#42

I’m a copyright lawyer in real life. I’d be happy to try to do some research if anyone has copies of the books that they could scan the front-matter of…

#43

Just heard in this interview that Curtis Roads and @trickyflemming are working on Foundations of Modular Synthesis, which will undoubtedly be required reading once released.

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#44

Hah! I was just listening to this with the morning coffee. We’re in the early stages, but I’m very excited for it.

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#45

Awesome - looking forward to it! When you say “in the early stages”, have you got a ball park idea of when we might expect it?

#46

Oh man, very exciting! Looking forward to this one!

#47

I don’t suppose you’ll need “beta-testers” for the book? :wink:

#48

Oh wow, that’s really great news!

#49

There’s now a nice Eurorack 101 on the intellijel site:

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#50

I’m new to modular synths and found reading about them to be more helpful than youtube videos. In some videos unfamiliar terminology is thrown around and I have to look up a lot of it while watching the videos. So far I’ve found these two articles blogs/helpful.
https://www.keithmcmillen.com/category/blog/tutorials/simple-synthesis/page/2/
https://www.synthesizers.com/begin.html

#51

As someone who spent the better part of ten
Years reading and decoding Modular Synthesis
Before I could afford any modules I have
Simplified it to this.

Break modules down into these categories:

Audio Generator (VCO, Sampler)
Audio Modifier (VCF, VCA)
CV Generator (LFO, Seq, EG)
CV Modifier (Atten, Seq switch, Shift Reg)
Utility / Expander (mult, trunk lines)

Realize that most euro modules fall into more than one category. Start with the standard subtractive
Patch and move on from there. Use you ears.

It’s never that simple anymore but a good frame of reference to start.

Learning the Serge Color coding system will help too.

And of course, hands on experimentation helps
Most of all :wink:

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#52

Just now seeing this. Any update on the project? It sounds pretty cool! :slight_smile:

#53

I’ve been enjoying this YouTube channel exploring some synthesis techniques as well as compositional techniques for modular! https://youtu.be/1CoyvGY74PE

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#54

Would love to hear if there is an update on this project as well!

#55

We ended up mutually canceling the book project a few months back. We both decided that there’s just a ton of content everywhere now, along with a bit of modular burnout for both of us.

Our original intent was to focus on more analog-style building blocks and show how to create complex behavior from these. The Eurorack meta has gotten away from these more atomic concepts and most new modules are now wildly complex devices that feel more like plugins than components. That’s not meant to be a condemnation of anything, really, but more of an observation that most people now would prefer a YouTube deep dive on a specific module in their setup compared to a more arcane, generalized book.

He’s working on The Computer Music Tutorial 2nd Edition, and some of what we started will end up in that.

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#56

That is also very exciting tbh!