Well, now we know where all the Cwejman went.

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I was lucky enough to be given an opportunity in 2015 to purchase an entire Cwejman lot at a very fair price from a gentleman who seemingly had gotten in over his head and was liquidating a significant part of his collection. With patience, you can eventually track down anything you set your sights on.

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love the red and yellow knobs on the make noise stuff, has me imagining a dark timeline where there’s a make noise x mcdonalds crossover event. What kind of mischief would The Erbeburglar get up to…

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how does that bottom row work with the easel system, how do you use it? And do you have some sound links! Thanks.

I have several ways of patching the 208 (Easel is the combination of a 208+218) and other modules together, depending on the sonic character needed. While the inter-module CV patching is obvious, the 208 has two duplicate audio outputs on the front panel, plus another two on the side of the LEM case, and one external audio input on the front panel. For denser sound verging, or falling well into feedback, I can route the 208 through the lower modules and back into the 208’s external input, effectively creating a controllable signal feedback loop. To maintain more sonic separation, I can treat two of the 208’s outputs through subsequent modules, or leave it unaltered, and use the 292h as a master mixer, recording directly off of it’s summed output.

Several albums over the past few years have exclusively used this compact system. Fusiform is the most recent, preceded by Drift.

Hope that explanation helps!

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Thanks for the generous reply. Very nice and organic sounding results.

I am not finding my easel clones 218 so useful for my purposes - for a long time I have been thinking of getting something else on the bottom row… marf or something else but what you have there seems much more like something I could find use for… opened up for exploring some non conventional setups.

Here my smaller system now 100% in black & gold. Big thanks to @retoid for making these beautiful panels!

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Black and gold looks so nice! What is the mixer(?) on the top right?

Thanks!

The module on the top right is a bunch of modules behind a blank maths faceplate and a few circuitboards mounted in the case. The LED meters are ADDAC812A modules. The left most meter has a four position switch to select between off, mic, line and aux and and L and R outputs. I use this to monitor the input signal going to the Morphagene.
On the 4HP adjacent, the two pots set the gain for the piezo mic and line in preamps (preamps are mounted inside the case). The the top pair of jacks are direct outs and the lower pair is the aux input and aux thru.
The module at the centre is a knob.farm hyrlo and next to it a knob farm ferry and the last meter is for monitoring the output (pre fader) and the pot above to set the output level.

I built the case with jacks on the rear (stereo piezo mic in, stereo line in, stereo send and return and stereo balanced outs) to save space and avoid clutter. However, the inside of the case does not look pretty… lots of wires and pretty cluttered. I love the fact that the case is so shallow, but it was a nightmare to fit everything inside.

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I have an EP-96, lovely case :).

Due to effectively living in a building site, I packed away all my modules and just put a few in this case, switching them around when I found there was something I needed, really helped me decide which modules I really can value.

A headphone output (HPO) helped me feel like the case was more of a standalone instrument, with it on my lap.

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My remote setup… and I mean remote. I’m out in my cabin in northern Minnesota. No neighbors, no internet, and no phone!

As you can see, I have plenty of hooks for the chorus…

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Ha, that’s great. I split time between Two Harbors and Brimson last week. I’ll need to think about getting a portable set up to take next time!

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I’m out out in the woods north of Two Harbors… not that far from Brimson. We are practically neighbors! We’ll have to have a modular meetup sometime when we’re both up here.

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Current setup, handmade cases, and recently acquired CS-L
I love it more everyday

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Here’s what I use now!

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Do you live in MN? I’m in Fargo and would love to meet some lines folks!

No, I’m in New York, but I inherited my parents old shack out in the woods, where I spend several weeks every summer.

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Perhaps a little snapshot from tonight’s session to start with…


There is more stuff but that’s one full rack of complete joy.

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6u came in and let me say, I’m having a ton of fun. At first I was worried about having two big sequencers in the rack, but they really make it into a fun instrument.

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My new setup! :drooling_face: And some doodling.





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