#247

I’ve probably said this before, but I love MN’s manuals. Always super helpful, clear, and informative.

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#248

i’m always forgetting the MG button combos as well :slight_smile:

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#250

I’ve currently got a Maths, Optomix, and Moddemix in my case. Maths and Optomix are indespensible for me, Moddemix I’m still figuring out.

I’ve owned and sold Erbeverb, Telharmonic, MMG and Echophon, all of which I GASd hard for then quickly realised they’re not my bag. Owning these modules helped me figure out what I do and don’t want to do with my eurorack system.

I’m close to adding a RxMx+FxDf combo to my case but can’t quite justify it for now.

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#251

yeah telharmonic is highly underrated, but very understandably so. rewards patience greatly. and if Rob AA Lowe still has one in his case after all these years, it must be pretty ok! :relaxed:

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#252

Aside from general VCA and mixer use, I’m fond of using the Moddemix for AM. You can use the Maths as your half / full rectifier.

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#253

Like others, 0-Coast was my gateway into other Make Noise modules/ modular synthesis. Some random observations: The pure sine wave of the 0-Coast is really warm and lovely; Morphagene is wonderful and has a lot of presence—it seems to jumps out of the mix in every performance, and not in a bad way, but I am learning to use it in ways that are mindful of its vibrance and charisma; Rene 2 comes alive when the mod and cv functions are engaged, though it behaves like a feral cat—familiar is aspect, but wild and unpredictable. I also have a Telharmonic, and love pairing it with my Mother-32.

#254

This is why, despite wanting one for a couple of years now, I’ve yet to take the plunge. I feel certain that it’ll be my entry point to a world of module purchases!

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#255

Sounds very nice. Have you had chance to look at the wave shape on a scope? It would be cool to know how it differs from the ‘perfect’ mathematical Sine shape.

The ‘imperfectness’ of wave-forms shapes on analogue synths is definitely part of their character and charm (just look at Mutable emulating the CS-80’s notched saw wave etc,).

#256

I own Maths, Tempi and the STO currently. Used to own the Telharmonic, Pressure Points/Brains, and Wogglebug. Some Make Noise pieces jive with my workflow and some don’t.

The Wogglebug was one of those that just drove me nuts, because it was always fluctuating in a way that was too loosey-goosey and hard to predict what it was going to do. I guess that’s the point, but I like learning something in and out and then knowing how it will react in given situations. I bought a 2hp Random in its place and I’m enjoying it much more. Much easier to control. The Telharmonic was pretty cool, but it sounded a little digital to me, and I really just wanted a Harmonic Oscillator, which I still haven’t been able to afford yet. Pressure points was a little wonky but I realized after selling it that its really sensitive to grounding in your case, and once I fixed that, I bet I would like it more again if I got it again. I found Brains pretty cool, but again, but slightly wonky.

Maths is just the best and I would never sell it. Tempi I love, its workflow is awesome, its very playable. I love being able to pull in and out of randomness or off kilter stuff with the mod function and sending random voltages to CV the clock source. I can really move between more movements without re-patching things. The STO I’ve come around on, I almost sold it a few times, but the I realized its sweet spot its in the upper midrange, and I use it for voices in that range. There are a few added harmonics to the sin wave that make it cut through a mix in a such perfect way. Plus I love it for FM.

I’m very curious of the decentralized mixing concept. Right now I have a main master mixer by Pittsburgh, and while it works, there’s always limitations. I need more aux sends. I feel like I need to either step up to a matrix mixer or just completely make everything decentralized. I feel like in general, mixing within Euro is still a mystery. There aren’t a ton of centralized mixers that are affordable, that have more that 1 aux send. You can always mix outside the box, which a lot of people do, but I don’t want to carry around an extra mixer if I don’t have to.

#257

It’s a triangle from the oscillator core, but it saturates very nicely and rounds off to something more sine-like. Really solid sounding and good for basses.

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#258

Heck yeah that’s the point! It’s one thing to get random that consists of “random values within parameters I define” and it’s another to get “wtf is this thing even doing” random. I’m all about the random that comes from never fully being able to steer or control the module. (I feel the same way about the Sloth - I recently got a Triple Sloth and I’m in love!)

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#259

Totally, I think If I had more room in my case, and I wasn’t in such an ‘only keep what I really love’ mentality, I would have kept it. It was definitely fun to have, but I feel like I’m achieving what I want to with the 2HP Rnd in a much smaller footprint. Similar vibe, just not as unwieldy. If I want things to be unwieldy, I can push into chaos from other methods.

#260

I’ve been thinking about piecing together a “Silver and Black” shared system. The top row would all be the stock silver panels and the bottom row would be all stock black panels. So I could get myself a Make Noise system and stretch out the purchases over the course of a year or two vs $4500 all in one pop.

I was planning on just doing a 1-to-1 recreation of the synth, but filling the spaces with other modules as needed, namely Brains. That would leave about 8hp free, does anyone have a similar system + STO? Would it be lacking in a system with few “actual VCAs” and mixing options? I know @n-So has a revised Shared System. Does anyone else?

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#261

Some unobscured detail shot of the left side of this synth, revealed to be a seven stage sequencer. Photo from Scott Jaeger’s Instagram page:

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#262

I’ve currently got something like that, dpo plus STO. I like that combo because the STO has a different timbral character than the DPO. I’d tried a function in that space but didn’t find myself needing that much modulation.

#263

Yeah I’ve sadly had to sell my DPO and STO but I loved them both dearly. I love the idea of the system and how deliberate everything is, but I wasn’t sure if adding another sound source would stretch the other components too thin.

#264

When I was using a Shared System, the thing I always felt I was lacking was a good clock source.

I always had to trade the functionality of one of the modules in my system for every patch to use as a clock.

EDIT: Nevermind! The newer Shared System has a Tempi.

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#265

That raises another fun discussion point: if you were to fill a CV Bus case with only Make Noise modules, when ones and why? I’d be interested to see who would sub in QPAS for something else.

#266

This is more or less what I’m working with currently (minus Mimeophon obviously). I frequently swap in one or some combination of Just Friends, Cold Mac, W/, LxD, and ErbeVerb.

I think the idea of pairing an STO with the DPO is great, lots of potential there especially using STO mostly as an FM tool, but also as an additional voice when needed. That’s the purpose that Telharmonic serves in my case (as well as noise source). Might explore that STO/DPO pairing in the future.

At first glance the Make Noise system is light on modulation, but in experience this isn’t really the case, and a huge part of that is the CV bus- 1 LFO becomes 4 and with Make Noise just about every CV input has a built-in attenuation system set up so you can selectively alter the amount of modulation at the point of each destination.

Even though I’ve plunged headfirst into the Make Noise ecosystem which is largely west-coast oriented, I feel naked without at least one filter in a case, and so I’ve been finding the QPAS pretty indispensable, and the stereo effects can REALLY bring a patch to life.

In a perfect world where I had infinite income, I think I’d have a case like the one pictured above, as well as a silver-face collection of the sort of unsung heroes of the catalogue- so a case with Mysteron, Telharmonic, Rxmx, Fxdf, Phonogene, Function, Contour, MMG, Echophon, etc.

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#267

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@ThurberMingus

Currently all Make Noise with the exception of the 4hp Manhattan Analog mixer. I don’t know if that module is strictly necessary but I find it hard to let go of needing an end-of-chain mixer before the output.

While my system is very different than @n-So I also felt that I lacked modulation sources in my system. However, I found that really isn’t true either. I also felt like I lacked sound sources which also isn’t true. I had the Telharmonic at one point, but switched it out for the Erbe-verb which is a sound and modulation source in addition to being an effect. Currently experimenting using the Wogglebug as an audio source!

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