I'm a simple man. I see a MylarMelodies video, I click like.

@7177YT

4 жыл бұрын

agreed

Man I held out for so long. But decided to pick up a BIA yesterday. As a techno guy this thing is king. Cant wait to try the gate pattern trick.

This is a f-ing awesome video man! Documenting the building of your live rig is so informative and really sparks the conversation of how to design a purpose-built coherent system. Really great!

Great vid man! I dig how you take the time talk about the process and not just the shiny new modules. Cheers mate!

really interesting window into your thought process! It's so easy to allow things to get overly complicated, and I appreciate your emphasis on paring down and embracing simplicity. Thanks for sharing this

Love hearing your process. You rambled through some issues I have or had thought about.

So many good nuggets in here, thanks!

Your setup sounds awesome! Thanks for showing your live setup!

Holymoly. Okay, this went straight into the top tier list of modules i'll have to try. the sounds are exactly my type of stuff. awesome.

3 (light)years ago, I watched this video, watched Rubadub's video and soon after the Basimilus Iteritas Alter was my first module. Things escalated pretty quick pretty savagely. Thanks for luring me into the eurocrack domain. Regumentally thankful. 💛

You should do a video showing off the Basimilus Iteritas Alter. That short clip @1:17 sounded divine.

waaaaoww there are so much vids ,i didnt saw yours,but now i will! Thanks a lot.For once thats very aidful! thanks sir!

I wish I lived somewhere where people get together and get down to modular music. Sad story - I've been trying to get my friend to buy a proper synth..so we go to guitar center...ya...the only three synths are akai whatever, korg microkorg, and Korg minilogue...he's a classically trained pianist with a $2000 Yamaha with loads of presets...so obviously he has a habit of changing presets instead of writing cool licks to my funky break beats. I try and try to explain to him the greatness of raw analog and on the fly tweaking and sound design and how subtle knob turns can change dynamic and drive of a song.....he still picks the microkorg not because of the deep digital sound design you can accomplish with a little manual flipping but because he loves all the presets.....I died inside Sorry..I have no one else to talk to Thanks

@Jimbo386000

5 жыл бұрын

gooneybird808 Bruh. Your friend has much to learn.

i may never get bored of your videos...

Top vid man, nice to see your live system developing. I'm after building one primarily based around acid house but with the ability to go beyond that.

awesome presentational video of the iteritas. and really nice how you walk thru your modules. thanks

That Der Zyklus song is seriously good - thanks so much for the recommendation!

I got one earlier this year and I have been using ornament & crime's quad turing machine mode to send lots of stepped looping cv to it. Sounds so sick and a blast to improvise with

I just got my BIA in. I choose it as my first bought Eurorack module (alongside some utility modules like a dual LFO and dual voltage processor I built myself) and already my setup sounds amazing. I don't think it will ever be replaced :)

that little BIA aside a minute or so in is one of my all time favourite youtube moments

Agree with the simplicity commentary - Speaking of Der Zyklus - listen to any Gerald Donald tracks - so much precision

"...instead of removing some things, I bought a new case." Awesome. That saves me from writing the annoying: "You need a new case" comment. :P Thanks for the video! Good stuff!

Excited to hear more! I'm gonna book a studio tour in july or september. (: Thank you! Hope you and your loved ones are well!

Big ups for shouting out Drexcyia. They have inspired my live set as well.

For more patterns in a small space try the Antimatter Launch Codes. It's so good for just firing out any pattern thats in your head and it will quantise it and loop it automatically, plus you can save them afterwards. Simon from London Modular recommended one to me and I am totally in love with it

100% you can have a show just on this, but you need talent, and you got it man!

thanks, man! love your channel

love your videos mayn !

Catching up on your videos and love the sneaky covering of the natural gate 😉 no longer a secret...

Ooooooo now I've gotta go heat up my soldering iron, Branches is getting bumped up on my diy priority list. Great video.

Just keep coming back to the 1:18 insert. Ridiculous indeed. I wish I had one ☝️

Brand new to modular, but I thought I'd mention the MakeNoise Tempi. I'm having a helluva lot of fun with it and would probably pair very well with that Basimilus.. 6 gate outputs.. clock division and multiplication programmable on the fly, mute/unmute, similar buttons like on the circadian.. 10 hp.

One potential option for signal routing might be to look at the Erica Synths pico switch. It's just below £30, 3hp, passive and has 3 ins to 1 out (or vice versa), so a couple of them would only use 6hp and each would give 3 selectable sources / destinations :-). May be worth checking out rather than splitting the switched multiple!

Thank you for recommending The Other People Place album which is one of the best electronic records ever done.

This module is already a techno Holy Grail, selling way over rsp as used.. I hope Noise Engineering keeps on expanding on a killer concept with these modules!

The Basimilus Iterites Alter seems like I was planning to do with a Achemie's Taiko, meaning to have a percussion voice that can also work as a very small synth voice too. At sooperbooth I checked the Audio Damage Proton and hell yes I fell in love with it! Now there is a third contender in the mix, damn. :D

You can also use the Branches fore two different snares like most drummers have. So happy I found your vids.Greetz 👍✌️

@mylarmelodies

6 жыл бұрын

No worries!

Some great ideas here, MylarMelodies, as ever. I've got a rig for similar purposes, so I can basically record all my stuff in one live take and then unpatch. The way you use pressure points for the melody here is cool - I've tried it out with two gate patterns from the Numeric Repetitor, one driving envelopes and the other the PP. I use the DC1 drumcomputer for percussion patterns(which is a bit slept on for what it does), with the QuBit Mixology at the end of the chain - this works pretty well. BIA looks great, I've mocked up a shoddy copy using noise outputs from shapeshifter and a Bastl Skis. Keep 'em coming.

@mylarmelodies

7 жыл бұрын

Nice tips, I've actually got a Zularic AND a Numeric on the way (I know, I know, but I've got a bit of a Noise Engineering crush at the mo...)

i got my BIA last week, using it with a Beat-step Pro, Octo-controller, Erica Synth Dual FX and a couple of Pico Drums...GAAAH!

Totally agree with your Akemie's Taiko/BIA comparison. Also: you should maybe have a look at the Knight's Gallop from Shakmat if you're wanting to conserve some space. It only outputs two triggers, but they interact with each other in ways that would probably appeal to you. Plus it's only 8 hp and £93.20 (DIY kit from Thonk).

Nice grooves :D

The jam starting at 13:43 is next level.

Holy fucking shit god damn it! It moves up on the list.

i love your channel name because it sounds like a Joycean bilingual portmanteau creation : my - larme ("tear" in french) - melodies. Maybe this has already been highlighted though ;) Also, wonderful content, thanks !

der zyklus and The Other People Place = Drexciya. Good call!

For rythyms have you checked the varigate 8+? Its pretty amazing for both random and specific patterns.

20:20 "...and then i've got the octocontroller supplying pulse width modulation and keep Nick back happy." Fell of my chair laughing...nice one! :D

Jesus, So heeeelpful. Your stuff is the always the best ;-)

Great video! Those gates you feed into the different controls of the BIA, could they also be just triggers? Or do they need to be longer, say a 1/16 note gate.

1:38 "it might be a very proto-techno show, em... but that would be awesome!" LOL. Indeed

Nice Work as always Alex! I have an idea for your Switched mult, If you have any spare switches, or better yet, if you have a DIP switch handy, you could wire some of the connections at the back of the mult so you can easily configure which jacks are connected/normalled, that way you could single out the first jack as a mute or whatever you like. Modular!

@mylarmelodies

7 жыл бұрын

That's an excellent shout and exactly what I thought of too!! I was going to suggest jumpers to link or break connections, but James suggested DIP switches. Would be the perfect option to make it super flexible.

I just love the fact, that you used a DX7 cartridge to cover up the secret module. 😆 Been quite some time since I had one of those. Decades, actually.

@delta-9969

4 жыл бұрын

lol and here I was searching google for a eurorack module that uses dx7 rom cartidges....

Broke down and had to "just fucking buy one" haha!! Excellent video man! That loop at 1:25 is insane!!!!!!! :D

Benders music is super simple i know he has a huge setup but really his actual compositions are super super simple just perfected. A great mentor of mine told me once that "its not the notes you play its the silence between them" xD kind of what your saying i think

15 mins in... YESSSSS

13:33 very nice!!

Nick Batt reference, lol. Nice vid though, thanks man

great video, wow we play so incredibly different great stuff tho! we use like similar modules in completely different ways haha

As always an awesome video from you! Please, what are these screws you are using to house your modules? I have only two of them, received with a module, but I'd like to use only these screws in my rack if possible...where can I find these screws? Thx by advance!

I keep around 172hp per row power 45 and it's hot to the touch after about an hour, I can't even imagine what yours must feel like after 20 minutes.

@mylarmelodies

9 ай бұрын

It surprised me that it worked!!! The uzeus is a beast. Having the bigger PSU into it is important though. And yes ideally don’t stretch your PSU…

Looks like an awesome module. Been eyeing it up. You in Brighton this weekend?

@mylarmelodies

7 жыл бұрын

LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER Its a winner. no regrets! yes i am, will say hi!

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

7 жыл бұрын

cool! ill be on sunday. so yeah! see you then :)

It's a fine day when we get a new vid

Hey man, you're the reason I got into modular in the first place, thank you for that! I have a question: could you do a more in depth video on BIA? It's one of the coolest modules I've seen and there are criminally few videos on it! You mentioned that in order to really make it flourish and expand, you'd need a ton of modulation. So could you pair this up with say Erica Synths Black Octasource and unlocks it's true potential?

He told me to f* buy one too... man alive it's the $hit! Fav module evaaaaaaa

Jeez, this is cool.

@AFinalForm

7 жыл бұрын

Bloody hell

Too good. Can only take in small doses cos I haven't got one to tweak !

instant bangers

I just fucking bought one (BIA). Should be here soon. Can't wait to get my mitts on this bad boy :D

wow this thing is incredible, now i have to rethink some stuff ....... thanks man ;) 13:30 -16 mins ish, you could more or less play that out on its own. (i'd be dancing that's for sure)

@mylarmelodies

7 жыл бұрын

Haha, yep my hands at 13:34 are basically me going "There you go. Thats a tune."

I almost died on th Nick Batt reference :D :D.

this shit at 13:30 is just so awesome!!

Lol what video is 1:17 from? I want to see the rest of that!

Could the drum gates on a Beatstep Pro be a good paring for the BIA? Loving your work Alex!

@mylarmelodies

6 жыл бұрын

Yep! Thanks

ha, before you even said 'the other people place' I thought 'drexciya'. while we're on the subject of minimal funk, do you have any recommendations for modules that would help get an SND typa vibe going quickly in a live situation? again, thanks for the content dude, well actually I'm not sure if I should thank you because my savings have got no hope now, but yeh, should be able to free up a few more quid n support you on patreon soon too. brrrr'uppp

Can someone please point me in the right direction for a small (less than 10hp) sequencer module to go with a basimilus iteritas? maybe a varigate 4+?

one thing i learned from v snares is feeding grids with sequenced gates. id run a track out of cicadian into the clock in. switch thr grids to a lower ppqn and start experimenting!

@mylarmelodies

7 жыл бұрын

sonikboom007 You mean feeding Grids Clock input?

@sonikboom007

7 жыл бұрын

mylarmelodies kinda. i used my bsp's drum gates out and would add groups of 4 triggers spread out and other groups of odd numbers so the grids would be clocked in jenky ways !

@divineaccidents4374

6 жыл бұрын

into the morph /y axis, fills or the tempo ?

in a weird way I see a lot of similarities with the "B.I.A." and Korg "monologue" I have the monologue myself, and know that people like to use it as a pseudo drum synthesizer. I wonder if I could get similar sounds from that?

Best demo of this module is the voltage block demo of malekko =)

15:00 cool style of techno \0/

Did you ever do a video on Copper Traces Seek? I own one and would love to see you use it.

How about a Malekko Varigate for probability gate patterns?

@mylarmelodies

7 жыл бұрын

Defo would like to try. Soooo many things. In the end you have to draw a line under it and get to know what you have

The Other People Place is awesome. Good that you mentioned it. I'd like to know, in your opinion which would be a good module to create that Detroit'ish pads. Shapeshifter maybe?

@mylarmelodies

7 жыл бұрын

Akemie's Castle! :) Two-Op FM with reverb FTW

Fucking rad tip sending gates into the mod ins - going to do this with OG BI and my pair of Shapeshifters ASAP

@mylarmelodies

7 жыл бұрын

Defo add an attenuverter for max enjoyment

@phosfiend

7 жыл бұрын

defo indeed, the original BI can be pretty frustrating without one & I often employ one (or two). Interestingly, the original BI might be especially suited to this technique - it's a bit shite for normal CVs ergonomics-wise as the knobs are attenuators when something is patched in (thus losing whatever you dialed in), but when feeding gates might be pretty rad? Can't wait to try it. I just got a Varigate 8+ with the hopes of moving towards playing live, very much in the same philosophy as what you're proposing here; so big thanks for these vids, super insightful :)

Truly impressive! Now I am considering a build with Circadian Rhythms for the drum/bass sounds missing in my rig.

Check out Dopplereffekt's Gesamtkunstwerk for similar minimal but totally great electro. And most Drexciya is in that vain too, obviously.

The hidden module is a Rabid Elephant Natural Gate isn't it? I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!

Basimilus Iteritas Alter is insane ! They are unfortunately out of stock everywhere... Any idea where to get it ?

Malekko Varigate 8+ instead of trigger riot?

Always makes me smile to hear well spoken people try to say Fuck.

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

Well spoken?!

I need to start saving.

Sounds like you need a Acid Rain Technology Switchblade to switch between rhythms :)

Definitely want to add a few cool Noise Engineering modules to my next system. That and 4ms make some cool stuff.

happy days, m8

nick batt needs to be happy at all times!

I just fucking ordered one... hurry up Mailman!

Fuck me, that part from around 10:00 till 15:00 was insane

Consider the delptronics trigger man for randomness too

Have you tried the Manis Iteritas? Trying to figure out if it’s a good pairing for the BIA or will it be redundant, thanks

@mylarmelodies

5 жыл бұрын

Never tried it, soz!

@dangayle

4 жыл бұрын

I have both. Very similar, but different. The MI is definitely noisier. I use the BIA primarily for kicks, the MI is my primary bass sound. What is awesome is that I can slowly morph the MI into a dirty kick and use the BIA as the bass, lol.

How do you connect grid to other modules?

@mylarmelodies

7 жыл бұрын

Just plug the three outputs directly to the gate/trigger input of drum modules, or the trigger input to envelope generators

Hi thanks for being so thorough. What is the DX7 looking cartridge on your Eurorack?

@mylarmelodies

3 жыл бұрын

Hah, a DX7 cartridge, hiding an at the time unreleased module!! (Natural Gate by Rabid Elephant)