Vermona Melodicer - Overview and Workflow of the Eurorack Sequencer

This video is all about the inspiring Melodicer Eurorack sequencer. I give an overview of a lot of functions and play around with the module in a musical context. I had the feeling I was making a composition on the fly - so I really had a lot of fun working with this module!
Thanks to Vermona for sending me over the Melodicer for this video.
Here some of the modules I use in this clip:
Melodicer: thmn.to/thoprod/495494?offid=...
ADDAC VCA: thmn.to/thoprod/491118?offid=...
Doepfer A140: thmn.to/thoprod/167058?offid=...
Doepfer Dual Envelope: thmn.to/thoprod/449367?offid=...
Drum Sequencer: thmn.to/thoprod/441420?offid=...
Audio Interface: thmn.to/thoprod/530757?offid=...
Microphone: thmn.to/thoprod/115362?offid=...
Microphone 2: thmn.to/thoprod/296554?offid=...
Main Compressor: thmn.to/thoprod/362912?offid=...
Compressor 2: thmn.to/thoprod/246902?offid=...
Preamp: thmn.to/thoprod/246899?offid=...
My Camera: thmn.to/thoprod/497882?offid=...
Huge thanks to Yo from:
/ meinvideostudio
He does fantastic DaVinci tutorials!
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[@EnviroDouglas]

Absolutely the best melodicer demonstration video on KZbin, hands down ❤

[@MaikSchott]

Thanks a lot 🙏

[@casadelamusicadekarlsanmar3366]

Maravilla !... Vermona siempre hace productos increíbles !

[@benoftroy]

Always look forward to your videos Maik. Another good one :)

[@MaikSchott]

Thank you Benjamin - appreciate your compliment 🙏

[@bobmylan9434]

Great video, so pleasant to learn with such a musical and great sounding tutorial and quality video

[@MaikSchott]

Thanks a lot Bob!

[@FerboseSounds]

This sounds really nice!

[@jupiterrising5918]

Nice video! Great production quality. Subbed.

[@PFZ]

Great overview! Thanks.

[@briannielson971]

You make this thing sound amazing!!

[@MaikSchott]

Thanks a lot Brian!

[@beastofbeauty]

sounds really good!

[@Digiphex]

This device looks very interesting. Good review.

[@rhampton1914]

Wow, this isss really incredible the way you Demoed this.....Love the Arp feature

[@MaikSchott]

Thanks a lot!

[@LordFolkien]

Wow what a great demo, super job !!! I would love to have the details of the patch because it looks strait forward but the sound design is awsome !

[@MaikSchott]

Thanks a lot 🙏

[@anthemandflags1388]

Zum Song. Das ist cool, dass Du den Mal erklärst.

[@JohnLRice]

Nice demo 😎👍

[@MaikSchott]

Thanks John!

[@rp8564]

This would be great for generative ambient music!

[@NimrodScott]

This is a brilliant demo! Excellent presentation and video work too. The cable ties look great… where did you find them?

[@MaikSchott]

The ties are velcro tape that bought at Conrad. But nothing spécial, just fancy coloured

[@Hermeneuticar]

2:33 sounds like We fade to gray

[@Paul-js9eq]

I have a Melodicer, thanks in large part to the videos that you and Tim have made, brilliant. Can I please ask what are you feeding into the Click and Gate in please. I am just trying to get the wonderful feel that you have created here. You really are so good at this, thank you.

[@MaikSchott]

I think my Erica Synth drum sequencer is connected to the clock input. The gate out of the Melodicer is going into the gate in of the envelope that is controlling my VCFs

[@serdarsaydan]

hey, nice work and thank you for demoing this modul with your approach. i read in the manual that you can only trigger the clock input with quater notes- i got soooo sad when i read about this. i wished it could accept random trigger values from extracted drum triggers 😭😭😭. bests from berlin.

[@MaikSchott]

I am afraid it is like that. Had to read the manual after you mentioned it. But I always used it in my regular clocked environment and never missed the feature with various clocks.

[@digitalvamp]

I think it does except different clocks I send mine 16 notes from Pam’s and other slower divisions as well.

[@serdarsaydan]

@@digitalvamp damn, i have to try it 😂

[@digitalvamp]

@@serdarsaydan I apologize I shouldn't have commented that it did clock divisions it actually doesn't you were right. I know it takes a faster clock but it runs way too fast. So when I slowed the clock down it worked correctly. I assumed it took divisions. Im a slight noob with this device.

[@serdarsaydan]

@@digitalvamp ah, dont mind. all good. but thx

[@ADVITAM.]

Hello! superb presentation! well done! it sounds wonderfully good! I just bought a Melodicer and I'm struggling a bit to connect it, I connected the 1V/oct input of the Melodicer to the oct input of my Nano Ona but for the gate of the Melodicer I don't know where to connect it...and the CV in and gate in inputs of the Melodicer, what are they for? sorry for these questions but I'm struggling a bit, and as you know the Melodicer well, I'm taking advantage of it…😁🙏 Thank you very much and congratulations for the quality of your videos which are incredible! David.

[@digitalvamp]

I have my melodicer Gate going to a WMD envelope most VCO's need a VCA envelope to keep in from staying on and the envelope gate in is where the gate goes. that works for me. Sorry mike I'm answering your questions. VCO out to envelope in / envelope out to mixer then speakers. Melodicer 1vper octave to VCO 1vper octave in/ Melodicer gate out to gate in on the envelope DONE

[@MaikSchott]

👍

[@ADVITAM.]

@@digitalvamp Hi! Thank you very much for taking the time to answer me, it's really nice! I'm starting to discover day by day the potential of this extraordinary Melodicer…it would have been cool if Vermona showed ways to patch it and the different ways to use it…Have a nice day and again a big thank you to you!🙏

[@turbotambourine]

Goodness! That was wonderful! As I journey into trying to figure out how I want to form melodies on the fly, this is definitely something to look at. Do you have any experience with the Stochatic Instruments Sig? And if so, any thoughts on where each is stronger or weaker? The size of the melodicer seems to be one area of difference where it might give more room to navigate playing live but take up more room.

[@MaikSchott]

Thanks a lot. No I never heard of the SIG. All I can say is that the Melodicer is one of the fastest and most musically sequencers I worked with.

[@turbotambourine]

@@MaikSchott that’s amazing! Love that. Definitely what I’m out for. Making a synth that I can just play music on with the similar immediacy as a guitar or something. Well, maybe not quite as much immediacy but you get the idea! 🙂

[@johnfraboni8077]

Another great demo with very musical ideas - great work! Just curious, in your video, there's a blue cable connected to the Melodicer's gate-in-1. Where's this CV coming from, and how is it modulating the Melodicer? Thanks Mr Maik!

[@MaikSchott]

Thank you John. I think the blue cable in the gate in resets the Melodicer on the first beat. Means whenever I stop and start again the Melodicer always starts from the beginning and not where it stopped. The signal comes from the drum sequencer from Erica synths.

[@johnfraboni8077]

@@MaikSchott Gotcha! Thanks!

[@steveambrose1734]

Hi great video, is it just one cv and gate out?

[@MaikSchott]

Yep - one CV and Gate out

[@zentientzquid8627]

What are those oscillators? Great demo man!

[@MaikSchott]

Thank you. Those are VCO's from Analogue Systems.

[@nth7485]

Nice videos. Btw, where did you get those neon lights in the background?

[@MaikSchott]

Thanks. You mean the small blue tube lights?

[@nth7485]

@@MaikSchott Yes :)

[@MaikSchott]

Godox Tube lights - I think the Name is TL-30 and the bigger ones are from Rollei.

[@usaroman]

I have heard many VCOs but these sound great even on my iPad. Reminiscent of Jarre Equinox. Is that the EMS filter??? I’m old school and looking to do get 2 sequencers maybe the Behringer clone 960 and a bunch of utility modules so I can do Berlin School style music. Can you do triplet ratcheting on the fly?.. Thanks for sharing 🎉🎉🎉

[@MaikSchott]

Yep those are the EMS filters by Analogue Systems. With the Melodicer you can do a lot of ratcheting effects manually with that speed knob.

[@NUNUA]

Great review! what are the oscillators used? sound fat and massive

[@MaikSchott]

Thank you - those are Analogue systems VCO's. Called RS-95e - beautiful British sounding monsters

[@NUNUA]

@@MaikSchott thank you

[@MaikSchott]

Welcome

[@NickHchaos]

Since this is a Vermona case, I want to say also, like a lot of Vermona stuff that flies under the radar, the Vermona Unicycle are some of the best and most versatile oscillators I’ve ever used or heard, and I’ve tried most of them. Very sweet sounding, interesting wave outs, extremely stable tracking, only 10 hp and FMs amazingly well.

[@anthemandflags1388]

Hallo Maik hast du ein paar Sounds für Live streaming an Weihnachten? Einfach ein paar Grussworte.

[@hyderhydra3269]

im in love, im also confused this sequencer controls the OSC? isnt it normally the other way around the OSC gets fed into the sequencer?

[@MaikSchott]

I only know of this workaround. How else would you tell the VCO which notes it had to play? Sequencer CV out into VCO's CV in (if that is what you mean)

[@steveambrose1734]

Sorry are you using more than one oscillator, is that by multi ng the cv out

[@MaikSchott]

Yes - I used a multiple to use 2 VCO's

[@digitalvamp]

Pleasssssse explain the patch what is going on this is not the melodic ear just triggering the vco there a sequencer involved can you please explain I can't get this thing to do what you do and it sound great! Thanks for the awesome videos

[@MaikSchott]

You mean technically or melodic ally? I just jammed and did some chord arpeggios. Then played around with the harmonies.

[@digitalvamp]

The reason I ask to explain the patch is because if you had just the mellow -dicer alone it doesn't make arpeggios it fires of random notes that are far from musical but you harnessed the randomness quantized to a scale and added modules to arpeggiate it in perfect tune? What module is arpeggiating the mellow-dicer? I see your model list but none of them is an arp module? Am I wrong ? You are zoomed out a little far to see the names of the modules. Thanks

[@digitalvamp]

Ps there are only a few mellow diced video but yours are by far the best sounding because of your advanced patching it sounds like a broken kids toy alone by itself.

[@digitalvamp]

This is the mellow dicer alone, sounds nothing like yours kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGPZgWWuiqqrbKs

[@MaikSchott]

But it really is only the Melodicer making these Arps. It all depends on which sliders you pull and how far. I only used the drum sequencer to add a BD and a Snare.

[@Molluszk]

What gives the vibration so the kinda rhythm pulsation of the bass? thx

[@MaikSchott]

What exactly do you mean?

[@Molluszk]

@@MaikSchott how I can reach you? Are u on insta? Can i message you there? Then i could send you a short video about my problem. Thx

[@Molluszk]

waiting for your answer.

[@MaikSchott]

If do not answer my question according your question it will be hard for me to. Give you an answer!

[@Molluszk]

It is hard to tell with words but as I already mentioned your bass is NOT only a held out note as "baaaaaaaa..." but there is a rhythm (pulsation of that. TU TATA TU TATA...for example at 2:12...You knwow. what makes it rhythmic? Because your oscillator gives only a constant "baaaaa....." sound with no rhythm of the sound. But in your patch is rhythmic. Hope it is more clear now. thx

[@royd3715]

hi, does de MeloDICER has the sounds of its own or do you need to combine it with sound output modules?

[@MaikSchott]

The Melodicer is only a sequencer who can control other sound generators. You need Oscillators and other modules to get a sound.

[@rastcheck6037]

At the beginning you said 'chord progression'.. is the melocer mono or poly? Thanks :)

[@MaikSchott]

It's a mono sequencer (1 CV out)

[@rastcheck6037]

@@MaikSchott thanks :). But how you generated chords since it is monophonic?

[@MaikSchott]

I was talking about chord progressions, you see. An arpeggio plays certain notes form chords - the 1, 3 and the 5 for example. And with the Melodicer you can move from one chord to another one with these sliders. That's why I am talking about chords. And chord progressions.

[@rastcheck6037]

@@MaikSchott thanks a lot for the explanation, now I understood :) :)

[@MaikSchott]

You are welcome

[@benjaminbenson1909]

Like your sounds and the video! But you have 3 very beschissene Kameraeinstellungen for such a video :D How about a close top view of the Vermona. Would have been nice!