just a little fun....

[@MatsKedrren]

This is fucking GOOD! I love the dark atmosphere, keep it up!!!

[@Hckl_G]

babe wake up, robthebloke dropped a banger again

[@sharathudupas]

I love how you just go anywhere and make amazing music!

[@kobi1086]

so much talent!!!

[@HundredDaysMusic]

I always love seeing a new Rob track on a Monday just in time for work.

[@theevilloafers5235]

This one got a very dark/mysterious vibe at the beginning that gets brighter as it progresses and im loving it. (i love this angle you got, just look at all those pretty lights).

[@GummyLord]

Man you really have gotta start getting this stuff onto Spotify

[@asisaboveandbelow]

Makes me wanna dance. This is soooooo good! I love the build up and progression.

[@djzonque4770]

Best way to start my day! Thanks Rob!

[@SoundMediaVibes]

Cool vibes, cool angle and can see all those pretty colored flashing lights. Wonderful! 👍👍👍👍👍

[@RadNerdFamily]

This music is perfect. It just takes me inside my head every time. Keep doing what you’re doing.

[@greenrocket23]

Somehow it reminds me of when used to play MegaMan games for the PS2 when I was a little kid. Happy memories, thank you.

[@twsp9999]

I really love the mastery you have. Sounds amazing!

[@boyavatar2000]

Had me bopping on the train to work this morning (UK). Love your vibes.

[@hemipe835]

One more masterpiece ❤ It's pretty cool to watch you performing with this angle !

[@timmzarts]

You and Andrew Huang REALLY make me want a synth board 💀 I'd have this going 24/7 and absolutely no productivity would be had in my life but it would be worth it lol

[@DoomedMoviethon]

It's so nice, I had to play in twice in a row.

[@joshthemhome]

Great sounds!

[@scatt3r1]

another great one! I love your chords. I aspire to have a setup as big as yours. Keep it up!

[@robthebloke]

A word of advice: don’t aspire to build a big rig! If I ripped out the quadraphonic stuff from my rig, I’d probably save about 70hp. If I replaced my really terrible approximation of a performance mixer with an actual performance mixer (eg the new noise engineering one), I’d probably save another 70hp or so. I could probably replace my FX chain with just the endorphines ghost, which would save another 70hp or so…. (I probably wouldn’t, just because I love the strymon stuff too much, but I will admit that the ghost would simplify my life greatly!) Even after all of that, I still have more oscillators than I can actually sequence properly (I make do, but it’s not ideal!). If money grew on trees, I’d probably add a second ground control, and then my VCO to sequencer ratio would be about right! (I’d probably replace a mother and/or dfam with an intellijel Atlantis or two tbh) IMHO, try to make sure you always have more sequencing channels than you have oscillators (and try to get VCOs with sub oscillators, because they’ll sound super fat, and then you need fewer VCOs, which’ll make everything easier to tune!). Two fat synth voices, 3 channels of pitch/gate sequencing (preferably 64 or more steps), kick, snare, hats, a drum sequencer, endorphines ghost, and you’d be 90% of the way there! 10 oscillators and a keystep is not an ideal rig. Big yes, but not ideal :) Don’t aspire to build a big rig, aspire to build the perfect rig, but build it up slowly! (Honestly, the larger it gets, the more you need to spend on patch cables!) Don’t buy modules because they are cheap, only buy modules that you *absolutely* need! It is actually better to have a smaller (if flawed) rig that you know inside out, than have a larger rig that can be a pita to play and maintain (I have to recalibrate the VCOs and filters every year or so, and that is a nice time to be reminded of why I need to shrink my rig!)

[@i-love-comountains3850]

​@@robthebloke This right here is what I LOVE about the underground music scene. No ego BS, no FOMO, nothing but great advice and an earnestness to help others build their rigs while analyzing one's own. Massive respect, Rob, some day I hope to get down to Tasmania for a while. It's an absurdly small world, I met a welding student at my favorite petrol station who is traveling soon to see his long distance gf who lives about 2hrs from a town in Tasmania whose name I'm blanking, and another one of the attendants there spent 2 years in Tasmania just for the music scene. I know it might sound weird to bring up the one 2hrs outside of Tas but the fact that out of the half dozen folks at this random petrol station in Colorado USA have a direct connection to the same general area as a new favorite on my artists list, just blows my mind...I had to share the absurdity😂 Love your work brother keep it up❤

[@scatt3r1]

@@robtheblokeohh thank you! Great advice! I have about half of my 7U Intellijel case full and can (and will this Thursday) play live sets. I have kind of the setup you are talking about with two main VCOs. I already feel the limits of my setup tho and wanna slowly build it out. Money does not grow on trees, so I take great care of my module choice. I definitely need a source for HiHats/snare etc, because I only have a Kick module for drums rn. I can recommend having pitch and gate sequences separate from each other! You can change the steps that are not playing and slowly evolve the sequence that way. You can also do some other neat tricks with that patch-philosophy. I know what you mean by VCOs with sub oscillator, because I have the Subharmonicon. Love it very much, although I need to learn it better to integrate it into my setup. I feel the pain with too little patch cables btw. So again thank you for your advice and the reminder. What I originally meant to say was that I wanna slowly build up to this kind of setup, but I m taking it slow (could not even afford buying a lot) and keep an eye on what my case needs. Excited for your next video! Cheers!

[@robthebloke]

@@scatt3r1 yeah, I found the subh a little hard to work with, which is why I ended up eventually replacing it with another mother. Because of the way the quantisation works on the pitch knobs, I found it impossible to simply drop into a mix. I could build a song around it, so used to start my sets with it, but then it wasn’t overly useful after that sadly. I found that keeping all the pitch sequence knobs hard left helped (rather than 12 o’clock). If I attempted to set a pitch on one note that didn’t work musically, it’s super easy to swing all the way to the left again, and you’re back in tune. I mostly just threw CV at it (thank god OSC1 normals to osc2!) and treated it as a polyrhythmic baseline tbh. Good luck for Thursday!

[@i-love-comountains3850]

​@@scatt3r1 No pressure to record/upload your live sets, but I subscribed to your channel just in case!🤘🎃

[@jaiden270274]

Man, this is beautiful!

[@nocturnal_nicu8139]

i love this so much, thank you rob

[@sillyjrnvideos]

And much great fun it was. Cheers🙂

[@i-love-comountains3850]

MASSIVE!!🎉❤

[@balaclavaboi7785]

Album when?

[@J.gamesNL]

need this on spotify

[@YourModulesMayVary]

strong Bourne soundtrack vibes! nice!

[@CapnSnackbeard]

Low-key legend

[@capnchas]

Another great groove!

[@4dbonkmusic]

Cheers rob you doing it again 👍

[@o_nathan]

love this so much.

[@bennyboi5953]

Thanks man that was beautiful

[@TheSpudHunter]

I'm so curious, are you musically trained or self taught? There's no wrong anwser. I love your work!

[@robthebloke]

Bit of both. Had piano lessons as a kid, but was self taught on the guitar (which is still my main instrument). Played loads of death metal and jazz for years, so have picked up some knowledge along the way from others. Modular I’ve mainly just watched videos on YT, and have basically set it up to behave like a guitar. Just throw a minor blues pentatonic scale over anything, and it usually works for improv :)

[@darklich14]

Thumbs up on all of it. However you're more comfortable and into the music is the best way for us!

[@geegee952]

I do love blinking lights

[@enroute6753]

Hi Rob, great as always. Possible to make a video about your workflow using the Ground Control?

[@robthebloke]

Like this? kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5CkmaapbJmplaMsi=99vrrMsL6XGOiGUN

[@enroute6753]

Yes, thanks!

[@cuchulainn1967]

LOVELY !!!!!

[@LuvWatches]

Great stuff as always. Also happy to have a camera angle that reveals the size of your set up.

[@robthebloke]

My setup isn’t really that big of a secret, it’s all listed in modular grid: www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/2422962 It used to be a bit bigger than this, but the whole ‘wall of modular’ thing isn’t as great in practice as it might seem from a distance. (The cost of patch cables alone gets ridiculous!!) If my rig was any wider, it wouldn’t fit on a standard DJ riser (which means I’d lose a tonne of gigs). If my rig was any taller, I wouldn’t be able to see the crowd! It’s just about the right size for me :)

[@LuvWatches]

Nice. I just could never guess if the rack beyond the semis was 104 (like it is) or 2 60's .@@robthebloke

[@saideida]

Wonderfull

[@GrumpyStoic]

Liking the camera angle on this one but whatever works best for you obvs :)

[@asdhuman]

lovely ❤

[@EnviroDouglas]

Amazing!

[@theAwakenedOne007]

Dude, what is your setup. This is exactly what setup I've wanted to build. Sound so good!

[@cyborgcastor266]

Epic Track !

[@brokeboi369]

can i use this in a fpv drone edit?

[@ichmachdurch5565]

Awesome 🎉

[@coadabunica]

my god is this nice

[@marcinziolkowski413]

Nice,keep it up!!!

[@kickcos]

Yeaaaaah 🖖

[@EnSin-tesisConGerflick2017]

Is cool 😮

[@chrisrosch4731]

my man you have some finished tracks I can listed to? Maybe on Spotify even? :)

[@robthebloke]

I don’t do tracks - by design, my rig can’t play the same thing twice. I just do what I do, and upload the results here.

[@strikeez552]

Man ur the guy who made the sounds of universe, I found u

[@chrysalis0]

Insane!

[@nottrp481]

Nice

[@lutzrosenbaum2992]

Top

[@DJdrobek]

top !!!!

[@TimExcellent]

how long you been doing this for Rob?

[@robthebloke]

Almost 8 years ish

[@asdhuman]

❤

[@baileytrujillo1834]

my bedroom has now been turned into a club 🪄

[@xploration1437]

Meoooow

[@TheSpudHunter]

I'm so curious, are you musically trained or self taught? There's no wrong anwser. I love your work!