I like how the track names for Walker's album came from this conversation!

That train track is my favourite of his tracks!

I love the long form. I imagine it’s logistically challenging, but I would love to see the two of you patch on a SS-together. Or apart. Long form patch videos-no principle, no lesson, just a periodic patching check in. Thank you for all you do.

OG shared system is like VHS tape, B&G shared system is like blu-ray :D

This is great , more conversation content if possible! Love hearing about Tony’s processes and ideas that led to these fantastic modules

I am much like Walker analyzing the sounds/gestures/controls of a patch when I hear it (even my own). I love the sound of pulling the plug on a clock going into Echophon and letting it sputter out of control (but sometimes I listen to my first recordings and think "oh that trick again...")

Tony is so thoughtful and such a great describer of sound. His reflections of Walkers album were really awesome to listen to. I’m down to listen to more reflections of albums from Tony.

I wonder if we'll get the 2nd part of Tony's Tape Talk as a Christmas/New Year treat?

Very interesting discussion guys, thank you. Lots to think about!

Appreciate this video. I love how you edited the music to sync with the narrative description!

Really looking forward to this!

I really enjoy this conversation! With regards to always sounding like yourself, over time you develop tastes and prefrences that lead you to make somewhat related choices in sounds and texture so no matter what instrument you use... it sounds like your decisions. I think that its really cool that even with electronic music and modular synthesizers people can still develop their own individual voice.

Loved this.

Epic giftie from the new year dieties

Love the Richter Wiard euro system in the back! I built a 6U using almost exclusively Make Noise and Richter modules together and they complement each other beautifully!

Walker, I’d love to see what your personal system modeled on the SS entails!

Fantastic tracks & great discussion!

1:58 Oh shit! Black Box Theory... "Ceteris Paribus" Alumnus from way back when! Glad to see you doing well man!

Great chat thanks for this. 2023 the year of the Stereo Shared System? A man can dream...

Honestly, on that still picture you are starting to look like each other :).

Would love to hear more specifics about the patches on these tracks. Have been listening to both on repeat all week and its inspired me to learn a bunch more about my system. My 2 year old says Walker's music is about a bus engine :D

Both albums are phenomenal, and I find it fascinating how much more can be done in parallel on the black and gold vs the original shared system. Shows how much the system has evolved over the years. In “The chance to jump off” halfway through the track there is a super gritty noise source used for a snare. The shared system doesn’t have a typical “noise source” so I was wondering how that sound was created?

I have watched this video about three times now and it kept me wondering why there's no 'difference' sonically between a 2012 and B&G patch. A few days later I think I figured out why that is. I always say that your main VCO dominates the case and you can't make a DPO sound like 'not a DPO'. A lot has changed since 2012, but both systems have DPO as the main VCO and both original designs are mono. The substantial difference is in the utilities but it doesn't make the DPO sound any different, not even layered with Morphagene or Erbe-Verbed. However, the XPO marked a huge change in sound, as well as the stereo modules. So I guess there's a logical reason why the unexpected listener doesn't hear a difference. I am 100% convinced the XPO/STO demo Shared System will lead to totally new sonic territory when you compare it with the B&G.

Tony’s shirt is badass, hopefully in the MN store some day?

Thanks for the video. Entertaining and informative as always. I’m thinking of a variation on the B/G SS+, wanting to incorporate the QPAS. The Morphagene is a must. René is a must. But thoughts on what you’d remove? Perhaps lose Pressure Points? Not sure… Thoughts?

Would love a video on a patch breakdown for Boa Constrictor. Those drum sounds are great.

Walker - this was a fantastic and conversation and I really appreciated the links. I happened to have had Tony's tape delivered just before this video dropped. Wish yours was on cassette too - but that's the tapehead talking. Is there any chance you would do a patch technique video that breaks down some of the concepts in your tracks - or Tony's? At 17:14 you're both talking about Morphogene magic - would bee curious to see how that's done - likewise with your Morphagene technique you guys hit on at 28:20 - just beautiful sounds... Thank you for all the work on these videos.

I am curious to know if Tony uses a high end tape machine for mastering his cassettes he sells or can this be done on any reasonably decent tape machine like a separate hifi deck or a 40 year old Tape to tape Ferguson stereomaster hifi like I have ?

Why was there zero skating in this video? Look at it back there? WTF!?

that's funny. i just recently showed a new track of mine, that i think of as radical departure from anything i've done before (trying out numerous new synthesis techniques, now 95% modular instead of 100% software and using scales derived from indian classical music instead of your typical western scales) to a friend and the response was "after the first second i immediately knew it was a new track from you. you have a very distinctive style". on one hand it's reassuring, but on the other it's mildly infuriating that what feels like a radical departure always seems to end up as a small evolutionary step.

Where is that bowl? Is that someone's backyard or public?