anton newcombe has been using a grandmother for his latest recording project, which is pretty awesome
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this totally rules, you should be proud of your work.
do you mind disclosing what external effects you used?
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Thanks very much! I appreciate the kind words.
Off the top of my head, I recall using a few instances of RC-20 Retro Color, Valhalla Retroverb and Delay, and u-he Satin and Seventh Heaven on the master bus to get things to gel a bit more. I also used the stock Logic compressor and EQ, and I used Trackspacer on the drums to help it stand out from one of the Moog Grandmother tracks.
Those are pretty much my go to plugins whenever Iām doing anything in Logic.
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Synced PWM and LFO to a couple DFAMs and an Analog Heat
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i was trying out some patches with the grandmother and sampling them for the first time with the digitakt and noticed that the auto-normalization of the sampling process animates the higher frequencies with a character-altering sizzle that i actually appreciate. the samples have like a surreal ultra-crisp/processed ai-conceived idea of what vintage analog sounds like.
the difference in oscillator levels are also highlighted by this process- it shines a strange new light on the cp3 mixer. weird stuff.
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How long have these been $1249? Last I remember it was $1149 and that was a price hike.
I want to say the better part of the past year?
I know there was the price hike at the end of 2021, thatās what got me to jump on the matriarch before it went up. Iām happy I bought my GMA when it was $899 out the door.
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you can usually get the dark ones on sale for $999 (which is about how much the grandmother was when it first came out).
Has anyone here managed to get the latest grandmother firmware 1.1.3 running?
Just received my lovely GM yesterday - second hand, with I donāt know what fw - and wanted to check here before daring to upgrade - Iāve heard of both problems installing it and bugs when running it.
Cheers.
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I have the latest FW. It has a lot of improvements with the clock sync and arpeggios.
I think there are some bugs, but I donāt usually get to crazy changing up from defaults in global settings. So Iām not aware of anything out of the ordinary.
But if youāre unsure, I would call Moogās technical support.
They are great and will walk you through the whole process. Including the button presses to figure out your current FW. Itās obscure, and you have to count the blinks on one of the red buttons.
I think it took a couple tries to get my FW to take. Make sure you wave a midi to usb cable.
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Just popping back around to say how good this track is, and would love an expanded version.
Wait. Didnāt you say you were making an album? Or was that someone else?
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Iāll second that. Good sounds, good composition, good mixā¦
Cheers!
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Much appreciated!. It was nice to wake up and read the kind words.
I do actually have a related concept album entirely planned out, with really extensive track notes (down to track names, musical keys, instrumentation, etc). This encouragement really helps to be honest as I keep psyching myself out and pushing the project aside.
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I buy the shit out of that on a Bandcamp Friday. Add stems and Iāll sample the shit out of it.
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Man, the tone of the Grandmother is just so pleasing. Unlike any synth Iāve owned before. Today I just left it on in the background playing the three octave random arpeggiator, and itās so meditative. Reminds me of Mort Garsonās Plantasia or something.
Which makes me curious, do you have any effects you have permanently paired with your Grandmother? I never had a permanent effects chain going until I got my synth stand, but recently Iāve paired the Grandmother with a Strymon Deco and Volante. I tried a reverb in the chain, but decided the delay is good enough for regular use. Iām running my Take 5 through a Vermona Retroverb Lancet (and the Volante as well via a mixer) and thatās a great combo too. I need to try a phaser in the chain as well and see how I like it.
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It really loves delay.
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Itās weird, but I got a Matriarch and and a Grandmother.
Since they share alot of design, I never really go outside the effects of what they have. GMA for reverb. Matriarch for delays.
But if I need that sound super processed, the Subharmonicon and Mother32 fill that gap.
I would always run them through Valhalla or Soundtoys. Then Moog released the MoogerFooger vstās. I love the murf.
I also have a real Moog 103 phaser. Itās crazy how good that sounds. Now I love running GMA through that because itās better for me to have a mono synth sound to really drive the effect.
The matriarch can actually be patched with its LFO on one of the tuning or detune parameters along with its delay to get an effect thatās very phaser like. I donāt know which exactly. It just takes me noodling with a couple cables to find it.
So phaser in that effect chain is great!
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Whelp.
Just to follow up. My dumb ass just bought ANOTHER monosynth.
As much as I like throwing some Analog Heat onto the GMA, I pulled the trigger on something truly evil.
PWM Malevolent.
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Nice! I should have bought some of those when they were readily available back in the day. I have a few vintage Japanese phasers from the 1970s and a nice Maestro clone. I mostly use them for guitar though. I have the B. bi-phase clone on the way later this month, so Iāll see if I like it more on guitar or the Gma.
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Id love to hear it when you are up and runningā¦ Let me know when you use it on a track!
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