I see some of you want to know more about how this is patched. It's not really anything special. Osc1 is set to pulse, osc2 and 3 are saw. The modulator (main lfo) is modulating the pulse width of osc1. The extra lfo is modulating the pitch of osc2 and 3 (plugged into the pitch input for osc2, as that also modulates osc3). But the signal from that lfo was hard to attenuate down to a reasonable level, so I attenuated the output of the first attenuator to get that very careful vibrato. It's really more like oscillator drift than vibrato. Other than that there's no more patch cables. The sequencer is repeatedly playing a simple D1-A1-D2 chord, and the long release time on the amp envelope makes it a drone. Playing the different tones is just adjusting the fine tune of osc2 and 3. I actually had to add a little resonnance to remove a bit of the base, as it would get very warbly on speakers of... lesser frequency output capabilities. ;) The stereo delay is set to ping pong just to add more width, and the output of the Matriarch is also run through a Neunaber reverb pedal. So it's really simple. I'm sure you can easily do it for yourself. Ask away if you want to know more. Good luck, and make noise. :)
Beautiful, indeed. What strikes me is the number of performancse and performers regularly praised by the media that pale, or are even amateurish not to say ridiculous, by comparison with pieces of music like this one (I found many more and I continue to stumble across outstanding others), not so seldom with an amazingly low number of views... Only a tiny number of Tangerine Dream albums are praiseworthy, especially when in regards to the huge number they released, and nearly all albums Klaus Schulze released from the mid-80s on are disapointing not to say deadly boring. So, congratulations!
This is pure ambient bliss... the Moog Matriarch really shines here. It feels like you’re floating in isolation, but in a good way... calming, yet a bit eerie. Simple, but incredibly effective. A beautiful piece of work!
I've listened to this countless times. It's absolutely haunting. The pace of the progression is inspirational. Thank you for making and sharing this. I will have to try this performance on my Matriarch.
I've listened to a great deal of ambient/dark ambient drones over the years, but this is the first time I've ever been brought to the edge of tears, experienced chills with the hair standing up on the back of my neck. Thank you for a very emotively effective piece. If I were going to compare it to anything else, it would be Tangerine Dream's "Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares. BTW, I acquired a Matriarch back in April and am totally absorbed in it.
This is beautiful! Definitely the best drone I've heard from it. Mine is arriving later this week. I am so excited, have been wanting it so bad since it was released!
Thanks for sharing! I'm less experienced making music, so I am inspired by the variety of styles demonstrated on the Matriarch. I always joke that everyone else's Matriarch sounds better than mine! 🤪 I appreciate the simplicity and elegance of this piece! The oscillator drift and intentional detuning build tension and draw me in. I keep turning up the volume to get more immersed in the drone. It's deeply satisfying when the dissonance resolves back to the original tone. Nicely done!
Oh yes sublime. I have been saving (not very successfully) for the Matriarch. It is definitely my next purchase just don't know when and listening to this has assured me that it will be worth the wait. Loved the manual tuning.
Thank you for your kind words. And thank you for your videos on your channel. I find them both soothing and inspiring. And yes, the Matriarch is an amazing instrument. I can get so lost in it when I sit down with it. It's my Enterprise and my Nautilus, and it's my deserted island synth for sure.
Heavy. Sounds great. I have to mention--when I saw your link and YT name, I read it as, "SingingCountry." Could not resist--had to listen to country music on the Matriarch. Thanks for sharing.
This is so well done! Thanks for posting this and thanks for sharing the patch info. I've been getting by with a minilogue XD but definitely have my eye on the Matriarch. Thanks again!
let me take back my previous post. I listened to this song another 30 times :) and i love it. not good for during my work, but awesome in the evening only doing one thing at the time, listening to this beautiful song
Another listen at this, and it's giving me Stand Still Stay Silent vibes now; special mention goes to the poem you wrote below the video, which somehow refers to the lost souls that thrive with the awakened monsters in the silent lands beyond.
Beautiful drone, very deep. Love the matriarch. Never was that much into drone or Moog. But the mattriach changed all that for me. It's my relaxing machine.
Hello SingingCircuitry, What a great sound, and I want to make some noise that might annoy the neighbours. Believe it or not, I got here via a circuit loop that started out researching Tamburas. So you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here? I don't know too much about music, but I know what I like (ha, ha). Basically, I love the sound of repeating sounds, harmonics mixing, sounds resounding, diverging and looping round and around. Basically, the type of sound that has loads of harmonic frequencies; hence that is why I researched Tamburas. Unfortunately it is difficult to source a Tambura in the UK. Any way, a very long story cut short... I don't know much about music but I do know what I like... in this case, I also like the analogue sound that Moog do seem to perfect, so I began to research Synthesisers as well. Bearing in mind I am a complete novice about these things, and I might seem a silly sausage for asking, but here is my question anyway: If I was to get a Matriarch... how does it connect to external speakers? Any advice will be greatly appreciated. The only equipment that I do have is an imac with an m1 chip, and that's about it, so I am an open book. If you reply, thank you. If not, no sweat, I will carry on researching. Kind Regards, theKingOfSiamIam
My Matriarch Dark is the most gratifying synth I own. My other 2 are he Pro 3 SE and the Subsequent 37. Both wonderful, but the Matriarch is something very special indeed.
The Matriarch is the first true epic synth Moog produced since the model D. i like the track you played and recorded very much. What's the connection with the lyrics? Is this an existing song or movie?
Love it! Just got my Matriarch last week... so amazing! I'm looking to make drones and sounds *exactly* like this. Any hints/suggestions how you made this?
i love it. but for me, the know twitches are sometimes too fast or too chaotic. It takes so much attention and feels sad. Nothing wrong with sad music, but I think you can give it more space to be more patient.
I see some of you want to know more about how this is patched. It's not really anything special.
Osc1 is set to pulse, osc2 and 3 are saw. The modulator (main lfo) is modulating the pulse width of osc1. The extra lfo is modulating the pitch of osc2 and 3 (plugged into the pitch input for osc2, as that also modulates osc3). But the signal from that lfo was hard to attenuate down to a reasonable level, so I attenuated the output of the first attenuator to get that very careful vibrato. It's really more like oscillator drift than vibrato. Other than that there's no more patch cables. The sequencer is repeatedly playing a simple D1-A1-D2 chord, and the long release time on the amp envelope makes it a drone. Playing the different tones is just adjusting the fine tune of osc2 and 3. I actually had to add a little resonnance to remove a bit of the base, as it would get very warbly on speakers of... lesser frequency output capabilities. ;) The stereo delay is set to ping pong just to add more width, and the output of the Matriarch is also run through a Neunaber reverb pedal.
So it's really simple. I'm sure you can easily do it for yourself. Ask away if you want to know more. Good luck, and make noise. :)
fekkin awesome.
Thank you very much for sharing your experience. You really mastered it.
Thanks for the patch notes!
It’s like waking up to a post apocalyptic radioactive wasteland. Haunting yet beautiful if there’s anything beautiful about that.
Beautiful, indeed. What strikes me is the number of performancse and performers regularly praised by the media that pale, or are even amateurish not to say ridiculous, by comparison with pieces of music like this one (I found many more and I continue to stumble across outstanding others), not so seldom with an amazingly low number of views... Only a tiny number of Tangerine Dream albums are praiseworthy, especially when in regards to the huge number they released, and nearly all albums Klaus Schulze released from the mid-80s on are disapointing not to say deadly boring.
So, congratulations!
This performance brings me one step closer to wanting a Matriarch. Really good atmosphere you created here.
This is pure ambient bliss... the Moog Matriarch really shines here.
It feels like you’re floating in isolation, but in a good way... calming, yet a bit eerie.
Simple, but incredibly effective. A beautiful piece of work!
Lovely how you play the pitches with the oscs frequency knobs. It almost sounds like a choir. Very well done!
These knobs are connected directly to my heart. One of the best musical performances I've ever heard.
She howls !!! This is probably my favorite synth that I own !!
Best ambient track I’ve heard
The Moog oscillator's saw wave has such a vocal quality with those filters. Like waileing in a desert.
Loved it. The tension from a detune is always a marvellous thing.
I've listened to this countless times. It's absolutely haunting. The pace of the progression is inspirational. Thank you for making and sharing this. I will have to try this performance on my Matriarch.
Oooh, this is amazing. Love what you did there with the Matriach. Quite intense, yet also calming.
for me the first Drone, that is worth to be heard from the beginning to the end. Matriarch is a wonderful instrument.
Thank you for your kind words. :)
This is absolutely beautiful.
Wow, I was smiling 30 seconds into this video. So simple and yet so... powerful. The Matriarch is truly awe-inspiring. Nice job.
I've listened to a great deal of ambient/dark ambient drones over the years, but this is the first time I've ever been brought to the edge of tears, experienced chills
with the hair standing up on the back of my neck. Thank you for a very emotively effective piece. If I were going to compare it to anything else, it would be Tangerine Dream's "Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares. BTW, I acquired a Matriarch back in April and am totally absorbed in it.
This is beautiful! Definitely the best drone I've heard from it. Mine is arriving later this week. I am so excited, have been wanting it so bad since it was released!
Thank you! Happy to hear you'll get yours after all this time. That .is. exciting. :) It's a magnificent beast for sure.
Did you receive it? What do you think about it?
I will receive mine next week, can’t wait!
So wonderful dark atmosphere growing. The Matriarch is really a great synth like was never made since a long time.
Very Abul Mogard. Love it - great piece!
Intense yet relaxed...exceptional creation of vast time and space. Brilliant!
Thanks for sharing! I'm less experienced making music, so I am inspired by the variety of styles demonstrated on the Matriarch. I always joke that everyone else's Matriarch sounds better than mine! 🤪 I appreciate the simplicity and elegance of this piece! The oscillator drift and intentional detuning build tension and draw me in. I keep turning up the volume to get more immersed in the drone. It's deeply satisfying when the dissonance resolves back to the original tone. Nicely done!
One of the best thing i've heard coming from a Matriarch; mesmerising. Well done!
Thank you! :)
Oh yes sublime. I have been saving (not very successfully) for the Matriarch. It is definitely my next purchase just don't know when and listening to this has assured me that it will be worth the wait. Loved the manual tuning.
Thank you for your kind words. And thank you for your videos on your channel. I find them both soothing and inspiring.
And yes, the Matriarch is an amazing instrument. I can get so lost in it when I sit down with it. It's my Enterprise and my Nautilus, and it's my deserted island synth for sure.
3 oscillators, a drone played off of a single note, and lots of delay…..amazing!
Hauntingly beautiful
This ambience is awesomely dark and mesmerizing!
Heavy. Sounds great. I have to mention--when I saw your link and YT name, I read it as, "SingingCountry." Could not resist--had to listen to country music on the Matriarch. Thanks for sharing.
XD Yes, I would like to have a listen to that too.
super clever way to perform with it, love this
I have listened to it at least 20 times.... is always beautiful
Wow just found this. Excellent.
Wow man, What a trip! So nice and deep...
Amazing. If for some reason you Make more of these, put them in some sort of patch collection and I will happily buy them from you:)
The soundtrack of the edge of a black hole... wonderful 👏
Pretty dope. Nice work.
This is so well done! Thanks for posting this and thanks for sharing the patch info. I've been getting by with a minilogue XD but definitely have my eye on the Matriarch. Thanks again!
Wow! Only Peter Gabriel moves certain sound emotions. Superb! Compliments!
Excellent job 👏 👍 👌, 👌 lovely deep bass in that machine,
Abul Mogard in action! I am convinced to buy this synth!
great one :) thank you for the patching hints!
let me take back my previous post. I listened to this song another 30 times :) and i love it. not good for during my work, but awesome in the evening only doing one thing at the time, listening to this beautiful song
Another listen at this, and it's giving me Stand Still Stay Silent vibes now; special mention goes to the poem you wrote below the video, which somehow refers to the lost souls that thrive with the awakened monsters in the silent lands beyond.
this is excellent, tremendous depth of feel.
Beautiful drone, very deep. Love the matriarch. Never was that much into drone or Moog. But the mattriach changed all that for me. It's my relaxing machine.
Gorgeous piece.
De toute beauté 😊 Bravo
Thanks !!!!. I want one now !!!!
Epic knob twiddling my friend 👍👍👍
Great dark piece. Fits the title perfectly.
Exactly what I love. Super duper!
😮Wow. Just… WOW.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Dark and very cool 👍 thanks
Awesome soundscape! Well done. ♥️
Simple but highly effective. Love this 👍👏🏻
goosebumps!
So much tension with only one note lol. That is insane.
Pure tension and release at it's best. Great track!
Thank you! :)
Hello SingingCircuitry,
What a great sound, and I want to make some noise that might annoy the neighbours.
Believe it or not, I got here via a circuit loop that started out researching Tamburas. So you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
I don't know too much about music, but I know what I like (ha, ha). Basically, I love the sound of repeating sounds, harmonics mixing, sounds resounding, diverging and looping round and around. Basically, the type of sound that has loads of harmonic frequencies; hence that is why I researched Tamburas. Unfortunately it is difficult to source a Tambura in the UK.
Any way, a very long story cut short... I don't know much about music but I do know what I like... in this case, I also like the analogue sound that Moog do seem to perfect, so I began to research Synthesisers as well.
Bearing in mind I am a complete novice about these things, and I might seem a silly sausage for asking, but here is my question anyway:
If I was to get a Matriarch... how does it connect to external speakers?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated. The only equipment that I do have is an imac with an m1 chip, and that's about it, so I am an open book.
If you reply, thank you. If not, no sweat, I will carry on researching.
Kind Regards,
theKingOfSiamIam
well done
V.nice..subscribed, more please!
Epic - hypnotizing \0/
Epic!
My Matriarch Dark is the most gratifying synth I own. My other 2 are he Pro 3 SE and the Subsequent 37. Both wonderful, but the Matriarch is something very special indeed.
I agree. I have the Subsequent 37 too, but the Matriarch has a special place in my heart. :)
Awesome track, really nice atmosphere!
Nice track man , gr8 atmosphere
can't go wrong with a nice analog synth and a good reverb pedal ;)
This is fantastic, great sounds. Thanks for uploading
You rock.
Like Shining Mood
A fine example of the wonders of the Matriarch! Can’t quite believe I haven’t found your channel before. 🙏🏻🌟🤍
This was so Dank! Loved it!
Inspirational 👏
yeah!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
Love this
That is a fantastic piece. WAY WAY WAY too short! I was totally into it and then it ended... "always leave them wanting more".
Awsome, thank you😍
The Matriarch is the first true epic synth Moog produced since the model D.
i like the track you played and recorded very much. What's the connection with the lyrics? Is this an existing song or movie?
So lovely, I'd like to make something similar some day.
Love it! Just got my Matriarch last week... so amazing! I'm looking to make drones and sounds *exactly* like this. Any hints/suggestions how you made this?
Yes, the Matriarch is amazing. :) I made a pinned comment about the details of the patching.
i liuv it!!
Nice!!
Took me to another reality. Thank you for that! Care sharing how it's patched?
Thank you for your kind words. :) I've added a pinned comment about the patching details. :)
Woah, is that really only this synth?
good job
Wish I can figure out how to play this
I have put patch information in a pinned comment, if you would like to try yourself. Good luck. :)
I could well imagine this being the intro theme to Sicario 3..........better yet, the theme throughout Sicario 3.........
Sick! 😷💉
wow, i love it, can you explain how did you patch it ? i would like to try that with mine.
Thank you. :) I've tried to explain it in a pinned comment on this video. It's not very complicated, really. Good luck. :)
Coś pięknego... zmieść screen proszę
Whoa
i love it. but for me, the know twitches are sometimes too fast or too chaotic. It takes so much attention and feels sad. Nothing wrong with sad music, but I think you can give it more space to be more patient.
Imagine this with a beat... 🤦🏻♂️