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A Swell patch, making filters dance & updates (Patreon)

Published:

2026-04-28 13:45:57

Edited:

2026-04-28 13:46:32

Imported:

2026-04

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Hello, hope you're well!

Feels like a while since the last post, I've been down with some sort of viral thing - boooo - but catching up a and looking forward to sharing this new video.

Here's Swell from Bartola Instruments, which is releasing in a few weeks, but as the module is out there publicly I thought I'd share a 'FIRST PATCH', which is the first one of those in a good while. I really like the idea of just sharing first impressions, first experience, sounds and what something does, or rather what I do to it, the first time it's plugged in.

For this patch I thought I'd go with lots of dynamic rhythmic animation, which a friend described as "dancing filters" a while back and to walk through that as something you can try on lots of filters while also having the chance to share the sound of this particular module at the same time ... and in doing that ask - what would you like to see from Swell? I'm happy to take questions/requests for the in depth demo I'll be working on for the release of the module that follows.

There's patch notes for everyone in the YouTube description for this patch, it's applicable to any filter so if you're not mixing modulation, creating accent inputs, step sequence and inverted sequence filter frequency and resonance then give it a go!

UPDATES

There's another video coming later this week, well 2 videos later this week then another next week then it's Superbooth!

2 things for those at Superbooth

We're having a DivKid Patreon meetup on the Friday of Superbooth, around lunchtime (time & place TBC) you can join us to chat, hangout and share stickers and other goodies

I'd love for you to be in the Superbooth patch tips video, so come ready to share a patch tip to camera just like in previous years.

I'll post soon about the next community audio project which will getting your sounds into the new Cosmic Debris (feel free to ask me about that now if you're interested) and I'll see you in the Discord as always.

Thanks as always for the support it really does mean a load to us.

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Patching Exciting Modulation for Filters // FIRST PATCH with Swell from Bartola Instruments

PATCH NOTES BELOW Here we have the new Swell Eurorack filter and valve gain stage from Bartola Instruments. We'll be exploring this in the usual in depth DivKid demo style in the future but wanted to share our literal first patch playing around with saturating, character oozing valve distortion and filtering ... and in doing so, share some modulation tips about how we like to patch modulation, mixing sources and making things feel exciting and dynamic. I hope the patch notes below are useful and let us know what you'd like to see more of with Swell. *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://www.patreon.com/DivKid 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://www.patreon.com/DivKid *AFFILIATE LINKS* use these to support my channel! I get a small kickback at no expense to you when you shop. Clockface Modular // https://clockfacemodular.com/?sca_ref=3067842.dBUqzEbXFF Perfect Circuit // https://link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/8-12626-261491-9759 Signal Sounds // https://www.signalsounds.com/?ref=DIVKID Thomann // https://www.thomann.de/intl/index.html?offid=1&affid=1228 **PATCH NOTES** The simple bit first - AUDIO PATH - two saw wave oscillators, changing the octaves between them at points, mixed into 'Swell' and then output into some stereo FX for background ambience. The modulation is where this gets exciting going into the FM input (which modules filter cut off frequency) is my main envelope, a simple decay envelope. Resonance is modulated by a step sequence (external attenuation is the key here). Then the v/oct input is used as a place to input a mix of modulation. The first is an accent envelope, patching a less dense gate rhythm into a second envelope and patching that into a mixer. Then outputting the mixer into the v/oct input of the filter. The second is then the same step sequence as the resonance. So with the mixer into the v/oct and the FM input I have 3 modulation sources modulating the filter frequency - main envelope, accent envelope & step sequence. Modules used - Thonk Synth VCO, Joranalogue Cycle 5, TINRS Next Tuesday, Making Sound Machines Multiplikand, Bartola Instruments Swell, WMD + Infrasonic Audio Cosmis Debris, Vostok Instruments Fuji, Apollo View IOU, Thonk Synth dual VCA. *THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY BARTOLA INSTRUMENTS** they have funded the creation of this first patch video and future demo video with Swell. Any questions 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/