Mutable Instruments Beads ‘texture synthesiser’ // ULTIMATE GUIDE to Clouds v2!

[@RedMeansRecording]

Ugh FINE I'll get one

[@rayfinkle4086]

@@korbincasen9204 SCAM ALERT

[@ronandominick221]

I guess Im asking randomly but does someone know of a way to get back into an Instagram account?? I was dumb lost the account password. I would appreciate any tips you can give me!

[@ronandominick221]

@Trenton Lyle I really appreciate your reply. I found the site through google and Im in the hacking process now. I see it takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.

[@ronandominick221]

@Trenton Lyle It did the trick and I now got access to my account again. Im so happy:D Thank you so much you really help me out!

[@trentonlyle7516]

@Ronan Dominick you are welcome :)

[@drthorpe8602]

DivKid is back! Today is a good day

[@RayMcNamaraMusic]

Jinxed it.

[@petecolombo]

We miss you, DivKid

[@GeorgeLocke]

He's back!

[@Jin-Hu]

Man that must have taken frickin ages to learn, format the video and film it, brilliant!

[@DivKid]

Yeah even much shorter videos on simpler modules take a long time. Happy to doing it though.

[@matt-marque]

As much as I love these video reviews, can we all just take a moment to comment on how good Mutable Instrument's manuals are? Crisp, concise, warm. For all their efficiency, I never feel 'hurried along' when reading them. I just appreciate well-written technical documents that manage to convey complicated topics in a conversational way without eliding detail. It's honestly one of the first things I look at when thinking about a new module.

[@mrcwalker33]

I was hoping for an ultimate guide by you and you delivered. Thx Ben! You gave Em the farewell she deserves with this one

[@RobinRimbaudScanner]

The one we've all been waiting from, that slips from tripped out rhythms, deep bottom bass, music concrète, sci-fi synth voices, trance like pulses, burnt tape, cranky guitar and freaky noises all in glorious stereo! Good things come to those who wait 😀

[@rucasm]

Really?

[@TiminatorFL]

True story.

[@RobinRimbaudScanner]

@@rucasm really what? What an odd response. Many of us have been waiting for this video as you can depend upon DivKid to deliver a video that is balanced, educational, not full of ego, and explores the depths of a module such as Beads.

[@rucasm]

@@RobinRimbaudScanner slow down man...

[@RobinRimbaudScanner]

@@rucasm very hard to interpret what was meant by your comment. Just that writing - 'really?' - immediately comes across as relatively sarcastic and questioning, and we live in an age unfortunately where people frequently write quite mean and nasty things online. So a simple word with a question mark is quite confusing in a response. That's all. I'm calm, but I also like good manners 😀

[@soundisles]

The inclusion of the guitar demonstrations are so welcome and just gorgeous. Damn.

[@jedgould5531]

Underrated. It is difficult to visualize “clouds two” as a voice in itself, not just a multifaceted (*muteable*) processor. The pots also function as selectors. It’s loaded with Easter eggs. She even left bread crum LEDs to show us the way. 🤯 No one knew how to market such an advanced module to a one-module, one-function, world. Looking at this video, which Ben did a good job on, it’s difficult to genuinely comprehend what Èmilie did for her swan song.

[@wariusgaius]

What do you mean with ‘the pots act like selectors’? And what are the Easter eggs?

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

The demos are getting so dank! You have an album here!! Badass

[@RubenSainiuc]

At 37:22 I didn't expect at all to hear something in my language (Romanian), so it was quite a pleasant surprise. Thanks!

[@DivKid]

Maybe you can translate, to be honest I don't know what it's saying. Sounds good though :) it's a default sample in the Music Thing Modular Radio Music library.

[@RubenSainiuc]

​@@DivKid I remember replying to this a year ago, but now I see the comment is not here 😁 The recording says just some numbers in Romanian. The numbers are: 4 2 4 8 3 9 9 3 7 9 0 ... 9 2 4 2 1 5 7 ... Now the mystery remains: What does this code unlock? 🤔

[@CapRockout]

Yes! Finally the man is here to weigh in. Your videos are consistently some of the best out there. Can't wait for my Beads to arrive Tuesday. Cheers!

[@MatheusLeston]

The video review we all have been waiting for the whole week! Thanks, Div.

[@elinch]

it is really a pleasure to watch your videos. Time flies by (German saying). you make the best tutorial videos for me. Thank you so much, Ben!!!!

[@DCBMusic]

I've probably seen 6 demos before you putting out yours and you're the first to talk about the Lofi capabilities! Great video as always!

[@Nick-kb6jd]

YAAAAAASSS! The most eagerly awaited video for the most eagerly awaited module, arguably.

[@sarmism]

Lovely to see you back Ben! Hope you're well and thanks for an excellent video on this wonderful new module. Have to say I can't wait to delve into your patch cookbook - nice one!

[@Koko161081]

Till yesterday, having seen most demos, i was hesitant. Now, i’m ready to be happy and poor again :)

[@iamdesertpaul]

Glad you are back.

[@PihkaIsMyName]

Oh yesss mine is on its way from Schneidersladen. Thank you for a great video! A lot of new stuff, even for an experienced Clouds user.

[@nlego5153]

Emilie, thanks for all your awesome work. I basically hang in here (eurorack world) because of Mutable Instruments.

[@simonmoon3866]

Ben you are at the top of your game here! Awesome vid. Already have Clouds but bought Beads last week before your vid came out so for once I had experimented before seeing you in action - you've nailed it. I find Clouds to be quirky and fun but frustrating at times. MI read my mind - this isn't Clouds II it's another green world!

[@BlueSB017]

Just bagged one from Jay @ SSounds round 2! This will pair so nicely with my Supercell in my FX rack. Granular heaven. Great video as always Ben - we miss you!

[@FenPunkFantom]

a demonstration as clear, expansive and economical as the module itself - thanks!

[@RayMcNamaraMusic]

Miss your videos, mate. Hope you’re doing well.

[@wajobu]

Thanks for returning--hope you're well.

[@orangethecolour6015]

Yes Ben, this is what we all needed! Loved the Flight of the Conchords reference also :)

[@BrunoWiebelt]

you are a master of educational showcasing moduls in an entertaining and educational manner ... in one way with this video you got the krone of master review er on the internet.... I could really feel that you love this module and time it with your intellect in an artistic way . Thank you!

[@Robota73]

Whoua so cool! And this new format with patch break is such a good idea!

[@Marshallangelo]

And this is it folks, the most exciting piece of music hardware this side of the yawning grave.

[@catchthehare]

I knew you'd come through. Thanks boss 🙌

[@distorson]

DivKid where are you?

[@abraille]

Great comprehensive work Ben. You're a proper resource. I'm going to be referring back to this video for some time to come. Not bad on the guitar either mate

[@midnightsocean2689]

wew lad. My fave euro-rack channel and my fave module reborn. Fantastic!

[@McEnroe911]

The only demo that matters 🙌 sounds amazing

[@dustop3r]

Thanks for this nice in-depth tutorial! It got me immediately inspired to experiment and create something musical with my newly purchased Beads module :D.

[@DivKid]

glad to hear it. Enjoy Beads and your patching.

[@dustop3r]

@@DivKid As always, I ended up somewhere else in my modular :). Inspired by your mention of "feedback bliss & heaven" in the video, I took my Behringer 121 filter and patched its output back to its input and its cv modulation, both passing through LFO controlled VCAs. O...m....g!! Distortion, crackles, sparkles and what not started to come out of the filter. Thank your for all those tips!!!

[@driftnote]

Been waiting for this video from divkid! Amazing. Thank u

[@els1f]

Mutable Instruments is such an amazing company!

[@LuvWatches]

I feel so lucky to have started getting into eurorack in time to pick up Mutable's swansong. If you were to only have one effect module (and so far I do) this is the one.

[@Kalayawa]

Thanks for this review. Which envelope module did you used on 37:43 How to time stretch with Beads? I use Pamela´s new work out but the triangle seems to be not linear. I´m looking for a good linear envelope generator to use it on the Time knob and have full control of the playback.

[@DivKid]

Hello, the triangle out of Pamela's NEW Workout should be absolutely linear. Do you have a scope or way to test that? Lots of envelope generators are log/expo in shape and not linear. It's a falling ramp wave, or downward saw (sometimes called different names) in the video. A triangle wave would play forwards and backwards, which could be really cool.

[@jupiterrising5918]

Welcome back and thanks for this video! I have been enjoying my Beads.

[@gladlawson61]

Best one yet. Clones hit the resale market !!!

[@MmostlyRandom]

good to see you back, hope you're doing well. excellent demo as always

[@SleepofEons]

And he's baaack! Missed ya Divkid! 😊🙌

[@mod.3x]

got mine today, im super hyped to dive into it :)

[@dgp1498]

Yeah nice to see u back!

[@reheller]

Yeah, great stuff! That’s a dense video for a deep module, good idea to add some patch breaks! I had my very own patch break - googling for “rotary heads pitch shifting” and then studying the amazing HEDRA pedal from MERIS. Might get me one of these before a BEADS due to availability. But you clearly showed this as a MUST HAVE.

[@SmoothSailingMusic]

Ordered mine last night! this video is awesome!

[@wolfdesk]

Really love the woozy Boards of Canada like moments and the using of guitar is really great too. Thanks for this tutorial.

[@pimhansen6720]

Great video on an amazing module, but an AWESOME video production as well Ben. Hats off!

[@pieterkok7486]

Good to see you're back again, Ben. I hope you're well!

[@finetune_live]

Can you please tell me what's the distorted kick playing on 19:00 - is it a sample already or some raw kick and how it's distorted? Thanks for the cool video!

[@mikeleuz]

Nice bass playing! And, oh yeah, is that a Mindphaser I see in the background?! Crossing fingers for a Divkid guide coming for it.

[@hypnoz123]

God I hope so

[@billsoraparu9673]

I keep coming back to this video and I always come away with having learned something new on Beads! Nuggets of nutrients for my knowledge on this Module. Thanks for this video Div Kid!

[@orangenotviolet]

Emillie has a new module out, DivKid does a film on it and in the end you are convinced that this module does everything you wanted it to do plus a load of things you didn't think of......great, I'll rob the bank.

[@NutritionalZero]

The sound of a thousand four-track cassette recorders falling in price all at once

[@razgar02]

Well, I guess it depends on how many (aspiring) "lo-fi beats" musicians are willing to spend on other Eurorack modules to justify only getting into it through Beads (unless that's not a mindset many others have). Other than that, yeah, we can only hope...

[@NutritionalZero]

@@razgar02 u wot m8

[@christdolphin69]

what does this even mean? you know they've been making thousands of tape emulation/saturation/lofi plugins for years now, right? or pedals, like oto boum or the analog heat or generation loss. if you want a digital emulation of tape degradation, it wouldnt be the smartest move to buy a 350 eurorack module that is sold out until july and a case and a power supply. a 4 track can record, mix, saturate with real analog pre amps, do no input feedback. i dont think the people who buy them over using a plugin or pedal would buy this specifically for that purpose instead of the many other options that have existed for a long time now. so weird that people ar eeven focuing on that aspect of beads. this is what clouds should have been all along, nebulae with internal s&h lfos and a more hq dsp

[@ZeroCool_Numbers]

Three months to ship from Perfect Circuit. Seeing this video and all the new things Beads can do is gonna make the wait even worse 😫. Great video as always!

[@JaseLovesDub]

Hooray for you and your lovely Northern tones :)

[@nectariosm]

Good to see you back Ben!

[@scottcampbell330]

For some reason clouds finally makes sense to me

[@in_10z]

Ben you are a freak....of command of every module you get ahold of. So impressive and thank you for the deep dive.

[@DivKid]

haha thanks! Lot of effort but really happy to be able to learn and share all these things. Thanks for watching and the comment.

[@in_10z]

@@DivKid Respect. Video editing is ridiculously time consuming on top of learning the darn module!

[@DivKid]

yeah it's no joke and such a massive bulk of work. Thanks for recognising that.

[@Larry30102]

I'm relatively new to eurorack. I'm a guitarist and this seems to accommodate the guitar well. It bothers me though to spend a chunk of change already, and the guitar results are less than stellar. Then I run across this. Very cool. Guess I'll have to start selling stuff 🤔

[@LikeMinds_]

I failed yet again! 😝 Woke up to synth-pron of this sexy thing! Further more, the addition of these features worked for me. I have had Clouds by MoMo for just about a year and Beads makes more sense =S KEEP UP THESE AWESOME VIDS! Your Guitar is really sounding killer bud!!

[@i_never_asked_for_an_alias]

The 8 bit setting sounds way better then i expected.

[@dorintube]

man...I wish I'd payed so much attention when I was in school too : )

[@Eurikon]

Excellent VidKid! :D

[@knobsstrings]

Love your bass and guitar playing a lot in this awesome demo!

[@konstantine8054]

You obviously meant guitar and dad guitar playing, right?!

[@knobsstrings]

@@konstantine8054 Absolutly! 😚

[@isolamusic6205]

Many thanks for this great granluar lesson. I was a little lot smarter at the end of your video and ready to watch it again!

[@Huffer7]

Top-notch demo/tutorial. Such creative patches.

[@thelanavishnuorchestra]

I'm going to have to bookmark this for future reference! Thanks

[@mooseinbeesocks2700]

A few granular options out there right now. We were truly spoiled since clouds originally dropped. Its a different industry pretty much.

[@Edwardball]

Top draw Ben, the definitive guide as always!

[@beatnickaudio]

As usual this is fantastic. Big ups!

[@andrij.demianczuk]

Beads is a dream for Modbap!

[@DivKid]

Yeah I can imagine some really nice FX and colours dancing around a nice sloppy beat. It's very much genre agnostic.

[@klstay]

Your channel should come with a warning label or something on it. I have a $6k build underway now with a bunch of After Later Audio, Synthesis Technology, and Joranalogue because of you.

[@jsmcfadyen]

I had a chance to mess with this at the Moog store yesterday. It's an incredibly fun module.

[@benamad]

Great videos, thanks ! It seems at 4’44 that you inverted uniform/peaky distribution of internal randomisation compared to the graph and manual. Am I wrong ?

[@roberttubb9300]

Great module. Great tutorial. Great dad guitar!

[@Charlemagne139]

This is incredible. Thank you so much for putting all this together.

[@KarlSadler]

oh god, wife is watching married at first sight on the telly, might just need to go and watch this in the other room! mmm cheers matey!

[@phloog]

I need a Spherical Wavetable Navigator cookbook! Great video btw

[@secretcircuit]

What an ingenious module.

[@pianolight5]

33:35 I seriously thought he started spitting some bars there. Straight fire though.

[@notsorry]

such a great vid. well done mate

[@warius1]

First 2 minutes were intense, and I was so ready to be meh about it (out of wallet preservation), damn son

[@11clouds]

what a great demo, i need by the way what module do you use to get guitar signals-1/4 inch jack stuff in?

[@Lewp77]

dope video bro ! just ordered mine

[@TheNimasan]

Ben what about your amazing RIG RUNDOWN show. Why there is no more shows anymore?? I relly missed them!!

[@anosoumusic]

Stellar video as always, mate!

[@charlesdilks3267]

>”I talk enough... there will be plenty of patch breaks” Oh Ben, so coy. We’ve come to hear you talk dirty about attenurandomizers

[@sliceofsparta8985]

Now change it to logarithmic. Now bit crush it. Now slap your case a little.

[@charlesdilks3267]

@@sliceofsparta8985 Logorithmic you say? A man of taste I see! Gotta have a good *arch* on those mod stages

[@syncdestroyer]

@1:14 sick MBV reference Ben!

[@DivKid]

MBV?

[@syncdestroyer]

@@DivKid The guitar sounds like My Bloody Valentine and the red graphics look like a nod to their seminal album Loveless. Or... I'm just super stoned.

[@DivKid]

I wasn't thinking of them but the visuals share some blurred layering style like their album covers. Good reference!

[@wonkyrobot]

Been looking forward to this! :)

[@thomasbatters]

Wow... I was listening while working, heard the sound at 1:34 and instantly wondered what it took to get it... and it was it on its own!!! Is scorched tape a mode btw or did you really scorch a tape and play it through Beads? Lol

[@iSdtea]

Is the Spectral Madness mode gone? Can't seem to find anything on it

[@skormm-v7z]

also looking if beat repeat will be available in Beads

[@buyukberber]

Finally! Thank you!

[@filo1210]

Yes! The Master is back 😎🙌

[@romtieche]

Any help to better understand the patch at 20:04 ? A m a z i n g !!!

[@edgarm6017]

Really gorgeous video. Looks extra nice 🤩

[@PeanutButterAM]

Still the man! 💪🏽🤘🏽 I was hoping you’d get this one out.

[@jonathanyoung6397]

This is an incredible video (obviously) and one I keep coming back to as I try to get to grips with Beads. The one section that confuses me though is the “feedback” part at the 20 min mark. Divkid talks about a feedback loop, but I can’t follow what is feeding back into what? Please explain, as it sounds amazing and I’d love to emulate it.

[@DivKid]

hi Jonathan, Feedback is output back into input. Which is what's happening on here. With any feedback you want an attenuator in that feedback path so you can control it. If you make it a VCA rather than an attenuator you then have voltage controlled feedback too. In this particular patch I'm splitting one of the outputs (both go to my mixer) into Blades so I can filter and drive (drive down low attenuates to help control it) it. Hope that helps.

[@jonathanyoung6397]

@@DivKid yes it does and I will try that this morning. Thank you for taking the time to reply to me Ben, I am honored!

[@DivKid]

no worries, always happy to help where I can and when I see things. Have a nice day patching :)