Show us your modular system

[nuun]

Slowly filling my 2nd case with modules

[sandy]

I’d love to hear it!

I don’t have anything recent but here are some from a few years ago.

Processed Bugbrand
This is the only one that has any significant computer intervention.

Radio + Bugbrand
Shortwave radio processed by the modular.

Radiophonic Bugbrand
A few of us did a ‘make some BBC Radiophonic Workshop type noises’ challenge with our Bugbrand systems. These are all without added VST effects apart from a little bit of reverb.
Radiobugs 1

Radiobugs 2

Radiobugs 3

[badkidstothefront]

Not impressive, but I’m in high school and only work 3 days a week. I also just got a @menqi DPLPG kit coming in, and I hope to order a Teletype when I save up the money. One day I plan to get an Aleph and Landscape Stereo Field to compliment it all.

[sandy]

What makes a modular synth impressive is the music that’s made with it, not its size

[le_palace]

eurorack in high school? that alone is very impressive

[Myles_Avery]

How do you like that Koma sequencer?!

[Fleuw]

I like it alot…very hands-on and syncs my whole setup up nice and tight with a bit of help with Iconnect Midi4+.

[shreeswifty]

here is the result of about two and a half years of iteration, experimentation and revision
I chose two ansibles, and 3 plonks and two MI Rings for the sound sources
I am finally able to start my Reich drumming/Music for 18 modules piece

[kirklandish]

Any audio? I would like to hear this!

[Benjamin_Mauch]

This looks awesome. Would love to hear some of this as well!

[shreeswifty]

Thanks for moving this! Sorry i JUST got it really finished after so long and i did not feel it was a muffs get more VCAs rig at this point. I will be making some pieces with it starting this weekend. I admit a bunch of my interests lie with Steve Reich & Terry Riley for a 70s neo minimalism sound. [Drumming and Dervishes being favorites]. About 10 years ago i started becoming interested in physical modeling after taking a class that used Perry Cook’s book as a starting point for DSP coding in C and i created my first real patch for pure data based on karplus when i was in my studies of hindustani classical music. Gary Scavonne and the Stk stuff was my first experience with using them. Year later i got Chromaphone and eventually chromaphone II which has led to the Plonk and i see it as this really fun full circle. Just figured i’d share a little about the why

[hamildad]

I’ve been building this since 2012, and the majority of it was completed before the invention of new fangled modules, but the thoughts around this was it should be

A self contained instrument (hence to uJack)
No screens (allowing the PW LED screen)
Heavy on Arpeggios and repeating patterns.

The most recent addition was swapping out a few passive modules to integrate Cold Mac, as I feel that I needed to up my modulation game. I hope to keep this set up for a long while as I have only scratched the surface of what can be achieved with this.

[nuun]

I’ve been building this since late 2015. I started with a Make Noise shared system with cv bus. I’ve kept all the modules that where in that system and upgraded recently to this bigger MDLR Case. Now this case is almost filled, a ER 301 is on it’s way. Then the refining and module swapping begins for me. I have the feeling it will take me years of playing and experimenting before i settle in a more or less definite system (i now it never will be definite, as there will always be new modules to try out).

I admit that the growth of my system was a bit random until now. I think you can see the modular hypes of the last years reflected in my case (Rings, Clouds, SMR, etc). It’s hard to know what you want to do precisely. Only when i buy a module i slowly discover it’s possibilities, and the possibilities in conjunction with the other modules i already owned. I’m also a very slow learner with this stuff so i must have patience. i think at this moment i understand only 5% of what my current system is capable of! (i still have to dive into my Teletype for instance)

[scanner_darkly]

the navigator case https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/126854

still want to tweak it some more, but it’s pretty close to the intended purpose which is a 4 voice system with extensive control via grid/arc/teletype/telex. and, of course, telex can also be used as 16 more oscillators (which brings the total to 32, not including filters since the flame 4vox is essentially 4 quad oscillators…). it’s also fun using 16 CVs from telexes with the 4ms vca matrix (other than the 16 cables required). there is something really neat about having 4 (or 8, or 16, or 32) of everything!

[dansimco]

Here’s my contraption. I started out with a rule that I would only buy new modules in person, in store, which constrained the purchasing to when I was travelling. Inevitably I had to fill the gaps with online ordering though. But there’s parts from San Francisco, Taipei, London and Sydney so it’s a bit of a musical souvenir. I’m pretty happy with it as a standalone system, though I usually use it in conjunction with an Octatrack and Keystep via the Yarns and Keystep sync out. There’s so much here I have to explore so I don’t really have any other modules I want to explore at the moment. The only change I’m thinking of making is swapping out the Pittsburg Outs for a uVCA, because I’m plugging this straight into an external mixer now with enough headroom. There’s a Noisering and a Tonnetz in a box which were both displaced by the Ornament + Crime. Currently I’m trying to find a way to patch it together and leave it patched for an album’s worth of tracks, to kind of create a band-in-a-patch and just concentrate on composing, it’s so hard to resist completely unpatching it and exploring every time though.

https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/348837

edit: I’d love to hear some suggestions for a 6hp module to replace the Outs. I assumed vca, because why not more vca’s, but I’m probably missing something. I use stackables but a switched mult would probably go there nicely too.

[Needles]

Nice! I’ll add a pick of the Koma Sequencer that lives in my lab too…

[unity2k]

As I’ve been spending the better part of the past month learning about Monome I get to your case and was taken by the four TXo’s and the one TXi. As I too have a 4Vox and VCAM (I’m also waiting on serial #0001 of the E370 to hit my doorstep in about 60 days) I’m intrigued by the possibilities of the Teletype and now even more so after reading the lengthy thread about the development of the Telex gear.

As you have four outs which makes a lot of sense to me but only one in, I wonder why you don’t have two ins and is there an argument for why two would be ideal or less so?

[JankySwitch]

Mine is a works as either a fairly simple duophonic voice, a decent two voice or a fairly complex monophonic voice.

Add a BeastStep Pro, a Microbrute, a couple of outboard effects and romplers and I’ve never been so happy with my sound (And fairly productive too!)

[emenel]

Here’s my current rack:

The only thing in this picture that I don’t actually have yet is the Plonk, which is on back order at the moment.

There’s also a gaping 8hp hole in the bottom row, but I don’t feel like I need anything else so that might just get a blank panel for now.

In addition to this rack, I often us it with a Cocoquantus 2, Plumbutter 2, and Sidrax Organ and some effects. It all goes into a Mackie 1642 mixer.

[scanner_darkly]

i do have 2 TXi but use the other one in another case. having 4 knobs and 4 inputs is sufficient for one teletype i think, that’s a lot of CV or manual control (and there are other ways to control TT scripts, either via the upcoming grid integration or by reading ansible values, for instance).

also tempted by E370 (and it would benefit from teletype control with extra outputs via ansible or TXo) but been spending more time with 4vox and starting to like it a lot, i neglected editing individual voices but there is so much there.