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I think QPLFO is DIY only now - Exploding Shed just got them in - so still available - you just have to build it or find someone to build it for you!

@RichardDevine

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one very interested in looking what you are doing these days with the Flux sequencer

Probably don't remember this:

I would like to move the effect module Stasis Leak in another old Doepfer LC3 1 row case with somethings else (other effects and a module drum). I was thinking of filling those 6 hp with a simple oscillator to mix with the Complex, (I can recover another 2 hp moving ENVF to the third row because for now I haven't used yet - with volca beats?).
Do you think this is a good idea? Are there better ways to fill that possible space?
I control this rack with a keystep pro.

EDITED Mar 27th 2021, 07:45

Hmmm...that's a shame, as it was sort of unique in that you had four independent LFOs, each under their own "tap tempo" via the "ping". However, the Mutable Tides shares some of this, and Ginko has their TTLFO which pretty much replicates a single section of the QPLFO. But losing a four-in-one like that...not good.

My Rack :) What do you think?

Hi Garfield. Maybe check out the Erica Octasource? That is the LFO module that has interested me.

Smooth and perfect transaction with @cv_hate ! I only can recommend him. Enjoy ambient and Panharmonium ! Best

I saw you'd started to make some of Jim's suggested changes and I had 5 minutes so I took a crack at this:

Quick thoughts:
1) Serge Wave Multiplier >>>>>>>>> Serge Wave Shaper, stick with the former (I noticed it had fallen out of the rack)
2) I like my DUSG but would probably take a second Maths over it so I swapped em here (and also switched to the white knobs which is what seems to be available).
3) Added a Links on top of your Kinks and dropped the various buffered mults as you can get stack cables and mostly be ok.
4) Disting rules, added one here.
5) Added an MCO because a digital oscillator would be a nice change of pace here and it does a lot.
6) Swapped the Doepfer matrix mixer with a 4MS VCA Matrix since you have a lot of CV sources. FWIW I don't actually love this module but I think it's my fault since I try to keep my racks focused and it's pretty big, but I think it could shine for you here.
7) Zadar + Nin rule, added them here as both envelope generators and as long running control sources for ambient.
8) Added the NCOM you had outside the rack cause it rules super hard, great fat suboscillator sounds and useful for utility stuff too.
9) Dropped in a Scales so you can forget about sequencing sometimes and do some CV driven generative stuff.
10) Added an Intellijel Unity mixer in 2Hp for both CV (fun!) and audio mixing.
11) Dropped the Extended ADSR since we added a Zadar.
12) Added a Ladik folding LFO, very cool module.
13) Added an OCHD, big fav of mine and will free up your Maths for example from driving long running LFOs.
14) Added a 4MS Rotating Clock to drive periodic changes around the system as your base clock keeps ticking.
15) Added another switch by 2HP.
15) Not totally sold on this idea just yet, but I dropped the HexMix VCA for a Jumble Henge. You already have a good number of VCAs and attenuators, and while more generally doesn't hurt Jumble Henge (or Soundstage) help clarify a mix a lot without you having to fiddle with it too much, not to mention something like the VCA Matrix and the XPan into a Jumble Henge open up a lot of interesting possibilities.

Hope this provides some ideas and insight, let us know where you end up!

EDITED Mar 26th 2021, 15:10

Digging this!

Thank you both! Beads is such a great module.

sound terrifying and awesome!
-- Lugia

Haha, don't play this when your Kids are near. They never sleep again.

That's sound really scary

Many thanks to @ezra , I just got a module from him, smart communication great transaction and very nice person!!!

Thanks to @Robocoder, who sold me an assimil8or in perfect shape and updated (ok i should have been able to do that myself).
It was a really smooth transaction, and communication !

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.

Very cool!

It might seem finished, but remember: the minute a modular synth user actually DOES complete a system is the minute that the Earth falls into the Sun. This stuff is NEVER finished...

also thought about looking into modules for adding "randomness"again preferrable smaller modules,without getting to cluttered,but in this regard im abit in the dark
-- Broken-Form

Look into random signal modules that offer multiple functions. For example, Verbos's Random Sampling module. Sure, it's $500...but in its 18 hp, you get a multicolor noise gen, the essentials of the Buchla "Source of Uncertainty", a four-stage analog shift register that can also function as a quad sample and hold, and probably one or two other things that surface once you start screwing around with it. So, it SEEMS expensive, but you'd pay about the same amount (or more) for these devices separately, and they'd take up way more space.

Also, keep an eye out for "abuse potential". Example: modules such as Euclidean sequencers don't have to be sequencers; using them as quasi-random clock modulators is equally valid, and they can be VERY worthwhile for jazzing up your timing signals.

Have to agree with Jim here...there's a lot of audio modules present, but your modulation sources and modules to manipulate them with are pretty lacking here. F'rinstance, the DUSG is quite cool and all...but let's say you need to send an inverted output AND a normal one to two different destinations. Can't do that without attenuverters or polarizers, and I don't see any here. That's just one example; there's plenty of others.

Einstuggy makes anything sound terrifying and awesome!

Hi Ivo,awesome music.
how are you finding the tetrapad-tete combo for control?

i need to build a row in my modular for control/live manipulation,and the tetrapad-tete combo have been recommended to me,im mostly doing Dark Ambient stuff
-- Broken-Form

Thanks! I appreciate it.

I can't recommend the Tete/Tetra combo enough - I have two pairs in my system (still waiting on the second Tete to arrive after three months of waiting haha). It has so many modes that I could even see a third, so that I can have all three modes running at once. That said, the Combo mode is where it's at because you can essentially have 4 channels of whatever you want (i.e. one channel can be an LFO, another can be a sequencer, another a fader, etc.). Anyway yes, if you're looking for tactile control, look no further.

-- IvoIvanov

Awesome,gonna put them on my to buy list:)

famous last words...

do you really need both midi and a sequencer?

if so I would consider an external midi -> cv solution and a bigger sequencer (with fewer channels) for ergonomics mainly

if you only need midi clock then there are expanders for Pams that will do this in 2-4hp

remember to buy stackcables or headphone splitters

make the rack public and post a link to the rack (copy and paste the url here) not to a jpg - no click through or infomatics on jpgs - they really help us help you as there are thousands of modules!

a delay would be useful - consider an fx aid xl - it'll add delays, more 'normal' reverbs, lofi, phasers etc - definitely good for all stated genres - make sure to get the xl it has more modulation inputs and better ergonomics than the standard version

a matrix mixer for mixing bits of modulation together to generate more interesting modulation - I like the doepfer (as it has full size knobs and space and is inexpensive) - but the instruo lion looks interesting

stackcables (or another passive mult) - for utilizing the matrix mixer and still having the original modulation available

a basic starter set of utilities - links, kinks and shades will add a lot for not that much cash - other modules that do similar things are available - wmd/ssf toolbox covers a lot of ground too

I'd want 50% of this size of a case to be modulation and utilities for manipulating it...

Hi Ivo,awesome music.
how are you finding the tetrapad-tete combo for control?

i need to build a row in my modular for control/live manipulation,and the tetrapad-tete combo have been recommended to me,im mostly doing Dark Ambient stuff
-- Broken-Form

Thanks! I appreciate it.

I can't recommend the Tete/Tetra combo enough - I have two pairs in my system (still waiting on the second Tete to arrive after three months of waiting haha). It has so many modes that I could even see a third, so that I can have all three modes running at once. That said, the Combo mode is where it's at because you can essentially have 4 channels of whatever you want (i.e. one channel can be an LFO, another can be a sequencer, another a fader, etc.). Anyway yes, if you're looking for tactile control, look no further.

I think its finished... finally...

Gracias amigo!

Here's a goof - Plumbutter and double Double Knots providing drums/percussion, the Plumbutter is running through Beads for simulated snare and kick drum improvisation. Then I overdubbed my Mother-32 through various effects, including the Fairfield Circuitry Randy's Revenge and Malekko Charlie Foxtrot, and concluded with some upright bass. There is no art to this, just fun.

Hey all !

I'm actually planning my future full rack on modulargrid and wondering what do you think about it, what's missing etc
I'm doing ambiant, drones, berlin school and krautrock stuff.

Actually i have all these modules:

RS 95N, Twin peak Epoch modular, STO, NTO, Pamela, Variable Slope VCF, Triple+ Waveshaper, Maths, Erbe Verbe, Intellijel Quad VCA, Eloquencer, Quadrax, Hexmix VCA, 4ms listen four quarters, 4ms passive mult and AI001 mult.

I also have a Grandmother and a Mfb Dominion 1 who can interact with the modular.

Thanks !

EDITED Mar 25th 2021, 19:12

A virtuosity at the service of an instrument in its own right, modular synth. One can also discover an extraordinary piece by the same composer 'Compression Music (part 5)' on Vimeo, YouTube, or SoundCloud. Bravo and respect, Sir!

it's never too late to learn!

FYI like all befaco modules - the joystick is available in DIY too - I built mine from a kit - it was reasonably straightforward iirc - a little bit of wiring for the joystick was the most difficult part
-- JimHowell1970

im affraid im not a DIY guy

FYI like all befaco modules - the joystick is available in DIY too - I built mine from a kit - it was reasonably straightforward iirc - a little bit of wiring for the joystick was the most difficult part

think i will try out the befaco joystick,

also thought about looking into modules for adding "randomness"again preferrable smaller modules,without getting to cluttered,but in this regard im abit in the dark

EDITED Mar 25th 2021, 06:45

Nice one!

Hi Ivo,awesome music.
how are you finding the tetrapad-tete combo for control?

i need to build a row in my modular for control/live manipulation,and the tetrapad-tete combo have been recommended to me,im mostly doing Dark Ambient stuff

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.

Collapsing new Blixa

Blixa Bargeld thru the new delay engine on the Mannequins W/ (available with the new beta fw).
Details in the video.

Thank you!

Oh mighty Modular-cat
Keeper of stereophonic balance

Bless the Kitty and His annoyance
Bless the coming and going (and coming and going and coming and going and coming and going and...)
May His warnings cleanse your rack build...

(with absolutely no apologies to the late Frank Herbert)

EDITED Mar 24th 2021, 18:36

just recieved my 2 LPG ver 2 yesterday:)

Just a quick follow up note on this - I reserved one at Sweetwater and originally got a shipping estimate of "late March". I checked in with them yesterday and the new estimate is "early May". So it's quite delayed.

As noted in my original post I have been searching all over the globe for a Rene Mk2 and low-and-behold I found one on Reverb this morning and bought it, so I think I will be canceling my SQ-64 pre-order. Super excited for the Rene! Now if I can find a Bionic Lester Mk III...

Cheers.

Haha that's nice. Like a Modular DJ :-)

damn shame about those narcissistic priorities of his...

-- Lugia

Got a good chuckle out of this one

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

realy easy accasabil Modul you will have fun to use it !

Hi at all,
I have noticed an annoying background noise at high volumes on my system that disappears if I unplug the Stasis Leak from the patch (it is 5 months since I completed the system and now I notice this noise but it has probably always existed).
I have checked the module and I have noticed the detail that I show you in red circled.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/13yv8ys0ls76twh/stasis.png?dl=0
I weld a bridge with a piece of wire to restore the line but nothing has changed and I'm not sure it's a defect, it could also be wanted by manufacturer since in the assembly videos nothing is soldered on those two pins (in my preassembled there is a resistor or something similar that I cannot see well because it is hidden by the front panel).
Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve or this already happened?
Thanks
FB