the hapax goes trough the hermod+ and the xp32 .
the hapax goes trough the hermod+ and the xp32 .
My 2 cents:
Having a moog system myself composed of 2 dfams, subharmonicon and a labyrinth, I am prone to saying that the fun with those synths is the hands on approach with the sequencers. If you say you also have an hapax, I think this system is way too "oversequenced" and I think will get unusuable rather quickly. Unless you leave everything always patched, that's a preference.
For example, I would get rid of the erica synths modules. I find 2 DFAMS to be plenty drums for any scenarios. Ofc that depends if you use them as percussion synths. I guess the hermod+ is to have more cv gate outs from the hapax. Maybe you could do with a regular midi to cv converter, save some money and some hp. The metropolix is a bit different: my purist taste would also get rid of it in order to prioritize the sequencers that are already present, but I can imagine that using it would open up the other modules in unexpected ways... mumble mumble.
The godfather is also up for questions. It took me 10 years to understand that I cannot have modules with screens/menus in my system. Whenever I get to patch them, my balls drop to the floor and I want to quit. Every patch reaches a bottleneck there eventually. But some fx are indeed mandatory... another mumble mumble
If I were you, I would build a second version of this, maintaining only the moog semimodulars, or whatever module you consider is a must, and from there incorporate utilities, mixers, vca, modulations, anything that helps you extract all the potential from your must haves. As it is, this to me seems more like a colletion of modules than a single instrument, if you get what I mean.
These are speculative thoughts. It'd be neat if...
With those five Moog spots on the left, it needs some sort of switching/modulation spine down its center.
That nice commonality of having that familiy of modules, and their shared i/o design, gets tossed away to the right side.
And if you got 'em, you're gonna use 'em, so there will always be a Moogy cable thicket right down the middle.
Don't know what that magic cross-modulation-spine device module set controller would be,
other than expensive, probably. Does somebody make that?
Idea that I'm too lazy to do.
If M=Moog and O=other stuff, instead of the current:
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try interweaving them so more can play along, up down, side to side
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Spectravox is such a specialized tool, It's hungry in a rack, both for the space and the i/o it can do.
For me, it shines as a solo voice, and it's subtle and delicate, but easily buried in other synth sounds.
I'm thinking of it more as a 84hp outboard with some i/o to help it.
So it you wanted to move that way more fun Labyrinth over....
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the reason that its "over" build like this its build as a live improv gig .
the set can evolve in any direction without running out ideas
i can play this for hours
I like to live patch / program / tweak things when needed .so i need a lot of patch/cv/gate points.
and because i dont have the time to menu scrol. everything needs to be layed out for easy access.
the system is organised as folowed :
kick and rumble : dfam + ericasynth "pico"
percusion/drums : dfam + ericasynth
bas : mother32
pads : subhamonicon + spectravox weirdnes
plucks : labyrinth +metropolix for extra flavor mod and sequencing chaos
textures/sampler : multigrain out of this world
effects : the godfather ,powerhouse multi send effect from de wmd mixers. the effects are top notch.
and last but definetly not the least
the oxi meta-fx for that instant sparkel
and offcours hapax controles all and hermod+ with the xp32 for distrubution
I use everything in this setup
Have you actually tried it? If it works for you then perfect, but if it's just a collection of pixels on a screen the actual playability remains a mistery i think
its an active en working system .
the only thing that was a chalenge .
is the placement of the modules in the rig
i kept moving them . due to the cable managment .splitting the rig up in two mixers was the anser to my problem .doing it virtualy saved me time .