'Warm Air' Ambient Modular Performance (Magneto, Eloquencer, ER-301, Morphagene)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2024
- Magneto recently arrived, so I put it to use on this patch that I've been working on for a while. While Magneto seems to do wanders with musical tones, I decided to try it on the percussion of this track, adding some very nice watery glitch FX.
Probably my favourite part of this track though, is the vocal sample reel I prepared for the Morphagene. I'm manually moving through the sample via Slide for pretty much the entire track.
ER-301 is providing all drums and percussion. The kick is being multed and fed into the Optimix to provide side-chaining for the bass. Percussion is sent out on a different 301 channel then into Magneto via Send FX on the Praga.
Eloquencer + O_c on sequencing/quantizing, I'm sometimes manually doing fills for the snare and plucks
Plaits for the bass
Rings and STO adding sequenced plucks
Maths controlling envelopes for Ripples cutoff
Ultra-Random sending a bunch of random into Magneto, repeats, start/stop transport and speed.
Nebulae 2 playing a pad which you hear at the very start
Morphagene on vocals
PNW on clock duty
A little Epiano and string sounds were added in post.
Recorded direct to SD card on the Zoom R16. Some compression and limiting was added in post.
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To be able to alter a state of mind is a feat, a feat you are able to achieve consumately, and consistently. This is an incredibly intricate weave of pure magic... Returning to consciousness...
This is just beautiful. The watery glitch became my favourite modular fx for now.
Glad you liked it, thanks!
Hands down, State Azure is one of the best ambient synth masters around. I keep debating whether I should purchase an ER-301 and the more i see in State Azure pieces, the closer I come to adding it to my racks.
Awesome job and beautiful composition, State Azure. Thank you.
You're too kind :) I was actually debating wether to sell the 301 for a Rossum Assimil8tor, as I mostly use my 301 for drums, it seems the Assimil8tor is more suited to that task and a bit easier/more immediate to use for that purpose. Appreciate the comment!
Very impressive and perfect description of what ‘s going on. Thanks for sharing
So beautiful and elegant, so many colors and textures.Just had to share it on my FB page, thank you,I love everything you do!!!
Thank you so much. You spoil me with all your nice comments :)
i really like that you are guiding us through your patch. I can´t thank you enough for this !
Thanks :)
That is absolutely best ambient I recently heard. The best from your Selected Ambient Work ;)
Brilliant.
Base line is soo good that all track should be much much longer.
Lets say 20-25 min like a side of vinyl LP.
Lets do it for us :)
Thanks so much :) 🤗
Well! That was a pleasant welcome home from work! Nicely done!
Thanks Spencer!
Egal, ob ohne , mit etwas, etwas mehr oder viel Alkohol : diese 7 Minuten und 33 Sekunden sind einfach nur GEIL !!!
Danke dafür !
;-)
As always. Great music. I love it. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Martin!
Those ethereal vocals and pads just melt me!
Thank you, glad to hear it :)
The audio quality is amazing. Love the way this sounds
Wauw man! This is ready to release . Love it🙏🏼
I second the e-motion!
Appreciate it, thanks for checking it out :)
the er301 perc through magneto is brilliant and gorgeous sounding. fucking incredible work here. this level of quality and creativity is harder to find than you'd think
Thanks! I really have to buy Magneto again this year. I've tried the same effect with other pitched delays, but none of them matched the quality of Magneto, though Mimeophon comes pretty close.
YES!! Nailed on , please release as is!
Love it mate,great use of the vocal sample.
I really like the sound and atmospheres of your videos - awesome job
Thanks a lot :)
Oh my god I've got this one while I'm studying and holy shiiiiiiit it's so good. Every video is absolutely gorgeous
Hey thanks for listening!
@@stateazure Dude such a pleasure :)
Gorgeous 😍
great track.... I love it
Seriously mate, this is incredible. I love every single second of this track. Completely perfect in my ears. And yeah, the watery effect on the percussion is so well done with the random feeding magneto. Can’t praise you enough for this piece of music. Thanks so much.
Hey thanks a lot, really appreciate the feedback! I hope I can still do that watery percussion now that the Magneto is gone. Need to get myself a small pitch shifting delay, or use my Disting :)
State Azure I’m sure you’ll smash it one way or another! ...Your vids have given me GAS for the Morphagene.
Get one, you wont regret it. I think it must be my most used module, it's in every track. I've already planned out a small 42hp case for a 2nd Morphagene for the future :)
State Azure ...oh there’s no doubt I’ll be getting one. May be a little while yet as other priorities are looming, but in my mind it’s a timeless module and a perfect partner to my ER-301 ....oh you have one of those too! 😆
Not anymore, I recently sold it and replaced it with the Rossum Assimil8tor. I was only using it for percussion anyway, and it was a bit of a chore to set up.
Always taking me to pleasant places.
Thanks, Mike! Glad to hear it!
State Azure Me too ;-)
Really beautiful, thanks for the explanation as well
Amazing 🤩
Great!
Beautiful atmosphere!
Stunning. Great work!! Love this piece
Cheers Patrick!
Brilliant.. after gyroscope, my next best favourite..
Amazing track/performance. Great work!
Thanks!
Utterly excellent.
Thank you Tom!
Another really nice track, well done!
Thanks Datachrome, glad you enjoyed the track/patch!
Unbelievable track. I need more sounds like this in my life - Anyone know of similar tracks?
Wonderful.
Omg so soft and squishy 😱
I enjoy your videos so much!
I'm glad! Thank you! I'll keep doing them :)
Really nice man, lovely textures here. It does sound like ready to go into a record. Great stuff! 👍
Cheers PM, worked hard to get this one right :)
State Azure you made a wonderful job and should feel proud of it, I will listen to it later on in my proper speakers, keep them coming!!!!
I'll do my best :) I have to take a little break from the euro. to concentrate on my studio album for a little while. So I'll probably keep the next ones simple. Eurorack has kept me so entertained, that I'm about 4-5 months late getting my album finished haha..never expected it to be this addicting and fun.
State Azure hehe yeah I know what you mean. I planned on making a record ages ago but having so much fun jamming and with the videos that I have not done it yet..... and I probably won't do it for quite some time!! Good luck with the recording
Lovely
Thanks Alex!
Nice Sounddesign! I like it a lot.
Thank you Synthikat, appreciate the comment and sub! You actually helped me decide to get into modular with your excellent VCVrack ambient tracks :)
thank you very much :)
these percussion/foley type sounds are incredible. are they your samples?
4:44 come on this image is taken from a james bond movie, these are sean connery's hands
Just “MASTER MAGIC OSCILLATOR MANIPULATION”.......
OH I LOVE YOUR “MANIFESTING”!!!!!
Man...... do you have this separated into different audio tracks or something? cuz i'd love to remix dis.. but i work in a 100% DAW environment.
Yes!
Thanks David!
Great use of Magneto, I have just discovered what delays can do for percussion :)
Thanks Yann. Yes, it's a fun technique with analog style delays!
Well done 👍
Thanks Nathan!
Super !
Thank you :)
👍🎶🎵🎧
Quality!
Thanks!
Beautiful one State Azure, and the production is so qualitative, great work! So you've finally received Magneto, what's your global opinion about it? Btw I'm interested in Plaits, nor filtering neither envelopes on the bass? Sounds really good!
Thank you vssp, glad you liked it! It's a bit early for me to say much about Magneto, I need to explore it more..at first I had regrets because of the size/hp, so at first not so impressed, but I was trying to make Magneto work with this patch and maybe it frustrated me a little..but on the percussion I love the glitchy FX it can create. With Plaits I'm using a detuned Osc (you can see the settings in the vid), and yes some filtering provided by Ripples. No envelope on Plaits itself, but the filter gets an envelope for the cutoff from Maths..then it goes into Optomix for the Side-Chaining effect.
Plaits does amazing bass tones by the way :)
Thanks for the feedback! I also have to practice more with Magneto! And thanks for the details on Plaits part, probably a good companion for Rings, we'll see! Have a good week-end
Yeah, Magneto seems to be very deep and requires some time to get familiar. I think Plaits and Rings go well together, personally I'm getting a bit bored of the Rings' sound and was thinking of selling mine for a different module. And thanks, have a great weekend yourself :)
Yes Magneto is not so easy to find the good workflow... I understand for Rings, on my side I quite like its standard sound though I really like it in using the input (noise for example)... anyway it's a matter of taste! The same for you
WHo did you sample for the voices? :-) :-)
Hey Dimitrios :) I used a sample from a sample library - Vocal Atmospheres by Holly Drummond..Some very nice stuff there for feeding into granular samplers!
I saw you have used the Eloquencer and also Hermod. Which one is the better option for polyphonic work? I am planning my first modular system and since I'm a keyboard player, I want to have a system that will lend itself to live sequencing with multisequenced/polyphonic voices in mind. Thanks!
I think the Hermod is probably best suited in this case, but to be honest, neither are great for polyphonic work..Hermod has the problem that overlapping/polyphonic notes on the sequencer can't be edited on a single part. But it does work as a decent MIDI > CV converter using multiple channels. It also allows MIDI live-looping, which is very cool for a keyboard player. Either way, polyphonic work in eurorack isn't easy yet, you'll need multiple VCOs, EGs, VCAs and a mixer that can handle all these signals. It can be done though.
@@stateazure Thanks for reply man. In your video "Hermod Study Polyphony/Looping" you're actually demonstrating a lot of what I would like to experiment with. Would you can to share some tips of a decent modular setup to accomplish that? I'm aware I would need multiple VCO/F/A and I already prepared some potential setup on modular grid but since it's my first setup..I thought it would be good to get some feedback.
My modular grid rack is "Live Poly Gen"
@@Handheldsounds Oh man, that was quite a while ago since I made that track. There may even be improvements, I know they've at least improved the MIDI live-looping, which is a great thing and the best thing about Hermod IMO. Plaits and Plonk in your rack actually have VCA/Envelopes built in, so that helps a lot as you can just go direct from pitch/gate into those. Plonk is also duo-phonic? I think, which helps to cut down note stealing/abrupt cut off of notes. The Piston Honda needs a VCA and EG. An Intelligel uVCA would do the trick for VCA, and for EGs I'm not sure..depends how much space you're willing to give up AND how many EGs do you really want, you should have at least two. You could go 2hp EG/ADR or something, they have a few options if I remember, or just find a decent dual EG..my personal preference is to buy a Mutable Instruments Stages, but you don't have much room left unless you lose one of the large modules.
@@stateazure Thanks for all the suggestions man, I really appreciate it. BTW - I'm a sample library developer so if you're interested to produce some demo tracks for our upcoming libraries, I would be honored you do great stuff!
God damn this is so awesome! Not the patch you could take it out of the studio i guess 😳
Thanks :)
You are crazy =)
Now i know why i'm the tail-end of the 'orobous'... i'm 'SEDUCED' !!! I've loved 'ambient,' for years & years, but this is...🎶😂🎶🌠🎶✨🎶
Thank you, glad you like it :)
It's really nice that you describe how you DID this, lol ♡🎶 My mind tho' just enjoys what this track DOES for the bio-feed-EFFECT !!! It's a really nice 'ride,' like a magnetic-rollercoaster, when it goes upside down, you know it, but are amazed, b/c it's so smooth, you'd swear you did NOT 'go upside-down,' lol... It's just this much 'state-of-the-art,' is really so flabberghasting to me !!! But, then i forget, i'm old enough to notice !!! ♡