a huge syntgh with a lil amount of Audio. beside erbe verb my fav effect module!
Perfect timing, just snagged one of these last week
Almost twenty years ago I had native instruments Spektral Delay plug in. It was my favorite effect. Really computer based audio was never as dynamic for me as that one effect. I used to stay up until dawn just exploring. It was discontinued long ago. However I hear that song again in this instrument.
That visualizer is so cool
I needed that daily dose of RMR. Thanks!
Yesss, I love Rainmaker, it's such a gorgeous piece of kit. Beautiful stuff here.
Man, I ordered this mod in January (it's been on back-order), and I completely forgot about it until seeing your vid -- now I'm wishing it was here :( Great vid!
Nice work Jeremy! You created some really lovely tones and textures out of Rainmaker and give a good sense of how mesmerizing it can be to explore all the parameters to completely transform an input signal. The Piles label on your unit was changed to Stacks pretty early on, so that's why the menu doesn't match the label on your panel. You must have got a really early unit!
I see rainmaker, I click! Love what you've done with it
Cool sounds, have the rainmaker for a few months now and I learned some stuff with your video. Also arbhar into the rainmaker is pretty crazy.
I can only just imagine if the early dub music makers in Jamaica got hold of this! They found other primitive ways to create similar sound outputs!
Oh my god that thing is so wonderful
ASMR as interpreted by RMR. Lovely!
Wow amazing! I'm always blown away at how you so quickly interact with every piece of gear I've seen you with. I'm especially impressed with this cool run through/jam with Rainmaker. Your like "Dr Spock" mind melding with gear, yeah that's what it's like!!!
Brings in Rainmaker..... and...... sold!
I want this.
@RedMeansRecording
3 жыл бұрын
It really good
@kidcoastless8575
3 жыл бұрын
Still always surprised seeing you on the modular side of KZread. And they said Infinity War was the boldest crossover event...
...twiddeling knobs on the Rainmaker while watching this video. Have it as a hardware-insert to process sounds using LUNA. This thing is complex, weird, wonderful and special.
the GЛИТЧ-3 makes this video look like it's yours lol im watching through a ton of your videos right now at work, much chill and vibe
Jesus Christ. Rainmaker is pretty much everything you want for FX. If I would of come across this before purchase all other fox modules to do exactly this- I would of saved $$$
Amazing textures, wow. Recently picked one up and I'm still in the learning phase - gotta explore the comb section some more :)
@rbeny
3 жыл бұрын
ok damn, that tap mute/pitch thing is genius.
You're a badass! Thank you for sharing this with us
Yes Excellent sound design tool. An entire modular device in and of itself. It has taken dozens of hours returning to it over months to really understand it. But it's wonderful. Consider adding another delay and or reverb pedal after , subtle , for wonderful Ambient soundscapes ( I adapted the crazy notion of stacking delays from Ambient Guitar guy Chords of Orion ) . I use an Eventide or Specular Tempus ....as I'm not that deep into modular. Try taming the preset modulations or slowing the ping pong X-fades ...... THEN add simple tape delay or dig delay pedal later in fx chain.. 👍🏽😄❗️ My Rainmaker is in a 72hp Intellijel case with an old Maths for envelopes and a generic LFO. I use periodically w real acoustic instruments or simple synth motifs. True Modular heads have so much other gear that they probably don't dedicate the time to dig into this piece of kit.
Not many Rainmaker demos out there. It’s good to see you tackle this Leviathan of a module.
your voice and videos have such a calming effect to me i love it
That Rainmaker + Morphagene combo seems really solid. I'm always thinking about messing sounds up with the Morphagene but I never do! I should change that...
Thanks - your demo was enlightening ..
You're so talented man... Kudos.
your comment on destructive randomization - could create a preset as a home base so you can go deep with edits and always have the preset to fall back on
You made me buy this jewel❤
beautiful stuff man
Very Very nice !!!
It's kind of like a eurorack Cocoquantas when used as you do, which is good news.
I need to get some of them Pods!
Nice work on this beast :)
Very cool! Love these sounds. Also, you need more black hex-head screws!!! :)
Great vid man
That's an art machine
At a couple points it reminded me of the ringtone in the kotor games
just changing the pitch at the end.. im sure this is how minecraft music was made. lol but that randomizer by itself is mad. if you could have a randomizer for pitch thatd be super powerful
Hmm, human music. I like it!
I want to send you more knurlies. Beauteous vid and module Jeremy.
oh for fuck's sake. now i want that too.
@6884
2 жыл бұрын
did I say "that"? I meant both the morphagene AND the rainmaker...
Best Video for Rainmaker I have seen. Was about to sell mine. But not anyway 🙂
@RedMeansRecording
2 жыл бұрын
i don't think i'll ever sell mine
@KeithCanisius
Жыл бұрын
@@RedMeansRecording Love mine now. As you say suddenly it just clicks how it works. It's actually quite simple if you give it a fair chance.
great video! I love to use delays in a performance and play with them a lot. how playable is this? does the complexity make it more for programming and dont touch? seems to be a lot of button pressing and menu diving, but this sounds like such a good ambient machine!
Man my wallet cries when it hears your voice. :D
Someone on the synth diy subreddit just posted 3D printable 2HP SD card holder blanks. Having one of those with a bunch of morphagene reels on different SD cards would set this system off.
@RedMeansRecording
3 жыл бұрын
That's an awesome idea
@CEMeier
3 жыл бұрын
Even better: having a bunch of reels on the same SD card. 🤔
super nice
Sold one of these a long time ago. Maybe its time for a buy back..
Someone should make a pitch shifting dirt pedal called pitch shitter.
wow.
Thank god Intellijel cant make more of these modules, I didnt want it anyways....
Thank you very much, excuse my ignorance but can rainmaker be used on it's own without the other two units by just running audio samples through it from say a sp404 and secondly do I need a Seperate case and power supply in order to get it working?
@RedMeansRecording
10 ай бұрын
Not really no. There are delays that are meant for that stuff that aren't Eurorack
Almost gave up on it 😇
Less than one minute in and I’m like...OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
"i hope you're just.. wet." lmao. great video man, this thing seems cool
Yo you pitched the shit out of those pitches
I wish he would stop talking so I can go buy this immediately.
This seems to be the most complete tap delay up to date. The only thing I am missing right now are some send and return jacks for the feedback path. Sometimes my feelings just cries out: This is way too much taps for every mix. But of course you can reduce the number. Man I really hope they will release a version 2 with send & return. Thanks for a great video. Do you know any other eurorack tap delays besides this one and Strymon Magneto, which includes send & return, but seems to be working in mono in some situations?
This is just an ASMR channel now
man that is gorgeous, where did you get the reel from? I'm thirsty for some of that =))
35:30 - Jeez Jeremy, buy us a drink first hey?
I wanna hear SWN through the Rainmaker. Highly interested in using the combo together
@RedMeansRecording
2 жыл бұрын
Check out my video on quad quantizers
Awesome stuff! I would love to see if we could get your rainmaker presets, perhaps as like a patreon thing. Cheers!
@RedMeansRecording
3 жыл бұрын
Rainmaker is weird because I can't use any presets made by anyone else. The presupposition of clock inputs and the way that modulation changes it is so deeply personal.
cooooooool.
genius thanks a lot :)
😐😐😐😐 “Let’s go ahead and bring in rainmaker....”😃😃😃😃
s t i m u l u s
This setup is amazing. I am wondering if there would be a way to add some type of drums into the setup? I am totally new to modular, but extremely fascinated.
@RedMeansRecording
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah definitely. Lots of ways. Best way would be some midi and a digitakt or something like that.
Hey - been watching your stuff for quite some time, and I'm really enjoying your modular videos. I'm about to take the plunge into eurorack and the rainmaker is one of the reasons why. Only problem is - I can't for the life of me find any available online to purchase. Is there a similar module you can recommend? Or is this really a one-of-a-kind type deal?
@RedMeansRecording
3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately the modular maker world has been hit incrediblly hard by the manufacturing slowdown that's affecting all industries right now. We have to wait for the world to get back to equilibrium. Find a shop you like and ask for an email update on when they'll get more. Look for them used, too.
@danielleone6432
3 жыл бұрын
@@RedMeansRecording Thanks Jeremy -- I did as you suggested today and the shop expects to have them in stock mid-may, which is not a bad wait at all given the supply chain disruptions. They put me on a waiting list. Thanks for your advice, sir, it worked out!
How did you get so good?!
@RedMeansRecording
3 жыл бұрын
Practice :)
I think you are secretly making explosives w these machines 😃
@jsihavealotofplaylists
3 жыл бұрын
No secrets here, It's definitely blowing my mind.
What's the module in front of Rainmaker
That Paratek module tho...
"I hope you're wet" are words I did not think someone would say to me today
In the comb filter section, what sample are you using?
What's the module between Rainmaker and Morphagene?
@13_gh0sts
3 жыл бұрын
It's a 3 channel visualizer called GЛИТЧ-3 from Paratek
@RedMeansRecording
3 жыл бұрын
Description updated
@truthbydesign5146
3 жыл бұрын
@@13_gh0sts Knowing nothing about Eurorack, I was guessing “Gahty” was some type of audio gate generator, similar to Bram Bos Perferator for iOS .. Lol I was off by miles.
Is this some kind of individual or single power boxes (racks) in to which the modules are mounted?
@SorchaSublime
Жыл бұрын
I believe it's one of the 4ms pod cases
Would have purchased one through your link, but they’re out of stock :(
Could a workaround for the lack of "undo" be to save your patch as a preset and then recall it if you make any changes? (like after hitting randomize, could you just reload the preset?)
@RedMeansRecording
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah!
Quick question, what's that module to the left of rainmaker, just passed the blank panels, I cant seem to find it anywhere and I'm not quite sure what it is!
@RedMeansRecording
3 жыл бұрын
Check out Paratek
@andrewkirk6452
3 жыл бұрын
@@RedMeansRecording Thanks!
What is that module next to the rainmaker
@SorchaSublime
Жыл бұрын
It's a visual module by paratek. It's entirely cosmetic and just used to visualise signals.
Whats the module at the far left?
@RedMeansRecording
3 жыл бұрын
Pamela's new workout
Ngl you could just release the music of this video alone. Label it ambient and bang there's an ep. Thank me later
something for thom yorke
@RedMeansRecording
3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@joe__
3 жыл бұрын
thm
Ouch. This video just got expensive. 🤦🏻♂️