2hp - Arp (arpeggios ahoy!)

Video four in my #2hpTuesdays series is with the 2hp Arp module. With major, minor, sevenths, sus4, augmented, diminished chords types and more you're set for a tonne of musicality with the module. You can address the root note (CV transpose) the output, change chord type with CV and also reset the pattern/mode. Modes include, up, down, up/down and random across one or two octaves. There's a lot of fun to be had playing the module with an irregular/random pattern or with non steady clock rhythms so you step through arpeggio patterns in rhythm/sequence as opposed to just straight clocks. Good fun!
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[@VinnieLeeStudio]

The Arp is amazing, it can be triggered how ever you want, regular clock, irregular trigger sequences, and add some delay, beautiful!

[@DivKid]

absolutely, top bit of kit.

[@K0r0n1s]

Nice, you programmed your swt 16 to display your name :-)

[@DivKid]

They did that for me, took me a while to realise as someone else pointed it out before me.

[@markschweter6371]

@@DivKid Oh good, It wasn't just me who didn't notice that.

[@RobinRimbaudScanner]

What a powerful little module indeed, and love your expansion of using it with the ADDAC modules. Fine stuff as ever!

[@DivKid]

Yeah be totally free with it by using another quantiser. Much more fun to keep things musically rather than stepping between chromatic notes when you go major/minor etc.

[@jimkeen7674]

Nice. This was the 2hp module I was least interested in. I think you've changed my mind.

[@DivKid]

oh nice! My work here it done. haha.

[@chrisbignell6432]

I’ve had ARP since it first came out, fantastic module. Great video once again Ben!

[@DivKid]

Thanks Chris.

[@AndrewPRoberts]

Ah yes, the *AAHPP*

[@mindlessinterior]

SWT16 is spelling out D I V K I D, how cool

[@scottgodon-decoteau430]

And with this video, the last 2hp in one rack is filled. 🤘🤓🤘That patch at the send is so simple and totally killer. Those subtle drums added so much. I would have loved to hear a ghosted reverse cymbal hidden in there as well. But, i digress. Thanks for another awesome video.

[@DivKid]

Yeah that would have been good. I need to get one in a sample player.

[@NiamorH]

Using a shift register like the CGS734 theoretically you should also be able to store the arpege and play a chord. A manual gate could trigger a burst of at least 3 triggers to the 2hp Arp which would be stored to the ASR. The same manual gate would also trigger a slow attack enveloppe for a nice pad!

[@DivKid]

Yeah that's a great way to work. Using the 2HP Pluck, or Rings, or Elements (freeze the verb with a high voltage and knob up full) you could get a held tone too.

[@robertsyrett1992]

I totally gotta recreate this patch in Audulus. Great demo and fun patch idea!

[@DivKid]

Great cheers! Adulus looks like it's had a tonne of updates since I last looked.

[@housemachine509]

Lovely lovely

[@walrtbstudios5430]

This has just appeared on my wishlist. Funny that…

[@RobertMaxwellMediaCorp]

6:56 beautiful! I've been looking for a fairly small module that generates quantized sequences, but damn I didn't think I'd find one in 2HP!

[@TonydeKaro]

Yeah! Just got one! Thanks for the video, Ben!

[@DivKid]

cheers Tony, appreciate it!

[@SteveMaggioncalda]

absolute magic. thx!

[@AmericanAstroMonkey]

Really nice patch demo. So I just had to buy this today from London Modular. That's 2x 2 HP now with Hats the other week.

[@DivKid]

How are the hats? I don't have those yet.

[@sergelectric]

Nice way of controlling the arp... Thanks!

[@DivKid]

yeah good to try and get some performance into it.

[@boydw1]

A bit late to the party I know, but do you recall what you were using to generate the random triggers? Or what would you suggest?

[@DivKid]

Hi Boyd, can't remember to be honest. But random triggers ... I use my RND STEP module a lot. It produces CV and not triggers but you can use stepped CV on a trig/gate/clock input and just clock the source (trig in on RND STEP) with your main clock signal. Alternatives are actual random gate generating modules. Look for anything that has a probability control. Pamela's Workout new and pro variants have random skipping, lots of digital sequencers have it too. What do you sequence with? I also made a probability skipper out of an LFO and a DPW Zero 2 module in a video last year which was fun.

[@andypeimbert]

smooth video

[@VagPoop_]

great module up to 1:54

[@DivKid]

... and then it's all down hill from there?

[@gustavoelizondo2498]

you could even have two arps and have one at a slower rate modulating the root of the other and each one with different settings. BTW what is it sequencing in the beggining? It sounds great!

[@DivKid]

Yes you could, that would work really well. It's all the 2HP unit and each of those patches are just previews for what's to come. So those are explained in the video.

[@markschweter6371]

Planning on experimenting with the 2hp ARP and three S/H modules and a clocked switch to scan into the S/H's inputs to modulate chords into Chainsaw for background washes. Looking to the future... Which do you think is the most versitile or usable quantizer, the ADDAC207 or Instruo’s Harmonaig ? Other multi-output (polyphonic?) devices ?

[@DivKid]

That is the sort of patch I love! I've been playing with the new Tenderfoot quad quantiser and that's been great. Give that a look. Harmonaig is fantastic, but it's single input (then 4 intervals on the outs). So if you're wanting to hold multiple values from multiple sources you want a multi-input quantiser. The Shakmat Bard Quartet (I think that's the name) looks good too but I haven't tried that one. I like doing this sort of thing with RND STEP. I sample 3 values and quantise those, different trigger patterns change the triggering of the voices. But on RND STEP the unipolar out is always random (not sampled from the input) so I use that for tonal change. Holding voltages I sample from patterns/sequences etc but with a new random say filter setting per note.

[@markschweter6371]

@DivKid thank you for taking the time for the in-depth reply!👍

[@DivKid]

no problem, thanks for the comment and support.

[@markschweter6371]

@@DivKid And thank you for your continued reviews, even of modules I'm not interested in, always informative 👍and 🎼entertaining.🎶. But, as others have said, you're the biggest contributor to emptying my wallet! 😏😜😁

[@MartinDoudoroffLLC]

Impressive.

[@DivKid]

Nice one Martin.

[@joulsiegfried]

How did you make the pad sound? so which oscillator and how was it triggered? Great video!

[@DivKid]

I made this a good while ago, I can't remember to be honest. Sounds like Braids WTx4 mode through the Music Thing Modular Spring Reverb to my ears though.

[@aloncohen2841]

great vids. thank you :) any chance hearing the new 2hp vco?

[@DivKid]

Possibly, got another batch of 4 videos to come soon.

[@modularnepl900]

nice!

[@DivKid]

Cheers.

[@ironbirdshredder77]

What kind of Quantizer is that?

[@vandann]

Thanks for the video. Am i right, that you can extract the arp notes to midi via cv/root out, to get it into a daw for example? Thanks for answering.

[@DivKid]

Hello, cheers for the comment. You can use modules to take control voltages and turn those into MIDI notes. One thing to bare in mind is that with voltages the pitch and the gate elements are separate with MIDI they are one thing. A MIDI note has a note on and note off (the duration of the note) and the pitch value (velocity and other bits too but we can forget those for now). Think of it like a key press on a keyboard, you press a certain key (pitch) and hold it as long as you want (note on at start, note off as you lift your finger off). In modular, with control voltages pitch is just a held pitch, it's not attached to a gate to make a note start or end. That really is a wonderful thing for sequencing and playing with patterns. But for MIDI conversion you'll need a gate (the note on and off) to make a note happen. With something like a Befaco VCMC or CV Thing (videos on both from me copied below) you plug in the pitch (1v/oct is the standard for pitch, so if you see that they mean pitch) and the gate and you can set those modules up to convert that to a MIDI note. I realise that might have generated more questions than answers but I hope it helps. Feel free to come back with more questions. VCMC // kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHvSlJ15pL5jmdU CV Thing // kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4PLh6aAmtanrqM

[@scottrowan200]

How do you know what key or note your arp is playing? Any way to use Beat step pro to control it like your manual gates?

[@ChuckLeone]

Great demo of this module. I'm looking at this up pair with the 2hp Tune. Will you be doing any more #2hpTuesdays?

[@DivKid]

Hi Chuck, yes planning another batch at the minute.

[@ChuckLeone]

Nice, I'll keep an eye out for it. Cheers!

[@Tubilan1]

Is it possible to change the Speed of the Arp?

[@DivKid]

You put a clock into the arp so it will follow at what speed you send into it.

[@jc3drums916]

What are you using for random gate at 5:43?

[@DivKid]

not sure to be honest could have been a whole range of things. But I think it was the PICO RND from Erica Synths.

[@TheMightycoco]

There is only little missing. Like bigger knobs ;)

[@Trovarsi]

Great video! Which quantizer are you using? Thanks!

[@NiamorH]

ADDAC207

[@DivKid]

That's the one.

[@Fughetaboutit101]

Just got it today, haven't played with it yet. I have the two next to it also: DATA and FOLD. probably from watching your vids ;) $$$...

[@DBPawlan]

What sound source were you using?

[@DivKid]

in which bit? It changes.

[@DBPawlan]

Sorry...around 5:40. It sounds like possibly Rings, but with a modulated filter?

[@DivKid]

I think that's Tides into the WMD TRSHMSTR tight envelope to drive on the TRSH. So you get a nice little blip and pluck that changes quickly from driven to softer tones. If it wasn't Tides I remember it being a simple sound which is why I went for the drive in TRSHMSTR.

[@synkrotron]

Mmmmm... interesting... Could fill up the remaining HP with 2HP modules...

[@DivKid]

indeed