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During a particularly dark time in my life I was out on a walk with my wife and she told me that everything was going to be alright and she encouraged me to pursue music as a career. I decided to follow my passion and right at that moment this immense double rainbow appeared right in front of us in the field we were walking through. She took a picture of it, and I've made music with it on my desk ever since.

There are two tools that I'm using. The first is CV Clock Out, but honestly you could just get a sample of a CV pulse. Once I have that I run it at a BPM I want along with any other audio I want on my tape and record the entire length of the tape. This is best on a 4 track cassette deck because it gives you three tracks to record music to. I want to do this with a reel to reel at some point as well. (but my reel to reel's write head is busted sadly.) The next step is to bring the tape audio back in using your preamps. The track with the CV pulse will have a utility on it called CV Clock In. This tool let's you set your BPM and transport using the CV in signal. Here are the tools I'm talking about: www.ableton.com/en/packs/cv-tools/ Also, if you ever want help you can join my discord and I can talk you through it more: discord.gg/YUzaEJxSNu

She's my studio cat. She increases audio fidelity when she lays on cables.

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That’s called the hulusi. It’s a wind instrument of several minority peoples in China. It’s most commonly associated with the daizu.

Always a pleasure my dear friend.

One of the best, most talented crews that I've seen. Massive props to all of you.

Thanks man, the pleasure was all mine!

Thanks so much! That's a detail I missed.

@@likestarsatdawn yeah i tried doing a few synth demo videos but got completely discombobulated and gave up. Its much harder than it looks. So much to remember!!! 😎😎

@@drstupid1 Working on the two I have done really makes me appreciate loopop's work a lot more.

@@likestarsatdawn yep he's a wizard. Starsky carr has some good Edge vids too 😎

I’ll keep it snappy for you in the next video, ;)

Glad you liked it!!

Thanks so much! As an electronic musician it is a struggle to make something that feels live and immediate. This thing has been awesome.

Thanks so much and appreciate the sub.

Thanks so much!

Thank you and you're welcome. I've had a lot of fun.

Thank you!

Thanks so much!

Thanks, I appreciate it!

@@likestarsatdawn 🙂

I was considering this as well. Part of me wants to release everything as a single album, but I do agree with you. (There are advantages to releasing in bulk, such as discounts on mastering and copywriting.) I think I’ll just add them to a playlist and link them with cards in the video.

Manson's music always had such great synth work. I was particularly inspired by Coma White growing up.

Wouldn't a Korg SQ1 analog step sequencer be able to do this? Or would that be a different result? Oh yea you said MIDI. So that's not the same at all. I'm new to all this synth madness so maybe I'm way off base here. I have both devices. I just haven't tried pairing them together yet.

I was able to get around this by borrowing some features form the neutron. It's not convenient, but you can get around this with the advance patch point.

Thanks! O-CTRL looks like a wonderful instrument. When you make some cool music don't be afraid to send it to me to check out.

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Yeah, I love it. I want a 32 step version that lets me set the loop as 8, 16, and 32 steps. xD

I have used the neutron a lot for just the patch bay. Honestly, I'm considering building a little skiff for just utilities that make everything else a little (or a lot) more useful.

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Sweetwater put me on a waiting list, and it wasn't too bad: just a couple of months.

@@likestarsatdawn came back in stock today and copped immediately, watching this video was my good luck charm lmao

@@flazay_da Every minute of my videos is imbued with good mojo. Glad I could help!

Thanks so much for that information! I found comparisons of the ladder to be slightly different from the DFAM. Is the difference just from the way it interacts with the VCO? Can you explain the difference from the bass tones?

@@likestarsatdawn I haven’t tried running any audio from a moog through crave/edge filter. I should try that. But I have model d and poly d and next to my moogs (I have quite a few) the behringer filter is very close, as is the vco. I’ve always just assumed that crave/edge has same filter since it in itself doesn’t sound different to me. But the vco is glaringly different between crave/edge and a moog/model d/poly d. Crave/edge vco is same 3340 Curtis they have in pro 1, neutron etc. MS1 has it too, so their ms1 doesn’t sound like a Roland either. Behringer keeps teasing mk2 with Roland-like vco. As it is with the 3340 Curtis, many of those behringers sound like a sequential/Dave smith. So DFAM/m32/Subharmonicon has a buttery tone, whereas the 3340 synths have more presence, sounds like pro 1. I’ve found the crave/edge to be kind of a cool hybrid, just doesn’t sound like the moogs. It’s most obvious on the bass and lead sounds. But the edge can really dig in with some strident sounds so I actually like it lots. I don’t think most people would notice the difference frankly, but I’m not being a purist when I say they just don’t sound the same. Like, quite different to my ears. Sequential vs moog, but with a ladder filter. It’s weird how they sound, nothing like it.

I have edge, I also own moog32 Edge it self is fun and everything, but lacks the moog warmth, it’s too harsh and too gritty for my personal taste, it’s cutting too sharp through the mix, perhaps it pairs better with crave or any other behringer synths, Not with the moog,

​@@robertbanys yeah there is a difference. I kind of like that grittiness on the edge, but it doesn’t pair with m32 or Subharmonicon like dfam can. Edge can add a certain character to drums on the high end that dfam doesn’t and can even kind of do a Berlin techno sound on low. With the moog trio, Edge works quite well I think, even if it doesn’t replace dfam, where crave is truly the odd one out. But edge and crave go well together. The moog trio sounds incredibly warm, beautiful even, with just a bit of fitting crispiness from dfam, where the Behringer stuffs are in your face, not as much as Arturia stuffs, but getting there (I'm talking the Minibrute 2S here, which is basically the same thing function wise). It’s like a middle ground but that CAN'T do the extremities (warm or harsh (and I mean really harsh)) of moog and Arturia respectively. Anyway, all said, there is an undeniable magic in the that all Moog ecosystem that can't be replaced by the others, which doesn't mean that that magic is the only magic, but it is magic, so gorgeous. Having said that, I'm most definitely keeping the edge and 2 craves I have, even on the lookout for another used edge. Again, I promise, I am not being a purist or a snob, these differences are obvious to anyone with an ear and the Minibrute 2S sounds absolutely nothing like a moog, but I have 2 of those.

@alexwestconsulting I have been finding a lot of use for it paired with pitch shifter/ octave pedals and delays. There’s something about the bright sound that lends itself well to this kind of manipulation.

Thanks so much, my friend!

Ce ne serait jamais un premier achat pour moi. Je pense que c'est trop cher, mais c'était génial pour un projet très spécifique sur lequel j'ai gagné de l'argent. Je ne l'achèterais pas autrement.

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Agree with the dissonance comment there. Nice and rubbery though. Made me tweak out a bit. 😜🍻

The dissonance was indeed a tad high! The daw is running reverb, a tad of compression, and the drums. The notes are also coming from the daw in the form of cv values using the max cv instrument. My main goal is to challenge myself with being as minimal as I can be while still making something musical. The Edge is an interesting piece of kit for this purpose since it has such a minimal feature set and doesn’t quite fit into any one position. Not quite a drum machine, not quite a synth, not quite a drone generator.

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You make a good point.

Thanks for the kind words. It means a lot. The instrument is called the Tenori-on. It was (I believe) the first grid based controller layout, predating the monome. It was designed by a Japanese artist and is not the most functional piece of gear. It is very fun and playful however.

For me it was a clear choice because I have a limited amount of cash to spend on gear. As long as that is the case, I'm going to be choosing the gear that does things that I can't do in software.

@@likestarsatdawn -brilliant. 👍

Thanks so much! I've been having a blast with it.

It's just a slow one.