Great video! I agree with the "practice like it is a real gig" advice, but it's a specific type of practice, helps with endurance and learning to let go when you screw up, but at the same time, I believe it is also helpful to have other types of deliberate practice sessions during which you work on a very specific aspect of your live that you want to make better. Like for example a special type of transition that you want to nail every time, some tempo change routine, make your sound evolve in a certain way. Those kind of moments can be improved with repeated specific practice, and will certainly help during the longer sessions

@mikeellisonhimself

3 жыл бұрын

Good advice - particularly for beatbox users needing to have transitions to give time to switch songs on their MPC or whatever.

That was brilliant - really didnt feel like an hour went by there.

@jonaseggen2230

5 жыл бұрын

Wow! How?! That was an hour?!!!

@indigoskywalker

4 жыл бұрын

It’s his soothing voice 😂

“Don’t just fill the sound spectrum like a big sausage” = Favourite piece of advice ever :)

that voice ... you are my personal morgan freeman of eurorack ;D i bet even listening to you reading the telephone book would be awesome xD

@fxberg

5 жыл бұрын

david attenborough of eurorack for me ;)

@gregorio98000

5 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t have said it better myself!

@monoseq9797

4 жыл бұрын

@@fxberg Probably the greatest compliment ever.

@logonazo

4 жыл бұрын

Ace!!

@DavidDeLuge

4 жыл бұрын

It's like Richard Hammond and Paul McKenna all rolled into one...

I could spend the rest of my life listening to you talk about modular synths. I got into modular after watching your review of the akemie’s castle, bought one, and built a system and am now deep down the rabbit hole. You’re the man!

@chrisarndt8251

5 жыл бұрын

Thom Montecchi Very similar story here. It was the 0-coast though..

@MrStognabologna

5 жыл бұрын

Lol that video was definitely envolved in my fall down the euro hole

@d0ug6raham

5 жыл бұрын

Thom Montecchi Atlantis one for me

@jank-official

5 жыл бұрын

yeah, I have a ton of stuff because of this dude, but I really want a Metropolis now :D

@jasoncaldwell4239

5 жыл бұрын

The Dfam Rainmaker got me hooked. I still pull that up on my phone and play it through my truck stereo on my commute just for the jam

Really respect the openness you have in talking about your modular journey, very helpful for others messing round with this stuff! Thanks

Man! Your videos about modular and performance are amazing and so informative! You totally sold me on the DFAM in your other vids. Keep doing what you are doing. Fantastic. Your ability to take a subject that can appear fairly impenetrable up front and make it accessible is a gift. Keep it up!

Very interesting... I saw William Basinsky this weekend. He stood there in front of a mac for an hour and played loops from Ableton (I think) thru a distortion mixer - but it was amazing. He was so assured of his right to be there, made us listen and engage through his confidence. Gave meaning and value to ambient for me, as a live form.

This was the best talk yet that you've given on live performing! Fantastic.

This talk is so excellent. I got so much out of it in terms of workflow and live approach. And I feel much more confident about my upcoming gig where I’ll be doing modular for the first time live.

Fantastic talk, and inspiring! Thank you for sharing this.

Thank you for this video, really inspiring and you’ve got a lovely way of speaking, super refreshing and easy to understand

DJ SHADOW still one of the best shows i have ever been to, total performer, i remember him in his MPC heyday and the shit he pulled on stage via MPC linked to lighting, mind blown

Great talk! I've learned a lot from watching your videos and podcast and would love to attend one of these talks. For the last 6 months I've been exploring modular, slowly building a 3u 104 hp skiff piece by piece. The system I had in my head in the beginning and how my current system actually turned out are completely different. Even the way I play it is completely different than how I imagined I would use it. I set out to build the groovebox of my dreams and ended up with an instrument I had never imagined possible. Besides drums and percussion, I can't think of any other musical instrument in existence that offers the player both the empowerment of determining it's functional design and an almost infinite flexibility of how it's played.

Thank you for sharing your insight! This resonates with me hugely.

It's your enthusiasm that went a long way towards turning these tools into the specific tool I needed.

Really interesting. 'Just slow down', great advice. Wish I could achieve this (in life as well!). Great post.

This was such a wonderfully informative talk and demo!!!

Thanks for all your enthusiastic lectures on modules. Good to see your face, looking as sympathetic as you sound. You are a brilliant teacher and as you seem like a patient and welcoming person I hope some kids ever get the chance to learn something from you to.

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

ahhh thanks mate! x

I really enjoyed your talk. Keep inspiring us!

Great talk. I enjoy your insight. I definitely play mine more akin to free jazz. Thanks for the extended talk

A looper pedal has become my definite safety net! Im sending different sections of my system, and sending it back into a filter and my aux reverb, so very easy to make nice changes and progressions without stoping the sound or having to loose your patch

Just stumbled on this whilst checking out your playlists. Brilliant talk.

Cheers for putting this up Alex, LOTS of useful info and things to think about even for non modular peeps. Don't try and do too much, you won't enjoy it and neither will your audience, amen.

Love your bit on live performances. So much have I had these same thoughts , came all the way from a vinyl dj to a eurorack enthusiast in my quest for more interesting production of music

@Deaphdot1

5 жыл бұрын

Same here

brilliant! felt like watching a high quality lecture :)

learned a bunch from this, thanks!! will play with using the same sequence for multiple voices but using different trigger sequences

oh and great talk btw pal, as usual great delivery, natural.

good talk! to add one thing during the QA at the end you mentioned that the metropolis doesn't have presets, but as of the latest firmware update it does! it's a bit funky though, you have the standard save which saves the entire config setup but not the slider and switch positions, and then a quicksave that saves slider and switch info but only the config setup stuff that directly pertains to the sequence so things like scale, root note, sequence length, etc. now you can do actual for real on command key changes without having to use an aux input :D

Great Alex - really absorbing stuff.

I literally use your voice as a lullaby. Soothing. And then your techno videos wake me up :D

Suzanne Ciani Live Performance at P2 Art’s Birthday Party in Stockholm Sweden brought me back to this, to reflect on the importance of stage position and what the audience see. ‘Reverse Birds Eye’ has to be in the top 3!

Really nice talk, thanks for this ...

I have never listened so intensely to any talk before! You have a lot of responsibility for my modular addiction! - So thank you! - BTW, On your rig update some time ago, you talked about DI and you did not understood why sound engineers insist on use them. Here is the awnser: The main reason is to make a unbalanced signal - a ballenced signal. (Allso: The most stageracks have only XLR in, so a DI converts the jack to XLR aswell, AND most DI have a ground lift, so you can use the DI to deal with hum aswell) Like you pointed out in the video, not all DI are the same, so bring your own (high end) one is a GREAT advice, so thanks for that! :D

@wonkyrobot

5 жыл бұрын

Bouns, bouns tip: If you dont bring your own DI, and it distorts when you turn your rig up, ask the sound engineer to Pad - 20 dB (sometimes 30 or 40) the DI. Even the very cheap LD Systems DI have a Pad -20 dB switch on it :)

@AJL200

3 жыл бұрын

It also protects your gear in the event of phantom power being incorrectly ON on your mixer channel(s)

You are a genius! I've learned so much from you in this video!

I recently got a pulplogic pelican case 54hp, and I've been trying to work in the limitation of that space. working in that boundary has taught me more than anything I've encountered in modular. Like you said, I dunno if big clunky cases are the future, I've really come around to idea focused mini systems

I really enjoy your sincerity.

I don't play live but there's loads of great food for thought here around simplifying the interface to the modular and making it easier to get good noises out of. I'm going to try some of this stuff on mine - should make it much more fun and less hard work to play! Thanks :D

love these talks

I personally think that your music chap is fucking mint! It'd be great to hear more! Really huge fan of your work. thank you

Such a handsome fellow! How nice to add your face to your lovely face! Now, to watch this video! Thanks for doing what you do!

Elektron Analog 4 is a great way to sequence and control modular plus you get 4 voices on top of CV control. Modular drums are very expensive so I use the Elektron for that and samples. Frees up modular for cool stuff like bass lines and ambient textures and weird spice.

Amazing story about the ARP2500 and Close Encounters - I hadn't heard that before! Wow. Tangentially... my son and I were in Wyoming in 2017 (we watched the solar eclipse a few days later in Idaho) and we visited Devil's Tower. At the campground there, they have regular showings of the movie - and you can sit outside to watch them. Devil's Tower itself is literally looming behind the TV screen as you watch!

Great talk thanks.

thank you, very inspiring info.

I like the idea of playing with out being seen, I think the audience should be facing each other listening rather than looking, it is a strange thing whether to do live or prepared, I think there must be a middle way, but the more you do live stuff, the more you want to perfect it, because its fun, putting yourself through that panic😂

what a grat guy this man is. i am a fan of his. Big shout out to him & much love and support from munich germany

@mylarmelodies

3 жыл бұрын

😘

@TheNimasan

3 жыл бұрын

@@mylarmelodies right back to you my man!

Hi, always like your vids and listened this (intro)talk while setting up the studio for an upcoming gig... You spoke about monitoring --> my approach is (some venues don't understand until they see me playing later on) I play off stage in front of the audience my back turned towards them, so they can see what I do, they can approach me but most important I experience the music the same as the audience, no monitors needed :-) (I have adjustable tables when I tour with my own car) Just thought I share this :-) Hope you don't mind \0/

@lemonaut1

2 жыл бұрын

what a cool approach! i may borrow this. kinda like that professor student inversion trope where a young professor will start the first day of class while being seated among the students.

Great channel brother

I have not yet sipped the modular kool-aid but I think much of what you said is applicable to making live electronic music in general!

I'll tell you who has no safety net during a stream or performance. Marc Rebillet.. granted he's doing somewhat of a simpler style of music, it's all improvised. Great chat. Love your videos.

I've been tuning Plaits in chord mode but using the simple waveform on the AUX out but I have to put Timbre at 12 o'clock and Morph full left. Oh and pull the trigger so it drones

My body is ready for this

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

HAH

you are the wisdom, sir

The gopro idea is genius

You're a great KZreadr and reviewer.

Great talk pal. The Kenny Everett of Modular (in a good way!)

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

All in the best possible taste

Great! That bass at 35:10 is insane...

"The MORGAN FREEMAN OF EURORACK" Wonderful, that will stick!!!!

@donnydarko7624

Ай бұрын

lolol

Ace stuff. I've filled my BeatStep Pro's projects with "complemetary" rhythms..16 projects of 16 patterns per seq and 16 drum patterns..I can kind of just go between each one and it still sounds good and quite random..I'm building up to playing out..

@AnxiousCowboy

5 жыл бұрын

Braincoral for melody too? Any tips on writing sequence progressions for melody? As a drummer who is new to melodic theory I’m having a hard time

@mikeellisonhimself

3 жыл бұрын

Braincoral. Great tip.

Well done mylar

I don't use modular in my setup but the gig advice is extremely useful.

Very informative and up front honest particularly the homage to Steevio.That has to be a daunting experience,playing live modular.

Yup, we do have a problem with 12u cases that “closes all patched”, and the necessary bundling of cables (and using Stackcables), don’t we?

Which Feedback module EQ do you have and why did you choose that EQ and not the other flavor that they offer? How are you patching/using it? Thanks..

Sidechaining should work well with endorphin.es cockpit. Great workshop. :-)

That kick sound is incredible. What were you using for it? Great vid and good advice thank you.

THAT BEAT AT 39:56 THO!!!

love your work! good links to Steevio videos please :)

Im a groovebox kid. Desktop synth. Semimodular syth. I would have to sell all that gear to fit modular and then its even more money more stuff more wires. The thing is if you listen to a recording of soundwaves as you said most ppl dont know how you get it done. I think ppl obsess too much over modular gear like its the mecca

Hello. Amazing vid. What you are describing in the way you multiply / gate the sequence from Metropolis is called "hocket". A method popular among monks a few centuries back as well as Skrillex on his first two albums. Super interesting. BTW - what's your modular sidechaining method? Maths + VCA? etc?

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

P Godaz For me it’s to run your kick thru a envelope follower or simultaneously trigger an envelope, invert that, then multi it to control the other channels, then mix them. You need a lot of VCAs is the catch!

@piotr803

5 жыл бұрын

Couldn't you just stick one VCA after the mix, so it'd be a sidechain bus, so to speak? Or a Mixer with a VCA on the output if such thing exist...

@dev31337

5 жыл бұрын

Optimix turns out to be a really nice, simple, side chain compressor. Plus, you get two of them in 8hp if needed.

Great talk! Now I need to listen to stevio. Where should I start?

@mylarmelodies, can you share the Google doc you have of Steevio? I’m on muffwiggler as InsectInPixel

Wow, thanks for this. The whole talk was extremely approachable, informative, and helpful. Any chance you could share the link to that Steevio comments google doc? I, for one, would be very curious to read through that

@FUNKINETIK

9 ай бұрын

If you’re interested in any of Stevio’s early vinyl releases, check out his label ‘MindTours’ - good enough for Jeff Mills to have included in his sets : )

When he talks about requiring the user to specify the function, this trend is led by Expert Sleepers, with the endless menus.

Thanks.. Dog bark freaked me out.

you talk about sequencer (Metropolis) sending CV and 'several gates' to create everything and make the different rhythms... how do you sequence the gates?

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

See Metropolis demo, it sends different gates with the bottom row of switches

@jank-official

5 жыл бұрын

doesn't that only give you one gate channel? I gotta watch the Metro demo again...

Hey Mr. Amazing, when will you come to Austria? ;-)

Re: Stillson Hammer in Q&A: Metropolis can save/recall 8 patterns as of firmware 1.30.

Can you link to the “techno test 2” you mention at 26:00 ? Would love to hear Metropolis and trigger riot jamming together.

@mylarmelodies

4 жыл бұрын

Et Voila x soundcloud.com/mylarmelodies/technotest2

Great video! What are you using for a mixer in the bottom right?

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

Eighth_Wave Befaco Hexmix! Click the modulargrid link in description for everything

Great talk - thanks! How do you do the side chaining in this rig?

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

I don’t, but I’d need to envelope follow the kick (or have an AR envelope trigger simultaneously to it), invert that, then use that signal to dip all the other channels volume (eg. 5+ VCAs).

@hallvardangelskar3513

5 жыл бұрын

Aha, I must have misheard what you said in the talk. Thanks for the explanation, though!

is that the Elite case? I'm waiting for one. How are you making it stand upright? is it leaning on a stand of some sort or it just opens and stays like that due to its dimensions/design? Thanks!

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

It’s on little 3D printed stands! Ask MDLR and they should be able to fill you in

@benki._

5 жыл бұрын

Great thanks!

Is your case an E416 Portable 12U? If not - what? Thanks!

Did you say you *haven't* found a good sidechain solution in Eurorack? Dynamix is ace!

Cool video (as always)... Without a buffered multiple though, do your pitches track properly if your pitch CV is split off from the Metropolis so many times?

@MODUS_OP

3 жыл бұрын

Oh also, the 2hp Compressor does sidechaining I believe. A good/small solution!

@mylarmelodies

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I find I get surprisingly good results with just normal multing vs. Buff mult, though buffered is best if you can!

Thank you for the video. What kind of case is that?

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

MDLR 94hp travel case, not sure if it’s on his website yet but if you email he can fill you in.

Nice to see the face behind the hands.

Great video. Probably i´m wrong but, In the explanation of the Radio Music module, is the "Synthesizer" Legowelt Meme?? XDXD

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

hah, yep

can you share the steevio word doc plz!

Any link to Steve-o videos or music?

Anyone have a link to the guy stevio hes talking about round 13 minutes?

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

Just do a search for “steevio” here on youtube!!

Awesome video! I'm sorry if I missed it, but what are you using for your kick?

@mylarmelodies

3 жыл бұрын

Tip-top The One! As in it’s a sample

@brandonbennett5471

3 жыл бұрын

@@mylarmelodies its a ffffat one! Just started watching your videos as I recently got into modular, I appreciate the knowledge and listening to your patches keep it up!!

Heh, I've got a gDoc full of Steevio gems too.

groove @ 40:00 is siiiick :)

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

thanks babes x

Do you recommend a subwoofer for live jamming on a modular?

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

For fun yes, alternatively the SubPac is actually properly ace, and doesn’t annoy the neighbours

@djfree5435

5 жыл бұрын

@@mylarmelodies Thx I just installed the yamaha hs8s and the modular sounds so much better now than with the hs7's alone 👍😎

a drum module with individual mutes would be cool

Ace!

Surely that's not the new ALM wavetable oscillator next to Dixie?

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

It is...

Love your channel bro!... fucking Ace!!¡!🎹🎧👊💨💥💫😵👌👍✌