Second Modular Session.

This is the second week in a row now that i’ve been experimenting with modular racks and i’m really getting comfortable with it. I feel confident with patching and especially confident using one particular rack which includes: the ‘Eloquencer’ ( an incredible sequencer made by ‘Winter Modular’ that has a huge variety of features to alter your sounds), Two ‘Plaits’ (these are voltage controlled sound sources made by ‘Mutable Instruments’. They have a vast variety of different sounds and each sound is massively customisable) and few other modules. After the first week, I watched a couple tutorials on Youtube on how to use the Eloquencer so I’ll put links at the bottom to this tutorial and a link to each module so you’re able to check them out for yourselves.

Myself and three of my class mates had a massive session using the Arturia Drumbrute, the euro rack I described above, the Moog Sub Phatty and the Arturia Beatstep Pro sequencer and recorded everything over a 3 hour period into Ableton.

We used the Drumbrute as drum source and as the clock to control the BPM of every other bit of hardware we had so everything could be sequenced in time with each other. To be able to record components separately we took the outputs of each piece of hardware and routed it through the patch bay and then chose the correct settings in Ableton. This was especially useful for the Drumbrute as the kick, snares, hi-hats and FM drum all have seperate outputs. The reason for recording everything separately was so that we could chop bits of audio from the the individual sound for our final compositions with ease.

Check out these videos from our session to see all the weird and wonderful sounds we created!