Mutable Instruments Rings is still one of the BEST modules!! PART 2

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Rings by Mutable Instruments is one of the few modules on my 'Never Sell' list. It will always be fun, always sound good, and always have new sounds to discover, and that is the sign of a very well designed module.
Today's sonic adventures focus on the audio input function, which is the least explored corner of the Rings universe. Join me as I excite Rings with oscillators, tickle it with drums, and intoxicate it with a trippy cassette of Fantasia found at my local charity shop!
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0:00 - Intro
1:26 - Strum Input
3:33 - Oscillator In
11:52 - Dual Sequences
19:04 - Drumzzz - mad jam!
25:20 - Fantasia + Outro
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@bluestone9726 2 жыл бұрын

This channel is easily one of the best finds I've made on youtube in a long while. Every video makes me discover something new, like how I'm now convinced I need a Data Bender in my life

@MarshMakesComics 2 жыл бұрын

You do! This channel is definitely one of the reasons I got my data bender lol

@explodingtiger 2 жыл бұрын

Data bender. Must have :)

@MatthewKallen 2 жыл бұрын

Seriously serious. Such a great channel 👍🏼

@ickebins6948 2 жыл бұрын

I just found it and it seem chill and full of knowledge. I'm not much of a modular guy myself but its fun to watch someone who knows what he's doing :) Instant sub.

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! You absolutely do need a data Bender! ☺️

@troyh1602 2 жыл бұрын

I think you might be the Bob Ross of synthesis

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Best compliment ever! :D

@Datacustic 2 жыл бұрын

I never had the simple idea to just 1v/oct sequence rings on a stable pitch input signal. And then just scan sweet spots on the input signal. Thank you

@chromosundrift Жыл бұрын

Wow great format, love the exploration story arc. Beautiful sounds, thank you!

@andreasschmelas Жыл бұрын

Coming back to this over and over again! I love my rings as well, such a cool and versatile module especially if you modulate the heck out of it ;)

@VacancyOfDisco 2 жыл бұрын

could listen to this all day! love your reactions as you discover new sounds

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

haha cheers man!!

@tdctunes Жыл бұрын

Great video - super helpful and enjoyable music too! Keep em coming!

@djgocatgo 2 ай бұрын

allways coming back to your channel, your joy is a joy to hear… great experiments

@dariusmorgan8302 2 жыл бұрын

Glad I stumbled across your channel. Fantastic stuff. I like that you have found a lot of lesser known uses & techniques for modules & patches that have been covered extensively...yet, you show new things that can be done.

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers man! I think it helps having a small set-up which means you gotta squeeze all you can out it :)

@nielshulgard3722 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! Some really sweet jams in there which once again got me excited for my rings

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome thank you!!

@torus6083 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant example of simple patching that achieves amazing results. Great work!

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers man!!

@tyroneshoelacez3498 2 жыл бұрын

Noise into a low pass gate then into rings can get you into piano territory.

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea... i do have a LPG too that I under-utilise!

@paulclement4222 2 жыл бұрын

Great video lad. I am just building my rack after playing around with Mother-32 and DFAM for a few years. I just spent an afternoon following along with you on my rack. While I couldn't get too close to your sounds, I had a blast, got some gorgeous sounds and learned a ton about Rings. I can't wait to spend some more time on the weekend and run DFAM through it. I like how you run the two sequences at the same time - I do this all the time with an external sequencer into the Mother-32 and always get some interesting and unexpected results.

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers man! DFAM through rings will surely be epic. The DFAM is currently on my gear wish list.

@Hessencemusic 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Simply awesome full of inspiration as you always do!

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

thank you! :D

@clementineHaze666 2 жыл бұрын

Informative and FUN!

@TerekkiTerekki 2 жыл бұрын

Best euro vids imho keep it up - inspirational stuff, thanks

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers!! ☺️

@digicat247 2 жыл бұрын

I have said it before, but i have to say it again, You really do the best videos on rings. Thanks for the time to share all of that fun.

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! :)

@freddiefranklin1 Жыл бұрын

Rings was one of those modules that I was a little bit *meh* about, having seen it used so extensively for those classic Rings sounds. I'm planning some expansions from my current 84hp 3u case to a 6u case for later in the year, and you've persuaded me that I definitely have to get Rings now though! Great musical examples as always.Thanks!

@EverythingYouDoIsABalloon Жыл бұрын

In the first patch with the MCO, when striking with the gate input on Rings you are activating the internal white noise burst as well as processing the MCO - so if you drop the gate input on Rings and control the MCO coming into the input with an enveloped VCA instead or intermittently, then you will get a different variation also. The plucking sounds will disappear. Nice patch, Rings is one of the best weird filters out there, works well with chords too.

@AmbientMusicStudio 4 ай бұрын

Very cool sounds and super inspiring!

@TheUnperson 4 ай бұрын

Thank you :)

@sazianasazi1182 Жыл бұрын

The dual sequences sound absolutely mental!

@TheUnperson Жыл бұрын

Good mental? :D

@BlackWarriorLures Жыл бұрын

Wow! This is powerful!

@CO5MA 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely!

@Probbie 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent 👌

@joshuabpolys 2 жыл бұрын

Great fun! Thx!!!

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@explodingtiger 2 жыл бұрын

Your videos and sounds are dope

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers man!!

@johntbd 2 жыл бұрын

This was a blast to watch.

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! ☺️

@johntbd 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheUnperson I got rings yesterday. Instantly fun.

@atdubya 2 жыл бұрын

Ah this is too good. Mad jam!

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

cheers dude!

@blacksand. 2 жыл бұрын

YESSS !!! (I just bought a second rings in my rack just for that !! (If I was crazy rich, I would try the ring-ception, how does it sounds with like 5 Rings, chaining them into one another ? I'm curious :) ) and yeah, I bought a data bender because of you ! awesome little beast ! I'm so glad I've found you, your videos are amazing

@MatthewHyatt 2 жыл бұрын

Get six, throw on a 4ms SMR and magicccc

@blacksand. 2 жыл бұрын

@@MatthewHyatt oh yeah

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Ohhh rings into rings! I gotta hear it!! 😆

@liamg6328 8 күн бұрын

Great stuff! Watching any Unperson video gives me GAS! 😂 Oh, my poor wallet! 😉

@d1g419 2 жыл бұрын

Nice 👍 this is my favourite thing to do with rings also. Try a band pass filter between MCO and Rings....also sending the same pitch info to Rings maybe with probability from Pamela's 👍😎

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Gonna give the BP filter a try! And i really have to dive deeper into the features of Pams too.

@dr.feelicks2051 2 жыл бұрын

Elements (Atom) resonator yields similar (Chords) Very fun follow along✌️

@visualguerillaFILMs 3 ай бұрын

super sympathic video! keep on patching :)

@MarshMakesComics 2 жыл бұрын

Once again another great video! I’ve honestly never been super impressed by rings but I didn’t know you could bring external audio into it that’s interesting. Is there a buffer? It sounded like you were speeding it up and slowing it down in the end with that Fantasia tape.

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

I think the tape was just a bit wobbly lol

@acidbat4441 2 жыл бұрын

alot of people use rings as a voice but that input is the reason rings exists, yet hardly what people use it for

@walrtbstudios5430 2 жыл бұрын

I’m not sure whether it’s because I have a Rings clone rather than the MI version, or simply because I’m a bit cr@p and lack patience, but I cannot coax the wide variety of pleasant tones you’ve managed to conjure in this- or the previous- video. As a result it’s on my ‘prepared to lose it if I find another voice’ list- it’s 14hp that’s not working for me… Oh, and subbed. Seems only fair.

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

It should work exactly the same I think 🤔 I’ve gotten rid of modules too that other folks are getting amazing sounds out of..

@DrIli2008 2 жыл бұрын

Wooowwwwww. Waiting for the drop!!!!! I am new to this. How could you place a drop bass under those beautiful melodies?

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Would just need another voice in the rack! The BSP has two sequencers so can have two melody lines on the go at the same time

@t1daljpg 2 жыл бұрын

Using a wavetable kinda oscillator into Rings is a good idea. Makes me want to try my Morphing Terrarium through it with some subtle modulation!

@charlesbronson2806 2 жыл бұрын

That's basically what I do. Then I like to use a joystick to morph through waves and rings parameters.

@t1daljpg 2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesbronson2806 ooh, I didn’t consider “macro-modulating” both of them at once. I recently got an Addac VC Transitions which could be perfect for the job. I’ll have to give this a shot!

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been eyeing up the Morphing Terrarium for ages..

@t1daljpg 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheUnperson You should get one, it’s pretty rad. It definitely took me a bit to really start vibing with it since it has its particular flavor and since a small amount of modulation can do so much, but I’ve come to really enjoy it now that I’ve spent time with it. It’s cool as a funky LFO, too!

@james_44 2 жыл бұрын

Ah lovely I bought the rings along with Elements off the back of the last vid! You ever explored the Doepfer ribbon controller? Seems like it could be amazing with this module.

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Oh i didn't even know Doepfer did a ribbon controller. That could be very interesting indeed!

@MrMarcLaflamme 2 жыл бұрын

As soon as you bring in the Data Bender... gooood night... It's like an auto-sp404 fx module. And that drums jam! My only criticism is running it in alternating stereo mode - Kept jumping between headphone sides and at a few points it was only on one side. But the crunch and bass was amazing!

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Yea I kinda wished I’d panned it a bit more central. The drum jam was dope tho lol

@MrMarcLaflamme 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheUnperson Yeah definitely one of the best Rings videos out there!

@parristaylor 2 жыл бұрын

This had me squealing with delight.

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Haha!! Amazing ☺️

@bastianwade6375 2 жыл бұрын

I simply love what you’re doing with Rings! I’m completely new to modular synthesis but after watching your videos I’m inclined to give it a try :) May I pick your brain about what modules to get in order to create the most basic setup that would work with Rings? VCO, VCA, an LFO perhaps? I want to start experimenting without dipping too deep into my savings :) Any suggestion would be much appreciated! Thank you! :)

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers man! Yea you pretty much need a VCA for most sound sources and modulating everything is what makes modular fun so defo get an LFO. You'll also need to something to control the pitch of RIngs - either a modular sequencer or an external one. I also love having multi-FX in the rack which can be modulated for really unique effects :)

@magnopere 2 жыл бұрын

Do a lot of research and don't buy everything at once. Start with the basic pieces and build your way up so you learn what you're looking for and what you like before you spend all your money and modules you won't need.

@wildaudiosociety 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, now I “need” to get a rings :-/ just soon as I find the space... GASSssss....

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Haha sorry man!! ☺️

@mntbighker 2 жыл бұрын

Sending envelopes to the BIA trigger input has similar surprising results that also seem rarely used.

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

BIA is the module I really regret selling!

@caleblaughlin8351 Жыл бұрын

The Drum sequence at min. 19:00 is insane!!!! Could the same thing be done using the DFAM? I’m super new to modular but I am picking up rings to accompany Beads and my DFAM and Keystep. Hoping to be able to achieve something similar to this sound.

@daneguitarist1 2 жыл бұрын

data bender is so cool! i use mine in so many patches

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

It's my fav module for sure!

@DECIMA1 2 жыл бұрын

Dam this module is sooo versatile

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't it! Can really squeeze so much out of it

@adijames 2 жыл бұрын

Love this. I've tried to replicate what you did on the first video but got nowhere near!

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers man! You know how it is with synths… mad difficult to replicate a patch.. I doubt I could get close too lol

@michaelfaymusic 2 жыл бұрын

Weird, I was watching the first Rings video you did earlier today, grabbed some lunch and then came back and had a notification of this second one. Really helping me rekindle some love for this module. Definitely want to go nuts with that ext input now. One sort of noobie question.. the panning. Does rings have different stereo panning allocation modes like Surface? I noticed when you were doing the two sequences together, first the mco then rings, the panning on rings was bouncing hard left/right. Is that in Rings, Data Bender or something else?

@vinylarchaeologist 2 жыл бұрын

When both outputs are patched on Rings, it alternates left-right with each trigger or each change to the pitch input.

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Yea man, in hindsight I wouldn’t have panned it hard left and right… sounds a bit mad sometimes!

@michaelfaymusic 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheUnperson naw I think it's sounds cool. I just forgot Rings bounces left and right when both outputs are patched. Thanks again.

@charlesbronson2806 2 жыл бұрын

I use rings as a drone machine. Run on oscillator or lfo at audio rate into rings input.

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Great idea ~ gonna give it a try!

@apparently_sonam 2 жыл бұрын

The data is doing the heavy lifting.. impressed but I’d need both, and that’s not my usual answer !

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

I do tend to put the data Bender on absolutely everything lol

@manuka1823 2 жыл бұрын

Yeeees

@prentissriddle Жыл бұрын

Love this, as always. ❤ One thing I do a lot - maybe too much! - is mult Rings' output and feed it back into the input. That instantly changes the characteristic Rings sound into something new. (Note that from a cold start the result is silence, so I either get Rings going before I plug in the input or I mix in something else, perhaps noise.) I love the result but I use it so much it's kind of become a fourth recognizable mode of Rings for me - I need to experiment more with altering the feedback signal before it hits the input to see if I can change it further.

@dominicbarrett9346 2 жыл бұрын

For putting the OP-1 into the IN input on Rings, are you boosting the OP-1 signal to modular levels? Or are you just feeding Rings line level? And if you're boosting it- what are you using?

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Normally I use the Pico Input module to boost the OP1. My rack was full tho in this video so I was using a preamp which was off-camera. I think it will work fine even without being boosted tho :)

@tihinter 8 ай бұрын

there is some resemblance to the Boss Tera Echo pedal, at some points in this video. Might be a similar algorithm inside the Boss…

@TheUnperson 8 ай бұрын

I always wanted that pedal…

@ld8341 2 жыл бұрын

Well, colour me subscribed.

@VirtualModular 2 жыл бұрын

Braw sounds mon! Following on from your other video, have you tried guitar into Rings? I couldn't get anything other than a deranged screechy flanger sound. I'm inspired to give it another try, I think the key is probably feeding it some CV in the same key as whatever you're playing on the guitar.

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Damn I didn’t think of guitar into rings! Gonna give it a try!!

@VirtualModular 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheUnperson awesome, would love to see a video on that if you get a chance! I'm still experimenting with it, I think there's a lot more potential.

@VagPoop_ Жыл бұрын

in your duel sequence demonstration, could you patch the STO Out into the Rings In directly? or did you need to come out of the mixer to make a "feedback" type effect from your mixer channel 3 into Rings In? thanks.

@TheUnperson Жыл бұрын

Yea you can go straight into Rings. I put it into the VCA first so that I have more control over the blend :)

@VagPoop_ Жыл бұрын

@@TheUnperson ahhh I see. thank you for replying

@VagPoop_ Жыл бұрын

@@TheUnperson just ordered a rings because of this video. thank you

@TheUnperson Жыл бұрын

@@VagPoop_ I hope you'll enjoy it - I'm sure you will :)

@griffithmorgan4966 2 жыл бұрын

What modules are in the rack? Sure Rings is cool, but what are you using to drive it around with? Thanks!

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

From left to right we have: Pam's New Workout, Maths, MCO, Z5000, RIngs, Data Bender, Dual Dagger, and the Happy Nerding FX Aid. :)

@budfoon 2 жыл бұрын

What's managing the panning?

@syntholabo 2 жыл бұрын

iz nice

@richarquis 4 ай бұрын

"I kind of want to try the pitch bend mode on the Data Bender... But I also don't want to ruin it..." [Literally 12 seconds later, tries the pitch bend mode on the DB.] Newsflash, it didn't ruin it.

@TheUnperson 4 ай бұрын

Haha! This is the dilemma and joy of having no presets in modular land :D

@Larry30102 2 жыл бұрын

Ok…mind blown. How many of us here can raise their hand if they had NO IDEA that Rings was so capable of such creativity? I’m not familiar with Data Bender. What does it contribute? A big thank you. Awesome Rings vids!

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers man! Data Bender is a very cool module! I made a vid about it a while back; kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qdaYYLmjxsCxnJc.html

@howiedoin582 Жыл бұрын

good got damn thats hot 19:00

@YomYestreen 2 жыл бұрын

This video made me go from wanting just Rings, to wanting Rings, MCO, and Data Bender. Nice one. RIP my wallet, though.

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry dude, and right before Christmas too lol

@pawnotdaw4559 2 жыл бұрын

How about Clouds into Rings?

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

Ohhh, that causes a glitch in the matrix!

@bird104G 2 жыл бұрын

I can't decide between a minibrute modular system expensive to me or nifty nice but build not great so I will get a yamaha piano and learn to play it perhaps I use my 2 8 tracks mini brute 2 and arturia v with beatstep pro and free synths or a are 2600 I just wish I had a wee bit of talent and I would play the spoons and sound by god that sounds good like an arp2600 no I getting yam peiono and a dictionary I not a slave to adds or am I I want a nifty

@TheUnperson 2 жыл бұрын

When you figure out how to make the spoons sound like an arp2600 let me know haha!

@bird104G 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheUnperson the free shot of 2600 arturia is nice I think I am getting a roland jdxi if it not sold the way I play I better on spoons