#60

Agree. With just one pedal the 0-coast is off and running!

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#61

I posted this somewhere on lines, but I did on a recent tour in the band of Dave Dominique, I mostly played guitar but I also used an 0-Coast as a stand alone noise maker for improvisation and it worked great! Every night I would alter the patch just a bit, mostly using it as a random note generator----but the key was using an A/B switch so that I was running my guitar and 0-Coast through the same guitar effects, and as long as you keep the volume down on the 0-Coast, it works great with guitar pedals. It;s a boring answer, but 0-Coast by itself is so deep!

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#62

After reading through this thread I feel like my 104hp skiff ideas may be overkill to use with the 0-coast? It seems as if most users here may not be using it in conjunction with a larger system. Thoughts?

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#63

I reckon pairing a 0-Coast with about 60hp (thinking about those 4ms pods) would be really fun and very powerful in itself. I’m always reminding myself that 104hp is already a lot… I could very happily slim down to a 80hp system and achieve everything I’m looking for with that.

What i’m hoping to express is that if you want to make the 0-Coast your instrument, i would try to avoid extending it too much. If you’re seeing it as an component part of a greater system, then certainly 104hp will do that for you.

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#64

I think I see it as a part of something a bit larger. I see its value in the “individual” sections being useful to the skiff I’m planning. When I bought the 0-Coast a few months ago, it was to see if I really wanted to go down the rabbit hole of modular, and well… now there is an empty MN Skiff on my desk.

These are the few Ideas I’ve been playing around with:
All seem pretty fun on their own if we’re being honest.

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#65

The 0-Coast was my gateway into modular.
Now that I have a bit of stuff, I tend to forget about the 0-coast until last. I’m not always sure how to integrate it into my rack set-up. Not having it in the case with the other bits certainly has an effect.

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to start planning with it in mind rather than as an add-on when I need another voice.

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#66

I don’t have an 0-coast but have kind of wanted one for an ultra portable jam system with my SQ-1 and many a few pedals…

It hasn’t been enough to actually make me get one yet but it’s still intriguing…

Does anyone use it like this? I’d be curious to hear about your experiences…

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#67

:heart::heart::heart::heart:

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#69

I “outgrew” my 0-Coast once I had a Function, Contour and Dynamix in my modular. Told myself I didn’t like the wavefolder as much as Crossfold, Warps, or even the weird “discontinuity” thing on Hertz Donut or the “we take folding literally” one in the E370.

But I miss it. It’s more than the sum of its parts. The main reason Behringer Crave got my attention was the similar form factor, but about fifteen minutes later I was thinking “I don’t really want a one-VCO ladder filter subtractive synth, I just want that 0-Coast experience.”

I’m not going to be spending anything else for a while, but I do kind of want to check out the Microvolt since I like Pittsburgh’s stuff generally. It might not feel quite as simple and pure as the 0-Coast, though.

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#70

This is a fine way to use it. Reverb pedals are nice addition in this case.

#71

Grabbed a uBraids and u0_c to use with the 0-coast and its a blast! Blending the Braids with the 0-Coast oscillator is quite wonderful. Waiting for stages to come in the mail next!

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#72

Braids and Tides were the first things I bought to go with my 0-Coast, and it wasn’t too long before I was completely hooked haha. You’ll have fun, I imagine esp with that 0_c.

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#73

haha! Very similar tastes. Yeah even with just 0_c and Braids alone I was having a blast patching. My stages actually just came in the mail so I’m super stoked to get some more modulation in the mix :slight_smile:

Pretty excited to finally be filling this skiff.

Eyeing up a little dopefer mixer, uBurst and Marbles next.

#74

I would like to know how you modify the tone or the oscillator within the 0 coast only, as I am making all too similar sounding tracks with it

#75

the 0-Coast was my first hardware synth, got it a couple of years ago and still use it constantly, and over these past two years I have slowly started building a skiff to complement it. I decided to mainly stick with Make Noise modules because I really like their design, workflow and I feel it’s more relaxing to my eyes to have most things looking kinda similar in the skiff. So far I got the Morphagene, QPAS and my wife got me Pam’s New Workout as a birthday gift. I would highly recommend the PNW as a first module to pair with the 0C for all the modulation possibilities and the QPAS would be what I would recommend as the second module to get.

#76

audio rate modulation is a good starting point. to alter the ‘typical’ o-coast sound.

patch sine out into lin fm or overtone. sine or square out into balance (top right) also yields good results. feeding back dynamic (final out) into foundational override of balance, adjusting balance to taste for saturation/distortion by hand or again audio rate …

using the slope circuit as hard-synced oscillator can be fun. adjusting rise slowly …
using the slope circuit to create a ‘complex oscillator’ …

there are so many ways … :slight_smile:

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#77

Do you also have some suggestions for making nice drones?

#78

Switch the CV out of midi b to a LFO using the program pages to get an extra modulation source.
For drones, patch the voltage maths out to dynamics to free up the contour circuit for modulation. Patch the clock to contour to trigger it repeatedly. Use slope, contour and the LFO to modulate everything.
Buy stackcables or headphone splitters to use as mults, allowing modulation sources to go to multiple targets.
Experiment!

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#79

0-Coast + Mother 32 seems like an awesome option, they complete each other in a beautiful way, each bringing options the other lack

#80

I recently bought an 0-Coast and am very fascinated by it although I have not have the time to really explore it yet. I would not be surprised if it finally lures me on modular territory… Following @Tapage I orderd some stackable patch cables.

And: the linked Meg Mulhearn piece is one of the most fascinating electronic music tracks I’ve ever heard; it assures me that buying an 0-Coast was a good decision.

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