I made my modular performance synth simpler & more fun

Lovely. I could watch these personal case walk-throughs all day, every day. Lots of good ideas to take in. 👏👏👏

“you’re much dumber on stage than you are at home” - yep, pretty accurate in my experience 😂

I'm happy to see Calibr8or at the center of such a compact and effective performance configuration! ⚡😁

The live performance brain fog does get less, the more you perform live. But, I think it's best if the performer is so thoroughly familiar and well practiced that they basically enter a state where the performance just 'happens'. Can be an amazing feeling to be so in the zone of performing, that you only realise and come back to your judgemental self right at the moment the concert ends. Makes all the prep worthwhile. With tech, someone once recommended to me to always have a really simple backup system. That could be something like a live set you can pull out of your hat. Like a sample driven set you can quickly bring to life on say an SP-404, Digitakt, MPC, Octatrack, TR-8, Polyend, tiny laptop or something. You will very rarely need to use it. But the fact that it's there settles your nerves about catastrophic failure in the main system. The most important point of professionalism being ... the show must go on.

Definitely for better! Really like these live setup walk throughs. The more people share different ideas and setups, the more little things that are great ideas to pick up. Thanks!

Brill. You’ve always been the most inspiring chap. So many ideas flood in everytime after watching. I feel you need to make a module. A new grids style gate generator? Yes!

Thanks for this video. My pet peeve has been that so many live modular system videos just have a sequencer patch that can basically create super busy 8-16 step sequences (every step on, of course) that wouldn't necessarily result in something that most people would want to listen to for longer than 5 minutes at a party. I've also tried to create a system where you could create a 4-step sequence and then modify it to become a, say, sparse 2 bar loop + 2 bar variation.

Swapping the 2nd and 4th knob on my ms22 helped me so much. makes the whole thing more playable

Nice case! Another great way to get more out of euclidean sequencers is to combine two sequences with a logic module.

This is about the right sized case for live. Beyond everything starts to get overwhelming. I really dig the dual Euclidian circles!

Great video, and it’s been a pleasure watching your live kit transform in different form factors and concept. 15:36 This is a super deep topic. I agree. I feel like if you only wanted to easily get amazing results live, you’d end up playing on Ableton or Octatrack (or in my case, Bitwig+MPC). I feel like, people who are going out of their way to play their modular live are willing to go the extra mile to do the actual synthesis of every element in real-time.. and doing that absolutely means sacrificing some of the ease of performance. It’s a very delicate balance right? Personally I make very detailed kinda IDMy kind of stuff. So even though i use my modular to create many of the sounds, the structure of the music itself kind of demands I use other tools in order to even be able to play it live at all without showing up with a huge heap of boxes! Which is not to say, of course, that i just hit play on Bitwig and wave my hands around 😉 far from it. Lots of realtime stuff happening in both MPC and Bitwig. But every person’s musical choices will, to some extent, have to determine what ‘easily get amazing results’ means, in their case. This is why I am equally respectful of a performer who plays entirely from Ableton and nails their concept (as long as they are actually playing not checking their email!), as I am of a performer creating completely improvised modular music. To me, it’s all good, as long as there is genuine performance happening and an energy flow going from the performer to the audience and back. That feedback loop is what creates the magic of a live performance, not the kit. If you’re truly sending to the audience and they’re receiving and sending back to you, that’s the key. Thanks for another thoughtful video, you’re a positive influence for folks trying to grapple with the ‘why’ not just the ‘how.’ Also thanks for putting up with my long comment folks, i’m a nerd.

The pads and stabs on this are sublime...Great work man.

Incredibly helpful to see your latest case set up, hear your learnings, analysis and thought process - thanks so much for sharing 🙏🏻

It would be really funny if this means an updated suggested systems techno rack based on THIS system instead of your previous, but this video is so chock full of useful information that I don’t think I’ll be needing it anytime soon.

Enjoying the podcasts so far 👍

You just have the hang of getting cool stuff out of pretty much anything. I really dig that. Still learning a lot from you. Keep on groovin'! 👍

Absolutely brilliant stuff thank you!

Cheers, Alex! That was really helpful! Glad I'm doing some of these things already! I must be learning something!

Great walkthrough! You always have interesting patch ideas. 😀

Thank you for this great video! It's tremendously helpful and inspiring, although I feel like I need to watch it multiple times to actually grasp and understand the concepts fully. It's really invaluable advice.