The power of Basimilus Iteritas Alter/Mutable Branches

Being an update on the development of a case/methodology for live, improvised techno/electro jam business. HANDY LINKS TO MODULES FEATURED BELOW!
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Link to Live Facebook Modular Jam Session (using this system): / 1803057619711889
Link to first Live Case video: • Eurorack Drumming Tuto...
MODULES FEATURED/MENTIONED:
* Copper Traces SEEK: www.coppertracesmusic.com/euro...
* 10:18 Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas Alter: www.noiseengineering.us/basim...
* 3:56 Mutable Instruments Branches: mutable-instruments.net/module...
* Mutable Instruments Clouds (FM Video Demo): • Modular Monthly: Explo...
* Tiptop Audio HATS909: www.tiptopaudio.com/ht909.php
* Hexinverter Mutant BD9 (it's NOT the Mutant Bassdrum, whoops): www.hexinverter.net/mutant-bd9
* Mutable Instruments Grids: mutable-instruments.net/module...
* Make Noise Pressure Points: www.makenoisemusic.com/modules...
* Intellijel Dixie II+: intellijel.com/eurorack-modul...
* Tiptop Audio Circadian Rhythms: www.tiptopaudio.com/cr.php
* Tiptop Audio Trigger Riot: • Monthly Modular: Beat ...
* Akemie's Taiko: busycircuits.com/alm015/
* Doepfer A112: www.doepfer.de/a112.htm
AMAZING ELECTRO TUNES MENTIONED THAT YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO:
The Other People Place - Let Me Be (off Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe): songlink.io/y/n5gfgYP2juI
Der Zyklus - Formenverwandler: songlink.io/i/397494278

[@benreeves1908]

I'm a simple man. I see a MylarMelodies video, I click like.

[@7177YT]

agreed

[@charlesbronson2806]

Man I held out for so long. But decided to pick up a BIA yesterday. As a techno guy this thing is king. Cant wait to try the gate pattern trick.

[@damiansalza7297]

Great vid man! I dig how you take the time talk about the process and not just the shiny new modules. Cheers mate!

[@williamthazard]

really interesting window into your thought process! It's so easy to allow things to get overly complicated, and I appreciate your emphasis on paring down and embracing simplicity. Thanks for sharing this

[@njdpdv]

3 (light)years ago, I watched this video, watched Rubadub's video and soon after the Basimilus Iteritas Alter was my first module. Things escalated pretty quick pretty savagely. Thanks for luring me into the eurocrack domain. Regumentally thankful. 💛

[@RawVeganRising]

This is a f-ing awesome video man! Documenting the building of your live rig is so informative and really sparks the conversation of how to design a purpose-built coherent system. Really great!

[@2mbst1]

Holymoly. Okay, this went straight into the top tier list of modules i'll have to try. the sounds are exactly my type of stuff. awesome.

[@carianoff]

Love hearing your process. You rambled through some issues I have or had thought about.

[@Anarchosyn]

You should do a video showing off the Basimilus Iteritas Alter. That short clip @1:17 sounded divine.

[@InTexas]

Your setup sounds awesome! Thanks for showing your live setup!

[@brianobush]

So many good nuggets in here, thanks!

[@diglet553]

Top vid man, nice to see your live system developing. I'm after building one primarily based around acid house but with the ability to go beyond that.

[@the_anderman]

That Der Zyklus song is seriously good - thanks so much for the recommendation!

[@wackenthaljef]

waaaaoww there are so much vids ,i didnt saw yours,but now i will! Thanks a lot.For once thats very aidful! thanks sir!

[@garvinkelly]

I got one earlier this year and I have been using ornament & crime's quad turing machine mode to send lots of stepped looping cv to it. Sounds so sick and a blast to improvise with

[@ellopropello]

awesome presentational video of the iteritas. and really nice how you walk thru your modules. thanks

[@gooneybird808]

I wish I lived somewhere where people get together and get down to modular music. Sad story - I've been trying to get my friend to buy a proper synth..so we go to guitar center...ya...the only three synths are akai whatever, korg microkorg, and Korg minilogue...he's a classically trained pianist with a $2000 Yamaha with loads of presets...so obviously he has a habit of changing presets instead of writing cool licks to my funky break beats. I try and try to explain to him the greatness of raw analog and on the fly tweaking and sound design and how subtle knob turns can change dynamic and drive of a song.....he still picks the microkorg not because of the deep digital sound design you can accomplish with a little manual flipping but because he loves all the presets.....I died inside Sorry..I have no one else to talk to Thanks

[@Jimbo386000]

gooneybird808 Bruh. Your friend has much to learn.

[@Gluttonforpeace]

i may never get bored of your videos...

[@7177YT]

Excited to hear more! I'm gonna book a studio tour in july or september. (: Thank you! Hope you and your loved ones are well!

[@EdEditz]

I just got my BIA in. I choose it as my first bought Eurorack module (alongside some utility modules like a dual LFO and dual voltage processor I built myself) and already my setup sounds amazing. I don't think it will ever be replaced :)

[@tgeo2880]

that little BIA aside a minute or so in is one of my all time favourite youtube moments

[@CaptureWhispers]

Big ups for shouting out Drexcyia. They have inspired my live set as well.

[@jeffhammel4305]

"...instead of removing some things, I bought a new case." Awesome. That saves me from writing the annoying: "You need a new case" comment. :P Thanks for the video! Good stuff!

[@babyswindle]

Agree with the simplicity commentary - Speaking of Der Zyklus - listen to any Gerald Donald tracks - so much precision

[@0Metatron]

For more patterns in a small space try the Antimatter Launch Codes. It's so good for just firing out any pattern thats in your head and it will quantise it and loop it automatically, plus you can save them afterwards. Simon from London Modular recommended one to me and I am totally in love with it

[@re8et355]

100% you can have a show just on this, but you need talent, and you got it man!

[@10908070605040302]

love your videos mayn !

[@joaommeirelles]

thanks, man! love your channel

[@TheOriginSoundtrack]

Catching up on your videos and love the sneaky covering of the natural gate 😉 no longer a secret...

[@kiickinballistics]

Just keep coming back to the 1:18 insert. Ridiculous indeed. I wish I had one ☝️

[@noi1989]

Brand new to modular, but I thought I'd mention the MakeNoise Tempi. I'm having a helluva lot of fun with it and would probably pair very well with that Basimilus.. 6 gate outputs.. clock division and multiplication programmable on the fly, mute/unmute, similar buttons like on the circadian.. 10 hp.

[@ben-7403]

Ooooooo now I've gotta go heat up my soldering iron, Branches is getting bumped up on my diy priority list. Great video.

[@kay_lpzw]

The Basimilus Iterites Alter seems like I was planning to do with a Achemie's Taiko, meaning to have a percussion voice that can also work as a very small synth voice too. At sooperbooth I checked the Audio Damage Proton and hell yes I fell in love with it! Now there is a third contender in the mix, damn. :D

[@TRUEiMPROrecords]

This module is already a techno Holy Grail, selling way over rsp as used.. I hope Noise Engineering keeps on expanding on a killer concept with these modules!

[@intensesurtax483]

Some great ideas here, MylarMelodies, as ever. I've got a rig for similar purposes, so I can basically record all my stuff in one live take and then unpatch. The way you use pressure points for the melody here is cool - I've tried it out with two gate patterns from the Numeric Repetitor, one driving envelopes and the other the PP. I use the DC1 drumcomputer for percussion patterns(which is a bit slept on for what it does), with the QuBit Mixology at the end of the chain - this works pretty well. BIA looks great, I've mocked up a shoddy copy using noise outputs from shapeshifter and a Bastl Skis. Keep 'em coming.

[@mylarmelodies]

Nice tips, I've actually got a Zularic AND a Numeric on the way (I know, I know, but I've got a bit of a Noise Engineering crush at the mo...)

[@bodoelsel]

Thank you for recommending The Other People Place album which is one of the best electronic records ever done.

[@martiansonmaui1749]

i got my BIA last week, using it with a Beat-step Pro, Octo-controller, Erica Synth Dual FX and a couple of Pico Drums...GAAAH!

[@julianjacques6590]

One potential option for signal routing might be to look at the Erica Synths pico switch. It's just below £30, 3hp, passive and has 3 ins to 1 out (or vice versa), so a couple of them would only use 6hp and each would give 3 selectable sources / destinations :-). May be worth checking out rather than splitting the switched multiple!

[@louisservet7931]

i love your channel name because it sounds like a Joycean bilingual portmanteau creation : my - larme ("tear" in french) - melodies. Maybe this has already been highlighted though ;) Also, wonderful content, thanks !

[@starwars007oele]

You can also use the Branches fore two different snares like most drummers have. So happy I found your vids.Greetz 👍✌️

[@mylarmelodies]

No worries!

[@ArthurStone]

Nice grooves :D

[@deejaydubla]

Totally agree with your Akemie's Taiko/BIA comparison. Also: you should maybe have a look at the Knight's Gallop from Shakmat if you're wanting to conserve some space. It only outputs two triggers, but they interact with each other in ways that would probably appeal to you. Plus it's only 8 hp and £93.20 (DIY kit from Thonk).

[@ParalysedGekko]

20:20 "...and then i've got the octocontroller supplying pulse width modulation and keep Nick back happy." Fell of my chair laughing...nice one! :D

[@DrMoe.Lester]

It's a fine day when we get a new vid

[@alternatingbitmusic]

1:38 "it might be a very proto-techno show, em... but that would be awesome!" LOL. Indeed

[@oddbox2764]

The jam starting at 13:43 is next level.

[@djsyndicate0001]

Broke down and had to "just fucking buy one" haha!! Excellent video man! That loop at 1:25 is insane!!!!!!! :D

[@Dan2Hibiki]

Nick Batt reference, lol. Nice vid though, thanks man

[@gabrielmanzanedo]

Holy fucking shit god damn it! It moves up on the list.

[@Faenith]

As always an awesome video from you! Please, what are these screws you are using to house your modules? I have only two of them, received with a module, but I'd like to use only these screws in my rack if possible...where can I find these screws? Thx by advance!

[@Ellotus13]

Hey man, you're the reason I got into modular in the first place, thank you for that! I have a question: could you do a more in depth video on BIA? It's one of the coolest modules I've seen and there are criminally few videos on it! You mentioned that in order to really make it flourish and expand, you'd need a ton of modulation. So could you pair this up with say Erica Synths Black Octasource and unlocks it's true potential?

[@burakeren]

For rythyms have you checked the varigate 8+? Its pretty amazing for both random and specific patterns.

[@atkmodular904]

Nice Work as always Alex! I have an idea for your Switched mult, If you have any spare switches, or better yet, if you have a DIP switch handy, you could wire some of the connections at the back of the mult so you can easily configure which jacks are connected/normalled, that way you could single out the first jack as a mute or whatever you like. Modular!

[@mylarmelodies]

That's an excellent shout and exactly what I thought of too!! I was going to suggest jumpers to link or break connections, but James suggested DIP switches. Would be the perfect option to make it super flexible.

[@waldemarbednorz5645]

Jesus, So heeeelpful. Your stuff is the always the best ;-)

[@curtainsinmotion]

Great video! Those gates you feed into the different controls of the BIA, could they also be just triggers? Or do they need to be longer, say a 1/16 note gate.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Looks like an awesome module. Been eyeing it up. You in Brighton this weekend?

[@mylarmelodies]

LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER Its a winner. no regrets! yes i am, will say hi!

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

cool! ill be on sunday. so yeah! see you then :)

[@danielsolomon63]

I almost died on th Nick Batt reference :D :D.

[@jamiestewart1644]

der zyklus and The Other People Place = Drexciya. Good call!

[@martinhyland4556]

Did you ever do a video on Copper Traces Seek? I own one and would love to see you use it.

[@tomwatson7626]

ha, before you even said 'the other people place' I thought 'drexciya'. while we're on the subject of minimal funk, do you have any recommendations for modules that would help get an SND typa vibe going quickly in a live situation? again, thanks for the content dude, well actually I'm not sure if I should thank you because my savings have got no hope now, but yeh, should be able to free up a few more quid n support you on patreon soon too. brrrr'uppp

[@LarsDanielTerkelsen]

I just love the fact, that you used a DX7 cartridge to cover up the secret module. 😆 Been quite some time since I had one of those. Decades, actually.

[@delta-9969]

lol and here I was searching google for a eurorack module that uses dx7 rom cartidges....

[@daneguitarist1]

great video, wow we play so incredibly different great stuff tho! we use like similar modules in completely different ways haha

[@theinternetseekers2436]

Benders music is super simple i know he has a huge setup but really his actual compositions are super super simple just perfected. A great mentor of mine told me once that "its not the notes you play its the silence between them" xD kind of what your saying i think

[@geraldgoodiii6993]

15 mins in... YESSSSS

[@olg88]

13:33 very nice!!

[@Dogboy73]

I just fucking bought one (BIA). Should be here soon. Can't wait to get my mitts on this bad boy :D

[@alexjann9349]

He told me to f* buy one too... man alive it's the $hit! Fav module evaaaaaaa

[@mrotaveria]

The Other People Place is awesome. Good that you mentioned it. I'd like to know, in your opinion which would be a good module to create that Detroit'ish pads. Shapeshifter maybe?

[@mylarmelodies]

Akemie's Castle! :) Two-Op FM with reverb FTW

[@AFinalForm]

Jeez, this is cool.

[@AFinalForm]

Bloody hell

[@markanquoe2612]

The hidden module is a Rabid Elephant Natural Gate isn't it? I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!

[@easementh]

instant bangers

[@StarmanDeluxe2001]

Lol what video is 1:17 from? I want to see the rest of that!

[@chemicalBR0]

wow this thing is incredible, now i have to rethink some stuff ....... thanks man ;) 13:30 -16 mins ish, you could more or less play that out on its own. (i'd be dancing that's for sure)

[@mylarmelodies]

Haha, yep my hands at 13:34 are basically me going "There you go. Thats a tune."

[@alanbg2278]

Too good. Can only take in small doses cos I haven't got one to tweak !

[@deansmith852]

Could the drum gates on a Beatstep Pro be a good paring for the BIA? Loving your work Alex!

[@mylarmelodies]

Yep! Thanks

[@maxmatson1578]

in a weird way I see a lot of similarities with the "B.I.A." and Korg "monologue" I have the monologue myself, and know that people like to use it as a pseudo drum synthesizer. I wonder if I could get similar sounds from that?

[@julianm8845]

Can someone please point me in the right direction for a small (less than 10hp) sequencer module to go with a basimilus iteritas? maybe a varigate 4+?

[@SONICrider]

15:00 cool style of techno \0/

[@burakeren]

Best demo of this module is the voltage block demo of malekko =)

[@hazymind8684]

Basimilus Iteritas Alter is insane ! They are unfortunately out of stock everywhere... Any idea where to get it ?

[@SquarepusherCentral]

Check out Dopplereffekt's Gesamtkunstwerk for similar minimal but totally great electro. And most Drexciya is in that vain too, obviously.

[@myowelt]

Mate, you need to stop doing this, you are making me poor. Incomplete list of modules that I bought *just because of your awesome videos* : Metropolis (I was drunk), Turing Machine (I went into DIY because of you!), Intuitive Quantizer, a sequential switch, and god knows what. Oh yeah, and a Maths. Sigh.

[@Jimbo386000]

At least drunk you has a good taste in sequencers. Haha

[@metalmatou]

this shit at 13:30 is just so awesome!!

[@thehowlingterror]

Always makes me smile to hear well spoken people try to say Fuck.

[@mylarmelodies]

Well spoken?!

[@phosfiend]

Fucking rad tip sending gates into the mod ins - going to do this with OG BI and my pair of Shapeshifters ASAP

[@mylarmelodies]

Defo add an attenuverter for max enjoyment

[@phosfiend]

defo indeed, the original BI can be pretty frustrating without one & I often employ one (or two). Interestingly, the original BI might be especially suited to this technique - it's a bit shite for normal CVs ergonomics-wise as the knobs are attenuators when something is patched in (thus losing whatever you dialed in), but when feeding gates might be pretty rad? Can't wait to try it. I just got a Varigate 8+ with the hopes of moving towards playing live, very much in the same philosophy as what you're proposing here; so big thanks for these vids, super insightful :)

[@makeshiftsavant]

I keep around 172hp per row power 45 and it's hot to the touch after about an hour, I can't even imagine what yours must feel like after 20 minutes.

[@mylarmelodies]

It surprised me that it worked!!! The uzeus is a beast. Having the bigger PSU into it is important though. And yes ideally don’t stretch your PSU…

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

Truly impressive! Now I am considering a build with Circadian Rhythms for the drum/bass sounds missing in my rig.

[@mediocrefunkybeat]

I need to start saving.

[@sonikboom007]

one thing i learned from v snares is feeding grids with sequenced gates. id run a track out of cicadian into the clock in. switch thr grids to a lower ppqn and start experimenting!

[@mylarmelodies]

sonikboom007 You mean feeding Grids Clock input?

[@sonikboom007]

mylarmelodies kinda. i used my bsp's drum gates out and would add groups of 4 triggers spread out and other groups of odd numbers so the grids would be clocked in jenky ways !

[@divineaccidents4374]

into the morph /y axis, fills or the tempo ?

[@csselement]

happy days, m8

[@TheMaalis]

How about a Malekko Varigate for probability gate patterns?

[@mylarmelodies]

Defo would like to try. Soooo many things. In the end you have to draw a line under it and get to know what you have

[@thetaflux6267]

Consider the delptronics trigger man for randomness too

[@modularfoundations8552]

Have you tried the Manis Iteritas? Trying to figure out if it’s a good pairing for the BIA or will it be redundant, thanks

[@mylarmelodies]

Never tried it, soz!

[@dangayle]

I have both. Very similar, but different. The MI is definitely noisier. I use the BIA primarily for kicks, the MI is my primary bass sound. What is awesome is that I can slowly morph the MI into a dirty kick and use the BIA as the bass, lol.

[@calderwood9641]

Sounds like you need a Acid Rain Technology Switchblade to switch between rhythms :)

[@ubahnrider1337]

nick batt needs to be happy at all times!

[@whiterottenrabbit]

1:18 - 1:26: Is that you, mylarmelodies, or is it a clip of somebody else?

[@AlexKislitsyn]

i touched that case

[@MarkusARC]

Wait... Your mutant bassdrum looks different from mine. Is this a new version with extended functionality or a prototype or something? :O

[@mylarmelodies]

Markus Cancilla Ah no, Its the BD9! Was a doofus and said wrong model (I also referred to switched multiples as sequential switches throughout the entire filming)

[@MarkusARC]

Oh, no worries! Just wanted to make sure I hadn't missed anything :D this was an awesome video! I'm figuring out my own performance rig and this series is super helpful and inspirational!

[@passionmax]

Hi thanks for being so thorough. What is the DX7 looking cartridge on your Eurorack?

[@mylarmelodies]

Hah, a DX7 cartridge, hiding an at the time unreleased module!! (Natural Gate by Rabid Elephant)

[@MUNRO13]

Malekko Varigate 8+ instead of trigger riot?