Cinematic ambient jam w/ Eurorack (Pam's, 4ms Ensemble, Plaits, Data Bender, QPAS, Beads, and more)

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A live, semi-improvised jam, performed entirely on Eurorack, and recorded via a stereo master output. This piece is four voices and no sequencer, with Pamela's New Workout guiding the chordal movement (as well as clock, and random pitch, and LFOs galore). A full video walkthrough of this piece is available on my Patreon.
Voice 1 (delay drone):
Mutable Instruments Plaits (oscillator and envelope generator)
Strymon Magneto (tape delay)
Voice 2 (random pitch, and then bass):
Frequency Central Product (full synth voice)
Noise Engineering Elector Versio (clocked reverb)
Voice 3 (chord progression):
4ms Ensemble Oscillator (oscillator)
Intellijel 1u Multi-FX (reverb)
Voice 4 (arp chords / video game noises):
Qu-Bit Chord (oscillator)
Intellijel Dual ADSR (amp envelopes)
Intellijel Dual VCA x 2 (amps)
MI Beads (reverb and pitched granules)
Noise Engineering Ruina Versio (distortion)
Master-level effects:
Make Noise QPAS (low-pass filter)
Qu-Bit Data Bender (buffered delay/glitch weirdness)
2HP Reverb (reverb)
Control:
ALM Busy Circuits Pamela's New Workout (8 clocks, LFOs, and random quantized pitch)
Intellijel TetraPad (for controlling module parameters on multiple devices)
Intellijel FSR (for controlling 4ms Ensemble Oscillator's warp parameter)
I/O:
Intellijel Quadratt x 2 (mixers)
Intellijel 1u Mixer x 2 (mixers)
Intellijel Audio I/O (output to recording)
Performed and recorded live, mixed to a stereo master output, with EQ, compression, and limiting on the master.
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[@yokotobigeri_]

Hey Jay, it‘s simply breathtaking how you‘re not just creating fancy soundscapes but multiple moving layers of entwined soundlyrics. That is music-wise much more complex and interesting than much of the other electronic stuff that can be found on YT. You amalgamate musicality and technical finesse in a very forceful way. Thank you for sharing your work and knowledge…

[@K0r0n1s]

Dude, this was amazing! All this STUFF happening, but staying beautiful and not too mushy. Really inspiring :-)

[@jamesglewmusic]

Man, that was stunning! That's the sort of thing I want to see done with modular and more for sure.

[@TheCuri]

Wtf dude this was like interstellar Meets avengers ending scene every body dies and find them selfs in a Vortex in space. Really enjoyed it, thanks for this

[@ramiyengar3309]

This video needs a lot more likes ...... a awful lot more

[@angelcobosardon]

Hi, Jay. Every time I see one of your videos I think that you can't overgrown, but you do it again and again. You are a very creative musician. Such an incredible compositions you make... Very ethereal. Thanks for sharing your music with all of us. Please, keep on.

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

Hi Jay ..... you found the rabbit hole - and of course you take to it , like fish in water ,- ..... You are so amazing , Man - this piece here is nothing but a M A S T E R P I E C E -- and its going to be so enormeous to follow your new undertakings - you were made for this .......

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

You know what i love ,about your Way ......You get these units , to make MUSIC with,- and if they do not cut IT in your specific Work , or Flow, they're leaving Your lab, as fast as they enteted ! And THAT keeps your Sound and style ,unique and consistent. Youre SUCH a good musician ! 🤔👍

[@Stitchesnstaplez]

I love it dude. Sounds great!

[@hobboth]

Great work! And also informative! Thanks!

[@lukas834]

Oh, it’s so good! Better than jelly and peanut butter

[@jonaseggen2230]

Please make more of this. Maybe it's boring or painful for you to do this, but I don't care, please make more.

[@jazzbeats8168]

beautiful

[@Audiorial]

amazingly enjoyable, thank you.

[@starskypartridge1177]

stunning as always

[@tomnaustin1]

thank you! very nice!

[@Flat8G]

The opening scene to an epic movie, mindblowing use of a modular system! Just wow!

[@ingolf7411]

A lot of hardware, a lot of cables, a lot of knowledge ... but most important, a lot of creativity and ideas. Great work.

[@connorlennon5925]

More of this. That was intense.

[@HOOPYFROODUDE]

fantastic

[@EMTAirship]

I'm not usually an ambient guy, but holy cow! You took me on one heck of a journey with this beautiful patch.

[@josepha891]

And…. Subscribed. That set up!!! Damn, I’m convinced you see everything in green with x and o and data just like Neo. This is awesome.

[@noahanderson9670]

I wish someone would hire you to make a soundtrack for a sci-fi film, I legitimately think you could make something to compete with the most iconic soundtracks out there. I love your work man and keep it up!

[@ambientzoneofficial]

Absolute stunning track / build !!! The voice approach and the processing in Eurorack simply superbe 👍🏻 THIS is art! 🎶

[@officialchris_regalado]

I think it’s safe to say you’ve got the modular thing down to a T my friend. That was really really good. 🙂

[@Psionetics]

Inspirational!

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

i hear new stuff everytime....... damn i would pay topdollar to see youre future band ,-opening with this piece - get the audience settled in ....... -

[@earthman_]

Any cable connection makes sense to me 😀

[@Bloody_Slime]

cool!

[@bigdrums9905]

That was brilliant, really blown away by this, and love the way you explain what you're doing - thanks so much!

[@CapriciousBlackBox]

Worthy

[@doublelunch24]

Holy schnark that really did it for me. More modular please! 👍👍👍

[@Headburster]

I admit I'm impressed again, dealing with modular myself since few weeks, it is complex to get such kind of complete "song" or theme. Congratz!

[@mikefranz5354]

Puuuahhhh 💕👌

[@nastied]

This is massive, I feel it ! Great work !

[@gaspardguilbert728]

Incredibly crazy awesomeness ! Thanks

[@kossfort1848]

Very beautiful ! Спасибо Jay.

[@matyaskandl]

Mind-blowing!

[@geofff6671]

Wonderful piece!

[@CHONKERBOT]

That’s unbelievable

[@Probbie]

Excellent stuff mate👏👏

[@os3223]

Magnifique !!! 😎

[@gabrielpensado8764]

Beautiful!!

[@Synmomusic]

I love your work man! Pam's was the first module I ever thought about maybe having 2 of. So far the expander has done me well. I'm probably headed for a second Noise engineering versio as well since desmodus became too useful to ever change the firmware!

[@JayHosking]

I'm in the same boat of wondering if I need another Pam's! And if you haven't tried Elector, it's worth flashing (but yes, having two is super handy).

[@Synmomusic]

@@JayHosking I'll definitely give it a shot. My Desmodus started as an imitor, but as soon as I flashed it to a desmodus, I just went ahead and bought the desmodus faceplate since it was too useful. I may just go ahead and get the winterbloom pack of magnetic faceplates. This video also crashed a wrecking ball into my modular grid plan to finish my second rack as I'm pretty sure I need the ensemble oscillator now.

[@lucaselmore3874]

I don’t even know what to say. Wow

[@odnilniloc]

That is beautiful! Bandcamp page?

[@odnilniloc]

I see it now. :)

[@lockyp204]

Nice 👍

[@alisterwh]

Interestellar meets portal

[@downy5498]

Hey Jay, this is a little off topic but I'm planning on getting an mpc live 2, with the addition of expanding the mixer with USB audio in the latest update, what mixer would you recommend?

[@samuellind477]

Insanely cool. Love the explanations. A really creative use of four voices in your rig. Would you say this is the extent of your rig, or do you have more modules than this?

[@JayHosking]

I've got a couple percussive modules I'm going to experiment with, and I imagine things will swap in and out from here at some point, but I'm also quite happy with what it can do.

[@CHONKERBOT]

I'm wondering because the financial cost of building a rack powerful as this is one thing, but it's obvious, that you have to invest a LOT of time to look at what's around, learn to think modular, trying to imagine how you can use your every purchase, or rather - what would help you to materialize your sound concept. How long are you sitting on this topic, what was your journey looked like to land with your current setup (I assume that you have a lot more blinking panels behind the frame) and how long were you learning this to gain the skills to perform live a beautiful dark ambient track like this?

[@JayHosking]

I was definitely thinking about it and watching videos on it for months before performing anything on the channel. I knew I wanted to create a multi-voice setup. In retrospect I'd probably do some things differently (i.e. start with just effects and a Pam's and build from there). But a lot of my experience with hardware synths applied here, and a lot of the modular experience is happy accidents (this song came out of just enjoying the sound of the 4ms Ensemble Oscillator on its own, hence the no-sequencing thing). I don't have a lot of other modules beyond what's shown, mainly just a couple of drum modules that I'll be using in the future. Using the building tool on Modular Grid was huge for me, and I'd strongly recommend it too. Let's chat sometime about it on Discord!

[@Fahrstuhlmusik_deluxe]

Atemberaubend

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

Is that a custom case with a 1U row on the bottom?

[@JayHosking]

Yeah, 104hp 4u made by somebody in town!

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

@@JayHosking It's really nice!

[@JayHosking]

@@MrMarcLaflamme Yeah, for sure! BossWood, is the business name.