I’m loving all this talk of jamming for jamming’s sake, not putting so much pressure on ourselves to do things a certain way or meet an external expectation of “productivity” etc. etc. You all are the real synthfluencers.
Here was my view from last night’s jam. Somewhere under that cable spaghetti is a joystick that I should probably relocate to the outer edge so I can actually access it. The quest for the perfect configuration continues.
It’s nice to see an actually patched modular setup.
This lot looks amazing mate, I’m just starting out in modular after 30+ years of hardware. Only got a few modules but your setup looks f@cking class 
Here’s all I have so far for drum rack 1
Got a Jomox Modbase 09 MKII but intent to use that in another small case.
Thanks! It does feel a bit obsessive, and does cause me guilt to be honest, I have to go to MW and look at crazy wall collections to make myself feel better about it sometimes 
I usually record at 96khz or 48khz, mostly the latter unless I plan obn doing a lot of post processing/effects.
I got all the Apollos used, and saved quite a bit. I rarely use any unison plugins on the way in as I never really want to commit to a particular character or effect before mixdown unless I have to. Though I do sometimes add a Vision Strip for compression if the source has a lot of dynamics, but I try to attenuate the outputs form the rack where necessary so they’re not too hot.
Looking good. You could fit an Erica Black LFO in there for a modulation source, unless you have modulation in another case?
I haven’t, but I do have some Patching Panda modules, and they’re all solid. Some of them were kits, and Luis at Patching Panda is always quick to respond and super helpful if/when anything goes wrong. The Ephemere kit was missing a few switches when I got it from the retailer - he replied right away and priority shipped them so I got them quickly.
A few weeks ago it arrived the last module for my system. Mostly planned initially for generative ambient music, finally I got infected by the voltage addiction so I’ve finished with a flexible rack imho. For the moment I’m happy and comfortable with all modules. And, It’s enough good for generative too 
Here a little jam around my rack and Eyesy for visuals.
Iv’e got absolutely nooooooo modulation up to now just the drum modules and the (Erica Synths Drum Modulator)
Modulation modules is what I’m looking at now, I did just buy a Tip Top Audio ZVERB just now tho… hehe I’m getting there
If you can find room for it, the Acid Rain Maestro is an excellent modulation source. 6 channels, lots of options, really easy to navigate, barely any hidden functions/button combos, and the ability to make loopable shape and speed patterns per channel - e.g. ramp up 1/8, ramp down 1/4 x 2, sine 1/16, square x4, etc.
Yes I was just looking at that and the Zadar what do you think?
Maestro is really fun and powerful.
I have both, I think you’d get more mileage out of the Maestro. You can also trigger stages of a pattern on Maestro, so you can use it as a complex envelope generator as well.
For what it’s worth, I’ve considered selling the Zadar a number of times, whereas the Maestro is one of my favorite modules.
@xidnpnlss Tallin great by the way. Pretty nice warm saturation, cv response seems fine. the differential lin/exp in is overkill at the moment since I’m mostly using the maths as a mod source for now, but will be nice when using other modulators down the road. Form factor and layout is nice too, I think if I end up needing another pair of VCAs for audio signals I might pick up another.
Other stuff:
Since the ES-9 order fell thru, I kind of did a wild card and ended up picking up some stuff from the Leibniz system -> Drezno, Lipsk, Erfurt - no Jena (yet, at least, going to see if anything new at superbooth). I don’t really use bitcrushing all that much in my music, much more interested in pattern/gate generation with it at the moment. Feeding in some envelopes and clocks from my maths corner has resulted in some really cool unpredictable stepped modulations and gate patterns. The visual feedback is really nice too. I didn’t think I would use so many gates as modulation sources but I’m not upset that I have been.
Also, the rest of the XAOC stuff I got (Batumi, Sarajewo) are just super nice sounding. Batumi especially is pretty wowing, by far the best filter I’ve heard in person - really nice effects at high levels, good through the sub octave range which is important for bass/drone work. Would really recommend both, but the Sarajewo in particular is more of a one trick pony.
Metasonix stuff is all great so far, RK2 and RK3 will be mainstays for sure - pretty instantly gratifying and unpredictable mangling capability. Still discovering the potential of RK7 and RK4 as sound sources, but using them to modulate each other and as dual RK3 inputs does really interesting things. Still need to find a proper sequencer. RK6 I’ve found to be the least enticing of the group so far - I prefer stuff that resonates at lower frequencies and opens all the way - but it is cool as a LPG with resonance cranked, and I may learn to like it in the future.
Bastl - I think it’s just because I picked up some of the wildest processors out there (rk2, rk3, belgrad), but the waveshaping potential from the waver, timbre, and dark matter feel a little less enticing. I think if I had more standard VCO’s as a sound palette, that these would make more of a difference. But the other stuff just blows out waveforms so much that I haven’t really needed the additional distortion. Still have found lots of use in the mixing from waver, envelope following of dark matter, and the timbre does sound nice and have a really cool range. I have been thinking of selling/trading these three to consider other tube-based waveform processing.
You mean Belgrad? Batumi is an LFO bank. And, yes, Sarajewo is a one-trick pony, but what a trick. “This pony can talk, but otherwise is nothing special.”
Yeah belgrad, my bad. Been thinking about picking up a batumi.
Xaoc are some special engineers for sure
Apparently they are teasing five new modules at Superbooth, but also they take their time between showing things and actually putting them up for sale.
I’m waiting for more Xaoc Devices Hrad modules to come back on the market. Probably buy one next year to make my Praga mixer easier to use.
check this one out!
Thanks for the report back!
And is it clean before the boost and does it fully close?
