Magus Modular (Rebel Technology Kickstarter)

[mars]

Hi y’all, Martin from Rebel Tech here, happy to answer any questions.
We had to take the 3d renders down because KS don’t allow them. But we’ll post some updates to show what the finished thing will look like!

[Aetherpulse]

Will the finished units match the style of your euro modules?

[oscillateur]

The Wizard (middle one) could be a nice replacement for the Nord MicroModular, with the added bonus of USB host and a few CV inputs/outputs. And more memory, so proper delays and loopers could probably happen.

I really want to focus on just my 7U for gear (I need to sell my Folktek Mescaline for example) but this one is quite tempting…

[Simeon]

@Mars - Ah, good stuff! glad you’re working on other cases.

@oscillateur - Yeah, same for me - trying to keep as much in my 6u case as possible. I really love a lot of euro-friendly gear that’s out there, but I didn’t get into euroRACK to have a load of separate boxes and (shudder) power supplies.

[mars]

@aetherpulse the desktop Magus will have a matt black finish, which in my opinion looks fantastic together with the OLED screen and RGB LEDs - and doesn’t stain from finger prints.
For Eurorack, hold tight for an announcement…!

[mars]

It’s now official: you can get the Magus in standalone desktop and beautiful Eurorack format!

Magus Synthesizer Toolkit - matt black with gunmetal sides

Magus Eurorack Edition - natural anodised aluminium

[desolationjones]

Are there any examples of using the OWL systems with a monome Grid? Magus or Wizard could form an interesting alternative to the Organelle, which to my knowledge is the only portable synth to work “off-the-shelf” with Grid via PD.

[Simeon]

Hi @mars, thanks for getting these images out, looking much better! The Eurorack doesn’t appear to have a USB on the front panel - is the current thought that you’d have a usb cable plugged into the rear of the module?

Thanks!

[desolationjones]

They mention a 4 HP expander; I imagine it has the USB port?

[rbxbx]

I was also thinking about this as a Micro Modular replacement - especially using something like automatonism.com on top of Pd so it’d be a more high level patching environment than Pd. Tempting tempting…

[Justmat]

Any plans/hope for a eurorack version of the Wizard? It would be awesome to have that functionality in a smaller footprint.

[mars]

@Simeon @desolationjones yes that’s right - the 4HP expander will have USB Host and Device. Both are class compliant USB MIDI interfaces.

@Justmat there’s always hope! But for this Kickstarter, no, sorry. We have lots of things that we are prototyping, but sometimes it takes years to reach production.

[naxuu]

“Like the Magus it has both USB MIDI device and host connections so that you can plug your favourite controller straight in - be it keyboard, drum pads, sequencer, grid, or multidimensional controller.”

Does this mean: MPE compatibility out of the box? Monome grid support out of the box?

[sandy]

Monome grid support out of the box?

No on that one I think. Monome grids are not usb midi devices.

[jasonw22]

Monome grid support would require serialosc. I don’t think Magus is a Linux box? Not sure how you’d get serialosc onto it.

MPE would require your patch to support it.

[naxuu]

That standalone desktop looks beautiful, but I’d almost feel compelled to grow my hair out and make Swedish death metal with the thing

[mars]

I wasn’t referring to Monome there, but “grid based MIDI controllers”.

It was suggested on our Kickstarter to add a Teletype style I2C header. I’m not sure exactly what would be involved, maybe someone here could elucidate?

I understand it’s a 2x3 header but I can’t find docs on the pin out, or how the pull ups work.

[vals]

@mars is there any estimated price /release date on the Magus Eurorack as well as for the 4HP expander?

[kilchhofer]

whatever happened to this product?
is this still happening, on the product site it says “sold out”…?

[s_hamann]

Update from July on the Kickstarter page says it’s still being manufactured but they’ve had delays:

Magus Modular Synthesizer Toolkit