#1911

What are people’s thoughts on spraying contact cleaner into module input/outputs? I’ve had a moisture problem in my studio…

#1912

Plaits is great. I don’t have it racked, but I’m not selling it. Braids is also great, which I am using. It’s not “cool” these days, but I like how straight forward it is. Having a flexible module can be very useful in smaller setup. Alternatively, if there are modes you are drawn to, that could give you guidence on alternatives that lean more towards specific sounds. The one down side to Plaits is that using it intentionally can be tricky in that the knobs do different-ish things in each mode, so really learning each mode is a lot of memorization. It’s doable.

re:Triggers I mean that you’re just going to get more triggers with an OR. You have no way to shape multiple streams beyond combining them. If you keep them sparse, that may be fine. But a euclidean sequence and what your Ansible is doing my not mesh up well all the time. You have a lot more options once you dig in.

Don’t sweat it too much. You’ll figure it out as you experiment. :blush:

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#1913

Contact cleaner can be quite aggressive and destroy gear, especially pots in the long run if you don’t wash it out properly. So, yeah, don’t! Alcohol (IPA) is usually the safer bet.

#1914

Has anyone successfully integrated a Moog DFAM into a eurorack set-up?

I have had a DFAM racked up for some months and cannot seem to integrate its styles with the rest of my modules.

It’s such an idiosyncratic piece of gear. I feel that unless I build patches around what the DFAM is doing, the DFAM sits idle.

So perhaps this machine would serve better as a stand-alone groove-box in a table-top set-up rather than as a eurorack module.

I’d welcome any thoughts or demos about or featuring the Moog DFAM functioning well in a eurorack set-up.

#1915

Sorry, should have been clearer - doesn’t have to be exactly 5hp. Have you used any of those 4hp ones?

#1916

Bastl Cinnamon is a very good filter. Having LP, HP and BP available simultaneously is very nice and the sound is lovely. The overdrive is really good.

Two CV-inputs (with and w/o attenuation) is also handy.

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#1917

Cinnamon is also lovely and idiosyncratic when in self-oscillation. I don’t currently have it racked but when I do I use it more for a voice than for filtering.

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#1918

For percussion, sample based, would a couple of Pico Drums or a 4MS STS be more flexible?

I have a Pico trigger and Digitalis to fire the samples off. Two Pico drums would give me four voices, but loading samples is a faff. The STS has more sampling capability but I can’t see how I’d fire more then two voices unless I pre arranged samples in a way that I can trigger through the bank in order. But I’m very likely missing something.

My kind of percussion is pretty simple. Think Scotch Mist Videotape style.

#1919

With the pico drums you can cv sample 1, obviously this would mean you need to spend a cv source on controlling that.

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#1920

I don’t understand what you mean? Control the sample trigger via CV? I have the Pico trigger which I’ll be using to control the percussion sounds, and the Digitalis also available.

I guess what I’m asking is with the STS can you trigger different sounds in a bank with different voltages? I need to do more research, struggling to find what I need.

#1921

From the manual:

You can configure CV Input for four controls: Pitch, Decay, Volume and sample select.
To activate CV Input configuration, set the drum select switch to DRUM1 position and push and hold the encoder for 2’’ until it starts blinking. Then rotate the encoder to configure CV Input. Once you have selected desired CV Input configuration, push the encoder promptly.
Encoder blinking GREEN means, CV controls PITCH Encoder blinking RED means, CV controls DECAY Encoder blinking YELLOW means, CV controls VOLUME 6 sample select LEDs blinking mean, CV controls sample select. Sample select is quantized to semitones, and the first sample is selected with 0V applied to the CV Input.

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#1922

Anybody here familiar with the Doepfer A-136?

I’ve been wanting a way to get more creative with distortion lately and the thing looks really flexible, but there are very few examples of it in action out there, and none that I’ve found where it’s processing any sort of external audio. I know it’s capable of doing some outright mangling, but how does it sound when doing subtler distortion? Is it possible to coax into territory similar to an overdriven CP3 mixer?

#1923

I’m pretty sure @rbeny and @boboter have both used and like the A-189 as a distortion unit, but I have no firsthand experience with either.

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#1924

I am putting together my first rack. It’s a MI clone rack. The 2nd rack will be more geared around Monome /Mannequins modules. I have been playing with VCV Rack a lot and have a good feeling for the MI modules. And I can fit a lot of the mini clone modules into a 104 (am leaning towards the MN powered 104 skiff). If you can spare a few moments, can you take a look at this idea and provide feedback? Is it crazy? Am I missing something? Too much of something else? I’d much appreciate it!

#1925

You are way light on mixers for a rack with that much going on… Pretty much limited to one or two signal paths. I would make room for something like a Mutable Blinds or a Warm Star Fragment.

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#1926

Excellent, exactly the kind of feedback I need, thank you :slight_smile:

#1927

No problem! I’d also encourage you to look at a 16n fader bank or some other external controller since it’ll help you control all the unreachable mini knobs once you’re patched.

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#1928

Thanks again for your input! Is a Blinds or Fragment better than another u4xVCA and a Links?

#1929

It’s very dense. As @desolationjones suggested, Blinds may be helpful, both for mixing and for attenuation and offset. Also opens up ring modulation, which you might want with that many sound sources.

What do you see as your modulation sources? I don’t see much that would be envelopes or LFOs. I understand envelopes are not strictly necessary in Mutable land, but I think it limits your options not to have modulation in here.

Also, without negativity: what is your motivation for bringing this into hardware? It sounds like you’re well familiar with the Mutable modules via VCV Rack. All the micro versions are difficult to physically play. It’s possible you might be as well served by a good MIDI controller running into VCV.

#1930

Blinds is a 4-quadrant multiplier so it can invert voltages; the others can’t. But most Mutable inputs have attenuverters so it’s not the biggest deal for you. You might want to look at @mdoudoroff’s mixer list!