DivKid Ochd

The elusive Ochd just became available at Control for anyone in the US who has been waiting. Not sure how fast they will sell out.

Got my UK one yesterday, tis very good :)

Congratulations!!!

Maybe you would show us what you do with them please?

EDITED Jun 4th 2020, 20:15

Mine is shipping out today. If I find a way to put it to good use I will share.

I made a really nice little patch straight out of the box, pulled all the patch cables.... that ones probably gone ;-)

Ordered one from Control back in March. Fingers crossed that one will make it to my mailbox soon!

In my case since january.
Participates in 90 percent of my patches...
Ideal complement to Batumi.
I often say OCHD is a hippie, Batumi a scientist :))

That's a great analogy, Sweelinck. My music is more hippie than scientist, so Ochd should fit right in.

Really enjoying øchd for ambient, droning work. The slow ebb and flow of 8 independent LFO's is where it's at for me.

Nice work :)

Low-level night flight over the sea. Thanks for this journey!

Hi Mowse,

Wow, this is seriously good and entertaining! So lovely to listen at it. I mean you already managed to provide us a quick demo the day after you received this module in the You section of this Forum, but this demo, that plays in a total different league!

Well done and I look forward in hearing more from you :-) Kind regards, Garfield.

Received my Ochd this week .... 6 months after I placed my order... You can never ever have enough ... LFO's!

Hi Defragmenteur,

Yes I agree with that. Then again... you can never ever have enough VCOs/DCOs, filters, VCAs and a good assortment of effects and EGs wouldn't harm either ;-)

Kind regards, Garfield.

Edit/P.S.: Forgot to wish you good luck with your Ochd module, I hope you like and enjoy it :-)

EDITED Jun 25th 2020, 00:23

Hi Defragmenteur,

Yes I agree with that. Then again... you can never ever have enough VCOs/DCOs, filters, VCAs and a good assortment of effects and EGs wouldn't harm either ;-)

Kind regards, Garfield.

Edit/P.S.: Forgot to wish you good luck with your Ochd module, I hope you like and enjoy it :-)
-- GarfieldModular

Yep, it's actually on duty with the mimeophon!

@defragmenteur
@GarfieldModular
...and Hi again Everybody!

'You can never have enough'. I don't know when and were it appears for the first time on the modular planet (apparently talking about Vcas), but it has always sounded to me like a vacuous statement or worst, an advertising slogan: 'You can never have enough' clamps, guarantees, smoked salmon, or whatever!.. And curiously, this has met a great success in this community.

This is quite funny because at the same time it is proclaimed loud and clear in music making that 'Less is more'...

Shall we eventually hear 'You can never ever get enough less for more'?
Sort of Woody Allen assertion :)

Well, I use OCHD for a few months, and had the chance to receive last week the brand new RND STEP by DivKid and SSF (a random module in the same vein as OCHD).

We all know that DivKid is an excellent reviewer. But he is also a very clever and a rather visionary man. Obviously, Ben has understood a lot of fundamental modularist requirements. Less Hps, reasonable price (though RND STEP is a bit more expensive than OCHD and Mutes), the need for easy to use but strong modulation tools, and of course a well-known and appreciated signature.

We can notice that he didn't choose to begin with innovative oscillators or samplers, no more with delays or reverbs. He worked on simple but proper tools that BRINGS LIFE... 'To bring life': another common expression, but this time, a really major concern in modular music. Because bringing life is exactly in the DNA of modular synthesis and a permanent quest of every modularist.

Nearly 10000 Eurorack modules according to ModularGrid...
Probably enough, and we should need more DivKids to 'Clean up the mess!' ;)

ochd was an instant love for me. Like others here, I use it in most of my
patches.
Here ochd modulates mostly the Morpheus filter.

Hi Gabor and Sweelinck,

Gabor: Thank you very much for sharing your demo. I like it because you didn't went the obvious way but instead you made it nice subtle and controlled. Yeah, quite nice :-) You didn't overdo it and because of that less is more in that case; to use a phrase from Sweelinck ;-)

Sweelinck: Ha, ha, just teasing you :-)

Of course you are right that less can certainly be more, it depends I believe a bit on the situation and circumstances. In my opinion it's also quite personal if one rather prefers less is more or more is more. I guess I am usually more following the "more is more" motto but in certain situations I can understand certainly the less is more approach :-)

By the way, my comment about one never can have enough VCAs, etc. Yes I stick to that but with a lot of humour in it as well, so one shouldn't take that too serious and as already mentioned, depending on a situation it's more or less applicable.

Kind regards, Garfield.