I totally understand. For me, I am in love with the Eurorack format and the flexibility of sending any type of OSC to any type filter run by any gate generator, with plenty of options to cross modulate. I rarely buy standalone. I also know a lot of producers who like to have one standalone synth per function that they can all chain together via MIDI. What is the right thing to buy (if anything needs to be bought at all) really depends on how you like to make music and what your studio looks like!

And more to come in the future :)

Quantised steps are available in the latest firmware when using Track&Hold feature! Hope that helps.

Thanks so much for your comment! It's great to hear that these more abstract videos are appreciated!

Wow, so interesting. Now I want to possibly read that book, but I don’t know if my brain would make as much clear sense as you did explaining and demonstrating this. Great job synthesizing this information (see what I did there 😂).

Happy to hear the video resonates with your practice! So I hope I get this right: The beginning of the gesture should be quantized, but not the rest of the CV movement that comes after, right? The Ephemere can quantize its signal, but it works the same as putting a quantizer after it. If you wanted that signal to start quantized on a specific note and then be smooth for the gestural movement, you need to patch the epheremere (or bitbox) into a module that can smooth the signal (aka integrate or glide it), MN Maths or TipTop 266 Source of Uncertainty can do that! I havent had the Ephemere for long. I think the Ephemere is good at what it does! But it is very much a one or two trick pony. If you already have a bitbox for recording CV, the Ephemere will not give you much more functionality (but make the process of recording a bit smoother), and I would rather looking into quantizers + logic modules. But let me know if I understood you right!

Thanks for the kind words! If you have 2 filters and some VCAs you can start doing similar things! I am definitely a fan of spectral-based patches and I have not seen them as much in Eurorack yet!

@@TheSoundConvergence that’s smart! I only have one filter but it is multimode so I can definitely explore a bit of it. Hadn’t thought about it honestly that much till Bastl Akido was released. Think it’s got a spectral envelope follower that had me interested.

And actually, how are you creating that gate pattern?

@@wilhelm_yells Hi! Thanks for the kind words. I will try to incorporate more patch diagrams in the future :) The gate pattern of the main synth is a "bouncing ball patch" (not sure if thats the official name): One looping envelope with its release time modulated by a second envelope. In the beginning the release time is short so many envelopes are triggered, the longer the release time becomes, less envelopes will be triggered. Make Noise Maths is an easy module to set this up with / I am actually explaining this gate sequence in more detail in my next video coming out end of the week :)

@@TheSoundConvergence fabulous! Yes have seen this patch long ago. I’ll try this again! Keep up the great work

Totally! Any joystick will give you tons of fine control over your patches! :)

Do you trig the Arbhar with the Joystick to?

@@banksideleopards2791 Yes! In the first patch, the Strike input of the Arbhar receives gate signals from the gate out of the Bard Quartett quantizer. I set up the quantizer to send a gate signal whenever it changes its note, but only when the joystick button is pressed at the same time. So when I move the joystick and have the joystick button pressed, Arbhar will be triggered via the quantizer. Does that help? Thanks for watching!

@@TheSoundConvergence Yep! Thank you

Good catch! Thank you for taking the time to reply. I can't believe I forgot to mention that in the video (gotta cross check the manual next time!). Totally agree: the constant upgrades for the Nerdseq are amazing - they should do newsletters as I keep forgetting to look! Thanks again for watching! :)

Hard to tell. It really depends what you want to use them for. Neither will replace proper techno drums, for example. Both modules play back samples so you if put in suitable samples, Arbhar will make textures that fit techno, and the Morphagene can do similar things as well. Neither works great with (bpm) clock input both both can be sent gate triggers into to trigger samples exactly on the beat or timings you want. That works.

@@TheSoundConvergence thank you

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Thank you for the suggestion! There is definitely much more to talk about than what's covered in this video. I recommend sticking with the Nerdseq for a while. The first few weeks/months I was still considering selling it because everything took so long to program, but once you learn the most important shortcuts, creating patterns becomes much more fluent and intuitive!

Thank you so much for the kind words :)

Thank you for the feedback, will try to show the full patches in the future!

I have a Morphagene, but I don't have an Arbhar. You did a great job clarifying their strengths and differences. Plus you present some nice Morphagene techniques.

Thank you for the kind words! :)

Totally, Arbhar is in regular mode (not follower mode) and the intensity is set to 0. In the patch a gate triggers 2 envelopes, the first envelope is controlling a VCA and with that the volume of my main synthesizer. The second envelope is set up to increase Arbhars intensity value once envelope 1 is falling and we can barely hear the synth anymore. So in the patch you will hear either main synth or Arbhar at a time. It is call and response because whenever the main synth is playing it is also recorded into the Arbhar (you can see the record button is on at those times), so when it is Arbhars time to play, it will repeat and granularize the synthesizer phrase just heard, thus call and response. Hope that helps!

Thank you for the kind words!

Glad to hear the video helped! Yeah, I would say Arbhar and Morphagene are quite different to Mojave and Beads as Mojave and Beads focus on granular live processing whereas I normally use Arbhar and Morphagene with pre-made samples. Mixing 6 samples into one granular cloud is what stands out on the Arbhar for me, whereas the Morphagene will give you a very different flavour of sample slicing compared to the other 3. I think it comes down to how big your Eurorack case is, much you love the granular sound and if you can justify having a third granular engine.

@@TheSoundConvergence yeah all great points for sure. I'm in the process of trying to put together a compact 64HP ambient system, so space is limited. Likely gonna grab a uBurst to accompany Morphagene to still get that granular flavor while maintaining a small footprint. So many ways of doing things! Thanks again for the reply and the great video.

Glad to hear that. Totally agree that the layout of all MN modules is just confusing, but they are so hands-on once you spend some time with them!