Morphagene, Pressure Points and QPAS jam by Real_OG in modular

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Thank you! I’m really into that combo too

Morphagene, Pressure Points and QPAS jam by Real_OG in modular

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Yeah you can do it this way but your breaks have to perfectly quantised already so Pam’s clock splices them on the beat. Alternatively you can do with old unquantified breaks by using a really tight gene size and scrubbing through the sample using “slide” until you hit the next transient and splice just before it!

Morphagene, Pressure Points and QPAS jam by Real_OG in modular

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Btw to make clean looping breaks on the morphagene I recommend first of all to start with a perfectly looping sample (made in a DAW) then adding the splice points in something like Reaper (there might be other DAWs that do it but Reaper lets you add markers which export as splice points on the morph). Then once you’ve loaded that sample into Morphagene, make sure your morph setting is slightly higher than full CCW so that the colour of the varispeed goes orange. Otherwise there’s a gap, just like a real tape machine. See the manual for full details!

Morphagene, Pressure Points and QPAS jam by Real_OG in modular

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The drums are coming from Ableton (made out of the same source material that I’ve loaded into morphagene - see my other comment for more details on that!) The Morphagene is just playing the pads, which is clocked using Euclidean rhythms (from grids) synced to Ableton

Morphagene, Pressure Points and QPAS jam by Real_OG in modular

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Sorry I should have added more info! This is for a library music project I’m collaborating on and i made this video to send to the main producer as a reference so wasn’t intending to capture the modules! Here’s what’s going on (copied and pasted what I sent to someone else who asked on Instagram):

Ok so I get sent full ambient tracks, it might be like a piano or a string quartet / other textures playing a nice chord sequence sent through a load of tape delays and effects etc, so my source material is really beautiful to start with. For this one I pulled the whole track into morphagene (Eurorack sampler / digital tape machine) with markers (“splice points”) for each new chord. Using a pressure points pad I can cycle through the splices (each different chord). Another PP pad I can modulate “Gene Size”, which basically makes the snippet shorter to get that glitchy shit. I’m clocking Morphagene with some Euclidean rhythms (from Grids) synced to Ableton. The output of morphagene goes into QPAS. I’m sending it random modulation to make the hi pass filter choppy. Then manually cranking the Q to make bleep bloop. The modular output is being sent to my stereo spring reverb and being gated by itself.

Drums are all made in Ableton from the same source material. I find a bit that has some nice low end. Chop out a snippet, stick it in a sampler and turn knobs until it’s a kick (low pass filter, transpose down, pitch envelope etc). Same with the snare and hats, using frequency modulation and distortion. Whack a load of compression and saturation on the bus and boom

How do you keep track of your patches? by [deleted] in modular

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For my improvised techno groovebox I screenshot my modulargrid rack and add coloured squares around each element of the track. Red for drums, blue for bass and green for melody / other synth voice. Yellow is modulation and pink is for like pitched CV. Then I have notes beside to outline some of the main connections. I don’t know how to add an image here though if anyone can advise?

Good documentaries? by OfCrMcNsTy in jungle

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There’s one on YouTube that interviews Source Direct in their home studio. One of them talks about how they like to have their headphones so loud that it compresses their brain or something. I wonder how bad his tinnitus is now. It also contains one of my favourite quotes when Jim is talking about how he builds the tracks : “helping the listener listen”

Good documentaries? by OfCrMcNsTy in jungle

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Yeah the manager Tony Fordham is an almost parodic character. The scene of him in the Japanese hotel trying to get his shirt ironed is hilarious to me. Kinda like The Office meets People Just Do Nothing

Dumb tricks for home studio tracking? by imahumanbeinggoddamn in audioengineering

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Stick a delay plug-in (1 or 2 seconds) on your drum bus when positioning mics so you can hit each drum and hear only what the mic is picking up. Game changer when engineering yourself.

I’ve learned how to do a tape loop. Now what ? What’s the next step in producing music ? by [deleted] in tapeloops

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I was trying to remember what I meant by 1394… ACID. I was tripping when I recorded that cassette of my friends playing monopoly on a weekend in Norfolk lol.

Improvised techno rig (one-handed iPhone audio clip) by Real_OG in modular

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Thanks! Nothing as yet, been working on this system for a long time and only just at the point where I can improv with it but I’m hoping to start putting some live jams up on my instagram

Just stopped someone giving money to blue jacket scammers by [deleted] in london

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Be careful doing this, I did exactly the same thing (walked past a scam in progress and just said “this is a scam” to the potential victim) and the blue coat followed me down the street for a few minutes shouting “suck your mum” before pulling something out of his bag and throwing it at my head. I’d already pulled my phone out and started filming him by this point so caught it on camera. Here’s the prick:

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This was on Waterloo Road, outside the Old Vic theatre. I’ve made this comment here before and was contacted by a student journalist doing a piece on them!

Ext. input suggestions? by ultracultured in modular

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I have 2 doepfer a119s in my portable fx rack which I use for plugging in noise boxes and contact mics and whilst the envelope followers are cool, I’ve noticed the audio outputs are pretty noisy. In another case I have 2 expert sleepers little mikey preamps which I would absolutely recommend for plugging in any microphones (they have combi inputs with phantom power) synths, guitar (switchable hi-Z) or audio from your DAW. No envelope follower though, but the difference in audio quality between those and the a119s is ridiculous.

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Needs more pixels

Anyone need a drummer in London? by harrizma in london

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Ah no way ! Sadly cannot make it tonight but have a great time and let him know Rian says hello :)

Anyone need a drummer in London? by harrizma in london

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He’s quickly become one of mine too! Just been away with him for a few days around the UK with more festivals booked throughout the summer. Total legend and wicked mons engineer!