
Explore Arturia's Moog Modular V3 through a three-part course: theory of modules such as sample and hold, noise, and oscillators, then sound design demos and advanced sequencing tricks.
Explore modular synthesis basics, why modular offers endless modulation and creative surprises, and how to approach it with trial and error. Begin with a basic overview of the Moog V3.
Explore the Arturia Moog modular v3 basics: navigate the outer interface, set MIDI channels, and learn intuitive patching from oscillators, filters, envelopes, and VCA to modulation, sequencers, and effects.
Navigate the preset browser to save, name, and organize presets into banks and user playlists, then search by styles, types, and banks for quick life-performance sounds.
Explore Arturia's Moog V3 oscillators: nine units driven by a master controller produce sine, triangle, saw, and square waves with harmonics for subtractive synthesis, plus FM, sync, and PWM controls.
Learn how the mixer orchestrates control and audio signals, uses link buttons and amplifiers to route to a low-pass filter and VCA, and shapes sound.
Explore default voltage controlled amplifiers (vcas) and their envelopes, including dedicated and freely assignable ones, with attack, decay, sustain, release, slope time, slope level; learn triggers, outputs, and modulation loops.
Explore how Moog-style multimode filters shape subtractive synthesis, using low/high/band reject filters, resonance, key follow, and modulation inputs to sculpt sonic movement with envelopes, noise, and sequencers.
Explore envelopes, LFOs, and modulation techniques in Arturia's Moog Modular V3 Masterclass, including tempo-synced oscillators, random wave modulation, delays, filters, and dual VCA routing.
Explore how the formant filter shapes vowel-like tones by targeting predefined vowel frequencies, modulating four bell filters with envelopes, LFOs, and noise for dynamic, robotic vocal textures.
Explore the noise oscillator with fixed low pass and high pass filters and white/pink noise. Use noise as a modulation source for filter cutoffs and envelopes to craft tones.
Explore the simple and hold module in modular synthesis, sampling an input with a clock or trigger to create random stepped values for melodies, filter modulation, and pitch instability.
Explore how envelope followers in Arturia's Moog modular V3 shape external audio, triggering filters, VCAs, and modulation via threshold-based triggers.
Harness trigger delays to sculpt evolving sounds by coordinating envelopes, multiple oscillators, and AFM modulation, then shape timbre with filters, ring modulation, and shelf filters.
Explore the bottom-rail controls, including pitch bend, filter bend, unison and polyphony, legato glide, and X/Y pads for multi-parameter modulation, plus two envelopes and filter controls.
Explore key follow in Arturia's Moog modular v3 masterclass, mapping keyboard notes to oscillator and filter control, using four outputs with pitch band, glissando, and threshold triggers.
Explore the dual delay, switching between tempo-based and millisecond timing, and control feedback, cross feedback, and dry/wet mix to sculpt stereo textures and metallic tones with comb filter effects.
Design a soft pad patch in a modular setup by layering oscillators, noise, filters, and envelopes in Ableton, using modulation, aftertouch, and velocity for expressive control.
Explore crafting a gritty pluck using fm with key-following oscillators, multi-filter modulation, noise and sample-and-hold, plus envelopes, triggers, and macro assignments for dynamic sound design.
Craft a heavy Reese bass with two oscillator pwm, dual filtering (notch and band reject) into a vca, using key follow, pitch glide, and stereo chorus to brighten the top.
Master and slave oscillator synchronization demonstrates hard and soft sync, showing how the master sets pitch while the slave shapes timbre, with practical patching and tonal examples.
Experiment with a clean pluck built from sine waves, with envelopes, filters, and polyphonic voices to preserve clarity in busy mixes, then shape stereo image with delay and modulation.
Craft a string-like synth patch by detuning many saw oscillators, routing through a slow-opening filter with harmonics, and using velocity-driven stereo width and a triangle for ensemble.
Create a sequenced kick and bass rhythm on a Moog-like modular setup by programming a sine-based kick, routing through filters, soft clipping, and envelopes, all tempo-synced for dynamic hits.
Explore triggering techniques in the Moog modular: learn envelope followers, keyboard and oscillator triggers, and external sequences to sculpt polyrhythms and dynamic envelopes.
Create a chord-playing patch using three sequencer lines to control three driver groups, build evolving chord progressions with envelopes and filters, and explore learnable controller mappings.
Explore using envelope followers with your drum loop to sculpt dynamics and filter responses in a modular synth setup, including live vocal performance, modulation signals, and smoothing via timing controls.
Explore no-oscillator sound design by routing sequencer-driven signals through sample-and-hold, noise, and filter chains to sculpt gritty, evolving textures using envelopes and resonant filtering.
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As you might have noticed, Modular Synthesis has regained its popularity in the last few years, and rightfully so! It's a beautiful approach to synthesis and does a great job towards learning the inner mechanics of subtractive synthesis, as well as being very inviting towards new creative approaches. All of this really made me want to revisit a classic, and one of my all-time favourite Modulars, The Moog Modular. This synth from Arturia is a plugin version of various Moog Systems from the 60's and 70's, it can do anything the original system can do, and then some.
Whether you prefer to work with plugins or if you're planning on spending some serious cash on your own Modular system, this course will teach you everything about 'traditional' modular synthesis. On top of that it comes with 50+ patches, some of them we create ourselves during the course, the others are there for you to learn about a specific technique or to just get inspired by some crazy ideas.
As I usually do, the course is separated into multiple parts:
A - The Theory
In the Theory part you will learn about every single module, how to combine them and some different creative use-cases. To not make this part of the course too dry, I include many examples and we start to create patches right away.
You will learn what a Sample & Hold module does, and how to use it in various ways. You'll learn about Noise, FM, AM, RM, Pulse Width modulation, Sequencing, all the different filter types and much much more. In short, you'll know what every little button on the Modular V3 does, but more importantly, when to reach for it.
B - Creating Functional Sounds
Once you've learned about all the modules we get into creating sounds, we start by making some functional/useful sounds that you can use in any sort of genre. These consists of Pads, Plucks, Basses, Keys, etc. The purpose of this part of the course is to provide you with some patches you can use right away in your own music, as well as solidifying the ideas and modules you learned about in the A section. Another benefit resulting from crafting sounds together is that you'll start to see how I think when working on a patch, which directions are possible and how to turn a weird small idea into a great patch.
C - Advanced Sounds
At this point you will already have a very strong knowledge on this Arturia Modular V3 and Modular Synthesis in general, so why not use that knowledge to really get into mad professor mode..
In the last part of the course we'll do exactly that, we will start to build complex sounds and sequences where we challenge ourselves to use tricky modular and advanced techniques. We'll also look into how to use external audio and process that with the Modular system, we dive deeper into FM, triggers, Oscillator Syncing, the Bode Frequency shifter and a whole lot more.
This course is an exciting 10-hour deep dive into the deep waters of Modular Sound-Design, it was very exciting to record and I hope you will share my excitement when going through the videos. Have fun, and thank you!