How to save synth sounds WITHOUT presets

[@Bills_Place]

As a hobbyist modular noodler, I feel the pain of this. On the other hand, what I like about building a complex sound is the feeling of liberation, knowing for certain that I'll never recreate whatever it was again. It forces me get it recorded and done with so I can move on to the next silly thing.

[@amberelmmusic]

I like the temporary aspect of it too…it’s just a such a pain when I’m not quite ready to track and need the synth for something else. I guess one could have worse problems than having two creative ideas.

[@Bills_Place]

@@amberelmmusic Absolutely, especially if you're carving out a living with music instead of just goofing around for your own joy. 😁

[@unsoundmethodology]

In addition to photography, I've been trying to take videos of my modular patches to record them; I don't have a great filming setup, but i do have an audio interface that plugs into my phone so i can capture the sound with the knob settings. I'm also trying to cultivate the discipline to actually just write down the general gist of patches for later experimentation. My wife bought me one of those little hardbound dot-grid journals a while ago, and making it a lab/patch notebook worked really well for me, particularly since it has numbered pages and a chart in the front to compose a table of contents in. Sapling patches sounds like a really useful idea, too. Thanks for the demo there.

[@amberelmmusic]

Check out Patch Sheets on Amazon. I found out about them about 30 minutes after uploading my video. I ended up getting it and it’s pretty awesome.

[@toskabyss]

Ultimately has to sell my MS20 because I never wanted to pull my patch cables out after making a patch I loved. Great video!

[@amberelmmusic]

I totally get that. If you ever get a synth without presets again, you should check out Patch Sheets. They sell them for a bunch of different synths, it’s basically a notebook with blank diagrams of the synth that you can note where all the settings and patch points are. Anyways, thanks for the comment and for watching!

[@MAT.ElectronicMusic]

Hi, great videos, subscribed. Just a thought, have you tried logic's auto sampler? I've used it to sample some of my external synths and it worked great for me

[@amberelmmusic]

Actually I haven’t. I’ll absolutely look into that this week. Thanks for the suggestion. Also thanks for the sub!

[@unclemick-synths]

I use the song's working title as a "key" for photos but ultimately my patches get scrawled into a notepad because each page has a unique look which I'll often remember more easily than the song name. However, I've not yet tried multisampling to my MPC which I should.

[@amberelmmusic]

Thanks for watching. Since making the video, I also found these things called Patch Sheets. They make them for a bunch of different hardware synths. Google it, they are pretty handy. I ended up a couple and they are awesome.

[@unclemick-synths]

@@amberelmmusic thanks for the tip. I made patch sheets for my monosynth back in the 80s and they were a standard thing in the back of synth magazines in those pre-Web days.

[@amberelmmusic]

@oldunclemick that’s awesome. When I first saw them I thought they were tear out layovers I could mark on…a bit disappointing but still super useful.