I’ve been more worried about losing or breaking these tiny things 
The Alchemist has now come to Eurorack in the Citadel format…
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Almost inevitable and makes the Citadel modules yet more compelling. Nice.
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I love that they’ve open sourced a bunch of it. The reversible panels is such a nice touch as well.
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Anyone here using the fx wizard as a permanent fixture in their setup?
Im’ thinking it would make a great tiny portable alternative to an analogue heat, with the envelope follower, distortion fx and filters it should make for some nice parallel compression/distortion sauce.
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Yes! However, I use a Freezer-patch as a sidechain effect. Haven’t repatched it since half a year. 
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care to share details or a demo?
Sure. Currently I have a multisampled piano track (T1) linked via midi to an arpeggiator that randomly triggers the same multisampled piano but on a different track (T2). When a note is triggered on T1 a random note from a random higher/same octave range but from the same chord as on T1 is triggered on T2 via the arpeggiator. T2 is then fed through a custom Grain/Pitch Shift/Delay/Reverb-Patch on my Ksoloti. This gives me a nice range of varying harmonics (dry as well as wet) on top of the piano played live on T1. T2 is then fed into the Bastl FX Wizard. On the Wizard I basically use the “Rhythm Freezer” patch as described in the Wizard’ s Cookbook, but with a low “Time” value, which results in some kind of glitchy, temporally synced, repeats of some of the pianos harmonics. Please bear in mind, that everything is temporally synced via midi/cv and I improvise the piano track on ambient drones and field recordings. This leads me to sometimes follow the rhythm the arpeggiator (depending on the quantization) and the Wizard (depending on the Time-value) generate and vice versa as either I or the arp/wiz-combo takes the lead. it basically feels like having someone sitting to your right on the keyboard, knowing exactly what you are about to play and improvising accordingly. This setup is a lot of fun and works execeptionally well for the stuff i do.
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By the way. I just realize, that “sidechain effect” is misleading here. Sorry, if you expected something different here.
wow that was fun to read, i love setting up intricate signal chains like this. i bet the results are lovely. thank you for sharing!