What kind of music are you making?
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You canât go wrong with xaoc⊠Belgrad is my favorite filter and my favorite oscillator. Itâs crap at tracking v/o (tracks max 2 octaves if your lucky)
But it sounds so lush and warm as an oscillator.
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Who of you guys are using a Sequenzer inside their rack.
I have a metropolix inside my rack and plan on buying a 0ctrl. But after all I ask myself if it wise to spend all that rack space for a sequencer that is always inside. I always thinking of taking it out going full mmMidi and 0ctrl.
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Keeping your sequence inside is good for when you want to play out and have one rack. Iâm using nerdseq inside and torso t1 outside. I have the o-ctrl but donât really use it these days. Inside I use voltage block for that kind of sequencing. Usually sequencing modulation rather than pitch. o-ctrl seems to polarise opinion a bit. It doesnât quantise but does have some nice performative features. Iâm probably going to sell mine. But you may find it works for you.
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I have a mutant brain in my rack for midi to cv which I use with my OP-XY
Then I have a small drum groove rack of 48hp containing stages, grids and marbles for when I want to jam out on the modular. Grids and marbles is a great combo because using the randomness to switch X and Y patterns on grids makes some really funky sequences.
And finally I have a small rack 32 hp with teletype and i2c2midi which can both sequence cv and midi.
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I really like Oxi and Oxi Pipe for sequencing modular. I barely use René anymore, even took it out of my rack last week.
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I use Five12 Vector with an expander and itâs as close as the elektron sequencers as you are going to get right now. It is a fun device and very comprehensive feature set for its task. It has chance, conditional trigs and several other modes outside the scope of the elektron sequencers. Recommended.
I go back nâ forth on this quite a bitâŠ
I like the idea that my rack is self containedâŠ
so have a Hermod(+) in it - but rarely programmed sequences into it, kind of fiddly.
fortunately, Hermod does lots more, so I do things like midi->cv, recording cv etc - so still valued module, esp given its HP, it does so much.
I then moved to an USTA (after initial Hermod v1) as I thought, I wanted a analog sequencer approach , which was fun for a while, but its UI is a bit too complex to remember if I donât use regularly. so tends to be modulation now.
in parallel Ive had the Squarp Pyramid , then Hapax, which Im much more likely to use for sequencing, as its much more comfortable to âprogram sequencesâ on the desk. Hapax in particular is a joy to use.
funny, the Hapax has plenty of cv outputs, but I find I mainly use midi for sequences (into Hermod+), and then just use the CV for modulation. ( * )
overall, as I said, I tend to move between the twoâŠ
desktop is more comfortable, but there is something nice about just focusing on the modular rack itself⊠and it being self contained.
so these days, I just do whatever im feelingâŠ
but hey⊠that might be Ableton via Hermod+, or vcv via the SSP (as a dc coupled audio interface)
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I donât typically approach eurorack with a genre in mind, more of experimenting with new patch ideas and techniques and let it go where it wants. when I then chop up all my sounds and make samples for more intentional compositions, I make âtechnoâ in a fairly broad/loose sense. music production has always been primarily a therapeutic hobby for me so I donât worry too much about having a distinct sound and allow myself to just explore.
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thank you for this insight. I do plan to use it as a sound source too, but mostly in percussion-esque ways so pitch tracking isnât a priority for me. I love the timiszoara and tallin gets incorporated into every patch, even if just to lightly saturate.
Kind of feel the same, just like it as a playground for experimenting.
My only thought then is it looks like youâre planning for a ton of small, high functionality modules. Nothing wrong with that, but if youâre playing with sound to get new ideas, stuff thatâs a little more knob-per-function and well spaced out may be more fun.
Would also say that spectraphon can get you in that techy spectral Odessa territory, but then can also be used to process those drum voices
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The current rack seems a little confused in that it has the beginning of a workstation for basic signals like the 4ms clock and other utility modules but itâs not quite there yet to make and mix CV to make sequences and quantize them, create multiple rhythms that you can combine and send to different voices. I went that route for while since I wanted to do all the things at once but found that my rack looked much like yours and separated micro from macro. It seems like youâre also separating utility from voices in the second rack which seems more focused on two voices with plenty of choice for how to patch them.
I think itâs good to focus and hone in on whatâs easy to make useful, to keep it simple. The second rack looks simpler to interact with but the first rack still has two voices + some extra choices of how to patch. Youâre going to be running to the post office plenty of times and spending some money but I still donât think you made any blunders in the second rack. Can you minimize the change and make it even easier?
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agreed. I do plan to eventually move in that direction, swapping out the o_c, distings, kith, and a couple other smaller modules for a singular more focused one, but the priority for the next major iteration is to swap out the modules I really donât mesh with like the subharmonicon and varigate 4+. I have a bunch of small ones since Iâm coming from a small case and figured for the time being just throw them in there instead of having gaps/blanks. it is nice to have a quantizer and tuner on hand though so I may keep one disting.
spectraphon is intriguing. I didnât previously realize the overlap it has with odessa so Iâll definitely need to do some more research on that!
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itâs very confused and thusly hasnât been super inspiring yet, but I anticipated as much after gaining something like 146hp with the new case. definitely a long term project and donât mind post office trips as mine is just down the street lol. I just need to firstly get the subharmonicon out of the rack as I am simply tired of forcing it to integrate with my gear.
two voices is the eventual goal. Iâm starting to think I need to just ditch the idea of having dedicated drum modules as my dt1 is very capable of handling that and my favorite one-shots Iâve recorded have all been from synthesizing those sounds myself (as opposed to from a specific drum module)
Confusion is an ingredient when making modular spaghetti, embrace it or falter. Trying stuff out is fun and I have traded many modules with very few incidents so go for it. I sorted my stuff into a drum rack, some good stuff and a whole bunch are taking a rest before selling. I got a digitakt 2 which seems to supply my drum needs but I want to take some time before axing the drum rack. I may keep the modular as an experimental hands on station⊠seems like purpose built non-modular synths arenât all that bad for ânormalâ stuff.
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This 10 year old video by James Cigler really got me going. Brilliant overview, I wish he had done something similar for the Telharmonic, a module I find a bit hard to grasp.
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Anyone repping a solid hybrid setup?
I, in my insanity, picked up a cheap case.
âthis timeâ Iâm going to try and and take it slow â using the optx to supplement modulesâŠ
Digitone 2 + PWM Malevolent + Bitwig/VCV + Some Euro (not sure what yet)
Those with hybrid setups what do you leave for the computer, what do you prefer in rack?
Iâm new (maybe) to modular, and am so glad I found someone else saying this. I had the same thought.
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how big of a case?
2x104HP