Can we talk about modular synths?

[yeatsvisitslincoln]

Dang. I didn't realize the General CV was available already! Ughhhh.

[Dark Barn]

Hey Ruiner what does that do? I’ve noticed it kicking around the web recently but I couldn’t grok it.

[Ruiner]

Hey Ruiner what does that do? I’ve noticed it kicking around the web recently but I couldn’t grok it.

Here's the primary features:

Behaving like a modular VCO, but using a massively multitimbral and polyphonic synthsizer engine as its tone source.
Automatically creating chords and arpeggios from a pitch CV.
Playing MIDI files from an SD card, including special support for playing loops synchronised to a clock pulse.
Being a drum machine with up to nine independent drum trigger inputs.

Here's a little snippet from Tom Hall using it:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ40Eu9ga1P ... hallsonics

[popvulture]

I just don't want to see you talking about patching and VCA's and other bullshit. I... I just want you to think this through.

Loled hard

[kbit]

If I had an unlimited budget right now...

SPOILER : show

I have too much time on my hands that I should be using to do other things.

I'm constantly thinking about what direction I want to go in with sequencing in the short term: Rene or Turing Machine. Eventually I'd like to end up with both (as seen above) but with my size/budget constraints only one will be possible for a good while. Turing Machine would definitely fit the improv vibes a bit better, but Rene seems to have a huge potential for unlocking the unknown mysteries of geometric rhythms...

#firstworldproblems

[behndy]

it's weird, but never been super desirious towards either of those. SHUT UP. IT'S A WORD. DESIROUS.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5215OgBYq8[/youtube]

Niiiice. Dirty dirt. I'd like a Transient AND a Plonk. They seem to be planets away from one another. I am a drum junkie.

lol. also, i MIGHT have the bit crusher turned up on most Transient patches. because YES crushed drums please.

[chrisdermo]

Where do I start guys? What would you recommend for a beginner?

Oh and I have fat sausage fingers, so bigger cables are a must for me.

Moog format Modular? Nice big chunky 1/4" patching. Yum.

[Dark Barn]

Hey Ruiner what does that do? I’ve noticed it kicking around the web recently but I couldn’t grok it.

Here's the primary features:

Behaving like a modular VCO, but using a massively multitimbral and polyphonic synthsizer engine as its tone source.
Automatically creating chords and arpeggios from a pitch CV.
Playing MIDI files from an SD card, including special support for playing loops synchronised to a clock pulse.
Being a drum machine with up to nine independent drum trigger inputs.

Here's a little snippet from Tom Hall using it:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ40Eu9ga1P ... hallsonics

Thanks, somehow I missed the vco part when I first looked at it.

[$harkToootth]

For the DIY guys and for Oscilateur's sentiment of making an instrument for 'what you want it to do'. I found this guy from LYRA threads. This is his DIY beast mostly using Serge circuits. You can tell he listened to ZEIT a lot (this is a good thing).
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWXJuVO8u1c[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWXJuVO8u1c

[actual]

How many modular dudes on here play theirs with a keyboard? I'm curious cause it doesn't seem like the norm at all. How come?

[behndy]

lol. i still am stumbling through all of this so don't think i'm a MODULAR DUDE, but i'm trying to learn cv into quantizers or modular pattern sequencing or other Different Than I'm Used To ways of making noise?

i do use the keyboard sometimes, or notes through the BSP/DT.

[Warpsmasher]

How many modular dudes on here play theirs with a keyboard? I'm curious cause it doesn't seem like the norm at all. How come?

I have an Arturia Keylab that I might use once I get some proper midi conversion into the rack, but it's not any kind of urgent. Sequencers are where it's at. Sequence everything. I find it much more rewarding to create a self-playing patch (or one that I can start by pressing play) than to simply play it by hand on a keyboard, which almost feels wrong/like cheating now that I have stuff like the Tri-ger and Pressure Points. It's just a deeper level of synthesis, to me anyway, to patch/program the playing as well as the sound.

[actual]

Interesting. I'd find the use of quantizers and various smart modules to be more like cheating. I don't necessarily think it's "deeper" synthesis though. A lot of the stuff I find on ig etc. seems fairly random, melody wise, and not very musical.

[Invisible Man]

I'm constantly thinking about what direction I want to go in with sequencing in the short term: Rene or Turing Machine. Eventually I'd like to end up with both (as seen above) but with my size/budget constraints only one will be possible for a good while. Turing Machine would definitely fit the improv vibes a bit better, but Rene seems to have a huge potential for unlocking the unknown mysteries of geometric rhythms...

#firstworldproblems

I can't say enough good things about the Turing Machine. Rene has always been tempting, but the more I learn (and by 'learn' I mean generally staying the fuck out of this thread), the more I want simpler pieces. Some of this gear that's coming out makes zero sense to me. I appreciate that people want interesting modules, but when something is an all-in-one solution to a problem I don't know why you'd want that instead of a fixed architecture synth.

Anyway, the TM is the best for that stuff. Two knobs and an infinite amount of music. It's a great concept, and it's low key. Lets you focus on other things instead of always trying to craft a melody.

[Invisible Man]

Interesting. I'd find the use of quantizers and various smart modules to be more like cheating. I don't necessarily think it's "deeper" synthesis though. A lot of the stuff I find on ig etc. seems fairly random, melody wise, and not very musical.

Depends on what you quantize. The ones laid out like keyboards are pretty dope...ten octave range, but only playing major triads, for example. When you quantize an triangle LFO, yeah it's kinda boring.