Hello and welcome to my channel I'm DB
velocity and this video here will cover
some of the sounds that the TTSH
version 4 has to offer as well as
showing a bit of the CV track feature of
the Akai professional MPC One, I'll then
cover a bit of workflow on the MPC to
capture sounds and make a quick track so
this video is essentially a two for one
though if you're not interested in the
MPC one and you want to just hear the
TTSH in action you can jump forward and
check out some sounds of this synth
otherwise stick around and see how I use
the MPC to control modular gear and
capture sounds as you likely know this
applies to other MPCs using the current
2.8 firmware this also applies to any
modular or semi modular synth that
standardly uses a volt per octave cv and
gate now if you're not familiar with
what the TTSH is it's a DIY clone build
of the ARP 2600 thus it's aptly named
TTSH this here is version 4 which was
made readily available from synthcube.com after the initial builds that were
offered from the human comparator who is
responsible for this cloning project and
made this possible links are included
below here you can see that I've got one
that I built with great success and my
only modifications to the build was the
inclusion of the gate booster circuit
which was designed by a fellow named
fuzz bass who has contributed an
enormous amount and regularly helps those
who have troubleshooting problems he
also authored a thorough build document
written with great detail so huge props
to you sir the other mod that I applied
is simply the AC coupling on the filter
circuit
okay to start I'll begin setup for the
CV and gate outputs of the MPC and patch
into the synth accordingly I'm using
these breakout cables which are the
Hosa ymm-261 adapters though I'm sure
there are others but with these I can
then use the 2cv channels / output jack
on the MPC and on the breakout cables
you have the tip which is black and the
ring red split out and an easy way to
remember what's what is to think of the
term pitch black as a typical use is to
have channel one go to the pitch and
then use another channel for gate the
term pitch black just helps me remember
how to configure the tracks in the MPC
and how to patch into the synth so let's
do that now of course you'll want to
send audio to the inputs for sampling
I'll open a new project and set up a CV
track to get things going
I'll begin by selecting the track for CV
control and let's say I go to track 5
it'll all become clear in a bit why I
do this and I'll select CV as the track
type now go to the settings in the CV
program below and under gate port set
that to cv 5 now I'm all set up and I
can proceed to the sample page to grab
all my sounds so for the workflow I'll
dial in each drum sound sample it and
then dial in a few synth patches and
build a key group or two and perhaps use
the looper to set up some clips I'll
worry about cleaning up samples and
building it all into a kit when I
captured a few variations of each patch
that I do
okay now I've gone and tuned up and
basically zeroed out the levels so my
oscillators are in tune and I'm just
gonna use oscillator one pretty decent
little envelope setting filters mostly
closed I got just a touch of resonance
and envelope to it and envelope to.. I
mean just a minute amount  of envelope to
oscillator one which is the source that
I'm listening to and just the classic
square wave and that's what I've got
pretty simple so I'll just head to the
sample page now and I'll hit this button
up here key group I'll hit do it every
three half steps there so it's really
great that you can build key groups
using the CV channels just the same
as you would use a MIDI channels to
build up a key group so that's really
nice I can create all kinds of patched
voices here and essentially save that
patch as a key group on the MPC there's
our auto sample key group we can give
this a new name now I'll go back to
creating another key group for more
melodic upper range tone just to add
another layer for this song
so with the drums the bass and this
other sound I'll probably opt to put in
some sustained tones for backing harmony
or basic progression
and why not so I'll head back in hit key
group
I've been jamming out a few ideas for
this track and I opted to not use the
looper or the clips it's a pretty useful
feature but I just didn't find a need
for it in this instance at times that
makes sense for a heavily affected
phrase that I can use as a layer that
syncs to the pattern and of course it has
features that could help with other
workflows
I won't dive into how to build a song
here I do what works for me and what's
great is there are many approaches to
how you arrange and compose or perform
now I want to note that in building the
song I did choose to apply some of the
onboard effects so that I could glue the
sounds together mainly compression and
shelving eq's but it is a product solely
of the TTS H and MPC one that said all
sounds are derived from the TTSH a
final note that I forgot to mention
earlier is that I am using the 4072
filter as I wanted to get away from
using the common ladder filter that
is in so many other synths I like to use
synths with a character of their own
and then combine them in a mix so that I
have a wider range of complements that's
why this particular project is so
different for me and being restricted to
the sole character of this synthesizer
basically led me to apply some of the
effects as I mentioned anyways the
layout that I have is track one is drums
two is my bass and then three is this
organ type sound key group and then four
is the upper melodic key group that I
created earlier five is controlling my
CV still and I'll use that to play a
lead on top of everything and then I
have another group that I created off
camera that I'm using that's pretty much
it with that layout I can go ahead and
go back to the drums and looks like I'm
all cued up and enough chat let's get
into it
yeah
so pretty basic I'm gonna continue
jamming on this and see what comes of it
and you know um that is that thanks for
tuning in
hope to see you next time
