I have yet to figure out whether your videos are meant to inspire other modular players or to keep the rest of us from making a terrible musical instrument mistake. Either way, thanks for sharing!

A video telling me why I hate modular synths taught me how to make a really nice kick. Very clever sir

these aren't just good tutorials, but also an interesting watch for people outside the synth world on how synthesizing electronic drums work.

Cool approach to teach modular synthesis, I love it, thank you for sharing knowledge

All the Modular synth demos on KZfaq are great, so I've been sampling them and using them in Octatrack. And of course it's free!

Excellent! I love you ‘Bad Gear’ approach to tutorials 😎

Quite expensive kickdrum, and fun anecdote: after spending 10 K on eurorack i recently bought a volca drum and within minutes made stuff (slow noisescapes) i have not yet achieved with the modular.

Thanks man, you've saved me about £15,000 and 2 years of my time

Good God. It's like when you see Deadmau5 studio and he has walls of hardware encompassing him but is on his computer using software synths and Cthulhu with LFO tool.

great vids about the frustration that can occur modular synth. personaly, i’m using a kickall from befaco and plugg it’s output to an attenuator, and then plug this output in a stereo in in my mixer, which is balances for external source. makes things much louder.

Love this secretly awesome tutorial : D

I went through a couple of different methods of doing kicks, first synthesising them like you did, then with some dedicated kick modules. Eventually I set my Disting to dual sampler mode and loaded a kick and snare sample into it which I stole from an old trance song. Since then I have never changed the mode on my Disting!

I've been staring at this 400 some odd HP worth of Eurorack modules sitting beside me wondering: "why do I hate you?" And now I know. THANK YOU!

Nice job. Obviously a good or bad kick is very style depended, or even taste if there is such a thing. The cool thing about knowing how to synthesize a kick is that if gives you more options. I would sample the result and maybe layer is or use it in Kick2 as a starting point.

but then maybe you want some "roominess" to the kick. So then you need to add a noise source and send that to another vca opened up by another envelope, mixed in with the dirty sine wave before going to the final vca. but then you maybe want to add some gated reverb so then you need to send that final signal to a reverb and get another envelope and invert it to turn down the amount of reverb after the initial hit. and then.....

Great tutorial. I like how you progress from this sounds crap and why to what to do to fix it. Really easy to follow.

The point being made is that you can build anything from first principles and some people do exactly that with modular as a sound design workflow for importing into their DAW. Other people prefer a performance modular rig and you most certainly would not use this first principles set up for that, and just have dedicated modules for everything. Nice walkthrough of basic drum sound design though.

Actually.. that's what I rather like about modula.. yeah.. for sure it can be a pain in the ass.. but the joy I get when it all connects is.. worth it (for me) First I've seen of you, gonna give a follow for novelty ;-)))

Dude! I'm just getting into Patching up my own Kicks, stop spoiling my fun! 😋

If you replace one of those modules with a sampler then you can save the kick drum and have it for later. Also you got a cirklon next to your rack, that's probably where your kick triggers are coming from. ;-)

Love this ❤

Sounds nice. DP0 makes a great drum voice.

I use eurorack for effects and modulation. My voices all come from drum machines and semi modular boxes. I'm pretty novice but this combo works for me (so far).

that title is as divisive as a doepfer A-160-2

*DFAM has entered the chat

haha this is funny! Also kind of true. Pretty fun to design a kick on modular, may be worth sampling it to actually use it

IMHO, this is the most expansive (in hp) way to make a kick. Pinging filters is easier, I think, and requires only 1 trigger or gate and a filter. Take a filter with low-mid-high pass and take one or mix them to shape your kick as you wish. Most filters I know of are also sinewave oscillators. It sounds more natural to me than using a sine ocsillator since it gives also the decay envelope on amplitude AND frequency.

This is why I make my kicks either in software or with my Microwave.

That's probably why one should either build a eurorack specialized towards percussion and drums and then do the same for other categorizations of instruments or... buy a drum machine.

just use the same envelope, it sounds great. but yeah if simple kicks are what you want synthesizing them from scratch is a big ask.

Great one nice

Thanks - I was going to buy some modules. Now I'm scared

starting to wonder if im a masochist bc this didnt make me any less interested in modular

I like it.

You based in Sydney or Melbourne?

Normal que los odies,mezcla lo mejor de lo analógico y digital,por ejemplo,el moog subsequent 37 y haces bo.bom normales trap bass de la ostia y Big room o dubstep,y en VTS dentro del pc y si no te mola el xpert sleepers fh-2 automatizas desde el modulo al pc sin syntes de por medio solo un daw ,macho alguna vez tendrás que pasarlo a digital y con el xpert sleepers haces varios bombos,hats hit Crash congas ETS de mir formad y los usas normal y no los renderizes más solo cuando sea por analógico,así hago yo,bye

After watching your videos, FM Synthesis doesn't seem that complicated any more.

I dedicate 50+HP just for synthesizing a kick drum. :D Yea, I hate it as well.

Hey bros, check out the Entity Ultra-Kick from Steady State Fate. Instant kick. Sine waves are for nerds

yes. exactly this is why i gave up on eurorack.

isn't synthesis the reason why many get into modular?

It's a synth, not a DAW.

both kick sound the same

My bank account hates modular synths!

8k views barely any likes...take the hint

Got to spend more money bro, level up your game! J/K 🤣

😂😂😂this was good

Why even make this video?