Wanna get into modular, but I'm poor.

[popvulture]

Oh shit you have a jobnow wooooooo!

Now go spend that new job money on some oooooo shiny.

[Inconuucl]

Oh shit you have a jobnow wooooooo!

Now go spend that new job money on some oooooo shiny.

I did, I did~

The application process was two months of grueling tests and interviews, but fortunately they made the mistake of choosing me and now I have clear access to convert the young masses into the Great Cult of Noise.

However, before I go full-on Ruiner with pedals and modular I have to replace the shit I sold to keep myself afloat/rebuild my savings, also go ham on Secret Satan.

[Invisible Man]

Also you said you work in education so I assume you are paid less than a shoemaker.

[oscillateur]

listen to modular dad.

No kiddies for me son! I'm just the uncle with the cool toys, who shows the nephews their first anime cartoons.

oo ur like modular uncle. oscillateur is modular dad. kbit is that cool smart older brother who went away to college and dos is angry step brother who is mad at you for joining the family

Let it just be said that I am proud of that recognition .
Actually looking forward to when my son will be old enough to play with the modular. He's only tried a Volca FM so far but he's not even one yet .

[Inconuucl]

Also you said you work in education so I assume you are paid less than a shoemaker.

Luckily I'm not an educator and I'm working for a private organization. I'm not going to be buying a wall of Stradivari any times soon, but now I can resume my gear habit at least.

[Boxbie]

Two words: sex work

[Invisible Man]

I mean, good work. But I could use an ILFer to bitch with.

[Gone Fission]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGCg6M-yxmU[/youtube]

I don't think anyone has mentioned, the Model 15 app is on sale for $9.99 right now. Tempted to buy it now, but it's 64 bit only, so I'd be stuck on my tiny phone until I upgrade my iPad.

[goroth]

I dunno what shoemaker's you go to IM, but they are paid out the wazoo.
I can't get a decent pair of bespoke shoes for under $4000.

[coldbrightsunlight]

That's because you live in a communist hellhole instead of the free world (places with child labour).

[PMowdes]

If you want to get into eurorack modular stuff I'd recommend the Pusherman group on Facebook, they do a bunch of open source modular synth group buys so it works out real cheap.

[D.o.S.]

The alphabets not going to add those extra U's by itself.

[coldbrightsunlight]

What about umlauts

[oscillofuzz]

As far as the sample mangling I would love to be able to feed my guitar into it and have it just make the thing super glitchy for recording weird parts.

YO YO BOI!!! Have you considered a Microgranny? It's a small glitchy sampler and not very expensive. The BASTL TYME may be up your alley as well (when it comes out).
I feed shit into an older secondhand MPC 500 and just do one shots through some of my pedals (confession: I bought that particular one because 1. Cheap 2. TOBACCO had one back in Dandelion Gum era BLACK MOTH )

Also, for this purpose, you don't need a whole lot of modules. On the expensive end MakeNoise Phonogene/Morphagene and/or a Industrial Music Electronics Tyme Serfari MK ][ plus some modulators would do the trick. On the less expensive end Noise Reap has an ISD sampler and really cheap utility modules (when I say cheap I mean comparatively speaking of course).

Index For Further Reading:
MakeNoise Morphagene - http://www.makenoisemusic.com/modules/morphagene
Industrial Music Electronics Tyme Serfari MK ][ - http://www.industrialmusicelectronics.com/products/7
NOISE REAP Products - http://noisereap.com/product-category/assembled/

Please excuse me, I hate to be that guy who quotes a post from page 2 on page 6, but dang Sharktooth, I like your taste in modules. I decided some time ago that modular synth as an instrument is not for me, for reasons similar to Invisible Man's statement on page 3:

Do it if you want something specific from it. Don't do it because it looks/sounds cool...
There are so many fun but ultimately similar modular musicians out there. It's way ahead of pedals in terms of sonics, but it's like kids who learn to walk too early--ability is way ahead of judgment. Sure, bleeps are fun, but how would it interact with other stuff? What kind of music can you make with it? Because it's so free-from, a lot of people just say 'cool, this is my instrument now' and everything is in the box--there's no interaction between people or instruments, which is one of the most exciting things about making music.

But maybe I should revisit the idea of modules like these in particular for use as fx unit/signal processor rather than setting up a modular synth with oscillators at the basis and falling down the atonal, LFO-triggered, bleep bloop rabbithole (which I don't really want to spend money on, tbh). I really like the idea of mangling/manipulating looped delay lines coming out of an Echolution or prerecorded spoken word samples in this way, either live or in the studio as an extra layer of 'what the hell is going on in the background as these guys pull their strings and smash their drums??'

[coldbrightsunlight]

I started with a little standard osc+env+filter+... rig and it was fun for a little while but I got a Phonogene in a trade and it's like everything lighting up, this is what I want modular for. I went about it the wrong way for sure, but if you like messing with samples modular can be fun because of cv capabilities. Computers, obviously, are also good for that but too me they feel less immediate