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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2024
- Demonstration of Mutable Instruments Clouds Texture Synthesizer as a Lo-fi Tape Delay. Lovely warble and disintegration on the repeats. Reverb, filtering and diffusion for tone and texture control.
Note: works best on the Parasite Firmware pre-V2.0. To access the delay, it is the third mode known as Looping Delay. The quality setting should be set to one of the 8-bit modes. Position sets delay time. Texture is a multimode filter. Density adds diffusion, I personally like it at 0. Size has no effect unless the buffer is frozen.
Video starts with a simple monophonic sawtooth arp sequence from the Novation Peak. I slowly bring in the wet signal with the Blend control. I also bring up the feedback and reverb with the Blend control. There is a sweet spot for feedback. Too much feedback and things get out of control. Near the end, I take the incoming signal out and just let the repeats feedback into themselves before freezing the buffer and playing with that for a bit.
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I often return to this video, not only to be reminded of how great Clouds is, but also just to listen to this simple yet fantastic piece of music. It is sososo beautiful. Damn.
Cloud remains a piece of art indeed. Must own if you have a modular.
This is great - one of the more compelling alternate mode demos I've seen.
Well look what popped up in my TH-cam feed. Nice to revisit this, lovely stuff as always. Now that I’m in the Clouds cult I’ll have to try this “tape delay” patch.
I could listen to this all day
When the blend went up I got CHILLS
So beautifully evolving sound!
I was considering selling my clouds (using the ER-301 for granular duties) but you have made me reconsider with this beatiful sound. Thank you!
Both definitely have their pros and cons when it comes to audio/granular processing.
i’ve had three clouds, but only one 301. :) now i’ll prolly keep clouds cuz it’s good.
Many thanks for showing this technique to us. Highly appreciated!
So goood, the mutable clouds is a piece of art and mathias alternative firmwares are so creative, wish i could test his tapographic delay module
I think you can in VCV Rack and its free.
I feel like I'm dead, it is that good!
Voilà..comme quoi un seul cool module ça suffit pour faire une jolie music sympacool!..(il faut du talent aussi!)
Here is a cool part made with e simple single module and;..talent ...(.is needed too!)
Congrat r beny!
I have 2 clouds as well...our babies would be beautiful ;)
amazing as per usual
Gorgeous sound
Now i really need a clouds!
Excellent
Incredible! Makes me want to buy another Clouds just to parasite
love your music so much
that is beautiful man!
Very nice
Very useful video, thanks!
Fantastic sound, even with no cv ins!!!
This mode probably works best without a ton of modulation, at least before the buffer is frozen.
wow, you're definitely a master! I now need to study the parasite firmware for my Clouds... what do you think about the v1.41 firmware regarding both granular and looping delay modes? is the granular mode comparable to the initial firmware one? anyway, thanks a lot for sharing!
Greatness!
I would try this but I am anxiously awaiting the Strymon Magneto I just saw at NAMM 2018.
Got to try one out at Namm. Was amazing, pre-ordered
Clouds does indeed have a great and rather distinctive sound. Unfortunately though, every synth i hear processed through it sounds somewhat similar at the output stage.... It's creating a degree of mundanity within recent 'ambient' audio excursions.
Elements though Clouds is quite something. You can make it sound like an little orchestra.
Amazing demo. Helped me discover completely new sonic capabilities with my clouds! Quick question - do you use the pitch knob at all in looping delay mode? I generally don't like the sounds I'm getting when I do but I saw a demo you did with light bath and it looks like you do there. Maybe that was granular mode though
the only time I use the pitch knob in looping delay mode is with the buffer frozen. the pitch shifting with the delay buffer still open can sound a little funky, but sounds great once a loop is frozen. I do use the pitch knob with an active buffer in the granular, time stretching, and spectral modes though.
this is it!!!!!!
This is soooo good! Just got my first Clouds, and I'm going to start trying to recreate this setting :)
Hello, where can I buy Clouds?
Ann Grace - it’s discontinued but you can buy clones, identical code and some with more cv inputs. Search uclouds, monsoon and typhoon. Usually a few on eBay.
bonne ambiance
This is gorgeous! Is it only clouds doing all the processing?
yup! just clouds
Man this sounds amazing!
So that's why you've got two...
Is this on the stock firmware? This sound is incredible
thankyoumisterspell it says parasites fw in the description.. :)
Ahh that's weird, there was no description when I first saw it but it's there now haha Thank you!
Hah, the video uploaded before I had the description ready. Parasites is highly recommended, but the newest firmware revision will get rid of the repeat warbles.
r beny are you staying with the old version for the warbles? V1.41?
I actually have a custom V2.01 that Matthias kindly made for me. I can post it up if anyone is interested.
Remove the inputs. Beautiful.
I don't get that part. If its not on freeze and has no inputs, shouldn't it have to make no sound?
@@dirgesecilkuran1546 when there's just the right amount of feedback (clouds blend mode 3) it will loop without decaying the sound or blasting it through the roof.
@@munfaija thank you !
@@munfaija Thank you !!
Amazing sounds!! As always! Whats the difference between stock looping delay and parasites? Got a used uClouds with stock fw but can't get anyone to install parasites because the u things doesn't respond great to the audio file update :/
there's only a few small differences on the looping delay btwn firmwares. mainly clocking/timing stuff. that's a bummer the audio file update doesn't work great. maybe someone can update it with a programmer? for the record, i recommend the parasites over the stock firmware all the way, even for beginners.
wow
😂😂🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ for the past 20 minutes I was looking up Austincarins and couldn't fathom why there weren't any videos. I only found you because I thought huh it looks like r beny copied Austin from Instagram 😂🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ the r beny I'm familiar with is electribe rbeny now I feel stupid 😂
Thanks for sharing... What is the difference between the pre v2.0 firmware and post?
There was some slight noise affecting Position which creates the warble. 2.0 "fixed" that. You can recreate it by patching it yourself.
can I ask how one would patch that warble back in? what other modules would you need in order to add that warble to a sound?
You would need noise, a VCA and a filter. It would have to be very very subtle.
And here I bought the El Capistan Pedal for exactly this effect :-/
Robert Syrett El cap is still legit. I love mine
Why does it works best on parasites pre-2.0? You mean on older parasites firmware versions?
Edit: Ah, less 'warbles'. You mention it othe comments. One can introduce the wobbly thing by adding fluctuations to the position 👍🏼
specifically less warbles in the feedback path. patching fluctuations to position certainly helps as well!
Brilliant what firmware has this lofi ?
all firmwares will have the lofi setting (see audio quality settings in the manual). the parasites firmware slightly changes the way the looping delay works. it slightly lets noise affect the pitch, so you get these nice pitch warbles on the feedback. from my understanding, this was by mistake, so the current parasites firmware no longer has this.
can the delay be synced by CV?
I believe it can, but with the Parasites firmware only (don't see it documented on the official manual)
"When a clock is sent to the Trig input, the Position knob becomes a clock divider/multiplier for the pre-delay: at 12 o'clock, the pre-delay takes the value of the clock length; clockwise, this clock is divided, and counter-clockwise it is multiplied following the rates: 1/16, 3/32, 1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 3/4, 1, 3/2, 2/1, 3/1, 4/1, 6/1, 8/1, 12/1 (borrowed from the Echophon). Note that the clock division is limited to the largest division not exceeding the maximum delay; beyond this point, the Position knob will have no effect. Note also that clock synchronization will be more accurate with the Size knob fully counter-clockwise."
Why pre 2.0?
in the previous versions, there was a "bug" where noise from the power supply would affect the pitch slightly. I found this "bug" to be pretty pleasing, slight pitch warbles on every decay
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