MAKE NOISE MORPHAGENE TUTORIAL ~ Eurorack sample module

[@onceuponasynth]

TABLE OF CONTENTS 00:33 - Terminology 02:04 - Front Panel 09:00 - Shortcuts 10:33 - Usage 21:04 - Demo

[@AnalogMonoxide]

The MN manuals read like a science paper. I read them all, but this kind of tutorial is much more interesting and more helpful. Thanks for these, great work :)

[@onceuponasynth]

You're welcome, glad it was helpful!

[@strangersun7721]

Agreed. Make Noise's documentation is a bit silly. I'm happy to read a treatise on music philosophy, but in the context of a module's manual, just the facts, ma'am.

[@CrystalClearBruv]

@@strangersun7721 I disagree, the manual is well put together , in fact this chap is simply explaining from it 2bh… all things said is found within it.. although I appreciate this slight simplicity of it , so cheers to the lads over at make noise and cheers to the OP 🍻

[@Sarahbuildsstepsequencers]

Best description yet for this module. Excellent tutorial!

[@waltersmetak]

Man, this was godsend! I bought the Morphagene a few weeks ago and still busting my head, attempting to understand this incredibly fun, yet highly complex, machine - your demo has been invaluable help!

[@onceuponasynth]

Thanks Walter, glad it was helpful!

[@joshuacohen5245]

Just got mine today. Terrified.

[@TheNimasan]

absoultely fantastic demo! prob. the best i have seen. this lil thing made me start with eurorack, which became an obsession. after waiting my ass off for almost a year, finally im gonna get the morphagene in2-3 days. still can't believe it until i hold it in my hand. really don't know was this module did to my sick brain. just cant wailt. thank you for this amazing tutorial!!!

[@serdarsaydan]

best tutorials ever. you're still missed here. love from berlin

[@ata8469]

Man, you're a lifesaver. Best tutorial on the web. Really appreciate it.

[@godzib4065]

Excellent tutorial to get started. Certainly much easier than reading the manual. Good work!

[@jedgould5531]

Concise tutorial, and then the demo. I wish more of these videos were this way.

[@onceuponasynth]

Thanks!

[@TeddyRoxpinBeats]

Thank you so much for this! I was reading the manual and struggling to wrap my head around it. This video made everything click!

[@tracetravlr4029]

Just found your tutorial on the Morphagene & glad I did! Great explanations throughout!! I’m hoping to get aMake Noise Shared System Plus later this year, once they are back in stock, and bookmarked this as a reference.

[@darksinesmusic]

Very helpful! Seen lots of tutorials and this one describes the concepts the clearest for me! thanks

[@royfinch518]

Thank you for your clear and concise walk-through. YOu saved me hours of head-scratching.

[@naturarum]

extremely thorough yet easy to understand. great job

[@markbirchall1417]

Excellent introduction, thankyou. I'd like to see how the Morphagene could be used in ways other than musique concrete. All the videos I have seen so far seem to use a lot of random modulation. But it looks like it could be used with a sequencer controlling the recording, splicing, playback in a set pattern. I imagine it could be patched this way to make some very interesting delay effects.

[@jdtorian]

Still the best morph tutorial.

[@rainerd9890]

thanks, finally a comprehensible presentation.

[@in_10z]

Very helpful overview. Thank you. I'm really enjoying Morphagene. So I've found Make Noise's manuals are a bit tough for learning how to use their modules quickly. I think they intentionally take it to a deeper and more fundamental level. They do have the panel legend but it never clicks until I track down some videos such as yours. Perhaps they do this on purpose so the users are most creative. Maybe this is the case really for any complex module: You can read a manual until you're blue in the face, but you just have to dig in and start bleeping...and watch some vids.

[@FabriceMillion]

Great explanation of the reel/splice/genes/morph relationship! Love it

[@PureAmbientDrone]

Good stuff and good teaching!

[@onceuponasynth]

Thanks!

[@ScottofOakland]

That was pretty awesome, man. Really helped having a voice to follow because the drums were kinda homogeneous.

[@Mthw7]

Hi! When you record instruments into your Morphagene, do you need a module to boost the gain from line level to eurorack or can I record directly into the Morphagene at line level? If so, do you have suggestions for modules that can take stereo line level to eurorack level back out to line level? Say for example, I want to record directly from my iPad directly into the Morphagene. Thanks! This tutorial really helped wrap my head around the MG!

[@_jurk]

There are many modules that take outside gear(levels) into the modular world and vise/versa, you can look them on on www.modulargrid.net (search for "line in" or "line out"). Looking at that page something like the "listen IO" from "4MS" looks like a good module for that sort of thing. As for the level differences between instruments and recording them in the Morphagene you can push ' "rec." + "shift" to auto-adjust the level of the incoming signal or - with the new firmware - you can even set the incoming gain, there is video here on YT about that on their channel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnecpYppdrmkirM W. the new firmware "the Auto-level procedure has been replaced with an improved input gain staging, accessed with a 4-step gain selection (blue-green-orange- purple). To use, Hold Record, and Press Shift to step through the gain settings: Blue: low -3db, Green: modular level, Orange: medium +6db, Purple: high +12db."

[@Mthw7]

abc123 wow thank you for the response! This is very helpful! I’ve read the morphagene manual and it doesn’t say anything about the 4-step gain control, which is a really nice feature vs the auto gain. The 4ms Listen IO module looks perfect for line in and out w the morphagene. Thank you!

[@Blackeyedangel]

great videos, thank you. I can't believe people downvote this, lol. If we didn't have you, no one would understand make noise modules.

[@ryan8951]

This is a really good tutorial, thanks for taking the time and please make some more. I thought your uscale video was a bit slow (but it might not be for someone who doesnt understand anything about music theory and scales) but this one is great. I especially love the graphics they go a long way to helping someone understand how this thing works. Nice work

[@onceuponasynth]

Thanks Ryan!

[@bertrandvanasch]

Crystal clear tutorial ! Thank you 🙏🏽

[@christopher_ecclestone]

This is incredibly helpful. Thank you 🙏

[@mattbx]

This is just brilliant... very well put together and explained, seriously useful! I’ve just got mine and this is helping immensely.... thank you 🙌

[@onceuponasynth]

Thanks, glad it was helpful!

[@musicartgeek]

Great job - a lot of work went into this. Very clear and understandable.

[@noobulon4334]

This is a great explanation, really understandable. Can you do one on the mimeophon?

[@composersgarage]

such detail. thank you man. you should always review the newest product. just had one question. you never went over really how to get the sounds off the SD card. i can't seem to find anything explaining it thoroughly. any suggestions? Thanks!!

[@onceuponasynth]

Yeah I haven't been importing sounds through the SD card yet, I've been using the Morphagene more as an effects unit than a traditional sample player. Each reel effectively gets stored as a separate file. There's something called "reel mode" which you enter by pressing Splice+Rec. Then you can choose a different reel from the SD card. Mounting/loading the card is done by pressing "shift" when the card is unmounted. To load to a computer you can just plug the SD card into a card reader. Reels are just stored as standard wav files so you can add and remove them as you please. If you look at page 26 in the manual it explains how to do non-real time functions (e.g. manually creating and loading wav files). Hope that helps!

[@composersgarage]

very helpful sir. thank you so much for getting back to me! this helped me!

[@alanblight9233]

Thanks for that. What an amazing module!

[@rohanjoseph101]

Keep coming back to this video, so well explained! Does anyone know what make those patch cables are?

[@LittleMusicBoxes]

Clearest explanation I've heard, thanks~!

[@rmanpojo8485]

great I Have this module right now.. So I'm new.. What is timescaling @20:35? Is there a cv for using another reel?

[@drumpounder778]

25:15 - four Tet in a box

[@fiddlestickzmuzik]

absolute legend, I'm still waiting for mine but this is seriously great to watch and learn while waiting...also I assume you'll do an in depth tutorial on the Maths at some point..? hope so as it might convince me to finally grab one..

[@onceuponasynth]

Thanks! Yeah I plan to do a similar thing for maths soon.

[@asd7526]

DUDE! you made it all easy. thanks a lot. The tutorial video from Makenoise is so boring.

[@iantheorem]

Reminds me of some of the types of audio effects you hear on Tim & Eric’s Great Show Awesome Job!! Wouldn’t be surprised if they were done with this module

[@onceuponasynth]

haha maybe.

[@johnbeuck587]

Make Noise is such a cool company!!

[@gherat]

does this thing have zerocrossing where it splices? Or does it have a fast ar envelope synced to looplength/gates? I don't hear many audioclicks.

[@wes2819]

very clear explanation

[@robertsyrett1992]

You should try sending a gate pattern input to the peaks in tap lfo mode and send that cv to the morphogene. That would probably create some interesting glitch beats :)

[@onceuponasynth]

Thanks for the tip, I'll have to try that out.

[@VictorSteiner]

once upon a synth did you?

[@rlanguillat]

@@VictorSteiner no ~ 😂😢

[@rohanjoseph101]

Thanks a lot for a fantastic tutorial! @8:28 you plug the output from the morphagene to what unit? Also can you explain how the outs from that unit go to your mixer/daw/speakers? Thanks again!

[@onceuponasynth]

Hey thanks! I'm just plugging it into Intellijel's 1u I/O module (which is connected to the 1/4" outputs on the back of the case, a Intellijel 7u 84hp case). From there you can go straight to a mixer or audio-interface (then to DAW, speakers). In this case since I was making a video I plugged into my Zoom recorder to capture the audio. Hope that helps.

[@rohanjoseph101]

once upon a synth Thanks for getting back! :)

[@ThisIsMajorTom913]

I have that same Intellijel case and Audio I/O module up top.... so how do I get external audio not from other modules onto the Morphagene, like my voice, a piano, or me sampling something like movie dialogue?

[@ethermod307]

@@ThisIsMajorTom913 With a mic!

[@DJSnafu]

Superb video. Anyone ever tired this with full samples (like bass and sax jazz loops kinda thing)? Cant find any examples at all online, would be very interesting to see

[@rassell9918]

Great Tutorial. I have a question about the noise, the morphagene produces at 21:18. At the Point where you press the Auto-Level, it‘s not only that the morphagene gets louder. There is a hum in high frequencies. I recogniced the same phenomenon with mine. It´s way much to loud für such a high End product, I think. Do you now a way to get that noise to stop? Thnx

[@ethermod307]

It's probably from the sample//it's a lo-fi sample of a dialogue, if the volume gets louder, so does the noise. Nothing to do with morphagene.

[@jamesbooth9373]

Really helpful thanks!

[@whatintheworld6501]

Another great.a vid 👏

[@davidknight754]

Amazing tutorial. Thank you.

[@onceuponasynth]

Thanks!

[@ahzootube]

What other modules you guys recommend if the morphagene was the first module you had?

[@VictorSteiner]

Everyone and all the charts seems to say: get maths, no matter what else you have :D

[@kubakristo5716]

clouds

[@molotovsystem]

excellent explanation, thanks for making this!

[@onceuponasynth]

Thanks!

[@bitspacemusic]

Great video, thank you!

[@onceuponasynth]

Thanks!

[@TerekkiTerekki]

Great tutorial - thanks

[@_jurk]

Thanks: Learned a lot.

[@davidkittmusic]

thanks, great explanation, super helpful!

[@araguet]

Very, very, very good tutorial. I'm waiting mine, thank you vey much!

[@onceuponasynth]

Thanks man, glad it was helpful!

[@musicandlife3167]

Thanks so much!

[@onceuponasynth]

You're welcome!

[@mikehirsch3741]

Thank you for this clear presentation! I cannot stand to watch the Makenoise produced module videos as they are so fast and robotic and so many details they assume are just understood by the viewer. These modules are suppose to be fun and they make amazing modules but their product presentations suck the fun out of learning how to use them . Time for them to lose that droning voice in their videos and hire someone like you! I don’t know who that guy is in the Makenoise videos maybe he is one of the engineers or coders and they need to replace him with someone that is more suited for module presentations.

[@burakeren]

How easy it it to sync and transpose samples to the other beats and/or sequencers?

[@francescodicarlo4839]

Awesome

[@frae-frae1940]

Thank you

[@hammercanttouchthis]

thanks again bud👍

[@sketchdashaman]

nice!!

[@roos3013]

Thanx, man!

[@VinceGallop]

mine just arrived early this week, but i have problem uploading my own reels from audacity. the morphagene seems couldn't read them. i have made sure all the name, extension, details & duration etc are correct. i've checked with the reel that i created from morphagene itself. any ideas about this issue?

[@onceuponasynth]

hmm not sure sorry, I haven't tried loading my own reels via the SD card yet. Maybe Audacity is exporting in a different format? Are your files all stereo wav files at 32bit floating point, 48KHz?

[@VinceGallop]

yes, wav, 32 bit float, stereo, 48khz, no longer than 87 seconds. well, i'll check using reaper tomorrow then. by the way, really nice tutorial video you got here! thanks!

[@kon_001]

Nice video Sacha Baron Cohen , thank you!!

[@mehrabanimoh]

You are a G

[@CorpseTongji]

26:00 THERE SHE IS

[@rumpafumpa]

nice

[@onceuponasynth]

Thanks!

[@djformalin]

Thx.....🎼

[@trevchumby]

Is this string theory?

[@onceuponasynth]

😂

[@unclestaple]

1028 feet!

[@maikschmidt3551]

No subtitle, why .... Always only english stuff, damn 😢

[@blacklightning7227]

plz talk macro a little more before you tell us how they built the watch

[@rhomboman]

I really like your videos

[@SynapticMadness]

Fantastic tutorial. Thanks!

[@Phargoomax]

Great tutorial, thanks a lot!

[@collectionofsensations]

Thank you! Great tutorial.