Yeah, I sort of get this sort of attitude. The controls are sometimes intentionally vaguely named. That can be annoying. But the sounds Make Noise modules make are worth all that…Also, the Tom Erbe modules are all my favorites. As for esthetic, whatever. It grew on me I guess. I also came from the same background as the founder who was a skateboarder in the 80’s, doing boneless’s at my local ditch. Kinda reminds me of Zorlac style.
Also. The waveforms the DPO make are dangerous. Filthy.
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I love Make Noise designs, not just the squiggly aesthetic but the choices of knob assignments, inputs/outputs, just so playable and patchable. But I appreciate opposing opinions, the beauty of Eurorack is that there’s a whole garden to explore 
I have a Squarp Rample on the way, anybody have thoughts/experience with the Rample? I mostly want to use it for drums but interested in it as a general sample player as well, might record some Digitone II patterns for it etc.
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Does anyone have any experience with Spectraphon?
I have some gear on the way out and Im thinking about switching out my oscillator section for a Spectraphon. I really fell in love with the steel guitar resynthesis demo.
It seems really versatile in that it acts like an oscillator and resynthesis machine
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I started out modular with Make Noise and it is one of the best decisions I ever made re. music making. Think it is very personal if something clicks or not, but I did not find the modules that hard to understand (except the Telharmonic). And since it is all about experimenting, I found the Make Noise modules actually more inviting than the straightforward stuff I have lying around.
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It is great as an odd sound source/manipulator/mangler, but I also find it gets wild and unpredictable pretty fast. So I left my DPO in, because I sometimes want a bit more traditional sequencing, for example basses.
But since MN built an entire system around it, I could be painfully wrong.
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That sounds just like what I’m looking for. I had a panharmonium a cpl of years ago, but I found it to be pretty repetitive after a while, the sound was kind of samey it didnt feel as versatile as the spectraphon.
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owww just won a Dopefer Basic System 2 on Ebay – fun ahead
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I switched out my oscillators for a spectraphon and regret it. I do really like the spectraphon but it’s quite unpredictable and better paired with something you can reliably tune in. I’m also really finding myself missing the kind of sounds you get with a tri/saw/square generator - everything sounds more round(?) coming out of the spectraphon.
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Updated a couple of things, getting me some new goodies and swaps. Added Ochd, Battering Ram, and Archer’s Rig. Swapped FX Aid Pro (which I’ll keep and really like) for a 4hp FX Aid.
Main voices still Ultra-Perc and Oxi Coral.
Bitbox Micro for any added percs and sounds. Six of its voices go through Forbidden Planet filter. Last two voices go through a chain of C4RBN Filter, Dual Looping Delay and FX Aid for all kinds of swooshing, atmospheric, textural sounds. Love running the 1010 through a filter for playability. Makes it noisy as hell though; the BB is my most noisy module and the Steiner Parker filter design only adds to it. Fine for my type of music though.
And so now Battering Ram and Archer’s Rig for minimum viable drums. Idea is that this might be enough to perform with, without needing a dedicated drum machine (Syntakt). Plus, wether they works put or not, it solves what I really missed in my Syntakt (that I previously had on Rytm), which is the ability to multitrack/separately record kicks and hats in my recordings.
More then enough modulation for my needs, with Pams, Ochd, Delta-V, and Twin Waves.
Sequenced by Hapax. Mackie 1202 as mixer. BIM and Space for delay and reverb.
Let’s see how it pans out 
Especcially the Archer’s Rig sounds amázing. Already kind of what to use it as central sound source instead of for regular hats lol.
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Woop woop! New demo video for the Verbos Sawtooth Stack coming here:
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Yeah om actually looking elsewhere…
Right now in thinking of going back to erbe verb. I quiet miss its odd sounding clanky verbiness.
Also Looking into Typhoon with its parasite firmware which has a Erbe verb inspired firmware
Put some Erbe on it
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I’ve got Spectraphon but I use it with XPO and STO. I don’t know that I would want to use it alone, but I could if I needed to?
my new poor-mans-maths, two independend function generators connected on the back to an attenuverting mixer with sum and inv sum out and also a logic block with AND and OR output. so in total it becomes a little maths. All modules could be used seperate. the best thing is, you could place them wherever you want in the rack as long as the length of your jumper connection on the back reaches. so no need to have 16hp in just one row or in a row.
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That’s nifty, but how much does the trio cost?
I mean maths is not that expensive.
around half the price, so quite cheap i think. But it was primarily about the DIY idea.
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Aah right, you DIYed it. Yeah that’s probably a lot cheaper!
i love mine. it can get ear piercingly trebly at times though, so you have to be careful with it
love feeding it with the a4 doing drums
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do you have any recordings of you doing that? Because that sounds like it would be really rad!
Maths is one of my favorite modules, and this is a really cool idea. I like that you can spread out the “maths” in your system with this.
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