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it's very synthesis with modules...

hello, enjoy modular grid.

Im not sure if this exists but it would be great to have a section on the site for "latest modules" or "Newest Modules"
or add a filter to the module finder for year created.

thx
-- tunnelsurf

it already exists, order by: Newest...

Just to note: as an owner of this module, it doesn't entirely mute but rather reduces the volume of the signal. If the signal is loud you will still hear the input signal, albeit at a reduced volume.
-- furusato
thanks, very good to know.

hello, enjoy modular grid.

Im not sure if this exists but it would be great to have a section on the site for "latest modules" or "Newest Modules"
or add a filter to the module finder for year created.

thx

Mmmm... Rich creamery butter!

This is great! Nice work. I love that super-saturated sound.

EDITED Mar 9th 2022, 03:29

About to get going with the Erica Synths/Moritz Klein VCO build, meanwhile having 10HP 1U I’m looking to fill.

I feel 1U modules under 10HP are too sparse, and thought about the possibillity of converting the VCO to 1U/10 HP. I’m a noob with the solder iron, so thought I’d ask here for advice. Cheers!

Thank you, you two!
(Needed to look up "not the SOS" in the urbandictionary, haha. Thank you, I take it as a great compliment)

EDITED Mar 7th 2022, 07:50

Indeed, it’s pretty amazing how versatile it is. Sequencing the mode CV is a great way to get a huge variety of percussion sounds on one track.

It’s all over my new tune, and I’ll definitely be picking up another.

Hello Everyone,

I began building this set up at the beginning of the year. I have been playing with synthesizers for a few years now. I started with IOS apps and logic pro and slowly moved into hardware. Now I'm playing with modular I'm completely hooked.

This rack isn't geared towards any particular style. I really just want to explore the possibilities that I hope this set up will allow.
I am definitely inspired by bands like the chemical brothers, nine inch nails, tool, prodigy etc

I have been diligently learning the modules that I have and have found it to be extremely rewarding and fun but I acknowledge that I am new to this and have so much to learn.
Browsing the forums I am impressed with the knowledge that many members here possess and would really love to here any opinions of what I have built so far.

I'm pretty happy with the modules that I have included but I wonder if there is anything that I have missed which limit the potential of my system.

I'm also looking for advice on how best to organise the modules for efficiency. I have reorganised the case a few times now and it has definitely improved things. I have found myself patching away and getting completely absorbed in what I'm doing and then when I step back and look at my nest of cables it can be difficult to see what the hell is going on.

Anyway I'd love to hear opinions/advice from you all. It is very much appreciated.

Thanks

Hy!
i have build an pay for this rack since 5 Yeras...
what do you think?!
i have ordered a monster case for this setup..sold a make noise 7u and behringer go case, kept one make noise 7u for jams
it should be an ambient, techno, drum setup and more..
should work with soma puksar 23 to

EDITED Mar 6th 2022, 20:07

A VCO from Befaco, their EvenVCO. A competent VCO without frills, though good to have 4 waveforms available at once.
Some fit and finish issues, a little unusual for Befaco, but overall a good kit.
CK. builds a Befaco EvenVCO

Good experience buying from @Zbigniew and @pauk, good communication, quick shipping. Thank you!

Pretty experimental, but quite melodic. I'm finding myself coming back to using 2HP Pluck as a lead voice again and again. I find it's really good at cutting through, and I especially like the lead guitar sounds it's making in the latter part of this jam. This is overdrive coming from Bastl Cinnamon's resonance switch.

Thanks ..
I will check out those mods for sure
Im going to look into building my own stuff .. I used to breadboard 20 years ago
Im finding adsr and vca are just too pricey .. If i can learn cv controller voltages ..ill be on my way

Im going to buy a 2 channel oscilloscope kit and modify that to ER format

I figure it will cost 60 bucks and 4 hours work .. Throw a 7809 to power and draw off the +12 rail .. Use a blank pcb board as the face plate .get 2 @ 3.5 mm input jacks .

Then a want to build basic AR envelops .. Just to trigger the vca i will make next.

You rack is cool btw .. Your vcos look nice and hand crafted on tje top right

You have fun too ..

Hmmm... I'm not much of a generative musician, but I think I would probably want some switching, random, and logic options like the Doepfer A151 and MI Branches, maybe the Joranalogue Compare 2, and I know a lot of folks love MI's Marbles for generative. Disting would probably cover some of that territory for you. It's not much fun to use though. I've been eyeing the Qu-Bit Synapse as a fully-featured crossfading switch but at 20hp it's a lot of real estate (and $) to sacrifice. I personally like the Warm Star Electronics The Bends for a small (10hp) CV controlled crossfading matrix mixer. Might be worth a look?
Your signal flow looks pretty logical, so if it works for you, I would keep it as-is.
Have fun and good luck!

Hi. Sorry bout that .. Thanks for reaching out

Module placement ... ?
Any kind of music ..
Using this as a generative 4 channel
Clocking to my daw . digitakt and analog 4 ..
Currently running 3 channels out to 2 ch to daw .. No live .. No mobilility ..

Staying at 4 @ 84 hp ..

Any advice on placement would help

Im going for the top left and working down to
Bottom right .. Seems to be a preference ..

I am bout 6 months in .. Not into noise making
However its fun .. Want to do mainly generative ..

Gary

Hello....
So I went back to the drawing board and came op now with this case.

Here is the link
https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/command_center/197880

I would like to know what do you think of the following, if there is enough of these module sorts....

Post mixing capabilities?
Enough modulation sources?
Enought VSAs and VSFs?
And Utilities?

This case is still in the making....

Thanks

What kind of suggestions are you hoping for? New module additions? Module replacement? Signal flow improvement?
Do you have other gear that you are incorporating with your modular? What styles of music are you creating?
Hard to offer any useful advice without knowing any details. Let us know what you are hoping to do.

Great advice with regard to learning Maths and Disting first.

For now, I'm thinking I'll use my CV.OCD and do most sequencing from my iPad. I'm thinking about getting a Beatstep Pro or Keystep Pro in the future for similar duties.

I think the FX Aid is the next logical step. I'm currently using my iPad for FX as I use the iPad at the end of the signal chain. It'll be nice to have FX pre iPad.

Other recent ideas are to replace the Giraffe and Tangle Quartet with the 3xMIA and 3xVCA.

Hrmmmm...

any suggestions?

this is such a great little supersaw oscillator!

it holds it own too in heavy mix

oled ftw

Nice, indeed! Not the SOS!

Really nice work dude :)

good build only one think is hard that it have to revers power protektion so keep care how you connect it

combinde this with c&p

this is

EDITED Mar 5th 2022, 12:04

Dint you can find another good (supersaw) ? no this think is nice and easy!

0-2V clear and usefull tool

The drive is nicely an uniq. very fun to play

Thank you. There are constant architectural changes as I encounter challenges but it's definitely progressing. I decided to move more logic to the module itself to reduce network traffic, allow randomisation and "inter-modulation" in the future. The HW is also being redesigned to be much less HP.

Another small demo:

I just received mine. The folks at TakTakTak were very attentative with my order and sent me personal emails when it was shipped and even when it sat waiting at the post office for me to pick it up.

The module is super rad! Very underrated. The "velocity" sensitive trigger input is very cool and the variety of sounds is quite amazing for the price.

Would recommend. I may have to get another..

Maths is so good that it’s one of those rare modules that I have more than one and FX Aid is really good.

Sure in a nutshell a sequential switch let’s you split a signal and route it to different paths sort of like cv mixer but not quite. Chris Meyer of Learning Modular explains it better than my feeble fumbling:

This module comes in a few different forms; in the most common, a few different inputs are routed to one output (although they are usually symmetrical – one input can be switched between several outputs). A pulse or gate input then steps through the inputs one at a time, switching which ones is routed to the output. Fancier sequential switches allow you to set the number of stages, to divide an input clock so it switches at a slower tempo than the master clock, or might directly route a series of inputs to corresponding outputs (with usually a summed output as well).

https://learningmodular.com/glossary/sequential-switch/

It’s a great modular utility along with cv mixer, matrix mixers, attenuators, VCA and logic modules to make interesting patches.

Love the Black Sequencer it’s powerful and easy to get started. For sequential switch, check out the Hikari Quad switch it’s really good and easy to use. I like using it with a comparator and matrix mixer for creative patching.
-- sacguy71

Thanks so much for the tip. I’m a beginner, would you mind explaining to me what a sequential switch does before I research the module you suggested? I’m a little overwhelmed by all this and need someone to dumb it down for me. I’ve been eyeing matrix mixers but I have no idea what they do. There’s not enough videos on YouTube or maybe I’m not finding the right videos. What’s the purpose of a matrix mixer, what’s the difference between that and a audio/cv mixer?

I’m sending prayers to all my friends in Ukraine and Eastern Europe right now.

Love the Black Sequencer it’s powerful and easy to get started. For sequential switch, check out the Hikari Quad switch it’s really good and easy to use. I like using it with a comparator and matrix mixer for creative patching.

I started with downloading the free VCVRack software while reading Patch & Tweak and then bought a Doepfer A100 Basic System. These helped me learn a lot as a complete beginner. Then I bought a lot of gear and now focused on smaller systems cross patched.

Just make your life easier and get a Make Noise Shared System. Thank me later. I’m loving Morphagene and using the Rene v2 sequencer plus Maths is great for modulating it.

The reason I added MD is it seemed like a nice way to quickly generate a random sequence. I will get back to remaking this some another time.
-- aedvig

black sequencer has that too - check out magic...

Hi Mudi,

Wow, I can see the progress, this looks more and more promising! :-) Keep up the good work!

Please keep us updated and kind regards, Garfield.

Thank you cmb_ it's a joy to have others listen in find something they like.

Thanks for the feedback, now that you pointed it out I realized you are right about the lack off vca's and mixers. Right now I only have a 3x84he case with that 258t, I was thinking of maybe getting another case down the line since I would really want to keep at least the 258t, Rample and Morphagene as sound sources and it seems to me I might be lacking utility modules down the line. As for the Black Sequencer, it seems quite tempting and has many features, I guess right now I am deciding between it, Rene and Hermod, will have to think about that some more. The reason I added MD is it seemed like a nice way to quickly generate a random sequence. I will get back to remaking this some another time.

and linked

some suggestions:

let's start with mixing:

it doesn't look to me as though you are intending to use an external mixer - as you have the doepfer output module... but there's no end of chain mixer and no mono to stereo conversion - you have a mix of mono and stereo sound sources/sound modifiers - get something big enough that you can mix all your (processed) sound sources and place them in the stereo field - that means panning - you may want cv control over this - you may find that this means multiple modules - there are very few mixers that have mono and stereo inputs with cv-able panning on the mono inputs and send/return functionality - but you might find that a large mixer solves a lot of problems... hexmix & expander & hexvca or wmd performance mixer or tesseract tex-mix might be worth looking at - these mixers will satisfy most of the criteria above (to a greater or lesser extent) including the send/return which is really handy for the fx aid - you might want another 1 or 2 of these - delay/reverb/lofi - or something similar... and quite importantly, they have stereo master outputs and headphone sockets - so you can dump the doepfer module...

& there's not a lot of sub-mixing... so no mixing the 2 vcos in the 258t before hitting a filter for example...

the liivatera mixer is very large and would probably be better replaced with multiple smaller mixers - for example a couple of 3*MIA - remember that you will want to mix both audio and cv

there's a lot of gate to trigger channels, which you probably don't need - maybe keep the g&t - dump the ladik...

lfos: i'd dump the ochd and the eowave and replace with a batumi

vcas: I'd want more - dump both and get a couple of veils... again - you will want to vca both audio and cv

filters: ok 3 is about right - you might find you want a 4th dual/stereo one down the line

sequencing: I'd consideer swapping both the hermod and the md out for an erica black sequencer - 4 channels of up to 64 steps, with gate/quantized cv/modulation and mutes (better to mute the cv than the audio!!) for each and you can plug in a midi keyboard to record sequences - and the interface is much more ergonomic than the md - which if you wanted to use it for generating 'notes', you would also need a quantizer - maybe a 4 channel one... and/or possibly a sequential switch...

other modules: you might find you want a waveshaper - really useful with the 258t, an lpg and some more utilities: a sequential switch, a matrix mixer, some logic... take a look at my signature to find a rough guide to how to get the most versatile modular synth for the least money...

so I think it might be a good idea to add an extra row and I'd probably go for 104hp instead of 84hp - it looks like this is a DIY case so an extra row is relatively inexpensive - remember you do not need to fill it all at once - it's better to go slowly - but I think you will want more space to expand into in the future - based on the row power rack warts there's plenty of power - make sure you buy proper bus boards, to avoid rf issues with flying ones...

oh and Maths - keep Maths - it's a great module - even better if you work your way through the 'maths illustrated supplement' a few times and spend some time working out why it's doing what it's doing

EDITED Mar 4th 2022, 17:36

Excellent trade with @blib_blib, well packed, arrived quickly, and works as described

Thanks

Hello, so I wanted to get into this hobby for a while and I think it's finally time for me to do so. Here is what I would like to do with the system once it's finished:
1. sequence the thing with something that is relatively straightforward, has several voices and gives me the possibilities to make up quirky rhythms, the idea was that I'd use Hermod with external midi controller to quickly record in the ideas, not 100% sure about this idea yet, still considering sequencers like Rene
2. one voice would be used for melodies through the 258t (already own it)
3. the Rample I chose for drums, I like it cause of the program change. this would be mainly used as another voice or two
4. I quite like the Morphagene, I looked for a digital module that can generate ambient stuff and this one seems to be pretty interesting.
5. the rf nomad is there for occasional more texture, this I would like to mix in with Morphagene or 258tt

Still wondering whether I have to go with Maths, but the functionality seems pretty sweet. I'd plan to use it for envelopes, attenuating, all sort of sequencing things and such.
When it comes to filters I quiet like SEM or MS20 filters, Humpback and Dual Borg seem pretty nice from the demos, not quite sure if I will end up going for both of them, I still have this idea to throw a Metasonix filter somewhere in there, obviously that would require a proper PSU. I shall see about that.
I also like the idea of having two sequencers and having the ability to chain them together, that is why I have added MD, it seems like it would help out with getting the ideas out there and also help with polyrhythms .

In the nutshell the whole idea would be to make sort of a standalone system that can do melodies, drums and ambient while there would be some modules that would add some more dirt to it. I have made several versions of this and this is where I am so far.

https://cdn.modulargrid.net/img/racks/modulargrid_1770788.jpg

EDITED Mar 4th 2022, 14:39

Dear friends, due to recent events in Russia, I can't produce the module... All development on it has been stopped for an indefinite period... I'm sorry. No war in Ukraine!

you'll also want an instrument interface - the sonicsmith ev1 - seems to be the best in lots of ways - apparently the pitch tracking is great for single note runs etc - don't think it can handle chords - but nothing else can either

-- JimHowell1970

It's actually the Sonicsmith ConVertor E1. I just got the module. It does a pretty good job of pitch tracking both diatonic and chromatic harmonica. Haven't tried it with anything else. It's not perfect by any means and glitches here and there. Also the firmware needs an update to get all the advertised features. I think it's coming Q2 this year.

-- ScottyDizzle

yes, I know, I was using my old and failing memory...