Xaoc Devices Erfurt & Lipsk | An easy way into the Leibniz Binary Subsystem

[@walrtbstudios5430]

I wonder if the failure of every other YTer to explain what these two modules do is down to them not actually understanding it well enough to get the concept over to the audience. The fact that one person- thanks Tom!- has explained it clearly and concisely makes this video gold.

[@boydw1]

Wow, I never would have imagined a binary counter could be employed to achieve such musical results!

[@liantrosretrospectiva4134]

wow, you have zero imagination!

[@Plyci]

The melodic sequencer patch is a superb idea, I completley didn not think that (of course) the bits sum together in the quadratt.

[@Tofu_Pilot]

Thanks to this intro, I now have 7 pieces of gear for sale so I can start to set that Leibniz Binary game on fire. This demo was legit AF, bro.

[@digital_crickets]

Jeez! Anyone studying for their CompTIA Network+ certification needs to watch the first five minutes of this video. Your comparison of Base10 and Binary counting makes more sense than ANY of the material I used to study binary math. Bravo sir! Now, on to the musical stuff... :)

[@TomChurchill]

Haha, thank you! I’m not really a mathematician (it’s been a while since I studied it, anyway) so I was sweating a bit over that part - glad it made sense!

[@digital_crickets]

@@TomChurchill It is perfect, really. As an IT Manager with a couple of folks studying, I've sent them the link to this! Aside from the initial excitement over IT geekery, this video really explains the interactions between these modules so well. The Leibniz Subsystem "feels" so esoteric from the start; but you really make it not only approachable, but exciting!

[@TomChurchill]

@@digital_crickets Thanks very much - appreciate that!

[@digital_crickets]

@@TomChurchill If I might bother you for a moment, how are these connected on the backplane? Are either of the Leibniz modules connected to the back of Odessa? Or it is just ins to outs on the two?

[@TomChurchill]

@@digital_crickets In this video it’s a very simple setup: I’ve just connected the Leibniz output of Lipsk to the Leibniz input on Erfurt. I’m not using Odessa’s Leibniz input at all. (I have also experimented separately with connecting Erfurt’s out to Odessa’s in, and connecting Lipsk directly to Odessa, but I don’t go into that here. It can lead to some quite cool results, although it’s quite subtle. Maybe one for another video!)

[@andrometer2382]

It takes a smart man to simplify things Thanks for sharing

[@lefunghi6151]

I've been researching into the Leibniz Subsyztem for a while now and really fell in love with the concept. The Poly Pitch Patch totally blew me away, that was not a way I thought about the Modules, it's so genius! I was already going to go for the Odessa, but now I am even more exited about it.

[@traxonpsytrance]

man that was the best binary explanation thanks

[@gdrdm]

Great presentation and some wonderful patches! The poly pitch one starting at 20:26 is lovely. Cheers from Portugal

[@pawnotdaw4559]

I’ve been using Lipsk controlling Erfurt for a while connected to drezno, Jena and Gera. This has greatly improved my knowledge of what’s actually going on. Many thanks and love your videos.

[@pawnotdaw4559]

Also, I didn’t know that the Hel expander input is quantised!

[@TomChurchill]

Thanks, glad it was helpful! :)

[@blairtaylor3466]

You’re a wizard! The broken chord example with the shifting speed of change is excellent 👌

[@wilhelm_yells]

Fantastic walk through. Your creative demos open up so many ideas.

[@martintaylor9205]

Another mind blowing tutorial, demo TOM that I must admit baffles me, have watched these modules also on Monotrail Tech Talk vidios, seems quite advanced patching beyond my scope but shows what is becoming possible in Modular for song creation, great tutorial, intriguing 👍🆒🕸⚡️🌟🌟🌟👍

[@TomChurchill]

Cheers Martin!

[@tcrist56]

12:50 is an important concept. Raising the Lipsk interval allows hitting the upper bits more often.

[@dmikalova]

This was fantastic, I can't wait to try out each of these ideas in my own patches

[@TomChurchill]

Thanks - enjoy! :)

[@AlexMusayev]

Thank you for the great introduction! It was a very informative video inspiring some interesting patch ideas.

[@DrDeemz80]

Man this video hurts my brain lol for 11 months I have been watching it trying to understand these modules because what your doing with them is awesome, they seem really interesting but I just cant wrap my head around it, for the 11th straight month lol

[@milesmacquarrie5851]

Great video. Looking forward to seeing you add in Drezno and Jena

[@TomChurchill]

Cheers!

[@pault4249]

excellent demo! thank you!

[@precarious333music]

Finally makes some sense to me. Thanks!

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

You make it look so easy - but sound good .... damn youre a next level tinker ! Im litterally gobsmacked,-

[@Jimantronic]

Groovy mathematics!

[@egoujou]

Hi Tom. Just discover all your videos. Great thanks! So as I have both module - and only those.. how shall I connect them? Lipsk Out to Erfurt in and vice-versa ? Thanks!t

[@TomChurchill]

Hi! In this video I just have the Lipsk out connected to the Erfurt in. That’s the only Leibniz connection you need for these patches 👍

[@egoujou]

@@TomChurchill thanks. I’ve change the cable… apparently this was the issue ! And thanks very much for those great videos .

[@Will-qv3db]

Hello Tom, I'm wondering about the order of the rear connections. Do you have the Lipsk's out into Erfurt's in? Or is it the reverse? Thanks.

[@TomChurchill]

Hi - I’ve connected Lipsk out to Erfurt in 👍

[@Will-qv3db]

@@TomChurchill Thanks!

[@gesslr]

Brilliant.

[@jdkane527]

Is Erfurt connected to the Odessa Leibniz connector? The spectral frequency lights on Odessa light up as if they are receiving Leibniz data.

[@TomChurchill]

No, the only Leibniz connection in this video is Lipsk into Erfurt. The spectrum lights on Odessa are just changing as the various notes/pitches are being sent to Hel, which is why they might appear to change in time with the lights on Erfurt.

[@shakeherhand]

Really great video. I think I’m gonna have to get the pair. If you were going to get a third Leibniz module for mainly sequencing purposes, which one would you go for?

[@TomChurchill]

Thanks! If I was going to add something with sequencing in mind, I'd probably go for Drezno next, which would let you create rhythmic patterns by feeding in slow CV signals and taking gates from the bit output jacks on the front. Or maybe Jena? It has a big bank of rhythmic patterns which you can access by feeding it a steady rising count from Erfurt and taking gates from the bit outputs.

[@shakeherhand]

Awesome, thanks for taking the time to respond!

[@tcrist56]

Tom, maybe you can help me. If you send an audio signal into Drezno, and Erfurt is placed in the chain between Drezno's ADC and DAC, what does Erfurt perform on the bits? Is the digital representation of the audio altered in a certain way? Does Erfurt start counting more erradically based on the incoming bits? Both? Also in this scenario, when Lipsk is placed before Erfurt, it doesn't seem to have the same effect on Erfurt's counting as is demonstrated in your fine video. Or does it?

[@TomChurchill]

I don’t have Drezno (yet) so I can’t try this out, but based on my understanding of the system, I think if you fed an *audio* signal into Drezno and then fed the resulting Leibniz data into Erfurt, you’d just get a very chaotic output from Erfurt, as you’d be continuously changing the count increment. Inserting Lipsk would just allow you to invert specific bits. I guess I can’t imagine a use case for that particular setup that would produce usable/musical results, but I might be wrong! I think if you fed a series of *fixed* voltages into Drezno, you’d get a series of binary numbers out, which would change the count increment - which is kind of like setting a particular combination of switches on Lipsk if you were just using Lipsk on its own, as in this video. So you could change between rhythm patterns by sending gates with different voltages into Drezno, for example. But I think I really need to play around with Drezno myself before I can give solid advice on this :)

[@tcrist56]

@@TomChurchill Thanks Tom. This is what seems to be happening for me. Drezno converts audio into a byte passed to Lipsk. Lipsk inverts and user selected bits and passes that to Erfurt. I have Erfurt clocked faster than Drenzo so Erfurt counts incrementally or decremental by the value it receives from Lipsk until Drezno sends Lipsk and then Erfurt a new value. I am with you here. I am not sure what the musical value is. But this is helping me to understand the system better. Next in my chain of LBZ modules is Jena. So Jena is taking Erfurt's byte value and remapping it to another. I haven't yet figured out how Erfurt might effect that process.

[@steveambrose1734]

Hi a bit of a noob question but how are you sending the reset from pams. Is it just a gate at a division modifier? Thanks

[@TomChurchill]

I replied when you asked this three days ago :) Yes, it's just a simple square/gate at whatever division you need. It doesn't matter how wide the gate is; the rising edge triggers the reset.

[@laciep837]

can i join up Erfurt Lipsk and Dresno using the bus connector thing?

[@TomChurchill]

Yes

[@laciep837]

@@TomChurchill if you had all 5 leibniz modules, how would you link them up on the bus? I'm assuming you wouldn't connect all 5 in one chain

[@TomChurchill]

I have them all now and I’ve ended up setting it up as a couple of small chains: the first is simply Drezno II + Jena, for audio/CV processing and wavetable VCO stuff; the second is Lipsk + Erfurt + Rostock + Poczdam, for rhythm pattern/gate generation. I have Poczdam unlinked, so I start the chain at output 2, where I can insert a slower clock, then run through Lipsk, Erfurt and Rostock and into Poczdam again so I can tap the individual bits post-Rostock. And I can always patch between Poczdam and Drezno via the front panel jacks if I need to.

[@laciep837]

Honestly so helpful @@TomChurchill glad I found this channel. I think I'm looking at doing what you've done in a couple of these vids. Erfurt ino Lipsk, and then Dreno into Rostok. I feel there is a lot to explore. Also strikes me that although I do have a couple of Pams, putting a simple Doepfer clock divider alongside the liebniz stuff will make things simpler for me. Honestly I feel for most of us mere mortals taking a look at the Xaoc product pages for these modules leaving us with no idea how any of it translates to anything musical or that you'd want in a patch, so it's neat that your videos are high up on searches for Xaoc Liebniz :D

[@steveambrose1]

Hi I am a bit of a noob but I understand this however how did you make pams do a reset ? I can't seem to find this info. please someone help..Steve

[@TomChurchill]

Not sure I understand the question - are you asking how I set up a channel on Pam’s in order to send a reset signal to Erfurt? I just use a default square, and if I want to sent a reset signal every bar then I set the multiplier to /4, if I want it every four bars then it’s set to /16, etc etc. Or did you mean something else??

[@steveambrose1]

@@TomChurchill thanks that's exactly what I meant. I worked it out but didn't know if I missed a setting in pams etc. thanks again

[@mntbighker]

Can you get ratchets out of it?

[@unfamiliarenvironments]

Addac gate to trigger generator into Bytom - interesting non repeating ratchets

[@TomChurchill]

Not as such, as far as I can see - there may be a way I haven't thought of though!

[@Tofu_Pilot]

Please for the love of all that's black and unholy, throw away those grey blocky cables ( @1:30 ), right now.

[@TomChurchill]

What’s wrong with them? 😂

[@Tofu_Pilot]

@@TomChurchill So much