Cascadia was very inspiring for me last year, it’s the protagonist on all of these tracks and it was great fun to record these live jams - no post edit, besides compression.
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I want to try out the Intellijel Cascadia. As a fan of Intellijel modules and cases, I think it looks great. Plus customer support at Intellijel is great and they always respond and super helpful. Roland documentation and Roland user interfaces are the worst! I love Roland sounds but the end user experience stinks on Roland hardware. They really need to hire a good technical writer/trainer and revamp their cryptic horrid user interfaces.
This sounds amazingly good
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Those who have Cascadia for a while, how do you like it? I’ve been drooling over it and I am very close to ordering one, and I can use my upcoming birthday as an excuse so my wife doesn’t divorce me.
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I should be snoozing this thread. I’m having the same thoughts as you and my birthday is no where any day now
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I love it but have to admit that I rarely use its more esoteric offerings. I tend to use it as my baseline machine because it sounds so excellent. When I dig into the sync and folding on offer I tend to filter the hell out of it, destroying what makes it unique…but that’s not a comment on it’s quality in those departments, but rather more the fact that I love a serious, low-passed tone and rarely enjoy sounds that make my tinitis kick in.
But the interface is beyond fantastic and I doubt I’ll ever move it on.
Edit: if you would like I’d be happy to have a zoom call with you and your wife so I can explain to her how important it is that you be allowed to purchase one even if it means you guys miss your mortgage payment for a month or two.
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It’s an elegant, classy amazing instrument! Highly recommended if you’re interested in it, but it’s definitely a big purchase. Worth it IMO.
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Ugh I’m in the same boat.
Been drooling over the look/sound of this thing for months.
I have so much cool gear already, that I really can’t justify buying it, but man do I want one.
I have a guitar I’ve been trying to sell, so if I’m able to sell it, I think it’s a go.
Definitely want one partially because Intellijel is a hometown company for me.
No experience in modular but this might be a cool way to learn it.
Not sure how I would go about it sequencing it to create melodies, but I’m sure I could come up with something.
Right now I think I’m going to try to pull of NGNY 24 and this will be my reward next January if successful.
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It’s way over my head in many ways, I’m a total noob with modular way of working, but it’s been fun and sounds amazing even when I don’t know wtf I’m doing (which is often).
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It’s pretty wonderful. I’ve never come across another synth so beautifully designed. I’ve been using Softube Modular for years and never wanted to get into “real” Eurorack as I knew what it would cost and how it’d end up with me never finishing any music.
For a patchable synth, the normalisation and the design choices make it incredibly quick to get something going. The form factor is absolutely perfect. When I got it out of the box I had a “wow” moment — it’s just an ideal size for crowded studios. The Christmas 2023 dual mono update has made it rival the Sub 37 CV off to one side of it for paraphonic duties too (the drive circuit is almost as good). The effects loop design is exceptional, and makes it a doddle to get more mileage out of the whole unit by patching cheap stomp boxes you already own (although to be fair I did buy an EHX Memory Boy Deluxe to go with it). It’s just an all-round well put together piece, something you’ll have for life. I’d never sell mine.
There are a couple of cons, nothing too wild but worth mentioning — a simple thing like vibrato can be difficult to get going subtly with the small fader throws without further attenuating an LFO via something like the mixuverter. I’d like the central LFO section to have more than just the triangle waveshape available, but you do have a MIDI LFO and VCO B to go at for that. And I’d love a Roland-style delayable LFO — you can patch one by sacrificing a VCA and an ENV but it’s a bit of a pain.
It feels a bit churlish to be listing these, though, because if I had to list everything I love about it you could extend this post for several pages. A bit like the 0-Coast, there are some unique and interesting design choices and every piece of it can be used more than one way — ENV B, for example, can be pressed into service as a third oscillator; the simple ring mod has massive utility and can be used as a mini-VCA; VCO B isn’t even patched into the mixer by default, but is normalled in as an FM source for the TZFM VCO A, which gets you interesting complex tones without even lifting a patch cable, or vibrato if you have VCO B in LFO mode.
It’s such a player’s synth if you want it to be, too. The excellent MIDI->CV section, velocity, aftertouch and mod wheel coming in on three jacks —I’ve nearly always got vel->filter FM3 patched (though I can’t always use the mod/aftertouch because in paraphonic mode those jacks are busily being second CV and gate).
This was a synth I stalked for six months before finally accepting that I’d have to take the plunge; I’d been after a Korg ARP 2600M or an Erica Syntrx instead, but I’m ridiculously pleased I ended up with this — it puts those in the shade to me.
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I do wish there were some more video tutorials about it, but that’s cause it’s hard for me to learn otherwise.
Great post!
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Wow, I think this does it. Adding it in my cart now. Will take a few minutes to mull it over before I pull the trigger.
Fuck it, pulled the trigger! Life is too short! Now I’m excited as fuck! I also got the Torso T-1 and I think I’m all set with gear acquisitions for this year! Unless Elektron pulls something out ahaha.
Wish me luck with my wife!
Thanks everyone for your input! 
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Ahh that’s awesome! Let us know how it is!
Cascadia is a slippery slope into owning a metropolix, especially now that a stand alone case is coming for it. 
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I already own the Metropolix! 
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Phew, glad you popped back in today. Thought that you might not have made it out alive after telling your wife.
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