but, i would really like yall to answer this:
"could you make music on this if all you had was patch-through cables? use imagination."
i just like designing stuff. i think you could make really unique live performances etc.
peace
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but, i would really like yall to answer this:
"could you make music on this if all you had was patch-through cables? use imagination."
i just like designing stuff. i think you could make really unique live performances etc.
peace
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why is that, noodlehut, because you dont understand what the modules do, they dont fit your style, or because you think this is a flawed arrangement? im curious. etc. ... ...
I don't have any of those modules so I don't understand what they do right now,
but I'm sure they are learnable and can all do something interesting.
A lot of those things in your design aren't available anymore.
And sure, you can play a simple oscillator like a penny whistle and make music.
But filling a box with random complex modules does not make it a performant instrument.
A car with some impressive engines, but no wheels, no gas tank, no transmission, no seats.
How are you going to mix those audio sources? Coordinate the clocks they want? Blend CVs?
There's several stereo modules, but no way to fully mix them and use the functionallity you would be paying for.
What signals are you willing to throw away going from stereo down to mono filters and wavefolders?
Monophonic and/or polyphonic? Stereo and/or mono? End-to-end stereo is expensive to run and always a pain to plan around.
Many of those modules want to be fed envelopes, but in that pic I can't see many envelope generators or LFOs.
There's too many sequencers, with too few voices for them to feed. Maybe pick two at the most.
And again, with the kind of music I think you have in mind, you have to think about your clocks.
They're everything. Will you need clock dividers/multipliers? What's going to be the usual master clock?
Don't forget, you'll also need a distributed shared reset for the sequencers and counters to establish sync on start.
Also, you have to imagine it with patch cords draped all over it, in a live setting, with challenging lighting.
This one seems a mess.
Redo that whole top row. You can't get those 5 voice modules anyway.
Might as well just use a Rossum Assimil8tor or ALM Salmple for drum duties.
But I do like the Moog follower/filter, that's my favorite thing in the rack.
That, and the SIG module above it.
I have a couple of SIG things and their modules are unique and thought provoking.
If this had to be built and made to work, I'd dump that keyboard and fill the space with a NerdSeq and their added I/O.
And an output mixer.
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thank you for the detailed reply. my previous designs put a lot of effort into cable sensibility and mixing. this time i thought i would just have fun and hard mix everything with patch-throughs. im thinking, a pattern on the first trigger sequencer could be the clock for the second, creating really wild patterns, and other related possible patches. also thinking about running 4 sequence type modules un synched. i dont know anything about triggering resets for performance. yeah, i admit that there are a lack of cv options. its not really even about building this exactly. its maybe more about designing something more standalone that can do the very best of the potential that collection implies, etc. ... ...
im out. bye. ...
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and yeah, i now see that there is no envelope for the swarm, but its really meant more to be a drone kind of thing, anyway, and imho there is the right amount of sequencing, as first two triggers work synergistically, and the swarm could be controlled by the stranger and keyboard simultaneously as a kind of hybrid patch. not sure why you brought up the nerdseq.
((peace))
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(((second edit)))
ok, maybe 4 un synched sequencers and a keyboard is a bit of madness, but i really think you could get some extraordinary results by combining the 1st 2 trigger sequencers in off label ways, and i swear that there does exist a well clocked version that you can still work around, maybe the brainstep being the master clock and then connect everything with patch-throughs...
((((this is my funky patch-through design.))))
peace.