Mutable Instruments - Marbles *Feature Jam & Walkthrough*

Here's my first video with the new Mutable Instruments Marbles. This is a bit of a feature jam and walkthrough looking at using all 7 outputs in a patch for beats, clocking, random jitters and stepped random with musical quantisation and locking / looping as well as the great spread/bias controls to influence the stepped random values. A more comprehensive full video is coming soon. Stay tuned!
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[@Cambaudio]

Awesome tutorial / explanation for Marbles that isn't ~1 hour long! I appreciate that as time is money.

[@acefstripe]

this module is so deep. but intuitive for the most part. this is a good vid to help me remember and refresh the basics.

[@DivKid]

nice one David, thanks

[@kohlhofer]

Excellent overview. Thanks for putting it together.

[@DivKid]

Just the tip of the iceberg! A big comprehensive video will follow this coming week.

[@jfklmk13447]

Thanks a lot for another great and very informative video ! It's always a pleasure coming back to your channel checking out new stuff

[@DivKid]

Thanks Artem appreciate that. An in depth and more comprehensive video will follow with this so stay tuned this coming week.

[@jfklmk13447]

Keep up the great work ! One question though I don't seem to get if you can control individual drum fills on this module :| Since that feature on the Grids seems really awesome for mixing things up while performing live^

[@RobinRimbaudScanner]

Can always rely on you Ben!! Fantastic! Looks like a very inspiring module indeed

[@DivKid]

Why thank you kind sir! :)

[@robertsyrett1992]

Looks like my ornaments and crime will very soon be off of quad Turing machine duty.

[@DivKid]

yay! Free it up for something else. I've been thinking it might be a quad EG or LFO for me. Still not totally comfy with the OC to be honest.

[@buyukberber]

Very good overview, thanks a lot!

[@DivKid]

Cheers Oguz, be sure to come back later in the coming week for a really comprehensive video on it, this is just a basic look at the features :)

[@LittleAmbientMachine]

Thanks for this !, very clear

[@DivKid]

Cheers LAM

[@PatchMonger]

Fulsome video 🤓. Module looks amazing. May replace a few of my current ones. Looks great for small systems. Thanks for demoing 👍

[@DivKid]

haha this isn't fulsome! The fulsome 1 hour 6 minutes in depth tutorial on random, keeping things musical which is all in the big Marbles video is actually coming this weekend.

[@PatchMonger]

DivKidVideo, bring it on!!! Just got notification that mine is on the post. I'll be awesome to know more about this module, super excited. Looking forwards to your big fulsome demo 👍

[@ComparativeIrrelevance]

Definitely need to get this!

[@DivKid]

shipping this coming week to stores I believe.

[@ComparativeIrrelevance]

So I've heard! I'm ready! :)

[@DivKid]

:)

[@fuzzpope]

Hell yes, wooooo!!!

[@DivKid]

nice one.

[@chemicalBR0]

Another one to add to the wishlist Theres Some nice new stuff coming out from mutable. (Hope theres a clouds replacement on the way soon tho)

[@DivKid]

I think that's a fair bit later in the year, but that's just me speculating.

[@CapRockout]

Got my pre-order in today and the timing of this release couldn't be better. My rack is lacking a good random module, but I also want one that is very musical and has great control to be able to ride that balance between chaos and structure. I had been considering the Wogglebug or URA, but this won me over quickly. My groove box is about to get groovier :D Another great video as always. Cheers!

[@DivKid]

it's definitely get more life and groove. Nice one.

[@precarious333]

Wow, looks like an even more useful take on the Turing Machine. This will sell like hotcakes!

[@DivKid]

Music Thing Modular Turing Machine gets a mention for the "Deja Vu" looping section. But it goes way beyond that and that's just the right hand side of the module! :)

[@jonaseggen2230]

I think Nick Bat has the ownership of the word "fulsome". But "Marbleless" or "Marbleles" is not taken. It doesn't have anything to do with "They must have taken my marbles away", but to do with being marble like + marvelous, as earth seen from a certain distance, a great module or a really good walkthrough.

[@DivKid]

haha :)

[@nealohara782]

Impressive. Looks like a Turing Machine meets Branches meets Tuesday. Like Grids, this seems to be very live orientated, which I like.

[@DivKid]

Yeah it really pulls in a lot of great things into a really playable comprehensive thing.

[@LoVeAmBiEnT]

That kick is huge. Which module was it coming from ? Braids. Ahh

[@somemusicfromandersjonsson938]

Damn it, i just bout the MI Branches 2 weeks ago, if I know this one will come I would wait!

[@DivKid]

Branches is fantastic, I like having that dotted around the case.

[@shamrockit5136]

Look at twigs its a quad Bernoulli gate

[@JapanoiseBreakfast]

What else is on this patch other than marbles and plaits? I see a few cables going off screen and am curious what they're doing.

[@FemiFleming]

How do u feel about the After Later Audio micro version of marbles, Cara?

[@Z33803]

That’s cool! Are all the new modules from this company going to have white knobs? Was there a logic to the color of the knobs on the previous modules?, miss the bubblegum style😁

[@DivKid]

Not sure, but yeah Plaits and Marbles are white knobs only, I did wonder that the other day.

[@robertsyrett1992]

Just curious, what will the longer video have that you haven't already covered? Do you think this is in the same category as TINRS Tuesday?

[@mrbluelynxchannel5207]

Perhaps "Procedural Synthesis Music" is the next big eurorack trend!

[@DivKid]

lots of patches. I consider my strength is going through features and raw sounds then showing a few examples. This in my mind is a quick run through. So I have 3 different patches for the 3 different clock modes. I'll then have plenty more (yet to film) for other features and tips.

[@morismateljan6458]

"Fullsome" is fine, you may proceed. Just don't ever say "PWM".

[@DivKid]

haha! I was hoping someone would pick that up and say something.

[@timothynewman6062]

literally came here to say this

[@walrtbstudios5430]

Actually (and I say this as a subscriber, a fan, AND an owner of the Ochd module), ‘fulsome’ is NOT ok. It doesn’t mean ‘full’ or ‘thorough’ as many assume, but ‘oily/creepy’ or ‘smarmily ingratiating’. You would welcome a full apology, but nor a fulsome apology…

[@rhampton1914]

i only have one or 2 eurorack items..is this Marbles only beneficial if you have lot's of eurorack modules? there's so many ins and outs...i want to buy one but i'm only going to be able to utilize one input and 1 or 2 outs...can i get same effects like your getting now? and i want to use it on a Synth Module. No drums..

[@timmjohannesbrockmann9530]

How does it compare to the Frap Tools Sapel?

[@willmattwood]

So quick question... can you use the right hand "x" side to process external CV signals? Ie. send in your own CV pattern from an external sequencer and then "bias"/"spread"/"quantize/step-lock-slew" those voltages?

[@DivKid]

yes.

[@willmattwood]

cooooool

[@TheWorld_2099]

I’m really struggling to understand this... I’ve got decades experiences with synths, plugins and DAWs. How do I get a better handle on modular?

[@Cambaudio]

Its not that bad. Download VCV Rack and watch some videos on creating a basic patch and take off from there! Totally worth the time investment as the skies the limit.

[@TheWorld_2099]

Basic synth wiring is cool, no issue there, I happen to own a Morphagene and Marbles, and I was hoping to get them to work together and ‘make cool shit’, lol, but it’s been more of a drag than fun... I’ve made thousands of tracks in Logic or DP, and had tons of music on TV shows, etc... (Just to say that I’m not lost with technology)- But yeah, thanks, I’ll mess around more with what I’ve got, I appreciate you responding.

[@chemicalBR0]

which concepts are you struggling with ? is it just marbles or modular synths in general? just ask questions, everybody i have met in the modular community is super helpful and will be more than willing to help you out. morphagene isn't a sound source on it's own so getting just marbles and morph to do anything interesting is gonna be a struggle. you need to feed morphagene sounds to mangle and loop. (no doubt you know that already) think of marbles as a random sequencer it may help to watch some videos on the Music thing Turing machine as marbles is similar in concept (but its a little more complex than the turing)kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpaVZ3V_pqdrj5o (this is basically what the right hand side of marbles does the X side) but it has extra stuff like a built in quantizer and more control over probability than a TM

[@TheWorld_2099]

MostlyRandom - hey man, I really appreciate it... Yeah, I have this super minimal set up of exactly those two modules, and yes I have gotten sounds into morphagene, but yes it’s a little bit of a bizarre set up for sure. I’ll post some questions, great suggestion, and also probably make more use of my local analog synth shop... Hope all’s well with you in modular land...!

[@bcornels]

@@TheWorld_2099 You should totally look up the tutorial series by the channel Tuesday Night Machines on KZbin. Then after that, mylarmelodies. I used vcvrack to practice the concepts I learned from those and it has helped immensely. Hope that helps!

[@nonprofit7163]

i need itt

[@DivKid]

:)

[@xorthontech]

I can't seem to get actual "musical" notes from Marbles. No matter how I set it it seems like it is not in tune. Clashing notes. I can't figure out how to get the nice scaled notes people get with this module. I must be missing a setting. I am thinking I could use a quantizer for the cv outputs to force it to scale. Any suggestions?

[@DivKid]

Quantiser settings are on the right (going clockwise from centre) of the Steps control.

[@scottarmstrong8585]

Mah-ballzzz

[@DivKid]

:D

[@tonhueb429]

fulsome

[@DivKid]

:) 1 hour and 6 minutes, the fulsome video is coming this weekend.

[@ChrisDragotta]

It's Sound Globs

[@DivKid]

Globs?

[@davidlewis1787]

@@DivKid there’s lumps of it out the back

[@VincentsVideoVisions]

Dumb question but is this module best used for triggering percussion? I just ordered the Behringer knockoff but im not even 100% sure I need this in my case since i dont do percussion in modular. Just use my tr8s.

[@eroslivieratos272]

I'm trying to gauge if this will be redundant for me with the FLXS1

[@DivKid]

A powerful sequencer and a powerful random generator/looper can be a great pairing. Using them to influence each other.

[@digo8167]

cool module but pretty redundant for my rig unfortunately.

[@DivKid]

Fair enough, not everything is for everyone that's important to point out I think. Cheers Diego.

[@takeiteasy6346]

Still don’t understand what it does

[@DivKid]

in the simplest sense ... generates voltages that are useful for making music and exploring sound If you're more familiar generates both gates and varying voltages for triggering events and controlling the parameters of a modular system. Any specific questions? It's a broad thing to try and answer, more so if the video isn't helping. But I'll try to help if you want to ask anything.

[@takeiteasy6346]

@@DivKid thanks for the explainer, I could have swore you mentioned it synthesizes drums also in the video? Thanks

[@DivKid]

if you can find a section that I say anything similar I'll go back and figure out what I was on about.