Eurorack patching for beginners #1 - It's all just voltage
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2024
- Eurorack is super fun and exciting, but also pretty confusing if you're just getting started. There are a lot of questions about how things get hooked together, how different types of information (pitch, gates, etc) are moved around in the patch, if you can damage anything if you do it wrong, why audio is so much louder, how you can reduce and shift voltage in a patch, and more.
In this first video of a beginner's series I try to answer those questions - not digging into the modules specifically, but how they get connected together and communicate with each other.
I know that things go by pretty fast, so you can see and download the slides & diagrams from here: bit.ly/basicpatching1
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:33 - Our friend, the patch cable
00:02:50 - It's all just voltage
00:03:53 - The four types of signal
00:06:02 - Exploring a basic patch
00:06:57 - Standards in Eurorack
00:08:32 - Taming the voltage
00:09:44 - Can I break it?
00:10:50 - Why is the audio so loud?
00:11:55 - Wrapping up - เพลง
Oh. My. God. Thank you for saying this fact. E-v-e-r-y other article and video starts off assuming everyone viewing or reading already know a.bunch of information that is not commonly known and it is certainly not obvious. I felt like I had been taking crazy pills.
your description of forums folks being jerks to newbs is absolutely true. I have yet to venture into posting in forums, but all the people who have asked the same introductory questions that I have are met with pure vitriol for even trying to start somewhere.
Absolutely fantastic. I really really wish I had seen this when I started out a yea or so ago! Still learning from this 101 content though, so really looking forward to the rest of the series. Thank you!
While I'm no longer a beginner, this is easily the best intro eurorack and modular concepts video I've seen! Fantastic work! I'll be sharing it with anyone new to the hobby! And FWIW, I find the modular subreddit to be mostly full of incredibly patient and gracious people, unlike the synthesizer subreddit. It was part of the reason I was convinced to take the plunge, it felt like after years of feeling like an outsider in the synth community I finally found a home where people were excited to have me participate!
Thank you so much! And yes, the Reddit community can be very welcoming. And they can also downvote reasonable questions into oblivion. Depends on the day I guess.
@@SoundVoltage Yeah I'm sure there are still posts that reasonable questions because they are seen as low effort (aka didn't try google first) but in my experience those are still few and far between compared to other synth communities!
This is outstanding! I’ve been flailing my way thru the murky waters of Eurorack for a couple years and still find incredible value in these sort of basic lessons. Can’t wait to see more in this series!! ❤️❤️❤️
Logical and organized, unlike most eurorack users :P
Fantastic! Exactly what I needed to get the basics
That's great! I'm glad it was helpful! Get back to work! :)
This is a great vid, now we can all practice the dark arts!
Subscribed.
Great Vid Jeff!!!! and new studio looks amazing!!
Thanks! And yeah, the studio is coming along pretty well... now, if only I would stop tearing it apart to make videos LOL.
Really good content! You're doing great work on these lessons!
Excellent introduction!
ooh u are the right person for these videos i feel it! ty very much!
fantastic video, love your work. Helping me a great deal!
Great overview of patch cables and basic patching. I love the chapters at the bottom, I have not noticed that anywhere else.
Thanks! Those chapters can be added manually (as I do) but youtube will try to figure it out on it's own...not sure it does a good job though...
Such a great video with clear explanations! Really looking forward to all of your videos, and these beginner ones are so helpful - thank you for contributing to the community and helping everyone along!
Thank you so much! I'm happy to be a part of this community.
Thanks for this you’re a good man.
This is so helpful for VCV rack or Cardinal Synth.
You’re a wonderful human.
As are you! :) Thank you watching.
Excellent 101-type overview. The only thing I would have added to the preliminary discussion of voltage was a mention of amperage, or current. Anything up to 10V sounds scary, but the current flow is typically a couple of orders of magnitude less than that, in the milli-amp range. And as I recall from half-century old school physics, it’s the current flow that causes damage, not voltage.
I’ll be very interested to see this series progress, but in the meantime I will keep experimenting!
Very informative and clearly laid out.
Thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
This is excellent 🙂
This was a great video. Pace was good, tone was good, and the information was clear. I’ve been studying modular for a few months now and this just made it click. Case coming soon. 💪🏾
Where is video 2? 😔
😔
I’m back again. Wondering when beginners are gonna learn some more 🤷🏾♂️
Thank you so much. Please do a buying guide!
I've thought about that, but everyone's needs are so individual. But, I'm thinking about it :)
what's that 3 sisters alternate panel? i've been outta the loop for a cpl yrs, and have a 3 sisters.... was just wondering if someone cloned them, or if aftermarket panels were available? i kinda love the OG ones, but i'm a big monome fan in general, have most of their modules...
cool series! i'd love to see more tutorials about what different modules and core fuctions do w/r/t the voltage, shown on a scope. i'm sure they exist but when ppl ask me where to learn about this stuff i don't have answers.
thx, take care
Thanks for the comment! I like the Mannequins panels, but my aging eyes aren't so good with the small-print-dark-grey-on-lighter-grey design. I got these as alternative panels through a guy in WA state, USA but he has since shut down. They aren't perfect, but they're way easier to read. :)
And yeah, there are more videos coming in this series for sure. I think I'm going to do one about quantizers & pitch CV pretty soon!
probably not the question you expect but is there anywhere one can listen to the background music in this video on its own? i found it really pleasant. also, thank you for all the useful info in the video!
@pktgfishbone Thanks! Usually I do something new for each video, but this time I just reused the music from the video I just put out. It's the video right before this one "On the Drift", there's 45 minutes of it to sleep or work or study or veg out to :) Hope you enjoy it.
One thing: Even though most modules' outputs are protected, it is considered not ideal to connect one output to another, or to mix outputs in a passive mult. The first doesn't do anything anyway so there's no point in trying, and the latter can be bad if there's no output protection, but as Steevio once said "I haven't broken anything yet."
So try at your own risk.
Some modules actually call this out as a feature. The Tonestar 8106 is the one that is at top of mind, they actively encourage it.
Fair point.
I'm actually working on a new video now...or trying to, it's tough sometimes to settle on the actual angle you want to approach a topic from. But hopefully by the end of the year! (I shouldn't have said that...)
@@SoundVoltage Thank you! Looking forward to it. :) Merry (belated) Christmas to you and your family and a happy new year.
Can I use an Aux/stereo TRS as a patch cable with the Behringer 2600?
I don't know the 2600, but unless it is expecting a TRS cable, generally it won't work (because the contacts inside the jack socket don't line up with the connections on the jack).
Thanks for the reply!@@SoundVoltage
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I find the majority of these so-called beginner vids are not helpful. The people doing them have so much knowledge in their heads, so much understanding that they are incapable of speaking in a basic form for others to understand (or they simply can't be bothered). If your gonna make a beginner video then make it beginner friendly. Big terms and big words go in one ear and out the other with me. Sadly there are far too many modular videos that fall into this category. Ive never known a subject so tedious to understand and these videos don't help. I find video's that clearly show you and take you through it to be what I find most helpful. Reading about it isn't as clear to me. At the moment I trying to understand about clocks, triggers and how different modules react to them. I'm just having a hard time processing. Your video goes some way to really help. Wish there were more video's like this. Many video creators just seem to assume we all know what they're talking about and already know. If I knew already, then I wouldn't be watching a beginner video. duh!!
Thanks for saying so! That's sort of what I'm going for in a lot of my videos, but with more advanced topics. I really should do some more videos on more intro stuff.
@@SoundVoltage Thanks for your reply. I got myself a Behringer crave, edge and a whole system 100 (4 voice) with a few other modules and 960 sequencer but I havent used it for ages. I feel it very daunting. My fault for getting so much, so soon. But have always loved synth music since the 70s. I really wish there were more easy to learn videos on how to get a few modules working together. I wish there were some local synth groups where I live but alas I am on my own here. Not easy. Keep up the good work and please don't stop doing those modular vids. Maybe covering different tasks i.e multi voiced rhythms with/without maybe a sequence. Something easy to follow. Cheers.
@@t3chnod3lic Maybe take a look at some of my older videos. They aren't produced the way I do them now, but there are two from early on that might help. One is "Exploring a Full voice eurorack patch" which starts from scratch and puts all the pieces together including oscillator, filter, VCA, envelope and sequencer; the other is "How do VCAs work with ADSRs" which goes a bit deeper into one aspect that confuses a lot of people getting started.
@@SoundVoltage Many thanks 👍