More music with acoustic guitar. I had more ambitious plan but it would have taken more time. Will do it in future when I get better at classical guitar. Meanwhile I will do something easier. Synths are Prophet 6 and OB-6. Not sure if I use too much noise in them or not. Noise makes them sound more organic but too much is too much.
I never know which videos get views and likes. Previous video was quite popular by my standards. I made eurorack to sound like Music Easel in it. In another popular video I made Minibrute 2S go experimental. What if I do both in same video? Minibrute 2S doesn't have low pass gate. So it can't get as close to Music Easel as eurorack. Tried to do Music Easel sound without limiting myself to what Music Easel can do. Sequence is eight step played randomly instead of five step of Music Easel. Second oscillator does FM and AM same time. With Music Easel you have to choose one. Whole signal chain is in Minibrute 2S. Buchla & Tiptop Audio's Source of Uncertainty and Quad Function Generator give random clock, envelope and random CV to various places.
I wanted to do something with acoustic guitar and learn I need to practice playing acoustic guitar much more. This is first time I used acoustic guitar for anything I have released. Have had it for more than ten years. Will use it more in future. Despite my bad playing it sounded ok. Not sure how I made Prophet 6 sound like that. It suited the mood I was after. Usually it doesn't sound like that.
Had some other more important things last week. That is why there was no video last week and partly reason this is so short.
Second attempt to make eurorack sound like Buchla Music Easel. This time I didn't limit myself with limitations of Music Easel. I use two Dixie 2+ oscillators and both channels of Optomix. One goes straight to Optomix and other's sine wave goes to wave folder before mixed with saw wave and then to Optomix. I use three Sample & Holds to modulate sequence's pitch and speed and wave folders fold parameter. 0-CTRL gives five step sequence which is mixed with sample & hold to prevent sequence from repeating. I wanted originally to have something like Music Easel's preset voltage but couldn't have it without getting new modules or second 0-CTRL.
I know I wrote last month my home studio is ready. Well it wasn’t back then but now it might be. Since that post I got Make Noise 0-CTRL which I have used all videos since getting it. Latest addition is Native Instrument’s Kontrol S61 mk3. Both have one thing in common. Both let me get more out of gear I already have. You could say they were studio upgrades. 0-CTRL gives touch control to eurorack and Kontrol polyphonic aftertouch to everything else.
Polyphonic aftertouch is mostly talked with Yamaha CS-80 and Vangelis. If you want to know which synths implement it you usually get CS-80 and not much else. Lately Hydrasynth and Waldorf Iridium have been added to list. Keyboards with polyphonic aftertouch are rare but synths capable of handling polyphonic aftertouch are not. Synth manufacturers don’t tell their synth can handle polyphonic aftertouch. You just have to test if it works. I read one manual of synth which can handle polyphonic aftertouch but manual mentioned only channel aftertouch.
This is weird because I have been looking for synths which can do polyphonic aftertouch. Didn’t find any analog polysynths besides Deckard’s Dream but that counts as CS-80 and was too expensive. When I got keyboard with polyphonic aftertouch I learned all analog polysynths in current setup can handle it. Haven’t tested it with Analog Four but I don’t consider it as polysynth. I use it as four monosynths like it was when it was released. I have other synths with more voices when I want polyphony.
So why I am excited about polyphonic aftertouch. It is because it gives you ability to change each note’s sound individually after you have hit the key. With channel aftertouch only way to change individual note’s sound is velocity and it happens when you hit the key. After that everything affects every note. MPE gives addition to polyphonic aftertouch pitch and mod wheels for each notes. But for that you need synth that works with MPE. Those are rarer than synths that work with polyphonic aftertouch. However it is easier to find synths with MPE because there are lists of those synths and everything that works with MPE. There is nothing like that with polyphonic aftertouch.
Polyphonic aftertouch gave new life to synths I had almost given up on. It makes huge difference when you can open filter or add more modulation for individual notes. You can have chords with less modulation and melody with more modulation. You can do that without polyphonic aftertouch but you have to record those parts separately or have two synths if you do it live.
Last week I binged Buchla Music Easel videos. It made me think if I could do what Music Easel can do with eurorack. Tried to make oscillators work like Music Easel's and keep the limitations of Music Easel. Oscillators, wave folder and low pass gate are different but I tried to use them like you can do with Music Easel. Reverb is from plugin. Sequence is from Make Noise 0-CTRL which let you have five step unquantized sequence like Music Easel.
I will revisit this idea in future with less limitations. After making this I got few ideas how to music easel with eurorack.