A Moog Mavis Demo (plus added Eurorack, DFAM sound demos)

Being a demo with feature walkthrough (2:43), sound explorations (12:11), adding modular (16:41), ending with a modular rave (20:36), powered by the small but mighty Moog Mavis analogue synth! 🙌
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▶️ The Delay/Reverb pedal I used was the Otis Audio Love Beams: www.otisaudio.com.au/
CHAPTERS
00:00 Let's Hear It!!
02:43 What is Mavis for?
03:32 Is building Mavis hard?
04:47 Features Explored
05:48 The VCO
06:21 Blendable Modulation
07:04 The Filter
07:36 The Wave Folder
08:35 The LFO is a VCO
09:24 The Patchbay, S&H!
10:31 How to Learn to Use It
12:11 Mavis Preset Sounds!
13:05 Custom Sounds Explored
16:41 Mavis & Modular Explored
20:36 Mavis Rave with DFAM/808

[@RedMeansRecording]

My favorite thing about your videos these days is I feel like I'm getting read one of my favorite books before I go to bed but also there's a massive rave.

[@magnopere]

certainly the Bob Ross of synthesizers 😂

[@Ariakiri_]

Better have your big, fat pants on Jeremy. ;)

[@ionianechoes]

You both put some great jams inside the videos.

[@squarekid]

DJ David Attenborough

[@levigold]

Brilliant description @redmeansrecording

[@devjock]

Once that DFAM triangle folding kicked in, I was sold. I need this exact setup. So many timbres, so many mod possibilities, and it does drive the output very well. That moog lader filter is still such an icon too! And doubly so when folding it afterwards. Like, "New Death Grips just dropped" gritty. So good!

[@Tanzi24]

Mavis sounds great and you make modular look so easy and fun! I explicitly said to my wife only two days ago "don't let me get into modular synthesis", I don't have the space or the money!

[@stagofficial]

Wow! That pattern at 19:17 is gorgeous.

[@dionysiaex5538]

For synth education that is also musically pleasing you are tip top Alex. This is the best Mavis video by far and I've watched every one I could find.

[@iamsushi1056]

The wavefolder is a type of diode wavefolder, using a diode ladder going into a set of op-amps, but it’s completely wild and like nothing I’ve ever heard (or seen on an oscilloscope) before

[@mikebrodhead]

Ooof, that timbre that comes in about 27:41 is freaking amazing. I'm definitely hooking Mavis up to DFAM when it shows up.

[@CloudTwo1]

Thank you for making the best synth videos on the interwebs

[@nickomz]

dude idk how can I express all of this but... you rock 🧡

[@Himylo1971]

Your West coast Acid / B-Boy stuff gets my heart pumping! Awesome!

[@leemortimer80]

This will definitely be the best video for Mavis. I want to do exactly what you did 😊

[@PaulBoos]

love this demo.... I really super love what you were doing at about 19:40. Passing through that delay made it very dreamy...

[@profdazzle]

One of your best videos yet, Mr. Melodies! “Mavis Vs. Electro” would be a sick concept for a live set…

[@RemixSample]

Excellent demo! Sounds really dope!

[@benluff6079]

Gnarly af… love your Moog reviews

[@Nanotopia]

Amazing Mavis! Thank you for another inspiring video

[@synthsploration9523]

You're making me want one... I really like your format. You show us how the damn thing works; then you actually play it. Nice, man.

[@TomMadisonSoundsLewis]

Banging vid as always x

[@Stazma]

Nice one as always ! Pre-ordered when it leaked hahaha, can't wait to have a go at this little beast.

[@garyg3927]

Thank you, for the thoughtful rundown on the Moog Mavis.

[@jupiterrising5918]

Great video! You are hilarious. You can convey joy with only your hands.

[@nodoze123]

Thank you for this… I’m considering buying my first synth and this was a great video!!!

[@amazingmono]

genious as always!

[@EliMcIlveen]

Informative and delightful as always. And +1,000,000 for including Mavis Cruet.

[@mylarmelodies]

heh heh, something for those of a certain generation and place 📺🧙‍♀️

[@chedhead3278]

Sounding very Mylar. Nice.

[@jbachman01]

Big sibling to the werkstatt. They gave it a volume knob, S&H, Wade folding and a real envelope

[@gladlawson61]

The only demo I really need

[@floatinganarchychannel3204]

saw a lot of tutorials on this beast but now i hear!!! its so good!

[@jontip]

For all the criticisms you can level at Mavis, and there aren’t many, the bottom line is it sounds absolutely phat. Well done Moog x

[@neuhen]

Dude you have like a whole Electro Ep here :)

[@davidbetts2980]

Wow that's an amazing sound with the dfam

[@tusk1_]

you can really make that thing sing. nice demo my dude.

[@moonshoe120]

Came for the Moog, left with an Otis - Love beams

[@mylarmelodies]

Aha, it’s lovely that and a pretty sick drive pedal though I couldn’t use that aspect here

[@FrankPSF]

You certainly squeezed some marvelous sounds out of that little box. Would love to have explored the patches in depth ... but it was what it was.

[@limbicbits]

excellent sum up!

[@folland1841]

earned another sub with this. fantastic video

[@davidgoode7416]

Great video! Thanks again...

[@h2o1969]

I love the first jam when Mavis comes out of its shell, but the Mavis with the DFAM is really getting my attention now.

[@drewbronig]

The higher pitch stuff that starts at 31:45 is lovely, such a cool sound to end with

[@mylarmelodies]

That’s due in part to the pedal! The Love Beams does a wicked pitch shifted delay

[@bodoelsel]

Excellent video

[@strangersun7721]

I passed on a Mavis for two hundred bucks last weekend and now KZbin is serving me up videos of them and I feel like an idiot. This is a great one!

[@MrLouloulepoux]

that jam around 21minutes is proper fire, very much drexciya style 👏

[@Leandrob13]

If you see this as an eurorack module, it is a synth voice for under $400. The malekko manther growl is $500. The only direct competitor at this price point would be the east beast which includes a pseudo sequencer. Awesome musical review as always Sir. This is the werkstatt I was expecting last year.

[@wcbq]

it’s an easy beast with a wavefolder/s+h and made by moog and so i think it really just comes down to if that’s worth the !100 extra.

[@RYKModular]

Oh wow Very cool, sounding supet good Nice 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@mylarmelodies]

My compliments to the chef

[@System80]

mavis + dfam + m185 + 880 = 🔥🔥🔥🔥💣💣💣💣

[@twynb]

it's hard watching through your videos because after less than a minute you already have so much inspiration from them that you just wanna up and make some tunes

[@mylarmelodies]

😘

[@outertimeinnerspace2548]

Using a stackable cable with that tuner was an inspired move... almost as inspired as using that multi-mode delay, filter and reverb pedal ;) Great to see Love Beams in the mix

[@MarcEdwards]

Any idea what the tuner is?! Looks great.

[@mylarmelodies]

Korg DT-4!

[@MarcEdwards]

@@mylarmelodies Ah, thank you! What a cool little tuner.

[@Oceanwireaudio]

Nice one Alex

[@3xAudio]

nice one cant wait to try it

[@kotezstudio]

I mean this pretty much sold me on the Moog mavis, so thanks for that...ordered one this week, also the music that starts at 30:22 till the end really gave me inspiration. A tad confused as to what each module is contributing at that point. .great jam

[@hpfilter1777]

That rave is so powerful...jaming skills 10/10

[@stossbeats]

Serial # 00002 👌🏻

[@mylarmelodies]

👌👌👌

[@positronalpha]

Love it. The Moog people obviously love you.

[@JonManness]

Nice indeed lol...badass demo!

[@LightBranches]

The best kind of filthy...OOF! Thank you!

[@compucorder64]

Bang on about the burnt acid vibe of the filter. It's that acidic tinge that sounds most interesting about this. Plus the Moog Wavebender, which is what they should have called the synth. Or Wavejumper after the Drexciya track.

[@mathematicwaveformrecordings]

Very cool sound example

[@Nanotopia]

Thanks!

[@Honeysmack]

you had me at "burnt acid" ❤️

[@SR-ih1be]

Finally someone who knows what they're doing with this thing

[@Pulse2AM]

Great video, it sounds awesome. I know me though I would make one bass patch I love and never touch it again for fear of losing the patch. 😅

[@Dogboy73]

Great sounding little synth. I like it. I'm tempted, even though I don't feel like I need it! :-/ Thinking of selling my Kilpatrick Phenol and filling the desktop space it occupies with a Mavis and Make Noise Strega! Erm ..............

[@unclemick-synths]

Great video 👍. It puts Mavis on my wishlist though at Canadian prices, she's _not_ a cheap date! She would definitely add to the capability of the Neutron-based sound engine I'm building for my Roland AE-30 wind synth.

[@mikemeengs5720]

I have a few synths, but might have the most fun with my Werkstatt. I didn't feel GAS for this until I heard this video. Damn you! 😉

[@christoroppolo8742]

Wave folding is a nice touch 👽

[@chadmwest]

Serial No. 00002. That's insane. I can almost guarantee you that No. 00001 is with Moog in Asheville.

[@michaelrutchik9906]

Amazing as always. Moments of Morton Subotnick masquerading as a humble product demo. Will you ever perform in San Francisco? I’d love to hear you live.

[@mylarmelodies]

Thanks Michael - Some day, some day!

[@Jexus]

finally, moog volca 🙌

[@WHButler]

Love the video! For a complete newby, is there any issue with mixing the Moog -5 to +5 voltage standard compared to the Eurorack 0 to 10? Could it harm the Moog? I've heard chatter about this but no trustworthy discussion.

[@bentheintern]

I have a DFAM and a Mother 32 in my euro setup and I honestly don’t have any issues with it. I tune my oscillators basically to whatever the lowest note I want and I haven’t run into any issues. I guess you prob can’t use all the octaves but honestly how often do people need to span more than 5 octaves? Also if it is an issue Erica synths makes a +/-5 to 0-10 converter module that is relatively affordable for a euro module

[@brianleahyart]

Love your video style, thanks for this demo! So I have a Hydrasynth 49 key, which has two CV inputs and five CV outputs, but I have never used them before. I am also new to the world of semi-modular. Do you think I could use the Hydra keyboard to play the Mavis, and do you think it would be a worthwhile combo? I do not have a Moog sound in my synth collection yet (Korg Monologue, NTS-1, and Yamaha Reface CS). Maybe one day I'll get the Matriarch, but that's a ways down the road for me.

[@Zepheriah]

You can definitely use the Hydra to control a Mavis. As for whether you need one: I have the Hydra Desktop and the Moog Werkstatt, and honestly it’s impossible to hear the difference between them if I set the hydrasynth to moog-like settings. It might make most sense for you to get something fundamentally different from a hydrasynth, like a physical modelling voice, or a sampler. On the other hand, I do use both the Hydra and the Moog in my live system because I love the moog tone enough to have a dedicated unit for that, and keep the hydrasynth for other things. And there’s something fun about having a real piece of moog kit to play with. Moog and Hydrasynth have very different design philosophies, and give you two very different (and very good) playing experiences, even when they’re sounding similar.

[@brianleahyart]

@@Zepheriah 🙏 Thank you for this thoughtful reply!! That second paragraph totally makes sense to me, I've encountered other situations like that. And I could see a Mavis + Hydra combo working similarly for me. On a semi related note, I was able to try a Mavis as well as an East Beast (similar product in terms of price and semi modular) in my local shop today. The Mavis's build quality felt very nicely solid, even the tiny knobs. But I'm def going to want to put bigger caps on them, ha. The East Beast was fun and packed a lot of features for the price, but I didn't vibe with its design quite the same way. I also think the panel text was too difficult to read over the background graphics...anyways, I digress. I think I'm leaning towards the Mavis. Thanks for the feedback!

[@effiksmusic]

Cool, No 2.

[@WalterCReel3rd]

Oh. Ryk sequencer. Nice

[@DaraGill]

That Love Beams pedal is 🔥

[@mylarmelodies]

Yeah it's lovely I must say, swirly odd delays and reverbs - it's also a pretty sick drive pedal

[@tagertyoung]

Excellent video and sounds. Can’t wait to get my tiny little fingers on those knobs. Speaking of knobs, tell me about those DFAM knobs. I’d love to find a set of those.

[@tagertyoung]

@@finnclarkson7893 Thank you! Looking forward to tweaking these little things.

[@mylarmelodies]

Yep Thonk Tall Trimmer Toppers! They fit on Mavis too

[@thedukeofbreakfast]

An upgraded Werkstatt-01 with a proper patch bay and a waveshaper, you say? And it'll fit in a eurorack case? Don't mind if I do!

[@x-plorershakeupproductions9734]

Nice video, thanks! I'm wondering where to get this fancy colored knobs for the Dfam from?

[@mylarmelodies]

Late to the reply to say they're Thonk tall trimmer toppers! www.thonk.co.uk/shop/tall-trimmer-toppers/

[@themennissvids]

It's like an upgraded Werkstatt and a similar price point. DAMN IT!

[@vprice509]

Starting at about 21 1/2 minutes is what will be on my first generation Sony Walkman when I am free boarding (back country Moon boarding) just west of the Sea of Tranquility in that 1.5 km diameter bowl of Moondust that empties into a sweet Ridge run right into that little tavern on the backside of Reagan’s Brow. I’ll be banging Daphne Buffet Gates obviously, so it’ll all be comp. 1/6 earth G is hella sweet. Nice sounds.

[@sstrudeau]

Unexpected!

[@magicseadog8674]

I feel like one of the screaming girls at a 60 beetles concert when Alex releases a new video.

[@mikkelpaaske5862]

Great video, I need this synth! How do you power it as a Eurorack module? It doesn't seem to come with a standard Eurorack connection cable, so do you need to buy that? Like the Doepfer A-100BM16?

[@mylarmelodies]

Yes, it needs a 16 to 8 pin power cable which isn’t included - you should be able to buy one from most eurorack shops for a couple of quid though!

[@vincentvanesse5362]

We definitly need more machinedrum (seq + sounds) inside eurorack !

[@robertsyrett1992]

So this is the Moog 0-Coast? I like it!

[@mylarmelodies]

You could make a case for that I think, though it definitely still a bit more Easterly!

[@direhavok8732]

Cool addition to the Moog Family. What tuner is that? Would love to check it out.

[@mylarmelodies]

Korg DT-4!

[@Molluszk]

How do you tell to a quantizer what notes would you like to hear? And what order...What is sequencing the notes? thx

[@effiksmusic]

Nice 2 hp panel you have there in the Eurorack case.

[@mylarmelodies]

Thought you’d like that!!

[@effiksmusic]

@@mylarmelodies Yes I do.

[@magnopere]

Guthrie would be proud

[@wolfdesk]

Some excellent LFO and BOC vibes during this video... which is always welcome! You have an uncanny knack of channeling Mark Bell... are you perchance a techno medium?

[@AnalogueNetwork]

Can I get to know who's making these beautiful 808's?

[@drahtmachine4601]

What kind of pitch calibrator do you use in this video?

[@walrtbstudios5430]

If I didn’t already have a Werkstatt, I probably would. But that is a lot to pay for a waveshaper and a bigger patch bay, and its fitting in a modular case is not a selling point if you’ve not got the hp to spare. Loved that tuner though!

[@jbachman01]

And a volume knob. Wish my werkstatt had that

[@kliffklass]

the Willo the WIsp reference made my day. No really.

[@mylarmelodies]

You’re the first to pick up on that! God bless Kenneth Williams

[@kliffklass]

@@mylarmelodies but surely you're too young, Mr Melodies (if that IS your real name...)

[@the8ctagon]

Yes, I remembered Mavis the fairy from Willo the Wisp and thought, "Nice touch! But why the pink dog thing?" A brief Google image search later: "Ohhh!" Which now begs the question, did Moog name the Mavis in direct reference to Willo the Wisp?

[@nigeltedbury5805]

Before loopop? Blimey.

[@h2o1969]

What up size is the row you have the Mavis and DFAM in. This is one of the reasons I am really considering getting the Mavis.

[@mylarmelodies]

Get a powered (eg integrated power) 104HP case and it’ll take both! As it’s 44+60hp - or get a 6U 104HP case would be my recommendation so you have some space below/above for other modules

[@ringsystemmusic]

Routing the oscillator to the S+H is one of those “why didn’t I think of this myself” moments. This is gonna provide me with hours of fun on my Neutron while I save for a Mavis- which is, more or less, exactly what I’ve been looking for in a semi-modular synth.

[@unclemick-synths]

Neutron + Mavis looks like fun. I have the 904A VCF which works nicely with the Neutron. I use the Neutron as a sound engine for my Roland AE-30 wind synth.

[@SyrusRayne]

Are those aftermarket knob and switch-tips on the DFAM?

[@mylarmelodies]

Yes - Tall Trimmer Toppers from Thonk!

[@Unifono2012]

awesome jam. Love the rack. Looks so jammable

[@NakedBonghit]

That black maths is 😍

[@UniversalHomeboy]

Did you have to do any extra attunement with the keystep after you assembled the Mavis or did they both play nicely (tracking etc) out the box?

[@mylarmelodies]

I didn’t test the tracking but it should be good out of the box

[@davidbetts2980]

You should build Eurorack systems for people and sell as a complete set. This is a perfect sound and imagen adding the acid Eurorack you built previously. Wow a complete rave box. How did you create this Eurorack case for all these? Could you make a video adding this and the acid Eurorack together in one case? Then show us so I can build my own 🙏

[@els1f]

Is it a mylarmelodies video without a Turing machine or 2? Btw, what's that little tuner? That seems visible and portable

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

Korg DT-4

[@els1f]

@@MrMarcLaflamme thanks a lot!🙌🙏

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

@@els1f no prob!

[@davidbetts2980]

I'm about to start moving up to more expensive equipment like moog for example and Eurorack systems. But I'd be really interested to see what you could do with some cheaper gear like the Behringer crave for example or behringer td-3. What to put them to and how to enhance them. Maybe talk about why they are cheap. Behringer is like the gateway drug to many of us so I'm interested in your perspective after year's working with higher end equipment.

[@flourfree2K]

It's a CRAVE with a wavefolder added, after all... The 100€ are partly compensated by the wavefolder and partly by the possibility of mounting it in a Eurorack case. By the way, nice case you built!

[@mylarmelodies]

Well it’s ironically the idealised complement to a Crave since it’s meant to complement a Mother-32…unfortunately the jack layouts don’t marry in the same way but the idea still stands