This is part of a series of guest-post tutorials from Noise Engineering users showing off various tips for NE modules, modular use in general, or how they integrate modular into their workflow. Have someone you think would be great to write a guest post? Have a modular tip you want to submit for us to create a video around? Please submit ideas for this occasional column here.

This week we're pleased to present a guest post from user Jon Barbieri, popularly known as Rheyne, who many of you have undoubtedly seen on Instagram or YouTube. He talked to us about how he uses our Loquelic Iteritas Percido in combination with the wildly awesome Moog DFAM. Not having my hands on the DFAM myself, I was anxious to dive in and see what he was doing and how he was doing it.

Kris: Thanks for doing this, Jon! Tell us a little about yourself and the Rheyne project.

Jon Barbieri: "Rheyne" is an Ableton-based live looping project I started in 2010. During the day, I work at a musical instrument store, where I'm able to try out a lot of the new gear from the major vendors as soon as it lands at the shop! It's a great place to work if you're in a band or have a music project of some type.

KK: Ooh, I bet! So is that how you got into modular?

JB: We're a Moog dealer at the day job and we have easy access to the Mother-32, so I took the plunge. As a complete voice it was easy to integrate into my live looping setup, and also let me experiment with some patching. The 0-Coast came next, and I thought it would stop there, but then I saw a Richard Devine video called "Mutant Mesh Drums Patch" and it completely blew me away. It really woke me up to the possibilities of these modules. The video is awesome to watch and has superb audio quality. His videos are basically the baseline I've tried to follow, in terms of providing the listener /watcher with clean audio and video, both synced to each other. I started calling the modular videos "sequenced jams" since they're prepared before recording them, to separate them from the "live jams" which are improvised on camera with nothing pre-recorded or pre-sequenced.

KK: Nice. Live jams are pretty tough to pull off, for sure. I can definitely appreciate someone putting in the work to really sequence a good set and make something listenable and beautiful. Speaking of...this seems like a good place to show readers what you came up with: