#193

Don’t have a digikat but I’m going for Mutanle Instruments Yarns, 4 channels of cv (or less + more controls), plus built in arpegiator and Euclidean rhythmic generator.

#194

I ditched my Mutable Yarns and got a Polyend Poly, which I love BUT is extremely unconfigurable.

I found that messing with configuring Yarns each time before a session was an impediment to just turning things on and immediately working, and the Poly with only three options to speak of helped fix that mental block.

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#195

its worth checking out the bastl 1983 that was just announced. looks neat, smaller than yarns and no sequencer, but has a note buffer and a few other interesting features like maintaining tuning across octaves.

#196

Not sure all of the specs on the Digitakt, but my Hexinverter MIDI2CV has been handy for doing 4 channels of control to the modular with my Octatrack. Lately, to at least have the option of getting off the grid though, I use an MPC click sample and just clock my modular without any sequencing, which I find isn’t really my bag.

#197

I thought briefly about setting up my E370 for polyphony. Polyend Poly’s lack of configurability is part of what kept me away from it. If it had a mode with 4-voice polyphony and 4 mono voices that would have been useful, but I really don’t need 8 of either one.

I’ve been using a CV.OCD, generally configured for 3 voices, one of which has velocity. It’d be nice to have 4 voices with velocity and mod wheel or other CC. But I’m doing less with MIDI these days anyway.

Hexinverter’s new Mutant Brain looks like CV.OCD in a module with some handy extra LEDs, and the Bastl 1983 also seems promising.

#198

I currently use a Yarns with my Machinedrum and it is very solid. However, I think if I was starting again I would most likely grab an ExpertSleepers FH-1 and a couple of expanders. Yarns is nice, but it is set in its ways (I know I could write custom firmware for it). The scriptable nature of the FH-1 appeals to me a bit more.

Carl Mikael runs an fh-1 with a bunch of elektron stuff.

#199

i have to chime in here to vouch that the endorphin shuttle control is good for digitakt integration, amongst many another scenario, but specifically digitakt.
i use it live and i love it. i haven’t ever gone nuts with assigning CC lfo trigs but as i wrote this i realized i could. for some reason it never made sense. i just thought like OH YEAH COOL BRO U SENT AN LFO, but then just realized you could have a different CC value per step, random, probability, and your whole gosh dern setup config in the shuttle can change by plugging your gol dern phone up to the thing (usb).

i had yarns it was good but not this good. i tried others, just feel this one is best. you can use it as enough power for 6u as well. have a usb lamp live. BE A COOL USB PERSON.

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#201

If you want the rate to correspond to the beat, I would consider using a clock divider with your pulse to generate slower divisions and then feed that into the reset/sync. If you use sync, the LFO should cycle from zero to +5, down to -5, back to zero in one period, which could be very fast. If you use reset, your modulation will always go back to zero on the beat. I would experiment with both. Personally, I don’t really make beat driven music, but that’s what I would do.

Amplitude should be the voltage amount, yes. If the voltage normally goes up to +5 and down to -5, then 180 degrees flipped would go to -5 and then up to +5.

Do you know what version of the firmware you’re running? Factory vs expert firmware work differently enough to confuse someone. Are you using the POTI as well to flip the modes?

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#202

Hey all! So i’ve been building my rig now over the last couple of years, step by step, as I came to understand the modules that I had & found new opportunities and concepts that I felt were missing in my workflow. I’m really loving the system that i’ve got right now. I’ve been mostly making more ambient patches.
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I’ve arrived here pretty organically through reading manuals, patchnotes, watching tutorials and videos of artists that I love. I’m interested in seeing if any of you have any gut reactions to this, or see any potential new workflow opportunities that I can learn from and hopefully open up some more of this world for me. The DPO and Rene i’m no longer sure about (two of my first modules), but they’re currently still super useful and fun and force me to think about what i’m doing in interesting ways! The DPO feels a bit severe, although I can process it enough to make it work. The rene I enjoy, but I always find it being left out, for some reason the probability based CV sequencing from the Varigate has become my go to. A Strymon Magneto is currently top of my list. I’m also quite interested in getting a Malekko voltage block, and some simple noise.

Any thoughts? :slight_smile:

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#203

You know that you can save configs in Yarns don’t you?

#204

I’ve recently got a audio interface, because i didn’t have one and i didn’t record any of my modular shenanigans.

I’ve also been getting some nice ideas (well, i think they are nice) and starting to get good results with the modular and i wanted to try and record something…

The one i got was a 2nd hand Komplete Audio 6, by Native Instruments.

Can i use this to record the modular? (ex: direct out from an osc into the interface audio in)
I’ve been reading trying to find a correct answer, but i’ve come across many different ones, and i’m not that familiar with interfaces and signals impedance and volumes to make a decision.
Also, my disposable income is practicaly non existant, so if i mess it up and destroy the soundcard i might not get another one.

#205

Short answer, yes.

Just be careful to start with the gain at - inf and bring it up slowly. Also make sure it is on line level first. If you find you don’t get loud enough (which I highly doubt) then try instrument level

I have recorded with my M-Audio Fast Track and it can work fine, depending on the output module. Sometimes it can distort if I don’t reduce the level with my euro mixer.

Unlikely that you will damage the interface, just be wary that it may be quite loud.

Ear safety first, then teamwork.

Alex

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#206

Thank you for the quick reply! :+1:

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#207

I tried it last night and it worked! Lookout world, i’ve started recording!

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#208

I love a bit of noise and random, so I’d go with something along those lines.

I have a Wogglebug and I love it. It has a good mix of audio and modulation rate outputs.

Also, maybe another filter (can’t go wrong with a Three Sisters :+1:)?

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#210

YES! Those are things that i’ve thought about as well. It’s nice to hear a similar opinion. I would love to get my hands on these, particularly the wogglebug and three sisters. Thank you :slight_smile:

#211

Really enjoying your sounds. Got a nice BoC feel to some of the patches.

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#213

I started building my own little case of about 66hp, cool thing is i scored a plexiglas cover for it in the right size as i want to also put on a handle/grip on the back, get a powerbank and have this box self contained and ‚woodswiggleable‘

I ve a few of the modules so far. Still dreaming about er 301 but i think i will go with W/ Disting Jf combo to do similar things… totaly bitten by the mannequins bug, the sound of Jf and Mangrove are what i want to get out of synthesis. Thought rings for a while but cant have everything and the rawness lf those are higher priority.

Anyway…maybe some guys like to review this setup and hint out what might be better changed in terms of functionality etc… important, i cant ADD only exchange. To accomplish this will take me the year anyway…in reality i am not rich enough for eurorack :smiley:
But i do have allready W/, cells, lpg, 8nu8r and row power… its a start…sometimes i think scre all this, sell the stuff off and get a cheapo blofeld to play poly samples and synth (used to have it) or op 1 etc…but ts very differnt to doing it the modular way and i really like the variations i could get by approaching this case in different ways with different patching. Wich is the whole sense behind a modular instrument for me.

I do wonder if the cells will work nicely, theres nothing compareable in small hp, touch keyboard and 2 ch sequencer. Maybe all bare bones but what a combination in i think 10hp

I don’t know if i will get along with W/ but i will try. A minimalistic case helps me stay focused on the functions of it.

Disting will be very usefull here and kind of alternative to er 301 (whom am i trying to fool) offering several sample playlists (i need to remind myself that there will be no end point gates possible) and lfos, filters, recording etc etc

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Answering myself a seperate lfo and a multi is probably missing to drive the cells

#214

It’s a serious challenge to build a capable synth in such a small space.

I started with a 74HP DIY skiff.
8 days after: bought 84HP rails instead.
2 months after: added a second set of 84HP rails (and also an 0-Coast)
4 months after: added a third set of 84HP rails.
12 months after: added a Mantis (2 rows of 104HP). Total HP = 460.
18 months after: it’s almost full, just waiting on 3 unreleased modules and a Pico DSP.

I learned that trying to cram as much as possible into a small space meant a lot of sacrifices, and wasn’t actually cheaper.

The minimum I’d start with today would be 84HP and that’d be for a very focused system, for instance:

– a West Coast synth (e.g. Hertz Donut/Double Andore/Kermit/an LPG, or DPO/Maths/LxD, or 2xWarps/Stages/Streams)
– a Mutable Instruments rig (Stages/Plaits/Rings)
– an ER-301/Teletype rig
– a drone/noise/external processing synth

At the very least, I’d stick with external control/sequencing – a Beatstep Pro or similar – and not have something like Cells in there.

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#215

Thank you :slight_smile: I feel guilty, but i’ve never really listened to BoC. Sounds like I should!