November Q&A

Howdy Omri! Thanks so much for all you do! Would you possibly consider doing one of your synth recreations in vcv, this time of the ARP 2600 (with your MindMeld interface) and as an added bonus / challenge could you also please make it as Instruo focused as possible, just for fun & because I love their modules? :D Cheers!

Hello Omri! Don`t know if its too late, but i will ask anyway. I downloaded your Mastering Chain selection a while ago and i wonder if i can chain it some how before recording from the mindmeld-mixer into the nysthi polyrec, so all the tracks have the same characteristic in my daw like in vcv? Many thanks in advance and Cheers!

I notice when listening to your music, the layers in your voices are many and deep. Could you discuss some interesting layering techniques you know of and use?

Thanks so much for your questions, everyone! I hope to publish the video soon :)

Hi Omri! First of all, thank you very much for all your help with VCV Rack. Without you everything would be more difficult... lol I would like to know how to create something as close as possible to this patch in VCV: https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/1100541 Thank you so much!

Hi Omri, first off all I would like to thank you for your work, is amazing. Second I can finally ask you a question. I'm exploring the world of making music, I found VCV Rack impressive free tool, but I'm missing something. I cannot find module which make mono signal stereo with wider sound. To be precised normally when we hear stereo sound we hear it in the middle of our heads, but I would like to make it hear far away from our heads. I used FLAG Electric Ensemble but it is not exactly what I need. Do you know module like this? Thank you in advance

After listening to your beautiful new album, allow me to ask a musical question that may not fit the mold. I come from a jazz background (bass) and have of course told my friends about my adventure into electronic music. Now they're asking if I could do something with the synthesizers where they could play "over" or with the saxophone, piano, organ and drums. My questions are therefore 1. what kind of sounds (drones, pads, keys etc.) are particularly suitable for this and 2. with what kind of chord progressions (outside of the well-known jazz standards) I could surprise my friends with. So far I have tried modal harmonies.

Hi Omri. I would like to know if there is a way to get the CVs coming out of a sequencer to regulate the gate length of a signal?

Broken heart of sand and stone 🌸

Hello Omri, can you explain 'soft FM' ? How is 'soft FM' possible between 2 LFO's ? (In the Soma Lyra 8 there is an Hyper LFO section. These are two simple LFO's with Logic (AND/OR) that synthesise a 'complex' LFO. There is a LINK switch with 'soft FM'. I try to understand how this complex lfo is generated )

Thank you for your recent video on recording modulation performances with ReMove! I’m hoping to find a technique for similarly recording trigger performances to a gate sequencer. Can you show a way to play sequences and have them recorded and quantized to a grid? And/or do you know of any gate sequencer that accepts input like this instead of switching steps on one-by-one?

Hi Omri, Please can you give some advice on creating bell-like sounds in VCV? I'd love to be able to use a proper sonorous BONG in a piece of music - like a big church bell. Would the same techniques be used for more tuned bells like a tubular bell style sound or even something like a glockenspiel sound? Thanks for all your inspiring work, Mark

I just hit upon a neat trick to have different fade in to fade out speeds by using a latched trigger through a slew limiter to control the volume of a mixer and setting different rise and fall rates. I wondered what other tricks you had in this area.

This might be tricky but I recently came up with the idea that I'd like a way to create call and answer(s) in my melodies using VCV. On one hand, the call would be a randomly generated sequence of 2-4 notes, different signature but synced to time and then when this is done, the EOC sends the answer to be the inverted version (or random notes) of the call to different voice. This tool would generate endless possibilities of call and answers for me to pick from. I tried to do it and my prototype is a bit wonky and sounding clumsy. I know there could be different ways to do this but I'd like to see how your genius mind would.

Hey!! Have you ever tried the modal synthesizer (elements clone in vcv)? I tested it recently and it sounded quit nice! Was wondering what you would do with it if, thanks :)

Congrats on the album release! You write that you put together a small setup to record it. I would love to see that setup and also hear a few words about your recording process and any post performance mixing you might do before sending it to be mastered.

I had a question about live streaming onto YouTube. There are tutorials out there, but nothing on VCV. I installed OBS, but no luck. A step by step would help :)

I have a question about drums/percussion sounds. Can you share some techniques to make drum sounds more snappy and aggressive? I've tried many different drum modules, from the vult ones to hora to the vcv collection, and i always find my drums sound weak or flat, snares sound washy and kicks sound flumpy or just like some sort of laser beam. I want the deep thuds and cracks i hear in other music, and when i try enhancing the sounds with stuff like wavefolding, distortion, saturation, compression, etc it ends up overloading the mixer or the output any time i get close to the more aggressive sound I'm usually chasing and reducing the volume or gain usually ends up with the drums getting buried in the mix. What's the secret to good aggressive snappy drum sounds?

Hi Omri -- I'm trying to come up with a rationale for constructing a hybrid VCV Rack 2 + Eurorack hardware setup to do ambient music. I can see that some HW modules are more fun to play live when I have access to the physical knobs, but on the other hand I could just add more MIDI controllers with knobs and get a similar experience with VCV modules. Any thoughts / opinions / advice? thanks, keep up the excellent work, -Bill

Hi Omri. I'm new to eurorack so my question may sound dum, but would it be possible to connect an external clock to a Behringer 960, cannot find any info on how to do this as I am planning to buy one (maybe)

Since NYSTHI is out of commission until it becomes compatible with the Arm chip on Mac do you have a recommendation for a poly audio recorder?

I don’t really have a question. But I do enjoy your videos/music you released lately. I don’t know if these are the same emotions you had when performing, probably not, but they do resonate with my emotions or state of mind in a positive way. Thank.

Hi Omri, first of all thanks for all your job... I have done the same question in the JW Seq post but maybe it fits better here. Here is my doubt: I have made with the JW a sequence that has four different arpeggios (G-G7-C-G, one per row). I would like to make some polyphonic pads using the same harmony from the sequencer, it would be possible in some way by using the V/Oct output or I should try anything different? Thanks!