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The wonderful world of gain staging, or: how to balance your Eurorack signals
Today we’ll introduce the topic of gain staging because yes. We’ll explore the concepts of gain versus volume, headroom, and saturation. We’ll also do some examples, like how to interface a modular synth with guitar pedals and how to interface a guitar with a modular synthesizer. At the end, a bonus tip on saturation.
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Remaking a through-zero FM patch with some extra undertones
While archiving some footage, we stumbled across a very cool patch, so we chose to recreate it on this larger system here!
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The heaviest distortions we can get so far (with no distortion modules)
Time for some heavy riffs today! We tried to bend our system to achieve the heaviest distortion ever. Which, since we don’t have a distortion unit, was quite a challenge!
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Sidechain #3
Today we explored another way of using FUMANA’s ALL E.F. output. We used it to tame our reverb send and clear up the mix!
We took advantage of the 321 to scale, invert, and offset it, then patched the result to the QSC effect send.
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Modular Expressiveness ep. 2: Dynamics
If we think about “depth” in music, we think about amplitude variation, or: dynamics. So today, we’ll continue our journey through modular expressiveness by exploring the many ways we can liven up our melody through amplitude.
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Individual Outs #1
Time to use those 16 outputs up there! In this patch, we used some individual bands to feed a shimmer reverb, thus obtaining a different harmonic feel every time.
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Two CGM Updates: Stereo Channel and Group
In this blog post, we talk about the release of two new CGM units: the new Stereo Channel, and an updated Group. We talk about their feature and our approach towards a modern Eurorack mixer.
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Reverb Feedback #2
Ok, this is a little risky… Instead of using the group FX section, try to patch the FX return to another channel, and then play with this channel’s FX send. You’ll create a very dangerous feedback loop that can also provide some gentle overtones! If you have a QSC, you can even achieve this without a group by using its internal FX mono output.
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Exploring CGM
That’s an unrecorded, interactive workshop where we discuss the CGM Creative Mixer Series. Suits both owners and non-owners! Come on in, ask questions, share thoughts and engage with us!
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Safe Solo
By linking more channels, you can “safely” arrange a section to solo through the solo-in-place switches or buttons, then use the Safe Solo switch on the group modules to put that into practice. You can also think of it as a multi-mute tool!
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