Feature Request

I would really appreciate if you could filter the user patches by module, like you can with the racks. E.g. Display all patches containing Intellijel Atlantis (or any given module).

/M

How about a filter for manufacturers that don't use plastic in their packaging? A "green" filter if you will.

I think it would be cool if modules could be linked to eachother, with relations such as:
- is a clone of /is cloned by
- is an imitation of/is imitated by
- is an extender for/is extended by
Etc.

Then for example, on the module page of the original Mutable Instruments Plaits, you could show:
- list of all existing clones of the module
- list of any clones that are for sale
- link to a search query in the module finder for modules with a certain relation to the Plaits. You can then further narrow down your search by say height or width.

Edit: I was thinking a bit more about this, we could also consider modules that there is a newer version of a certain module. Then there are also modules that contain functionality from other modules, i.e. the Disting EX does everything the Disting mk4 does, but it is not simply the Disting mk5. The Disting EX can also use MI Braids and Plaits engines but it is not a clone of these either. To consider whether new module versions are an instance of this 'generic' module relation, or a separate attribute type.

EDITED Aug 18th 2023, 15:05

how about a link to all other modules bythe same xompany or submitted by the same user

how about a link to all other modules bythe same xompany or submitted by the same user
-- pointandclicksystems

I think they are already there, if i click on your profile I see all the modules you've submitted.
Plus each manufacturer is searchable.

so you cant go to the module finder and search for my company name.

Ahh OK.
Do you have to get autherised or something from Admin? Or is it a pay money type deal?

you have to have stock built on the shelf ready to ship to be added to the company list. i just want to be found when someone types in my company name and not be referred to as other/unknown

EDITED Aug 18th 2023, 16:10

I would like to see the ability to have multiple racks on the same page. For example, have number of racks and then it splits and has rack one, rack two, etc. It would be nice to be able to layout a large multi-rack system on a single page.

Would also like to see an Excel-compatible spreadsheet of the modules generated from the program.

I would definitely pay for these features.

Thank you!

-- IvanC

I had this request as well, so I could emulate my real-life multirack system. The workaround is to create one big rack and divide it into smaller racks with blank panels. It worked out really well.

How about a repository for user manuals?

For those of us who rely on Modular Grid for module research, it would be extremely helpful, especially for those cases where the manufacturer no longer exists, or documentation was spotty.

Maybe even allow for the more industrious technical writers among us to create new user manuals where none previously existed?

Location could be within each module's page, or a forum heading, or a separate area of the site by manufacturer, or some combination thereof.

Speaking for myself, I have a lot of modules, but not a lot of modular experience (the robustness of my rack is purely owing to an opportunistic purchase at an estate sale), so I get a lot of benefit from manuals. Tracking them down (for example, to ensure they're actually plugged in correctly), though, is very time consuming and often frustrating.

But when I find them, they are eminently more useful than scrolling forever through YouTube videos hoping to find a loopop or Robin Vincent or Chris Meyer or Tim Shoebridge deep dive with section headings so I can find the thing I'm trying to do without watching all 20-60 minutes of the video.

I think a manual repository would be really helpful to many people, with my own preference bing one in a separate area of the site, organized by manufacturer, with links to individual manuals within module pages.

One man's 2 cents.

EDITED Aug 21st 2023, 18:09

That sounds like a pretty good call.

Yesterday i wondered if its time to rearrange the (~160) modules in my rack from scratch
As its not possible to place modules to a specific position within the rack this is horrible monkeywork on huge racks
so much scrolling, so much zooming in and out, so much searching in the my modules list, so much fiddling around with the buggy hard to use module placement that requires pixel perfect movements...

so i had another idea to start with this task:
it would be great to work with module dummies in the real world before starting to persist the arrangement in modulargrid.
smaller versions (maybe 1:2) of each module printed on paper or cardboard which can be arranged & moved around on a desk.

using AI it shouldnt be that hard to convert existing images of the modules to printable blueprints/pictograms that can be printed to paper and cutted with a scissor.

So my huge feature request (or at least placing the idea for this feature) is an "export all my modules or a specific rack to printable A4 sheets"

I have to admit thats especially for users with huge racks because small racks are handleable completely digital within modular grid...
Maybe the idea is totally crap because some aspects are much more tedious than on modulagrid (like searching modules or to get a feeling for the arrangement with only a black/white mess of tiny pieces of paper/cardboard)
Any thoughts?

EDITED Sep 11th 2023, 10:37

fiddling around with the buggy hard to use module placement that requires pixel perfect movements...

-- modular01

keyboard shortcuts might help with this, if you don't already use them...

it would be great to work with module dummies in the real world before starting to persist the arrangement in modulargrid.
smaller versions (maybe 1:2) of each module printed on paper or cardboard which can be arranged & moved around on a desk.
-- modular01

You can go to Modules -> My Modules and just use the Print function of your browser. I have changed the print.css so the modules will be printed in series and other info will be hidden.

Hey folks,
I had several situations I wished I could simply send a picture of a real existing module in my rack at home or a soundfile to somebody else here on modulargrid via a messenger service like on Facebook and many other web sites. This would make communication within an ongoing trade much easier and I would not need to use sombody elses e-mail adress or send mine to receive more infos about a module. I do not know how hard it is to implement this into this site but maybe something worth to consider.
Cheers

EDITED Sep 12th 2023, 19:26

Hey folks,
I had several situations I wished I could simply send a picture of a real existing module in my rack at home or a soundfile to somebody else here on modulargrid via a messenger service like on Facebook and many other web sites. This would make communication within an ongoing trade much easier and I would not need to use sombody elses e-mail adress or send mine to receive more infos about a module. I do not know how hard it is to implement this into this site but maybe something worth to consider.
Cheers
-- ChaiBaba

We have this now as an experimental feature for unicorn users. See https://www.modulargrid.net/e/forum/posts/view/40032

Thank you so much. The implementation looks great and will be useful for many unicorn users. No need anymore to show links to other websites for their real pictures of the modules. Plus its now possible to send MP3s to show in a auditive way that a module is working or what have been achieved with a certain module. This is really great.
Kind regards
Chai Baba

EDITED Sep 19th 2023, 06:13

Hello,

I don't know if it has been requested before, but it would be nice to be able to "lock" the position of some module in order to exclude them from the "optimize rack space" command.
Grouping them would be cool too.

For instance :

• I want my mixer at the top row far left -> I place it, I lock it, then I optimize the rack space around that locked position.

• I have a batumi + poti + samara -> I group them, then I optimize rack space, and they stay next to each others as "one unit" in the optimization.

Combining the two tools would be amazing ("group" then "lock").

Many thanks !

EDITED Sep 19th 2023, 10:53

It would be great to be able to split the rack in sections (Mantis, Go, etc.) with separate current draw calculations.
At the moment I've got separate racks for each section, which is far from convenient for shuffling around modules. Is there an easier way to do that?

Also, key shortcuts for moving modules vertically would be nice too.

EDITED Nov 3rd 2023, 10:51

It would be great to be able to split the rack in sections (Mantis, Go, etc.) with separate current draw calculations.
At the moment I've got separate racks for each section, which is far from convenient for shuffling around modules. Is there an easier way to do that?

Also, key shortcuts for moving modules vertically would be nice too.
-- Mazz

If you click on Data Sheet in the rack planner power consumption is calculated by row. Does that help?
Also key shortcuts to move modules should work. Hover over a module, press enter, use cursor keys to move, enter to place ...

At the moment I've got separate racks for each section, which is far from convenient for shuffling around modules. Is there an easier way to do that?

Also, key shortcuts for moving modules vertically would be nice too.
-- Mazz

If you click on Data Sheet in the rack planner power consumption is calculated by row. Does that help?
Also key shortcuts to move modules should work. Hover over a module, press enter, use cursor keys to move, enter to place ...

-- modulargrid

Ah excellent! I was using the "," and "." to move the modules left and right. I didn't know the Enter+Cursor Keys.
The Data Sheet is great for rows, but the Mantis and Go have separate left and right sections.

Apologies if already requested, but didn't see it... would love an option to sort by power specs for eurorack among the other sort features (newest, popular, alphabetic, etc.). I often find myself jumping back and forth to the 'details' page of modules just to see the power specs... trying to check if I could fit a module, power-wise. A simple sort would handle it nicely, though I know the three separate power values might complicate things. For my needs, +12v alone would be sufficient; or maybe just sum the three specs as a single integer value?

Thanks for a great website.

EDITED Nov 7th 2023, 03:21

would love an option to sort by power specs for eurorack among the other sort features (newest, popular, alphabetic, etc.). [...] For my needs, +12v alone would be sufficient;
-- obmuc

We have that now. Modules can be ordered by positive rail.

EDITED Nov 7th 2023, 09:14

We have that now. Modules can be ordered by positive rail.

-- solitud

What the evil twin said.

I think it would be cool to use AI image recognition to build a rack from a photo of a real world setup. Sometimes someone has a cool rack in a photo and I wonder what the modules are: how great would it be to leverage all the module photos on MG (let alone faceplate variants) to recognize and reconstruct their rig?

Three more feature ideas that are probably easier than AI:

• A filter on "My Modules" to show only modules not in the current rack would be very helpful when contemplating swaps.
• A way to "diff" two racks so that I can see what modules are not in common between the two would help for what seems like a common use case around here: versions of the same rack. Bonus points for movement notation or visualization (e.g. this moved here and that moved there and this was added and that was removed).
• A way to say that I own more than one of each module, and a counter in the “My Module” list that would show me how many I have used (e.g. 2/3). If this worked with the “not in this rack filter” in a smart way, so that if I had used 2 of 3 I own it would show 1 not used in the rack, all the better!

EDITED Nov 11th 2023, 17:06

Suggestion: add 'Inverter' to the list of available options for module functions.

Suggestion: add 'Inverter' to the list of available options for module functions.
-- MPCman

it's already there, although not as 'Inverter' - Polarizer - means the same thing

Suggestion: add 'Inverter' to the list of available options for module functions.
-- MPCman

it's already there, although not as 'Inverter' - Polarizer - means the same thing
-- JimHowell1970

Thanks for mentioning that. Interesting, I thought that polarizer was synonym for attenuverter, but it apperantly is not :)
It looks like there are currently a lot of modules with inverter/polarizer functionality that do not have that Function label in the database.

After some further digging, I'd say the term polarizer is a bit of a grey area in eurorack. When googling, I see several discussions on Modwiggler where people are debating whether the word polarizer is equal to inverter OR attenuverter.
The brand Doepfer consistently uses the term polarizer only in the context of attenuverters.
If search for the keyword "polarize" in the free text input field here to search for modules that have that text somewhere in the title or description, it only shows modules with attenuverters.
On the other hand, if I search for the function "Polarizer", it also shows modules that only have an inverted out and no attenuverter, which is in line with using polarizer as synonym for inverter.

I guess if everybody would agree on only using the terms attenuverter and inverter from now on (and abandon the word polarizer), there would not be any confusion, but that is probably never going to happen :-)

How about a way to set a module to 50% opacity or something via a shortcut to indicate I don't have this module yet, for example. Could help evaluating the feasability of a new rack layout. I used to use f=flip for that until I actually started turning modules upside down.

How are things going with the Wishlist feature? Any closer to rolling out that feature?
Also, with the emeregence of AI technology, wouldn't it be great to have module or even rack suggestions based on modules in your collection and modules you might want to add to your collection? One could even go so far as to have an interface where you describe what you sound or function are looking for and have suggestions based on that.

EDITED Jan 3rd, 13:43

Would like to see better support for 1U to 3U adapters, like the XODES, or at least a way to stack three 1U modules in a 3U rack properly.

EDITED Yesterday, 12:57