Q&A video for May
Hey guys!
I hope you're all doing well :) It's time again for another Q&A session. Please let me know if you have any questions for me about VCV, modular, eurorack, music, synthesis, and so on :) I will do my best to include them in the next video.
Thank you so much and have a great week!
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OK Great.. Thanks .. I hope to see the YT Q &A , about this matter... organisation, structure, go with the flow..., organic approach ... and so on.
Hi Omri Cohen. I just started last summer with hardware eurorack after a few years fun with Reaktor and Kontakt. My "lifestyle" and sometime my mindset could be regarded as (happy)chaotic. There's is so much to learn, to explore and to make. How do you organise all you're music time? Do you have a special evening or day for just sounddesign or just a part of the week for learning the new gear (Keystep Pro or new complex eurorack modules. Is some discipline and or structure, needed to be creative in making music? And how much? For what price? --Robert Fripp- Disciple is never an end in itself, only a means to an end--
Oh wow, that's a really nice question, thank you! I already recorded the video for this month so this will have to wait for next month, but I will try to answer this now shortly. I think limitations are a must in order to stay creative, and this means also limiting the amount of time you have so yes, I do set a certain amount of time for doing something if it's music, sound design, or learning a new piece of gear. I will not sit around and wait for inspiration, I will actively decide what I'm about to do, even set a week's plan, and do my best to finish the goals I set to myself. Again, it can be recording a new track, or even just messing around time to practice and blow off some steam. So yes, making a plan and setting yourself a time limit can be a good thing that can lead to interesting results. I will do my best to answer this more in depth in the video :) Thanks again!
Hey Omri. Another question. I recently bought an instruo harmonaig and i was trying sending cv through the es6 and then connecting this to v/oct vco's in vcv rack. Unfortunately pitch never has been correct. Then i was writing to expert sleepers and they said the ES-6 isn't calibrated and i can solve this by applying a scale and offset. I tried this with bogaudio offset - but failed :) Cause i really don‘t know exactly whats the difference between offsetting and scale with quantized cv. Maybe you can explain that to me:) Thank you very much!
Well, I will do my best to try and help you out. I think the best way will be to use another quantizer in VCV, set to a chromatic scale so it will have all of the 12 notes. This will make sure that whatever comes in from the Harmonaig, will be quantized to the different notes you have set on it. Then, if the register is also off so if the notes are too low or too high, you can apply also some offset with Stack for example, also from BogAudio. So you will go from the Harmonaig into the ES-6, then to a quantizer set to a chromatic scale so all of the notes are active, and then, if needed, into Stack for pushing the pitch up or down. You might have to experiment with different quantizers because they will react differently to incoming voltage, but I think this should work. Let me know how it goes.
Ok guys, thanks so much for your questions, I finished recording the video and hope to have it ready soon. If you have ny more questions feel free to add them, and I will use them for the next video. Thanks!
Hello Omri! I heard about "Super Saw" oscillator, on this website: https://sonicstate.com/news/2020/06/03/super-saw-oscillator-for-korg-synths/ Would you like to show how to build a fat/phat (multi saw) super saw? If it's a too big question, it can wait ;) Here is what I fiddled: https://patchstorage.com/multi-saw/ (I suggest you to enter some notes, after selecting your keyboard, to "run" the patch. It's a bit less ugly with higher notes ^^)
Hi! That's a really nice question, thanks :) And btw, there are a few super saw modules in VCV, like Saws from Squinky, but it's also interesting to create something like this by yourself. Cheers!
Hello, I was wondering if you could speak about note quantizers and working with harmonic intervals in general and drones specifically, Thank you, Peace
Nice one, thanks!
Chord G+1 is the module I’m after. I’ll check out the library again.
Oh ok, well, the Gratrix modules are not available anymore in VCV, their only available in the older versions of VCV...
I’ve had VCV rack for several months now and have just tuned my computer ( updated graphics drivers and downloaded and explored the depths of new ASIO drivers ) and it is running really well (no more clicks pops and crashes). I would like to start downloading modules from outside the VCV library ( I enjoy recreating your patches from scratch) but I’m not sure of the best way to do this or the various places to go and l’m a bit wary of downloading from unfamiliar places. Can you make a few comment on that please. Love your work.
Hey, that's great! Which modules did you not find in the library? I know only of the Klirrfaktory, but other than this, everything should be in the library.
Hi Omri! I know you have a video out about creative sequencing, but I was wondering if you have any tips you've come up with since that video, or if there are new sequencer modules you want to highlight that you didn't get the chance to in that video!
Oh, that's a nice one, thanks so much!
You mentioned in the document released today that there are differences in Software Suites like VCV Rack and Hardware solutions via the process chain. As I'm about to step into the hardware world (in the next month or so) is there a way you could do a short summary of what those differences are? I say short because it seems that there may be tons of them and I didn't want to overstep and ask too much of your time. Thanks in advance.
Oh ok, do you mean the delay issue?
Hi Omri! Can you please explain in a short how phase distortion works?
Beautiful question, thanks!
Your additions of adding in labels and colour codes the cables is a really good addition in your videos. It makes them a and the process of following your patches simpler, thanks. I'm expanding my modules and took your advice firm one of your recent videos of what to buy but would these Companies be interested in giveing your patreons a discount code? Keep up the great work!
Hey thanks! Just to make sure, do you mean hardware or VCV?
When you are recording songs for your albums what percent of your work is in VCV/hardware vs your DAW? Like do you record everything together from VCV/hardware and finalize things in your DAW or do you record all of the separate voices/parts from VCV/hardware and then arrange and mix them in your DAW? How many tracks do you usually end up with and that sort of thing. Hope that makes sense...
Hey, Stephen, that's a great questions, thank you!
Hi Omri, Is there is VCOs with semitones step (or scalable steps) in their frequency knob? Or in the same matter, Quantizers that accepts Audio signals? I know it's not the modular way to do this, but I'm curious.
Well, I'm not so sure I understand... Do you want to tune the oscillators with semitones? The are a few from Squinky Labs and also some from Vult that have this feature. Also the 21kHz have this, but let me know why you need this and I'll try to help you. Also, what do you mean with quantizers for audio? Do you want to change the pitch of the oscillator, but put the quantizer after the VCO?