My new live setup : Noise Plethora, Atlantis, and Ghost

[@Wormsie]

Really inspired by this to try some new patch ideas and use what I have instead of buying new things - except for maybe the Noise Plethora, eventually. 😄 Thanks!

[@LucasMarchal]

Happy to read this ! that's the idea, always, to inspire people to make music and have fun !

[@myceliumtechno]

Through your amazing demo's I got inspired and ordered a Modular Channel. Finally after more than a year it arrived last week. Best buy ever. Holy smoke!

[@LucasMarchal]

oh yes ! It is indeed the best buy ever

[@greencontact]

That some sounds at last kick and bubbly bassline and peep was just perfect...

[@LucasMarchal]

thanks a lot :)

[@lachrymal1707]

You are amazing my friend, full of knowledge... so much respect and thanks as always.

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you ❤️

[@SamMcEwin]

Great stuff. I’ve been watching this on loop. I pick up something new every time. For sure, deep dives on the Ghost and the Noise Plethroa would be awesome. For me I prefer the process vids. I’d love to see an in depth tutorial on your approach to sequencing, pattern lengths, how you use the slides, modulation, how it interacts with your delays etc. I always love your sequences. Anyway keep up the great work. Loving your sound.

[@_MarcusNewman_]

How good is this?

[@SamMcEwin]

@@_MarcusNewman_ I’m hooked.

[@itsritmu]

The jam right at the end is the grooviest thing I’ve heard in a long time. Great work!

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you :)

[@mit136speichenumdiewelt]

Holy shit what a upgrade ;-) The Teacher teach! Absolutely driving, I could listen like this for hours

[@LucasMarchal]

thank you !

[@NCLSRD]

Thank you Lucas for sharing this demo. So inspiring as usual. You're such a talented producer. I hope we can meet one day.

[@LucasMarchal]

thank you

[@alaeifR]

Always fun to watch these videos! You probably know this, but you can get out of the 12ET tuning of the Metropolis by simply attenuating the pitch CV with a VCA or precision adder like A-185-2. Attenuate by 50% for 24ET or any random amount for something more dissonant. Actually, come to think of precision adders, I wonder what the two sequences from the Voltage Multi and Metropolis would sound like added together (especially with different sequence lengths or different clock tempo ratios)?

[@LucasMarchal]

yes of course, I usually have a manhattan analog CVP for that very use but I'm hurting for space a bit in this situation. I can also send a static offset in either of the aux input to make it more atonal.

[@Honeysmack]

great insight and your sound is always on point! Thank you ❤

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you boss !

[@andreasschmelas]

Killer sound! Would love to hear your liveset some day! Pls play a gig in Berlin where i live 😊

[@PanamaDog]

thats what we are all waiting for :)

[@LucasMarchal]

Would love to come play there for sure

[@nntblst]

Sine waves are the Helvetica font of sound, they work fine on everything!!!

[@LucasMarchal]

ahah yes, great analogy. What's the comic sans ms though ?

[@nntblst]

@@LucasMarchal hahahaha!!! Probably whatever necesary to make Cheesy Trance leads!!

[@LucasMarchal]

@@nntblst hard techno/trance edits of pop hits past is for sure the comic sans of techno ahah

[@nntblst]

@@LucasMarchal im inclined to believe that Papyrus is way worst than Comics Sans!!! So yeah hard techno pop remix are the Papyrus of music!!!

[@gracecore]

Great video, always look forward to your videos!

[@LucasMarchal]

thanks !

[@ליאורברדה-כ7נ]

Beautiful

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you !

[@fredscallietsoundman9701]

Excellent music.

[@peglapegla]

Sounds great like polished tracks. Love your sound❤

[@LucasMarchal]

thank you :)

[@stackenblochen666]

Awesome video, thanks for sharing! I love your sound a lot, but it’s the carefully crafted bass/kick that really makes this stand out for me. Do you play the bass lines from the OT? And do you process the lows any further with the overstayer? Would love to see a video on how you handle that part, especially in your liveset. And: please do come play in Berlin!

[@LucasMarchal]

Kick bass usually comes from loops I've made recently in the studio. I always record all my loops, and then I make stems out of my favorites. I usually process kick bass either together or separate in the overstayer.

[@stackenblochen666]

@@LucasMarchal would love to see a video about this workflow

[@-ukiyo]

Thanks Lucas !

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you for watching :)

[@aevai]

Sounds so good!

[@LucasMarchal]

thank you !

[@EightsEverywhere]

nice this was super fun to watch while driving across states to this regional burn. Wish i had the modular with me now to play hybrid but i don't risk it in the dust

[@LucasMarchal]

Eyes on the road !!

[@ablex7]

Thanks!

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you

[@TheFetteEnte]

What a beautiful technomachine it is

[@LucasMarchal]

that's the idea !

[@_erikhanson]

Amazing video and super inspiring. Just curious how are you choosing to synch Octatrack and PAM’s?

[@LucasMarchal]

When I use the tr09 live I send the OT midi clock to the tr09 and send the trig output to Pamela's workout. It's syncs great. Alternatively I can use the ERM Multiclock.

[@_erikhanson]

Oh great, thanks! Clever with the tr09 that thing seems super useful especially if it sounds good enough for live shows

[@sopalen]

damn i think i have over 24 channels of mixing in my modular, can't live with em. I have one 8channel mixer for reverb another 8 for modulating and another 8 for "main" out. Great sound!!

[@LucasMarchal]

ah yes of course mixer are sooo important. But in a live scenario I wouldn't need that many channels. Just a basic one like that already makes a world of difference

[@AThousandDetails]

T'as bien fais avec le Noise Plethora, ça déchire pour chordy sounds. Avant de prendre le Coral, c'etait une option pour moi :) Le ghost ahahah we all have the same feeling that it sucks and sounds bad, until we use it and set it properly and understand that the sum of the whole is good. Mine is getting the Xone96 master send return in for transitions, breaks and whatever :P but also add distortiona and compression and it sounds good, just set the volume and voila. On y vas :P

[@LucasMarchal]

Oui vraiment malin et original comme module. Ahah yes; when you think about it it’s pretty magical they managed to get to such a good/useful result with such basic building blocks

[@H_ologramic]

Have you looked at NE's Xer Dualis? 6hp mixer with clickless mutes, can take mono or stereo signals. I found them so useful I have 2! Also matrix mixers are tremendous! I use the 2 Xers in conjunction with one

[@LucasMarchal]

NE have so many good utilities. I'm happy with the simple Doefer one, but I need to buy an attenuator. Sometimes I think a 7U case would be great for live as I could fit all those utilities in the 1u row.

[@thanqol]

Did you already make a video about how you use the Space for end-of-chain reverb? Would be interesting to know...

[@LucasMarchal]

I didn’t but there’s not much to talk about it’s just on the effect send of the Xone 92/96 mixer :)

[@6884]

the kick at 29:15 had me AAAAAAAAAAA

[@LucasMarchal]

processed RE909 :)

[@EightsEverywhere]

would love to see a deeper dive into the settings your using on pams for the random and other modulation

[@LucasMarchal]

Oh it’s nothing crazy, most often it’s an euclidian rhythm on an enveloppe or just a divided random. Play it by ear !

[@propostus_]

Thank you so much for the video. You know I enjoy your instagram content too but having videos of that duration is super cool. I wanted to ask if and how you are processing the drums? The kick is coming from the re-909 I guess?

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you for watching :) Yes the kick is always coming from the 909 but processing differs from time to time. A mix of plug-ins (bass mint is a favorite, pedal from ableton too, some black box HG2 etc...) and Overstayer (full mix and drum bus sometimes too).

[@propostus_]

@@LucasMarchal nice. How would you do that in a live situation? Would you use already processed kicks in your OT?

[@LucasMarchal]

Exactly. I've used the unprocessed kick live a couple of times too, it's fine if you do the opening and it honestly slaps with a bit of saturation/compression but if you're playing peak time after DJs with ultra mastered tracks then I quite like having the processed kicks/bass in the Octa.

[@propostus_]

@@LucasMarchal Thanks for helpful reply :)

[@securityanalysis2707]

hey Lucas, great vid - thanks. What are you sending into the Pam's clock in? are you clocking the Modular through drum machine or maybe Octa? cheers :)

[@LucasMarchal]

It depends on which drum machine I'm bringing. If it's the TR-09 I just use the trig output. If its the RE-909 then I bring the ERM Multiclock although I could also use the trig output; but I like having the added flexibility of the Multiclock (it adds shuffle, individual start stop etc... )

[@securityanalysis2707]

@@LucasMarchal thanks man : )

[@markusshoggu]

when is a new video coming? this channel is pure asmr for me, have watched your vids multiple times lol

[@LucasMarchal]

I have one filmed I need to edit, I though i'd do it quicker over the summer but still haven't started. Should be out before school is back :)

[@molina.unofficial]

Lucas would you mind sharing a bit on the “music theory” behind the sequences you create for melody and hooks? In this genre, most sounds are atonal but I’m wondering if you take dissonance and intervals into account when you create something on the Metropolis, Multistage or Oxi One. And do you even look and set a scale on your sequencers or would you keep everything chromatic? It looks so easy when you create a banging hook out of thin air with metropolis but I find it quite hard to find something that’s not corny or random bleeps that don’t fit the track. Guess most skills look easy when performed well ;). Much apprenticed!

[@LucasMarchal]

I never really tune my oscillators, I just wiggle the knobs until I like it; I usually avoid scales by using attenuators after the quantization (on Metropolis for example; I like to do x2 to extend the 3v range as well). Since I barely know any proper music theory I rely on my ears and my tastes I guess. It's always useful to listen to a bunch of loopy techno to get in the mood :) Sleeparchive, Regis, pretty much all the Token, Blueprint or Tar Hallow catalogue...

[@molina.unofficial]

@ this. The attenuator after the sequencer for pitch was exactly the sound I’m looking for. Together with other mixed cv for pitch I get much more interesting sounds. Thanks!

[@LucasMarchal]

@@molina.unofficial yes even with big and intelligent sequencers it's fun to make it a bit more modular and add more stuff to it :)

[@ablex7]

So much great stuff in here - among other things, I liked that french phrase, to make a lot with a little! What is it?

[@LucasMarchal]

ahah yes it's "poudre aux yeux" which means smoke and mirrors basically. Having the biggest sonic impact with the smallest knobs mouvement hehe.

[@mynewcolour]

Sounds … devastating tbh. Great stuff. Noise plethora is interesting to me.

[@LucasMarchal]

thank you !

[@jbt4167]

Très cool ta vidéo ! Je suis curieux de savoir d’où tu sors les random que tu mets dans le function et le CV du Métropolis ?

[@sh4tzy]

Function reçoit le cv du voltage multistage. Le random est de Pam’s workout

[@LucasMarchal]

Les deux viennent de pamela effectivement !

[@propostus_]

Is the Voltage Multistage syncable by external clock? For example PAMs? I am not able to see it as the cables go out of camera view.

[@LucasMarchal]

yes of course. It's the advance input

[@vanluud]

What a nice sound ❤ i still dont understand how you manage to get totally different sound of atlantis with the main out and the sine. You feed a sequence of metropolis into cv/gate of atlantis but and generate 2 voices over 1 sequence. But how do you process the sine out of atlantis? What vca do you use for it?

[@vanluud]

Another question, do you process your whole sound through the bark filter or just the plethora?

[@LucasMarchal]

no VCA no nothing for the sine, straight into the mixer !

[@LucasMarchal]

Only the main out of Atlatis is going through the Bark filter

[@vanluud]

@@LucasMarchal huge! Thanks for the fast replay! Your vids are major inspiration for my liveset! ♥️

[@vanluud]

Would love to see how you create the kick and bass sounds. Im facing the issue that i dont have enought pressure on them, maybe frequencies colide etc. and how you put them to octatrack

[@mindstuff417]

What are your thoughts on the new Atlantix?

[@LucasMarchal]

It's probably amazing ! It looks a bit busier than the OG which is crystal clear but there's quite a few new features. If I didn't already have the Cwejman SM-1 I'd be tempted :)

[@cto9944]

Heyy ! C'est quoi la ref de t'es enceintes ? je les cherche partout aha

[@LucasMarchal]

Ce sont les barefoot footprint 02 !

[@peglapegla]

Do you have this set on modular grid maybe?

[@LucasMarchal]

I don't, I always tweak them and then the link won't work, let me know if there's some module you don't recognize.

[@peglapegla]

@@LucasMarchal what is the first unit on top row left and last bottom row right? Thank you very much :)

[@LucasMarchal]

@@peglapegla it’s Pamela’s new workout (a clock/ modulation) and the verbos Bark Filter Processor

[@mikegeary8056]

The Flurry by Intellijel is killer.

[@stackenblochen666]

Is there a reason why you chose function over contour 1 for this case?

[@LucasMarchal]

I always really like the snappiness of function. Layout is great too.

[@AlainEmon]

❤

[@LucasMarchal]

merci !

[@AnnesYarak]

U could change the knobs. I have seen this a lot

[@LucasMarchal]

Ah yes but then it looks bad ahah

[@rossbeaton]

Maybe a RYK M185 may be better to get 5V range to Bark?

[@LucasMarchal]

Bark is 10v like all the verbos range but yes the 5v from Pam usually do the trick

[@rossbeaton]

@@LucasMarchal ah I meant replace the Metropolis with m185 :) You mention the 3V from Metropolis is not ideal for cv-ing Bark - m185 would give you bigger range (also on a switch with unquantised mode)

[@LucasMarchal]

@@rossbeaton ah nice. Not worth swapping modules for this but good to know !

[@rossbeaton]

@@LucasMarchal also....fantastic videos! :D please keep them coming, especially whole system overviews//jams

[@marianomonti9440]

The one

[@piotr803]

Still have / use the Alpha Base?

[@LucasMarchal]

I sold it a while ago !

[@piotr803]

@@LucasMarchal do tell! :-) what made you changed the approach to having a separate drum machine? Thanks

[@LucasMarchal]

Towards the end I was mostly using a 909 kick on a sample channel of the Alphabase so the machine made less sense. I’d been wanting a 909 for a while and a RE came up for sale second hand locally. I absolutely love it. I like having limited controls and focus the sound design on other elements, knowing the kick hats etc will always sound great and fit easily into the mix (contrary to the AB which could be a struggle given the immense power of the kick)