Last year or so I became transfixed with the idea of switching to a Lunchbox – mostly to keep myself from getting more and more and more modules, but also because I’ve always gotten the most enjoyment with modular synths out of trying to get a lot out of a little.
Here’s my setup from back then – a Synthrotek Power Lunch, with an Akemie’s Taiko, Mutable Clouds, and Noise Reap LFO; and then, hacked and rotated and crammed in there, a Mikrophonie and Ginko Grains with the “Patternsrain” firmware.
The idea was to have a little portable percussion machine; in the end I realized that the only way I’d get enough out of the Taiko was to have a very complex sequencer, so I sold it off and replaced it with a Doepfer Theremin, making the setup basically a Clouds with accessories. That was fun, but eventually limiting, until I got an 0-Coast… As you can see, downsizing to a lunchbox case didn’t really do much to keep me from getting new gear. It may have slowed me down a bit, and made me think more critically about what I put into my setup, but in the end I took everything out of the case and built my own 104HP skiff so that I could rack the 0-Coast and have a bit more room.
Still miss that little setup, though. I do still have the case kicking around…
