Had the Maths for years and only now am I beginning to understand it and this video really helped.

Super helpful to see the scope. You made it a lot less scary just with the basics.

After doing modular for 5 years, I finally 'get' Maths because of this video. Thanks

I’m new to modular and of course I was totally overwhelmed in my first attempt to use Maths. Your video is the best beginner’s tool on KZfaq at the moment. Thank you !

yes! this was just what I needed to jumpstart my exploration into my new maths module. now I know what I'm listening for and more about the signal flow.

I’ve been in and out of modular for years and had maths a few times but never used it properly, literally watched this and I think I get it now, immediately went to my new shared system to try to work it out! Liked and subscribed, thank you so much for slowly explaining things in a way that makes sense.

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The symbol you thought might be function is actually the integral symbol. Like from calculus.

Great work! This is really helpful! Love your videos!

Great video, thanks! I’m still trying to find a good reason to get Maths. After watching this and a lot of other videos on it, I understand what it can do. It’s cool; I can imagine how I could use it, but still don’t feel the need to get one. It’s so much HP for stuff my other modules can already do. Nothing has given me that aha-moment yet.

I held off for two years after building my first modular rig, I FINALLY purchased it and am excited to integrate it right away thanks to the help of your video. Thanks so much!

best rundown of maths ever, everybody else's just confused me more,

This video was so helpful - I would love to see videos on the a-135-2 as well Fantastic job - keep creating good content

Hey, a nice overview of the mystical Maths! One thing about the input of channels 1 & 4: Mangling is of course not wrong. But for any new users (like I once was...) it's maybe interesting, that this makes a "Slew-Limiter" for CV-Signals, which will for example flatten the curve of a Gate with increased values on Rise & Fall (creating an Attack-Sustain-Release instead of the triggered Attack-Decay). In other scenarios, it can give you that nice sliding with a pitch-sequence by the same principle and to a certain degree, it even can act as a crude filter on audio. Another thing about the OR/SUM/INV: It may be "unfortunate", that the attenuverted outputs get subtracted from them while patched, but a really fortunate event is, that the "unity-outputs" on channels 1 & 4 still are patchable without being subtracted. So you can play around with the summing-logic + two unipolar LFOs or even AD/ASR-Envelopes to use with voices while spicing up the modulation of the summing-bus. You can for example invert the waves from 1 &/or 4 to use as a weird ducking-effect on another module (VCA, Filter whatever). I see that this is supposed to be a beginners-guide, but aside from the more advanced stuff with interlinking channels, I thought, my mentions are among the "basics" :)

Best video there is About Maths basics!!!

Most helpful video of Maths I've found so far. Thank you. You are an angel 👼

Thank you. This really helped to understand the scary module that everyone told me I needed. Yes, I did heed the advice.

Maths is great! This is super helpful. I've had Maths for 1 year, and I just got the DFAM.... Your help is appreciated!

Great video, that’s really helped our understanding of Maths! Thank you :)

Excellent rundown of this essential beast! I listened to advice and Maths was the very first module I bought and spent a week with nothing more than that, a Pam’s and my semi modulars (MB2S, Neutron, DFAM, SubH & Matriarch)… 7 months later and I doubt there’s ever a patch it’s not used in and I still get blown away by discovering yet another crazy thing it’s capable of! I have, to be fair, become a bit of a Make Noise fanboy and have a few of their modules now, I like their particular brand of lunacy!

Very nice first approach to Maths, indeed ! With the scope things go clearly 🙂 thx !

Maths is so amazing 4MS just came out with their own version with some added features, it's called Shaped Duel Envelope VCA. I have both, no lie though you need this module, it's just too powerful of a tool and it won't break the bank.

Thanks for the help! Much appreciated!

Thanks a lot!! Keep up the good work

I was nearly 400hp deep before finally deciding that I just need to buy and learn maths and stop ignoring it. Like you, it lives next to a Data and that has been super helpful for me.

Thanks for making this video!

Thank you so much for this video! My Maths finally arrived and (even though I did manage to get interesting stuff thanks to it already) I really did not understand the possibilities before watching this~

Good explanation. Thank you.

ok,,,im gettn one...after all these years being into modular gear, i now see the benefits of owning one.....Thanks for your Video........😊

Makes Noise. Brilliant Modulars, but SUPER complex, definitely a learning curve. I had the same issue with Morphagene, had no idea, and had to sit to read the manual lol

This is a really good „other“ MATHs Video , good to learn the Module , cool !

thanks to you i understand more how the basics fuctions are made, thanks !

Very useful! Please make more videos.

Excellent video

thanks a loro....very useful video

This was such an awesome tutorial! Had this module for awhile and was stumped. Thank you ☺️ Also, that symbol that you said was the function symbol in math is an integration symbol. It basically means summation. Only mentioning it since I was gonna comment anyway hehe 12:23

(unrelated comment) Every time I watch you in video, you remind me of the Dick character played by Todd Louiso in the (musical) movie "High Fidelity"!

NOW I gettit! Thank you.

Thank you!

Stopped after 4 minutes when I realized this video was going to make me get into Eurorack.

Braintree is a place in Essex UK and it's rough as f**k. Good vid.

The scope is a savior when figuring shit out lol. I may need to invest one cause that was super helpful. I’ve under utilized the modular, but I learned on the go, and was able to do so much shit. I remember I accidentally created like an arp/LFO patch and was like oh shit that’s cool. Totally forgot how now, haha.

Thanks for a great video, well explained..hey I understood it lol!! Just getting into modular, got my case and a few modules and Maths was first on with Plaits.

This is a pretty good explamation.

Nice video! I'd love to see some subharmonicon with maths patches!

Watching this new video, I told myself that you would probably love playing one of the recently marketed Arp 2600 clones. I, for one, own a Blue Marvin limited series by Behringer, but as you surely know, Korg also released their own 2600 clones under the Arp brandname (that they purchased). Indeed, your video here made me realise that MakeNoise Math's functionalities were already all present in the Arp 2600, distributed between the Ring Modulator and the (often under-used) Voltage Processor. As a matter of fact, the more I dig into Eurorack modules and/or semi-modular synths, the more I realise how Alan Pearlman and his team pretty much got it all, back in 1970. The 2600 is definitely a difficult machine to master, but once you have used it for a while and start figuring out all it can do, you rarely get to be impressed by new fancy products on the modular/semi-mod market. I wish the name of Alan R. Pearlman would be more well-known to the general public: what he brought to modern music is truly astounding, in retrospect.

please explain when to use the trig input vs the cycle input? dan

The MATHS combines a copy of the old classic Serge DUSG from the 70ies with a 4-channel Attenuverting Mixer (or a CV PRO as it is called in the Serge-world). That's almost it. So it existed since the 2nd half of the 70ies.

Hello, excellent review, I would be interested to know if I can use the Maths alone, I have a monophonic synthesizer, a drum machine and a midi controller, it helps me to be able to intervene in the signal and modulate or modify it, I have just started with the machines, greetings!!! !

Hey man, .. nice presentation. As you, .. up to this point, I've ignored the "buzz" concerning Maths. I do have a pair of Stages, .. that I would say, accomplishes several of the same things, as Maths. In some recent conversations .. I've asked if Maths could assist with Stages, .. and I've received "yes" answers. One other thing .. I've wondered about why Data is often used in demonstration videos, .. instead of just hearing it .. and well, I think I'm coming around on this, too .. where I've just been using it mainly as a tuner.

I can watch Maths vids for hours.. and I think I have to try on my own. I think the symbol next to ch1 output is "the integral"

12 : this is the symbol of integration

Great tutorial. I do not (yet) have any Eurorack modules, yet this was very intriguing....and....make me question.... BTW, in math, the integral sign ∫ represents integration. Though not sure how Maths module uses such.

∫ means Integral

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The math symbol you refer to is Integration not function.

What I have noticed is that beginners get Maths, use it for a LFO, use it for a not so good envelope and then never use it again because they buy an LFO and buy and envelope. I also see my favorite artists with it in the case and never, ever hooked up. It's one of those things people buy because they don't know what they want.

Just bought a DFAM and the first thing you say is about Maths and DFAM. Goddamn poor house, looks like I’m never getting out.

Don't make me want to buy Maths, don't make me buy maths..

Stop playing Music in the background please, Tutorial is good though

No sound? 20 minutes and only technical info? I do not realy understand this... Do you have video with audio poss, without osciloscop, only sound?

The music makes it hard to follow the info, its super annoying

Maths is just a ripoff of the Serge DUSG, which itself is a take on the Buchla 251 and 287. It doesn't really innovate over them, except for the horrible graphics silk-screened on top.