GESPRÄCHSKONZERT (Lecture Concert): Joranalogue at SUPERBOOTH26

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:00]So hello everybody and welcome to our little um lecture concert. I'm not going to try the German pronunciation but um this is analog audio design at Super Boot. Super Boot is 10 years old and so is our brands. So it's a kind of special edition and I actually thought for a little while about what to do here, right? what how how to present this anniversary edition. And then I figured maybe the best thing to do is to just let the modules speak for themselves. So that's what we're going to do.

[00:00:37]And um first of all, I do want to say a little word of of thanks to everybody who who made it possible because it's um you know, it's it's not something to take for granted when people from all over the world come here uh to explore all these different brands. And we've also been very lucky to work with some amazing artists and dealers all over the world um who use our modules to make some amazing music. And that's something that that keeps us going every day. So what we're doing at your analog audio design for the people who are not familiar with our brand uh is we make analog modules in Belgium and our motto is lab crate synthesis and that's for a particular reason because we like to think that if you create instruments that are very precise very versatile that you can simply do things that were impossible or unimaginable before. And a lot of the things we do use analog techniques, um, ideas that were around for a long time. Some are very new, some are very old, but a lot of these things were simply impossible in the past. So, over the next 20 minutes or so, we'd like to invite you to explore our little vision of the analog future.

[00:02:03]And to do that, we brought uh a few systems here. We have um little brother and big brother let's say um and Fritz a colleague an amazing artist is going to give you a uh much more musical presentation on the big system later on.

[00:02:23]Um so first of all we've got an an empty pallet here uh in front of me and for some people this may seem a little daunting because our modules are quite dense quite complex but they each have a particular function a particular thing they they do well but that thing is not necessarily uh you know here's a kick drum module or here's a square wave fio or things like that. We think in terms of patch programming where you have these functions you can use in very different ways and create your own unique patches. So let's start from zero and uh and make some sound right here.

[00:03:07]I'm going to start by taking uh collide for our uh collaboration we did with Mr. Hebach, well known from the interwebs among other places, of course, a great uh great musician, a great inspiring person for us to work with. Um, this is so as I said, this is collide 4. Let's listen to what's coming out of it right now. Just simple sine wave. We're going to start shaping this sine wave in some beautiful ways. So, the first thing we have here is gain and lots of it.

[00:03:42]So, let's turn up the gain.

[00:03:46]We can shape that sine wave into a square wave. Now, I've got an LFO, a low frequency oscillator built into the module. And I'm going to mix that in there.

[00:04:01]Can make it a little bit faster.

[00:04:07]And I'm going to Add some more gain to that.

[00:04:18]And suddenly we have PWM going on.

[00:04:35]Now let's add some element of rhythm to this. So, I'm actually going to patch through uh Flow 3, our latest module, which is a uh compact but very good sounding filter. I think so myself. I'm biased, of course.

[00:04:56]And we have some Let's turn this off.

[00:05:01]There's our filter on it.

[00:05:03]Turn up the resonance.

[00:05:07]Maybe some more signal. That's better.

[00:05:18]Now we need to add some modulation to this. So the nice thing about Flow3 is that it's a very compact filter. It's 6HP, but it has a builtin DK generator.

[00:05:28]So we can just take the trigger signal and start triggering that.

[00:05:33]There we go.

[00:05:53]Now, of course, we want to build a little sequence on that. This is quite a um a droney sound.

[00:06:01]So, let me patch a few things in between. I'm going to um turn this down somewhat.

[00:06:16]And then we can actually start using the same clock to control both the envelope in flow as well as a step eight which is a um sequential tracking and sampling register which among many many things you can use as a simple sequencer.

[00:06:44]So let's start.

[00:06:49]Let's start sequencing.

[00:07:18]Now, there's a lot of things Flow3 can do, and one thing I like very much is to uh use it for creating kick drums. And that's actually really, really simple because you have all of the ingredients.

[00:07:31]You've got a uh very pingable filter. So let's take some triggers from walk four here straight into the input this time and then I can take one of the outputs the low pass output for example and now it's just on the verge of self oscillation.

[00:08:02]And now we simply turn up the range knob which sets the amount of frequency modulation.

[00:08:26]So that's filter turned into a kick drum. Of course it also selfosscillates.

[00:08:31]So you can use it as a sine wave or rather quadriure oscillator sine cosine and then it tracks a volt proctive perfectly. Um so it's a it's a little addition to the series but a very useful one. There's a lot of other tricks up its sleeve like it can do frequency splitting um dual band processing. So you can split your full spectrum into low and high band process those separately mix them together. Again, there's a lot of tricks up, a lot more tricks up its sleeve, including using it as a low frequency oscillator, way more than we can show right here. But of course, you're invited to the booth uh later on to check out the full series of modules, get full explanation as well as check out the website where we have an enormous amount of resources, videos, manuals, and so on. So yeah, thank you for this very very uh attending this very little brief demonstration. And now comes the actually musically interesting parts.

[00:09:35]Um thanks to my colleague Fritz who will now take over.

[00:09:47]Uh hello. Hello. Okay. So I just prepared a patch uh at our boot. Uh, it's pretty much inspired in the things that I'm mostly patching at home. Uh, yeah, I got most of all your analog modules and I'm very good at using them nowadays because I really know them in and out. And yeah, they're really great tools to shape your own sounds and you do do need to work a bit for it, but if you work for something, it's always rewarding. Uh, so yeah, I'm now going to give you a quick showdown uh gem. Uh it's going to be a bit melodic and afterwards I will quickly explain the Watch.

[00:11:05]Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat.

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[00:16:02]Hey, hey, hey.

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[00:18:32]So yeah, that was my patch. Uh I quickly built it from scratch. Uh I kind of followed the same recipe. I mostly follow and yeah, I guess everyone have their patching tendencies to what they go back and what they try to fine-tune. And uh nowadays I'm a bit more into the EDME nice melodic uh music. Uh and I'll quickly show you how I did this part. So I will need a clock again.

[00:19:03]Mute the music. Uh so we had a drum groove. It's already going to our true or flow tree and it's uh the envelope follow is enabled. So you can hear that the filter is a bit animated. Going to release it now so you can hear. It already sounds very nice on the mix. Can also use a highp pass one.

[00:19:46]So the kick, how I do this, I'm sequencing a step eight with a clock.

[00:19:52]And with our step eight, I'm sampling some random voltages from orbit tree which I translate to a 0 port till 5 volt voltage range. And I'm have this first step eight in shift register modus. And I'm using uh one of the individual outputs of step eight to uh address the scan input of step eight.

[00:20:11]And this means with another step eight and this means that with random voltages I'm addressing with another step h which step it place. So, if you can hear now, we have one steady kick, but I'm using the individual gate out from the other step eight to add some other ghost kicks. So, so yeah, and then from the stable step eight, the one that goes linearly, I take one gate output like on the fifth step, you know, uh, and I'm using this one to ping one of our filter eights.

[00:20:47]And I think our modules are very famous, not famous, but it's very common that we have a ping input on our filter 8 and also on our collite. And yeah, the patch I'm just going to show now. It's very simple. It's just the filter being pinged through our wave folder.

[00:21:03]And you get this nice rim clip of sound.

[00:21:07]You have a very Yeah, you can play with the frequency of the filter 8. You can get some nice wood sounds. Uh the fault sixes settings are very mild now, but I can you can get some very nice plucky sounds from that.

[00:21:26]Then we have a closed high.

[00:21:31]This is a patch uh that's from the manual of generate 3 and you can do some feedback feedback patching with our generator 3 module. So, I did this patch and I really I do it all the all the time actually for noise because I really love the noise it has. It's like nice textural pitch noise and I really like the textures from it.

[00:21:54]And I'm using our contour one modules.

[00:21:56]You have all the envelopes. They're really nice for drums. They're super punchy also for the kick.

[00:22:21]So yeah, control one modules are very nice for percussion and they can go very snappy, but like you hear the rhythm is not so stable because I modulate the decay time too to make it a bit more human. And then last of all, I added an open highatt from the same noise source.

[00:22:38]So yeah, that's that. Uh, and then from the melodic part for this time, it's first time I did it, but I'm using my U marbles module. Why? Because, yeah, we're an analog brand and everything we do is analog, but it's super high quality. The only thing is what's hard to achieve in a analog realm is uh creating a proper quantizer or yeah, precise voltages. And that's why I used our U marbles to kind of show how beautiful our modules track and they really track very well uh their one volt per octave uh information. So yeah, I wanted to show a bit how beautiful our modules can sound because most of the time I do these presentations uh with only the or big system and uh then it sounds a bit more aonal. I don't have a ear for pitch. So that's why I used to use marbles and I also added a bit of delay because yeah, it just makes things really beautiful.

[00:23:36]What we're listening here are two cycle fives and they're both being sequenced by the U marbles and they're going through our flow three filter.

[00:23:47]Yeah, maybe show some more examples about the sound of that.

[00:24:19]And I used one select two as a macro to fade between the vari wave of both cycle fives.

[00:24:32]And now you can really hear how beautiful our modules can sound with a nice simple pitch sequence. And yeah, I smed everything together in our more 4.

[00:24:41]It's a quad VCA mixer type, but you can use it as a summing mixer for two stereo channels. So, I did that and then I mixed in the mixed in the drums together in more.

[00:24:56]One thing I also did is sending the whole drum groove through delay one to get some more uh yeah EDMish feeling to it.

[00:25:18]And yeah, that was my patch for today. I kept it fairly simple, but yeah, it's it's our modules can sometimes be a bit intimidating if you're a beginner or anything, but I see more and more fixed modules like my boss mentioned and there is nothing wrong with that. I also have them like very instant gratification modules. But I think there was also the art of modular where it started first where you where you really build your own stuff from scratch and I think that's very rewarding and it you can really shape the sound of your the shape of your sound how you really like and I mean anyone can play with this system. I not play but I mean uh do the exact same patch and it will same sound different for everyone because I guess everyone tweaks to their likings and I think that's also something very magical what maybe sometimes disappears with some fixed uh syn modules or uh whatever. So yeah, that was my showcase of our brand.