42/54 hp Lunchbox Inspiration

[P1505]

What keyboard is that? It’s amazing.

[xenus_dad]

Vortex Core: https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_list&c=375

If you want something similar but with numbers, Vortex Poker is great. https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=3636

[Jonny]

[dianus]

[varispeeder]

love the Team Zissou panels!!! I just bought a red beanie the other day on a whim of Zissou inspiration.

[philmaguire]

I’m getting back into Max and putting together some sequencing stuff, and considering this small case as a voice.

[smbols]

This is what I’m thinking of doing with the wine box case I’ve been building.

I’d be playing it with a keyboard and CV.OCD, or sequencing it from my larger case or Digitakt.

I’m pretty set on the design aside from what’s in the bottom left. There’s a lot I can do with this voice–3 osc mono/paraphonic, 3 op FM, complex oscillators. I might do a Music Thing spring reverb instead of the SSF tool box, but I’ll have to wait until I’m further into it and see how I feel. Also might go with a 6hp waveshaper and replace the Steiner-Parker filter with Three Sisters which would lend itself a bit better to the whole morphing philosophy I have going on here (plus i could technically even implement full 3 voice polyphony with that) but I just love the tone of this Steiner filter so much.

Another thing I’m really curious to try is replacing the Toolbox and mult with a Doepfer Theremin controller. I feel like that could be a lot of fun to control patch morphing with.

Edit: Had no idea that modular grid snapshots update as you change the rack! That’s kind of cool. And also makes the above post now irrelevant… Ha.
Anyways, I decided not to go with the triple Dixie voice. The Pitsburgh Lifeforms Primary Osc has always been really appealing to me but for some reason I thought it only had exponential FM. Once I realized it has both exp. and linear I snatched one up. Initial impressions are very good! And it packs so much sound sculpting options in 12hp that it makes a lot of sense for a system this small.

[rycolos]

Working on this 48hp rig right now. Only things owned already are Benjolin, Twinpeak, and RCD. Very open to feedback on the other bits. I really want a Cold Mac but I’m still not 100% sure if it will be useful here. Maybe a Triple Sloth or Function instead? The goals are simple: weird drones, atonal noisy bubbly percussion

[sonictape]

Thanks to @TomWhitwell and the Startup Module my battery powered 40hp Lunchbox dreams have come true.

I’ve actually discovered more about Clouds by taking it out of my bigger case and messing around with it in this smaller format. Didn’t get on with it much before that.

Think I’m going to stick with this setup for a while and learn as much as possible about these few modules. Its far easier with less choice…

[hermbot]

That’s funny because I’ve built almost that exact case, and was also thinking about a Cold Mac. But I steered away from it as I didn’t think there would be enough CV sources to really tap into its usefulness. I went with this, and I love it to bits:

[rycolos]

Where do you think I got the inspiration from?

I’m afraid you’re probably right re: Cold Mac though. But I just want it really bad.

[hermbot]

Fascinating! What a versatile module.

[eyeiaye]

Hey are there any amazing lunch box cases out there? Im looking for to create a 84 or less hp rack for monome and mannequins gear.

[hermbot]

The Pulp Logic cases are still kind of the standard:
http://pulplogic.com/product/lunchbox-lbz54/

I have the 42 hp case and it’s great. Otherwise, the 4MS Pods aren’t lunch boxes with lids and handles, but still fit the “small form factor” case scheme.

[soggybag]

That brings up a good point. Really the type of case you chose is decided by how you expect to use the system. With the Pulp logic cases you’re planning to take it with you, likely outdoors. The 4ms pods are great for indoors, they most likely sit on your desk most of their life.

The Pulp Logic cases are water resistant have a lid shock mounted rails. Not really useful when I’m Working at home. These features actually might be getting in the way! On the other hand these cases look like they’d do fine if I dropped them, and I wouldn’t be worried to take it to the park.

The 4ms cases seem like they would be great on your desk. Almost better than big case. You could rearrange a couple pods easier and faster than moving modules in a 104hp case. They seem to have a very comfortable form factor of they we’re sitting on your desk. Rather building another 104hp boat I think I’d rather have 104hp (2 or 3) of pods. Cost wise it would be more expensive and power might be less convenient.

[csboling]

Sounds like the next step in ergonomics for modular synthesizers is modular cases.

[soggybag]

Can you chain those 4ms pods together and use a single power supply? This would be a lot better than having power line running to each. I haven’t seen one of these in person yet.

[oscillateur]

Can you chain those 4ms pods together and use a single power supply? This would be a lot better than having power line running to each.

Yes, you can do that, so that you have only one power adapter. That’s a smart design choice.

[smbols]

Thinking in a few months when I feel like switching up my little system I might try out this arrangement inspired by the Make Noise System Concrete. The 1u gap would be filled by my d0’s zoom switch. The Tallin has enough gain to boost line level signals up to modular, so that would be my input, running through the Tahn3 to before getting recorded into the Liveloop.

[mutedial]

How do you like the Liveloop? I’ve been intrigued by it for awhile, but put off a bit by the amount of features etc (and pretty happy with morphagene/phonogene combo.