#2282

hi! is there anyone here located in the Boston area who can do surface mount soldering? I have to replace some fried IC’s on a Tyme Sefari MKII but I don’t have to skills or tools to do so, if someone can help I would be happy to compensate them for their time :slight_smile:

#2283

No idea of your apartment size…I live in a ~600 ft^2 place, so not too small by some city standards. I keep the boxes in bins under my bed.

Not keeping the boxes is of course a legitimate lifestyle choice :slight_smile:

Love these bins, btw:

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#2284

I got rid of the boxes ya’ll - in the name of a simple life and reclaiming closet space.

I kept the box for RIP though, of course.

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#2285

I have a corner desk with lots of space beneath it… so I have an ottoman under there with storage inside where I keep my empty boxes.

I couldn’t bring myself to hide the Orthogonal Devices box though; it was displayed on a shelf :grin:

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#2286

I keep all boxes. You do realize that they can gently unsnap and be turned into a flat piece of cardboard, right?

#2287

Of course. I still don’t have a great place to store them. Maybe once I’ve decluttered my life some, I’ll start storing boxes for future modules

#2288

I only kept the boxes for some of my Monome or Mannequins modules because they were pretty. Pretending that I’m always the final owner of a module is very helpful for me in terms of staving off GAS.

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#2289

I try to think of this in a similar way. Out of eight modules I bought so far, I’m guessing only one will depart (Wasp out x 3 Sisters in).
I’ll extend this thought with what I believe is central to me not wanting to be bothered with beautiful boxes.
The thought of having to find the right combination and amount of modules that suit me is too inconvenient, more even so with the constant flow of novelty the market presents. I couldn’t possibly afford buying and selling modules too frequently.
Modules coming and going to me feels closer to a consumerist state of mind that I’m unable to satisfy and brings me dissatisfaction instead.
I followed the advice of getting a larger case than I initially considered sufficient and I went for 104hp x 6u. Now I see an incomplete instrument in front of me, that will remain incomplete for a long time. I bought it locally at a very low price, so it’d be incoherent to swap it for a smaller one. But the sight of incompletion is there.
This is an ongoing thought.

2112 chars of boxes.
A distant human will find a eurorack system within a single box and it will be the return of music.

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#2290

Not all GAS is GAS, some GAS is growth!

I only buy modules I think I’ll love, but when I don’t, I sell it and buy something else…

#2291

I can understand this, but I see things differently.

If I hadn’t given myself permission to sell/trade things in order to try something else, I would never have gotten into modular. I’d be making music with plugins and a Microbrute. There’s a lot I would not have learned and experienced. It’s very likely I would still be noodling around experimentally, never having found “my sound.”

I currently own 33 modules, but I have owned and sold/traded 94 others. All of them have been fun, all of them taught me something, and all of them helped me make music.

There are a few more I plan to swap out, and I expect to keep shifting things around over time. But at this point I have a very solid idea about what I like.

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#2292

But don’t you want the boxes so they can be properly entombed with you in your mausoleum? :face_with_monocle::laughing:

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#2294

Yes, I think I understand this. And I presume that things won’t go too differently for me with time, at least from other people’s experiences that I’ve read. I guess it’s just what I feel having started very recently and only now feeling I came out of the intial uncertainty and indecisiveness that was having to choose what modules to start with. But then again, there’s a pretty reduced second-hand market here, so the exchange possibilities will be scarce.

#2295

Hi all. I am about to launch my Eurorack lifestyle. Now that I’ve got the space and the cash, time to make it happen. I’ve played with Serge gear and have spent a ton of time in VCV so I know this is the path forward for me and started with buying a case (good place to start, I figured). Got a Doepfer A-100, 9u, 84hp, with the PSU3. I had been doinking around in modulargrid for a while and have come up with this. It’s a lot of DIY as I had expected to be slowly accumulating, but, well, more money is here than expected :laughing::laughing::laughing: I am also impatient and find the sheer number of modules overwhelming, so I’m wondering if anyone has any suggestions for small system that will provide a nice foundation for later. I’ve been looking at the Erica stuff, namely the Drone as I am more into modular for 𝖜𝖊𝖎𝖗𝖉 𝖓𝖔𝖎𝖘𝖊𝖘, but it’s a little more than I wanted (especially with shipping and exchange rate).

So, if you have an idea for a system that…

  • is about $1500 (used or new)
  • doesn’t focus on MIDI and melodic sequencing
  • provides a nice base for growth

I am all ears. Or if you are selling some kit that works well together and gives me a good little rig, I’d also like to hear about it. Thanks very much.

EDIT: I plan on going mixer and rackmount fx for cheap old school vibes, but, yeah, never can have too many reverbs :wink:

#2296

Welcome to the process. Your new rack is a lot. You are going to change what you want many, many times before you get close to filling it up.

This one comes out to just shy of $1500 new, and can be less than that second hand. If you want to get started with weird noises, something along these lines is a good place to start.

IMO, this is a complete synthesizer with plenty of room to grow. Obviously it’s focused on one manufacturer, but my preference is towards cohesiveness.

If it doesn’t trip your trigger, you can use that general theme as a way forward. Two function generators / slew, two oscillators, four VCA / lpg / mixing, and then weird / random.

This is almost the same thing, but Befaco and could mostly be done DIY. Again, a cohesive full synth with plenty of room to grow. (Also good at weird sounds.)

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#2297

Ah, yes, it is a lot. I guess that wasn’t a goal but an idea of where to go.

The two racks you posted look great. I definitely love Befaco stuff and I appreciate that you pandered to my tastes by not going with the default MN panels. :wink: Though I am new to this, I still finds Maths incomprehensible. It certainly does a lot, but most of it I don’t understand. As someone who has 25 years experience with fixed architecture synths, a lot of the utility stuff in modular leaves me boggled. I’ll have to dig in and watch a bunch of videos on Maths and to see what’s up.

Rampage, on the other hand, I know and love from VCV. The depth there I have only barely touched.

I like your sketch of “two function generators / slew, two oscillators, four VCA / lpg / mixing, and then weird / random.” That makes a lot of sense to me. Opinions on how something like Maths (or Rampage) replaces envelope generators and/or LFOs? I’m a fan of envelopes + S&H = sequencer and envelopes + trigger = LFO.

Thanks very much!

#2298

I feel like if you are Just Getting Into Eurorack, Maths and Rampage are a good way to understand some of the more unique approaches to synthesis available - yeah they can basically do an LFO & EG but there are seams to be found in the interaction of each channel with each other and with external CV. You should be able to see how Rampage does LFO, EG, and more in VCV (keep is simple!)

I basically have Maths bc one showed up at a good price before Rampage did. I think if you have familiarity with Rampage from VCV might as well play to that strength.

Wogglebug in the MN build will get you there, the Befaco build has the Penta step sequencer.

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#2299

I think if I were starting from scratch I’d consider the Endorphin.es Grand Terminal, or a pair of Joranalogue Contour 1s.

I currently have Maths; I’ve previously had Rampage, Mini Slew and Function.

I didn’t like Rampage because it couldn’t do fast snappy attacks combined with longer decays. The Make Noise modules have really good knob scaling that just feels right to me, though they are less comprensive in terms of features. Mini Slew had some quirks but the built-in bipolar VCA/attenuverter was handy.

#2300

Wow, watched the MN video on it and I love the sound Moddemix makes as a VCA. I’m fine with using it just for that purpose. :smiley: If there’s an actual VCA that has that little warbly saturation at the low points, then I’d love to hear about it.

@baleen Agreed on the familiarity being a bonus. Thanks!

@Starthief Phew, uh, that Grand Terminal is $$$. Lovely, though. They and Falistri make some beautiful-looking stuff.

#2301

Agreed on the familiarity being a bonus. Thanks!

#2302

Yeah, it is pricier than I realized, but then it’s also a dual filter/LPG and stereo DSP effects. Hmm.

Falistri’s another good one. Needs a lot from the -12V rail, though.