Becoming One With the Knobula Poly Cinematic Oscillator

The Poly Cinematic by Knobula is a digital 8-voice polyphonic synthesizer voice for your Eurorack system. Complete with built-in VCA, envelope generator, filter, and reverb. In this video, we'll walk through how it works and then play two full performances featuring the module.
Gear in this video:
Knobula Poly Cinematic Oscillator: bit.ly/2XfaRhm
Synthstrom Deluge: synthstrom.com/product/deluge/
Elektron Octatrack: bit.ly/3v8jVB9
Noise Engineering Manis Iteritas: bit.ly/3rMioz0
Mutable Instruments Braids: bit.ly/3sLwL5o
Qu-Bit Surface: bit.ly/pc_surface
Mutable Instrument Blades: bit.ly/3xw9nMT
Make Noise Mimeophon:bit.ly/3yYFyW5
Qu-Bit Data Bender: bit.ly/pc_data_bender
Glow cables by Mod Bang: patchwerks.com/search?type=pr...
00:00 walkthrough
04:02 performance 01
15:18 performance 02
This is the channel for all of the modular experiments too weird to go on the Red Means Recording main channel. For regular Red Means Recording go to / redmeansrecording .
For all music and other links, go here: rmr.media/findme

[@MonitusMusic]

It is a pleasure to see you actively using the Deluge. You look super confident on its live-performance usage. Love the music

[@tekton1229]

The fact that you are able to excel at the artform of music using so many different approaches through different gear is astonishing to watch. Another great performance!!!

[@KakoGuzmanMusic]

This is so insanely good. Came here to hear the Poly Cinematic and now I also want a Deluge! Amazing track, regardless of what's being used.

[@dreamlogic1563]

It had me at „easy Blade Runner Sounds“ :)

[@h2o1969]

Thanks, I have been liking this type of "demo" of an item. Experiencing it in operation, with some explanation of what is happening. Thanks for the content.

[@vaaalsongs4867]

It's crazy how much it does and how useful it is in such small format.

[@FatSynthDude]

Sometimes KZbin's algorithms are stupid as hell, but this time they certainly picked a winner. This was a recommended video while I was looking for information on the Poly Hector. The Poly Cinematic is a much better fit for what I'm trying to do, so thanks for magically appearing in my list and making me buy one!

[@RedMeansRecordingModular]

Hell yeah

[@sems]

Truly brilliant! Such a journey 🥺

[@omapots]

great performance! :D

[@redsquares]

Amazing performances, can't believe i missed these before! Congrats

[@profdazzle]

Loving the music! Much class, so interest

[@thesnipecatcher116]

So good!

[@safestackin]

nice well played

[@BennyDeez1]

Both the Poly Cin and the Poly Effects Hector are in the mail on their way for the passed couple of weeks.. Needless to say, this video just made that wait even more difficult ;) Can't wait and excellent vid Jeremy, as always!!

[@Nick-kb6jd]

So Good!!

[@Ambientnauts]

What a journey man. Subscribed.

[@unstatic_electronics]

Killer performance 👏👌 !

[@unstatic_electronics]

Is the deluge doing all cv or do you have other source of modulation ?

[@TheNimasan]

now i know why i wan't the poly cinematic. it sounds absolutely fantastic! lovely jam!!

[@Probbie]

Wow, that's amazing 👏👏👏

[@jonaseggen2230]

Three module challenge: Knobula, a cv to midi module (expert sleepers or?), Pamela's new workout. Anyway, perfect to come home to after a long day. Thank you

[@latejuly432]

This is lovely! I appreciate the ambient channel because each new venture feels like an EP, and since there is no talking you can stay entirely for the music and it feels less like a review or technical video. Not that I don't like your videos that you talk and review things or do tutorials, but its nice to have both!

[@zechs5079]

Performance 2 is incredible

[@PatternAgents]

Thanks! Lovely music with patch 👌 notes.

[@artisan002]

Okay... 1. Brilliant music. 1.1. Therefore, brilliant performance. 2. Unbelievably delightful sounding synth module... Seriously. The only synths in recent years that knocked me out like that have been UDO's Super 6, Roland's SE02, and Mutable's Shruthi.

[@johnholdun]

Wow this is great

[@RedMeansRecordingModular]

Thank uuuu

[@Psionetics]

Glorious

[@tanksmoonchild]

Oooh. You have one. I really want one. Sold out now. Hopefully they make some more soon.

[@williamb.2031]

Incredible :)

[@RedMeansRecordingModular]

Cheers 💜

[@djfree5435]

An ambient channel, awesome ;-) 👍

[@JonManness]

Holy shit what a wizard! Amazing stuff

[@etainafuzz]

I was convinced this video was starting with a cover of U2's Where the Streets Have No Name...until it wasn't.

[@ob1quixote]

Them's some _real_ nice chords you're playing on those isomorphic Delly keys, Homes.

[@jeffgreenlee1226]

I doubt anyone watching this ever thinks, "Hey! that guy has an insane over-bite!" :P. In fact. I'm just digging the sound ... and the beard!

[@h2o1969]

Love the mix starting at around 22:00

[@zauwee]

Tight!

[@KattKirsch]

Coming back to this cuz jam 2 is such a vibe. Really wanna hear the poly cinematic go full trance, I'm wondering if it has the JP8000 goodness or if that's more the Chainsaw's purview, having not had the chance to touch either.

[@quantumcadillac4748]

Fire

[@BenjaminBeak]

This is dope dude af put that track out

[@MrCMread]

Damn Dude, you are good.

[@EricWimsatt]

It is like a little piece of the Panharmonium :)

[@mushuhaku632]

Amazing songs woow😮😮😮😁

[@joshforgie9611]

The bass at 25:49, after the shimmer, hits like a Sasha rave in New York in the early 2000s. Awesome stuff as always!

[@RedMeansRecording]

Oh I absolutely had Sasha in my head for that bit.

[@funkstrong]

This is great, anybody else want to try to recreate what the Poly Cinematic does with multiple VCV rack modules? Trying to suppress my habit to buy every cool sounding module I hear.

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

youre so good at this, Jamie ! and i CAN asure you , that youre overbite is more charming than my gigantuang nose !

[@LordoftheBadgers]

Jeremy those drums are niiice - where from? I need some better drums in my deluge!

[@BottleMakesMusic]

Hmmm might just have to get one (or two) to go with the NDLR……

[@lefunghi6151]

I was wonderinmg which modules you used for the bassline in the 02 demo?

[@RedMeansRecordingModular]

Manis iteritas

[@AllanEising]

How are you sequencing it? I've not found a good way to do this from within my eurorack, except for the traditional one with CV/Gate and the chord select CV (which isn't quite using it to its full potential I feel).

[@vinylarchaeologist]

All good things come to those who wait 50 seconds 😇 0:50 “For this video, we’ll be using it with MIDI from the Synthstrom Deluge”…

[@AllanEising]

@@vinylarchaeologist can’t believe I missed that 🤦‍♂️

[@vinylarchaeologist]

@@AllanEising No wonders, it went by in a flash…. I think an Arturia Keystep over MIDI would be also a good solution, since you can play it but also program polyphonic sequences within it… But I can’t think of any solutions that stay within Eurorack. Even the Doepfer polyphonic modules rely on them being played externally.

[@surrogatemarker]

Since the knobula is best controlled over MIDI You could probably record and store a MIDI sequence track in the squarp Hermod module and then send midi to the knobula as well. IMHO, it’s more difficult to do the same purely over CV

[@RedMeansRecording]

Deluge into quadra 4 midi through. From there into squarp Hermod and into the poly cinematic. Using midi channels on the deluge.

[@Ambientnauts]

At about 18:02 what module is producing the almost guitar like line you played?

[@RedMeansRecordingModular]

Either surface or braids

[@brendanramsey8311]

Amazing how p-bass-ey the Iteritas sounds through Blades.

[@RedMeansRecording]

It's a really fantastic combo

[@foxendeavor]

@@RedMeansRecording I am hearing a bit of a strum that really makes it sound that way, are you just messing with the midi velocity or some other fun cool technique you can share?

[@JacquesCuistot]

Nice sounds, how much control do you have via midi over individual notes ?

[@RedMeansRecordingModular]

Just as you would with a normal synthesizer?

[@JacquesCuistot]

@@RedMeansRecordingModular thanks, sorry if I didn't phrase it explicitly enough, I was wondering if it was like certain modules where polyphony was limited to "premade" block chords

[@RedMeansRecording]

@@JacquesCuistot nope!

[@GeorgeLocke]

I have a hard time understanding why I'd want this over a proper polysynth. This device in particular has very limited CV inputs, so it seems like the main advantage to having it in eurorack is you could use your euro sequencers, but again you could use cv->midi for the same purpose.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Because it's absolutely tiny and fits in my performance eurorack system

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

Sometimes its better not to demand understanding - but just to listen , then feel,-

[@GeorgeLocke]

@@MikkelGrumBovin at what point does the spending hundreds of dollars come in?

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

@@GeorgeLocke when you got them to spend,-

[@GeorgeLocke]

@@MikkelGrumBovin I tend not to spend such sums without some consideration, but you do you. (Also, FWIW, Jeremy's response absolutely makes sense.)

[@inimitableinviciblegrandul8995]

This video is probably why i can't buy one anywhere. lol. "out of stock" is all I've seen for a month.

[@blakejaeger154]

What’s the hermod doin here? Sorry if you said it in the vid I was listening instead of watching for most of it.

[@RedMeansRecording]

It's converting midi from the deluge into CV for the modular.

[@wavebase2873]

Jesus, I’m sweaty.

[@symbiat0]

Did you release any of this music? I. Must. Possess. It. 😂

[@bdc-muzik]

Im convinced I’m slowly…but surely… running out of “good angles”.

[@FastRCToys]

Got one. Yeah I know: 'no more synths', Who said that ?

[@katelikesrectangles]

TWNQ