Best Odessa video out there! Solid work again Tom! 👏👏👏👏👏
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
Thanks man!
@mcolville
10 ай бұрын
I have an Odessa, I used it for drones and love it, but I knew there was a lot more to it. This video not only convinced me to go dive back in, but also grab some Leibniz modules. Thanks Tom!
@TomChurchill
10 ай бұрын
Excellent! Enjoy :)
@akuro2685
Жыл бұрын
Odessa is so underrated. You can get such a wide variety of sounds out of it; so many sounds that I could never even come close to with other voices.
@Ellende
Жыл бұрын
It’s a been a favorite of us since it came out. Although fully digital it often produces very 70’s Kraftwerk or Michael Rother type of sound.
@ThMntnst
Жыл бұрын
Ha, I did know that I heard the Odessa in your musicl output. Some things just stick out (nicely!) - great music btw.
@real_anxst
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant video as usual. Absolutely love seeing someone else enjoying the Odessa as much as I do, especially using it for weird percussive sounds, one of my fave things! Odessa is still my favourite voice I own.
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Yeah, it really shines as a percussive voice, which is something I hadn't really tried much before researching this video. Now I want to try pairing it with Traffic to make a mini percussion kit!
@digital_crickets
Жыл бұрын
This is one of those videos that got me patching in the first 10 minutes, and then I missed the rest while exploring... Now I'll have to watch it again!
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
Haha, always a good sign - happy to have inspired you! :)
@thesoundsmith
Жыл бұрын
Wow! What a unit. Just looking at the knobs and I/O, I wish I had known about this when I was doing synth works. Even monophonic I'd have had two. Eurorack IS alive and well. How delicious. Make a great noise, people!
@XiXora
Жыл бұрын
Perfect explanation of this module here. I actually understood it. So glad you had that example of using the Leibniz bus (in a musical way) at the end too.
@russ254
Жыл бұрын
what a tour de force video (i don’t even own this module) - consciousness-expanding, thanks Tom
@chonbaquer
Жыл бұрын
xaoc is doing utterly interesting things in eurorack. i adore their approach
@turbotambourine
Жыл бұрын
Woah! Well done with that walkthrough! I’ve always looked at Odessa’s panel to be puzzled by it. This was amazing. Sounds so good! Thank you!
@allhandsmusic
Жыл бұрын
I was very excited to see this come up in my feed! Doing deep research on what my next VCO should be, and this is very high on my list. Great stuff! There just wasn't enough on Odessa out there.
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
Cheers, hope it helps with the research!
@gumbochamp
Жыл бұрын
Favourite oscillator ever. Always giving me something new. Glad to see it getting some love ❤️
@DavidLilja
7 ай бұрын
First of all, thank you for making a demo with melodies and pleasing sounds! There are too few of those videos and I’ve been thinking about doing that type of content myself. Secondly, the sound itself and melody for the opening of the video is absolutely amazing! Thanks for a great walkthrough. Now I really want an Odessa.
@jaygregory8219
Жыл бұрын
Great patches!! And thanks for the great breakdown of the module! I've had it on my radar for a long time, you really show its range a beauty here. I especially loved the simple sequencing and paraphonic chords patches!
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
Cheers, glad you enjoyed it!
@AndyVonal
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant demonstration of the abilities of this module... another to add to my ever growing shopping list! Thanks Tom!
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
You're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it! :)
@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES
9 ай бұрын
first time here. This is an excellent guide. What a wonderful tone generator in the right hands :)
@TomChurchill
9 ай бұрын
Thanks Jamie! Big big fan of the podcast so that means a lot. (And you've just reminded me I've been meaning to join the Patreon for months now - done!) Hope you enjoy the vids :)
@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES
9 ай бұрын
You’re a gent. If you had a patreon id be following you right back!
@megamankicksyourass
Жыл бұрын
Was just looking into this module. Great sounding patches
@devinobrien3201
Жыл бұрын
wow. great vid. so much I didn't know about this unit.
@MonotrailTechTalk
Жыл бұрын
Hmmm, tasty. Such a lovely oscillator :) And good job!
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
Cheers! Glad I finally found the time to make this one, it was a lot of fun going deep into Odessa for the patches...
@Probbie
Жыл бұрын
Holy flip, that thing sounds so good! 👌
@gesslr
Жыл бұрын
Hi. I'm new to XAOC Devices. I just took delivery on a Zadar the other day. I am planning to purchase an Odessa and Mosckwa in the next few months...The last patch example (sequencing paraphonic chords -beautiful!!!) sent me running to research Lipsk and Erfurt and that entire product line of Xaoc. Amazing stuff. Wonderful videos. Thank you for introducing me to these tools.
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
Thanks - enjoy the Xaoc journey! 😀
@RobertCharlesMann
Жыл бұрын
Well, I have to say you have some wonderful patches and draw something special out of the Odessa. I had one for over a year and produced a couple tracks with it, but unhappily I ended up selling it simply because I couldn't removed the fundamental from the incredibly great sounds achieved with this great additive VCO. It drove me nuts in the end. I did the trick of adding the out-of-phase fundamental to remove it but it never quite fully worked and it was a hassle as well. I may try again due to your enthusiasm because additive synthesis is very dear to me. Great vid. Don't stop.
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Yeah, I have to admit I've never really felt a burning need to remove the fundamental from my own patches, but I do see a lot of people complaining about it so maybe I should!? :) Glad you enjoyed the patches!
@weave_of_k
7 ай бұрын
i have probably watched this video 25 times over the course of 2 days. I have not heard any tones I liked from the Odessa on YT until I ran into your video. Very lovely sounds.
@gesslr
10 ай бұрын
I keep coming back to this video…just bought an Odessa and Hel yesterday. 🙂
@electrummodularmusic
Жыл бұрын
Great video, as ever! Also loved the rainbow pride color scheme at 21:13!
@SynthDad
Жыл бұрын
Top stuff Tom - thanks for making this. Going to rack up my Odessa and new Moskwa2 for a spin
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
Nice one, that's a dream team right there! Enjoy the Moskwa :)
Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot, brilliant walkthrough!
@SloLFO
Жыл бұрын
Very informative and helpful. I’ve struggled with this module, your descriptions make sense of it all. Thank you!
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome, glad it was helpful! :)
@Lightbath
Жыл бұрын
Wow, what a great exploration of Odessa!
@Lightbath
Жыл бұрын
Also, those paraphonic chords with Erfurt twinkles is 💪
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
Cheers! Big fan of your stuff so that means a lot 🙏
@KLI333-9
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for this great video Tom! Would love to hear more jams with it, especially with those amazing percussions! Best
@Fluidstructure
Жыл бұрын
Great showcase! Love my Odessa!
@bammersify
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Tom! Odessa masterclass.
@LeoPerantoni
Жыл бұрын
Moskwa is one of my favorite looking eurorack modules. Everything about it is so sexy. I kinda want one just because of the looks haha
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
I agree - and the Xaoc stuff looks even sexier all lined up together. One of the few brands I'd really like to collect the whole set! ;)
@precarious333music
9 ай бұрын
Excellent demo. Some really beautiful sounds there, especially the last patch.
@CO5MA
Жыл бұрын
Now i want one 😂 Great video, thanks!
@Lo_Cisco
Жыл бұрын
Buy the Odessa last week☺️
@drumnotdrum9262
8 ай бұрын
The price was off putting! But you’ll get over that one really quickly! I love this vco, the range of sounds is incredible and as you note, sweet spots are everywhere! Cool video……ta.
@saren6538
8 ай бұрын
this is fab, had it when it came out and sold it, watching this ...regret is setting in rapidly
@DataBroth
Жыл бұрын
I've been wanting one of these for some time
@PandaPotPies
11 ай бұрын
Absolute masterclass
@Hellseeker1
11 ай бұрын
@26:44 Streets of Rage baby give it to me, ahh soo good!
@nickilling
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, this is the one I've been waiting for :)
@mutantmanfred
Жыл бұрын
Good video as always, great explained!
@ZenMountain
8 ай бұрын
Amazing video. Thank you!
@MikkelGrumBovin
Жыл бұрын
Youre such a wonderfull musician,-
@RickDrift
8 ай бұрын
The Moskwa front and center is asthetically pleasing.
@Ikon_Sound
11 ай бұрын
very nice Tom!
@eggyben
8 ай бұрын
mate your videos are great
@Aedhon
Жыл бұрын
Great video thanks, I have and love Odessa but I admit I've been mostly going by ear and this will definitely help me make better use of it. I do like using a stereo filter after Odessa to tame the harsher sounds and play with stereo field a bit. cheers, Marco
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I’ve been pretty close to getting Xagrzeb to pair with it as a filter - I’ve tended to just use Tilt to control the spectrum but a stereo filter could definitely warm things up a bit and open up some more options!
@Aedhon
Жыл бұрын
@@TomChurchill btw maybe I missed it but I would be interested in a video that shows how you use modular for making music, e.g. how you integrate with a daw workflow if any. Cheers :)
@stuartbennett4301
Жыл бұрын
As if it wasn’t cool enough I just got around to switching it to square wave. Errmagheerrdd!
@jonathanyoung6397
3 ай бұрын
I’ve probably watched this five or six times now, what a wonderful and inspiring tutorial on this quite tricky oscillator. Any chance of a follow up Tom? I know you’ve got more patches in you 😊 Also, I have an Oxi One sequencer which allows you to sequence the Odessa polyphonically (paraphonically?) and it’s amazing as a partner to Odessa and Hel
@mattd2129
Жыл бұрын
awesome vid
@ThMntnst
Жыл бұрын
Quite Cortini'esque feeling in the intro. Not really seeing myself getting the Odessa, I'm still always interested in what it can (and can't) do.
@joystickcan
Жыл бұрын
its been a long i wish this one...next osc for shure
@RoarMcRipHelmet
Жыл бұрын
While the Hel expander as you say doen't have VCA's, you can regulate the number of paraphonic voices in use if you have some extra logic modules and make it so that "silent" voices are replaced with +10V which in many cases will be far above what's audible, especially if you feed Odessa into an LPF with a high cutoff.
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
Ah, great idea! Will have to give that a try - cheers :)
@motoboy6666
6 ай бұрын
Loved this and regreting selling mine 😢
@simonpalframan6534
2 ай бұрын
Absolutely superb video! Please could you recommend some alternative modules to blinds (preferably with knobs or sliders) I could use to send to the Hel inputs in order to set the note pitches?
@TomChurchill
2 ай бұрын
Thanks! There are lots of options for generating voltage offsets. Off the top of my head, there’s WMD 4TTEN, Noise Engineering Lapsus Os, Intellijel Quadratt… or for even more channels there’s Erogenous Tones LEVIT8, Antumbra ATN8 and Michigan Synth Works F8R. I’m sure there are plenty more - it’s pretty common for attenuverters to have 5V or 10V normalled to the controls so you can use them to produce fixed voltages. Hope that helps!
@simonpalframan6534
2 ай бұрын
@@TomChurchill Amazing - these suggestions are massively helpful, thank you. Might go for the Quadratt for it's simplicity and 1u'ness!
@BlackMan614
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for doing this!!! A little mis/understood?? More than a little. I bought one based on your other video (later got the Hel) and it seems to have a sweet spot for musical uses but too easy to get atonal. Thanks for the detailed explanation of using HEL. I could not get anything useful w/o using pitch/cv on the odessa. I tried your idea (last video) of multiple sequences (patterns) going into HEL and now that I see how you tuned Blinds, I see what HEL is doing (quantizing the CV) and you really need to tune the input CV. I'm going to have to re-watch your paraphonic patch... I that is what I'm failing at. Xaoc should give you an Odessa, considering your videos are the only ones which actually explain it properly.
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
Cheers, I'm glad it was helpful! :)
@BlackMan614
Жыл бұрын
@@TomChurchill One question... the patch in the intro. I don't see any explanation of it in the video. I assume its a sequence coming out of Pam's and not being familiar w/ Erfurt - I assume you are using it as a clock divider(?) to generate gate into HEL? Whatever it is, its cool as f@ck. All I find in the Erfurt manual is "generate gate patterns animating the spectrum of Odessa harmonic banks"... so you can use gates into HEL?
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
@@BlackMan614 the intro patch is basically a remake of something I did in my Erfurt video. Check out the patch at around 21 minutes for a full breakdown of that: kzitem.info/news/bejne/1auOraCJgaiqiJg And you’re right, I’m basically using Erfurt to generate a pattern of gates, taking four of those gates through attenuators to set each to a different voltage, then feeding those into Hel to create different combinations of pitches.
@sub-jec-tiv
Жыл бұрын
Great video! It’s makin me go hmmmmm
@0ldman0tis
3 ай бұрын
great vid! Does HEL hook up to Odessa behind the panel? Trying to figure out the signal flow with your patch at 28:00
@TomChurchill
3 ай бұрын
Thanks! Yep, the Hel expander connects to Odessa via a ribbon cable at the back 👍
@banksideleopards2791
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for this great video. I noticed you not often plug the Fundamental output, why that?
@banksideleopards2791
3 ай бұрын
I'm playing since recently the Odessa with the Panharmonium and I can achieve to very interesting sounds #Fx...
@TomChurchill
3 ай бұрын
Thanks! The fundamental is always present in the odd and even outputs so I didn’t really need to use the fundamental output in these patches. I think it’s useful for syncing or FMing other oscillators but to be honest I don’t often find much use for it.
@samuelcameron9353
28 күн бұрын
Thanks very much. Two things I can not see being made clear here. 1. Six cv ins do not have an attenuator so you definitely need to go through those first if using these or it will just modulate too much. 2. I could not find the obvious case of playing a paraphonic chord from poly cv input from a keyboard ..for example on a nifty keys you would put cv out 1 in the root and cv 2 in 2 and cv 3 in 3 on the Hel in 3 voice mode As its only paraphjonic you would put the gates into a single envelope to vca combination, This does raise a problem though as the hel input is quantised unlike the cv on the unit (and has a narrower range) and they (XAOC) say it does not like already quantised voltages which seems to suggest you can not actually play polyphonically properly from a keyboard as opposed to just making single finger chords ???.
@TomChurchill
28 күн бұрын
I haven’t tried it with a polyphonic keyboard so can’t really speak to that, but I’ve been using it with Harmonaig recently and it seems OK with those quantised voltages being sent into Hel. I don’t use the main v/oct input in that situation; I just mult the root output of Harmonaig to Hel inputs 1 and 2, and patch the 3rd, 5th and 7th outputs from Harmonaig to Hel inputs 3-5.
@lostsensemusic
Жыл бұрын
love this module. I don't have it but I want to buy it. the sounds are so good. I think it is good for ambient, is it?
@lostsensemusic
Жыл бұрын
great video btw!
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Yeah, I think it's a great module for ambient stuff - lots of modulation possibilities and offers some really unique sounds. I did another patch breakdown video a few months back with more of an ambient patch, you might find it interesting: kzitem.info/news/bejne/pGNs1JN7col6mYY
@allhandsmusic
10 ай бұрын
Hey Tom, I just picked up an Odessa, and I noticed that partials 9 through 11 can't be turned on individually, but rather come on together as a clump of three. I checked again in your video to see if you have the same thing happening, and it looks like you do, which I believe I can see and hear it happen at around 7:18. I really like the sound of the partials turning on one at a time, but it doesn't seem like that works for the range of the knob. Can you confirm this behavior? And if so, how much does it bother you?
@TomChurchill
10 ай бұрын
Hmm, just checked mine and you're right, that does happen. I tried using external CV too, in case it was something to do with the pot on the unit, but yeah, it behaves the same way. Have to admit I've never really noticed it before - I tend to modulate the spectral tilt more than the partials - so to be honest it doesn't bother me too much. Things get indistinguishable pretty quickly after the 8th harmonic anyway. You might want to drop Xaoc an email to double-check if it's a known issue or if there's any kind of fix?
@allhandsmusic
10 ай бұрын
I like modulating the partials because I love the sound of each turning on and off. And well... that's kind of your fault! It was a selling point for me hearing it happen in this very video. I just sent an email to Xaoc, so I'm curious how they might respond. In any case, I'm still loving Odessa, and I'm keeping it regardless.
@mastermachetier5594
Жыл бұрын
I’m torn between this , a DPO, or a spectraphon 😂
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
You know the answer, right? All three! Just kidding, but I am very tempted by the other two as well, particularly Spectraphon...
@mastermachetier5594
Жыл бұрын
@@TomChurchill you definitely make a good case for the Odessa. I love it for those chord stabs
@ImmortalIdeas
Жыл бұрын
👍
@ImmortalIdeas
Жыл бұрын
I dig it!!
@KorhanErel
Жыл бұрын
Quantized by Hell 😈
@MrDaigoRiki
Жыл бұрын
What does it mean by Digital VCO? It’s DCO
@pe00000001
Жыл бұрын
Are you implying the input is numeric, not a voltage? Look at the front panel.
@TomChurchill
Жыл бұрын
The oscillator is digital but its pitch (and other parameters) are voltage controlled, hence VCO
@snorrevonflake
Жыл бұрын
43 minutes of confirmation that this is not for me. Almost bought one a couple of times.
@earthman_
11 ай бұрын
Why digital? It’s an analog synth 🤔
@TomChurchill
11 ай бұрын
It’s really not. The 2,560 sine wave partials are generated digitally. It can be controlled by analogue CV of course but the sound engine is 100% digital.
@earthman_
11 ай бұрын
@@TomChurchill ok…i confused the Odessa with the Sofa ☺️
@TomChurchill
11 ай бұрын
@@earthman_ easily done, they do look quite similar! :)
@marizuokereke7347
8 ай бұрын
It's a voltage controlled synth. Good luck in fitting 2560 analogue sine wave vco's into a Eurorack case.
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