very cool!  i have to say that user interface seems quite intimidating ... but i bet there's a lot of cool stuff one can do with it.

Agreed! It's a whole other paradigm compared to other types of music creation though. If you're not familiar with modular synthesizers, it can indeed be overwhelming at first, but some of the advantages are precisely that everything is right there in front of us, and there are (almost) no hidden connections. The signal routing capabilities are phenomenal, and yes, there is so much cool stuff we can do with this type of software (or hardware for those with bigger budgets!) :-)

Each module in that screen was placed there for the specific reason I wanted, in order to create the musical setup for this piece, and since each piece is different, we will use different modules and lay them out to our liking. Sort of like customizing our music software on the fly. So the complicated look is a price to pay for the huge flexibility it provides. When starting out, only a small subset of modules are typically used, until we wrap our brains around the idea of how things work. Its easier said than done, but there are many tutorials around if ever you want to dabble in this kind of thing.

Thanks for listening!

P.S. I prepared my contest piece for this fall some months ago and I'm sitting on it until then (quite hard to not release it!), and it made me wonder if you tend to do this as well :-)

Yes Marc, I’m also preparing my competition piece for the fall, not ready yet, the hardest piece I've ever played and doing it this year for the fourteenth time, with Organteq for the first time.. Not many people participate with Organteq so maybe I have a better chance to get into the 12 that are to be voted on and I'm sitting on it also not ready yet.
And thanks for the comment on my "Sugarplum Fairy" piece

Best wishes,

Stig

Nice touch with your Bosendorfer Sugarplum Fairy, btw! :-)

Cheers,

Marc

P.S. I prepared my contest piece for this fall some months ago and I'm sitting on it until then (quite hard to not release it!), and it made me wonder if you tend to do this as well :-)

Live looping some U4 hot butter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jNihDOChHk

Very interesting and nice! I also listened to Barbieri Chrono 2 and these two gave me ideas. Will try a bit of the technique with Organteq + different Pianoteq instruments together….What an instrumentmeeting!!!

Thank you so much Marc!
Always listening to your music.

Best wishes,

Stig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jNihDOChHk