I’ve only had it a few days, but it’s taken a bit for me to wrap my head around. Still not completely there (especially with the bottom two sections).

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Also got a Falistri this week. I will say that, as a former owner of Sapel, I have found Falistri to be more intuitive than Sapel, which I always struggled with, and eventually sold.

(I got the Sapel right around the time that Marbles came out, which couldn’t have helped Sapel’s case either :sweat_smile:)

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Had a look at the Falistri after seeing your post. It looks mega. Can you offer any insights as compared to Maths / Just Friends / Cold Mac / similar mad swiss army knives?

I’ve had Falistri for about a week now and think it great. It’s a little slimmer than Maths. I like the horizontal layout of the function generators rather than the vertical maths and the knobs have more resistance than Maths knob which I found rather loose. The linear vs exponential rise/fall changes don’t affect overall function length which is an improvement on maths IMO. I also like having the little attenuverters on the function out. The bottom half of falistri adds functions that maths doesn’t have but loses some of the mixing/complexity of maths. This is fine by me because I always had a difficult time controlling the maths contortions (I think I needed an oscilloscope). The multi frequency divider, Ring Mod/VCA, and slew limiter are easy to use tools that don’t give me the cold mac headaches.

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Here’s my current setup. Increasingly converging on a Black and Gold System analog.

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My mish mosh of a modular synth. Sometimes I feel like the goal is to build the most un-thought out system and then patch as many cords in as possible and try and make something that is still sounds like it could be “music” in quotes because I think the sound of whales talking is music.

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100 :100: percent ‘whales’

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Emptiness

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This picture is after some recent changes towards making a more playable/enjoyable system, which for me mainly involved getting rid of mini pots and menu screens.

I also find I approach patching much differently when I have the Tempi/Rene skiff in front of my system vs when I don’t, so it’s nice having it as an optional add-on type thing.

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got a good used deal on these mannequins modules all together and got caught out with too few cables, waiting for the cable (delivery) guy :stuck_out_tongue: listening to three sisters beatbox lol :slight_smile: kind of a good limitation to force me to try to understand them one at a time for the next few days though!

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its a lot of fun that foursome! my only advice would be to spend a lot of time doing some semi-blind patching, just plugging outputs into strange inputs, self-patching, etc. these modules really open up when you get weird with them. and use the JF run modes :smiley:

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Hello Txi ! Hello El Capistan ! :heart_eyes:


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12u feels a bit excessive at times (was happy with 9u!), but pretty damn happy with this system as a portable, playable, fully-voiced, performance instrument. Completed with OTO BAM in Ferry send-return loop for main reverb and grids for sequencing.

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System looks great! You have a lot of voices and not a lot of obvious sequencing. I’m curious how you manage all of it.

Lovely system! I’m curious what kind of uses you find for Hermod - do you mostly use it as a sequencer, or as a midi/cv interface?

I traded Akemie’s at some point for a Verbos Complex Osc. I love the Complex Osc and use it more often…but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss Akemie’s. :slight_smile:

Lovely system! I dig the dual maths, under a fistful of LPGs. :metal:

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wowzers. looks great fun this

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what is that black case?

Looks like the Trogotronic m-168.

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I actually keep it really simple (well, talking performances anyway, in the studio it’s all treated as different tools that aren’t always all used together). I use ansible running kria as my master sequencer, using the Mangroves for my main melodic duo, STO for bass, and Amekie’s Castle for simple harmonic movement and drones (kind of chordal). The Beast’s Chalkboard is useful for doubling up any sequences with more than one voice if I want. Akemie’s Taiko and Elements form my percussion (often with Quantum Rainbow for “hats” too), generally driven by tthe trigger outs of Marbles. Elements is sometimes also used for drones. Morphagene is used as a buffer between different sequences/sections in a performance, or used to remix everything else. Marbles is useful to add variation to melodic lines (A/B’d through a switch), and there’s also Pressure Points, but I’m mostly using that for modulation rather than melody. I don’t really use Just Friends or Sisters and voices in a performance context.

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