rakt with Chris Meyer | Plaits is a trap, Eurorack is not for everybody, Tips you've never heard of

⚡ Chris Meyer was with us this week. ⚡

I had the chance to have a great conversation with the monument Chris Meyer, the man behind Patch & Tweak and LearningModular.com. This session was supposed to be an interview for an issue of rakt Newsletter. Watching this footage over and over forced me to put the whole thing out there. There's nothing better than listening to the experienced voice of Chris. Written words would have been too little.

I hope you will enjoy this teacher to student conversation as much as I did.

A quick outline of the conversation.

- Who is Chris Meyer? Where does he come from?
- Chris reveals his secrets and I extract answers from him that very few people have heard before
- Biggest challenge when it comes to making sure beginners don't give up
- The hardest thing to teach a beginner
- The three types of signals
- The right way to look at Eurorack when you know nothing about it
- Making sure beginners don't throw the towel
- The importance of mixing with or without a DAW and other fundamental theories like frequency layering
- Master / Slave relationship between the DAW and the modular synthesizer
- Synchronizing modules and Ableton Live
- Things that are overlooked by beginners that will change their lives
- Cable colour code & other ways to organize a modular system
- The collector side of Eurorack musicians
- Philosophizing on Mutable Instruments Plaits
- The good old Low Gain Submix
- How to turn the abstract aspect of Eurorack into a concrete way without reverse engineering
- How to get the same sound twice and recreate a set
- How to get into Eurorack after losing your memory
- The best modules to start with
- The worst module to start with (surprising answer)
- We're in the golden age of Eurorack music
- Steve Roach, Colin Benders, Richard Devine, State Azure
- How to turn a basic patch into a complex one with a single addition between an output and an input

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