This is the third and final video in my series about the Craft Synth 2.0 from Modal Electronics. In this one I focus on using the Modal App and controlling the Craft Synth 2.0 with a lot of different external gear: laptop, tablet, Korg NanoKey2, Arturia KeyStep, Novation LaunchPad Mini, Casio Privia keyboard, Ableton Live, Akai MPK Mini mk2, and Korg SQ-1 sequencer. The video concludes with a little jam that uses a Volca Kick to sync a sequence on the Craft Synth 2.0.

TIMELINE

00:00 Modal App on Windows laptop, Craft Synth 2.0 and MIDI controller (Korg NanoKey2 in this case) hooked up by USB.

00:25 Intro. Basics of hooking up the CS2.0 (5-pin MIDI cable, MIDI host box of some sort, or using USB).

02:05 Modal App on early gen. iPad Mini. Using camera adapter and unpowered USB hub to hook things up via USB.

04:25 Connecting a bunch of stuff to the CS2.0

04:30 Arturia KeyStep. It basically always works. I did not explore how to use the mod strip to control a parameter on the Craft Synth 2.0 but I assume it is possible.

04:55 Novation LaunchPad Mini. Why would you do this? Sometimes I like playing slow synth parts on a pad controller. I feel like it makes things a little more alien, which can be good.

05:20 Casio Privia. A full-sized keyboard is the way to arp.

06:10 Ableton Live. Automated random MIDI note stream. It is worth pointing out that the Craft Synth 2.0 manual includes a huge MIDI Implementation Chart and you could automate any and all parameters in your DAW.

06:25 Akai MPK Mini mark ii. If you want a relatively inexpensive MIDI controller, maybe this one? I used the Akai editor to set it up such that the knobs control CS2.0 parameters such as Wave1, Wave2, Spread, Delay Time, etc.

07:15 Korg SQ-1. Hard to beat for tactile multi-purpose control. The SQ-1 tempo controls the CS2.0 tempo and so 'synced' parameters like the delay and LFO's can drift along with it if you want.

08:15 MODAL APP OVERVIEW

08:55 STORAGE - Banks are the coin of the realm here. You can make a ton of different banks (8 presets) in the app (using your own sounds, factory sounds, whatever) and have any 8 of your banks on the synth. Drag and drop works.

11:35 CONTROL - Not sure that I would play the virtual keyboard vs. the CS2.0 itself, but I do really like that you can set up a custom group of parameters to control from the app. I feel like this is also the best way to set up your ROOT and SCALE.

12:10 Aside: how to input a sequence on the Craft Synth 2.0.

13:50 EDITING - The interior of the Craft Synth 2.0 exposed. It is really nice for sound design, but it also seems good for performance if you use drones or sequences.

19:45 Outro

20:45 Ender - This is a sequence on the Craft Synth 2.0 that is synced by the Volca Kick. I'm getting some glitchy, clicky, and melodic notes out of the Volca Kick here. I'm using a method that I covered back in my second video on this channel (but in this case I'm using clips in Live instead of playing the beats directly on the KeyStep). In a nutshell, I made 12 different 16-trig midi clips in Live, each clip is a pattern that uses 5 possible "notes"(more of a code than a note), those "notes" go through a LoopMIDI instance over to a Processing sketch the sketch uses The MIDI Bus library), then when Processing catches a specific "note" from Live it fires off an actual MIDI note to the Kick (via usb-midi_2x2_box-5pinCable) along with a blast of 10 CC parameters to change the note timbre and envelope on the Kick. So, once this was set up, I realtime recorded the actual notes and parameter data from Processing on the Kick (both sequence and motion-sequence) for each of the 12 Live clips, and saved each sequence into a different memory slot on the Kick - so Live and a computer are no longer needed. The Kick has a chaining mode so all 12 clips can be played back-to-back and looped.


LINKS

www.modalelectronics.com

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