Here’s my (fairly modest, I think) eurorack setup at the moment. Currently it’s spending most of its time as a hybrid hardware-software modular interfacing with VCV Rack. The Mother-32 is the primary analog sound source and most of the bread-and-butter functionality. The ES-8 goes into my laptop with 4 ins and 8 outs for VCV, with ES-3 and ES-5 providing 16 additional outs. Basically that’s 24 different ways VCV can go crazy modifying anything in this setup. And I’ve got a Madrona Soundplane hooked into VCV, providing 4 voices of polyphonic aftertouch with X, Y, and Z for each voice patched into anything I want. Clouds is running the Kammerl alt firmware which allows for CV-modulated beat repeat hyperglitch etc., with a corresponding faceplate. Wogglebug allows for randomness. Maths does LFO and envelope stuff. My 4MS clock multiplier and breakout modules are buggy, unpredictable, and completely spastic, but that’s just part of the fun. Moddemix colors the final sound with beautifully grungy overtones, and then Pittsburgh Outs goes into the ES-8 with VCV Rack, and then into Bitwig where lots more modulation and effects processing can happen.
Future modules: I’d love to add a Qu-Bit Nebulae v2 to fill out that blank space in the top or bottom row. And the Soundplane-to-CV module when it comes out. Not sure what else. Maybe an Ansible so my Monome Grids 128 can play, but that’s also coming to VCV soon-ish.
Honestly, the gestural flexibility of the Soundplane handles a TON of stuff that you’d otherwise have to program into the behavior of envelopes, LFOs, etc that you can instead just ‘breathe with your fingers’ and make complex evolving sonic architectures magically happen. MPE has been a complete game changer for me.