Control Forge Demo

Unofficial, casual, cursory demo of the Control Forge

[TomasBodin]

I got my Control forge after watching this video. Today six years later I watched it again and realised you not only explain the CF, you also manage to explain the very core of modular behaviour.

[PylonRecordsdotcom]

I watch this video every month, I wish Rossum would compensate you to make a series of videos for this and all its different uses. Thank You Again!!

[kMagic]

Thank you for demystifying this module. It looked intimidating at first but now I see it’s easy to understand and use. I’d like to own one, but am scratching my head as to how to employ it ‘meaningfully’ (as you eluded to). Still, I think for the pure joy of experimentation and exploration, it would be worth my while.

[bigkingsha]

Yes I have to agree...this is THE mothership of all CV generators as far as I know. That Wogglebug or a Swamp is a great satellite for this planet! Thanks for making this easy to understand!

[UnEngineered-OK]

Great video. Moved CF from 'I think I want this' into 'I definitely want this'. Appreciate your Just Friends videos as well.

[jonaseggen]

Thank you. This was interesting, surprisingly easy to understand, and I'm also surprised to see how relatively old this module is. Love how shallow it is regarding menu and apparent ease of operation, and yet again surprised to see this in contrast to how much consideration and thought it needs when deciding how and what it should be programmed to do. I am experienced enough to know that this would be pearls before swine on me as I would probably only scratch it's surface and make it do either to simple or really silly stuff. But as part of the fun with eurorack is to explore and learn, not only the modules and functions I got or want, I'm very intrigued and now more curious about Rossum's line of modules in general. For me it is equally interesting to try to understand how makers of modules think as how composers and musicians work.

[wellurban]

Many thanks for this demo: it's clearly an astonishingly powerful module, but intimidatingly so. Your demo helps break down some of that intimidation and open up its enticing possibilities.

[cardboardmusic]

I only just discovered Dave Rossum's modules a few weeks ago. I have to say, if I'd known about his stuff a year ago, I'd have not bought many of the modules I have, and would have had a rack built mainly of his modules. I'm itching to get my hands on a Trident, a Panharmonium, a Morpheus, etc, quite astounding stuff really (the Control Forge .. maybe).

Interesting that you mention Orthogonal Devices, but their availability makes them not so attractive. Whereas Dave Rossum's modules are readily available, and although not the same (exactly) as OD, they seam to have similar 'deep' possibilities that no other module makers are offering.

[tomnaustin]

very helpful....you are a very good instructor!

[ritec]

This is like a super elaborate and deep voltage block… one output instead of 8 though.

[radpix]

Thanks definitely helpful, I was surching just this to step into programming more easy
Let me just remind all users that all this power and flexibility is at hand in play mode which really takes away the pressure to thoughtful programming and lets you play buttons and 2 knobs over whichever selected program, that is gorgeous

[mikegeary]

Wow you did a good job explaining this. I want one of these. I’ve got all these ideas about cv that I can’t quite realize. Is it possible to send out a gate on a specific step?

[PeterJDeVault]

Thanks - that was a really helpful overview. I think I have a handle on what the module is now - I may have to get one. Now, if you could do the same type of overview for Band of Emus, that would be great!

[TheNimasan]

i mean every rossum module is gold, because we all know he is a genius. but the acid rain maestro can do very similar things, with less work eventho without screen. i have both.

[thomas_ad]

Great overview! Interesting to know there’s a module that does this kind of feedback programming

[quantum_ocean]

This thing seems awesome but why can't you sequence it based on musical time (notes, bars) and then clock it? Who has time to calculate the number of seconds for a dotted eigths based on X BPM ?

[quantum_ocean]

add bookmarks for the topics and this video would be perfect ;)

[shufflephunk]

hiya any possibilities youll do a modcan quad fo tutorial too ? thanks so much!

[tidalwaveforms]

This prompted me to buy one, thanks... :/

[rare_grooves_shack_]

this is almost EXACTLY the tool i've been imagining to be able to break out of LFO/ADSR straight jackets. THIS is how you make boings & dubstep wobbles. the only thing missing, would be being able to trigger it and have it follow a pitch so you could PLAY the sequences, but it's cool for 1 shot sound design & i never would have imagined the "granular" of "crossfade" envelopes, but CURVES are VERY cool.

now, if rossum could COMBINE the CV envelopes with pitch tracking AND envelopes, they'd REALLY have something, but as it stands now, i'd call it 100x cooler than maths or rampage, but THIS module's "straightjacket" is its one pitch only limit.