I’ve long thought about getting into the eurorack/modular world, and I am finally in a position financially where I can buy decent synths and/or start the dive. I also own an octatrack and digitone and love the elektron format. I should say that I am a big fan of experimental, glitch and noise music and am into exploring bizarre nuances of sound.
But, here’s my question: I love sounds that are able to “morph” and become radically different over time, and with the p-locking possibilities on the digitone it is easily achieved. However, obviously with modular systems you can hook up so many different things to each other and modulate everything in an infinite number of ways. However, I’ve heard that people say the monomachine is really dynamic. I was considering getting a 0-coast, and I already have a korg ms-20 mini, so the two could communicate with each other, and then if/when I eventually buy a case I would have pieces to already work with. Or, should I just save the money I’d spend on the 0-coast and start diving into my first system?
However, I know that the monomachine would be more immediately gratifying and that it DOES offer quite a few different types of synthesis. But, I feel like dropping almost 1k on a synthesizer that probably has a lot of overlap with other synths I have (Korg Electribe MX, Digitone, Concertmate MG-1, roland d550, gaia sh-01) seems kinda silly and if I want specific sounds then just build my own via modular?
If I got a case I was thinking of just starting with a small 84hp or 104hp, a mutable instruments modulator and a sequencer (maybe a make noise rene). The idea being to eventually build a module where weird ass sequences can very specifically modulate tiny aspects of the sound to make one synth that has lush and highly varied timbres over time.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
PS: I know a big old ramblin’ sesh and that it all comes up to personal preference but just looking for other people’s viewpoints, thank you.