modular synth songs

[lastdarkmage]

anyone have or know of good songs made with modular synths

[lastdarkmage]

also most of my discography was made with a modular synth (sunvox)

im confused on what this is, it looks like its digital and not analog?

[Troisnyx]

@Mich makes his own modular synths. Might be worth checking out his music.

[lastdarkmage]

At 9/5/23 02:11 AM, Troisnyx wrote: @Mich makes his own modular synths. Might be worth checking out his music.

hard to tell how much is modular and how much is digital stuff in his daw

[Troisnyx]

At 9/5/23 02:16 AM, lastdarkmage wrote:

At 9/5/23 02:11 AM, Troisnyx wrote: @Mich makes his own modular synths. Might be worth checking out his music.

hard to tell how much is modular and how much is digital stuff in his daw

Best would be to ask him. He should hopefully be able to break down for each track, or point you towards tracks of interest.

[Mich]

At 9/5/23 02:16 AM, lastdarkmage wrote:

At 9/5/23 02:11 AM, Troisnyx wrote: @Mich makes his own modular synths. Might be worth checking out his music.

hard to tell how much is modular and how much is digital stuff in his daw

Sorry to report that out of the music I've posted, my modular synth is only really featured as part of some acid-y layer in the bass in:

and

Other than that, I've just got some live noodling over on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnescbPLu7JoGYoCj6JEHr-Y5sphKtvKT

[LD-W]

Nero Bellum has done some albums seperate from his Psyclon Nine project, which are fully modular and 100% worth checking out moreso on the Industrial side:

https://nerobellum.bandcamp.com/album/the-voice-of-your-blood-cries-to-me-from-the-soil

https://nerobellum.bandcamp.com/album/nfrn

There's also Caterina Barbieri's three albums 'Patterns Of Consciousness', 'Ecstatic Computation' and 'Spirit Exit' I'd highly recommend checking out in the modular space:

https://caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/patterns-of-consciousness

https://caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/ecstatic-computation

https://caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-exit

[lastdarkmage]

At 9/5/23 04:54 AM, LD-W wrote: Nero Bellum has done some albums seperate from his Psyclon Nine project, which are fully modular and 100% worth checking out moreso on the Industrial side:
https://nerobellum.bandcamp.com/album/the-voice-of-your-blood-cries-to-me-from-the-soil
https://nerobellum.bandcamp.com/album/nfrn

There's also Caterina Barbieri's three albums 'Patterns Of Consciousness', 'Ecstatic Computation' and 'Spirit Exit' I'd highly recommend checking out in the modular space:
https://caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/patterns-of-consciousness
https://caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/ecstatic-computation
https://caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-exit

Personally I find these artists songs quite boring, the composition doesn't really seem to go anywhere, and some of the sounds are harsh, you would think they would have plenty of filters for that. Seems to be common with modular, no one really does anything special with it. There are a few old gems, like 70s/80s, and it sounds even smoother on vinyl, thank you ebay.

The only modern modular artist I've found that demonstrates the crazy stuff modular can do is this little freestyle

But even this guy makes normal music most of the time, despite having this expensive toy.

[Mich]

He's not done many standalone songs, but Colin Benders has done a lot of live streams of just jamming away on his monstrous eurorack wall. Some fantastic ambient atmospheres, trancey lines, and hard techno occurs, but it's all pretty slow evolving.

[OVERSCORE]

I make music in SunVox, if that’s what you’re asking

[LD-W]

At 9/5/23 01:11 PM, lastdarkmage wrote:

At 9/5/23 04:54 AM, LD-W wrote: Nero Bellum has done some albums seperate from his Psyclon Nine project, which are fully modular and 100% worth checking out moreso on the Industrial side:
https://nerobellum.bandcamp.com/album/the-voice-of-your-blood-cries-to-me-from-the-soil
https://nerobellum.bandcamp.com/album/nfrn

There's also Caterina Barbieri's three albums 'Patterns Of Consciousness', 'Ecstatic Computation' and 'Spirit Exit' I'd highly recommend checking out in the modular space:
https://caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/patterns-of-consciousness
https://caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/ecstatic-computation
https://caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-exit

Personally I find these artists songs quite boring, the composition doesn't really seem to go anywhere, and some of the sounds are harsh, you would think they would have plenty of filters for that. Seems to be common with modular, no one really does anything special with it. There are a few old gems, like 70s/80s, and it sounds even smoother on vinyl, thank you ebay.

The only modern modular artist I've found that demonstrates the crazy stuff modular can do is this little freestyle

But even this guy makes normal music most of the time, despite having this expensive toy.

The point with alot of modular projects (including all of the above-linked) is to utilise a wide array of different processing chains to establish a solid marriage between the setting of atmosphere via unique 'routed' design outcomes. It's very prevelant amongst the modular scene (regardless of the sub-gene's that alot of the projects 'technically' slide under), and for those who are looking for basic, slow A-to-B structure-evolutions with a strong foundation in maintaining a coherent design-scape, those types of modular-synth projects work well.

State Azure in particular is one of the most popular, and regulary does modular-ambient sessions worth checking out (with equipment on-display in most of them), while sometimes also including manual keyboard performances alongside them

https://www.youtube.com/@stateazure

I've personally had no desire to get into composing with modular-hardware, since alot of the outputs capable from the most popular modules can semi-easily get replicated (close enough) through various plugin emulations, while also playing them in a more composition-minded manner on a MIDI Keyboard etc.

If you're looking for unique, innovative compositional directions though amongst many modular projects in general, you'll be hard-pressed to find much that anyone can likely suggest here.

[djsainthubert]

https://djsaint-hubert.bandcamp.com/

I make music with Blok Modular inside Jeskola Buzz