lol
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and yes never sell what youāre happy with , my octatrack is still doing the sampler & sequencer job very well and the digitone the lush polyphonic pads & & fm drums
good luck finding a second hand beads!
disting & pamela are really differents , i hate disting & i absolutely love pam, itās my second module and sometimes i wish i had a 2nd
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Why the hate? I was thinking of adding it just to have that āoneā thing Iād need for a patch. Especially the sample player to feed into Beads.
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User interface. Itās terrible. That and the constant need to read a PDF file each time you try and use it.
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Right. Ok. Iāll watch some videos.
But you donāt come to memorize the select few you always seems to come back to?
it does so many things but nothing really well , and??? try spending 180ā¬ on something u never use
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Pamela is absolutely a part of every patch. I just wish it had a back button so you didnāt have long press to get anywhere. Also my brain has a hard time wrapping itself around all the multitudinous modes + the effect all the parameters have on them. I work better with a module with a singular concept, but that can be used in many ways. Like Maths. Same reason I never got on with Plaits but love Noise Engineering voices/oscillators.
Pam is extremely powerful, but the menu was not too much fun for me.
If Iād go eurorack again, I would rebuy it probably though. Just too useful
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I end up using it for set and forget tasks, like sending clocks and resets to sequencers. I have had one flash of brilliance with a generative patch basically powered by pam. It can do incredible things, especially with cv in, but you have to think of the thing first.
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I took a look at Pamās manual the other day and got bored immediately with the idea of editing 8 different outputs. It might not be that bad in reality. Thereās no denying itās abilities though.
one of the main lessons I learned from my little journey. Avoid menus, especially on small modules. They make the whole advantage of using hardware (haptic) obsolete
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I didnāt find this in the manual on an admittedly less-than-close read, but does the knob work as a macro control when not in output edit mode? So can you use it, for example, to divide the external clock and all the outputs are divided then?
pam is a walk in the park compared to this :
i must be oldschool 
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Iāll explain.
You have 2x push button knobs to control:
Main preset select menu.
Main module set up menu.
Preset functions menu.
Preset x variable.
Preset y variable.
Each list has multiple items to select, each item has values to select.
Each time you select something in a menu you have to wait to see what youāve selected while a word or two scrolls passed, one letter at a time. It isnāt fun.
Then you have all the functions which are just placed in the module in a seemingly random order so you need to constantly dive into the PDF. Some functions use input X to do something, while other functions use input Y to do a similar function etc etc.
Iāve owned mine for about 2 years and I donāt use it. If I need to use something the Disting does I see if I can do a work around and do it elsewhere first. If you think back at the worst user interface on a synth, something like say a Alpha Juno or Poly800 or whatever, itās worse than that.
Iād get a Disting EX if I had to get one.
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not with the knob but maybe the cv ins
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Wow snooze ok thatās the end of that idea. Thanks.
Yes ok I read that. I guess put an attenuator in there and you have your macro. Hmmmmmā¦
I started making electronic music on a macbook 
skipped the one knob - tedious menu lessons I guess