Moog Mother-32 step sequencer video tutorial

This is an excerpt from our longer, in-depth Mother-32 video, which in addition to this step sequencer overview includes an introduction to building a eurorack rig around Mother-32. There's also a section about novel ways to control Mother-32 that includes discussion of Mother-32's MIDI-to-CV conversion capabilities and uses for the assignable output on its patch panel. The complete Mother-32 video can be viewed here: • Moog Mother-32 Semi-Mo...
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[@SlowDescentToWild]

I keep forgetting how the sequencer works and have used this video multiple times as a reminder. Thank you for the very clear and well structured tutorial.

[@crushdesign]

me too! Ive watched this a million times.

[@vr4ever645]

Same here!

[@robertgray4904]

Watching this in 2022 and this is so much easier/less frustrating that reading the effing manual. Thanks so much, clear and concise info that I can apply straight away!

[@NICUofficial]

I watched this multiple times over 5 years ago and I've only become MORE obsessed with the M32 and modular synthesis in that time this video and ones like it literally changed the course of my life hard to express how grateful I am. Back again to review :)

[@macognia82]

Probably one of the most eloquent, sharp and clear tutorial I have ever seen. Thank you!

[@standonend]

6:18 accents are indicated during playback and editing by octave location lamp number 7 6:41 7:15 turn to 16 step pattern/seq. 8:02 save a pattern 9:52

[@halferhu]

I am at the beginning of my Moog Mother 32+DFAM journey and your guide with crystal clear explanation gave me a great boost in understanding the basics, thank you!

[@Larry30102]

How lost would I be without this video. Many Thx!!

[@keith303]

Very well explained. Great fluency and all terms are always on point, dispite the complexity of a sequencer, which is mostly utlilized by pressing various keys at the same time resulting in different outcome, depending on the mode you're currently in. After owning the M32 for two days, i have spent around 4-5 hours fiddling with it and it's currently hard to believe that i will ever get used to it. Especially when i imagine being away from the machine for a couple of days from now and then. Thanks for this great walkthrough !

[@remotegod255]

Before I watched this video, I *thought* I loved my Mother-32. Now it's hard NOT to buy 2 more of them... Thanks for an incredibly useful and educational video, from a fellow electronic musician

[@TheWayfarerProjectLearning]

This is a very thorough description of the sequencer section of the Mother 32. Thank you!

[@vr4ever645]

This really is the best video on the Mother 32 Sequencer. Your voice and the camera perspectives are on point! Top! ❤️

[@guyp2c569]

This is probably the best mother 32 seq tutorial on the tube.Thank you!

[@sharpsetify]

Well done video. Just picked it to pieces and added it to my library of modules with breakdowns and examples.

[@ronnieleetwo]

This is an incredibly useful video that I keep coming back to. Thank you!

[@eviertelify]

Best tutorial yet. Thanks!

[@carlos_martinezzz]

thanks for making this comprehensive and high quality tutorial!!

[@AdiGoldsteinComposer]

The best mother32 seq tutorial ever! Thank you for sharing!

[@Phargoomax]

Phantastic explanation! Thanks a lot!!

[@tescomealdeals]

Thanks for this video, it really helped me solidify my choice to make this my first modular synth

[@GrosseBrueste]

Excellent tutorial, thank you!

[@Totally007]

Thank You John , Outstanding job ! This was so much help !

[@mathjince]

Explained excellently 👏👏

[@artemskliarov5987]

very high level tutorial

[@wombra8314]

another little item worthy of note,.,,during playback in either mode.... if you are repeating a step by pressing hold...the reset key still works while you are still pressing hold. i find this useful during jamming to jump back to the first step smoothly after doing note repeats. or for turning the begining of your sequence into an 'intro' that builds in length, etc. beautiful vid thanks. i think the included moog manual is brilliant, but your tutorial is very succinct and perfect for more visual tactile learning types. it also reinforced what i learned from the moog manual and made me confident i hadn't missed anything. thanks much! cheers

[@nsanch0181]

Thanks a lot I was having trouble getting started but you explained some really helpful features.

[@benjaminadamzehavi2342]

Thanks for the video, really informative and good.

[@harrywilcock2030]

Great video thanks!

[@enigmasounds]

Thanks VM, most helpful

[@johnathantyrer6077]

great video,thankyou for the very informative and easy guide-johnathan,UK

[@rabdian]

thank you so much.

[@roberthanleytortora7405]

Thanks so much. That was awesome

[@jasonflores2003]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

[@theresistance1151]

Very good video learnt a lot. Thank You. More Vids Please

[@vincentromine3949]

Succinctly perfect

[@thecaptainofrock]

Thanks!!!!

[@wyatttaylor.mp3]

This tutorial is the best one I’ve discovered for the mother 32 HANDS DOWN

[@KrisBarton432]

Thank you for this tutorial, so helpful \m/

[@gakumoyo]

Thank you！！！！！！！！

[@DayflightTrok]

THX Very good

[@MrPorkker]

nice

[@petercane6376]

Thank you for a very well explained video. I must be a bit dumb as I don't find it so easy ti master. It must be a nightmare to sequence anything in two octaves? It must be hard to decide where to put the rests. If I was writing down the notes I could see in front of me where they are but with this sequencer there are no clues. Perhaps I am thinking too deep. Talking about deep...my Lord you have a deep voice!

[@bigkingsha]

the sequencing complexity on this thing makes the one on the Octatrack seem like a fisher price toy.

[@timmbrockmann959]

yes? Can you give a quick feature comparison? thänxs :)

[@HerrSpuzzmacher]

Thanks for this. I have my neice’s Mother32 and user manual at home, & told her I’d get it back to its original working state, but it’s been impossible to figure out what settings have been tweaked. Lights seem to be different colors & do totally different things than the manual says, & there seems to be no factory reset on it. Kraft music... you guys are just down the road from me. I wonder if i could buy a 1/2 hour of your tech’s knowledgable time to get this back to normal.

[@thomastraylor6337]

I'm struggling to get into setup mode / assign clock out. I read the manual but I must be doing something wrong. Any tips?

[@winsoundstudio]

May I ask a question? How to remove Swing Tempo? I want to go back normal tempo. Thank you.

[@armenbazarian2212]

Can you effect swing on specific steps rather than the entire pattern?

[@Dogboy73]

Nice rig. I'm thinking Mother 32 + an empty Moog Eurorack case like this for some other bits. Not sure what to put in. These modules look like they go well. I like the look of the Mutable Instruments modules. Also the Make Noise stuff. So much choice. Where do you start?@! ........ With a Mother 32 of course ;)

[@josiethompson2420]

I haven't gotten any modules yet because i don't have the funds, but the maths seems essential, as well as VCAs! intellijel uVCA seems pretty cool, as you can mix between linear and exponential. honestly I would get vca before anything else. the mother-32 technically has one but it's limited, but there are so many patches i've explored that would benefit from a dedicated vca or two!

[@sibsbubbles]

one question: can you edit a single step's note whilst the sequencer is running (aka on the fly) like you can with the ratcheting, glide, accent, etc?

[@moreteamrshifter]

yes you can which was the big missing thing out of a great tutorial.

[@dannytalk8902]

Hey how would you use the sequencer in the mother to control the pitch and gate of an outside oscillator?

[@robinweber9640]

just a guess but send pitch out the oscillator and gate to the envelope controlling the amp, right?

[@EverettDudgeon138]

Can you switch between patterns on the fly without having to hold down a button?

[@josiethompson2420]

apparently you can through midi. you can download the manual and it talks about it from page 48, but I have no idea how it works."MIDI program changes 1 to 64 select the current sequencer pattern location" I have no idea what a program change is.

[@theokingshango]

dont take down this video cause well keep forgetting. One day pause is enough

[@MrFlatlandcycle]

I'm starting to think my SHIFT key is glitchy. I've been over these instructions a bunch of times exactly as instructed...It's as if the SHIFT key doesn't "pickup" the key press every time. At that I point I could be doing anything. It would explain why I can't seem to get these instructions to work.

[@alandavisphoto]

I love the way the Mother 32 sounds but damn I hate this sequencer - I can never remember how to use it!

[@botlord2127]

By the way, does the power on and off of the M32 only plug in and unplug?..

[@wombra8314]

botpilot yes, designed to work in eurorack as well, so this is a good thing in that case. still gives me that slightly uneasy feeling though haha

[@vinylwrap5571]

Hey what if I want to use 6 steps per 8 steps for the entire 32 steps? When i try to do this, it defaults every page to 8 steps!

[@hakonsoreide]

So, what you are saying is you want a total 24 steps? Then you use three pages instead of four.

[@robinweber9640]

pretty sure he addressed the 'last step' option

[@weave_of_k]

cant find anywhere in the video where i can save the patterns

[@natejmattson1870]

Hold shift, play button, record button, set the osc to square, increase the lfo to max speed, punch the 7 button twice. Simple

[@emptyfame7141]

8:01

[@VinceVega303]

What are the exact devices under the M32 ?

[@kraftmusic]

This is an excerpt from a longer video where we discussed each of those modules. You can see the full version here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6m6eGqIqrRke5Y From left to right: Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers OSC2, Malekko Heavy Industry Wiard Boogie Filter, Studio Electronics Boomstar Modular Sci-Fi, Tiptop Audio Z-DSP, all powered by the Tiptop Audio μZEUS at the far right. Thanks for watching!

[@jdworkz]

1:49 keyboard mode

[@botlord2127]

How do I synchronize with ableton live? Illuminame, I already read the manual :/ help mee

[@kraftmusic]

Never fear! Kraft Music is here to help :) We just published an in-depth look at using the Mother-32 and Werkstatt synths together. In this video Will uses Ableton as a MIDI master for the Mother-32 sequencer, and he also records multiple tracks of audio into Ableton. Check this out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIOnaH6hg9OUlckm13s Please feel free to contact us with any other questions. Thanks for watching! -Dave

[@botlord2127]

thank you very much! Always lighting, are the best, of course I happened to see it, THANKS :)

[@philoupaulo]

Elektron team's engineers can sleep quietly... They play an other ergonomy with their sequencer !

[@philoupaulo]

yes, in fact, the most shitty sequencer i've ever seen...

[@RightWing1]

How the hell do you even start or learn all of this?

[@victorjacquet8164]

buy one, do the same. we all learn like that.

[@csrader]

Yah, Victor is right. These kind of tools require what I call "deep flow" - getting into the box thoroughly, with curiosity and patience, experimenting, looking up and not realize how much time has passed. No offense to anyone, but note this does not necessarily square with "instant gratification" society. Don't get me wrong, I love getting a new toy (VA synth for example), starting it up, and jamming straight away with some cool presets/preprogrammed sounds. This noodle box is not that. The patterns on this when it arrives are notably a single note (ie. "blank").

[@MrFlatlandcycle]

Not to discount that "Deep Flow" is extremely painful;) Helpful: pages 32-37 of the manual for SEQUENCER PANEL FUNCTION QUICK REFERENCE Breakout a notebook. Print a few pages of the manual and make scratch notes in the margins. Hit pause, play and rewind a bunch of times. Make sure you bookmark the tutorials that work for you. This one starts at #t=2m54s for me. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIm7haCirpdjmbM#t=2m54s My biggest hurdle is what Moog thinks a procedure should be called isn't what I would call it, so that my find-in-document searches don't turn up results. For instance, INITIALIZE CURRENT PATTERN doesn't turn up in results when you search for "clear reset current pattern." The manual is in need of a glossary or index that can deal with synonyms. Also, (SHIFT)+RESET+PATTERN != (SHIFT)+PATTERN+RESET; it's problematic when the answer should take seconds not hours. At least when you punch in page 32 it goes to page 32, that's pet peeve of poorly paginated Acrobat documents. Hum, interesting that page 32 is the real meat and potatoes...

[@WeirdMedicine]

wacky, though, your hands cover up the LEDs so we can't see wtf you're doing. :-) otherwise very nice tutorial

[@ramiromicroesfera]

the most hateful and confusing sequencer on the planet, is a mummy

[@elektribel]

Why does Behringer and Moog still has this shitty sequencer. I really like analog controlled synthesizers,but the only one who has a nice sequencer is the Korg Monotribe

[@arieswaters]

I so don't have a clue what the hell. This thing's worth $500 used. What the hell

[@moreteamrshifter]

This is a great tutorial but I think you missed out a big thing! Anyone interested give me a shout.

[@faranmemon4277]

and that is?