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Music from plants (and not plants!) with the new POCKET SCION (Patreon)

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2025-08-28 17:36:25

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2025-08

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Hello, hope you're well!

Here's the new POCKET SCION from Instruo and Modern Biology. I've had the pleasure of making this video in style different to my typical demo. Making more of a story arcing, choppy documentary come hybrid demo thing ... watch it and let me know you think!

This shares my first experiences with it arriving a day before we left for a holiday (Jason kindly sent one down for the OG DivBaby to try) and then before I'd had chance to do anything beyond mess about around the holiday lodge I was up at Scotland with the team learning about the device, it's history, their history and the roots (pardon the pun) of this sensor technology and plant music too.

It's also (I think importantly) not just about plants. It's now its own accessible hand help instrument, it could be a harsh noise generator, human touch gestural multi modulator and plenty more.

There's two exclusives to come from this video which is the full interview with Kian and Jason and also some extended versions of the parts of the video from Tarun 'Modern Biology' that I'll post here on Patreon tomorrow.

Back next week with more, see you in the Discord!

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Music from plants (and not plants!) with the new POCKET SCION from Instruo & Modern Biology

In this video we take a story led, documentary approach to demoing the new Pocket Scion from Instruo. Sharing the journey through my first experiences with it, giving one to the OG DivBaby on holiday, a trip to Instruo HQ in Scotland, meeting the team and learning all about the history of Pocket Scion and the Eurorack module Scion that preceded it. Check out the timing index below to skip around lots of examples and discussion. Pocket Scion is a collaboration between Instruo and biologist and artist Modern Biology. Links to everything below. To hear the full interviews, head to patreon.com/divkid to support and gain exclusive access to them. **LINKS** Pocket Scion // https://pocketscion.com Instruo // https://www.instruomodular.com Modern Biology // https://www.modernbiology.xyz Patreon Exclusives // https://www.patreon.com/c/DivKid Instruo HQ Tour // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh9hX-T1vJA Seashell // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQEFUTIMZ8Q&t=113s Jason live at Modular Meets // https://youtu.be/TePSkRkZ8cs?si=dF6EEFtkEUjXaAoz *SUPPORT //* If you'd like to support work like this and the wider range of what I do, considering heading over to Patreon at https://bit.ly/DK-patreon and supporting for as little as $1 a month to gain access to the DivKid Discord community, plus lots of exclusives such as PDF patchbooks, videos and more. https://bit.ly/DK-patreon *AFFILIATE LINKS //* use these to support my channel! I get a small kickback at no expense to you when you shop. Clockface Modular // https://bit.ly/DK-clockface Perfect Circuit // https://bit.ly/PocketScion-PC Thomann // https://bit.ly/DK-thomann **TIMING INDEX // CHAPTERS** 00:00 Hello & previews 02:14 Introduction - features & interface 04:09 Built instruments & first impressions 06:14 A trip to Scotland & Instruo HQ INTERVIEW // DISCUSSION 06:05 What is Pocket Scion? 07:29 Music from plants 08:25 Machine music, sensors & beyond plants 09:04 Jason live at Modular Meets Leeds (with Scion) 10:21 Introducing Tarun ‘Modern Biology’ 11:29 Defining the inbuilt instruments 13:13 Grass fed analogue mono synths 15:31 Touch gestures for polyphonic synths 17:39 The Pocket Scion App 19:44 Multi channel midi with Matthew @ Instruo 22:54 Creating a layered multi channel orchestra in Ableton Live 25:52 iOS music making - class compliant MIDI control 28:13 Learning about MIDI CCs uses & devilish ideas for trotters 29:10 MIDI CC controlling FX pedals (Pocket Scion for modulation) - toe based reverb changes 30:15 Pocket Scion with Touch Designer visuals 30:53 Cut the fluff! What is this actually doing? 38:15 Pocket Scion with Eurorack - my future explorations **THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY INSTRUO** they have funded the creation of this demo video. Any questions, as always, just ask! Join the amazing growing community on Discord by supporting at https://www.patreon.com/DivKid Subscribe for more DivKid videos: http://bit.ly/DivKidYTSub https://divkidvideo.com https://www.instagram.com/divkidvideo/ https://twitter.com/divkid