Hello everyone! This video is a breakdown of my techno patch. I tried a few different sounds and examples to demonstrate. If you are interested in hearing more Techno sounds, have a look at the video I did on the Kickain using this exact case: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZ3HZHutn7eoaZo
@mit136speichenumdiewelt Жыл бұрын
One of the best video 2023 right now!
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Haha, well, there's a lot more to come on KZbin I guess. But that's nice to hear :)
@caydilemma3309 Жыл бұрын
Always appreciate hearing the reasons behind someone’s rack design choices. I’m hoping to make some Eurorack videos this year, and you’re the gold standard!
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Hey, glad to hear it! And go for it :)
@dillipphunbar7924 Жыл бұрын
Sonically rich palate you have there. That Droid system is very powerful.
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Thank you! And indeed. Was really an eye opener for me working with it. So much more can be done than I do here, but great as a control surface :)
@sensorycircuits133810 ай бұрын
Awesome explanation, not just for this particular patch but as a methodology for designing a rack with a specific purpose in mind.
@MonotrailTechTalk10 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful! I enjoy this setup a lot, although I have to admit I combined this techno case with my other live case to create an all-purpose setup. Easier for myself , and future video plans. The case still has the same idea though, a few compact synth voices, combined with percussive elements :)
@bodoelsel Жыл бұрын
Great video. An in-depth video for building that case would be awesome 😊
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Ah yeah, I'm a bit annoyed by my self I didn't record a video about that when making it! :/
@southernmainesonicexperime3438 Жыл бұрын
Great video! Love the format. Very thorough explanation on your thought process which is very useful for those of us trying to learn and expand our own horizons
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful! That's my main goal, share insights on building setups or patches for people looking to do something similar. Thanks for watching!
@dietervoser4425 Жыл бұрын
Ein sehr schöner Koffer !🙂 und sehr elegant.
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Danke! :)
@bastian5304 Жыл бұрын
Please more insides about the case! Looks great
@josemariaestellerfuentes3176 Жыл бұрын
Really soo inspirational video.. this and more of the other ones on the channel.. are big useful. Thanks for it
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Thanks for letting me know! Positive comments like this makes it worth doing this. All the best!
@robvbeats Жыл бұрын
always inspiring!! 🤖
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Glad to hear it, thanks for watching!
@henryb6009 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. Very clever patch and live system.
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Glad you like it!
@nebpublic Жыл бұрын
Hi Monotrail Great stuff as ever. The new case looks great. Real food for thought. I religiously follow your content (and get the flowcharts on patreon). Really learnt a lot. The thing that is still magic to me though is your approach to transitions. For example I really love your Jam 215 which I believe uses mainly the patch you described in your three video patch series a couple of years back, but I still don’t understand how you manage the transitions. The new sounds appear from the same voices almost as if from thin air. I’d dearly love to see a video explaining your approach to transitions. How you get the new character from the same voices in real time and how you manage to transition those changes without interrupting the flow. So really the big picture of how you reuse voices across a composition. I can see with the new case you have a deep plan for that! Thanks for the videos. Really the best content out there for explaining how to make a modular system into a playable instrument.
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Hello! That's lovely to hear, and thank you so much for the Patreon support! At the beginning of the year I asked what kind of videos people like to see from me (with a short list) and videos on making / performing music with a modular was picked a lot! I plan my videos months ahead these days, so there are for a lot of things on my to do list still. But you will see me making more videos about writing and performing this year. I hope they do well, that would open up a lot of possibilities! For starters, I will make a video with this Techno case. A part 1 in making a 1hr set with it. I just promised to do another performance, so that's a good incentive I guess! Thanks again, and all the best!
@studiobrootle10 ай бұрын
thanks for this :) got a few semi modulars and weighing up the move to full on eurorack.
@MonotrailTechTalk10 ай бұрын
Glad I could help! Think semi-modular is a fantastic way to go, so much options and bang-for your buck these days. That allows to be more specific with modular features. Enjoy the journey!
@damarucases Жыл бұрын
Thats a great video, very well done, epic explanation. thanks
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it! Cheers :)
@ResAffolterSoundproductions Жыл бұрын
Nice and small. Awesome and big thanks to share this with us 🙏🏻🕊✌🏻✨🌈🔥🍀
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Very happy to be able to make these! Thanks for watching :)
@nielshulgard3722 Жыл бұрын
Great video! Really well presented and exciting. I would love to follow your progress with this case towards the mark of a 1 hour improvised set with distinctive parts/tracks and hear your thoughts on transitions, 'track' structure, set progression and so forth. Will be keeping an eye out for more videos with this case!
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Hey, that's good to hear! Because that's exactly the idea. I will work on more videos about wiring/performing with a modular. Happy to share my procecs in learning and working with this case! All the best :)
@nielshulgard3722 Жыл бұрын
@@MonotrailTechTalk amazing, that just made my day! Best of luck with the process and looking forward to following it!
@vertigev Жыл бұрын
This was an awesome video, thank you!
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Thanks, glad you liked it! :)
@tracyharms3548 Жыл бұрын
One hour of improvisation using under 200hp sounds ambitious, but you already know that!
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
True! But sounds like a good goal to me :) Think it's very possible, although those improvisations will not be so different from each other I guess,
@ChristopherOrth Жыл бұрын
Nice rig!
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Thanks! :)
@anastasia0zardonova Жыл бұрын
This is exactly the content that i need! Played my first mini modular live show a week ago and i definitely want to do more. My case Idea is a little different but especially the concept of having few but very flexible modulation sources to repatch during the performance instead of cramming alot of static ones in there might be a way to keep things from getting to repetitive. I swelled into the same things multiple times during the show, which was kinda worrying... Also, i do not see any FX in your case. I have an Aurora and a Versio in my case Both used for Reverb/Delay type sounds and i am constantly worrying about how to use and dial them in... I am a little lost with this subject and would love to see a video on live FX usage in general. (Drums->Rings(with v/O sequence)->Aurora Reverb, and my Bassline switched 2 Octaves up to use as melody -> Versio as delay).
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Ha, congrats on the live show! For sure, I wouldn't recommend building this exact setup to anyone. Just take the parts or things you think would work for you! As for FX I come from doing performances with an outboard mixer on the side. This was and still is perfect to me. I'd take different signals from the modular to the outboard mixer, and then just use the AUX send 1 & 2 with a reverb and delay pedal. Works great, and that's still how I use it in my studio. For this case indeed I like to see if I could include at least a simple stereo reverb into the case, so nothing else is needed. But I would still go for a FX send setup. Your setups sound solid. So just a matter of finding the right balance between dry/wet signal. You could always try to use those FX as sends. So listen to the clean signal of each voice, and use a multiple or stackable cable to send a copy into a 100%wet effect. Then mix again within the modular, or with outboard mixer.
@anastasia0zardonova Жыл бұрын
@@MonotrailTechTalk The sends are an amazing Idea! I never thought about such a simple thing... thats why modular is awesome. Id imagine, i could get away with just one space effect if i can just mix everything into it. Also my mix would probably be cleaner and i wont have to be as careful with loosing my dry volume tweaking the dry/wet on stage. Ill try as soon as possible, thanks alot!
@nielshulgard3722 Жыл бұрын
@@anastasia0zardonova if you dont want an external mixer but instead want mixer with sends in eurorack and use eurorack effects, I can really recommend the ST modular Stereo SUM system. It has a main module with 2 stereo sends and returns, main out and headphone out. And then you add individual mono and stereo channels as you need which conenct on the backside to the main module so it saves on cabling. Each channel has mute, a pretty brutal one knob eq (hi pass/lo pass with boost), switch for a/b send, level control, send level control and headphone/main out mix knob. So basically just a modular outboard mixer in eyrorack format. Only important thing to note is that there is no gain on the channels, the level control is just an attenuator, so it expects modular level. I was a tad disappointed witht this as I have to add somethig like the bubblesound booater stage for my external synths, but it is a minor nuissance. If you only have two mono channels and are fine with one stereo fx chain which it seems like from your comment, the make noise rosie is also a nice output mixer module with send/return. Since it is a bit old you could probably find it quite cheap second hand. Just some ideas if you are determined to keep everything in your case.
@channelite Жыл бұрын
Hope to see a jam video with this case
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Me to! I plan to get to it, share the process here, and upload some sessions on my other channel :)
@quantum_ocean15 күн бұрын
List of modules used?
@blindianajones Жыл бұрын
With all that Droid control, how do you remember all that is going on? And when it comes to the programming, Im guessing that system only goes as well as one's knowledge of cv and how you want to use it? The second question is really about how do you program if you're not sure what a particular cv result creates?
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Hi there! It's quite some things to remember indeed, but the whole modular is a bit like that. At the end a patch on DROID is something I end up fine tuning an using a lot. Nothing different from remembering how my Beatstep Pro or any other sequencer works. The programming is a lot of fun in my opinion, using the interface designed for it is great, and doesn't require any difficult coding at all. But for sure, it requires some creativity and a curious mind. If the whole idea doesn't make you smile its best to maybe try out the software (its free) and click around a bit. to see if it is for you. And finally, if you made something and it doesn't have the desired result, just adjust it! That's the beauty of DROID :)
@blindianajones Жыл бұрын
@@MonotrailTechTalk That all makes sense technically and philosophically. I dont know if droid would end up being a reduction in hp and make my engagement more fun and easier. Id want to replace my trigger riot, vector five12, divkid ochd, ne lapsus ox and 2 cosmo delta v.
@44MV9 ай бұрын
I just bougth my first module 😅 and getting started , you have some suggestions for a noob like me 😊
@MonotrailTechTalk9 ай бұрын
Nice! Congrats on making the jump! It's a slippery slope, and very a very personal journey. First advice is just to take your time exploring each module and your ideas!
@44MV9 ай бұрын
ok tx for your time @@MonotrailTechTalk
@tekhnopranaexploratoryelec1445 Жыл бұрын
Amazing! Due to financial issues, I'd like to do it on Ableton using my Push 1...would that be possible? Again, amazing sound machine!
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
I'm gonna go ahead and say yes :) And thanks!
@tekhnopranaexploratoryelec1445 Жыл бұрын
@@MonotrailTechTalk Thank you! Will study the subject!
@eriksmeets9254 Жыл бұрын
great video! also got the case on modulargrid?
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Thank you! And yes, you can find all my cases in (most of the time) current state here: www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/command_center/46250
@effiksmusic Жыл бұрын
Do you have the DROID patch somewhere? Can you post it in the DROID Discord?
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
Hey, I do! Might clean it up a bit and share tomorrow. Will place it on my Patreon, as well as Modwiggler. Will also try Discord again, but my laptop had some issues with that. Will let you know if it's up!
@effiksmusic Жыл бұрын
@@MonotrailTechTalk cool
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
@@effiksmusic Hello! I posted the the .ini fie of the DROID patch used in this video, along with a picture with all knob controls on Modwiggler to download: modwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3894584#p3894584
@effiksmusic Жыл бұрын
@@MonotrailTechTalk Thanks, I will study it.
@filthyeight Жыл бұрын
Racks with Sample-Players aren't impressive tbh
@MonotrailTechTalk Жыл бұрын
I don't care about how 'impressive' a rack is. I care about the music it makes, and the fun I have performing with it.