#751

Hi there. After realizing that the workflow of the stereo looper on the E520 Hyperion is precisely what I’ve been looking for in a Eurorack looper, I’ve decided that I want to put in a pre-order. It’s such a large/ expensive module though, that it’s giving me the pre-order jitters. Can anyone give me a good reason not to buy it?

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#752

Aside from “it’s big” and “it’s not cheap,” nope. Paul makes good stuff.

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#753

I was afraid you’d say that. I’m using a LiveLoop at the moment. And while its looping functionality is serviceable, I find it a pain to work with. Compositionally, my 720 Looper on my pedal board is easier to use by far. From what I’ve seen of the E520, the screen adds feedback that I always want in a looper. And the other modes look equally enticing.

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#754

I am having a very strange (I think grounding related) issue with my system. Basically the first time I plug it into my audio interface, everything glitches out and the audio interface disconnects from my PC. After 3-4 seconds the audio interface reconnects and everything sounds okay. Any subsequent connections between the eurorack and interface are totally fine. It is only the first connection that causes any problems.

Additionally if I touch the metal part of a jack socket on both my eurorack and the interface as I plug in the first cable, everything works fine. My thinking is that this must be something to do with the grounding between the eurorack and the interface? I have tried using different wall sockets for the power of each device but the issue remains. My flat is tiny so all sockets are probably on one circuit.

I am really not very clued up on this sort of thing though so was hoping some of you may have a better idea what is going on?

#755

I’m looking for modules along a similar vein to Worng Vector Space and Nonlinear Circuits Let’s Splosh -

Essentially something that will take some CV and make interesting things out of the available CV. Think LFO, envelopes and like the CV out from Morphagene, the Env Follower.

Those are the two that I know of, the Splosh a little more friendly if only because it’s DIY - but if anyone has any other suggestions or basic utility modules that could accomplish similar uses, that would be super dope.

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#756

Don’t forget about the basis like logic (min/Max), inversion, mixing, wave folding, using comparators and random triggers to reset an LFO or trigger an envelope. Lots can be done with the simple things! You should take a hard look at Cold Mac. It’s my one stop shop for “new CV from old CV”

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#757

Anyone looking for a QMMG? :roll_eyes:

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#758

They accept offers, so maybe you could negotiate down to a cool $4k!

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#759

Hi, I iterated over the build I posted a few days ago quite a bit, followed the advice I oculd, and made some sacrifices, and came up with this.

Damn, does this looks inviting. Is it just me ?

#760

A quick precision : depending on whether I get another box or not (this build might precede or follow a shared system, or nothing at all :wink: ), varigate might be replaced by hermod…

#761

I think you are one VCO short of a really fun rack. Ditch the XPAN, you’ve got plenty of VCAs. Then you’d have room for a Mangrove, Spectrum, or Dixie, etc.

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#762

Wow, now I’m really getting excited ! Thanks !

So I’ve narrowed it down to 3-4 VCOs :

  • Loquelic Iteritas which sounds really cool but I fear might not outlive current trends.
  • Basilimus Iteritas (drums could be good…). Same reasoning as the LI. But from drums.
  • Spectrum which I only discovered yesterday. Seems pretty straightforward and feature-packed. Anything particular I should know about this module ?
  • Mangrove which I’ve been intrigued by since I started researching Euro, but can’t manage to grok. Sometimes I really like the sound it produces, sometimes, meh. Don’t quite know what to make of it !

Leaning towards Spectrum at the moment. Seems like the simplest solution.
Any advice ?

Also, I just realized I’m not sure I’ve got the means to offset / atenuvert. My 0-coast can do that (I think), but is that something I can go without (in a rack) ?

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#763

Buy a few things to try and experiment with. Planning an entire rack doesn’t really make sense for reasons that will become apparent pretty quickly once you start actually using stuff. It’s good to have ideas, but you planr will likely change.

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#764

Attenuating, inverting, offsetting and mixing signals is pretty important. In my journey I never felt the “you can never have enough VCAs” pinch as hard as I did a lack of attenuators.

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#765

@grey that makes total sense, and it’s quite likely that that will happen as I evolve, though I’m not very comfortable at the idea of buying and reselling modules over time. Seems wasteful to me :confused:. I’m hoping to minimize that.

#766

Good news then ! I found a case I like https://www.clank.eu/cases. It sits at 6U - 90HP, so I have a free 12 HP for such utilities (or other)

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#767

It’s not especially wasteful; it’s just how it works. You only have a general sense of what you’d be buying when you acquire a new module; even when you have a goodly amount of eurorack experience under your belt that remains somewhat true. The experience of using a thing is unique to the experience of learning about a thing.

If it doesn’t work out, someone else will pick it up off you if you don’t care for it; and it will maintain most of it’s value, you’ve effectively “rented” any potential module. If you really don’t want to buy and sell modules, I’d highly encourage you to buy a fixed architecture synth you can demo. Building a eurorack system is a kin to having a very tiny import/export business. :laughing:

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#768

Scary !! :laughing:

Truth be told I’ve considered it. For what a 6U 84HP build usually nets me I could buy a polysynth like the Summit or the Super-6 (different use case, I know, but those look so fun to tweak). Hell, I could buy a Deckard’s Dream. Or one of those new BUSA Easel Command. Or 4-5 Lyras (!).

But then I’d feel like I gained something and lost something else (maybe apart from the Buchla), like an extremely open signal flow or timbral depth and freedom (it’s an intuition, sorry if I’m not more specific than that)…

#769

I can’t find anything with this name on modulargrid. Do you have a link for it?

#770

Here you go ! https://www.modulargrid.net/e/steady-state-fate-spectrum
Another alternative would be the Eowave Orage (being French, I prefer to buy local if the product makes sense)

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