 hello oscillators in here a few days ago i posted this jam so what i was trying to do with this jam is kind of create kind of a sort of a techno bass line drone plus drum machine kind of patch which is what i've got set up here i asked in the description of the video would people like to learn more about the patch and on facebook and on youtube i had enough people say that they were interested that i thought well i'll make this video just explaining what this patch is doing because there's quite a lot of cables here what i want to make really clear to begin with is that i am in no way saying that the way i've implemented this in this case is necessarily the best way of doing it this came out of a lot of experimentation in between making other videos essentially and certainly there are some things in here which in retrospect i could probably do differently indeed there was at least one patch in here that was completely redundant actually which i removed before i started the video because i was i was embarrassed basically i'm hiding that from me right so let's actually talk about the patch so the first thing to mention before we look at anything else is this knob here which is the attenuator to amp knob so what this means is that the amp on the synth is actually wide open this is for all intents and purposes a drone patch actually there is always sound coming through the synth as long as one of the slides on the mixer is up it doesn't necessarily sound like that because i'm doing other things to change the envelope the shape the loudness the hearability of the sounds but yeah this is kind of a i'm cheating essentially i think is i've got the brute factor to turn up a little bit because it just dirtied things up in a way that i found quite appealing kind of blended everything together a bit more made them interact with each other in interesting ways okay right i i guess the the place to start really is with the kick drum the kick drum is coming from oscillator two here if i turn this up if you'll listen really carefully you might hear a rumble and some clicks but not much else and the reason for that is that the tuning is super low basically almost subsonic not quite but almost there the range on vco2 is massive on this synth and i've got it turned right the way down and the reason that you can hear the kick drum is because i'm altering its pitch not its volume so let's take a look at how we're doing that so if we look on the patch bay vco2 its pitch input is coming from actually the adsr okay so that's this envelope here and what i've got to find here is kind of a fairly standard kick drum pitch envelope which is that it's an instant onset attack a quick decay fairly low sustain and a in this case a short release but we'll come back to release because that's interesting at least i think it's interesting so this envelope has been triggered actually from this here the mod 2 track so that's this track here now these two mod tracks on the sequencer can be set to do a ton of different things i can't wait to do more videos on how just ridiculously good and flexible and interesting the sequencer is on on this like it like yeah suffice to say it's really cool but we'll come back to that in more detail another day so this here is currently set to send out gates and if we look here this is essentially our kick drum pattern if we play it you can hear our kick drum happening now what's interesting about having this seem to track setup as gates is that each of these steps can be can be set to have different gate percentages so how long the the gate signal has been sent so whether or not it's just a single pulse if it was very very low whether it actually holds the gate open for the entirety of the the step now what allows me to do is alter the shape of the the kick drum a little bit by playing with the release in particular so check this out when i do this in the jam can you hear there that we're getting different pitches different lengths happening now what's interesting is that the steps which have the long one so this is a longer one here and if we have a look here the gate is set super low so why is it that this is making us hear a longer kick drum well what we need to remember about an AESR envelope is that the release stage happens as soon as the note stops playing so essentially when the gate stops so when we have a longer gate um we have enough time for this to attack up to full and then quickly decay back down and then to the sustain level and then release if we have a very short gate we don't have a chance for the decay to actually finish instead we go up really quickly and then before the decay can even get all the way we've turned the gate off we've switched to our long languid release and that is where we get these longer notes so actually a shorter gate is leading to a longer kick drum sound i think the implementation of opening up to do that in the middle we just kind of get sort of the body up at the top it's more sort of pitched okay so that's the kick drum sound um and i'll stop it for a second uh the snare is coming from essentially from the noise but if we turn the noise all the way up we just kind of get this well we just get noise on the whole time which is not what we want it's not um snare drum sound what we're going to do is basically have this sort of we want to be flicking that fader really really quickly unfortunately there's no way to cv the sliders on the mixer these are just straight knobs they're not um control voltage controlled so how can we um actually get snappy snare drum sounds which spoiler alert oh yeah okay so we know they're coming in on on the external input there so let's trace that backwards so we've got the external input here and that is coming from the output of the vca vca voltage controlled amplifier it's a way that we can have control over the amplification of a signal the input of the vca is coming from the noise so the noise is coming into the vca is going out of the vca into the external input here now what is controlling that vca is is the sequence of track two so as i mentioned before these two sequence tracks are highly configurable in terms of what they can do so this one was acting as a gate the one that is controlling the vca for the snare is acting as an envelope so what you've essentially got on each of these steps is a simple ad envelope being fired instant attack i remember the decay is being defined by the knobs here so we've got some short ones here over here somewhere i think we got that was nearly a second long so that's quite a long one that's longish and then short again and what we get then is this kind of snare and hi-hat pattern so with the kick and of course you can play this by turning stuff on and off so that kind of leaves the bass drone sound which is coming from the rest of the oscillator one so if we just bring all of these up i guess this one so there's a couple things happening here pitch has been controlled by the pitch as normal the gate has been well the gate is essentially being ignored because the amp is already open that's rich if we have a look on the patch by here the gate has been sent into the trigger of the ad envelope and the output of the ad envelope because it's not controlling the amp at the moment it's going to the fm input on here which is what it's giving we turn this down you know we just got this kind of straight drone whereas with it up we've probably got this attack which we can control with the ad envelope so that kind of leaves us with the other modulation sources which are mainly our alphos here they're both set sample and hold and they've been sent to various different places some of them where they are normal normally so we've got lfo one is controlling the resonance mod so i can always kind of hear this off in the background be very very quiet lfo one is also being sent into the metal mod control of the triangle wave which is why you're hearing this kind of sound there the other thing that we've mostly got going on here is lfo two is going into the attenuator one which is this knob here which by default will be set sent to the cutoff so what that's doing is when i turn this knob off it's adding a a sample and hold lfo to what's already set on the cutoff so that's quite cool because from a performance standpoint if we set things going we can kind of use it to do kind of rolls almost so i'll show you in context it's easier to hear than explain probably because you get this big sort of step it's synced modulation having so you can kind of use that to create variations i think that covers all of the patch points the the the other thing to maybe talk about quickly it's the performance aspect of it which is just all playing the sequence in as kind of the performance was going the artoria have really got sequences for jamming sort of down to a T you know i am as you probably noticed on the channel recently anyway a big electron fanboy in terms of their sequences but i think that the artoria sequences are really really great for on the fly composing on the fly jamming putting stuff together and tweaking it as you go and when you have a sequencer that allows you to be so flexible on these two tracks here that's that's really quite a big deal with this sequencer to allow you to kind of put those jams together in real time i think that should be absolutely commended and highlighted anyway guys i hope that was interesting and useful for those of you who were interested in taking about the patch and hopefully those who who didn't know you were interested in looking at the patch but you can find that interesting anyway i will be featuring the mini-brutes lots more on the on the channel in the upcoming weeks and months i think it is a very interesting instrument that is worth diving into in some detail and that's not interesting in a in a directory way that is genuinely i think it is a very interesting machine that allows you much more flexibility than even someone who kind of understood the patch bay ahead of time maybe would think because of the sequence so that it is paired to that's such a big deal anyway guys yeah thank you for watching if you did enjoy the video please do give it a thumbs up and make sure you subscribe to the channel and other than that thank you so much for joining me i will see you again soon bye bye take care