Great video, thanks for making it!

Thank you, Mark! Took me a couple of weeks (using Ableton 12 Lite, Behringer interface) & a lot of tweaking but this works 100%. My settings on Ableton not exactly like what you describe but works perfectly. I've been wanting to do Frippertronics for years, tonight everything finally clicked. Inputting with guitar, Chapman Stick, fretless bass, both plucked & Ebow. Thanks again so much. I owe you a pint or two, mate!

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Great comparison! I think Ether has the most "lush" sounds. It's definitely my favorite, but the others are so cheap that I just might have to pick them all up eventually.

very interesting display of your journey - was a pleasure to watch

Great video, very inspiring to hear your journey with music gear. Also good to hear that you sell gear you don't use/gel with to avoid GAS. Just a quick correction at 14:36 where you talk about the Microfreak filter. It does have an analogue filter, but its just shared across all four voices in paraphonic mode i.e. if you press one key whilst holding another and there is a filter envelope it will retrigger it. The Minifreak solves this by having a filter for each of the voices if you need true polyphony.

Great technique and video a bit like the soma cosmos pedal, going to try this in ableton as a template 😊

Had your channel on while building modules, listening to your audio recordings, and up pops your modular, bridging two of my loves in one go! Instant subscribe!

Very informative! Thanks. So I guess, I have another audio interface with my RC 500.

Hi, a really interesting story, and i made a few of the same choices. One question i do have is about resale and where you found the best place to sell your gear? My journey has left me with a few bits of kit that are just gathering dust as i didn't quite gell with them

Instant subscriber, I love the way you describe how devices work, and the visuals help a lot! I’ve also gone through multiple devices trying to find my ideal DAWless setup, and I’m really digging the Synthstrom Deluge for looping, sequencing and drums. I mostly use keyboards, so the desktop design really works for me. This pedal is a great piece of kit though, cheers!

As someone who started off "dawless" in the 90s I moved from that to partial DAW then to fully computer based. Due to space it was easier to work from a laptop and still be creative. I now run a hardware set up sequenced from the DAW with fx and mixing done in Abe and it will never change. It's 100% easier to sequence and mix on a DAW....100%. It's more rewarding to create sounds with hardware. Don't do things the hard way just to prove a point, folks. You are setting yourself back years trying to get comfortable with an environment that probably will never be compatible with your workflow.

The Polyend is a midi beast. did you use the midi on your modular?

Hmmm, this is a ne idea to me. I'm pretty sure I've got a spare guitar pickup in a box lying around, might have to dig it out and experiment. I did enjoy the outro track!

I found an easy way to do this with a single Zoom MS70CDR stompbox pedal ($140). I use the long Delay model, set to 4 seconds, with its feedback turned all the way up, and it’s “trails” activated, so the delays continue when you click the effect off. Placed before that in the Zoom’s effect chain, I put a SlowAttackDelay model. This one I set to a slow volume swell, with a medium amount of repeats and a medium amount of feedback, and a bit of it’s built in modulation. Then I play a length of passage with the Long Delay switched on, until I get the loop I want, then I just switch the Long Delay effect off and keep playing over it as the trails continue. The trails of the ambient loop on the Long Delay will gradually fade out, so when it gets low enough in volume, I just switch it back on and start recording my next loop passage, then I switch that off and continue playing over it… repeating that process as long as I want. You can add other effects into this virtual chain, up to 6 effects, so I usually place some ambient reverb in between the slow attack delay and the looping delay. I believe Fripp used between 6 and 8 second delay times, but in my experience, 4 seconds is just long enough. For my loop passages, I just use single notes that layer into chords as I add more, like you did at 33:00

The mirror makes you great.

Thanks, I’m really enjoying your videos but where did your last go? I bookmarked it but hadn’t gotten around to watching and was looking forward to it.

I love the Microfreak also! first synths I bought was the model cycles and the microfreak. Cycles is long gone but I still have the Microfreak and still love it.

Nice ❤

El Capistan is a great tool for this (as you mention). The Vongon Polyphrase has 22 seconds and is very handy as well (this pedal has 2 delay lines and allows for scrubbing the memory!).

A lot of what you said is relatable. It helps to hear you talk about your struggles and your solutions, so thank you for sharing!

Beautiful Video of your journey 🙂 I am at the same point, to come „out of the box“ and was buying my first hardware synth. Now I am looking for a good sampler with good sequencer and will try out the smpltrek by sonicware 🙂

Great presentation. Really enjoyed it. I am mostly guitar based with vsts in GarageBand and I'm going to try a couple of small hardware pieces to learn synths. I find the synth vsts to just be too much information. I want to get Hands-On. Looking at the Donner b1 because I love that 303 sound and the Roland S-1. Those and a midi controller and I'm looking forward to the new year!

The first time I was able to set up such a system it was with a Line6 Pod v2.0 (the old red kidney bean Pod) into FL Studio. I don't actually recall where the delay was, but I'm about 80% certain it was in the Pod.

Ellotronix XL - Free Tape Loop (Frippertronics) VST Plugin

Oh yeah, I made blimp myself too XD hat a bad idea it was.... lol But I still have not given up and actually making another one :)

The Chase Bliss Habit pedal is awesome for Frippertronics

I have two rc 600s and goal is/was to play back my 4 piece band into separate channels...maybe midi them together to start simultaneously on two rc 600s

This is very useful information as I was planning to go on much the same gear progression. I currently have the Roland R0-5 (similar to R07 really) and was thinking to upgrade to the F3 plus the bendy tripod thing. If it works for you it shoudl work for me as I want to do a very similar thing i.e. record ambiences for musical purposes. I Love the tape-cut up stuff btw, would love to hear more of your early work <3

I like yor approach of recycling things and keeping it simple. I have a bit more gear than you do but only stuff that serves a purpose, like yourself I recently sold off everything I was no longer using or had moved on from. I have the Minifreak (the next synth up from the Microfreak) because it is such a good all-round synth and gives you huge bang for your buck. Otherwise just a few Volcas a sampler and Ableton.

Great talk and video..... I also like the mirror idea, very good 👍

You can do this on the Strymon El Capistan sound on sound function. It’s a fantastic tool. I have a Sustainiac pick up and so you can swell in infinite notes with a volume pedal. Pick a chord and keep swelling individual notes of that chord over a 30 second loop. The tape age and wow and flutter knobs can be adjusted to control the degradation. I love the off the cuff originality of it. Highly recommended if you want to do this but don’t have the patience to play with real tape machines

Tthe tape deck must have 3 heads so you can monitor the recorded signal. I've just nearly done my back in lugging the other A77 in to have its picture taken with the 'working' one, only to realise I can't upload it here! You can get a Revox for much less than you said - £400, but it will need work at that price. The hard bit is maintenence - there are cheaper hobbies! Thx for the vid.

Liked & Subbed.Got my 1st Akai Sound on sound reel to reel in 1972.I could smell the motor,when I started typing.Played with a High-school friend for over 50 years.We went to 4-Tracks,then DAWs.Had the Gibson Digital Echoplex.That was Amazing,you could MIDI Sync it with a drum machine.Lost what you recorded when you turned it off though.Then the RC-50,300 and now have the RC-600.I'm going to set up a patch like you showed. You put a Lot of work into this video. Definely Appreciated. GoodTimes....👍👍

Beautiful music, thank you! I could not find you on Apple music.

Wow very cool,thank you

Love your presentation style.

Nice setting

Beautiful video and amazing concept !!!

You can also enable the send on the return track (right click greyed out A) and route the return back into itself. Saves a track.

Really helpful and much appreciated! Thanks for clearly showing how to set this up in Ableton. It was very clear and easy to replicate.

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The delay on frippertronics loops as seen on the albums god save the queen/under heavy manners & Let the power fall were much shorter than yours.

Hah! The "Tape, Delay, Loop"! Poignant and cheeky, brilliant set addition!

Thank you! This was informative and very inspiring. I am following your Bandcamp posts, too. Keep up the great work👍

Hi! Nice channel. The frippertronic video is very well done. Here I have some complaints about Spitfire Audio / Spitfire LABS. As you surely know, LABS+ has recently shifted towards a subscription model for many new instrument updates, which I find quite disappointing (since LABS was originally known for being completely free!). That said, I agree with you that Trumpet Fields is perhaps the only LABS instrument truly worth downloading. If the goal is to access decent free virtual instrument sources, aside from the mentioned Decent Sampler, there are many sample libraries that offer great instruments as free demos for Kontakt. Unfortunately, most of these free instruments require the paid version of Kontakt, which can be frustrating. Native Instruments has always been somewhat ambiguous about the limitations between the free and paid versions of Kontakt. Sorry for the rant! On a more positive note, I believe Emergence is one of the most powerful granular synths available. I highly recommend the paid version - it's very affordable and absolutely worth every penny! Thanks, Giorgio (SOLYARIS MUSIC)

brilliant use of old school visuals. very well done, thanks! btw, have you tried using just the Valhalla digital delay VST? nice outro as well.

Thank you, Mark, very interesting - I love the whole Frippertronic / ambient type of music and sound. I did go through my various delay plugins and found that the Valhalla Delay has a maximum 20 second delay time, which is nice, whereas all the others are either 1, 5, or 8 seconds. I use Cubase Pro 14 as my DAW, but there doesn't seem to be a way to create the feedback loop you demonstrated in Ableton. I think Cubase has some built-in protection against tracks feeding back into themselves, but maybe someone else here knows how to get around that without constantly having to bounce out loops to audio tracks. Anyway, great info, as always, and all the best to you from here 🙂