How to make generative music - part 1 - A driving force

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Hello everyone! A lot of people appreciated my more methodical videos on ideas and concepts, so today I am very excited to start with a mini-series on generative modular music. Fair WARNING, this is NOT for complete beginners and assumes quite some knowledge on basics and utilities. If you are new, please scout my channel and start with videos like ‘how to make a good synth voice’, ‘Why you need utilities’, ‘All you need to know about envelopes, and so on. All the best!

[@laika6340]

you are building an amazing framework for learning modular. thank you very much.

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

You're welcome! :)

[@russ254]

heck yeah!

[@billxrl4154]

You are the only one actually helpful modular guy out there. I LOVE this

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Hey, glad to hear you find these useful!

[@Eurorack78]

I appreciate all of the information and your articulation of each subject . Very helpful

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Thank you, nice to hear you like it! :)

[@BenA718]

Fantastic intro into generative patches! Thanks for all your hard work! I prefer the slightly increased pace of this one, too!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Glad you like it!

[@MrHihowryou]

Fantastic. Looking forward to the composition part of the series!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Good to hear! Working on it :)

[@lassejensen1210]

Have really been missing a deepdive into this concept, so I’m happy to see your capable hands tackling it!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Glad to hear it! :)

[@aviolentpurple9925]

AHHH this is so great!!! Truly brilliant stuff, man. These ideas are so creative and cool. Also I think these more advanced vids are the bees knees. Kudos

[@damianmorillas7189]

Your channel is getting better and better. Congratulations for your great work, it's really appreciated it!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Thank you very much! I'm very happy with the route I took for the channel this year, and good to hear it's appreciated! All the best :)

[@robriki2]

At 3:50 you have written both Sampe and hold (line 2) d Sample and hold (Line 3). You take such great care in your videos and schematics, it thought you’d like to know we are actually reading them! Thank you for another inspiring video!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Hey, thanks! I mostly set up illustrations and sections I can copy and paste, so I can't make any mistakes with my slight dyslexia, but the not-flow-chart ones are alwys dangerous. Thanks for watching!

[@mauchkimberly]

Really useful. I was happy to be introduced to ideas for modules I have in my gear already. Nice!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Glad it was helpful! And trying to inspire people to pick things up rather than giving the them the feeling they need to buy more stuff. Happy that worked out :)

[@thekarmafarmer608]

Incredible job of explaining. Fascinating. Thank you so much.

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

You're very welcome!

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

Great idea. You’re best yet I feel. Looking forward to the rest. Nice job!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Thanks, that's nice to hear!

[@dessiplaer]

Looking forward to the remainder of videos in this series. Great brain food!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Glad to hear it! All the best :)

[@russ254]

great vid! my kind of thing exactly!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Landman_sounds]

Excellent video with so many ideas

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Glad you like them!

[@tihinter]

"... this should give you some FUN-DA-MENTAL ideas..." 😂😂😂 Great clip, incredibly useful ideas as ever, thanx a lot for sharing those. I used the Serge TKB as a 16-step / 4 channel statememory with CV controlled recall, recently. Insanely great!

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Glad you like it! And that sounds nice!

[@GeorgeLocke]

Love this so much. Great advice, this coming from someone who started with max msp in 2003. Really looking forward to your ideas on creating change over time. PS a really wonderful example of "generative" music is "Engine" by Rafael Toral which i believe was on Touch Records around 2004 or something. It starts out with self modifying analog and then it starts slowing down and then something magical happens around 20 minutes in.

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Nice, will have a look for that!

[@binarybotany3218]

woooh let's go!

[@GeorgeLocke]

Google helpfully suggests that the English translation is "wow let's go". To English from what, Google?

[@myfriend69420]

🔥🔥🔥

[@jacekszymczak5167]

Hello, I'm starting with eurorack, I bought Nifty Case with the Cellz + Chipz module and I bought Behringer Brains, how would you recommend expanding it further? definitely some drum bass module and what next?

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Hi there! There are a million options these days :) At the start, stay close to the reason you got attracted to eurorack in the first place, and expand one module at at time.

[@walrtbstudios5430]

I’m sure many systems out there feature one or other iteration of Pamela’s Workout- this provides eight channels of either smooth or stepped random voltage. Plus, being Pam’s, there is a colossal range of tempos and division/multiplication options.

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Yes, excellent module for the job!

[@russ254]

don’t have Pams in my software Voltage Modular - appreciate this video not being locked in to a particular module, but rather focus on module functions. helpful comment for people with Pams though ❤

[@Ryannaut_g]

This stuffs so confusing lol

[@MonotrailTechTalk]

Yes it is :)

[@stolencoats63]

In time it will become clearer. Try pausing on and following one of the diagrams in VCV Rack. It's helpful to patch it up yourself to really hear, see, and learn what each part is doing. VCV can be great if you don't have all the modules necessary for a specific patch.

[@russ254]

I found you can’t take shortcuts with modular - I spent a year figuring out the basic 22 modules in the free Voltage Modular Nucleus. That taught me basic concepts like LFOs, amps, sequencers, attenuation, inverters - and also how to combine simple modules into complicated things. highly recommend free Voltage Modular Nucleus, AND NOT ADDING more modules until you know those 22 COLD! ❤