I use Plaits in chord mode for Stabs!
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Oh I have the Behringer Brains Iām sure itās a direct ripoff of the Plaits?
Absolutely, a blatant rip off of a still in production module designed by a beloved company.
Anyway, Iām not sure what your question is but you could use a quantizer like intellijel Scales or uScale. They have an āOut Bā output that you can configure to be a shifted note on the selected scale relative to the input. Iām not totally sure of how it works but as I understand it, you have your input that gets quantized to the closest note on the scale, and then you can program your Out B to be the 3rd of the input note for example. And as it is quantized, it stays in the scale, giving you a minor or a major 3rd depending on your input note and the programmed scale.
And for the 3rd VCO you could tune it to a perfect 5th giving you a triad.
Otherwise you have deeper options like the Instruo HarmonĆ ig that gives you four outputs quantized to a scale for each of the chordās notes:
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As mentioned the Instruo harmonĆ ig is made for making a harmony of four from just one cv.
Another good alternative would be the shakmat bard quartet Shakmat Modular ā Harlequin's Context
Just make sure you have enough outputs on the quantizer so you donāt have to manually tune between chords.
And yeah, the chord mode on plaits/brains sounds really good but obviously not as flexible as 3x vco and a quantizer 
Even an extended version of it!
Nevertheless - you should have chord mode on brains as well!
Just a minor correction regarding Brains/Plaits - Mutable Instruments open source their projects a period after release. Plaits is under an MIT license. Itās why you see many Mutable clones on the market, and not for any other brands. So not a blatent ripoff, this one is totally kosher.
One of the few times Iāll defend Behringer Iām sure 
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Oh and because sharing is caring here is my modular setup! Itās a 7U Intellijel case so the bottom row is seperate in real life Nate's Eurorack (copy) - Eurorack Modular System from natehorn on ModularGrid
100% thanks to Mutable. 0% thanks to Behringer ā¦ to be clear.
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Just gonna put this here because I donāt want to have unavertedly started that whole debate again without showing where it should actually happen.
Regarding Mutable clones, they clearly were not the intention of the creator who has expressed many times their unease with the copying with worse interface scene. The original context for this open source aspect was a much smaller and DIY oriented eurorack world, where shareing and expanding ideas was part of the community, and was much more unattractive to companies looking for easy money.
Not entirely sure what this means The module itself was created by Emilie, but she chose to opensource it, allowing other people to create and remix her designs. Meaning its not a usual case of Behringer doing their dirty.
If Iām honest I think it was a strange module choice for them - Behringer create good original designs - even if they do it rarely. A half price Plaits is tempting sure but they could have put their own spin on it. Not to benefit Mutable but to create something more interesting.
Thatās fair - and I have no doubt about that intention 
I guess we could call this one a grey area for Behringer at best
For the record half my rack is Mutable - I love their modules and think their pricing is great - smaller sizes have never appealed to me either - in fact Iād rather Blades was bigger!
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I agree!. There is so much to tweak and so little space! 
Love Blades, sound so good and the overdrive just makes me smile.
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Added: Jomox Modbase Mk2 and Erica Cymbals.
Out of frame: Zed10 mixer and A4 as secondary sequencer.
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Current 104x2 setup. The Interstellar Radio kicked out some utility modules, but Iāll have them in a drawer to swap out when needed.
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Looks like a proper techno setup right there. Modbase is a killer, right?
It really is! Itās also very much asking to be tweaked I feel - the knobs make immediate sense, theyāre big, and feel super solid. Really I could imagine not needing to use a preset and just tweak my way through a set of different kicks live.
How do you like the Cosmix? It might end up filling the last space in my rack.
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Itās great, a lot of functionality in 16hp. Definitely good enough to have your entire mix go through to recording IMO. Also itās almost like having two different kinds of mixer, a clean high-headroom one and an awesome overdriven one, at the flick of a switch.
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So the overdriven one, would that be something to drive your kick with for example? I like to drive my kicks far into orange just before the VU meter turns red; that kind of stuff? Or mayhem immediately?
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When itās in ādriveā mode each mono channel is designed to overdrive individually and gain staging can be importantā¦ but there is also a stereo high/low overdrive compressor on top of that at the output stage. So lots of options dialing in the right amount.
From their literature:
āThe master channel can be sent to a true stereo drive circuit that behaves like a dual band compressor. It features faders which control both the top and bottom end of the drive circuit. When using the drive circuit, the white lines near the faders indicate where the signal will begin to be more affected by the overdrive and start to distort.ā
As for my setup I have the Modbase in my ādrum rackā, which I usually send separately through a RML 432k pedal, just because it sounds so good and has even more gain stage options plus a dry/wet mix.
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Cosmix seems really perfect for what I need / want. Full EQ multichannel mixers with send-returns are so expensive and big. Anyways, for now the Zed10 next to my case is fine.
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