The Joy of Patching, Ep 1 • Live-patching Eurorack Modular Synthesizer

[@rbeny]

Bob Ross-bath

[@Lightbath]

🌟👨🏻‍🎨🎨

[@Kenjinp]

That was my exact thought!

[@fosferus]

happy little cables!

[@iliatilev]

hahhahahah

[@robertsyrett1992]

Happy little patches.

[@rascal_rae]

Been in modular for a few years now, and even still I so appreciate when videos actually show the * process* of building a patch from scratch. So many videos edit out the parts where the artist changes their mind, or makes a mistake, and then will go on to use language like "obviously" and "of course". The reality is that this is an art form which is still in development, maybe perpetually in development, so there is no benefit to projecting the image that you know everything, or that you aren't experimenting every time you go to patch. Thanks Lightbath- keep it up!

[@aeropilot4419]

Lils Bee great comment !

[@goodforage]

Best comment ever said about Modular on KZbin IMHO, The joy and the art is in the process 😃 What they said 👆👆👆

[@HosaTechnology]

This is basically super-nerd ASMR, and I'm so here for it.

[@Lightbath]

Come for the cables, stay for the super-nerd ASMR.

[@HosaTechnology]

@@Lightbath Y A S

[@Sk8erMorris]

@@HosaTechnology check out the gecho loop synth; granular sample mode... you'll enjoy that if you dig ASMR.. imo

[@aAwaysNice]

this is spot on

[@andresgrumann4079]

really love this "Joy of Patching" video, please do more, thanks!

[@Limbic1000]

Yeah please more! 🙏

[@petersirca223]

Keep re-wathing this, and Ep.2 as well, albeit this is better IMO. A masterpiece, thanks Lightbath !

[@JonnyPez]

I still get so much out of this video. I've been rewatching for years. ❤

[@Lightbath]

🙏

[@92JelaniMusic]

This format is everything! I'll watch for 15 minutes, get inspired to make a patch, record it, go on with my day, open KZbin, it reminds me to keep watching, and the cycle continues. Going to come back to this all week probably.

[@Lightbath]

awesome

[@aeropilot4419]

Lol, same here

[@daydreamjohnny]

For someone with a modular setup this was so fun to watch. The moments where you're trying to change a voice and you have three cables in your hands and your brain overloads "wait, what comes from where, goes to where"... the euphoric moments when you have an idea and it works 1st try... when something changes for the worse and you can't figure out why... That's why modular is so so inspiring, fun, challenging and good for the soul. To be able to go through all of that live, have it sound good and be entertaining is very impressive. Thanks for taking the time.

[@Lightbath]

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[@safetyfirstrecords]

I think this video has finally convinced me to start my first modular synth. I've often felt a detachment when watching videos of peoples brilliant sounding patches, but here we get to experience the journey, and it turns out the journey IS the music, not what you end up with after the patching is done. It's almost as if the music dies when the patching stops. Beautiful.

[@Lightbath]

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[@SharedVision333]

Such a tactile & grounding activity that can lead to healing moments

[@techsture]

I love this for so many reasons: 1.) A look into the process. 2.) The explanations of everything. 3.) Mistakes happen. 4.) It takes a long time. #4 might be the most important because usually in videos creators are only showing the end result. This makes most people say "wow, so easy, I need this module, or that module." Worst case, especially in the case of generative systems, people say "geez, not even making music, it just does it for you!" Seeing that you can't just plug stuff in for 5 minutes and have the end result is definitely worth showing. Bravo, this was a great video, and I'd love to see more!

[@Lightbath]

Thanks! I really appreciate your reflection on this. I think I’ll do more of these this winter once I reassemble the large system.

[@benkarklins6537]

This guy is so damn likeable! I'm just getting into modular now so this was freaking awesome to watch rather than KZbinrs just rushing through their patches or not even talking about them at all.

[@Contang0]

Need another one of these videos! so much fun and.. enlightenment along the way.

[@river_river_river]

This is one of my favorite videos of all time.

[@neildenari1007]

Thanks Brian...so generous of you to make this video.

[@samhewerdine3505]

Definitely would watch more of this!

[@Contang0]

This is the best content Bryan. Thanks so much for this, it helps so much to learn... better though, is the pure enjoyment you take from creating, modern life likes to take this away from us all too often. that's real learning.

[@chrisfjonesutube]

This is one of the very few modular videos I keep rewatching. Please make more ❤️❤️

[@TheSpyFishMan]

I'd love to hear more of this type of spontaneous experimentation at the patch board. The creative whispers and whimpers are just as much apart of the sound as the synth and the sight of that growing web of gelatinous cables is as mesmerizing as watching the musician crouched over his array of knobs meticulously tinkering.

[@CosmicAutumn]

Hugely inspirational. Thank you for taking the time to do this video. I'm a guitarist but boy you got my gears turning while relaxing me at the same time. So great to watch the process.

[@NICUofficial]

So nice seeing your thoughts while live patching. You’ve been a huge inspiration and teacher for me. This was great, enjoyed the whole thing thoroughly. Hope you’re doing well :)

[@Lightbath]

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[@jazzygerard8413]

So satisfying watching you do this! Same as watching Bob Ross doing some paint jobs on a lazy afternoon. Very educational aswell! Hope you gonne do more! KR

[@Larry30102]

As a relative newbie, to see the process is very valuable. Many thanks.

[@mr.brosio7915]

This was so incredibly relaxing and fun to watch. I hope you make more! :D

[@carolineszczurek6401]

I know very little about substractive synthesis in general, and nothing about modular. Still this really was fascinating to watch ! Always great to witness someone sharing his passion with such ethusiasm. That's one of the beauty of YT, I guess. I would never have watched this without the Corona crisis, I'm glad I did. Very cool vid man, thanks ! Cheers from France, keep doing what you love, take care.

[@Lightbath]

Thanks for expanding your sphere and spending some time in the Lightbath Zone 💫

[@lognan9077]

man this was such a fucking beautiful thing to watch and hear. felt like my own musical battery was charged just by observing you in this process. absolutely sick.

[@ultrabillions2208]

I made it 9 mins before I had to go play w some delay. Always takes a day or two to finish an inspiring video ⚡️ 🧠

[@NBSStudioMusic]

Great video, I think we need more of these from all Modular KZbinrs. thx

[@stateazure]

Really enjoying this. Thanks for sharing your patching process!

[@stateazure]

I might be wrong, but isn't there an alt. firmware for Warps where there's a pretty cool tape delay effect added? Might be an idea if you use alt firmware :)

[@Lightbath]

Ooh. Right. Parasites adds a Doppler panner and a delay that I’ve been wanting to check out. Good call.

[@girlinagale]

If the BBC did documentaries such as this I'd buy a TV and licence, but they don't and I'm here, which is just fine.

[@lukecassidy829]

I'm only about halfway through the video right now, but I love your music and it's really helpful to see your process. I've got an itch to make some ambient music now.

[@geraldgoodiii6993]

We all know this guy is super talented with the ambient stuff. But I really enjoyed the glimpse into his personality and quirkinesses. You’re a cool cat lightbath

[@Lightbath]

😎

[@MrRoskoPeko]

Seeing a patch come together is so incredibly helpful. Always great to see how others apply logic and work through problem solving. Thank you.

[@hidikitalks]

I watched this with Jean-Luc . He said to the screen, "Bryan that was fantastic! More live patching should soon follow...Make it so."

[@Lightbath]

Yes, Captain!

[@PARSEC_MT]

Bro ! You explain so nice ! I just love to Watch the Video ! Keep going !

[@casualdecay6775]

Oh my gosh when the plonk comes in :) :) :) I think you should make more of these, even if you can't dedicate much editing time to them. I'd leave these on in the background at work all day.

[@orangewiggler6838]

What a gift!

[@ringandtones]

I'm not into modular (yet) but this video kept me pulling closer. It is as fascinating as it is informative while still being very relaxing. Good job, really enjoyed watching.

[@ethermod307]

Alternative title: "Inside the head of a master". I also have an interesting thought about the clocking of Marbles and Batumi messing up with that. Marbles is life, our everyday natural rhythms. Batumi is the events that happen that give our life a more meaningful purpose, push us forward, advancing our rhythms. What a genius idea to have the music move in different levels!

[@Lightbath]

Patching as life 🌞

[@aeropilot4419]

Looking forward to DivKid’s øchd when it gets here 🙂✨

[@lucafrancinimusic]

I've spent the last minutes thinking about Marbles and Batumi relationship and you got close to my vision of it. I think Marbles is Earth ecosystem while Batumi modulating his rate is humans. With our actions we change our own world, that answers back by pushing us, amplifying our actions in a mad symbiotic loop. Trippy :)

[@Lightbath]

🌟 🌍 💫

[@H3ath]

Thoroughly excited about the ability to play shape, such wizardry :D Thank you for all of this

[@marcuswalnus6617]

Hey brian! I'm a patch beginner and your Video its full of wonderful secrets for my module journey!! Magic!!

[@oldsoulsound]

Awesome! I've been wanting someone to do a complete patch from scratch. I love that you left all the moments of confusion and second guessing. I would love to take it one step further from the very start like how are your VCO's tuned? What was your mood and inspiration for the composition. I truly love this concept and welcome more vérité style. I've learned so much from this.

[@Lightbath]

Ah, nice. That’s a good point for me to mention in the next one: the fact that I always tune all VCOs to C. As for the mood/inspiration there really wasn’t any. I just wanted to show Mimeophon using my ‘standard STO thing’ and then combine that with the bell sounds. The rest just happened.

[@grimmy49]

Epic! this is the kind of video I've been looking for for ages, thank you :)

[@baltergeistsound8366]

Thoroughly enjoyed this, especially the bits where how a particular module works (Shifty needing a gate, for example) make me feel a lot better about my own muddleheadedness.

[@Lightbath]

Haha! Yeah. All the mistakes throughout this video are basically me... every day. Like, why the eff is everything messed up? What is going on? Oh, I plugged this in here when I thought it was there.

[@baltergeistsound8366]

@@Lightbath Yes! Modular in a nutshell!

[@benlogan4038]

Beginner here. Head swimming immediately. Still, fun! Inspiring. Fan of the guy’s music.

[@BigPlasticPlant]

The calmest I’ve been in months.... 🙏

[@atticuslikesbees]

Dreamy early morning tea for the soul. Thank you for sharing your art :)

[@DarkMetaOFFICIAL]

dude, this was absolutely brilliant. stellar. transcendent to have the pleasure of watching and hearing. i was just patching for 1.5 hours, then took a break and found this video : ) also subbed yo ✊🔥

[@AskUncleAndy]

This vid was the best. The best parts for me were when your wheels are clearly turning, sussing the situation, in between moves.

[@Lightbath]

Thanks. Lifting the veil.

[@AskUncleAndy]

@@Lightbath It's entertaining and enormously useful. Thank you for making it happen.

[@edinmesic8015]

this is just great and I hope you will continue this...that was a missing part...my wish come true

[@kozmicstreamz417]

Great video! Shared on facebook Modular Soundscapes group.

[@Lightbath]

Thanks!

[@julsgud]

Everything about this is delightful. More walk thrus pls!

[@ReductioAdAbsurdum1]

Please keep doing this! Great vid, man.

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

Cool video! I really enjoy modular synthesizers even though it can get expensive. Patching cables into jacks and experimenting is the most fun aspect of sound creation.

[@leejmalcolm1]

This was great man. Nice to step inside for a while and see your process. Made me want to buy Zadar! Thanks for sharing :)

[@Rapu-Santeri]

Sweet! I could watch and listen to this all day.

[@robertsyrett1992]

Let's just sit back and listen.

[@mynmyself]

This was super enjoyable, thank you very much!

[@fleshist]

Lovely. Learning. Past hugs future 👍🏽.

[@DaveEsse]

Thank you so much for this video. I am building my first modular synth, 10U. It was very helpful for you to talk through the patch as you made it. I don't have the same modules, but I do have the same functions. I've been using the Richter Wogglebug and a Turing Machine as dual sources of random pitch CV, and the Rene as a single source of sequenced notes. What I don't have, but will be investigating, is an audio repeater function like Morphagene. Thanks again!

[@kozmicstreamz]

Love your music ... and loved watching your process!

[@kozmicstreamz]

Also you were light years ahead of where I would typically get in a patch before I started to get lost with things .... I was already overloaded on the first half hour :)

[@rattusrat]

Great patch. Thank you for doing this. I learned a lot.

[@fosferus]

do you still have a larger system? this was blissful, don't be shy to do more of these! just seeing other people's thought process while patching is inspiring and totally entertaining.

[@Lightbath]

Thanks. Yeah, I hope to get into more large system pieces later this year. I'm moving to a new state and setting up the studio a little differently. Lots to look forward to... eventually.

[@caseyhunted]

really nice to see your process. thank you for sharing.

[@danemx5]

Thanks for sharing your workflow!

[@andresgrumann4079]

love this video, please do more of this stuff, nice productive journey!

[@colinwright27]

Fantastic video . You should definitely do more of these if you get chance. Love being able to watch the creative process- I always seem to end up using my modules the same way each time I patch. I need to experiment a bit more.

[@SoundAuthor]

Great deep dive! I would love to see more of these live patching sessions! I'm also a die hard Trekkie. DS9 is my jam, but TNG was also wonderful!

[@Lightbath]

The heads all seem to love DS9. I suspect I'll get into that once I'm through all of TNG.

[@SoundAuthor]

Similar to TNG, DS9 doesn't really pick up until season 3. It takes some getting used to, but once you acclimate, it's some great Trek!

[@burgetron]

soo coooool! very much much enjoyed seeing & hearing the process...we all really do patch one cable at a time.

[@Lightbath]

Thanks. And yes! I'm pretty sure that r beny puts his pants on one cable at a time.

[@willmeier2785]

within the first minute, thanks for the craft in this

[@laurenthilairet2004]

Thanks for sharing your joy of Patching !!!

[@zamplify]

Fantastic content. Love your music!

[@insan0r]

haha, your reaction after bringing in Mimeophon: Priceless. Same for me, I'm madly in love with mimeophon, morphagene and qpas (in no particular order).

[@natejmattson1870]

We need more videos like this.

[@Z33803]

Really cool vid and sound man!

[@SlowDescentToWild]

Wonderful, thank you :)

[@cooloutcoexist]

Great! I'm at minute 36, where you search for the STO mishap. I'm enjoying this whole piece quite a bit. Good to know that such things happen to some more experienced patchers out there :-) I want to be in the room and suggest to incorporate the gate out of the mimeophon in some way. :-)

[@Lightbath]

Ha. Yeah. Would be cool to try livestreaming a live-patching session and find a way for viewers to help out like that.

[@cooloutcoexist]

@@Lightbath In the end it didn't need any of my ideas, but yeah let us know when you do this. If it's not 3 o'clock in the night here in Germany I'd certainly tune in :-)

[@Chozal]

That's a wonderful case.

[@daren.t.housse2121]

Nice cool you need to more of these live patch session 😎😀😀😀😀👍👍👍👍👍👍 keep up the great videos 👌👌

[@SomethingDeepMunich]

Pls do another one!!! This is wonderful, you need to do a Series out of this ❤️

[@sunkenforest]

More of this! There's not enough live patching videos out there.

[@allhandsmusic]

Thanks for sharing this. If I weren't already into Eurorack, this would have done the trick!

[@Lightbath]

💫

[@quinxx12]

the dmt picture in the end ;)

[@fosferus]

wow, amazing video! very fun guided walk through of the process. hope to see more, you've got a wonderful personality for narrating your patches. (though i can't imagine the wrist pain that'll ensue editing hr+ of footage.) you and keith fullerton whitman have multiple STOs, and i've been waffling about replacing some things in my system with them, but their sound here i think finally made up my mind.

[@Lightbath]

Thanks. Yeah, that's the thing. All of the editing is what is causing it. I might look into some sort of ergonomic controller for all of the most-used NLE/DAW commends. But yeah, I love STO. I sort of want two more. M Geddes Gengras is another good example of a quad STO user.

[@MatthewHyatt]

I'm thankful Yoda watched over this whole process.

[@Lightbath]

Patch, he does!

[@ritec]

You said it, it’s not about the result, it’s about the journey.

[@ChanseMacabre]

I vibe so hard with the "boinked the STO" section. The fact that you didn't cut out the part where you checked the wrong things was very important to me. Thanks for sharing your process. :)

[@Lightbath]

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[@serge933]

This is incredible! I love this format, hope you do more Bob ross style live patchings lol

[@agamemnonc]

I hope your wrist gets better soon. I also suffer from hand and wrist tendinitis and it can be really frustrating. FYI, there are some ergonomic keyboards out there that have dedicated keys for copying and pasting so you don't need to use key combinations.

[@Lightbath]

Thanks. Yeah, I’ve been dealing with tendinitis for decades. I literally feel your pain. I have one of those Shuttle things with the buttons and now just need to get used to using it.

[@AtlasMvm]

great! so relaxing

[@thomastraylor6337]

What about the initial frequencies of the STOs? Are you tuning oscillators and what not ahead of time?

[@Lightbath]

I tune all of my sound sources to middle C so that it all works together. I then change the notes that I feed them if I want different key centers.

[@thomastraylor6337]

Lightbath thank you!

[@Basimilus]

Do more of these! Love it

[@nellsonogmore5938]

I can hear that wooden cabin! Great stuff!

[@Lightbath]

🎨

[@MaximeCloutier]

We need follow ups to this series!

[@Lightbath]

Thanks. We’re getting closer.

[@InvertedPopesMusic]

Awesomeness in wires.

[@dafedeloss]

Greatness and very inspiring.

[@subfusc2848]

This is sounds lovely and educational, what more can you ask for, thanks

[@Koettnylle]

Very inspiring!

[@mgscheue]

Love this! More, more!

[@QuentinLeonetti]

"light is red now" -> I see it purple :o

[@Lightbath]

yeah, it's 'red' so they say, but it's stylized much closer to purple/pink/magenta. I see it the same as you

[@QuentinLeonetti]

@@Lightbath thanks, I wasn't sure if I couldn't trust my eyes or the computer :D

[@nodfactor8808]

Haha! Same here. =]

[@richardtarantino769]

This video reminds me to make small changes in my system. Thanks!

[@Lightbath]

the sweet spots can almost always be found with enough patience... and small changes