This is Volume 4 of a series of sound design recipes for the Mutable Instruments Plaits (or clone or DIY) Eurorack Module. This volume covers the GREEN models/modes 5, 6, 7 and 8 on Plaits.
LINKS TO ALL VIDEOS in the series:
- Plaits Red Modes 1-4: https://youtu.be/ZyUkJ5gYcrk
- Plaits Red Modes 5-8: https://youtu.be/YYX_eNTqZgo
- Plaits Green Modes 1-4: https://youtu.be/EvtckC8bLM8
- Plaits Green Modes 5-8: https://youtu.be/wcXJp9Hl31Q (THIS VIDEO)
- Plaits Orange Modes 1,2,6,7,8: https://youtu.be/zj3PRlO4ETQ
- Plaits Orange Modes 3, 4, 5: https://youtu.be/dy5gZIQr8kA
The basis for this was the original Cheat Sheet which describes all the controls of ALL 24 models on the firmware 1.2 version of the Plaits. That's not the recipes - but it's a good start to quickly remember the controls of the 24 modes/models.
- Mutable Instruments Firmware 1.2 Cheat Sheet: https://rochefsky.com/learnings/plaits
These are simple patches and recipes - with no modulation and just knob (potentiometer) settings. My intention is to keep an actual list of the description of many sounds so I can dial them in later when I want them, so I don't have to start from scratch every time I return to Plaits - or rely on my memory, which, given the size of my growing Eurorack, simply can't keep up.
Note I move faster in this video (editing!!) which means you should use the visual cues in the video to get the recipe for now, and soon you'll be able to use my spreadsheet when I publish it
Here's a summary of the chapters in this video:
0:00 - Intro
0:35 - patch description
1:30 - Setting The Internal Envelope
2:00 - #1: Trombone-ish
2:32 - #2: Wah Wah
3:10 - #3: Pew Pew
3:40 - #4: Catt Purr
4:15 - #5: Flute-ish
4:45 - #6: Clarinet-ish
5:18 - #7: Vowel Sounds
6:00 - #8: Harmonic Organ
6:30 - #9: Standing Bass too
7:05 - #10: Weh WAH
7:38 - #11: Spaceship Chaos
8:28 - #12: Doom Bass Drone
9:20 - #13: Halloween Organ
10:08 - #14: Arpegiate-ishh
10:53 - #15: Piano Sweep
11:16 - #16: Congregation Organ
11:45 - #17: Dafty Punky
12:50 - #18: Oh Yeah
13:30 - #19: Oy!
13:52 - #20: Ahh
14:20 - #21: Aye
14:42 - #22: Ayo
15:05 - #23: ROYGBIV Color Words
17:05 - #24: Count 0 to 10
17:45 - #25: Alphabet
18:12 - #26: Phonetic Alphabet
18:45 - #27: Technical Jargon
Please don't expect expert patch recipes here - these are definitely basic raw sounds.... and these first 4 models of the Plaits are not my favorite - but the next set are killer!
The output of all these models in the video are generally from the OUT output (NOT the AUX)... but the recipe list I'll publish at the end of this series will have all those details. Look for a text or spreadsheet version of all these recipes / patches to be published soon on https://rochefsky.com/learnings/plaits.
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The cable patch is quite simple:
Clock: Pam’s to Plaits Trig and to TipTop z8000 sequencer clock (16 step).
Sequence: TipTop Z8000 16 step (practically random) into TipTop QuantiZer, into Plaits Pitch V/Oct input.
Plaits OUT to mixer to Sono Abitus output module.
(Aux is patched but silenced in this video, as it was mostly noisy and didn’t add well in most recipes)
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