Patch #1 is beautiful

Anthem-onal.

I haven't read all of the comments, but early on you say something like "one head (#4) is engaged". Until today I thought that's what the 4 pushbuttons are for, but now I know that they are for sending heads selectively to the feedback circuit. AFAIK only the 4 knobs control the "engagement" of each dTape head. At any rate, thanks for the video. I've had my Magneto for years but never really dove into it until today. I still don't completely understand it, but I'm a lot closer to doing so than before.

Late to the game but would like to see a video on reverb with synths in general. With guitar it's sort of some basic settings that makes sense, but as synths are so many different sounds, how do people find the better settings? I do eurorack and have both pedals and reverb modules and get pretty good results, but stacking reverbs is something I don't get. Or should I get it?

Where can we get the sheet music?

Love the composition at the end ❤. It's an otherworldly emotion.

Very nice Sound ❤

I have the DFAM and MOTHER-32. I think SUBHARMONICON might need to be next... Then possibly LABYRINTH?

Good job! I was super excited when I got mine. Pulled it out over a weekend and put it back into the box :(. I will pull it back out soon but it's a beast to tame...

Hey, what's the tuning issue you were facing here? I think I may be facing a similar issue but not sure if it's a hardware issue or expected behaviour? Thanks

"He might judge you" gave me a good chuckle. Really nice composition.

All I have to say is...Merle Hazard's Gimme Some of That Ol' Atonal Music is really the best thing that ever came from atonality. I would argue that evolution in music is essentially destructive. They abandoned counterpoint almost entirely because it boxed you into a corner where you have to compete with Bach. They abandoned the structures of classical to get away from Mozart, etc etc. Creativity requires space, and getting restricted to the same rules your predecessors followed means you'll be making their music all over again. With the rise of expressionism in art, some world wars, and trying to get away from the most insanely high level execution in music, I could see how we got to 12 tone rows. As for people who like it? Masochists. I can pretend I like Free Jazz for about 3 minutes and that's my limit. That said, I was reading CPE Bach's book the other day, and he was casually introducing 3/4 chords. We would never be able to deal with that today. Maybe all harmony is a big lie. Actually pretty cool piece at the end! And Van Halen for the jump!

Interesting and I liked your composition at the end; will have a go...

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Wonderful Ryan. Got me disappearing down the rabbit hole .... Thanks.

very nice patch, love that moog sound

great video and really like that first patch you did, lovely sound. I just got a 3 set moog sound studio so really looking forward to learning this and getting some jams going with it. I'm being pulled towards semi modular so don't mind the challenge. I just tamed the Solar 42, my first synth, people said I'm crazy getting that as a first synth.

Wow

Ok, adding the pulse width modulator was fantastic. No idea what I would use it on, but that's got some drama. Really interesting the difference between 1 and 7hz, and there are kind of fascinating relationships between the speed of the pulse, the width of the pulse, and the tone produced. Gives me something to think about. Thanks for showing!

after the 3 min mark, you have a synth pad sound, what are you using to create that, and how is it looping?

That was pretty informative. While I know the basics just from knowing synths, this had a lot of stuff about modular I didn't know. Thanks! One question this brought up, but...if I set an LFO to something like 1hz and modulate it with an audible wave, then it becomes that note with some weird beating, but I'm wondering what happens if we do that with an LFO that is a square wave? FM enthusiasts want to know!

I just liked and subscribed.. I understand how INFINITE works in LOOP mode (disables the record head to continuously loop..) ..but I am still confused about how the INFINITE button works when in SAMPLE mode..? ..thank you for explaining in advanced..

Thanks for the the informative video...I need all the Taiga tips I can get at this time. I've resisted the temptation of any form of modular (until now), due to my fear that I would be sidelined from my compositional 'workflow' with too much 'noodling'. I finally caved in to buying a Taiga a few days ago thinking that it would be a fun & compact thing to do on the side with my old sampler. Oh well, that didn't last long...it's now a fully integrated piece of my setup. Guess I will be doing a bit more 'noodling' after all. The good thing is that there's a surprising amount of stuff that can be done on this little box alone. Just running it through the Eventide Space is quite an experience. ...There goes my 'workflow' lol.

Do you know if I can use this with midi synths? Like pick a synth on logic and run it through this?

Very useful - thanks Ryan.

OK so this now is my go to video on getting to grips with it all. I will be rewinding with joy…..🤩 Many Thanks Ryan.

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Nice, concise explanations. You could get a whole series out of this. Would be pretty cool to get people from this all the way to...a generative setup or something wild.

Firstly thanks for posting your videos. The one about Arvo Part was great as he is an influence, as well as Britten. Of course there are many others that you have posted as well. I have been trying to get my head around Modular Synthesis and, for me at least, a real struggle to get to grips with it as a rank beginner due to the technical language it embraces. As you know there are many tutorials “for beginners” but in nearly all of them that I’ve seen there is the assumption that the viewer has a grasp of even the most basic fundamentals which would defeat the idea of a beginner video. For example I teach drums and If I stated talking about subdividing the eighth notes on the hi-hat into sixteenths and suddenly introduce an alternative way to play it by splitting that subdivision between the HH and snare whilst ghosting the notes and bringing your hand over to play the snare on the 2 and 4 It would just confuse the hell out of the student even though this is a basic and common approach to playing drums. If you could nail that “real 101 beginner” approach to learning VCV rack then that would be just pure gold to literally thousands of interested people. With all due respect to those who really know their stuff, and there are several, in the modular synthesis area they sadly still miss the basic gift of imparting their wisdom to the uninitiated embryonic student. Just my pennies worth. 🙏

There's the jump around cut I've been waiting for. I could go for some vcv rack videos, personally. Modular isn't super my thing, but it's partly because of how expansive the tools are. Would be cool to see some software setups.

Checking VCV just right now. Thank you alot 🫀🫀🫀

Get a korg wavestate for some real power and wave sequencing

Hey! That was a very good demo of Magneto. Bravo!

I subscribed to your channel at 1.79k, I feel special. Good review view. Just enough talking. Magneto sounds cool. Where would we be without Echo machines.

Alright, but who is Amber Elm ? Nice ambiances and atmospheres in what I have heard so far. I, too, am a big fan of Moog’s Subharmonicon. I started a small YT channel with a similar scope myself, nearly two years ago, when I first dipped my toes in Modular synthesis (I used to be more of a stage musician). This came as a self-assigned personal project that I focused on in order to fill up a year-long bed-ridden recovery process I had to go through after a serious medical accident in 2020. As this was about electronic music and given that, as a dad, I am contractually obliged to reach a yearly quota of dad jokes, I named the whole project “my electro-therapy”. 🤡 But my YT channel is just pretty pictures with synth music, with none of the interesting insight you provide here from a “back-stage” perspective. I will be happy to hear some more as you post. See ya !

sold!

Beauty pedal

Yes! The deficit of too much! I’m fortunate enough to have been able to get a lot of gear. But I’ve been buying based on potential use cases more than actual ones. (Long story as to why that is so.) For a number of reasons, I’ve limited (not eliminated though) purchases so I can focus on what I have, not what could be. Speaking of…are you ever going to do another magneto video? 🙂

The piano improv is wonderful.

Hello you... I came across your channel by chance and am happy to have found your videos. They inspire me and give me new ideas for my music. You explain things very pleasantly and your film recordings are great. You have my subscription and I am looking forward to new relaxed videos, especially in the ambient area. Greetings from Germany

u r too close to camera

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If good food is something like noodles is a clue how I say moog, and I won't change. One synth? Mc707, safe swiss army knife, have you seen the rear panel? guitar pedals, recording samples, audio usb, and the interface is as deep as your intelligence allows. As close to perfect as this reality allows(minus the lack of fave presets).

subharmonicon is pretty awesome for bass lines (too)

Most gear can accomplish the same sound if you have the abilities and understanding

Woah!!

This beat is so relaxing and transcending

I think you sold me the subharmonicon. I have another 32 that I like for ambient stuff and this compliment better the sounds than the DFAM. I’ll buy a classic synth drum in the future

Is there a “spill over” function for texture modes when switching between the three settings? And is there a way to get it back to factory reset ?

Beautiful !