Professor Klayton. Class is in session

Many thx for putting this together. Just shows the potential of DAW and eurorack. Awesome vid.

Klayton, you are an inspiration man. Thank you for putting time and effort making these videos. That's also an awesome thing to do between two songs/albums !

This is the best video on this topic on the internet. Thanks for taking the time to make this.

Been a celldweller fan for years. liking your channel. This is something i have been wanting to know.Good video

This is the second video i have seen of yours after your studio tour from FM, you have an awesome way of explaining which doesnt let my daydreamer kick in! So often people just simply put me to sleep with all the endless data. You got my attention for sure, I just hope to find more tutorials from you. thanks so very much!

Holy cow, free samples! Thanks, can't wait to use them!

This may sound weird, but I understood almost every single word you said! Not because I'm an electronic musician, but because I'm a telecommunications engineer (soon to graduate); signal modulations are my fetish :D That said, I can't imagine any normal person getting into it; and not only just liking it, but expertly practicing it! Mastering signal transportation and modulation on this level without going to college just further goes to show the genius that is Celldweller. Keep it up!

Pretty much the only reason I would go to Detroit would be to hang out with Klayton. :D

this is the only videos i can watch and not have a clue what he means and still like it. the whole complexity of it just fascinates me:) i would love to have a chance to mess around with that and learn it.

I'm about to pull the trigger on the ES-3 & the input module. This vid was most helpful many thanks

Amazing, I never thought it could be possible to record a sequence of control voltages in a DAW, until now.

Awesome info, thanks. You directed me to Expert Sleepers. Which in turn led me to Muffwiggler, which led me to modulargrid. So am in the planning stage for a modular system. :-) 95% of the people on muffwiggler see the modular world as a means per sé. I want to integrate it with my Cubase. I want it to work in a musical way. Integrate it in song structures. So, this is a real eye opener! Been a fan since Circle of Dust. (Disengage is one of my favorite albums of all times btw). Really great to see how you evolved during the years, with great success artistically as well as commercially. Thank you for the time you take to "teach" some of your insights and knowledge to us!

Awesome videos man, you do a good job at explaining everything. Thanks sooo much for all the help and awesome music ! Cheers!

Expert Sleepers!!! Their modules work like a dream.

Yup... didn't understand any of this, but if it means that you do stuff to make your music, then that's great. Thanks for putting the time into making this for those who do understand it and can benefit from this information. Keep up the good work.

THIS MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE NOW. knowing what you've sent the original (computer audio) into the ES-3 and then the "mult"s connects so many missing links for me (lame pun intended). i'm a sound tech and i've never looked into mods before, but they're very similar to other things i've used.

wow this helped a lot always struggled to combine my eurorack session and ableton project.

Thank you Klayton for taking the time and explaning it on video. It is definitely enlightening. I like the clock divider, that's really cool and i also like the pressure points, in fact i like all of them ^.^ gotta try it out some time. ;) :P

You mention the Metropolis a lot (my first piece of modular); just wondering if you could do a production zoning in on your favourite modules such as the Metropolis, and different ways to get the most results out of them. For instance I'm trying to explore ways to modulate the different sequencing parameters to get more interesting sequences using the Metropolis. I'm finding these videos really useful, thanks.

Great video. I learned a lot.

I love these series, it's inspiring!

Your spaceship is amazing :D

Really really interesting ! That must be awesome to toy around in your studio, I could spend all day in here :p

Nice, Thanks for sharing.

God, where is that vibration every time Klayton speaks coming from?

I suppose I'm a little late to the game but thanks so much. Really informative and gave me allot of inspiration.

I spy a I Dream of Wires Edition Hex Inverter module up to the left of the Korgasmatron II. Great documentary about this particular subject.

Always love learning this stuff. :3 I don't have much money to afford these yet, but I do enjoy playing around with the ones I have on the program I use. ^-^

How do you keep track of all the settings with hardware mod synths? A camera and zoom? Or do you just capture audio and the magic of the moment? With software modular synths you just save vst files. Sometimes the tiniest nudge of a knob will change a sound or make it lose its edge. Thanks for the production series. It is very insightful.

Hail to the king of music!

Hey Klayton. What are the advantages of using the Expert Sleepers module over the Vermona qMI module? Or do they serve the same purpose? Thanks

2:22 Hey! Where did the other camera guy go? 2:48 Oh there you are again...

hi there, I have a question. On my modular system I have the doepfer A190-3 which receives midi info from Ableton. Ive noticed a small delay between my daw and the modular but not in terms of tempo synch. They synch perfectly but it feels like the modular starts from the second pulse and not from the first. Any thoughts on that? Thanks (I use scarlet 18i20 with latency compensation)

What is that cool cable holder thing you have between your racks?

If the cv's are stored as audio in cubase could you chuck software audio effects on them to mess up the cv's?

Hm, Klayton, I just tried to record the (tuned) pitch CV using ES-6 and playing back with ES-3. But the signal always gets out of tune... actually even a bit different for every of ES-6s inputs. Did you have this, too? What did you do to fix it? Thanks, man!

Definitely one of the coolest artist tutorial video on the web. Thanks for sharing with us !

i watched a few of these videos and you can pick up a few gems here and there but you lost me on the recording the cv voltage back into your DAW and messed around with it ?? Im going to have to watch that again and try n process it in my mind

Hey Klayton you really motivated me in my life to do what you're Doing and My life just got Better because of you! Thank You! i just learned also Frozen on my bass =^.^=

So I guess we wouldn't need to use a DC coupled interface (like the MOTU's) if we use the ES with spdif or adat? That is great news if that is the case. Nice use of extra i/o as well. Most people aren't using those on their interface. Also about these modules being expensive, they are, but if you love synthesis as a hobby, you would probably love the modular world. Thank you for this. And appologize for some harsh things said on the FM interview, we were out of line and are huge fans.

I gotta wonder. What's your monthly electricity bill?

This is what i want for my studio, but i think it's an impossible target..

Hi. Klayton, did you ever try modulate real instruments (electric guitar, for example) via your modular world? I saw your Hertz Donut video and this question was born in my mind. Is it possible in some way? Very interesting what results could get.

Have you tried using another DAW for modular integration apart from Cubase? Like Fruity Loops or Pro Tools,etc,

veery interesting, in my (poor guy) experience integrating euro into "regular" daw with live is very straigthforward, just MIDI to cv and some mults. and some free live devices from stretta for clock. i was worried in the beginning too tho. in the end euro clocks better than most regular synths, much tighter. edit: recording automations is a different story tho. edit 2: u dont need a dc coupled interface for clock, you need one with more than a L+R out. edit 3: (ehehehe) hell of a channel, SUBSCRIBED. :) edit 4 (really?) obviously you won't get Klayton dream set-up in any way :)

Cool stuff. He keeps on reffering to the data tranferred from the sequencer to Cubase as audio, when it's clearly cv controller data. A slight annoyance for me. A good idea when doing this sort of thing would probably be to use a note quantiser for the edits on the output from Cubase, since some of the "time Stretched" edits sounded kind of out of key.Overall some good ideas here. Cv to midi notes and vice versa, would be the optimum in terms of flexibility though.

Man... he's so wise :O

Around how much would that stuff cost o.O? Many thousands is my estimate

Oh my... My head ;.; I'm too stupid for this

If you guys thing that looks complicated, y'all should look at Deadmau5's studio.

You lost me at Godzilla... you did say Godzilla... right?

I can see that Klayton is organized. q base and other words are basically names of parts, software, and systems altering the signal; altering the sound-wave. q base is the software emulated by Klaytons PC. it sends a rhythmic beat to all the systems ensuring that the timing is correct without altering the modified pitch. 7:45 turning that knob altered tempo [timing] and beat to that one part its all adding sound or (+) to the output vs filters or (-) removing or clipping a the sound. notice as you listen, hes altering one sound either altogether, or individually. 12:10 that pad hes touching is actually holding the clock at a certain point of time, allowing to easily emulate a repeated tone automatically without him having to turn that other knob himself. 18:10 is the computer emulating the signal beat the PC is outputting out to the equipment. [try imaginating this sound sounding very electric guitar like. 19:21 that's what the modular world is basically doing., by either adding echo, tone, different intone beats, distortions, and filters.] heres the same sound on modular world. 21:54

Wonder if it's possible to do this shit in Renoise? Ha, no one probably knows.

there are tons of ways to send clock to your modular rig from daw. I think this guy just likes to show off his pricy gear. Seriously just place a square wave sample on the beat in any track of your project in your daw and take the audio output to your modular synth. it only costs the price of a wire. cable.

Is it just me or does this seem really complicated and unnecessary ,couldn't you use virtual versions of these things that come integrated into DAW's instead of having all these rigs with cables everywhere' i'm kinda new to it all so seeing all his equipment is really overwhelming aha.

Klayton, i know your a busy man but, do you have time for a girl friend? lol i am just asking is all as everyone needs to take a break from there work. I am sorry if my question may offend you i am just asking is all.

All this sounds like rocket science to me. I dont understand at all.

Hail to the king of music!