INCONVENIENT EURORACK MODULAR SYNTHS MAY BE THE ANSWER TO YOUR CREATIVE WOES!

[@tritonecrisantemo649]

Loving the long breaks between the spoken lines. Reminds me of an old ps1 game. It allows me to digest the content better. I appreciate this video and the effort behind it.

[@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE]

Too kind! Thank you for your feeeback! And yes! These young kids with machine gun like VO editing has me gasping for air. :) deliberate pacing is more my style.

[@mwatkins0590]

recording drums/drum machines into a cassette and playing back into the daw to mix like 10-50% wet gives a nice bit of analog warmth and compression.

[@brianmichaelfuller]

Powerful video!!

[@hwqh]

holy shit , i thought this was a channel with like 100k+ subs, how do you only have 1k??? your quality is insane!

[@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE]

Too kind! Just trying to do some honest day’s work!

[@y3i12]

For me, the inconvenience makes the process more prone to happy accidents, and these are always very fruitful for the creative process. I think that it is not the inconvenience, it is the modern world that implies that everything needs to be quick and now. Slowing down the pace and taking the time to create things from scratch gives me pleasure because I can put a bit of myself in every step... Thanks a lot for the video, it is very inspiring :D

[@grandmasterglick5895]

Hey my dude, I got an interesting take on this. I actually recently bought a digital delay made the same year I was born (not going to reveal but its about 40 years old). It was made entirely with 8-bit chips. I really love old computer stuff, especially old synth stuff, this is one of the reasons I got into eurorack. One thing I've noticed with computers and the whole trend toward bit crushing and stuff like that. I sort of love it when it's done right, but unfortunately it's usually not done right. This is one of the reasons why I bought that 40'ish year old delay, because back then they had to do the entire signal chain in 8-bits, that's something entirely different than a massively powerful computer (64 bit) taking that one step of data chain and then switching it to 8 bit momentarily, and then going right back to the usual 64 bit. It's just not the same. I've been buying a lot of older generation electronics gear to capture some of this. People think that the older computer and synth gear gets it's character from the number of bits, and that's not entirely true. It gets it from all the tricks and techniques and other things the sound engineers at those companies came up with, in order to work in those limited bits at the time. That's kind of where the magic and character is locked away.

[@ericjohnson2965]

I have an analogue solutions red square V2 it's more fun to play it as a sound box then to play it as synthesizer with keyboard it's a semi modular so I treat it a a modular synth but I've learned a lot playing it

[@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE]

Thanks for sharing! :)

[@nighawry]

“Embrace the Inconvenience” - seems like something to live by. Great video and helpful insight! 👌

[@LightBlazeMC]

incredibly well spoken video, subbed

[@DIV_SERIES]

"Give me a 12 bit machine, I'll take out your whole crew" - Giovanni Marks aka Subtitle

[@moinlabs]

(keeps talking about analogue warmth etc., yet the only eurorack case I see is one that is far too shallow to hold some of the finest analogue filters in my book, e.g. A-108). Joking aside: I very much liked the narrative from "recovering what was lost" to "adding imperfections" in signal processing and then applying that to the entire workflow, at the end arriving at the inconvenience of (modular) synths that do not allow for total recall etc. (and yes, even if I who has a few guitars and bass guitars but is not a guitarist to speak of record something and then maybe turn that into a small sample library/slice it, I'm usually much more happy with the result than when I just use some big professional library). The same is not necessarily true for sw vs. hw synths. But typically for factory presets vs own sound design.

[@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE]

Great insights! Thank you!

[@LillySchwartz]

I‘m actually a photographer by profession and I still primarily use film, because there is something lost in digital. For a while colour science was really bad on the digital cameras and the colours just looked all wrong to me. By now it’s a bit better, but it still needs so much more work to make it look “right”! Digital is too sharp, too flawless, too predictable and most importantly too easy sometimes? Sure, you can get close with analog emulation plugins and workflows, but I prefer to just start out with film and minimise the amount of time spent at the computer. I’m definitely not a purist though and have a hybrid workflow. I scan all my film and sometimes I do weird things like scanning darkroom prints to remove flaws that are much harder to fix the analog way. With synths it’s kinda like that too. Even if I have a bunch of digital stuff in the signal chain, like Monsoon or Disting, if I have something analog in the chain too, it immediately sounds way better. The Microfreak is a perfect example. I could just use a Plaits emulation on the computer, but the analog filter in the Microfreak just makes it sound so much better! Befaco Even VCO in VCV rack is kinda meh, but the analog module is so juicy! And then there is the whole workflow aspect: tracing the signal flow along a cable with your fingers, twisting real knobs etc. I use VCV rack too, but I use it in a very different way, because I just don’t like all the faff with assigning midi. Great for complex effects, but it’s not something I usually interact with after I set it up.

[@absent_]

Always curious about the two little screens next to de modular on the left in your vids

[@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE]

Ninja Atomos video recorders :) Since I shoot and record my videos myself, those little monitors help me see what I'm shooting. Technically I probably should have them off screen but my current desk is a little too small to put them off further! Thanks for stopping by :)

[@joelanderson9823]

Inspiring! Thank you for sharing these words.

[@avsystem3142]

Recently, I was shocked, shocked I say, to find that Spitfire Audio is recording some of their sample libraries using a 2 in. Studer tape deck. I guess the proof is in the pudding.

[@carlos_martinezzz]

Great video! I like to multisample plugin instruments into my bitbox more than using them inside the DAW. It's time consuming but the results are more unique. Digging for the sweet spot worths all the effort.

[@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE]

This is something I’ve been meaning to do but haven’t! Thanks for the reminder! :)

[@tomtoms862]

Eagan matrix model Inconvenient editor but well Worth the effort if only we had the perfect workflow no such thing thanks for Your time

[@wade5744]

wonderfully calm video! would love a list of all your gear in the description, especially that keyboard

[@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE]

Thank you for your kind yours! The computer keyboard is a Qwerkywriter! www.Qwerkywriter.com I’ll post the gear list soon!

[@jo_ey]

Inconvenient sound. Great talk! I like to use my roland ju06 as an ‘analogue’ sound module. It only has 4 voices. Which limits the chords playing. It pushes me to come up with new voicings. By for example first making a bassline and later on the upper voicing or the other way around. Also recording in a non soundproof environment gives an edge to nailing a take. Or accepting that you might hear a dog far in the background of a recording.

[@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE]

Thanks for the insight! Also limitation’s the mother of all inventions! (Or something like that!)

[@proxymerchant]

well said mate

[@hardcoreherbivore4730]

Inconvenience you say? How about a solar power studio!?

[@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE]

Hahaha! :)

[@I.O.M.]

Ironically enough I still have a 4 track, numerous Walkmans, and a dictation tape deck to still do it old school Analog. I do like using the Roland SP404 MKII as well but have had good results with the 4 audio modes in BEADS. Regarding String samples I am totally digging the Arturia Augmented Strings. Running it through modular and you won't sound line anyone else 😀 What are your thoughts on NI Lores?

[@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE]

I wish I still had my 4 track tascam porta studio! I had so much fun with it!