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Hi Left4deaf,

Did you check already the connectivity of power cable on both sides, hence at the module side and at the power bus side? If no signal, nothing at all, it might be a power issue.

Good luck with the troubleshooting and kind regards, Garfield Modular.

Hi Jihel,

Thanks a lot for your reply. The shop in Greece indeed still sells them but at what price...? Wow!

The Thomann one the "Black Multi" that's the successor of the "Black 8 Multi" (Erica Synths told me). The Black Multi has only 3 outputs instead of 4, it has an octave/offset switch per multiple instead. I rather had the Black 8 Multi, the perfect (dual) buffered multiple...

I need to give the Greece shop a thought, thank you very much! Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Gabor,

Oh, wow! What a tension that's being build up in the first part of the track, so tense! I sat on the tip of the chair wanted to be swallowed by the video and the music, become a part of it and at the same time feeling scared too!

Nicely done and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Slammer22,

The Erica Synths - Black 8 Multi is so far the best buffered multiple I have. Being "the best" as in comfortable to use and from a patching point of view. The bad news is that it's sold out :-( I only got one of it and wanted to buy a few more but then I was already too late. I checked this with Erica Synths but it's really sold out :-(

The Black 8 Multi is so logical to use and it has four outputs per input channel, no other modules (with 4 HP width) can do that, as far as I know, in such logical and comfortable way.

Indeed the Doepfer A-180-3 is another good choice.

Other option might be the ACL - Multi II that exists of two parts, a buffered multiple and a passive multiple, 6 HP, so it's comfortable to use while patching.

Good luck in searching for a good buffered multiple and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi TumeniKnobs,

Oh wow, that sounds beautiful! Nice play with the sounds and the drums added afterwards go very well with those sounds.

Nice work and thank you very much for sharing this. Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi ModLifeCrisis,

Yes, a nice video from you again! :-) Ha, ha, yes it took me a while as well before I realised what the Model CV input did ;-)

I love the end of your track, the way you finish it, that has a nice touch to it! Thank you very much for sharing this and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Gabor,

This a lovely track, I love the way you play with the drums & percussions here, really nice!

I wish every spring starts like this :-) Thank you very much and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Funbun,

Wow, about 2.5 hours of music. Not sure if I am going to finish that by tonight, it's good that tomorrow is Sunday, enough time left to check out all your music! :-)

Thank you very much for sharing this and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi The-Erc,

Good question... it has a syncable LFO, question is if that's a hard sync (which I don't want) or one that follows one of those clock signals. Difficult to answer that question without owning the module, I think.

Now I have already the Time Wizard from Shakmat Modular, so it might not make too much sense to get the Pamela. If it's possible, I rather prefer to look for an LFO on its own that has this functionality.

Interesting thought though, I will keep this in mind. Thank you very much and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Farkas, Lugia and JimHowell1970,

Farkas: I got the Octasource, it's indeed a great module so I can strongly recommend it however it doesn't have this functionality what I need that seems to be called at 4 ms as Pingable LFO. What I expect from this kind of pingable LFO is that if you use the "pingable" clock input (for example from a clock divider or multiplier) that the LFO "follows" in the rhythm of let's say the main voice.

Lugia: Yes indeed a big pity because I was just so extremely happy to know it exists what I want, till I discovered it's sold out as a ready-made module. I will have a look into Mutable's Tides to see if that one can help me out, thank you.

JimHowell1970: Pity that 4 ms decided to release it now only as a DIY module :-( Due to the serious lack of time, DIY is not the best option for me at the moment, I will keep it in mind though. Thank you!

All: Thank you very much, should you know of any other LFO that's kind of pingable or as described as above then please do let me know. Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Baltergeist,

Ha, ha, now that's a nice modern piece of Jazz :-) Interesting Jazz with modular, yeah that rocks!

Thank you very much for sharing this and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Lugia,

It looks like the 4ms - QPLFO has been sold out :-( Are there any similar LFOs that you might know of? Not EGs by the way, I am especially interested in LFOs that can do that.

Thank you very much in advance and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Gabor,

He, he, lots of funny effects you managed to create in this "jam" :-) Interesting and thank you very much for sharing.

Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi DonPuzo,

Ha, ha, yes that a great track and lots of fun to watch you here with high energy at work :-)

Thank you very much for sharing this and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Lugia,

Oh that's fantastic news about the QPLFO, that's what I need and what I want then! :-) I am going to put that on my must-have list! I don't have a Pam but I will use the Make Noise - Tempi together with the Shakmat - Time Wizard and then that should be fine too.

Thank you very much for the background information on the Behringer 2600. So we are still waiting for it then ;-) The orange version is here at Thomann Germany available, for the Grey Meanie and the Blue Marvin, Thomann indicates that the availability is unknown... so more waiting I am afraid.

Well once you got one, I hope you will share with us your first impressions about it :-) Thank you and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi All,

Two things I would like to reply to:

1) A DAW-less usage has one big advantage, as Quantum_Eraser already mentioned: You don't require the computer. I have an office job too, taking that one far too serious, hence I am in front of my computer between 12 till 16 hours a day then there comes a point that you really had enough of that thing since I am doing that already for decades (working almost day and night with a computer). So, I do understand "that need" to try to work without a DAW completely and that's for the moment my approach as well.

That, however, doesn't mean that I hate the DAW, no not at all. I am even afraid of the DAW, because I am afraid that I am going to love it, meaning, I am going to spend even more hours in front of the computer, yet another reason not to touch DAW ;-)

Also, I am not saying I am never going to use a DAW, I can foresee in the future a need for using a DAW and might be even willing to consider that, however as long as I can live kind of comfortably without a DAW and not missing it yet, I will try to stay away from it (because I am afraid of it, that I would love it and that I would use the computer even more...)

2) The Maths Myth (apologises for calling it like that) is something I also can't follow for the full 100%. Yes, Maths is a good module, and yes you can do a lot with the Maths and yes it's a very handy utility module at the same time, yes, yes, yes! I totally agree with it ;-)

It however doesn't explain why almost the entire world has to worship this module like it is done currently. It might be a good module (and by the way, I have the Maths myself) for beginners who have a "nice small" rack of less than (just an example) 200 HP buying the Maths to fill up the rack quickly and yes in certain cases it will be really useful, I do think so indeed. If you have limited rack space you indeed might need a Maths because you have so less space and you need to fully utilise that space by modules that can do tons of things.

However, for myself, I realised that I rather like the approach of having most of the functionalities separated in a per module basis. So EGs in EG modules, attenuators in attenuator modules, logic in logic modules, etcetera (naturally there will be always exceptions to this, this is just generaly speaking). I can then use at any time those EGs or attenuators and/or logic modules in any which way I want without being concerned if that functionality I want to use can be matched somehow in my Maths or if I use too many things parallel it's not going to work out with Maths. I even don't bother to check this with Maths, I straight away start to use a pure EG if I need one or an attenuator if I need one, etcetera.

Having said that last part... I actually do love the both attenuators of the Maths, the main reason I still haven't sold the module and I am using it mainly for that purpose.

Again, I am not saying Maths it bad, it's a good module, especially for users with limited HP space, but if your racks are getting larger, having many functionality in separate modules available... for me... Maths isn't that great, it's good yes, but it isn't great either.

Well that's just my humble opinion, that's all folks ;-) Kind regards, Garfield.

Edit: Rephrased one sentence in a more accurate way.

EDITED Mar 24th 2021, 00:16

Hi ModLifeCrisis,

You had a Telharmonic and you got rid of it? I know that "beast" is difficult to get it under control, if I remember correctly it's Mowse who can do beautiful things with the Telharmonic, keep an eye on his tracks and check out what can be done with the Telharmonic. I recently got a sound out of the Telharmonic that I love, I just need a bit more variation on it and a bit more time to finish it off into a track.

That field where Pippin is running through, that part of the video is lovely to watch, beautiful field and that effect of a rather small dog just jumping into the plants and out of the plants is just pure pleasure to watch and it looks like she enjoyed it as well?!

Well keep up the good work and I look forward in watching your next demo! Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Lugia,

Wow you got there a very nice "modulation, manipulation and logic" extension rack there, interesting idea!

I am kind of interested in that 4ms - QPLFO but I think I am missing a function but perhaps you can help me out? I am looking for an LFO that has a clock input but where the speed can still be regulated in somehow a synced way in correlation with the clock input. Any idea if this exists and if yes, could you please name a few modules that can do that?

I love LFOs but sometimes I wish they can be some how "linked into the rhythm" of the main voice or of the main rhythm.

There are EGs that might go a bit into that direction but I love the more complex LFOs and keep them in sync with the main clock (if it can be divided or multiplied of that clock would be excellent, but no I don't mean a clock multiplier or divider) however I do not mean the "usual" sync or reset input, I want it on a more "global" level to have it be in sync with the clock? Am I asking something impossible?

Stop, stop, stop! ;-) Did you mention there B.2600 as in Behringer - 2600 (that 'Arpy' thing)? Do you have that one already? How is it? Is it as good as most of us were hoping for, or at least not disappointing? I was thinking of waiting for the Blue Marvin version.

Thanks a lot for this brilliant rack! Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Mowse,

Oh wow, thanks for that link, I am now listening at it. Okay, now I understand what you mean :-) Great music indeed!

Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi ModLifeCrisis,

Nice video, even if you didn't manage to match it with the performance ;-) I like the introductions of your videos, nice and informative!

The sound is pretty special, isn't it? Kind of church-organ in b-minor? ;-) And then that how to call it... moaning sound around 9:00 minutes? Beautifully done!

At around 11:00 and the dog at the staircase, is that the same dog? Yours? It looks funny and cute! Is that Pippin? Sorry that you lost him/her :-(

This is how a weekend should end, watching one of your interesting (partly funny too) videos! Thank you very much for sharing this and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Mowse,

Thank you very much for sharing this jam, great! The sound around 03:20, wow, I love that :-)

Great video and it's nice to see you at work, now we know how you do it! ;-) You got a nice setup, lovely to look at it

Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Pavel,

If you want good patch cables, have a look at the Cordial CPI series, here is just one example:

https://www.thomann.de/intl/cordial_cpi_06_zz.htm?sid=841d56e66cd0fc9ee7568c2d778651b8&ref=intl&shp=eyJjb3VudHJ5IjoiZGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6MiwibGFuZ3VhZ2UiOjJ9&reload=1

The do exist in different lengths.

In my opinion they are a bit (too) expensive, so I started to make cables myself but if you look for (real) good cables you might want to consider those. Kind regards, Garfield Modular.

Hi Wishbonebrewery,

Wow, this is great fun! You draw my attention and I landed in my listening chair with this track (the first one). You got some of the percussions nicely positioned in the stereo-field, really nice!

The bass has a real nice punch to it, love it!

Thank you very much for sharing and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Dadodetres,

Thanks a lot for the information on how your setup works, nice & interesting to read.

Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Dadodetres,

I replied already to your jam in the "Modules" section of this Forum. Perhaps a good idea to keep all your jams and videos in this "You" section and not duplicating it elsewhere. See below for my reaction in the "Modules" section.

Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Dadodetres,

Wow, one long nice track + video! Nice goody for the weekend :-) I love that sound you make with the harmonica, subtle yet beautifully done! What kind of microphone or device you use to receive an electronic input from the harmonica towards a mixer?

Thank you very much for sharing this and kind regards, Garfield Modular.

Hi Dadodetres,

Wow, one long nice track + video! Nice goody for the weekend :-) I love that sound you make with the harmonica, subtle yet beautifully done! What kind of microphone or device you use to receive an electronic input from the harmonica towards a mixer?

Thank you very much for sharing this and kind regards, Garfield Modular.

Hi Brunomolteni,

That's a great composition! Adding the keyboard "touch" to it, is a nice element in this music. I feel that the keyboard could sound a bit louder though, it's a bit underwhelmed compared to all the other sounds, other than that, it's great! :-)

Thank you very much for sharing this and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Gabor,

Oh when around 1:00+ those strings or drone kicks in, that sounds great and exciting! :-) Oh and then again that heavy sound around 03:00+, wow! Fantastic music for a serious good film :-)

Nice drone jam, thank you very much for sharing this and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Steve,

He, he, quite funny actually and pretty creative too! It's indeed not entirely my cup of tea however I appreciate the efforts you put in here and it's still fun to listen at.

Thanks a lot for sharing this and kind regards, Garfield.

Indeed, very remarkable!

Hi Gabor,

As always a great video / sound combination, though this time pretty scary this "Knifemother", pfew! Your wife, your daughter? ;-)

Keep up the good work, thanks a lot for sharing and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Sacguy71,

Oh that's a nice mixer from Mackie, I overlooked that ProFX16v3, I would prefer to have that one over my Behringer Xenyx X2442 USB. Anyway, now I am looking into a digital mixer.

Well instead of buying all that sound proofing stuff, why not eat the next few months a few more eggies and use those left over egg crates to glue them against the wall? ;-)

Ha, ha, yeah I heard in your video that the JBLs can be pretty loud! Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Sacguy71,

Congratulations on your new house and new studio space! That's great, looks like you are ready to rumble ;-)

Which Mackie mixer is that, the 1642 VLZ4 or the 1604 VLZ4? He, he, that sound around 13:00+ is fun!

I look forward in seeing more videos when the studio is ready, you have still to setup the tables? Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Sacguy71,

Glad to hear you got now some decent space for your studio gear :-) Studio without gun shots sounds good to me! ;-)

Can't wait for your videos made in your new studio! Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Mog00,

Wow, interesting FM Madness track! The way you combine the rhythm with the melody attracts directly my attention, nicely done!

Thanks a lot for sharing this and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Mowse,

A lovely daydreaming track :-) Some interesting sounds to discover here!

Thank you very much for sharing this and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi ModLifeCrises,

Wow, what a sound you got there! Weird and beautiful at the same time, well done! :-)

Thank you very much for this demo and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Steve,

Oh I love that sound, so much fun to listen at, that (leading) voice!

This is a nice start into the weekend, thanks to you! :-) Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Lugia,

Ha, ha, at almost the exact same time we had the exact same thoughts ;-)

Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Farkas,

Wow you got a very nice rack there! :-) Some great choices of modules. I would love to have that Furthrrrr generator :-)

Sorry, I am a bit confused is this your final rack or is this what you have now and in April you are going to extend it?

I have the A-138m Doepfer Matrix module and I love it, it gives you some great flexibility, so just go for it :-)

With such a rack every weekend must be fantastic, so I wish you just yet another great weekend! Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Artvark,

The Shakmat Modular - SumDif module, just 2 HP, can do this as well. Dual adder and/or subtraction.

Kind regards, Garfield.

Hello ModLifeCrisis,

Thank you very much for the interesting demo. Gives me a good appetite for the Morphagene (again) :-)

Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Jim,

Wow, nice rack! I agree here a bit with Farkas, if you reach a certain size as well as complexity, and your rack size and complexity has reached that I would say, though Lugia took the fantastic effort to still give it a try :-) , then it becomes rather a personal taste how you like to (re-) arrange your modules. It looks fantastic though!

Can't we make your rack stickied on top of this rack forum for beginners? Saying, look, if you consider to start into modular synthesizers, this is about the minimum size to grow towards to otherwise it makes more sense to buy a ready synthesizer instead ;-)

Thanks a lot for sharing this, very interesting and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Mowse,

Sorry, I can't tell if you have been listening a lot to Stellardrone because I don't know what it is or does...?

Anyway, still great and fun to listen at jam you got there! Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Lugia,

"Oh, you mean one of these?: O0YAAOSwQnpezCL2" target="_blank">https://www.ebay.com/itm/Soundcraft-Vi6-digital-mixing-console-mixer-upgraded-w-racks-church-owned/133599376656?hash=item1f1b24b510O0YAAOSwQnpezCL2 ."

Oh yes! That would be something, for 1500 bucks fully functional and in perfect undamaged state ;-) I would say yes, then I clear out the living room, then I wouldn't care any longer what wife or son have to say ;-) Living room will then be the new studio, yeah!

Dreaming is nice... though back in the reality... it's tough to find a good mixer but hey, that's with everything: the perfect synth or perfect sequencer or perfect mixer just doesn't exist, so one almost always ends up with doing concessions. Cheers, Garfield.

Hi Mowse,

Oh, those first few tones, so tense, so nice, I am getting goose-bumps here! It also reminds me a bit of Jean-Michel Jarre's Waiting For Cousteau (original 1990 release), track 2 "Calypso - II" when that starts around 1:00+ minute.

Nicely done Mowse! Thank you very much for sharing this and kind regards, Garfield.

Can't we asked Anna to make one rack (one row will do for this purpose) full with only VCAs and we and Anna should keep that secret from JakoJako. Then when he "surprises" her with the no longer secret rack, she counter-surprises him with a rack full of VCAs and tells him:

"Well you know darling what they say on ModularGrid, you never can have enough VCAs!" :-)

Hi Nickgreenberg,

Yeah fair enough :-) One thing I forgot to mention: I try not to use the computer too much hence I try to avoid the DAW option. In the future I might not exclude it but for the moment I try to "survive without DAW" :-)

I have soon for sales a Behringer 16 channel mixer, nice small and cheap, interested? ;-) Just teasing! Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Lugia and Nickgreenberg,

Lugia: Dewey setup that can hold 2 1/2 TONS per unit. It ain't goin' NOWHERE! --> ha, ha, yeah good one, nobody is walking away with a 200 kg mixer, you don't need to worry about it get stolen or something like that! :-)

Thanks a lot for the BenchPro link, pretty interesting stuff available there!

I don't know how you do it but you just had a look at it and found already here in Germany an Allen & Heath - ML 3000 for me; great! :-)

As I mentioned I have a rather modern house and that's not always a benefit, yes it's good insulated so in the winter you don't need much heating and bla, bla, bla, but the bad thing of modern houses within a reasonable pricing region is that the house and its allocated rooms are pretty small... :-( What I am trying to say is, at my current location in the attic my studio shares my working space and that means there is not much space left. I am thinking of somehow create some space but no matter what I can come up with, I would never have decent (!) space enough for such a beautiful mixer... so I am afraid I need to look more at a modern mixer that's compacter and that's with a digital (smaller) mixer easier to realise.

Having that all said... If now these ML3000s and Five series are available at "dump prices" so to speak... how many years do I need to wait before an Allen & Heath - dLive S7000 or a Soundcraft - Vi7000 becomes available in that reasonable priced region? Both are beautiful modern mixers, bit smaller than their older analogue brothers but unaffordable to me for the moment ;-) Just nice to dream about them. So when would these "digital beasts" be affordable in 10 years time (perhaps that's something I can wait for) or would that take longer? :-(

Nickgreenberg: Well, at least for me, isn't it allowed to dream a bit ahead of what is affordable either price-wise or weight-wise or size-wise? At least the latter two are an issue for my current house and non-available space ;-)

You asked: Do you want / need a ton of analog mix channels? Well, that's actually the point I guess... Do I need it ... no most probably not... do I want it ... most probably yes! :-)

On the other hand, you know the "drill" and motto here of this modulargrid.net website, right? You never can have enough VCAs! In that same pattern, at least in my opinion, you never can have enough inputs and outputs on a mixer (or on any device)...

It's the same for a Eurorack, it can never be too big, it only can be too small ;-)

Both: He, he, funny and nice discussion and I hope you allow me to dream a bit ;-) Thank you and kind regards, Garfield.

Hi TumeniKnobs,

Oh this is fantastic, you are not only making great music, you "deliver a great music service" as well, meaning you updated it! :-) Superb!

The birds sound now even nicer, clearer, all-in-all it sounds as if you got your mix in pretty nice shape now, beautifully done!

Your birds sound really lovely, nice singing tones really. I got at the side of my house regularly meetings held by 50 or 100 sparrows (and sparrows only), making tons of noise but whatever they discuss during their meetings, it's not that nice singing concert stuff your birds are capable of! :-)

Beautiful and thank you very much! Kind regards, Garfield.