mdtz
1810
techno rack. entity percussion is a surprisingly great non-drum voice: punchy bass, 303ish if you push it, sounds great with a mildly resonant 3 sisters. plonk and squid are too much fun. shapeshifter is a blast, and can do just about anything with some work… love it paired with either make noise lpg in the system.
would love suggestions for the last 4 hp. i was thinking about the ssf autodyne compressor.
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ahmohb
1811
Not glamorous but maybe a buffered mult like the A-180-3?
mdtz
1812
thanks for the suggestion! i’ve been looking at the intellijel 1u mult, and would probably rather burn the 1u space, or stick with passive cable connectors.
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If you enjoy things a bit grittier, the Noise Engineering Viol Ruina is great for finding new details and timbres in sounds, and then mangling them into something completely different.
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First post! Here’s my current rig (for now). At least it will be, once PanMix arrives.
I’ve been playing pretty much only free improv for a few years (entirely different rig for that). I started putting this rack together a few months ago in order to explore more tonal, rhythmic-based music. It’s been super fun!
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the idea behind it was to have ‘hands on’ things all in a separate control ‘skiff’ from my main rack (not shown).
Bela Salt is connected to the Madrona Labs Soundplane, so spits out CV.
Percussa SSP is being used for lots of things…
Hermod and Marbles , I love close to hand.
Usually most of the patch cables would be going out from there to the main rack…
But I’ve just released some software for the Percussa, so decided to move it away from the main rack to make a demo video with it , and see how it plays on its own… and its remarkably fun.
this was my first stab (just for IG) - what I thought was fun, was its patch cable free… (*)
SSP is connected via usb midi to Hermod, and audio is USB audio to my phone !
(I could also have connected Bela , and so Soundplane via USB midi)
(*) k, marbles was sending cv… but that wasn’t strictly necessary.
Obviously, my next step is me getting off my butt, and go grab some patch cables… then I’ll move over to cv from Hermod and Salt (for Soundplane) as you are ‘suppose’ to do 
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thopa
1817
Just for laughs! seeing all these tidy studios i thought i will post a picture of my tidy space…
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Damn!! How many tiny eurorack cases have you made!?!? My kind of real right there.
Do you have any examples of the entity used in this way? Sounds interesting!
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My primary 6U system that I’ve been using for the past 6 years. Settled into this configuration about 2 years after getting into eurorack.
After being very disciplined about not giving in to any unnecessary expansion for so long, I recently gave myself permission to build a second larger system to broaden my sound design options with another 12U.
Typically sequence everything with a Cirklon, but also have a couple of alternative sequencing pods.
Recent pickup of the Teletype is what brought me to lines 
– looking to complement it with 2x TXo and 2x TXi soon.
Studio rebuild is currently in progress, will share photos of everything in situ once it’s complete 
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thopa
1821
that picture was taken during covid 19 solder lockdown! I nearly finished my build backlog 
It’s looking better now thank god. I’m a big fan of tiny small systems!
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Byzero
1822
Your first case is pleasingly symmetrical. Interesting to see two o’tools in such a small case… am I really missing a trick not having an oscilloscope? Do you find yourself using them frequently?
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The use of double O’Tools was mostly borne out of a desire to immediately be able to see what was happening with any of the four voices in the system to quickly troubleshoot any issues during live performances.
Maintaining the symmetry probably also played a role 
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czzbx
1824
I’m only just starting out with eurorack but I have found my O’Tool+ indispensable for understanding how voltage is flowing through the system and how different modules are interacting (especially things like Maths and Cold Mac).
So, more than anything I find it a wonderful learning tool. If you already understand CV and signal flow very deeply it may be less important but I don’t think I’ll get rid of it anytime soon.
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I don’t see any Tenori-On’s 
New case for difficult powerline-interference outcasts
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thopa
1827
No tenoris! I misss them!
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2197
1828
Current iteration of a TipTop Mantis case.
Doesn’t feel quite settled yet. The 0-coast above it is also integrated, and there’s a small case with a English Tear out of picture that is used together with the MS20 to the right.
Sequencing is done with Pamela, Voltage Memory and Mimetic Digitalis primarily, but also quite often midi from Ableton Live via the ES-3 module. I would like to have another small dedicated gate sequencer though, that allows for more precise pattern editing than PNW does.
Plonk is perhaps what feels most out of place – the regular “trying to do everything”-mistake – but it still gets used quite often. I rarely make full compositions using only the rack, but rather in combination with other synths and samplers in the studio, multi tracking, editing, re-cycling… Also feel I sometimes miss a more bread-and-butter type filter, but there’s always the MS20 and a Moog Minutaur that takes external inputs.
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feeling at home with the current setup. at the point where there’s a nice balance between intuition and experimentation.
used this environment to create this: ruins form
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