Can we talk about modular synths?

[MrNovember]

Wow, 12U in a relatively short time then ?
Really nice system, anyway. Lots of stuff I either have or have planned to get too (though I'll stay at a smaller size)...
How's the Bishop's Miscellany ? Do you use it to record stuff from an external CV source ?

And damn you. I didn't realize the mikrophonie could be used to cleanly amplify log level stuff too. Now I really have to get one .

Yeah pretty short amount of time to build it up. Just over a year now. Or more? I honestly don't even know when I started acquiring things. I sold a ton of my guitar gear. Like 3 guitars and 30 pedals or so to fund everything.

I really like the Bishop's. Mangling cv loops is pretty awesome. I either feed it both Moskwas or I feed it cv from the Microbrute. The step quantization takes a bit of time to get used to, but it's really fun.

I'm not totally sure how clean the Mikrophonie really amplifies signals. I don't really notice any introduced noise, but I also tend to make noisey industrial music so

And I got the Batumi from Analogue Haven. They were in stock last night.

[Strange Tales]

I'm jealous of your two Moskwa's. No Ostankino controller though? I plan on getting another one with the controller sometime in the future.

The one I'm using right now is awesome though. Instantly love it more than the Rene. Pairing my Pamela's Workout with a Rebel Technologies Logoi is ace as fuck as well.


Recorded this 9 and a half minute track just letting my patch constantly switch up on itself. The time is controlled by a VCA'd Wogglebug S&H.

[MrNovember]

The Ostankino is tempting. It would be great to be able to link both Moskwas and to have the individual trigger outputs, but I just don't really have the room for it.

[oscillateur]

Yeah pretty short amount of time to build it up. Just over a year now. Or more? I honestly don't even know when I started acquiring things. I sold a ton of my guitar gear. Like 3 guitars and 30 pedals or so to fund everything.

I really like the Bishop's. Mangling cv loops is pretty awesome. I either feed it both Moskwas or I feed it cv from the Microbrute. The step quantization takes a bit of time to get used to, but it's really fun.

I'm not totally sure how clean the Mikrophonie really amplifies signals. I don't really notice any introduced noise, but I also tend to make noisey industrial music so

And I got the Batumi from Analogue Haven. They were in stock last night.

Ok, I just ordered a Mikrophonie .
I really need a bigger case, I already have at least 30HP of extra modules... The Intellijel 7U should be perfect for now.

[Deltaphoenix]

So...I won that $500 Reverb giveaway on Muffs. I decided to get an Intellijel Shapeshifter

[oscillateur]

Recorded this 9 and a half minute track just letting my patch constantly switch up on itself. The time is controlled by a VCA'd Wogglebug S&H.

What's doing the reverb in this ?

[MrNovember]

Recorded this 9 and a half minute track just letting my patch constantly switch up on itself. The time is controlled by a VCA'd Wogglebug S&H.

What's doing the reverb in this ?

Finally got a chance to listen to this; great job! I really like it

So...I won that $500 Reverb giveaway on Muffs. I decided to get an Intellijel Shapeshifter

Man, that is amazing! Congrats. I'm excited to hear how you get along with it. I've always been interested, but somewhat weary of the Shapeshifter because it seems like there's too much menu diving involved

[Strange Tales]

Recorded this 9 and a half minute track just letting my patch constantly switch up on itself. The time is controlled by a VCA'd Wogglebug S&H.

What's doing the reverb in this ?

It's the reverb on the Clouds module. All the reverb-y "bursts" are from the Maths providing a weird envelope shaped sort of like below into the Freeze CV of the Clouds, maroon line being the trigger.



Grats Deltaphoenix!

[Deltaphoenix]

Thanks Guys! I will report back on the Shapeshifter after I have it in for a bit.

I can't see your track on my iPad but I will give it a listen tomorrow!

[oscillateur]

Ah, I thought it might be clouds... Nice

And damn, I should enter these giveaway things... I always think there's no point in doing that since there are so many people but now I'm kinda jealous .

[Warpsmasher]

First shipment of the black Doep has landed at Detroit Modular! A-118V noise & random voltage incoming, a screaming deal at $105. The midi and vca modules are also available. Still waiting on the vcdlfo, which will be the next one I get.

Trog power is installed and running cool. I don't have any modules that fuck with the 5v, so I don't expect any problems, but I'll definitely be consulting Trogotronic if I'm ever considering one that does.
I love that it's so (cheaply) expandable, but I could replace the whole Roland row with regular modules and still not need another busboard. Probably going to start a powered 104 skiff (which may or may not include some Bastl) once the 12U fills up, so I definitely won't be needing my two uzeus.

Sold the Eclipse and I'm wrestling with whether or not to preorder the Rainmaker, since I could do so much else with the money. Decisions decisions.

[MrNovember]

I know I literally just said that I am almost "done" my synth and I'm excited for that to happen, but I've started thinking about the modules that I don't use often. It really came down to two modules. One is Warps, but I think that I just need to spend more time with it; especially the Easter Egg, which I still haven't tried out.

The other is the Rubicon, which I do use all the time, but never to its full extent. I really just use it as a simple oscillator; I never touch the thru-zero modulation. I can't help but think I would benefit from swapping the Rubicon for a simpler, smaller oscillator (Dixie II+), a quantizer (uScale), and more utilities (Kinks).

On a somewhat similar note, I thinking about trying to trade my Fourses plus some cash for a Denum and Dunst or maybe Swoop. Mostly because I think I'd get more use out of both the Denum and Dunst than I do from the Fourses

[Warpsmasher]

I like Warps as a simple oscillator and have been using it that way mostly. I can make my own crazy deep bigboy oscillators with the Roland FX whenever the mood strikes. The ability to turn them into anything has really been a priceless learning and money-saving tool for me. They are the real 'shapeshifters' of eurorack IMO, along with stuff like disting, peaks, parasites etc.
I still can't commit to any kind of doneness. This is what I'm into now, so I don't want an exit strategy or a stopping point. An incomplete row or overflow/expansion rack is just unavoidable, for anyone who plans to stay in the game and keep exploring new modules. I don't want to be left without a way to do that, and planning a completed, closed system seems like a recipie for exactly that. When your case is full and perfected enough for the time being, it's time for another case. Cell48 or HEK at least. Otherwise you'll have to fuck with the perfection you spent so many months on, just to try a new module.

Plague Bearer has been a neverending pain in the ass for me on modulargrid. It's too cool to get rid of, but so hard to find a place where it feels right. Destined for the overflow rack.

[MrNovember]

I was just patching Warps as a simple osc last night. I didn't even really consider using it that way, but it works pretty well. Tonight I'm planning to explore it a little deeper, starting with some basic patches like cross-folding a slightly detuned oscillator.

Also don't get me wrong, I won't really ever be done, hence the quotation marks (sarcasm marks?) around done. I already have a HEK for once this system is "done". Then when I want to try something new, it will go into the HEK and if I like it, I'll figure out a way to get it into the main rack.

Plague Bearer has been a neverending pain in the ass for me on modulargrid. It's too cool to get rid of, but so hard to find a place where it feels right. Destined for the overflow rack.

Man, I am happy I'm not the only one that gets feelings like that. I hate when I try to rearrange modules and something just feels off

[MrNovember]

So I came across this article sometime last week and it has really opened up my eyes to new patching techniques that I am really enjoying:
https://www.xlr8r.com/features/2016/04/ ... synthesis/
I have no idea who the guy is, which I find weird because he's apparently some kind of modular ambassador according to the article, but his jazzy electronic tune is pretty cool. Not the kind of music I would really make, but impressive nonetheless.

Anyway, the article gets into his patching techniques and the part that really stuck out for me and that I've started adopting is the section "Everything Starts with a Drone". I used to just patch a sound I liked with one sound source, then move on to the second and try to patch something that fits in with the first, and so on. I never really bothered to tune anything and that worked for me. But I tried his method of tuning all of the oscillators first and developing the sounds from there and I've been finding the results so much more satisfying. I guess the difference is before I was sort of tuning things on the fly, whereas with this method I'm tuning first making the rest of the patching a little more like actually "playing" an instrument.