Hey James that's exactly the idea! These ideas will apply to lots of other semi modular gear, modular gear and software too. It's packed with patches so I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks, glad to present that one. VCAs are the key to loads of things so it's good to have them around. The symmetry I really liked the sound of too. Hopefully people spread the video round and more people can try it out.
I agree with James that DivKid vids are always super informative. He’s also great at showing the interesting edges of an instrument or module in musical contexts.
thank you for the nice comment. I do enjoy really simple synths through to the complexities a larger modular system can offer. Always fun to get to share ideas with this stuff, appreciate the comment.
my Mavis arrives just after lunch but I will not be unboxing and building until tomorrow no doubt I will be returning to this one a lot over the next month or so 🙂
Great video! Loved all the original ideas. Having just watched Bloom Music’s rather negative review of the Mavis, describing how much better the design could have been, your video came as a real breath of fresh air, showing loads of fantastic new alternatives. I’m just a newbie toe-dipper in modular synthesis but, like you, I also have a Moog Werkstatt so I’m really interested to see how the sounds of the Mavis can be expanded by patching in signals from the Werkstatt. I’d love to know if anyone has tried this and has patches to share.
in relation to wider Eurorack usage? If I needed to I'd use a module with some amplification but I tend to use it standalone into processing/pedals and enjoy it most that way. It's not something I'd personal put in my modular cases.
It would be interesting to see a head to head with the Mavis and an 0-Coast.....I know the ADSR and filter on the Mavis are not on the 0-Coast but other differences?
bonus points with Maths ... use the slew as a low pass filter then use the rest of Maths to make it a high pass. So Maths isn't just doing the inversion and mixing but also the filtering itself. Put the audio into the ch.1 slew input and use the rise and fall times to create the filter effect. Also patch direct audio into channel 2 and ch.1 into ch.3 and invert 2 or 3 taking the mix out.
@@DivKid It is an old track by Black Dog (Plaid sprung out of this) that has a vibe coming close to this little fragment you played: th-cam.com/video/WtCjmu6F84U/w-d-xo.html
thanks for the links, I get the reference right away with that jumping little riff thing. I've got some more listening to do moving around a few of those VA Bytes tracks.
I don't think of this as Moog "gone west coast" it's still a Moog synth just with that extra flavour from the wave folder. There's the saw wave on the oscillator and the square, then the triangle and square on the LFO. There's also no CV control on the folder, hence me explore a few ways to vary and modulate that in the video.
Hi Bevin, nowhere in the video do I say you need anything like that. I'm exploring Mavis in the wider context of other studio gear and instruments, there's also examples where it plays solo and some of those pedals were very cheap (£35 chorus & an £18 delay for example). Lots of patching and synthesis techniques would apply to many synths, hard, soft or modular too. So I hope you can apply some ideas to other things. Anyway, enjoy making music whatever you're using.
i love divkid videos on hardware bc even if i dont buy the hardware there are lots of great ideas to try to get more out of a eurorack system.
Hey James that's exactly the idea! These ideas will apply to lots of other semi modular gear, modular gear and software too. It's packed with patches so I hope you enjoy it.
Really great stuff in here
thanks mate!
Oh, that was a smart way to gain CV control over the fold, which I know a lot of people will appreciate. Thanks.
Thanks, glad to present that one. VCAs are the key to loads of things so it's good to have them around. The symmetry I really liked the sound of too. Hopefully people spread the video round and more people can try it out.
So many awesome tips packed into the video and not just specifically for Mavis. I love it! :D
Yeah hoping people really try a lot of these out with other gear too.
Love that S&H for those vocal-like tones. Great alternative for the ubiquitous filter fm...
Agreed! it's what makes the RND STEP so good, lots of channels to do that sort of thing among other S/H tricks.
You are a brilliant teacher and an inspiration to me. Please be well and keep sharing. Thanks!
thanks for the kind words, certainly lots more to come and a lot on the channel if you want to grab ideas from other videos.
Fantastic video. Just ordered a Mavis whilst watching this. Was on the horizon. This sealed the deal ;-)
Enjoy it, I still like the synth, nice simple sound that's easy to work with.
I agree with James that DivKid vids are always super informative. He’s also great at showing the interesting edges of an instrument or module in musical contexts.
You turn (seemingly not so) simple synths into magic. Thank you for that. You gave me a lot of ideas to explore.
thank you for the nice comment. I do enjoy really simple synths through to the complexities a larger modular system can offer. Always fun to get to share ideas with this stuff, appreciate the comment.
Thank you - so much inspiration and knowledge shared to us! Much love 💪🖤
Really appreciate that, thanks.
Noscillator ftw! Great video as always, Ben. Lots of excellent techniques to experiment with and aid learning.
This has given me so many fresh ideas of how i use modular....great explanations!
Hi Andrew, that's great to hear thank you. Really glad when people see beyond the gear in the videos and apply these things.
Really good stuff, lots of ideas to try and also got a great look at what the Mavis is capable of, nice one DivKid
Thanks! Hopefully the patches out work out well with any you try out.
my Mavis arrives just after lunch but I will not be unboxing and building until tomorrow
no doubt I will be returning to this one a lot over the next month or so 🙂
Hope you enjoy the Mavis.
Great video as always - really good inspirational ideas :)
Thanks Dan, appreciate that.
Thanks for posting the video. Great content.🙂
thanks Ted.
Nice patch ideas and explantations. Thanks.
thanks!
Can't wait to see this!!!
cheers mate! Excited to share this one.
+1.
Love the audio rate PWM idea!
Also... you have my dad's old torch, that he used to use when he took us badger watching :-O
thanks, I like that one too. It was my grandads torch out of his garage, not sure about the era it's from or anything really.
@@DivKid Based on when my dad had it, I'm going to guess the 1960s :)
60s is probably right from the era of some other bits it was found with.
im new to the channel and i love ur vids. keep it up!
thanks for the comment and for joining us. Lots of videos to go back through if you're wanting a modular fix.
Great video! Loved all the original ideas. Having just watched Bloom Music’s rather negative review of the Mavis, describing how much better the design could have been, your video came as a real breath of fresh air, showing loads of fantastic new alternatives.
I’m just a newbie toe-dipper in modular synthesis but, like you, I also have a Moog Werkstatt so I’m really interested to see how the sounds of the Mavis can be expanded by patching in signals from the Werkstatt. I’d love to know if anyone has tried this and has patches to share.
Big fan of voltage wizardry
me too, we all need to go to wizard school to conjure up the best voltages together.
Thank you for this video! I'm late to the party but may I ask how you deal with the low output of the VCA out?
in relation to wider Eurorack usage? If I needed to I'd use a module with some amplification but I tend to use it standalone into processing/pedals and enjoy it most that way. It's not something I'd personal put in my modular cases.
Wow... that was brilliant!
thank you, hopefully there's more on the channel you find useful too.
Great video, thanks.
thanks
I would love you to make a video on the Pico System III!
I don't have one but it would be a fun video to make.
It would be interesting to see a head to head with the Mavis and an 0-Coast.....I know the ADSR and filter on the Mavis are not on the 0-Coast but other differences?
Hi Ian, I don't have an 0-Coast so I won't be able to do that. I imagine the takeaway though would largely be - different "flavours"
@Cucker Tarlson I have no idea what you are saying!
"suffering butting arcing" ?
The highpass thing can work with MATHS mixer as well since it can invert signals. Another great thing MATHS can do!
bonus points with Maths ... use the slew as a low pass filter then use the rest of Maths to make it a high pass. So Maths isn't just doing the inversion and mixing but also the filtering itself. Put the audio into the ch.1 slew input and use the rise and fall times to create the filter effect. Also patch direct audio into channel 2 and ch.1 into ch.3 and invert 2 or 3 taking the mix out.
@@DivKid Thanks Ben! Thats awesome!
great video! lots of good patches to start off with!
thanks Elliot.
27:21 very nice very good
Yeah that patch overlay sounded great! Kudos for Moog for that one.
amazing! thanks :)
thanks!
Thank you brother
Cheers June.
Still waiting for the “Moog Mavis Filter-Wavefolder Feedback Loop” that absolutely NOBODY has covered yet
the best presenter on youtube :) 8
nice! Thank you
Cheers!
Excitante!!
Would you use vortices as a main stereo out to interface ?
If the interface can handle modular levels fine then yeah it would be a nice output stage mixer.
You really like Close Up Over from Black Dog heh :D
I can't say I know it, feel free to post a link to something I can check out.
@@DivKid It is an old track by Black Dog (Plaid sprung out of this) that has a vibe coming close to this little fragment you played:
th-cam.com/video/WtCjmu6F84U/w-d-xo.html
@@DivKid
It is from the early nineties... Old Warp records stuff
th-cam.com/video/d8CNpLsCYG4/w-d-xo.html
thanks for the links, I get the reference right away with that jumping little riff thing. I've got some more listening to do moving around a few of those VA Bytes tracks.
@@DivKid This is really nice old IDM, if you like this, perhaps also check the 'Artificial Intelligence' compliations from the early 1990s Warp era.
But they only give you a triangle and a square wave, no sine. Weird not very west coast choices and I don’t think you can bypass the filter
I don't think of this as Moog "gone west coast" it's still a Moog synth just with that extra flavour from the wave folder.
There's the saw wave on the oscillator and the square, then the triangle and square on the LFO.
There's also no CV control on the folder, hence me explore a few ways to vary and modulate that in the video.
Is SARK trying to take over the system?
one of the channel islands?
SARK caricature miniature from TRON to left of eurorack trying to take over the system
doh! of course.
@@DivKid 👍😉
give me both the pills!!
So adding £5000 of modular components and £2000 of Pedal Effects makes its something usable ...... Usual Moog value for money.
Hi Bevin, nowhere in the video do I say you need anything like that. I'm exploring Mavis in the wider context of other studio gear and instruments, there's also examples where it plays solo and some of those pedals were very cheap (£35 chorus & an £18 delay for example).
Lots of patching and synthesis techniques would apply to many synths, hard, soft or modular too. So I hope you can apply some ideas to other things.
Anyway, enjoy making music whatever you're using.