It was challenging enough to try to play the piano and sing at the same time so no knobby things sorry but there’s a run down of the setup still.
(look at that ugly fingers trying to convince themselves they know what they’re doing when they clearly don’t!)
run down of the setup:
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Prophet rev2 is used as a MIDI controller for Arturia Piano v2 that goes out to the Morphagene.
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Morphagene is used in delay mode and played in reverse with Hermod modulating the gene to create small glitch
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Morphagene goes into Typhoon to add reverb and granular goodies
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the modular family goes into the Digitone (no FX from the DN)
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Digitone has 3 tracks with some ambiant-ish melodies: all full of prob trigs
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Octatrack is glorified sample player (violins) but also adds some FX. a bit of comp, phaser, reverb
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Octatrack outs goes into the Rytm
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Rytm is in song mode and is the master here sending tranport and clock to DN that forwards it to the OT.
Rytm is playing a basic rhythm with some probs on the hi hats and some noise sounds and kick
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everything is recorded via OB
the Morphagne in delay mode is very fun, that’s a nice use especially if you combine gene modulation as it brings a few glitches a delay wouldn’t create.
sorry for my piano skills. I have no idea what I’m playing…
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I failed like, I don’t know, 6-8 times and my voice was out of order so here is version number 3. Don’t judge me 
This jam could have been shorter but I was having too much fun with the arp and forgot to, you know, stop!
rundown of the setup:
- Digitone is in charge of kick, hihat1, hihat2 & arpeggiated key and sequencing Qu-bit Chord v2 (Digitone is the master sending transport/clock and MIDI to Hermod, converting MIDI note to CV for Qu-bit Chord v2 and sending gate to Intellijel Quadrax going into Intellijel QuadVCA). I’m also using delay, reverb and chorus for Chord v2 3d and 5th.
- Qu-bit Chord v2 is in harm mode. The root note is mixed centered used with a “normal” ASR envelope from Quadrax and then goes into DFAM external audio in. the 3d and 5th notes of Chord v2 are hard panned right/left and are using Quadrax envelopes as LFOs with different tempo (not exactly the right BPM but hey, I like it this way)
- DFAM is mainly used as a filter for Chord v2 root note but is also used as an extra VCA mid jam: I change the VCA decay to make it shorter, the root note starts to pulsate as per the sequenced velocity. I also use VCO1/VOC2 mid jam to add some melody/percussive sound.
- Hermod sends clock to DFAM and different LFOs to DFAM’s VCA decay, filter cutoff and VCO1 and to Chord v2 wave shape (everything is very subtle, just to add a bit of movement but you can clearly hear the filter cutoff being modulated at the very end when I close the filter)
I added H9 on the root note and keys.
I really enjoyed playing with Chord and Quadrax to create this weird rhythmical line but using DFAM as an extra filter/VCA with the sequenced velocity was a nice finding! and… it was really fun to play with the arp mode of the Digitone live. I am changing the length of the sequence randomly and the number of octaves. the arp sequence is 16 steps but I start with only 3 then increase slowly and then, do random step length/octaves.
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Supervisor is my previous jam:
wasn’t sure about this jam and didn’t upload it right away. I’m not so happy with the end result but I did have fun doing it, especially the Plaits voice synth was a lot of fun, talking to me weird stuffs Anyway, here is the run down of the setup:
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Digitone is the master clock/transport here sending MIDI to Hermod for Rings and Minitaur. Hermod converts it to CV for Rings and propagates MIDI to the Minitaur. Digitone is hi hats (1&2), snare (with a delay not in time with the tempo creating this funny swing) and a kick (low probability to be triggered)
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Hermod is sending CV to Plaits 1 (Kick). I’m using an Euclidean rhythm revolving on it self.
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Hermod is also adding an Euclidean rhythm for Rings when receiving the MIDI notes from the Digitone
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Hermod is also using yet another Euclidean rhythm for Plaits 2 (voice). set to 1/96 with a chance effect afterward. You can see me turning it on/off so that the probability of triggering the voice goes from 7% to 100%. You can see me manipulate the speed and the position of the synth voice to change the “words”.
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Rings is in Eater egg mode and goes into the Analog Four inputs but I also use track 1 and 2 with the inputs as oscillators which allows me to use all the filters/LFOs on the sound. I have a few LFOs modifying the filter cutoff frequency and pan with some delay/reverb/chorus and trigs on the sequencer to retrigger LFOs randomly.
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Analog Four receiving Rings as explained above is also triggering some SFX with a very low probability set on track 3 & 4.
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Minitaur is doing… Minitaur.
even though I started with Rings and thought: “cool”, I couldn’t really get anywhere so I’m not really happy with this jam but I’m trying to stick to my one jam per week with no judgement on the end result.
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Great singing - very trippy /verspult (tape salad) as we say in german - i like it. The trippy aspect is the plaids voice synth - very pleasant, like an acid choior, very cool.
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Thank you for listening and your comment!
Verspult could be a cool name for a band!
If you like weird you might like my very last jam then (got the most dislikes 
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Love this one. (Love a lot of them, but this gets special mention.) I think in this case you’ve matched the timbre of the main chord backing and your voice in a way that makes it more…integrated(?!) (I am not a music critic!)
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@igtheflig Thank you!
I guess it was the right key for my voice or something (I am not a musician 
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my jam of this week (a bit late and might be a bit “obscure” or simply put: bad!)
I’ve tried something new: subs in the video to explain a few things. What do you think? Rundown of the setup:
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Digitone is as always the master here, sending clock/transport to Hermod while doing kick, hi-hat and clap. the beat is in 17/16. The hi-hat has some off-tempo delay on it, to swing more.
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DFAM follows a sequence but the PITCH CV goes into the TEMPO CV therefore it’s not following a 8 steps grid. The VELOCITY CV goes into the VCA CV, exaggerating the sequence more.
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Hermod receices MIDI from the Digitone and converts it into CV for Plaits 1 & 2. I’m using the unison mode here so one MIDI channel for both Plaits is being used. Hermod sends also an LFO to Rings Position CV and send clocks and a random sequence to trigger the recording of the Morphagene.
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Plaits 1 is the bass using Granular formant oscillator mode
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Plaits 2 is the bell sound using the Harmonic oscillator mode. The aux output goes into the input of Rings
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Rings is using the Easter egg mode of the String model which adds a reverb! I blend the main output of Plaits 2 with it in my mixer.
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Morphagene receives clock from Hermod and a random record trigger with a sequence in 17/16 too. gene size and slide are at 12:00 while Morph is at 13:00. It records and plays my vocal (that goes out from the Apollo Twin X via line 3/4) through out the whole song. I don’t know when my vocal is going to be recorded or played so I was a bit disturbed from time to time haha.
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Rev2 is a very simple patch and I play live for this wilding improvised ending.
My last jam and the most disliked one too!
I’ve been adding a thumbnail to my jams, I guess it makes it easier to know what sparked the idea for the jam? (and hide my most of the time weird singing face haha)
some fun with Qu-Bit Surface and Rev2 for this jam. 9 minutes for this one
Digitone only jam this time:
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merry Christmas, Happy new year & see you next year!
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And I said I wouldn’t go too much into modular stuffs…
There’s another mix available here with some added delays, vocals:
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I’ve tried something new: subs in the video to explain a few things. What do you think?
That`s a good idea. I’m not sure if the average music consumer will get it, but many other musicians here will appreciate it. Just one thing: it is a lot of text and the cuts are quite fast. For me as a non-english native too much to follow the explications and listen to the music at the same time.
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Thank you for your feedback!
I had the same feedback and tried to slow them down after that. Hope it’s better on the new vids.
Really liked your newest jam Host! I think I’ve never seen a song as structured as that performed live on the modular (and I mean this as a compliment). Groovy bass, great pad-like sounds and awesome, laid-back vocal melodies - nice work!
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Thanks man!
The Hermod sequencer really helps for that!
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Here is the jam Korpinen is talking about btw:
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a bit different from my usual jams I guess.
Tried out my newly (well, over a month now I guess) acquired Mother-32 (and Rings as an FM synth).
Subharmonicon in stereo thanks to the modular world : )
Plaits kick and hh. I’m spoiled as I can LFO the hh decay, timber, pitch, harm and level.
Rings drone.
Magneto = my fav delay so far.
