032//An Angel Falls - a beautiful ambient Eurorack patch using 2x Moog Mother 32

[@ShrinkRayGaming]

I can't believe I haven't taken the time to comment on your videos. I've been watching for months, most recently the Melodic Patches playlist as background to my work day. Thank you for having made these. This one in particular is beyond beautiful.

[@AlastairWilsonMusic]

Glad to hear it and thank you! This one is definitely one of my favourites as well :)

[@NoisyLittleBugger]

Alastair, I'm really glad that I found your channel. You have some beautiful things happening here, and it's a real pleasure to listen to your creations. You have also inspired me to break out my long-neglected Mother32 and some guitar pedals to start experimenting with a more open mind. It has been great so far. Thanks again and more power to you.

[@AlastairWilsonMusic]

It's heartwarming to read your comment, thank you! I wish you luck and fun with your M32, some good pedals can really take it to another level.

[@jamesherndon8066]

Your vids make me salivate over purchasing the mother 32, dfam, and subharmonicon! I have been listening with your vids on shuffle while I prepare environmental science lectures for a community college. Unfortunately I am not making much while putting in a lot of time but hopefully by some fate I can afford this semimodular setup. If I ever have spare time, I hope to have mastered vcv or puredata and integrate it with these lovely beasts for generative patches. Thanks for sharing these!

[@AlastairWilsonMusic]

VCV rack is a great way to go! Keep checking ebay, modulargrid market, and buy/sell/trade facebook groups - it'll save you a ton when you decide to take the plunge.

[@jamesherndon8066]

Alastair Wilson I also live in The Northern Mariana Islands and threw some serious cash into some other goodies. I’m hoping to go to the Tokyo modular synth fest. By the time I get there maybe I can have enough saved to take the plunge.

[@jamesherndon8066]

Also have you considered turning your stuff into like 2 hour radio show type of thing. I bet a small community station would be into syndicating.

[@AlastairWilsonMusic]

There’s an internet radio station called Radio Mothership which occasionally plays my tracks (Friday nights I believe), but I haven’t looked into radio more than that. Check it out!

[@I--AstroPirate--I]

Vos musiques sont vraiment excellentes. Merci . Your music is really excellent. Thank you . 👍👍

[@markb9419]

Damn, why does this music made by machines sound more human than some music made by humans? Superb stuff

[@eppie899]

because a human made the machine make the music

[@eddraper]

Love the slowly moving rise and fall... Beautiful.

[@Skimaskkass]

I just found your channel. This stuff is really helping me have some peace alongside my life.

[@AlastairWilsonMusic]

I'm glad to hear that! Just FYI, if you want me to make anything - a particular mood, for example - feel free to send me a facebook message about it. There's a link in the description. Several of my videos have been requests and I'm happy to do something for you too if you like.

[@Skimaskkass]

i will consider that, thank you.

[@OneMinuteAge]

Simply a magical performance - wonderful!!!!! All this harmonic ambient sounds.... I'm floating away....

[@InvertedPopesMusic]

Oh Man loving that blown organ sound (well thats what it sounds like to me) Nicely recorded to. Another masterclass in modular.

[@AlastairWilsonMusic]

Thank you! There are some amazing timbres hiding in this setup, especially with the Eventide pedals I have. I've been exploring them more recently and hopefully it'll show in my next few videos.

[@njdpdv]

SPEECHLESS. Very nice. All of your works!

[@BenA718]

Stellar piece. Ambient but highly musical.

[@agerven]

Beautiful soundtrack as result! What I like especially is that there are occasional moments in which each of the elements (bass, chords and plucked notes) comes to the foreground individually. What amazes me is how you get this beautiful result with so much randomization going on. Great work, thank you.

[@TheSilentCartgraph3r]

You do extremely advanced things with the Mother-32. It will be cool to see the things you do with more advanced eurorack setups as time goes by!

[@AlastairWilsonMusic]

I'm sticking to my current one (www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/617560) until I can afford to expand more but rest assured I'm going to squeeze it dry for patches! Hopefully in 5 years I'll be making self-gen patches with a wall of modular...

[@xor-gate]

If you know your equipment in and out you can squeeze the most out of it. I love your style! It doesn't mean when you have more equipment you create better patches. But Colin Benders has a wall of patched electronic music: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5LMlmaXbJ2do9E

[@AlastairWilsonMusic]

Jerry - I'd love to have a wall of Eurorack because then I can do more complex self-gen patches; complex 1-shots, slow morphing through a huge range of timbres, cleaner mix (complex background elements heavily EQd and compressed while important shifting melodies are in front)... I think my patches get quite repetitive and so are better as background music, but with more modules I can turn them into tracks to actually listen to rather than put on in the background!

[@DivKid]

enjoyed the music, nice one.

[@YannGuillermou]

Great patch! Love how you dealt with harmony

[@AlastairWilsonMusic]

I still have a Harmonàig on the wishlist for harmony, with a Doepfer quad oscillator, because of your 'rare signs' video! I absolutely love the harmonies still.

[@MartinJunius]

Great sounds.

[@enkiduXo]

Beautiful work, man

[@VictorSteiner]

Just watched your patch link ... wow ... need a few days to wrap my head around it without having the modules :D

[@AlastairWilsonMusic]

Ha! I wrote all the important info down in the description, the patch diagram is only really for if you want to copy it exactly :) don't worry about it!

[@xor-gate]

Nice jammin again!

[@girlinagale]

I love this, similar to an AnnAnnie modular piece. But since you announced the next tutorial on how to make a 64 step sequence with two Mother 32's I'm on tenterhooks.

[@Ionbreathflow]

Sounds great out of my car 👍🌌

[@johnnythunder3756]

Really nice track here...wondering if you could explain how you’ve sequenced this? I always thought the M32 had very limited sequencing capabilities but you’ve somehow been able to create beautiful, floating random melodies that sound ‘off the grid’. Is this done through an external sequencer or the M32...? Any info would be appreciated.

[@AlastairWilsonMusic]

There are already some patch notes in the description that talk about the sequencing, but in summary: yes, it's all sequenced on the M32s. The sequencers on their own were fairly limited although honestly pretty good ('were' because the new firmware has improved them quite a lot), but with the patch points for clocking, resetting, holding steps, and starting/stopping, you can get some pretty varied melodies out of them. I recommend you check the description for a bit more detail on this exact patch. Always happy to give more info if you have more questions.

[@xorthontech]

Beautiful! Where does the patch cable from Veils output #3 go? Possibly to a delay unit?

[@AlastairWilsonMusic]

Yep! Any cables which only have one end connected to the patch are output cables to the effect pedals.

[@xorthontech]

Ok that helps alot. I noticed several of them o different patches. Thank you for sharing. It gives me ideas.

[@VictorSteiner]

I really really love your musical style so a 2nd mother would have been the way to go but I just ordered a DFAM. I will see if I will hate myself to not have 2 assignable outputs for example ;) But I love the DFAMs grit. Will see. Do you plan to expand your rack with another Moog?

[@AlastairWilsonMusic]

As you might know from previous videos I did have a DFAM, but I sold it - great for tweaking live but that's not really my style! I love having 2 M32s for a few reasons: having 2 Assign outputs (great for monosynth stuff because one can output mod wheel and one can output velocity), having 2 oscillators, having 2 envelopes (1 for filter, 1 for volume, for example), having 2 filters (so I can then make bandpass and notch filters out of them)... I'm not sure I'll get a third M32 because I don't really need one - I have all the basic features for my setup at the moment - but the subharmonicon is certainly tempting ;)

[@BarafuAlbino]

Ahh, clipping! Clipping everywhere! I hate clipping!