12 Composition Techniques in about 12 Minutes

[@boorchboorch]

this is by far the most valuable video i’ve seen about vcv. thanks a lot!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Glad it was helpful!

[@brandonpieplow9207]

Totally usable tricks here! I especially liked the quantized, mixed gate sequencer for generating complex melodies; that could get as random or as predictable as you want.

[@bleedingkansan]

~12 minutes introducing great ideas. Then 12 days needed for trying each one deeply 😂

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Have fun :)

[@Djisang]

Thank you for another great video, Omri!🙏

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ricksnowden2150]

A lot of ideas packed in here, plenty to try out. Thanks!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Cheers!

[@DagUTube]

Thanks!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thank you so much!

[@Exyo-qd1be]

mesmerized with the way u think about things !!!! thank you Omri x)

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Glad you liked it!!

[@DextersLab93]

Another fantastic video as always. Random notes per step was just what I needed, thank you!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Glad it was helpful!

[@DrReinerHutwelker]

Excellent, competent, creative, inspiring, and sympathetic - thank you so much, Omri!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@scottaugust]

Great Video. Thank you. Your courses are well worth watching. i have many of them and will get the new ones! Cheers.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Awesome, thank you!

[@000aleph]

Thanks for collecting these ideas in one spot, very helpful!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Glad it was helpful!

[@coco805]

Amazing demo!! 12 mins is so short, and each example was so clear and elegant.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks so much!

[@macintouche]

Good evening Omri All these possibilities with the sequencers are wonderful, it reminds me a lot of your extraordinary patch with the cvly collection. Thanks again for all this wonderful work.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Many thanks!!

[@heftydog]

I REALLY love vids like this! Anything that makes me bust out the pens and notebook to take patching later makes me excited! I really like that these are so general and widely applicable, and I especially love that you talked a little bit about the why and how to use the various techniques. More technique videos need to delve into the why as well as the how!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks so much!

[@NealSanche]

Wow, that is an amazing and inspiring list of tips. Thanks for putting that together.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@bruhman0114]

Wow, Omri. Allways something interesting and new! I have been having some of these ideas in my head but didnt know how to execute them. Well now i do! Thank you so much once again, we are all so very grateful of your hard work!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks so much!

[@bruhman0114]

@@OmriCohen-Musicbtw omri, could you consider making a parch from scratch focusing on complex oscillators? Preferrably the instruo Cs-l. The sound of it is just amazing but i find it quite hard to make it sound how i would want. Cheers!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

@@bruhman0114 Yes, that's a great idea!

[@tom.tfimus]

Such a great video with really nice ideas, already tried the S&H Harmony and loved it, thanks for sharing ur knowledge!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks so much!

[@lungaoson8374]

Really deep ... Thanks, Omri!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks!

[@gkswamy79]

Another set of killer ideas. Reminds me of Schulze-like compositions. Genius!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks!

[@Rednilsunwood]

About a week into learning modular in general as well as songwriting. Holy shit am I in over my head. It’s a good holy shit, but a big holy shit. Seems the more I learn the less I feel capable. Glad you’re around to help people get a handle on massive deep dives like this format can offer.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

I can definitely recommend taking it one step at a time, and trying to practice things without the pressure of having to end up with a finished track\song.

[@pb3662]

Great video - really well explained - awesome work!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thank you!

[@ionicamarian352]

Very inspiring! Thanks Omri!❤

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thank you!

[@GalantGoStudio]

As always .... Legend 🌹

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Cheers!

[@bricelory9534]

Lovely tricks! One I like to do is to mix a sequence with a very slow lfo so that the sequence moves up and down with a varying root note, sometimes it will also create little ornaments as the LFO causes the quantizer to shift notes. It can be fun dialing in the speed of the LFO or using another LFO to vary its speed as well.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

That's a great tip!

[@Kuchengesang]

Thanks for sharing

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Cheers!

[@damiengaucher6016]

Thanks so much for your ideas - as ever, inspiring and such a joy to listen to & learn from :) I have a question re. Harmony with Sample & Hold (8:08). I found that the technique you show works very well when the number of steps is an odd one, but as soon as I change to an even number of steps (e.g. 8 steps with some off in seq3) S&H will divide it by 2 and only play every other step. Any idea how to get around this? (I can duplicate the Sequencer, Attenuator & Equaliser on a /2 bpm, but it defeats the purpose of the method) Thanks!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks so much! The trick is really to have a different between the rhythms so you get more movement. You can use other divisions, or even a dedicated trigger sequencer that has a different length

[@damiengaucher6016]

@@OmriCohen-Music thanks! I’ll have a look into that :)

[@dillipphunbar7924]

Thankyou

[@JeremyWentworth]

great ideas Omri!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thank you!! 😊

[@joethompson5619]

Hi Omri, How did you customise the Bay module, the x2, /4 and Reset outputs please? Love your work by the way!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Hi! You just have to right click the ports and then enter the label :)

[@joethompson5619]

​@@OmriCohen-Music Thaank you so much Omri! What is the oscillator that you are triggering from Seq3 with the blue cable please Omri?

[@bakerbradleyj]

Harmony with S&H is BRILLIANT!

[@aerophylix4790]

Play with asr or analogue shift registers😊

[@AndrewAHayes]

I cant find the Venom Clock module in the Library, its driving me mad, can anyone help please? Also the patch at 3:24 has a blue cable going from the SEQ3 Trigger to somewhere that is off screen, can anyone tell me where that trigger is meant to go?

[@coco805]

It's not a clock module, Venom has a module that lets you pass named outputs to a panel neat and tidy. It's called Bay Output i think.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Yeah, it's the Bay module from Venom, which will 'teleport' signals. That way, I don't have cables going everywhere. The blue cable, by the way, is triggering the oscillator I have off screen.

[@AndrewAHayes]

@@coco805 Thankyou so much, this was driving me insane!

[@AndrewAHayes]

@@OmriCohen-Music Thanks!

[@josephgenc4324]

I see u get Dark Vcv panels in the view tab I was confusedo

[@jtekholm]

What is this "Run" module by Mindmeld? I can't seem to find it.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

That's the Patch Master set up with a button for the run function of the clock

[@jtekholm]

@@OmriCohen-Music Thank you :)

[@Frustratia]

Is the cookbook still available digitally?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Indeed :) omricohen.gumroad.com/l/modularcookbookvol1

[@mpingo91]

How do you set the delay to get such "bouncy" sequences?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Dotted 8th is all you need :)

[@mpingo91]

@@OmriCohen-Music Grazie, maestro! ❤👌

[@alb_reuel]

would love to know the oscillators being used

[@OmriCohen-Music]

I mainly used Palette, which is a Plaits clone, so it has a wide range of sounds.

[@alb_reuel]

@@OmriCohen-Music thank you

[@AlexRing-vt7ct]

Yessssssssssss😊❤

[@RandomMakingEncounters]

This is EXACTLY what I needed! Thank you! @bleedingkansan said it best! Time to power up and start plugging in!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Cheers!

[@lui6623]

Thanks for sharing