My sounds changed when I discovered transients!

My sounds changed when I discovered transients! - Eurorack sound design ep2

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A transient - or the short start of a sound - has a lot of impact on how a sound is perceived. Yet a lot of synths and patches don’t explore transients very well. With a modular system, there are many ways to create and sculpt transients in detail, so in this video we take a closer look at some options!
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00:00 - Transients
01:13 - Basic filter transient patches
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@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Hello everyone! Back with a good old patch-packed video :) Feel free to share additional ideas! Affiliate links: Perfect Circuit - US - bit.ly/3Yn0Gll Sound of You - EU bit.ly/3DzdFYi Clockface - AS - bit.ly/3YkDJ1B

@rayderrich 5 ай бұрын

Another high quality video explaining why I need to buy more modules. The Rack Must Grow, but I love your ideas and learn a lot every single time.

@danielboen1397 5 ай бұрын

Your videos are uniformly great, but this one is top-tier. I'll be digging deep into this one. Every patch is useful and sounds great! Bravo.

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Hey, thanks a lot! Happy to hear it, and enjoy patching :)

@alexgrunde6682 5 ай бұрын

Physical modeling synthesis does transients quite naturally as simply letting some of the raw exciter audio mix in with the resonator audio creates a transient. If the synth patch is using a slew limiter/portamento, it can be used to generate a transient trigger. Run both the slewed and unslewed v/oct signals into a subtractor/difference utility like the shakmat sumdif. The difference output will effectively be an AD envelope that’s only active when the note is sliding up or down, which can modulate any sound shaping parameter. This is unique in that it will only produce a transient if the prior note is different than the current one.

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Very true! I make some 'simplified' statements in the intros every now and then :) These days there are quite some beautiful deep synths out there that can do amazing stuff! - Also the slewed/regular signals through a sumdif is a great idea! Will try and experiment with that. Also like a 2 osc setup, where one is a bit delayed, so that should work out nice :)

@apeirogonmusic 5 ай бұрын

Masterful application of simple building blocks for maximum efficiency Excellent lessons as always Thank You

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Hey, thanks a lot! That's exactly what I hope to do with these videos! Cheers :)

@britox.6216 3 ай бұрын

THIS CHANNEL IS AMAZING!

@MonotrailTechTalk 3 ай бұрын

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! Hahaha, all the best! :)

@CatFish107 5 ай бұрын

Oh wow. This is a new experience. I was actually experimenting with this yesterday, but didn’t know what to call it! Usually your videos are almost entirely new to me concepts. It's like I've actually done the reading ahead of class for the first time. Yay!

@CatFish107 5 ай бұрын

Hahahah! Yes yes yes. Quick bursts of audio rate cv to the filter for FM was one of the "I wonder what this would sound like?" experiments.

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Hey, that's nice to hear! Hope there are still some new ideas in this vide though .) That FM trick is one of my favorites, hope it brought you some good sounds too!

@saturn_at_sky 5 ай бұрын

This is a really great video. I have recreated the patches that I can create with my synthesizer. There are some great ideas. Thank you for your commitment!

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it! And happy to make these as long people seem to get good use out of it :)

@luinnar 5 ай бұрын

I must check it out! As a novice patcher I learned quickly that delay is this magic sauce changing weird blibs and blobs into amazing sounds ;)

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Very true! A good reverb and delay are very much worth it. Doesn't need to be to most expansive stuff around, but it's worth looking for the ones you like!

@jeejeeBlaps 5 ай бұрын

Great video. I always learn something new from your stuff.

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Hey, that's nice to hear! All the best :)

@TheMachinesWon 5 ай бұрын

What a valuable video, thank you 🙏🏽

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Glad to hear you liked it! All the best :)

@BluemanGil 2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much, this will help me a lot

@MonotrailTechTalk 2 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that! Cheers :)

@ahorseinahospital 5 ай бұрын

Awesome video, thank you!

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you liked it!

@MartinDoudoroffLLC 5 ай бұрын

Great video!

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers :)

@electronaut7429 5 ай бұрын

Nice video! Thank you. :-)

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@ReductioAdAbsurdum1 4 ай бұрын

This is great! I've been thinking about re-coding my Droid to have two envelope outputs per voice (x4 voices). Kind of like how a moog has a dedicated env for VCA and one for VCF, but I can mult it and also send it to a distortion, etc. So I can make transients and also modulation. Thanks for the video!

@MonotrailTechTalk 4 ай бұрын

Hey, glad you liked it! All the best :)

@michaelkonomos 5 ай бұрын

Great video! I've heard about transients in the context of percussion, but never really heard anyone break it down in this depth and level of creativity. Thank you! Edit - I also think that a real gap in the synth market would be synths that intentionally give you difference transient options to cycle through in addition to your sound itself. Feel like this could become a whole new category of synth.

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! Have to admit I like to make a bit of a punchy start into the video, but there are some synths that explore this. Especially some wavetable and physical modeling synths :) Probably also Korg's wavestate!

@eddfromearth Ай бұрын

Sounds like you're talking about Linear Arithmetic synthesis, like in the Roland D50 😊

@Wavefolders 5 ай бұрын

perfect! thx

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@FreqBand 3 ай бұрын

In many of these patches, you need an envelope that has modulation inputs for the ADSR stages.

@MonotrailTechTalk 3 ай бұрын

Very true! I love modulation, and controlling the shape and depth of modulation, like an envelope, has a lot of effect! However, there are other solutions if you don't have that options. For example, just using a VCA to control the level of an envelope with something like an LFO can add similar movement to sustain. Having two fixed envelopes with different settings sent through a cross fader, or dual VCA setup will have the effect of modulated attack or decay, etc. Will touch briefly on this in my next video :) Cheers!

@studio48nl Ай бұрын

I used to have a Kawaii K5000s which uses samples for transients and additive synthesis 'for the rest'.

@MonotrailTechTalk Ай бұрын

Nice! Samples for the transients is a great trick to cover a huge range of sounds. Really fun to explore :)

@WildernessMusic_GentleSerene 5 ай бұрын

When sound designing, I don't think of transients. I design sound as a beginning, a middle and an end. So, a minimum of 3 oscillators are needed for the widest array of sounds. You can cheat a little with 2 oscillators using the Amp and Filter envelopes instead to achieve some results. This beginning/middle/end design was the basis for the first digital synthesis in the Roland JD-800, and with less control the Roland D-50. These Roland synths ended up being the 4Partial architecture we still see today in Rolands new synths. The newest Zencore is a stereo 4Partial adaptation.

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Nice! Thinking of a sound in multiple stages is for shure the next step form this video. You can give each 'phase' you like to define the same kind of attention as I did for transients in this video. Some sounds are great when they have a detailed 'mid' or 'end' stage! Similar to ideas in this video though you an use any kind of sound shaper tools to sculpt any stage! Might end up making a video extending this one, with this topic :) Cheers!

@ProjectHMF 5 ай бұрын

I love transients aswell 🤩

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it! Cheers :)

@gerardstrik2555 5 ай бұрын

I do not have a sample player in my setup. In fact I lack a lot, since I’m building myself. But I like how you exchange the sample for noise. So that I can try the patch as well. Thanks.

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

No problem! I always like to include a bunch of ideas, but no need to patch them all! You can often try and substitute thing you don't have for things you do, and see what happens! Cheers :)

@Blackeyedangel Ай бұрын

Hey man I love this stuff. I'm curious, what filter has two freq cv adjustments? are you using a unity mixer to just go into the one freq cv? You keep showing multiple things messing with freq on the filter but I've not got a single filter that has that many inputs.

@MonotrailTechTalk Ай бұрын

Hi there! Thank you :) I just put a sentence about this in my last video! I think a lot of people might miss out on interesting filter modulation because of the lack of inputs on filters. I very often end up using 3 or 4 sources to modulate a filter at the same time. The simple solution is a CV mixer (with level controls!). Send all modulation sources to a mixer, use the mixer to 'attenuate' each source individually, then send the mix to the filter. You can stack as many modulation as you like :) Cheers!

@jakegraves5977 5 ай бұрын

Great video, have you done any more on wave folders?

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Thanks! I did a video on the Teia VastWave, an oscillator/folder combo. But a video with specific wave folding patches is on the list!

@ryanstevens283 29 күн бұрын

What about side of eurorack

@kaiserclicker8479 5 ай бұрын

😍😍😍

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

All the best! :)

@decapitateallcops3214 5 ай бұрын

Your sequences have improved greatly! Which sequencer are you using?

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

Hey, thanks! It's the Beatstep Pro, shown in the first clip. A lot of people don't realize these videos take a lot of time to make, I often just have a single day, or even a few hours to record 15 to 20 audio demos for a video. I used to dial in sequences on the fly, but now started with making a few pre-stored sequences in the BSP. That will increase the tunes indeed, but you will hear similar ones come back in the future ;)

@decapitateallcops3214 5 ай бұрын

@@MonotrailTechTalk I appreciate what you do. I only edit together video and that can take hours

@MonotrailTechTalk 5 ай бұрын

That's nice to hear! I am happy making these as long as people leave friendly comments like these :) All the best with your work!

@stephenspackman5573 3 ай бұрын

Can you use Zadar directly as a source of artificial transients? It goes down to very short times, I think, and has some likely looking waveforms?

@MonotrailTechTalk 3 ай бұрын

Hi there! Not exactly sure what you mean with 'artificial' transients specifically. But in general, yes :) Speeds are fast. More important, you can push the pre-set shapes of the envelopes in different directions. For example, alter a shape to have a fast 'zig-zag' start, and then a slow decay. Make sure to have a look a the file with all available shapes on the Xaoc website. There are sets even specifically designed for interesting transient shapes. Cheers!

@stephenspackman5573 3 ай бұрын

@@MonotrailTechTalk Yeah, ‘artificial’ was a poorly chosen word. I was thinking about configurations like (Zadar + (VCO -> ADSR)) ->... where the transients don't derive from modulating the VCO. [edit:] Oh, but Zadar is unipolar....