Modular is freedom of patching, even a simple setup you just mentioned can give very exciting results that you just can’t achieve with the AR’s.
Don’t think in money, think in possibilities.
This is not a good advice
Yep…I can see how enticing Eurorack is for new discoveries and so on…must be great fun to jam with. But I have musical ideas before I have sounds …so mostly I need something vibrant and alive but also predictable. And then the cost… But of course each to their own. Just posting my 2 cents here.
Modular exploration also makes one return to hard wired synthesis with a fresh perspective, even a greater understanding and streamlined approach to deeper synths…
I reckon…
Are the two small black boxes midi to CV converters?
looks great
these are the elektron adapters from the midi cv split kit. I bought two, so I can use all four cvs from the A4. Works perfectly.
Wtf, LASER control? Please, tell me more
these projectors that are used for laser shows… they are controlled with analog voltage. There’s a standard called ILDA which is implemented with a standard DSUB-25 connector. So basically you just need to make a cable which has that connector on one end, and modular minijacks at the other, then you can drive the laser projector with CV.
The laser is basically a dot which you can move around horizontally and vertically, and adjust the brightness.
So with 3 CV signals you can control X-Y-brightness and that’s really all there is to it.
e.g. send a sine wave to the x channel, send a cosine wave to the y channel and it’s a circle…
Argh, sounds so cool! I bet one could learn tons about CV using lasers.
Now I want a eurorack laser rig. :-o
If you have any videos of such activities, please do paste them here
don’t have any good videos unfortunately… we do mostly use it for kind of photography by drawing on special paper and developing, see pics above… I’ve written an engine/synth which takes vector graphics as input and creates signals to draw arbitrary shapes.
Birdkids? Whoa. Interesting start – their stuff seems a bit shrouded in mystery, like the Mannequins stuff… Would love to hear it if you end up recording anything.
You built this case?
My percussion setup. Thought I would stop at percussion related modules but now have some wood for an Intellijel Shapeshifter. Only thing is I suspect it might overlap too much in sound with my Virus TI.
Totally agree. Having owned just an 0coast for a while before I boiught some modular I returned to my Virus ti with understanding and more confidence with envelopes and lfos