#168

seriously this thing is incredible.

edit: planning on making a long (like 30mins or more) youtube video in the coming week of just exploring QPAS without talking. will post it here when it’s up :ok_hand:

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#169

For it’s the most impressive module by Make Noise ! Am I the only one ?

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#170

I don’t know about most impressive; they make good stuff overall :slight_smile:

When I first tried it I wasn’t thrilled – and then I realized I hadn’t routed the input into my DAW in stereo, so I was only getting the left channel as mono. Once I fixed that it opened up a lot :laughing:

I’m not big into subtractive synthesis, and a lot of stuff with resonant filters doesn’t really grab me. But there are a lot of interesting things going on with QPAS and I keep finding these magical sweet spots with it.

#171

Just pulled the trigger last night. This is the first “hyped” new module I have bought, but I’m excited by the videos I’ve seen. I’ve been super close to pulling the trigger on a 3 sisters for months now, but I don’t particularly need multiple inputs and am planning to use it mostly on samples and loops, the smile pass and band pass seems like they will be a great addition to my setup. My setup has been becoming very stereo over the last six months and this is going to make it even deeper.

#172

I’m having a lot of fun right now with a Rings -> tanh[3] -> QPAS -> Chronoblob -> Rings feedback loop, controlled by Teletype + Marbles :slight_smile:

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#173

I finally had a chance to demo and play with QPAS at work this evening and was immediately saddened by the fact that I have neither the rack space nor the money to spare to take it home with me today. Hoping to change both of those things soon. I went home with so many ideas that I can’t not have one of my own.

#174

does anyone have this and a three sisters? do they compliment eachother/coexist nicely? I currently have a full 104hp skiff and i’m at the point where I think i’m gonna buy a few more modules that interest me over getting a bigger case.

#175

they are completely different beasts to me. I also have a relatively small system and it’s hard to justify having both so I’m going to explore QPAS more and decide from there. To be honest I don’t think you can wrong with either, they’re just different.

Three Sisters is a module I’ve owned for a very long time and it still has many perks that QPAS doesnt. It’s much smaller, has a one-of-a-kind input and output topology that rewards creativity, self-oscillates, and has a milder sound. I hesitate to call the following “cons” but rather, “differences” but it is quick to distort (by design) though this is not always desired, it always has SOME resonance and imparts character and gain, and it has less flexibility than QPAS as far as control, and obviously the amount of outputs.

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#176

i have both as well. three sisters will always have a place alongside qpas in my rack; they have different sounds and features. but the stereo capabilities of the qpas are so much fun, if i had to choose one it would probably be that.

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#177

My friend / former coworker Cory did a QPAS-centric video for Reverb that should be out soon, which features a QPAS/RxMx pairing that I’m excited about using at some point.

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#178

Looks like DivKid put up a really good demo on YouTube! Lots of really nice sounds, can’t wait to dive into it.

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#179

QPAS with Mangrove formant with SSF Bass Drum. QPAS is pretty sick.

turning freq knob on QPAS and formant on MANGROVE. Pinky is hitting Pam new workout to start and stop drums.

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#180

I’d been considering getting a filter like the Doepfer fixed filterbank or the Serge resonant equalizer. If I got a QPAS, it seems like they would be redundant. Am I understanding this right?

#181

EYE don’t think so, but I have two Three Sisters in 104 HP so idk if anyone should trust my opinion about filters :joy:

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#182

Serge Res EQ is totally different. Love mine. Also love my QPAS. But very different animals.

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#183

thank you @ears and @alanza!

#184

I have to agree with @ears even though I don’t own a QPAS yet, it’s rather apparent that it’s very very different to the Serge Resonant EQ which I’m very familiar with ever since it appeared in Eurorack format. I can’t recommend it enough for various reasons which are outside the scope of this thread.

One rather striking distinction is that the QPAS does not resonate although you can ping and ring it. The Serge sings in a feedback system!

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#185

I own none of those and you seem to have your answer, but I think you could probably get something like a smaller fixed filterbank from QPAS if you run the same audio through both channels and then mix all eight outputs?

#186

Or perhaps from the Intellijel Korg/Morg-asmatron. Dual filter rather than quad, but resonant, 6 varieties of filters for each filter, FM inputs, tracks v/oct.

#187

Having only spent one long extended session with it, my first impression is that it’s suprisingly difficult to make it not “sound like QPAS”. No value judgement there; I like the QPAS sound, but you really have to mind that Q or it’s very specific character will be there. I’d say that’s one argument for Sisters over QPAS, if you had to pick one. Sisters has some color, but it doesn’t demand you notice it. QPAS very much wants to come out and play.

(only mono sadly - also Freq1 is being fed a stepped random) I found the results of feeding a channel of Just Friends into Q while filtering the mix output really satisfying. I’m also interested in playing with using the two inputs for independent voices, which I just started playing with.

I found the wildcard inputs to be trickier to find interesting signals for. Still experimenting there. Tiggers weren’t really noticeable. LFO’s certainly do the job. Drum sounds are probably my favorite thing thus far. Anyone have any particularly pleasing discoveries there?

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