Mrs Marbles – Patch Notes

In this patch I wanted to check out Mutable Instruments Marbles for modulating Mother and Magneto. Up till now I had used Marbles to create quantized CVs for my VCOs. But then I switched to sequencers (either via MIDI or the internal Mother sequencer) and didn’t use Marbles for some time. Now it is time to restart.

Cable Connections for the patch

  • Marbles t1 -> Magneto Shift
  • Marbles t3 -> Magneto play direction
  • Marbles X1 -> Mother VCF Res
  • Marbles X2 -> Magneto Wet
  • Marbles X3 -> Mother VCF Cutoff
  • Magneto Clk1 out -> Marbles Clock (t on the left)
  • Magneto Clk2 out -> Marbles Clock (X on the right)
  • Mother-32 VCA -> Magneto Left In
  • A-190-4 Clock -> Magneto Clock In
  • Mother receives Notes via Midi from my DAW
strymon Magneto
These are the knob positions on the strymon Magneto.
Mother-32
These are the knob positions on the Mother 32.
Mutable Instruments Marbles
These are the knob positions on Marbles (Spread should be at 11 am, Bias at 5 pm).

In the DAW

This is the first patch using two reverbs with a distortion as insert. Both reverbs and the distortion are in one send channel.

I used:

  • Raum Reverb
  • Logic Pro stock Distortion II module
  • Valhalla Shimmer

The Eurorack input is panned with Pancake 2 by Cable Guys.

Recording and mixing

The record was a one take. The only thing I did afterwards was to EQ the channels and add some compression. Also I used automation to change the level of reverb by bringing up or down the reverb channel. I actually like that because it reveals some of the original sound from time to time.

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