Create music with Modular M1 thread

This thread focuses on making music with Herwig Krass’ Modular M-1.

The criterion is this: created a track using only Herwig’s modular M1.

find it here: http://www.nativeinstruments.de/index.php?id=userlibrary&type=0&ulbr=1&plview=detail&patchid=7499

Solo with it, jam on it, play a pad, sample and mangle it. Whatever you wish to do with the audio is up to you, just make sure that all audio is from the modular M1 including any drums etc…vocals don’t count if you choose to sing, don’t worry I wont be singing.

If this is something you would like to do or sounds like a good idea don’t talk about it, post some music. I look forward to hearing any takers on this.

Cheers and thanks Herwig for this ultra fine instrument.

 

nice idea

sowari

 

good. Music please.

 

improvisation 1

got the right feeling today

second attachment is the used snap
you will recognize the limits of dsp at highest notes (SampleRate = 44100 Hz) - the aliasing is in evidence. SampleRate 132300 Hz is nearly clean (but 4 voices 73% CPU on PowerMac Dual G5 2.7GHz).

 

I made some track with the M1 as I proposed above. I basically sampled the M1, some of those samples went to a sampler/sequencer and others I just used as is. I loaded everything into Audacity and treated it like tape; making a sort of collage out of it.

 

very, very nice!

 

Mini Mod ambience

Firstly thanks to Herwig for Mini Modular syntheser
Secondly, I must say that I have also really enjoyed his musical postings in this forum.
Also Jonathan's collages were very tight too
The piece I am uploading by way of contrast is rhaphsodic and perhaps not so 'tight' in its feel, but it does have a certain mood which is sustained by the technique available to me
I use three instances of HmM_1_05 as VSTi's inside Cubase 4 and then mixed them down to one Stereo track..about 7 minutes long
I cannot play really tightly and have significant latency with my sound card delivering only 13ms
Nevertheless I present Mini Moodular here for anyone interested in hearing an example of serious musical synergy.

I hope others will follow

Julian C.

 

Made with these snapshots

The piece mini moodular was made with the following four snapshots-----to the best of my recollection and going by the cubase file

Julian Cafarella

 

an older piece:
synchron
the name is a reference how the brass sound is made: synchronisation.
the style: free brass improvisation on boogie styled bass.
used only one snap: brass 6 bank 2 snap 65

ciao herw

 

New Moodular Music

Firstly, thanks to Herw for his very creative boogie

Secondly, I'm very sorry to see this thread on page four of the forum already and without any new music added

Therefore I'm uploading here three shortish pieces which use only the hmM v107 as their sound source and Cubase as sequencer

There are places where I have used Cubase's quantisation capability but I have also made it a point to allow my own rhythmical instincts to come through (particularly as in the third piece).

I find it hard to characterise this stuff, except to say that it is experimental and improvisatory within a fairly defined structure---and tonal, (sort of). I hope there will be someone who will find it interesting and/ or worthwhile to listen to

Please feel free to sample and indeed comment.

I include within the zip file an annotated snapshot file of the snapshots used for general perusal

Julian C.

 

YES - i think you like igor strawinsky

BTW: the actual version of the modular is 5.07 and the manual you find here

 

Thanks for posting the above audio Julian.

I am a bit disappointed that people haven't taken to this :| .

Perhaps it’s the complexity of the instrument, but with more then 600 snapshot I don’t think one need go that deep into it to create some interesting audio and textures to listen to, just about 20min experimentation with this (the time it would take to actually try out the snaps and choose a couple of them) creates some rather fantastic audio.

 

I think i should change the category to "modular randomized nothing to do DJ-tool" for next upload and add "shock your parents and READ the manual"

 

Just made my music for Halloween in 20min with Updated version, should spook the crap out of the kids

 

e-gitarre bank snap 71

please don't play with headphones because there are very deep bass sounds (20Hz) - you wouldn't hear.

ciao herw