Pulsar 23 by Soma // 50 Tips Tricks and Ideas // Syncing with SH101 TR606 & deconstructing a track

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A deep dive into the Soma Pulsar23 analog drum machine. Deconstructing a track with plenty of patching ideas. Pairing with a vintage TR606 and SH101 s well as MIDI control and CV patching ideas.
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• From The Studio
0:00 lil' demo clips
2:45 Kick
3:30 Feedback to Summon the Devil
4:12 Noise for Dust & Explosions
5:18 Appropriate Touching
5:49 Lil' Demo #1
6:38 Bass Tones
7:30 Duck Off
8:06 S&H for Rhythmic Pulses
9:30 Random Idea #1
9:51 Snare
10:08 Recording Velocities
11:10 LFO for MadMod
12:01 Random Idea #2
12:20 Trigger from the Clock
12:31 Those Weird Electronic Functions
14:06 More Stuff with the S&H
14:46 Accessing 2 FX
16:06 Back to SHAOS
16:42 Random Idea #3
16:56 Looper
18:07 RESET Button ... VERY IMPORTANT
19:04 Quantize
20:57 Lil' Demo #2
21:39 Random Idea #4
21:58 Din Sync
23:03 Envelopes aren't simple trigs
23:29 Stuff with the DEL pads
25:05 More Clock in ideas
26:52 MIDI Control
28:10 Random Idea #5
28:23 Intergating with Eurorack
29:12 Pseudo Macros - quite clever actually!
29:44 Random Idea #6
30:16 Lil' Demo #3
31:35 Lil' Demo #4
33:14 Lil' Demo #5
33:56 Lil' Demo #7
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Пікірлер: 54

@StarskyCarr Жыл бұрын

One thing I missed … to keep the internal clock and looper always in sync connect LRST to 0.25 clock - a tip from Vlad himself ;)

@donaldpriola1807 Жыл бұрын

I love the Pulsar because it makes me embrace humanity in music. In other words: Imperfection. It's an anti-grid machine, even though it can be on the grid if you clock it from the outside.

@kalleeriksson2148 Жыл бұрын

Love the music examples in this video. Top stuff, Mr Carr!

@KDwyer33 Жыл бұрын

Best Pulsar video ever! Love it!

@osmocoda1133 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, great video !

@jedstephensmusic0001 Жыл бұрын

Hint of Assualt on precinct 13 at 6:00 excellent stuff

@billybartcody3591 Жыл бұрын

Starsky Carr dropping some sick industrial beats. Nice.

@S.r.wilson Жыл бұрын

Excellent video and the music is wonderful!

@StarskyCarr Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Always nice to hear people listen to the tracks. I spent a while trying to make music I’d use rather than simply demoing functions. Puts things in perspective I think.

@S.r.wilson Жыл бұрын

It sounds great! And you cram in a ton of info.

@jazmanaut 5 ай бұрын

Very inspiring video. Thank you!

@StarskyCarr 5 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@the_glove Ай бұрын

Would love to see you tackle the Perkons

@kenb7540 Жыл бұрын

Great 👍👏🙏

@StarskyCarr Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@klinkske Жыл бұрын

6 min 10 reminds so hard to Bjork… fantastic

@StarskyCarr Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah… 🤩

@PodOfHeat 7 ай бұрын

Hi Starsky, great video, some really interesting ideas here which are helping me a lot! I was wondering if you could help me with something. I want to create a ratchet/roll on my hihat that I can trigger manually by hitting either the hihat contact or the CV contacts next to it. I know there's a way of doing it I just can't remember how! Any help appreciated! 😊

@FLH3official Жыл бұрын

Having something called the "WTF" on a synth is a must! Essential.

@jamespingel8730 Жыл бұрын

In all my years of discussing synthesizers online, one of the statements that always stuck with me was "every synthesizer needs a pants knob".

@justintonation9726 Жыл бұрын

What do you have in the euro rack skiff?

@_moosdohmen_ Жыл бұрын

Great video! Question about demo 4: I don't really get how you modulate the BD pitch every four bars?

@StarskyCarr Жыл бұрын

Touching the connectors - no idea what’s going on but that’s part of the fun! Touch stuff and sh!t happens 😂

@_moosdohmen_ Жыл бұрын

@@StarskyCarr oh of course, you're touching the OMG pin!

@Gethinm80 Жыл бұрын

Hi 👋🏻 Cool vid What audio interface are you using for recording all channels plus effects. Thanks

@StarskyCarr Жыл бұрын

I’m using a Focusrite Scarlett gen 3.

@Gethinm80 Жыл бұрын

18i20 ?

@StarskyCarr Жыл бұрын

@@Gethinm80 18i8 - I don’t need too many inputs for the videos.

@verstaerker 6 ай бұрын

the 606 generates a 24 ppq Signal... looking at your settings, you are sending 24ppq (96 ticks/s) to the Pulsar. Based on the manual it expects 128 pulses per second. How does this align?

@StarskyCarr 6 ай бұрын

I'm going via a euro rack module with divider.

@istvantoth7431 11 ай бұрын

Can this save presets?

@simonwatson5299 Жыл бұрын

IDK why, but one of your ideas reminds me a little of Peaches = Fk the pain away.

@StarskyCarr Жыл бұрын

Looking it up now :)

@simonwatson5299 Жыл бұрын

@@StarskyCarr Yeah, I mean, it's not exactly like it, what with the explicit lyrics and all, but it does sound like Peaches produced F*** The Pain Away on the Soma, or could easily have used it to make her track. Which is why at least to me, it sounds similar, but not the same. I think you know what I mean?? Lol.

@simonwatson5299 Жыл бұрын

Well, put it this way, The Peaches track is begging for a Starsky Carr remix.

@DeGrale. Жыл бұрын

Really tempted to sell my Machinedrum SPS-1 UW mk2 and get the Pulsar-23…

@StarskyCarr Жыл бұрын

It’s much more immediate and you don’t have to remember where you saved the samples and what memory they’re stored in 😂 I sold my machine drum for the Rytm. This is much more fun!

@DeGrale. Жыл бұрын

@@StarskyCarr thanks for the advice 👍🏻 only one more decision, which colour sounds better 🤪

@StarskyCarr Жыл бұрын

@@DeGrale. it took me longer to pick the colour than to decide to get one.

@DeGrale. Жыл бұрын

@@StarskyCarr ha! 😂😂😂 I might wait for the black & gold 🤞🏻

@earlsfield Жыл бұрын

I really want this instrument badly.

@StarskyCarr Жыл бұрын

It’s great. And there’s so much stuff you can do with it standalone - I’ve lost days!

@earlsfield Жыл бұрын

@@StarskyCarr I have many things that can be paired with it but I was thinking what you just confirmed - on its own it is not a drum machine, like AR or Tempest, rather, its totally modular thing that can do whatever you want with it. One thing though, it is 1.5 k £ - do you think this would be better investment than, say Perfourmer mk2? Just asking for an opinion, not holding you to it:) I am aware of the differences, just wondering do you feel Pulsar is worth it.

@StarskyCarr Жыл бұрын

@@earlsfield hats weird… I was looking at a performer mk2 on eBay this morning!! And bought one years ago but they never sent it (went too cheap I think) For me the pulsar is much more of an inspiration… the start of some fine grooves. There’s no question in my mind that this is the better option - for me at least.

@earlsfield Жыл бұрын

@@StarskyCarr Cheers mate, for the answer - I thought so. I will deffo get it rather than perforumer. Hah and I feel you for ebay auctions, i did have a few items like that never sent, due to the low final price. It's like - wtf, you wanted it auctioned, if not, set it fixed!

@roblewis5044 Жыл бұрын

Great instrument, a sound designers dream but £1758??? Really! Nahhh way mun.

@StarskyCarr Жыл бұрын

That doesn’t matter in reality because I’ve heard money doesn’t exist - it’s simply a capitalist construct to subjugate the general populous… once you take that into consideration it’s a no brainer 🧠 🤔 💭

@nordeuk Жыл бұрын

Paid for mine via PayPal with 6 months interest free 😉 amazing device!

@RobotSnake Жыл бұрын

Tell me you are broke without telling me you are broke.

@moldysoul Жыл бұрын

Sell the rest of your shit and get this and have no regrets.

@RobotSnake Жыл бұрын

This is like 5 grand in modular gear in one box. It’s honestly a steal for the price.