Modular Synths The Core of the Synth Walkthrough LMNC

okay so today I'm just going to talk about these two boxes why because these boxes and the boxes that I take everywhere that I play and they're in a lot of the videos they're usually on top of each other and they they are the main part to the modular synths that I use for everything they change a little bit but the principles pretty much stay the same there's always free synthesizer voices and there's always a sampler and there's always drums the actual boxes are made from plywood offcuts that cost no money the actual dimensions are 84 centimeters along and 44 centimeters high which means that the insides are actually 80 by 40 and these modules are actually 20 centimeters high and they're usually 10 centimeters or 20 centimeters or 40 centimeters wide that's the way I've made it work I initially decided this format because I found a load of scrap metal that was actually 20 centimeters high so you know naturally that's what happened so let's start over on this one which is box number one this is the synth voice box this has got free synth voices in it so I tell you that okay so we've got these free analog oscillators and they all have separate out like triangle I've actually done a video on this called easy peasy lemon squeezy it's right here and it's about oscillators and this is the actual oscillator of it is in the video name's triangle square waves I actually caught I am a modulator for the pulse women anyway and then you can bend basically at the end of it all you can mix all of the oscillators together so a guy straight away trying to work oh yeah and then right next to it I've got a filter that's actually a ms-20 style filter require got a Scot clipping diodes so when you actually twist it you can see the clipping the audio and doing that there's links for the schematic of this filter in the description and you should check out because it's a really easy and nice filter so yeah that's that so this is actually a PCB from a euro accent it's called a roll your own octo distortion it's just a distortion module that adds a bit it has a bit more grunt to the actual filter going to show you straight out of filter into the distortion [Music] Cossacks rated more and just makes it sound a bit more in a way Qatari quietly with this distortion is I use this as the sidechain against the kick so when the kick is kicking the distortion goes up and down with the kick I mean some envelope generators down in this module which is a dual attack release envelope generator is actually based off a music from outer space module it was stripped board back there which was because it was I built these at a time when they weren't selling PCBs so yeah but it's not it pretty much no modifications there's a lot of modifications got extra out a few different switches and dust is a MIDI to cv and then there's a frequency central trans your OPA which is actually pretty damn good I love this thing because I don't think selection [Music] this is a this is a DIY braids bit of a bit of surface-mount solgryn right here this is really good because you know it's a reliable oscillator and I've also added a switch to make it so it's always in tune now we go over to this which is another filter which filters out all the sounds it's not the same as art now we're gonna have a braids over here which is a doing the same thing it's just another melody now you are never filter cool all the filters plug daddy knows so our getting oscillator send the oscillator into the ox into the filter that's in the filter into the distortion and then I'll add the distortion going up into here which is a voltage controlled amplifier which is basically a voltage controlled volume knob if you will there's a switch to make them go into a mix moment or you could just have them up separate outs to turn off the switches and then you can actually bypass the volume knob or you can make it just work anyway but that's less so we got the distortion makes this up really like nice so there's three separate voices there's a break that goes into a filter then the brain goes into this filter and they all go into here and then this oscillator goes into that goes into that so that's basically that [Music] [Music] so now on to this box which I call like the drums - mix a box because that's all it is is there the drums and there's a mixer so when I want to do live jams I usually use the beset Pro however when I've got a preset song there's the kind of stop it worrying about it I use this module here which is actually a MIDI file player and it only cost 10 pounds and it's an Arduino MIDI file player right here we've got the actual bass line going into this mixer which is here and this is a big matrix mixer so there's free mixer lines with actually eight separate inputs but you can actually turn into 16 inputs because there's another line of switches here that when you plug a jack into it it isolates this mixer line and you can use this as a separate mixer and that as a separate mixer it's up to you so I'm used to have a lot of drums that were made on protoboard but they kept on breaking especially in gigs so I went and bought hex inverter mutants from PCBs and just basically built those into this kind of module setup I'm using the hi-hats mutant claps Union snares and mutant kicks but I mean I haven't even modified them at all they're basically just the standard mutant drums over here is the actual kicks I use I use the actual mutant kick for a higher kick but this is the low from p1 and this is still a bit of a proto board in the back so how do i trigger these well over here down here there's this MIDI to trigger and it's got MIDI in and a MIDI through which then goes over to the other box which is the actual MIDI to CB but this is got warranties this has got nine MIDI out so you could trigger nine different drums of it this is an Arduino project and I'll probably share it very soon like this in service different drums and then I can also use different drums out of the big step probe because the beefs that Pro can control 16 drum pads so this is using the ones that don't actually have jacks out I've added an extra one to the kick to actually plug over to the side chain [Music] so that is the drums and double so there's another two envelope generators that don't seem to be working right now so do and this one's pretty interesting so this is the white trigger and that is actually you put an SD card in the back and it has 16 samples that you can play you know you can trigger and play and I usually have things like you know different vocal loops or stuff like that hidden in here so you know if you need certain things like a you know like a vocal a cappella or something you can put it put it into here and get triggered by this or you could get triggered around the back by MIDI and you can you can control like thousands of samples if you really wanted to we've got a clock multiplier and divider here which is actually a kinko since these arduino sketch i just put in right here there's a tool delay made with PT 2 399 chips i designed it from the datasheet and oh that was a I was actually triggering the I was actually triggering a drum sound with the feedback of the actual delay then that was weird okay so I'm yeah that's just a you know standard let's get fed back alright [Music] and when you pull it all the way down it stops and it bypasses completely so yeah and you can actually add cz in the world of that and then you turn off if I just turning silk which I bring is free important another distortion and then there's that mixer known over here is a dual to HP freeze which is in another video right here which I plugged up to the output of the whole thing so yeah so that's a rundown of my tour synth thing

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Published: Mon Jul 31 2017