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@Pioneer123
Sounds great! What's that Rhodes-like sound you're playing on the KeyStep — is it the Oxi Coral?
-- modular01

I did try to get the Oxi to make that kind of sound but couldnt do it well enough so ended up with one of the sequences being handled by Oxi (fed from Turing Machine) and then I just used an electric paino plug in in Logic Pro

https://murandevices.gumroad.com/l/MULTISUB

Behringer model D

thanks for your feedback!

ill be on the lookout for a different filter from the ALM MCF now. same thing goes for the new CV to MIDI output module that fits within the hp.

In regards to the question about what needs to be clocked by midi besides Pams, i was thinking i could send midi notes from my digitakt 2 through the mutant brain to transpose sequences in the mother 32, while also maybe sending other midi note sequences to to a secondary voice like the VCO2 fron Erica. those are the only two instances i can think of since the envelopes qould be covered by Pams.

thanks for your feedback though, good to know im going in the right direction

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Thanks to @Am_Zon for sending me a beautiful, creative, and very well-preserved ALM Akemie’s Taiko, complete with its original packaging. Really appreciated!

@Pioneer123
Sounds great! What's that Rhodes-like sound you're playing on the KeyStep — is it the Oxi Coral?

Here is an example that I have noticed recently and strikes me as egregious:

ZOOM LiveTrak L6max

https://modulargrid.net/e/other-unknown-zoom-livetrak-l6max

Even if someone manages to fit an object into a Eurorack case with brackets, it is a stretch to include this as a module entry.

I don't know if the moderators have the time or inclination to deal with situations like this, but in some instances, an entry in one of the modular synthesis format planners is not a module.

I wouldn't recommend more voices. 3 in a system like this is plenty, and havimg enough modulation to move them around is arguably much more important in this format for getting full and complex arrangements. If anything, this is a good reason to keep Maths anyway: if you set one or both sides to cycle and turn the rise and fall way down, they will go at audio rate and function as oscillators. You can have then function normally by using the Both input as your pitch input. You can also have some weird, pitch affected waveshaping by putting the pitch information into just the Rise or Fall input.

All the modulation you can fit in this case is good, and Maths is a versatile module that can cover a lot of ground. Pam's is a good inclusion, too, but the clocked nature of it means you'll want another more free-running, hands-on module to complement it. The logic and mixing elements will also help for making interesting hybrids of these elements. There are other options for complex modulation modules that potentially take up less space (Xaoc Zadar, Intellijel Quadrax, Mutable Peaks, Vostok Fuji), so this is also an option, but Maths can do a bunch of things these can't (like be an oscillator or envelope follower) and is probably more fun in this context.

There are two MIDI input modules here. mmMidi does not do MIDI out. Just MIDI in. You'll need something that explicitly does CV to MIDI conversion. Alternately, you can just use Pam's with its MIDI expander that has a MIDI out, but that will limit you to what you can get out of Pam's (not that this is all that limited). Don't forget that the Arbhar has an expander that allows for polyphonic MIDI input as well. You may not need as much direct MIDI to CV conversion as you think. What else needs to be clocked via MIDI aside from Pam's?

The ALM MCF is pretty much only available in the System Coupe amd doesn't appear to be around anymore. Unless you found one ypu can buy or you already have one, you may need another filter.

Otherwise it all looks fine to me. I'm a big fan of the Aurora, especially because it also has alternate firmware for a slightly more conventional reverb based on FDN, so it can be both its beautiful weird self or a more traditional sounding reverb with modulation if you find yourself needing that in the rack but not wanting to buy a whole other reverb. The Intellijel VCA is a classic and a good call. I'm not crazy about output modules in the rack, and there are 0hp options (I have a nice one from Herzlich labs), but if you think having one in there will help, I say go for it.

If you need more space, don't be afraid to put the Mother-32 back in its own case. It seems like a good balance to me for now (you don't need much to get a Moog, a granular synth, and another oscillator to form a full arrangement), but temptation is always there and you do have some wiggle room if something comes up.

hi,
this is my first attempt at designing a eurorack setup around a mother 32. my idea is to have a versitle setup that can do both ambient and techno music, which i can then use to make audio reactive artworks in touchdesigner, hense the uMidi output module. im also sequencing from a digitakt 2 for program changes and midi notes to the M32. i was thinking i could use the mutant brain to send other midi configuratjons from the digitakt 2 to other components in the rack like clocking pams.
i have a few questions:
- do i need more voices? at the moment i have the M32, the erica synths VCO2, and the arhbar for gradular sampling
- is there a better way to handle midi input from the digitakt 2? at the moment i have two midi inputs which seems a bit redundant.
- if i have pams, do i need maths? i know Pams can send out alot of clocked envelopes, LFOs, so it's handy for modulation, but if i only need pams, could i replace maths with another voice?
- my other option for a voice instead of the erica synths VCO2 is the dixie 2 from intelijel

any suggestions or feedback is grealty appreciated! :)

I just submitted a few more modules that I have been working on this year. Almost all are available (very limited for now) in my store at trillingsynths.com. Except for FLIP; coming soon!
Let me know what you think about these, anything you would use?

https://www.stochasticinstruments.com/product-page/strange-r-bighat-studio

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the sliders control an AR/AD curve. one for each channel. it goes from short attack/short decay via medium a/medium d to long a/no decay. serves as attenuator for cv. there's a graph in the manual: https://www.flame-instruments.de/pdf/Manual_Flame_X4_module_v100_eng.pdf

A YouTube video with a working system:

This is a dead thread but because the question was never properly answered:

Each power bus/ribbon cable on the uZeus (or any Eurorack power supply) contains wires carrying all of 0V/GND, 5V, 12V, and -12V. This is what TipTop meant when you asked which bus to use: Either one, because both buses contain all of these voltages. There isn't a "positive" and "negative" bus in that way. Sometimes people may refer to any one of the voltage supplies within the ribbon cable as a bus, which is reasonable if you're drawing up a schematic for a single module, but less so if you're connecting multiple modules in a case. Personally, I'd use "Power Bus" to refer to the entire ribbon cable's worth of power supplies.

It is important to always connect your modules to the ribbon cable correctly: There should be some indication which side of the module's power connector lines up with the red wire on the ribbon cable (which indicates the -12V side of the ribbon). If not, call the manufacturer and chastise them for not making that clear.

A common use case for the -12V supply is amplifiers: if you want to amplify a signal that goes below 0V, it's helpful to have a negative-voltage power supply to make that happen. This could mean VCA modules, or just op-amp components (which appear in almost any analog circuitry).

EDITED Friday September 26, 14:57

Thank you for watching again!

Very cool and clever stuff, as always!

Thank you for sharing!!

Some ideas for using a touch-sensitive controller with a wavefolder. Plus some tips for creating non-diatonic melodies.
Patch notes included.

https://hivemindsynthesis.com/shop/p/etch-8hp-eurorack-granular-delay-bitcrush-filter-and-quantizer-module-m4tm-modular-for-the-masses

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Excellent! Thank you for sharing!

Hello everyone. Me with my band just released a new album composed with modular synths and hand made sound objects with our field recordings. Be free to check it. Hope you will like!

Gamardah Fungus ‘Trees and Roots‘
https://gamardahfungus.bandcamp.com/album/trees-and-roots

Has anyone noticed the feedback drifting off sync with the clock very quickly? I can even hear it with shorter feedback lengths, but using it as a quick and dirty looper is impossible the way it's behaving right now. I expect some drift over a while but this is right away. I've tried 4 different clock sources with the same result except of of them is a sequenced gate from T1 and in that case the feedback drifts behind, otherwise it always drifts ahead. Tell me this is normal and I'll sell it for a more stable solution, but I really hope there's something I'm missing because i like what this module can do.

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I made a new song that I want to share ^_^

Somewhat Random by megoth

This started with a lucky accident with the Collide 4 and Rainmaker, with a bit of random goodness from the OCHD extension. I cranked it up with Ghost and added a bunch of reverb to it, and it resulted in a semi-random white-noise-clickity sound.

I paired this with a Equator2, a soft-synth, that I fed a generative sequence from Oxi One. On top of this came another semi-random sequence, fueling the Oxi Coral.

To back all of this randomness up I added a couple of bass presets from Equator2 and Serum 2.

It was a fun little thing to make, hope you enjoy ^_^

FYI : new batch in October 2025 ;)

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Thanks for that. I'll also mention that I have both an external mixer and sequencer.

Very much looking forward to this.
What wavetable format will it support?
Can it morph between or warp wavetables?
What is the select bus used for?
Any updates on a release date?

thanks

EDITED Sep 16th, 00:12

Well I have three oscillators plus noise and the granular/sampler to create sounds. Im primarily using the CVilization as a matrix mixer. While I'm open to ideas in things to add in my open space, I'm mostly interested in arrangement/ordering advice.

There's a lot of modules to chew up audio, but not many to feed them.

Think about those stereo modules in the signal chain you have in mind, and mixing.
Will you be using them in stereo, or discarding half, and when?

Is Pam's the usual clock for the other clocked modules?
Will you need a distributed reset to start and stop them in sync?
More active mults can share those expensive-to-generate signals.

Sometimes, it simplifies to think in essential pairs of modules that compliment each other,
and then think of those pairs as a single unit as you're building up.

Today I tried something new with my Intellijel Multigrain and Sealegs. I sampled my singing voice into the Multigrain, used the quantizer for harmony, and explored the A/B slider to morph between two different setups.
Then I patched it into Sealegs for delay, reverb, and even used the noise knob as a rhythmic tool. A simple patch, but it turned into something that felt like playing an instrument.

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What makes you say that you are not happy with the current arrangement?

Your post made me laugh a bit, because I also was trying to have all the bottom jacks top row and top jacks bottom row. And I think I also spot another sin that I am guilty of: trying to keep all the modules in black and aluminium separated.

My tip would be to try to not care about the colours and the jack positions because you will always find some other module that does not fit your curated layout.

I now try to follow the usual signal path. In your case I would have Pamela Workout all the way on the left and work my way through oscillators, envelopes, LFO, Mult, filters, VCA, effects. That's ususally how it would be on a normal keyboard synthesizer like Juno etc.

If you're scared about the cables being in the way of your controls, I find that if you layout in a way that your favourite playable knobs (for me: filter cut off) are always ready and able you will be fine with it.
-- stefvanriet

Funny enough the color separation was just a happy accident! I'll try reworking it with your advice in mind.

What makes you say that you are not happy with the current arrangement?

Your post made me laugh a bit, because I also was trying to have all the bottom jacks top row and top jacks bottom row. And I think I also spot another sin that I am guilty of: trying to keep all the modules in black and aluminium separated.

My tip would be to try to not care about the colours and the jack positions because you will always find some other module that does not fit your curated layout.

I now try to follow the usual signal path. In your case I would have Pamela Workout all the way on the left and work my way through oscillators, envelopes, LFO, Mult, filters, VCA, effects. That's ususally how it would be on a normal keyboard synthesizer like Juno etc.

If you're scared about the cables being in the way of your controls, I find that if you layout in a way that your favourite playable knobs (for me: filter cut off) are always ready and able you will be fine with it.

EDITED Sep 15th, 16:35

I'm struggling to come up with an arrangement for modules in my case that I'm happy with, and was wondering how others here would approach it. So far I've been trying to keep modules with bottom jacks in the top row and vice versa to minimize controls being covered, but maybe that's a futile effort. I'd love to hear any ideas you might have.

Some feature is missing? Post your idea.
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I think a very welcome quality of life improvement would be adding bulk CRUD to the inbox and outbox. Having to delete manually hundreds of conversations and having each new message within a conversation appear as an indipendent entity, and the everpresent RERERERE:RE... (you get my point) makes one lose track of things very quickly.

Needs mults.

and there it is.

I'm sorry, but I see nothing to "reform" and no sign of "mindless buffoonery." This is a phrase that has existed for 80 odd years and is completely independent of the events of this past week. It arose from a time when most of the Euro/American west actually opposed fascism, and ought not be an edgy sentiment. This has been printed on circuit boards a la Woody Guthrie's guitar and I see no reason why the practice ought to stop. In no way do I condone violence, I see it as an outward symbolic reminder that we all ought to do our part to stand up to fascist tendencies and maintain our individual and collective rights. I'm off my soap box now.

I hope he has reformed his ways. We don't need this sort of mindless bufoonery in our forum. At least I hope not.

Ahhh, ok.
I looked on Thonk earlier but couldn't spot anything.

probably was tom whitwell from music thing modular who make this version of the phrase.

i remember back in the day, thonk sells stickers with the phrase

I've just done a bit of googling to understand where 'This Machine Kills Fascists' this came from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_machine_kills_fascists I never knew its inceprion was based in 2nd World War efforts, obvious when you think abaout it.

But who was the first Modular Maker to start putting it on their PCBs?

what do the sliders control? the manual just says "sliders"
is it one slider for each input? if so, what 1 parameter does it change.
is it 4 sliders that control all 4 inputs... again, what 4 parameters would be controlled?

Yes, this setup really exists, and I’m super happy with it in combination with the additional control rack :)
The only thing I haven’t installed yet is the second ‘OUT’ module, but I’m wondering whether I really need it or maybe something else instead?

EDITED Sep 13th, 13:18