Mutable Instruments Clouds - Worth the money?

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#44

I notice this reoccurring theme about eurorack being gates to hell and inevitable bankruptcy :fire:

I have eurorack sitting comfortably right on my piano and i love it. Didn’t spent much on it, bought a case, painted it, bought mostly used modules and it’s the most elastic piece i’ve ever owned. You can do drums, synths, fx … you name it.

Now, when i see people desks full of desktop modules (trinities costing much more then many modular setups) in some other topic :blush: … and claims that eurorack is a bottomles well i start to think that GAS is applicable to everything if you are not being reasonable.

:v:

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#45

you figured your optimal setup that’s why. There’s people that walk into a small setup and start tweaking or adding to it before spending time on practicing with their modules.

Good point about the elektron trinity. I have the trinity but usually I spend my time with one elektron machine at a time with my DAW setup.

Is one better than the other? Nope the main thing is we figured out this is what instrument we play and how we record it.

#46

I’m seriously considering one of these. How is it working out for you?

My main concern is that it has a limited range of use: only dirty, crusty and low fi. Not that that’s a bad thing. Can you get a wide palate from it? Does modulatation through the CVs open it up much wider or just a bit more?

#47

Kind of hijacking this thread, but I was considering a similar option to OP…currently using Digitakt to sample and sequence a few synths, and thought it might be cool to add a Nebulae V2 as a sort of “effect” in my chain. Not sure if this is possible or kind of a dumb idea considering my setup isn’t really a modular one. Also thought about Morphagene, but my understanding is it can’t do live audio (it’s more a standalone sampler?)

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#48

Also thinking about using Sound Guru’s “The Mangle” or Quanta as a plugin alternative, though not sure if those can manipulate live sound. Or if they’re just sample manipulators ala Morphogene.

#49

Not dumb at all. I’m in the market for some new (delay) fx and I’m split between getting a TimeFactor/TimeLine box or creating a little modular setup. Much interested in grain delays and other weirdness. MI stuff looks cool. Erika synths Black Hole looks cool too.

#50

Update: It looks like The Mangle and Quanta are both sample only (will no do live audio), though there is a plugin called Grainspace which can do this. Gonna go with that :+1:

#51

Re: people considering getting a Qu-Bit Nebulae v2 for live audio processing - I would be careful and do your research before you take the plunge. It’s a granular synthesis module, and the nature of granular synthesis is that you can’t immediately process a live signal. Instead, you need to work with a recorded buffer, and that buffer is sliced into tiny grains. So the Nebulae v2 doesn’t do live signal processing. It does have a “circular recording” feature that creates a short buffer and continually records into it, but users have reported that in practice this has some limitations compared to what you’d normally expect (clicks/pops, odd feedback issues, etc.) (FWIW, Clouds also has buffer recording via “Freeze” and seems to have less reported issues around this stuff)

#52

I think we have come full circle to the 80s where people are scratching their heads thinking, “do I actually need all these cables to make a ‘patch’?”

I had lots of fun with hardware modulars and the journey was great although in the end, for me being a hobbyist a $10-20k synth studio is absurd.

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