Labs has literally been a game changer for me with writing music! Such an amazing collection of instruments! The only thing I’d love to be added is a harmonium type instrument!!
Excellent patch and great video as always Christian. Really great to see you work with Os at Expert Sleepers for the excellent new Disting EX! Great to see you use ochd too, looking forward to seeing that modulate things away in future patches. Cheers!
Christian, thank you (and latterly the Spitfire team) for all the love, care and work you've put into the LABS instruments, and, by extension, everything else I have bought or heard from Spitfire. Equally importantly, I know that a chunk of the price I paid goes in royalties to the performers, so thank you for keeping all those talented musicians in the industry. It would break my heart to think of them having to give up playing their instrument to get a job shuffling papers in some grey, lifeless office somewhere. Been there, done that, wouldn't wish it on anyone. PS couldn't resist the call of the Saxomaphone
That's exactly getting toward what I'd like to hear from you album. With some of your true compositional brain power and emotion in the development or the music and it'll be phenomenal. Excited here!
Your videos are always very inspiring Christian, I often get to writing music each time I finish one of your vlogs thank you. Really seems like you are crafting that monster modular mammoth into something very much your own.
Great stuff as always Christian. The combo of Spitfire samples and Eurorack is a match made in heaven. Jonas and the team at Control just sent the shipping notification for my Ex order. Can’t wait.
I absolutely love the positioning of your camera, to capture the rising sun in the crook of your arm just occasionally as you wave your arms for emphasis for example at 2:00 - your normal DoP must be fearing for their job. Having heard your description of the sorts of thing you can do with the chord functionality of the Disting EX, you do realise, don't you, that you could write tintinnabuli just with this one unit, recreating Fratres for example by having the tune programmed into a sequencer and played in (diatonic) tenths, with the unit selecting what sort of chord is associated with each top note and generating the matching middle note; and then taking the tune down a third every time the sequence repeats?? You were mentioning planning to write some Pärt-like modular music in the last #NerdingForTheWeekend and I couldn't see how you would do this - but now I can!
Coming admittedly late to the modular party and instead diving straight into Albion One, BDT, and Kepler, I bet the EX together with these Labs samples would sing nicely with my tELHARMONIC. Thanks for the inspiration!
Seriously, loving the music in this video. I think at the heart of all this, whether you actually understand what is going on in the modular rack, is some really great music, and I for one cannot wait to see the fruits of your labour
Very excited for this Christian. I think it’s fantastic to bring the organic sample-based world of Spitfire and Pianobook into the rack! Question - do you mind posting/sharing a hi-res photo of the Frankensynth? I’m very interested in how your overall module selection and layout has evolved. Thanks as always!
A while back, I was in a class hosted by the creator of Instruo (I even got to see a few pre- production modules!), and man is he just amazing. Great teacher, but what beautiful modules as well!
hi this is maybe my third YT comment ever but I always know when to come out of my shed: you are doing some amazing stuff right there, my mind is completely blown thank you very much (if you could find a way to make the price of modular gear 15 times cheaper in the future it would be much appreciated, love)
As I've only just started with Modular, am praying the hiatus for the Modular Mondays series is simply down to the unique circumstances/changes to our way of life over the past few months and that it will resume again soon. Understand why it has been parked for now, but waiting with hope and anticipation of more inspiration and gear porn soon.
Mmmm... Disting EX... Now there's a thing. And with LABS. Oh dear... It's my 60th in May but as I'm currently out of work I'm struggling to justify the outlay. But it WILL make it into my system at some point in the next twelve months. Or twelve weeks, perhaps.......
Peter Nicholls me too. I learned synthesis on all those huge, old modular synths and still haven’t figured out why I would ever want to go back, but I do.
There be dragons. I dabbled. Spent about £4k (for which you'll get nothing close to Chris's behemoth). Bailed. Recovered about 3/4 of that so no major damage done, it was an interesting journey over 12-18 months. Russell, Euro is a long way from traditional modular though it can do that. For me it was the ergonomics, the complexity, the cost and ultimately my musical direction (for now). The format is tiny/cramped though good manufacturers try their best and all those freaking cables in the way would kill my mojo. Often I'd find myself having to do such complex routings to achieve the simplest things. And then musical direction: Eurorack does not lend itself to 'traditional music'. You'll still need those sample libraries. You'll still need a DAW. You'll still want traditional all-in-one-box synths. You WILL love the immediacy of it all but you WILL wish you could save patches. And so on. It is undeniably worth exploring BUT GO SUPER SLOW and expect to pay £thousands if you want to truly explore this paradigm. That's my 2cents anyway and because this is the internet ... for anybody who can't read properly: I'm not dissing Eurorack, I'm just saying it's not for me at this time, so don't get your knickers in a twist! ;-)
This is amazing. But I think I’m missing something. In all the Spitfire stuff I’ve bought, I haven’t found a folder with actual .wav files to do something like this with.
Now that you’ve put spitfire labs into your euro rack, maybe it’s possible to make a new labs instrument with sounds that where created with it? Maybe even with an arpeggiator? This way people without an euro rack (like me...) also enjoy and experience your love for the frankensynth! Maybe even come over to the dark side after this experience... 😉
@==/A\== Or Bitwig Studio, but even so, the Frankensynth looks like fun... some of us prefer drawing envelopes, some prefer twisting knobs - each to their own :)
Good work all involved! Does this mean some of the labs might be available as regular multisample wav files that can be used in regular multisample players?
Street Fighter references and synths all in one video. I wonder how many of us are both street fighter and synth nerds? Haha. EX plus alpha was the game where Street Fighter attempted to go from a 2D to a 3D fighting game. It was ok if you were a fan, but not a scratch on the 2D ones. I spent far to much time in the arcades of Skegness in the late 90’s 😅 Congrats on the 3mil download! Some of those Labs patches have been so inspiring to use! Anyway, hope to see Sandy make a return on Modular Mondays at some point in the future 😊 Hope everyones doing ok with the C19 situation. Stay safe!
Any chance we'll see more collaborations from Spitfire and other modular companies (or just modules from Spitfire)? I've been thinking lately that an amazing Eurorack sequencer could be built from the concept of Spitfire's Ostinatum.
Christian; Am I right in thinking there were older sample packs from a past time when LABS was born? I'm sure I read a blog about someone using them but not being able to find again after a laptop disaster. If there is truth to this, can we get them added to the growing family of instruments? Or am I being too greedy? 🤔
Sounds brilliant. How many separate sample notes does the EX hold for the felt piano? I’ve been using a few of your free No.9 sample wavs in my Digitakt.
Thnx. Would love to see you interview Ken Macbeth in the future. He’s an Edinburgh local. Amazing sounding oscillators. If you can afford or find them.
@@BenGilbey Ken's an interesting guy, for sure. If you were asking how many samples were in the soft piano set (rather than the polyphony), it's 88 - one per note.
I would like to skip forward to the day when my Disting EX shows up. Unfortunately, I’ve discovered that time IRL doesn’t have a CV in. That’s poor design. Oh well, 60 BPM it is then.
Hey Christian! Love the video I dunno if it's just me but it seems the playback quality is stuck at 360p and has no option for changing. Love the content keep it up!
I think the explanation of Øchd is not correct, because in every video about it people mention that the LFOs are not multiplications or divided of the first LFO, but that they are "organically tuned" or whatever. So your comparison to a clock divider as the first intro to the module does it injustice in a very important point Ben is always pointing out.
Really, can't you just send some of your videos to the BBC for once and get your own documentary show about whatever ? If only to confirm i'm right and to know they see the same potential in your presentation, narrative and visual production skills as i do ? Like, honestly, for real real. It almost kinda hurts to see you not fully utilizing your potential to generate a secondary income, career or just conquer new avenues with it. I honestly think you waste part of your potential if you at least don't give it a try. I've spent some years in the TV/movie industry and i know a natural when i see them. You're definitely one. Really, i'm dead serious.
P.S. I'm not saying you're not already putting your many talents to good use, you obiously do. I'm just of the opinion you could use them in even more ways - become a documentary presenter, political commentator etc. I truly think you have the talent to do so.
So - the soundscape you created in the last half of the video. It has interesting patterns. But it still sounds like a machine rather than like a musician or band to me. The music you create by playing a keyboard and recording string players and such is always moving. This is not. It’s maybe temporarily mesmerizing. It’s definitely a great source of inspiration. I would be tempted to absorb the vibe and play some actual music using the same types of patterns.
need ethnic percussion world, traditional instruments of all era, no more classic tools, strings brass etc, waiting a new era...with Spitfire app, love Spitfire but look around...we need it
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Thanks for the video Christian - I'm absolutely delighted to have collaborated with Spitfire on this.
Had to order one at once. Excellent.
@@RichardLacyMusic Lucky you Richard :-)
I'm going to have to wait, but it will definitely be the next module I buy.
Labs has literally been a game changer for me with writing music! Such an amazing collection of instruments! The only thing I’d love to be added is a harmonium type instrument!!
Excellent patch and great video as always Christian. Really great to see you work with Os at Expert Sleepers for the excellent new Disting EX! Great to see you use ochd too, looking forward to seeing that modulate things away in future patches. Cheers!
Labs is a gift, and I am very grateful for it, thank you.
Thank you for Labs Tundra Atmos, awesome work by all involved.
Christian, thank you (and latterly the Spitfire team) for all the love, care and work you've put into the LABS instruments, and, by extension, everything else I have bought or heard from Spitfire. Equally importantly, I know that a chunk of the price I paid goes in royalties to the performers, so thank you for keeping all those talented musicians in the industry. It would break my heart to think of them having to give up playing their instrument to get a job shuffling papers in some grey, lifeless office somewhere. Been there, done that, wouldn't wish it on anyone.
PS couldn't resist the call of the Saxomaphone
i swear to god soft piano in eurorack is literally the only thing ive even truely needed
soft piano all dayyyy
That's exactly getting toward what I'd like to hear from you album. With some of your true compositional brain power and emotion in the development or the music and it'll be phenomenal. Excited here!
LABS is a perfect way to start collecting your libraries, then I went to the $29usd, next I will buy one of your big libraries.
that was their plan ;)
@@MichaelDowComposer you fell into the trap!
Aw, thanks for the shout out, Christian! You're a gent. :)
Bloody love your stuff, Matt
Your videos are always very inspiring Christian, I often get to writing music each time I finish one of your vlogs thank you. Really seems like you are crafting that monster modular mammoth into something very much your own.
Great stuff as always Christian. The combo of Spitfire samples and Eurorack is a match made in heaven. Jonas and the team at Control just sent the shipping notification for my Ex order. Can’t wait.
This is the collaboration I didn't know I needed, beyond excited!
I absolutely love the positioning of your camera, to capture the rising sun in the crook of your arm just occasionally as you wave your arms for emphasis for example at 2:00 - your normal DoP must be fearing for their job.
Having heard your description of the sorts of thing you can do with the chord functionality of the Disting EX, you do realise, don't you, that you could write tintinnabuli just with this one unit, recreating Fratres for example by having the tune programmed into a sequencer and played in (diatonic) tenths, with the unit selecting what sort of chord is associated with each top note and generating the matching middle note; and then taking the tune down a third every time the sequence repeats??
You were mentioning planning to write some Pärt-like modular music in the last #NerdingForTheWeekend and I couldn't see how you would do this - but now I can!
Awesome video and wonderful tunes :)
Just picked one up! Super excited for the spitfire sounds in the multi-sample player function!
Oh can't wait to get my hands on the Disting! The Instruo seems to be super cool as well! Cheers Christian!
Coming admittedly late to the modular party and instead diving straight into Albion One, BDT, and Kepler, I bet the EX together with these Labs samples would sing nicely with my tELHARMONIC. Thanks for the inspiration!
Seriously, loving the music in this video. I think at the heart of all this, whether you actually understand what is going on in the modular rack, is some really great music, and I for one cannot wait to see the fruits of your labour
Shipping the new Disting EX with Labs samples is a stunning development too.
You are a pioneer. Thanks for all the cool ideas to think about.
Love the LABS series I have been using these since their inception and still use them daily.
I still haven't got a clue when it comes to modular but I do love watching it all and that LABS thing was pretty clever.
Great video!
Labs is lovely!
Christian, your comment about 'cool' is also so very true of the word 'epic' frequently used by people to describe their own music. :D
Wait is this almost the spitfire module I've always wanted? I must do this!!
I got my Disting EX today… It simplified my modular Soft Piano setup greatly!
Thank you for the great movie
I was skeptical about piano samples in euro at first, but I'm surprised how much sense it actually makes!
Very excited for this Christian. I think it’s fantastic to bring the organic sample-based world of Spitfire and Pianobook into the rack! Question - do you mind posting/sharing a hi-res photo of the Frankensynth? I’m very interested in how your overall module selection and layout has evolved. Thanks as always!
OS is a total legend. I use his stuff literally every single day! Great video Christian :)
I think "Mr. Robot" composer MacQuayle and "The Knick" composer Cliff Martinez used The Unfinished's synth patches. That's when I learnt about him.
So very super cool! great track at the end, Christian... I don't think you have any problem writing for your album. ;)
A while back, I was in a class hosted by the creator of Instruo (I even got to see a few pre- production modules!), and man is he just amazing. Great teacher, but what beautiful modules as well!
shades of Oldfield in the piece at the end, lovely! New Disting looks absolutely amazing too, empty 104hp case filled with Distings a mad idea?
I just made a track with Soft Piano, and Trumpet Fields. Just really, really fun to use. Just wanted to say thanks.
Massive thanks for the SAXOMAPHONIUM mention Christian. We now need to think of other feared instruments to re-habilitate. 👍
Great patch Christian
I love this video for the kindness of heart ^~^
Makeup brushes are great at dusting your modules!
great tip thanks!
@@TheCrowHillCo i use a pastry brush! :)
Something about pianos and synths always works
This is just amazing!
Disting EX is absolute fantastic! Os is going to send me the full sample pack to play with so I can enjoy all that spitfire goodness
I've been thinking about getting a Disting for a while and this made me pull the trigger on the EX. What a beast of a module!
Yes! SAXOMAPHONIUM! The fist demo track on the sounddust website for SAXOMAPHONIUM is made by me. Please have a listen to it!
Amazing patch Christian!
I use Labs with VCV Rack. Works a treat with the Host module.
hi
this is maybe my third YT comment ever but I always know when to come out of my shed: you are doing some amazing stuff right there, my mind is completely blown
thank you very much
(if you could find a way to make the price of modular gear 15 times cheaper in the future it would be much appreciated, love)
The intro music is stunning
This sounds and looks freaking neat!
As I've only just started with Modular, am praying the hiatus for the Modular Mondays series is simply down to the unique circumstances/changes to our way of life over the past few months and that it will resume again soon. Understand why it has been parked for now, but waiting with hope and anticipation of more inspiration and gear porn soon.
Thought I got clickbaited into some modular stuff. :P
Jam at the end was awesome.
Mmmm... Disting EX... Now there's a thing.
And with LABS.
Oh dear... It's my 60th in May but as I'm currently out of work I'm struggling to justify the outlay.
But it WILL make it into my system at some point in the next twelve months. Or twelve weeks, perhaps.......
Thanks for all your work. I would love to bake you a cake.
Wow the new Disting is awesome! I just ordered the Expert Sleepers ES-8. Should get the new disting as soon as I can affors one ;)
12:30- GOOSEBUMP CITY. Fantastic....
Stunning achievement! ❤️👏🏻🤍
Euro/module: it’s a world I look at and feel utterly lost yet entranced.
Peter Nicholls me too. I learned synthesis on all those huge, old modular synths and still haven’t figured out why I would ever want to go back, but I do.
There be dragons. I dabbled. Spent about £4k (for which you'll get nothing close to Chris's behemoth). Bailed. Recovered about 3/4 of that so no major damage done, it was an interesting journey over 12-18 months. Russell, Euro is a long way from traditional modular though it can do that. For me it was the ergonomics, the complexity, the cost and ultimately my musical direction (for now). The format is tiny/cramped though good manufacturers try their best and all those freaking cables in the way would kill my mojo. Often I'd find myself having to do such complex routings to achieve the simplest things. And then musical direction: Eurorack does not lend itself to 'traditional music'. You'll still need those sample libraries. You'll still need a DAW. You'll still want traditional all-in-one-box synths. You WILL love the immediacy of it all but you WILL wish you could save patches. And so on. It is undeniably worth exploring BUT GO SUPER SLOW and expect to pay £thousands if you want to truly explore this paradigm. That's my 2cents anyway and because this is the internet ... for anybody who can't read properly: I'm not dissing Eurorack, I'm just saying it's not for me at this time, so don't get your knickers in a twist! ;-)
Do you think a semi modular might be the way to go? Like the remake of ARP 2600?
This is amazing. But I think I’m missing something. In all the Spitfire stuff I’ve bought, I haven’t found a folder with actual .wav files to do something like this with.
Can’t believe you’ve nearly filled that rack!
You wait.... Music By 300 Strangers needs filters...... A LOT OF FILTERS
Christian Henson Music 😂😂😂
Wow, just wow
Now that you’ve put spitfire labs into your euro rack, maybe it’s possible to make a new labs instrument with sounds that where created with it? Maybe even with an arpeggiator? This way people without an euro rack (like me...) also enjoy and experience your love for the frankensynth! Maybe even come over to the dark side after this experience... 😉
@==/A\== Or Bitwig Studio, but even so, the Frankensynth looks like fun... some of us prefer drawing envelopes, some prefer twisting knobs - each to their own :)
Love the vibe :D
Fantastic stuff even if modular scares the pants off me on some level.
Rubicon mate 🙂
Good work all involved! Does this mean some of the labs might be available as regular multisample wav files that can be used in regular multisample players?
Street Fighter references and synths all in one video. I wonder how many of us are both street fighter and synth nerds? Haha. EX plus alpha was the game where Street Fighter attempted to go from a 2D to a 3D fighting game. It was ok if you were a fan, but not a scratch on the 2D ones. I spent far to much time in the arcades of Skegness in the late 90’s 😅 Congrats on the 3mil download! Some of those Labs patches have been so inspiring to use! Anyway, hope to see Sandy make a return on Modular Mondays at some point in the future 😊 Hope everyones doing ok with the C19 situation. Stay safe!
Nice!
Hm, track at the end was great. Talking of gems - BT Phobos has to be the most underrated synth of all time. Just saying.
I'd love to put a double thumbsup on this, youtube sucks D:
a "coughy" meeting, hope that you weren't too close to the Ledge! ;-)
Any chance we'll see more collaborations from Spitfire and other modular companies (or just modules from Spitfire)? I've been thinking lately that an amazing Eurorack sequencer could be built from the concept of Spitfire's Ostinatum.
Christian; Am I right in thinking there were older sample packs from a past time when LABS was born? I'm sure I read a blog about someone using them but not being able to find again after a laptop disaster. If there is truth to this, can we get them added to the growing family of instruments? Or am I being too greedy? 🤔
Who edit this videos?
Sounds brilliant. How many separate sample notes does the EX hold for the felt piano? I’ve been using a few of your free No.9 sample wavs in my Digitakt.
8 voices
Thnx. Would love to see you interview Ken Macbeth in the future. He’s an Edinburgh local. Amazing sounding oscillators. If you can afford or find them.
@@BenGilbey Ken's an interesting guy, for sure. If you were asking how many samples were in the soft piano set (rather than the polyphony), it's 88 - one per note.
@Expert Sleepers Thanks for clarification. If I finally succumb to the eurorack vortex, a Disting will be on my list.
Tintinnabuli at 10:30!
I would like to skip forward to the day when my Disting EX shows up. Unfortunately, I’ve discovered that time IRL doesn’t have a CV in. That’s poor design. Oh well, 60 BPM it is then.
Probably my favourite comment on TH-cam ever. If I could double-thumbs-up this, I would.
Ha, it took me a second to realise what you were talking about her.
Hey Christian! Love the video I dunno if it's just me but it seems the playback quality is stuck at 360p and has no option for changing. Love the content keep it up!
Still processing... it'll be 4k before long!
@@TheCrowHillCo Got it there! Thanks
Not for me. 2160p here :)
Thumbs up to OZ
You’re Welcome! Filters incoming I believe...
One's already in the rack! (next to the ØCHID!!!)
🦾@signal sounds
Pink Floyd's "Money" - Saxophones can be cool
Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" - No... Nope... They really can't
Ian Underwood - ...Whips it out
I think the explanation of Øchd is not correct, because in every video about it people mention that the LFOs are not multiplications or divided of the first LFO, but that they are "organically tuned" or whatever. So your comparison to a clock divider as the first intro to the module does it injustice in a very important point Ben is always pointing out.
gold-plated patch cables, eh?
Most videos I skip through the yapping. Never when it’s Christian Henson!
Os is osewseome
hallo im hainbaaach
...Rubicon...
Thanks.
Really, can't you just send some of your videos to the BBC for once and get your own documentary show about whatever ? If only to confirm i'm right and to know they see the same potential in your presentation, narrative and visual production skills as i do ? Like, honestly, for real real. It almost kinda hurts to see you not fully utilizing your potential to generate a secondary income, career or just conquer new avenues with it. I honestly think you waste part of your potential if you at least don't give it a try. I've spent some years in the TV/movie industry and i know a natural when i see them. You're definitely one. Really, i'm dead serious.
P.S. I'm not saying you're not already putting your many talents to good use, you obiously do. I'm just of the opinion you could use them in even more ways - become a documentary presenter, political commentator etc. I truly think you have the talent to do so.
So - the soundscape you created in the last half of the video. It has interesting patterns. But it still sounds like a machine rather than like a musician or band to me. The music you create by playing a keyboard and recording string players and such is always moving. This is not. It’s maybe temporarily mesmerizing. It’s definitely a great source of inspiration. I would be tempted to absorb the vibe and play some actual music using the same types of patterns.
Don't get it. Wouldn't it be easier just to play it?
Not with my piano chops!
need ethnic percussion world, traditional instruments of all era, no more classic tools, strings brass etc, waiting a new era...with Spitfire app, love Spitfire but look around...we need it