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The minitaur is plugged into the mixer separately. Unfortunately, the input sensitivity of that stereo input is so low, I could not find any device that was loud enough to send through. Which is unfortunate, because it goes in before the compressor and that is great in the rytm. You can plug the rytm into the analog four though.

I’ve just purchased a Tetra. Do you edit patches in the box, a software editor or midi controller?

No, not very often. These complementer use cases would have been the reason to go upper octaves (like in the video), but even in this scenarios I prefer others. Tbh, if I hadn’t have this for cheap back then (or if I have sold it by now), I would not buy it today. The only reason I keep it because its a rare magical item, but not much of a use these days. Its a pretty nice sounding but simple monosynth. For the price you could almost buy a Sub37 which has way more sounddesign capabilities and a keyboard. Also, dont forget: Minitaur goes down to 20hz, Sirin goes down to 40hz. Not that I felt the missing bass, but still, the fact already hurts a little. :) Fight the GAS, buy a typhon or nymphes instead. Dreadbox is the manufacturer that compares to Moog for me. I also have an erebus v3 and its just out of this world.

@@minoclue thx. I didn’t know minitaur goes lower. Nice. I already have the sub but I like desktop units like in your video. I don’t have a single Dreadbox yet but as soon as a decent used one comes my way I’m in. There’s a few models Im into but a good assortment of built in effects does sway me even over polyphony. Cheers.

@@minoclue …and yeah, stupid me didn’t even know that Sirin was a thing until after it went out of production, and I already had that minitaur. Was a good price back then.

Agreed and added. Thank you for pointing out!

Excelent video, thank you! Would you recommend the Nymphes? Make a video with it! Thanks

@@THESHINE-ns3jk I love the Nymphes, its amazing with a good keyboard or sequencer. 6-poly is very handy. Will do a video for sure :)

Yes, love the Nymphes

Thank you! Hope you like the Tetra better than I did :)

Yes, each track has some melodies mapped to each device. Although, apart from the Sirin, all of them have an internal sequencer.

or is some of this tonal stuff come from the delay as well?

@@qwer4621 So far what I have been doing is that I use the first two tracks in torso to control the BD, where I have two kick patterns in those patchs. The next 4 tracks have patterns for the BASS, two of those is top or lead melody, two patterns sends bass tones. You can even enable a melody and a bass track at the same time, it sounds good. I have another 4 patterns controlling the SD, and another 4 for HHT. Having 4 tracks per voice allows me for instance to have short hihats as rim with low velocity as a HH ride, and longer triggers on the offbeat as OH, while using a single voice. It also allows to prepare variation patterns. The last two track in torso I keep open for the assignable midi-2-CV input in pulsar so I can send some free modulation.

@@minoclue whoa this really really cool. i had never though to send multiple midi track to one sound source before def gonna try that

Yes, pulsar only.

The VCO2 is not synced, only the VCAs and the env are (since they are always sinced).

Probably, to a 12V bank, if you can the connector. I think its standard 5.5/2.1mm connector. I cannot imagine it takes a lot of juice, but analogs in general do take more. I tried in September to drive my volca nubass from rechargable batteries and it died after 10 mins in performance, so I was out of my beloved, onhand acid patterns. I will not risk that again.

@@minoclue right, it would have to be from 12 v batts, but I'm really trying to find out if ir what type if dc power would be dangerous to the machine. It's a bad idea to use anything besides the manufacturer provided power source, but moog does not suggest or provide any alternative to the transformer that come with it, and they didn't reply when I asked their chat "helpline".

I use the clock input. Most of the times the clock comes from Analog Four, but for some reason its not behaving well and I feel it has some minor delay. Last time I had the Subharmonicon with me which has midi in and clock out and that is great to drive the DFAM.

Thank you very much! Yeah, Iridium is awesome, would boost the possibilities a lot. Maybe its a bit too digital for my taste, so I never considered acquiring one. But who knows, I did not get the fuss about the pulsar 23 either until recently, so...

That makes sense. I guess the shorter VCA decay would cut too early?

​@@minoclue Yeah, otherwise you don't hear the other two envelope tails, although I guess there can be some interesting effects from breaking the rule (as always!)

Haha, its on the way! Debuts in Nov 12th :)

The Whacked Erasers Project shall be the title of my experiment live act!

funny thing is that a lot of people use it for everything else but the kick, since the synthie is quite performable. So nice to switch from melodic to percussive sounds back and forth. Try combining it with euclidean circles or something that triggers it accordingly ;)

art is self expression and people can use whatever they want for whatever lets them express themselves how they want to

I think sooner or later people that own it will start tinkering with other possibilities, after getting over the amazing kicks it can provide... I was all over the place about the kicks, in the meantime it's my lead/bass synth along a dedicated drum machine for kicks :P

Oh, I could not agree more. DFAM is one of my best kick sound source but its just one of the endless sound and noise you can get out of it. But in my live setup I am not confident enough to do experiments with it and at the same time I need a constant source of kick that I can mutate during the act. In studio work I patch it around and come up with all kind of different percussive or other synth sounds which I record for a certain tracks. Some of my released and unreleased tracks have a DFAM channel in it, each has a different sound.

yeah when i use my dfam im using it for weird percussive sequences that are always morphing. using a dfam for a kick is totally a waste as there's plenty of usable kicks in almost every drum machine

You may listen to it here: soundcloud.com/iammanu/manu-live-signal-flow-turbina-20220226

Most of the content is on my soundcloud: soundcloud.com/iammanu

@@minoclue thanks! Looking forward to more sets. I especially like watching the artist work.. I have an elektron obsession and am trying to learn as much as possible from people who can pull entire sets on hardware gear. I dj'd for years so this part is what I'm after

@@peladoclaus I plan to put together a video about how the current live setup is built up before my next gig. Elektron is love, elekron is life, elekron makes it possible to do it dawless for me as well.

@@peladoclaus I uploaded a brief summary how I build my live set. Check it out if you are interested: th-cam.com/video/HpsyGtNJnFw/w-d-xo.html

Thank you! 🙏

I think it's monophonic. Analog Four can send out polyphonic on all the four channels, plus the FX and CV channels as well.

There is two ways of making the RYTM sequence polyphonically: 1. You set several RYTM tracks to the same MIDI channel. Since MIDI notes will not choke each other on neighbouring tracks, you could use the RYTM FX track (can send MIDI notes, too!), and RYTM tracks 11 & 12 all set to the same MIDI channel; and thus get 3 note polyphonic sequencing, while only sacrificing one of the 8 physical internal voices of the RYTM. 2. You can create polyphony by overlapping notes. RYTM lets you define note length. So, you could use one single RYTM track; send note C on step 1 with length 16, note E on step 2 with length 15, and note G on step 3 with length 14 - giving you a C major chord which starts staggered (arpeggiated), but then holds and collectively ends at the end of the bar. I'm using #2 in this vid: th-cam.com/video/g0E1_ojGOz8/w-d-xo.html

Depending on how many channels you are willing to sacrifice for midi sequencing. So up to 12 channels.

Actually, up to 13, since the FX track can send MIDI notes, too.