Like someone commented on another of your videos: it sounds really great if you start layering multiple tabs of this in your browser, all at different random time stamps.. I have 4 open and it´s so spacey and trippy
Most of the people who read this are looking through TH-cam for demos and pieces of equipment I happen to have, or you particularly like my videos and are a subscriber, so I think this is a good place to ask: what kind of video would you like me to make in the near future? I'm having a creative block at the moment and don't know what to do for the next few videos, and have tried various things. New ambient melodic patches just sound like my other videos, and I'm not sure how to continue - can any of you tell me what you'd like to see, for inspiration?
I thing that its a good idea when you have a creative block, its trying to observe your sorrounding. Reads, see film, go for a walk, try to think in a sensible way in everyday things,the sound of a babies, cars, trains, when you open a book... Maybe try to imitate the sound of the birds that seems like a messy melodic patterns, or try to imitates the sound of animals that live in the jungle, like frogs for example. Maybe another goos ideas its create your own live sounds, create the music of the trees when the wind blows. Or for example listen classical music and try to play an arragement with the song as background, or rock music, jazz, try to put wales sound and put your sound beside... try to see a picture and impro an ambient,. Take a video put of their music and jamming with the images... ListenPphilip Glass -glassworks album, i love the opening of this album-, try with Steve Reich phase composings... Above all i would like hear jungle blend with didgeridoo noises, like a chamanic dream in the middle of the amazonia life Blending with differents instruments arround the world, SITAR ,Indian music. FUJARA , slovaquian music I dont know, im only jamming with ideas, who knows... :) you have the skills and the sensible mind,(maybe smoke a joint...) PD: I re-edit the reply like 10 times, sorry Regards from Spain ,and im waiting for your next freequencies Alastair
Hey Alastair, enjoying the tracks, very much. Have you tried using the 2nd M32 to weave other motifs around the atmospherics. Might need some clock management, if you're starting and stopping the sequencer, but might be an interesting challenge.
C Nich0lls, thanks! Do you mean recreating this patch and then using my other modules to add little melodic moments? I might be able to do that if I write the melodies on the other M32 sequencer, with a relatively fast tempo, and then turn off and on it's sequencer using a combination of the first M32 gate output and the EOC/EOR outputs on Maths... I'll try it out when I have a moment :)
Who was the peanut that gave this video a thumbs down? Seriously... how could you not love this amazing patch. This is brilliant. Thanks for sharing. ❤️
Nice work! Thanks for posting the patches. I got a Mother 32 and a DFAM recently and it's been a great learning experience replicating your work. Such a fun pair of instruments to play with.
Very nice sound/patch, i like your videos very much and it is fantastic that you put your patches to modulargrid for recreation. Thank you for the very helping information you give in description.
I want to know what my tracks would sound like through the Space, then a Big Sky, and then an OTO BAM, all at once... it must sound like heaven itself. Anyway, I'm glad you like this video!
Really love this! Very new to Mother 32 and feel a bit out of my league. Thanks for providing the link to recreating the patch too. I'm sure I'll learn a lot.
I have some tutorials which are geared towards people who already know their M32 pretty well, but you might find them interesting. Also all my videos come with patch notes and a diagram, so hopefully those will help you on your way! Good luck and have fun, it's a great synth.
Thank you Alastair. I''m sure I will find your tutorials useful and informative. I find that most musicians love to share their knowledge with others and I try to share what I know and to encourage others too. However one can only be impressed and grateful for the amount of time and effort that people like you put in making and sharing these videos. I tend to lean towards the singer/ songwriter category in my own work but I am also enamored with people like Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois and groups like Sigur Pos and Radiohead and would like to incorporate some of these elements in my music. Best Wishes! @@AlastairWilsonMusic
Richard Soucie Pleasure! If you have any specific questions about the M32, feel free to contact me on Facebook. Sounds like you're going to be making some interesting stuff with it!
Yes, much appreciated. As a new owner of a m32 and single reverb pedal, this information in particular has been extremely insightful. You're doing God's work here, for sure. After examining the patch I have some confusion. Can you assist with an explanation of any of the following?: The patch diagram shows LFOSQ Out connected to GATE Out. An output to an output seems strange. I tried it and did not discern the effect. Also:The diagram shows the LFO TRI out and VC MIX out are summed into VCFCUTOFF. The M32 manual says to avoid summing two outs to a single in. Is an over voltage avoided by the conservative setting of the VCMIX knob? Thanks in advance for any input you can provide. This is a like another language for a new recruit like myself.
LFO Sq out to Gate out won't do anything, and you're correct - you shouldn't patch an output to an output. I made this patch quite a while ago and it's possible that I messed up that patch diagram (maybe LFO Sq out should be patched to Tempo in or something like that). Either that, or I did in fact patch it like in the diagram, and didn't realise it wasn't doing anything. This was definitely a patch I made before I found out you shouldn't patch outputs to outputs. My video 007//Spaceport is entirely based on an accidental output-output patching! The M32 has protection against damage, but I wouldn't recommend copying this patch exactly because output-output patching isn't healthy for the M32 for an extended period of time. I'm glad I didn't damage mine...
Love your work with the Mother32. I purchased a mother32 and eventide H9 because of these videos. Maybe you should have gotten some of that as a finder's fee ;)
omg, I put my headphones on and started playing this while working on an essay, and after a couple of minutes I just closed my eyes and leaned back and let the music to carry me away. I've listened to the whole session, in a super relaxed state. this is amazing, please keep up the great work! (any albums out perhaps?)
This is really great! Thanks for sharing the patch also. Do you remember how many notes you used in the sequence? I'm definitely getting a Mother 32 as my next module.
@@mldemoss9070 I use TipTop Stackcables instead of passive mults to save rack space, they're a godsend. You can use them to send 1 output to multiple inputs, but not multiple outputs to 1 input - you need a mixer for that. I made that mistake a few times in my earlier patches so if you see it in my patch notes then don't copy it!
I can pretty much copy and paste what I replied to someone else who asked about the lighting: 'The lighting is an LED strip (such as www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=LED+strip+light ) which is hung over the top of the modular and held up by being wrapped around a mic cradle. I put black paper or spare acoustic foam against anything light or reflective in the background, and I might do a touch of editing in iMovie afterwards (increasing contrast, saturating, or whatever). Your comment made me laugh, although I'm warmed by the compliment; lots of the LEDs are broken so they're the wrong colour, the strip is warped out of shape and held up very crudely, and putting up the dark material in the background is a haphazard balancing act. I don't use any fancy lighting, I just chucked up a £5 LED strip and roughly covered anything in the background that would be visible! Maybe one day I'll improve it, but for now it works and that's enough.'
I do that on the patch notes to show that there's an output to pedals from that point - sometimes I'll use the M32 output, sometimes I'll send audio to the pedals from Veils, etc. You can't always see where the audio comes out from in the videos so it's helpful for that!
For this video I used a Scarlett 2i4, nowadays I use a Clarett 4Pre. I’m not planning on doing any tutorial videos at the moment but I’m always happy to offer advice over facebook message!
@@AlastairWilsonMusic Damn!! I have to say that I’ve listened to hours of eurorack vids/music and yours is at the top of the list. Listening to your music and ideas get me really excited about synthesis like no other. Many thanks!
do you think this could be achieved on a Behringer Crave? Or not even close? Is the mother 32 so much better at this? Cause I've seen self generating vids of Crave and they kinda suck. While the mother 32's self generating pads sound amazing.
I’ve never used a Crave personally, but I would expect they could get pretty close, and if not exact then they’d have their own quirks to exploit for interesting self-generation. Most of the tone comes from the reverb anyway!
It won't damage the outputs because they have protection against that, but sending multiple outputs to a single input is something I did when I was inexperienced... I don't recommend it now generally!
@@AlastairWilsonMusic I made your patch today and let it run for a few hours, went downstairs to have tea and came back up to hear it still droning away happily. But I left out the double cv to filter cut off :-) Hope you're well and exploring good things.
From left to right - Veils VCA, Minimod OSC, Minimod DH-ADSR envelope generator, Maths. There's a link in the description to a patch diagram, you can get a lot more info about the modules on that website :)
![001//Slumber [Melodic Ambient] - 2x Mother 32 and Eventide Space](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/v1RXypmPCwA/mqdefault.jpg)
Like someone commented on another of your videos: it sounds really great if you start layering multiple tabs of this in your browser, all at different random time stamps.. I have 4 open and it´s so spacey and trippy
That's brilliant.
Amazing.. Can't wait for my Mother to arrive!
so cool !
So true.
I like calling that playing a TH-camr
You're not wrong! I'm listening to this and 001 simultaneously, and it's rather awesome! :)
so awesome. thank *YOU*
That first note was an instant sub
This has been rolling for 15 minutes and I've been thru 8 emotions.
MOST DEF SOLD ON THE MOTHER!
Most of the people who read this are looking through TH-cam for demos and pieces of equipment I happen to have, or you particularly like my videos and are a subscriber, so I think this is a good place to ask: what kind of video would you like me to make in the near future?
I'm having a creative block at the moment and don't know what to do for the next few videos, and have tried various things. New ambient melodic patches just sound like my other videos, and I'm not sure how to continue - can any of you tell me what you'd like to see, for inspiration?
I thing that its a good idea when you have a creative block, its trying to observe your sorrounding. Reads, see film, go for a walk, try to think in a sensible way in everyday things,the sound of a babies, cars, trains, when you open a book...
Maybe try to imitate the sound of the birds that seems like a messy melodic patterns, or try to imitates the sound of animals that live in the jungle, like frogs for example. Maybe another goos ideas its create your own live sounds, create the music of the trees when the wind blows.
Or for example listen classical music and try to play an arragement with the song as background, or rock music, jazz, try to put wales sound and put your sound beside... try to see a picture and impro an ambient,.
Take a video put of their music and jamming with the images...
ListenPphilip Glass -glassworks album, i love the opening of this album-, try with Steve Reich phase composings...
Above all i would like hear jungle blend with didgeridoo noises, like a chamanic dream in the middle of the amazonia life
Blending with differents instruments arround the world, SITAR ,Indian music. FUJARA , slovaquian music
I dont know, im only jamming with ideas, who knows... :) you have the skills and the sensible mind,(maybe smoke a joint...)
PD: I re-edit the reply like 10 times, sorry
Regards from Spain ,and im waiting for your next freequencies Alastair
Hey Alastair, enjoying the tracks, very much. Have you tried using the 2nd M32 to weave other motifs around the atmospherics. Might need some clock management, if you're starting and stopping the sequencer, but might be an interesting challenge.
TheCheky, thanks for replying, all good ideas! I've never tried most of that, I'll defo give some of them a go
C Nich0lls, thanks! Do you mean recreating this patch and then using my other modules to add little melodic moments? I might be able to do that if I write the melodies on the other M32 sequencer, with a relatively fast tempo, and then turn off and on it's sequencer using a combination of the first M32 gate output and the EOC/EOR outputs on Maths... I'll try it out when I have a moment :)
Yeah, thats the direction I was thinking. The Maths idea seems sound. Could be some interesting timing relationships that come from using that module.
This is excellent. I'm going to try the patch myself and see what I come up with. I'm new to this type of thing so success is not guaranteed.
Beautiful haunting patch again, well done!
Who was the peanut that gave this video a thumbs down? Seriously... how could you not love this amazing patch. This is brilliant. Thanks for sharing. ❤️
There are too many peanuts in the world
super planant _ très belle ambiance _ bravo
Wish I could give critical feedback but this is just plain lovely and inspiring. Nice aesthetic too.
Thank you
This is so beautiful i started to cry 🖤
Very heartfelt n touching piece!! Keep up the art!
I think your video's are Great, I have faith in whatever you do.
Spectacular! One M32 sounding like several synths!
Unreal! :) Really awesome music. Thx so much for sharing your knowledge! Crazy patch assignments. Will take me a while to digest this :)
Amazing job. Thank you 🙏. Inspirational
So beautiful! Have been thinks by about a M32 and I think this has done it for me. Do more!
Get an Eventide Space while you're at it ;)
Sounds like a must see film.
And thanks for great tip, must try this.
Love it. so relaxing
Nice work! Thanks for posting the patches. I got a Mother 32 and a DFAM recently and it's been a great learning experience replicating your work. Such a fun pair of instruments to play with.
Glad to hear the patches are helping!
Beautiful
Been coming back to your first ambient track on and on, glad to see you have a new one, just wanted to listen to this!
Wow!!!
Just keep doing what you're doing, it's fascinating and doesn't develop into 4 on the floor techno which makes it really beautifully different.
It's always nice that in the modular world, 'unique' means 'not 4-to-the-floor techno'.
what's "4-to-the-floor techno" like though, a curious noob here...
@@roshansivakumar5688 A lot of techno has a 4 on the floor kick.
4 on the floor means one kick drum on each quarter note, usually with a hi hat on the off beats.
Very nice sound/patch, i like your videos very much and it is fantastic that you put
your patches to modulargrid for recreation.
Thank you for the very helping information you give in description.
Sounds gorgeous, very mesmerising...
This is one of the most inspiring patches I've heard on a M32. Fantastic! Thanks for sharing the patch.
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed :)
we all know that anything sounds amazing through the modern verb pedals but still, this is nice - a great background track
I want to know what my tracks would sound like through the Space, then a Big Sky, and then an OTO BAM, all at once... it must sound like heaven itself. Anyway, I'm glad you like this video!
wow this is beautiful
This is great, and I love your explanations and patch notes, keep it up! Thanks
Really love this! Very new to Mother 32 and feel a bit out of my league. Thanks for providing the link to recreating the patch too. I'm sure I'll learn a lot.
I have some tutorials which are geared towards people who already know their M32 pretty well, but you might find them interesting. Also all my videos come with patch notes and a diagram, so hopefully those will help you on your way! Good luck and have fun, it's a great synth.
Thank you Alastair. I''m sure I will find your tutorials useful and informative. I find that most musicians love to share their knowledge with others and I try to share what I know and to encourage others too. However one can only be impressed and grateful for the amount of time and effort that people like you put in making and sharing these videos. I tend to lean towards the singer/ songwriter category in my own work but I am also enamored with people like Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois and groups like Sigur Pos and Radiohead and would like to incorporate some of these elements in my music. Best Wishes! @@AlastairWilsonMusic
Richard Soucie Pleasure! If you have any specific questions about the M32, feel free to contact me on Facebook. Sounds like you're going to be making some interesting stuff with it!
This is so marvelous, and your explanation / patch grid is much, much appreciated. Thanks so much for sharing this! Have a sub, sir!
Appreciated! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Yes, much appreciated. As a new owner of a m32 and single reverb pedal, this information in particular has been extremely insightful. You're doing God's work here, for sure. After examining the patch I have some confusion. Can you assist with an explanation of any of the following?: The patch diagram shows LFOSQ Out connected to GATE Out. An output to an output seems strange. I tried it and did not discern the effect. Also:The diagram shows the LFO TRI out and VC MIX out are summed into VCFCUTOFF. The M32 manual says to avoid summing two outs to a single in. Is an over voltage avoided by the conservative setting of the VCMIX knob? Thanks in advance for any input you can provide. This is a like another language for a new recruit like myself.
LFO Sq out to Gate out won't do anything, and you're correct - you shouldn't patch an output to an output. I made this patch quite a while ago and it's possible that I messed up that patch diagram (maybe LFO Sq out should be patched to Tempo in or something like that). Either that, or I did in fact patch it like in the diagram, and didn't realise it wasn't doing anything.
This was definitely a patch I made before I found out you shouldn't patch outputs to outputs. My video 007//Spaceport is entirely based on an accidental output-output patching! The M32 has protection against damage, but I wouldn't recommend copying this patch exactly because output-output patching isn't healthy for the M32 for an extended period of time. I'm glad I didn't damage mine...
Thanks very much.
Love your work with the Mother32. I purchased a mother32 and eventide H9 because of these videos. Maybe you should have gotten some of that as a finder's fee ;)
I wish!
Magnifique. Merci
Very nice!
omg, I put my headphones on and started playing this while working on an essay, and after a couple of minutes I just closed my eyes and leaned back and let the music to carry me away. I've listened to the whole session, in a super relaxed state. this is amazing, please keep up the great work!
(any albums out perhaps?)
No albums, but all of my music is downloadable for free from bandcamp (there’s a link in the description)!
this is so calm and broad, I definitely love this (and all the other pieces too!)
Glorious tunes!!!!
Glad you're enjoying!
Hammer Geil ...danke für das Patch .... als Anfänger ist man auf solche Profis wie dich angewiesen ... danke!!!!!!
Sounds like it can be used on the next Blade Runner film
Awesome. Thank you for the patch notes
awesome
very pleasant, thank you! could you create a "similar" sound with 1-2 craves and a subharmonicon?
Probably - the piece of gear with the most significant effect on the sound is the Eventide Space, so if you have one of those you're good to go!
Lovely this :-)
Try to bring out some similar or a new sound to the music from the movie "Blade Runner" ... (Vangelis) ;)
Interesting. Sounds like Corona virus soundtrack music for a pandemic movie, but with a positive outcome (solution for the virus) ending of course.
❤️🎧
Please upload on Google Play music. I will buy it. I really loved this kind of mudic/sound-stuff
When I hit 1000 subs I'll put a bandcamp page up - you'll be able to download for free or support me by buying when that happens :)
😊
What REM song is this? I don’t hear Michael Stipe at all. Just kidding, nice work- sounds awesome!
I’m on the Bandcamp app, how do I support you/send you $$? Love this!
Glad you like it and thank you for the support! If you pay to download any tracks on bandcamp, I get about 75% of what you pay :)
This is really great! Thanks for sharing the patch also. Do you remember how many notes you used in the sequence? I'm definitely getting a Mother 32 as my next module.
Thanks! I probably used all 32 sequence steps for this, since I was trying to maximise the tools I had.
I just noticed that you have multiple patches in the same in/outs - did you use some sort of stackable cable or splitter? And if so, what kind?
@@mldemoss9070 I use TipTop Stackcables instead of passive mults to save rack space, they're a godsend. You can use them to send 1 output to multiple inputs, but not multiple outputs to 1 input - you need a mixer for that. I made that mistake a few times in my earlier patches so if you see it in my patch notes then don't copy it!
22nd century
Awesome !!! Maybe someone already asked but what do you use as lightning to have this amazing atmospheres in your videos? ;-)
I can pretty much copy and paste what I replied to someone else who asked about the lighting:
'The lighting is an LED strip (such as www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=LED+strip+light ) which is hung over the top of the modular and held up by being wrapped around a mic cradle. I put black paper or spare acoustic foam against anything light or reflective in the background, and I might do a touch of editing in iMovie afterwards (increasing contrast, saturating, or whatever).
Your comment made me laugh, although I'm warmed by the compliment; lots of the LEDs are broken so they're the wrong colour, the strip is warped out of shape and held up very crudely, and putting up the dark material in the background is a haphazard balancing act. I don't use any fancy lighting, I just chucked up a £5 LED strip and roughly covered anything in the background that would be visible! Maybe one day I'll improve it, but for now it works and that's enough.'
thanks a lot :)
Great video! What is the VCA Out going to?
Thanks! The audio is routed out the back of the M32 directly into the Eventide Space.
Thanks. I was curious because in the linked patch there was a cable coming out of the VCA. Enjoying your other videos too!!
I do that on the patch notes to show that there's an output to pedals from that point - sometimes I'll use the M32 output, sometimes I'll send audio to the pedals from Veils, etc. You can't always see where the audio comes out from in the videos so it's helpful for that!
And thank you!
Please reduce loudness by 1 or 2 DB please. Then it will be perfect!
I’m genuinely curious as to why you think it would be better a couple dB quieter? (Assuming you’re aware of the volume control on the video!)
What audio interface are you using to record this to your PC? Can you do a tutorial series on how you make the wonderful sounds you make?
For this video I used a Scarlett 2i4, nowadays I use a Clarett 4Pre. I’m not planning on doing any tutorial videos at the moment but I’m always happy to offer advice over facebook message!
@@AlastairWilsonMusic Awesome! Thank you. :)
This is one pass, not multitracked? Have to love Moog...very few things like ‘em.
Yep - this is a single unedited recording, pretty much all of my videos are!
@@AlastairWilsonMusic Damn!! I have to say that I’ve listened to hours of eurorack vids/music and yours is at the top of the list. Listening to your music and ideas get me really excited about synthesis like no other. Many thanks!
Thank you - I hope I’ve inspired you to make some music yourself!
do you think this could be achieved on a Behringer Crave? Or not even close? Is the mother 32 so much better at this?
Cause I've seen self generating vids of Crave and they kinda suck. While the mother 32's self generating pads sound amazing.
I’ve never used a Crave personally, but I would expect they could get pretty close, and if not exact then they’d have their own quirks to exploit for interesting self-generation. Most of the tone comes from the reverb anyway!
Nervous about VC Mix AND LFO Tri going into VCF Cut off. Is it ok to combine two outputs into one input?
It won't damage the outputs because they have protection against that, but sending multiple outputs to a single input is something I did when I was inexperienced... I don't recommend it now generally!
@@AlastairWilsonMusic I made your patch today and let it run for a few hours, went downstairs to have tea and came back up to hear it still droning away happily. But I left out the double cv to filter cut off :-)
Hope you're well and exploring good things.
Can I ask what those modules on top of the mothers are?
From left to right - Veils VCA, Minimod OSC, Minimod DH-ADSR envelope generator, Maths. There's a link in the description to a patch diagram, you can get a lot more info about the modules on that website :)
This is was just a single Mother? (and the Space pedal)
Yep!
@@AlastairWilsonMusic wow nice - amazing what i can do!
Beautiful