Moog Sound Studio Patch Walkthrough - Diagrams Included

These are the Patch Notes, Explanation, and Tutorial for a Patch I made for the Moog Sound Studio. The patch was used in this Jam Video: • Jam with the Moog Soun...
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From The Moog Website:
This powerful trio of semi-modular synths are perfect for your first foray into modular or your next steps into professional sound design and production. Moog Sound Studio offers the ultimate experience of sonic power and versatility via all three Mother ecosystem semi-modular analog synthesizers. Along with the included Moog Mother-32, Moog DFAM, and Moog Subharmonicon synthesizers, this Moog Sound Studio bundle includes an audio mixer and power distribution hub, a three-tier rack mount kit with matching protective cover, patch cables, a patch cable organizer, guided exercises and patches, a unique card game for generating novel patches, custom artwork designed exclusively for Moog Sound Studio owners, and plenty of creative inspiration.
Check out some of my other videos for patching tips on the Moog DFAM, Mother-32, and Moog Matriarch.
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[@juergherren8910]

I totally dig (all!) your videos! You have the rare ability to make rather complex topics easily understandable. I take a ton of insights out of them and I am really thankful for that.

[@braintree56]

Thanks so much for the kind words! Appreciate it! :)

[@lindsayfeuling1779]

This is very cool. I just recently purchased a Mother-32 and DFAM, and just going through the tutorial you have on the Mother-32, so I can get to know how to use all the features. And then on to the DFAM, and then who knows what's next...

[@braintree56]

Awesome! That's where I started with the Sound Studio too! :)

[@pk9mmpara]

many thanks for you,re great work many many thanks it helps me to understand whats going on by the moog synths .Great work

[@braintree56]

You're very welcome!

[@3pw00dTV]

So thankful that you spent time to show us all this. This is really high quality videos! Thank you🎉

[@braintree56]

Glad you like them!

[@greenvelvet]

This is literally better than Netflix. I've been eating up all these videos like crazy! Thx, brux🙏

[@braintree56]

Better than Netflix! Maybe that's what I should name it! :)

[@greenvelvet]

@@braintree56 YES!!

[@theleastsignificantbit4794]

Great video!

[@braintree56]

Thanks!

[@bjondersson]

Thank you! I really enjoy the content you make. Please show Moog the bug you experience. It was good that you managed to capture the issue in the video.

[@braintree56]

Unfortunately, I did and their response was "There are no known issues"... :(

[@bjondersson]

@@braintree56 Sounds like they didn’t even bother to watch your video. It’s so evident there’s a bug. Sure there won’t be any known issues if they look away from every report. Some years ago I heard a lot of good things about their customer support. Lately I’ve heard about a couple of ignorant responses from them. I’m getting my Moog Sound Studio 3 next week. Hope there won’t be any issues with it.

[@alexandermontagnet3361]

Love that you put the notation on the pitch knows of the DFAM! This is also great!

[@braintree56]

Yeah, I need to start doing this more - especially when the sequencer switch is on.

[@alexandermontagnet3361]

@@braintree56 That would be amazing! I had been meaning to ask you how important it was to tune the VCO’s to an exact Key, or just follow based on the picture/diagram. The pitch knobs being notated is absolutely amazing!

[@bluesguy1977]

Thanks again for the video. Good stuff, keep them coming

[@braintree56]

Sounds good!

[@logamaguiar4970]

Thank you, amazing video!

[@braintree56]

Glad you liked it!

[@starbuckPDX]

I think you should call the patch "Run Like Hell".

[@braintree56]

Ooohh I like that name! I'd be stepping on Pink Floyd's toes though... :P

[@bocasfx]

I'm having the same issues with the sequencer settings as you described. I spend close to three hours last night trying to figure out what was happening. I even re-installed the latest version of the firmware hoping that that would fix it but I was out of luck. It seems that it is a legitimate bug. Hopefully it will be fixed in future firmware revisions 🤞

[@braintree56]

I contacted them about it and they said that it wasn't a documented issue and thought it must be something I'm doing. They told me to reinstall firmware. I did... Kind of disappointed in the level of support I got... :(

[@theleastsignificantbit4794]

Moog’s support if firmware is not good. They make great stuff, but sometimes the support isn’t there.

[@goingmodular]

Nice detailed explanation. And yes, the unplanned wobble was certainly a very cool effect. Next time, you will aim for it deliberately and revel in it ! 🙂 I like the bass sequence on the DFAM very much too. I have been willing to use the DFAM more often as a bass source: I find it very punchy and rich in this role. Until recently however, this came at the expense of more complex rhythms, since it required to affect at least one of the oscillators and one of the sequencers to the bass sequence. And I do not own a M32 to substitute for the lost degrees of freedom. Recently however things have changed in this regard for me, after I bought a Behringer RD-6 on sale for 80 € (that was cheap !). Now, I would not DARE to feed the plucky and feeble percussion sounds of the RD-6 into a DFAM-based sequence ! BUT: My plan from the start was to use my 2600 as a sound processor for the RD-6, turning the latter's meek drum sounds into massive analog percussions. And I found a few sweet spots that I absolutely LOVE, and which sound nothing like an 80's drum machine. The short version is: 1. I feed the bass drum and snare drum of the RD-6 into the 2600's Pre-Amp and Voltage Processor, which in effect builds a very convincing overdrive effect, which in turn can also be modulated by whatever LFO or source I feel like adding. 2. Besides (and that is maybe the best trick of all), I feed the hi-hat of the RD-6 into the 2600 Ring Modulator, in association with one of the LFOs that gets gently pitch-modulated by the (synchronised) Sample and Hold circuit. As a result, the hi-hat becomes fat and rich, and the S&H modulation of the modulating LFO creates random brightness changes in its timbre: even repeating 1/16th notes no longer sound mechanical but feel very organic instead, with the subtle differences in pitch and intensity created by the partially random synchronised ring modulation. All in all, this ends up providing me with options that are very close to what a second DFAM could provide. All for ... 1/10th of the price of a DFAM ! Granted, a second DFAM would be WAY simpler to use than my convoluted contraption, but ... in this world, what you lack in money, you can try to make up for with brains or sweat. One last thing: With the DFAM being used as a bass synth, were you not tempted to use a separate sequencer to transpose its base tone and build up a harmonic progression for your whole set of Moog synths ? The DFAM does not have MIDI obviously, but when I want to transpose my whole Moog Sound Studio loops, I generally use an external keyboard or sequencer to transpose the SubH through MIDI, and then I extend that transposition to the DFAM's sequence using Cv signals from the SubH to the DFAM's VCO(s). In that way, both my SubH and my DFAM get harmonically sequenced together, which of course does not preclude "internal" base harmonic loops driven by their own sequencers. Loops of loops, if you will (which can come handy when your base sequences only have four steps like on the SubH). Anyway ... I have been diving in these machines for six months now, and I am still far far away from having explored all the tricks they have inspired si far. This is just magical, I feel. Sorry that I got carried away again into typing a novel-long comment to your explanatory video. Blame it on its inspirational qualities ! 🙂 Keep them coming !

[@braintree56]

That's a great idea - transposing the DFAM through the SubH. I'll have to play around with it. Yes, I agree. There's so many tricks and interesting ways to play around.

[@SONICrider]

Thanks for this vid, is the starting of the DFAM "of grid" cleared yet? Put my soundmachine together (DFAM and Mother 32 where separated from the start and having the Sub now I joined them in one case).... Oh, have a good, healthy, preceful and inspiring 2 0 2 4 \0/

[@braintree56]

Nope. Still happens. The problem is definitely with the mother. If I was playing live, I would use Pam's or something to clock everything. The three are so awesome together!

[@SONICrider]

@@braintree56 Thanks getting back on this. Ah, so using an external clock seems to be my solution 2. ~Having a custom made Sound Studio case wiht some extra space for a clock divice and some multiples.