All of the sounds except the two obvious synth things "slow chords and percussive melody) are one sort of "pinging" or another, mostly analog low pass gates. Turn up your resonance so it's on the edge of self-oscillating, send a tiny impulse through, and you'll get similar sounds from VST ones as well. Pinged a frequency shifter too, but didn't include pinging the flanger too which is always fun, but my flanger is in the left-most box which I didn't include this time or even turn on.
Re: Sort of an electric forest
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 10:35 am
by Ashley
This sounds great, D.bill. Another great video from you. It looks and sounds complex probably too much for my brain in knowing how you make all this. Anyway it is awesome and I really like it, well done!
Re: Sort of an electric forest
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:49 pm
by Heigen5
It's like an awakening morning in the jungle kind of a tune, with the birds etc. Deep sounds, with lots of pleasant bits and pops.
By the way: do you ever unplug all the wires and start from the scratch? Enjoyed your piece, nice!
Re: Sort of an electric forest
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 8:14 pm
by DollarBill
Ashley wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 10:35 am
This sounds great, D.bill. Another great video from you. It looks and sounds complex probably too much for my brain in knowing how you make all this. Anyway it is awesome and I really like it, well done!
Thanks so much and cheerrs! In many ways these "patches" get built up just like a multitrack song, one thing at a time, go back and adjust as things come together. It does get weird following the cables to remember what was going where when somethings off, but it's fun doing it all physically instead of in software - less "control" at times, but that's part of the fun. With this one every time I let it run it would never do the same thing twice.
Re: Sort of an electric forest
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 8:19 pm
by DollarBill
Heigen5 wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:49 pm
It's like an awakening morning in the jungle kind of a tune, with the birds etc. Deep sounds, with lots of pleasant bits and pops.
By the way: do you ever unplug all the wires and start from the scratch? Enjoyed your piece, nice!
Thanks, and YES, unplugging it all is like therapy - getting back to a blank slate. Very few modules that I have have a "save/load" function, and those that do I mostly ignore that part of it. Some people who concentrate on one style like the techno people who perform live will have most of it locked in and use modules that can save and use presets to perform and memorization to quickly get sounds where they need to be for each song, but I don't want to stick to one thing. The main "purpose" of my mess of hardware isn't seen so often - when doing an actual multitrack song I'll more carefully craft a single sound and record one element at a time to fit in with the guitars/drums/singing etc - but that doesn't make for fun vids.
Heigen5 wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:49 pm
It's like an awakening morning in the jungle kind of a tune, with the birds etc. Deep sounds, with lots of pleasant bits and pops.
By the way: do you ever unplug all the wires and start from the scratch? Enjoyed your piece, nice!
Thanks, and YES, unplugging it all is like therapy - getting back to a blank slate. Very few modules that I have have a "save/load" function, and those that do I mostly ignore that part of it. Some people who concentrate on one style like the techno people who perform live will have most of it locked in and use modules that can save and use presets to perform and memorization to quickly get sounds where they need to be for each song, but I don't want to stick to one thing. The main "purpose" of my mess of hardware isn't seen so often - when doing an actual multitrack song I'll more carefully craft a single sound and record one element at a time to fit in with the guitars/drums/singing etc - but that doesn't make for fun vids.
In the future one should make a hardware and software hybrid so you'd use hardware and control everything via a software.
Heigen5 wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:49 pm
It's like an awakening morning in the jungle kind of a tune, with the birds etc. Deep sounds, with lots of pleasant bits and pops.
By the way: do you ever unplug all the wires and start from the scratch? Enjoyed your piece, nice!
Thanks, and YES, unplugging it all is like therapy - getting back to a blank slate. Very few modules that I have have a "save/load" function, and those that do I mostly ignore that part of it. Some people who concentrate on one style like the techno people who perform live will have most of it locked in and use modules that can save and use presets to perform and memorization to quickly get sounds where they need to be for each song, but I don't want to stick to one thing. The main "purpose" of my mess of hardware isn't seen so often - when doing an actual multitrack song I'll more carefully craft a single sound and record one element at a time to fit in with the guitars/drums/singing etc - but that doesn't make for fun vids.
In the future one should make a hardware and software hybrid so you'd use hardware and control everything via a software.
There are solutions - I haven't found one that does quite exactly what I want to invest in, as the most popular one has less focus on "control hardware with your daw/midi" and more "convert audio from hardware to USB as we assume you don't have an audio interface" which I do. Right now I can send two mono note signals and gates to a keyboard and a moog unit that can convert midi to elect signals like I need, and a few things that can do the reverse (which I need less) so I can multitrack synced if I record 1-2 lines at a time, but it's still a work in progress.
