No, because I don’t approach Maths or modulars with much intentionality, to be honest. I can’t scientifically explain what I’m doing most of the time, let alone reproduce it. I’m very much a “what happens if I try patching this into this? Now is that doing something interesting and musical?” sort of person and in the moment I usually don’t have a specific sound design goal that I’m trying to problem solve, or if I do it’s more of a feeling than something articulable. That has its charm, and can lead me down some strange and wonderful paths during a good session. But I know that having a real familiarity with the module and how to route it will get me into galaxy brain mode.
It’s hard to explain or defend, but I feel like having a discrete set of small utility modules instead just wouldn’t engender that kind of intuitive musical exploration in the same way. Maths has one of the most well-thought-out layouts I’ve seen in all of Eurorack, and the way that layout encourages cross-modulation is really noteworthy. Even if your hands are moving faster than your brain is processing, the musicality and instinctuality is high with this one. Routing the output of one channel into the trigger of another will usually create a self-evolving feedback loop that you can further adjust or modulate organically. It approaches that philosophy of an intuitive modulation ecosystem that people find so inspiring about Buchla systems.
