Performer and music composer Bylant puts his impressions into musical textures while creates sonic landscapes and sound towers. In his compositions, he investigates the possible ways of transforming music according to the manifestations of human creative power, either it is a geometric thought or the beliefs, rhythms and melodies of an ancient culture. He uses both analog and digital instruments taking advantages of these two worlds.
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thanks, this helps me a lot!
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What is the module with the three red knobs in a triangle, with circle of black knobs and lights? Thnx
Hi, the module is Moskwa, the great seq from Xaoc.
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awesome demonstration
I have just seen Moog’s Spectral semi-mod synth.. I thought “that’s basically a fixed filter bank” 🤔 Then I bought one of these..
Excellent video Bylant, I'm torn between this, Make Noise Optomix and the simpler Doepfer A-142-2 for my tiny lunchbox rack. My need is for ENV and VCA in 8hp, Michigan Works has a 8Hp uStreams which seems amazing, and these three option seem to fit my need, Streams looks like it offers a fair bit more than the other two options so I'm leaning the way. Do you have any thoughts on this?
Hi Jin-Hu, thanks for watching.Streams is absolutely worth it (either the original or a clone) although I don't know the Optomix and the Doepfer. But if you need vca AND env, this is the best option. I think I don't demonstrated enough how good is Streams' internal envelope, it has a lot of useful curves mainly for imiting acoustic instruments. You can use it as a standalone vca as well with external envelope.
A very well done video, Bylant. I've been saving your Video for a year. Now that I've given STREAMS and BLADES to myself as a belated birthday present 😂 I'll be watching it again and again.😊 Very nice how you pointed out the LPG and its special features at the beginning using a sheet of paper. Acoustic examples in the area of dynamic functions are more difficult to convey on the acoustic example via YT as far as compressors and limiters are concerned. I bought STREAMS primarily because I didn't have an envelope follower function apart from EARS. I wanted to expand this and of course I'm always happy to try out new possibilities. So: Well done, Bylant
Thanks for your kind words!
I've owned Clouds, (and many other Mutable Instruments modules) for years. But this is by far the best Clouds video I've seen. Well Done Sir!
Thank you!
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This is the best guide to Clouds.
Vocals vocals vocals as you showed here. It truly shines here. It's worth really spending some time with it on vocals though, definitely a situation where employing a VCA or 2 to afford one's self some super fine tuning on whatever CV able parameters your ring mod has. Of course it's great for alienizing vox but with super fine adjustment and some time I was able to give an male baritone spoken voice actor a very authentic lisp. Very little else about the voice was different certainly no synthetic artifacts, just a very pronounced lisp. Another time I managed to change an American accent into rather posh English one, bizarre. There were other tonal differences but they didn't sound otherworldly an generally to the authenticity. Great Vid too.
That last example is so gorgeous. Did you create that choral sample or is it Arvo Pärt or something?
Hi, it is a pad sample from my track "What was Foreseen", you can listen here: bylant.bandcamp.com/album/turning-points
Thanks for this review of this hidden gem. Hope you are well.
I have Parasites Clouds in my Poly Effects Hector but I haven't really explored it. Your video has inspired me to dig deeper.
Love it, waterdrops.
That was incredibly helpful. I never would have thought of using it in that manner.🎉
Thanks for the great vid! Is there any way to freeze the L & R channels independently?
Hi, thanks for watching. As far as I know, you can't freeze the channels indenpendently. Perhaps a clouds clone has this feature.
Lovely. I am a modular artist, but i felt the need to add piano. I have added a Nord piano keyboard which has a very nice sound, and i use them together.
Thanks fo watching. I'm sure you'll find a lot of joy in using the piano and modular together.
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You really did a great job. I especially appreciated how you explained the patches in detail, making sure nothing was left unexplained. Thank you so much!
New to eurorack and one of my first modules is Beads so this is great !
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Lovely work on this Bylant !
this is fantastic keep going!
Thanks for this but in patch 1, where are the PWM and Triangle A going?
Hi, thanks for watching. Honestly, I don't remember where PWM and TriangleA was pluged :) but I think those were not relevant (I tried different patches before recording this one, so maybe they were pluged in attenuatros or something)
Oh my gosh this is beautiful, thank you for sharing
Good explanation of this module, thanks. I didn't even know Streams was an LPG until now, and now my gut tells me I might need one (although I currently prefer the SSF gate).
Just run the gate through a vca that is modulated by enveloppe and a logic gate and you achieve very similar result
What do you mean by "very similar result" exactly? Which functionality of Klee do you want to copy with this combination?
I’m loving your channel
I love the clarity of how you illustrate the signal flow with writing. Thanks. I’m going to use my mutamix again too
what is the sequencer you using ? great video btw
Hi, I'm using the Electro Music Klee sequencer.
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Hi! A very good video. I have Streams, but I still can not use it. I am to dumb… I can not understand it. Too complex :-(
Yes, it is a quite complex module but it's worth spending time with it and using it in different patches. I hope you'll have a better relationship with it in the future :)
13:10 soooo nice
Hi Bylant, great video. Did the mic plug directly into the modular system? How did you then record the effected piano sound and the dry piano sound?
Hi, the mic was plugged to the soundcard because phantom power was needed (and preamplification too). The effected and dry piano sound were recorded with the soundcard (that is why I used headphone) My inputs-outputs were: one input for piano, two inputs for the modular; two outputs to clouds and two outputs to my headphone.
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thank you for this 🤘
I might not sell it yet
Ive been fascinated by Clouds for years. Now I've just started experimenting with Modular and built a basic synth voice, I need to get hold of one, or one of its clones, and a bunch of LFOs (and attenuators) to start experimenting properly!
You won't regret it :) In many situations, Clouds works better with simple waveforms or a synth voice than with complex timbres.
@@bylant thanks for the encouragement! Have you had any experience of using DC coupled audio adapters or expert sleepers modules to get voltages in and out of computers? I've been thinking about experimenting with that, maybe with VCV Rack. I haven't got the required hardware, and don't want to spend money on that if I'm better off just waiting til I can get the modules I want. Cheers!
@@TheDavidPoole I use two older exp-sleep modules for these kinds of tasks, ES-3 and ES-6. They are super useful and they expand the capability of my modular in so many ways. Although I send signals from SuperCollider, I'm sure these kind of modules work well with VCV. They are quite handy on stage giving you sequences and modulation and spear you from trouble of carrying more modular cases :)
@@bylant Thanks for that. I'll look out for them. Cheers!
@@TheDavidPoole Happy patching :) Cheers!
Awesome demo!
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very nice! 🤍
Building two of these from the pcb upwards, can't even to pretend to understand what is going on with these random machines, not sure if I will even get them to work, perhaps I should just have bought one that someone else had soldered up? Thanks for a useful walk through, you've inspired me to try and finish what I started.
Hi, thanks, I’m glad that I could give you some inspiration. You should use input signal between 0-5 volts at least, or above that, and the attenuator on maximum with low threshold. The random function didn’t work (for me) with input signals between 0-2 volts.
Oh thanks I'll bear that in mind I have all the infomation (that will be nearly 200 pages) sadly I started before the daughter boards were availible so I have a lot of wires to wade through when trouble shooting. If I can get my hands on a board I will change horses mid stream, sadly SynthCube are out of them at present. Thanks for the inspiration. @@bylant
@@favoriteblueshirt not sure if you ever got your klee working but synthcube has klee pcbs in stock again :)
Thanks a lot dear Bylant for this inspiration :-) Unfortunately the link you posted to the VCV version, goes to "not available" Also, you have build the physical one yourself? How did you do that, with a complete DIY package?
Hi, thanks for watching. Wow, I’ve just realized that the VCV version is not available any more :( maybe on this github page? github.com/Toybulldog/RackPlugins
And yes, I bulid it with a DIY package. I purchased it from Synthcube. Everything was OK so if you want to do this, I recommend to get it from Synthcube if it is available.
@@bylant Great, thank you. I keep an eye on it; It's sold out at the moment.
There's a version of Klee by docB in the VCV Rack 2 library
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Just discovered you my friend. Really gorgeous stuff! <3
Thank you and welcome :)
Amazing ambience! Thanks for the video again ;)
Thanks for this great vidéo Bylant ! I love the sound of your piano, i was wondering what piano is it ? Thanks a lot
Hi, thanks. This is a Hamburger piano from Germany :) this name is funny (at least for me) but the piano maker was called Karl Hamburger. Anyway, it is a great piano, I love it.
@@bylant Thanks for your answer Bylant, yes Karl Hamburger it’s funny for me too 😄. A funny name but a beautiful sound yeah. Have a nice week-end and a beautiful summer too. Bye Bylant ! 😊
Thank you and I wish you all the best as well!
awesome video 🙂
Great channel! Thanks.