#565

i took Inspiration from this Video of Surgeon having a rundown of his Liverig.

i like this guy because of his love for the Turingmachine that brings him that Technoelement, rather helping him improvise that element. Two other Modules that define his Sound are the Launchcodes for Triggers and that Cwejman Audio mixer for the Punch. His System is slightly bigger than 104hp but he needs to change flavor every like 15minutes…i don’t. i wanted a versatile Instrument that has an oscilator and some Kind of Bumbumbumbum 4 to the floor element that can be manipulated. I call this Machine Music not Techno…

i came up with this:

since the Turingmachnie was my first Module ever, i started with it including the addon Pulses and Volts-i could not be arsed to unplug them and Volts is a great 2nd line melodymaker. Its all driven by Pamela, i’ll come back to why there is a midi/DIN Expander. The Pico Quant is handy to get this more musical and more Techno because you can define your scales. The turing is supernice without a Quantizer, this is actually better at noisy blipsandblops than Marbles, but its nice to have scales =)
the 2hp Div is to divide Triggers from pulses. Pulses would be the only Module i’d take out of that skiff, but its nice with Div. The TG One Sample Player provides the bumbumbum or anything else in fact. i loaded 8bit Breakbeats and Funksamples in there. A steady pulse on a Breakbeat will give you that 4tothefloor immediately, just pitched up. whats great here is that it has direct Manual control over pitch and Volume, it lets you tweak something in seconds. Ok, Maths (i’d love to own that oldschool design but alas =()…big for small Systems but here its doing lots of duties from Mixing Audio to enveloping, slewing etc…Filter8 is really nice in a small skiff because it has 2 Inputs, can provide some warm distortion or can be abused as Modulator/Oscilator. Plaits does not need praise, to me this is the Queen of small Systems! using it as a LFO goes into very strange territories…i love plaits for nice sounds but it can do dirty as well. Finally the Lyra8-FX. This is just Mojo in purest form. You can get vintage Chorus styles as well as highly unpleasant mush. CV-ing this is quite special but a hefty envelope into the dirt channel gives intstant 2nd line rhythms. Soma somehow sounds vintage and plays very well with the digital cold of plaits. Lyra8-FX is out into my Speaker. Really accurate is the Mix. You can Play with Delay/Distortion or completely without. a great last Output module!

This whole microclimate can be enlarged with a midiclock (hence the ALM Expander) going into my MPC live. i just plug from the Lyra8-FX into the MPC and a whole new Dimension opens up!
Also, most modules here can act as Modulator or providing Sound in different Situations. An Instrument thats very playable, has lots of different styles up his sleeves and is small.

tl/dr fellow Linoneans, long time just lurk…These are the threads that go beyond borders over time because they inspire=)

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#566

The 4U has indeed been discontinued, but it sounds like IJ are considering doing a bigger version of the Palette!

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#567

I’m putting together an imaginary 104hp system, main goal is to expand the capabilities of my Grandmother and process audio from my octatrack. Clock and sequencing will come from the OT via the GM’s midi to CV conversion. Wondering, in order to boost a line level signal to euro level will l be able to use a Veils or O/A/x2 channel or do I need another module? Also I’m kinda torn between Batumi and Pam’s for my 10HP of LFOs. Very new to all this so would appreciate any feedback! Thanks!

PS. Going to start with just maths and optomix, but it’s fun to plan on modulargrid…

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#568

Thought so. 84hp Pallette could’ve been enough, but with Moprhagene and ResEQ both being big must-have modules for me 62hp would’ve been too much of a compromise with other bits. If I hadn’t already sold my old case I would probably had waited for bigger Pallette.

#569

That’s really too bad about the Intellijel 4U 104hp case. I have three of them and two of the matching gig bags–they are fantastic for smaller rigs!

#570

I looove Surgeon! That is all. :slight_smile:

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#571

My 104 I just finished putting together, so much to learn!

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#572

Such a nice system. Are you filling that 2hp with another W/ or Crow?
What effects other effects are you going to have?

#573

Another W/ incoming. Crow TBD. I have Clouds in another rack, and I run everything out into AUM on an iPad for FX/recording so have access to all of the AUv3 plugin FXs there.

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#574

damn that sounds like fun! two W/'s are awesome!

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#575

Pretty sure you could use veils. It has tons of gain in expo setting.

#576

looks great :slight_smile: whatre you using o_c for in this set up?

#577

Honestly, I don’t know yet! I had that hp left and figured O_c Hemispheres would be a good way to explore a lot of different techniques. I’d love to hear anyone’s suggestions! Thanks

#578

In that case, I could see using it in the dual quantized mode, the quad lfo mode, or the quad envelope generator mode. I think it all depends on what you want to do, and what duties TT will be filling. U_oc is super useful compared to its size, I know many people here back hemispheres, but I find the original firmware most useful in my case for the functions listed above.

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#579

My current 104hp setup, at work or I would post a real photo. I love my O_C’s for modulation (lorenz/quadraturia/piqued) but am getting a little bored of sequencing using S/H & chaos… Been eyeing the Ansible/Grid for weeks now.

Someone push me over the edge, I could happily get rid of the O/a/x2 (cause I hate how tight the knobs are) and the make noise mult and put an ansible in there… Is it worth the investment for the variety of sequencers available using Grid? (Kira/ Meadowphysics/Earthsea) ?

Btw, if you don’t have one, buy a 2LPG from Takaab, best sounding LPG i’ve ever owned, and it’s like $35…

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#580

I went from sequencing with O_C & T_U to an ansible/grid setup and haven’t looked back since. I find that there is new territory to be discovered every time I plug in the grid, whereas with the OC I often found myself falling back to familiar patterns. I also very much enjoyed moving to a form of sequencing where everything feels more intentional (tactility etc. goes without saying). And all this is just using kria, its been over half a year and I have yet to dive into meadowphysics /earthsea.

I never really post on here but felt like chiming in, just because ansible + grid has been a complete game-changer for me!

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#581

I have to agree, Ansible+Grid has been great for me. Previous to getting Ansible I had been looking for a good sequencing solution for a while. It’s a nice combo of depth and playability.

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#582

Appreciate your response!! I really appreciate the tactile response, been getting stuck in predictable patterns as well, I’m going to take the plunge… :ocean:

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#583

Finally ordered one of Intellijel’s 4u 104hp cases for putting together a playable system that leans toward physical modeling. I’ll likely end up trading a few things to get closer to what I want to do, but here’s how it’s going to look with the modules I already have:

The line in will be for a contact mic that I’ll be using as a noise source/trigger. Hoping I’ll be able to stick it to the lightplane’s panel and get the noise from the pickup along with the voltage outputs from where I strike the touch plane.

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#584

Sould do just fine, had my microphonie next to the lp1 for just that use for some time.

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