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if you fancy something at a good price and DIY then try
https://www.modulargrid.net/e/ai-synthesis-ai008-eurorack-matrix-mixer
Good for signal routing, modulation, effects sends etc

Live streaming now

Set up so it has quite a large loop which subtly varies, I need more VCAs!

What do the 4x CV inputs do? is it one for each pot?

Is the the Drum Out just like it says then the Audio out is everything else without the kick?

Well, I for one would be nowhere if it wasn't for the helpful YT videos of Mylar.Melodies, DivKid, Ricky Tinez, Red means Recording, Molten Modular, and that Calm Swedish guy who's name currently eludes me etc etc.
Having someone visually showing you on a YT video or demoing a Module, creative patching or even coming back to a comment you might make on their YT has been invaluable to me.
For me its about gleaning bits of knowledge, from the ordering of modules to learning what sounds I want, patch walk through's, learning what I don't want.

As I've said before though, my main driver in all this is FUN, my own personal entertainment.

Maybe I don't read too deeply into what I'm watching, I would think that would put me in the 'General viewer category'.

When I have the time and space to set up more elegantly I'll be 'Set Dressing' in my own ironic way, I'll be taking the Pi55 out of myself and all of YT, I'll be dressing it up with Post-it notes saying things like 'Succulent plant' 'spare cables' 'small skull' 'piece of bone' 'plastic dinosaur' 'coffee' 'Lego character' whatever ;-)

Yeah I did that, got to the paypal payment and couldn't see anywhere to paste the code.

Not to worry, I've already spent enough on Christmas!

I'm assuming that is on specific products as there is nowhere to put the code on my basket.

I quite fancy one of these sometime https://www.modulargrid.net/e/ladik-e-480 fingers crossed your delivery arrives.

-- nickgreenberg

How would you mount the perforated aluminum to your rails? There's no guarantee that any of the holes will line up or be big enough to pass the threads of a screw through.

I wouldn't use sheers as they will probably curl your aluminum. Sheers (aircraft sheers are best) only make sense for rough cuts in my opinion. I'd use a small hacksaw. You can clean up your cuts using a deburring tool. Just do a search on Amazon for one.

-- Ronin1973

If using perforated aluminium:
You would have to Buy some Round Needle Files to open out or Slot the appropriate perforations.

Snips - Yeah bad idea, as said it will curl the metal, especially so with small parts like this.

Hacksaw - you are going to have to be very careful and accurate or it will look like a dogs dinner, you need a large Flat File rather than a deburring tool, to smooth and straighten the edges. You may also find you will need a Bench Vice to you can appropriately hold the piece of metal so you can square off and make parallel.

Personally, I'd just wait and buy something made by someone else, Eurorack looks nice and I wouldn't spoil it by making something in my garage that would look like a bag of Sh**..... I'm a Mechanical Engineer (for years, before I was a brewer).

If you want to get technical, the Aluminium Blanks from Thonk - You can see the sheer and break-away on the edges, this shows its been stamped out, the initial stampings (Holes & Outside edge) will bend the material, a subsequent stage of the Power-Press will planish (Flatten) the Blank, there will still be sharp edges so I could guess the parts are then tumbled or shot blasted to de-burr. I literally used to make the tools that made things like this.

EDITED Dec 9th 2021, 07:58

This is something I keep thinking about too, something in maybe 3 and 4hp, so you can get a bit of air flow with a couple at the bottom and a couple at the top. Electronics do last better when kept cool don't they?
I'm sure I could make my own but I'm not sure it would end up looking very tidy marked out and drilled by hand!

I'd really like to see something like the:
https://www.modulargrid.net/e/soundforce-s-909
but with a Teensy like the:
https://www.modulargrid.net/e/music-thing-modular-radio-music

It looks like its possible from this:

There are a number of sampler player modules but nothing thats really DIY and for Drums / Percussion / 1-shots.

Like having say 4 to 6 Radio Music in a row and all you have to do is hit them with a trigger for them to fire off their set sample.

It currently looks like you have to go for a Rample
https://www.modulargrid.net/e/squarp-instruments-rample
or a Squid Salmple
https://www.modulargrid.net/e/alm-busy-circuits-alm022-squid-salmple

I was very tempted by the Shakmat Clock O Pawn, cool that you can stop it but its still counting so when you start it again you are still on beat.

And with a bit of re-patching I liberated 3 more Pams Outs that were just shooting a regular clock.

Then realised....

I have 'Pams'

!

He was really interesting to listen to on the Mylar.Melodies Podcast too

Though back in the day Surgeon wasn't my listening of choice, thats got nothing to do with Talent or Creativity of course.

Nice :)

I've been following on YT, listened through them all yesterday :) Good stuff!
Session 008 was mega restrained, I've not got that restraint!

Thanks a lot Garfield.
I think you have earned a break with all your kind words and time spent listening to people's music on MG :)

*Edit, there are a couple of new photos here https://www.wishbonebrewery.co.uk/2021/11/28/the-conflict-within/ though the writing is about business stuff.

EDITED Nov 28th 2021, 11:50

Thanks for that :) I've been pulling this together for a week or so, from the fairly random noise and filter ping effects to working on the beats and getting away from the 4-on-the-floor structure I too easily drop into, then figuring out places in the rack I could 'perform' with it. I think I managed to give it a beginning and an end and the annoying middle-fake-end ;-)

Its an evolution from the controlling a patch with noise, obviously this is clocked for the beats, bass and Synth wash that comes from the Chainsaw heading through the Moon Phase filter before going into the Disting's Stereo Tape Delay and then washed out in Clouds reverb.

Hope you enjoy this one as much as I enjoyed making it :) Recorded live to Youtube in one take.

Really relaxing, thanks for that :)

Thanks, I'm still playing with this patch and have just added a DnB beat to it and a bit of a Bass line. There's a lil' snippet here https://www.instagram.com/reel/CWmAGw4qP-J/
One of our cats likes USB cables etc and there are a few teeth marks in a patch cable or two so I do have to supervise her!

Heard a Crackling!!! Is the cat's new name Sparky?!

EDITED Nov 24th 2021, 17:45

Thanks for the kind words Garfield :)

Nyx (one of our cats) loves a bit of Modular!

:)

Noise from the Mutable Instruments Kinks is fed into the Veils VCA and set fairly low, this goes through the ADDAC103 T-Networks which is used as a filter, this can produce a sort of random static or crackle, this then goes into a Ladik E-510 Envelope Follower which picks out Gates, Triggers and a Decay envelope which are all used to control other things. The Only regularly clocked things from Pamela's New Workout are the Repeats are clocked on the Make Noise Mimeophon and then i bring in a bit of clocked rhythm later on.

EDITED Nov 21st 2021, 16:05

Talking of texture...
I had some noise patched through a VCA and then being filtered by the T-Networks ADDAC103 a while back, varying the level on the VCA to control volume to a fairly low level you can get static or something akin to Record crackle out of it, I'm assuming other filters will do this as well as the T-Networks but I've not tried. It was a nice background element to play with or just tweak occasionally and bring in and you and sweep / delicately ride the control on the 103.

I won't sleep tonight now after the sensory deprivation ;-)

Good stuff, interesting stuff, I would love to hear a beat-driven version.

Serena is ace!
Love wash of sound which I guess is ringing out through the FX Aid.

Thanks Garfield :)

Yeah, I put the Contact Mic on Pipes and Brewing vessels in the brewery and recorded the sounds while Pumps were running while brewing and cleaning.

Here's another bit but the Delay is used on the Resonester mode in Clouds, which makes some lovely piano-like keys with careful settings.

And another... this time with some Contact Mic recordings from in the Brewery which are messed with in Clouds.

I mixed the Saw, Square and Even outputs in Veils before going to the Happy Nerding HNVCF and its 18dB, modulation coming from the Envelope and a clocked LFO from the Noise Engineering Clep Diaz and I've now re-patched this to go through Monsoon Clouds instead of Mimeophon.

Thanks

I think that means that if you want your files to load in a certain order, start with:

A File name
B File name
C File name.... and so on

EDITED Nov 6th 2021, 14:56

Befaco EvenVCA as the main sound source, ignore the messy bit with the fast Chainsaw bit.
Throwing lots of modulation at a couple of filters, one heads out to Erica Pico DSP and the other to Mimeophon.
The 2hp Turing Machine is driving the pitches, always good for Acid lines.

Lovely stuff :)

Hi Garfield,
It would certainly be good to more things like this in the future, hopefully in the next 12 months we will be getting a bar up and running in our Town. I'd encourage a bit of modular or modular meets there.

:)

I thought I better record this before I pull all the plugs out of it, we were a part of the National Science & Media Museum in Bradford UK, we were serving our beers and the Modular Synth was part of it alongside our bar.

Here's the various links that will help make sense of this:
https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/sound-check
https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/sound-season
https://www.instagram.com/p/CVVl-RDq_rP/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CVUsdMEqajt/

There was much crowd noise and I'm sure my patching sounded much worse on the actual night via a one-speaker PA and i forgot to take my headphones so I had no way to monitor what i was playing.

A fun experience.

Muff can also be a last name here in the UK.

Yeah, I agree with Garfield, a lovely relaxed piece :)

Excellent stuff :)

What was hacked? I don't feel as if I've been interfered with..... Maybe it was just a wardrobe malFunkshon and my arse was out?

Thanks :)
Its the PatchingPanda Punch is kinda plucking the sound resonating from a Omsonic FLF (Funky Ladder Filter) with triggers from the Befaco Burst and looping in MakeNoise Mimeophon, playing with the mode and Skew is ON and Flip is ON some of the time, and there is some subtle variation of the filter cut-off using one of the Pitch outs from Marbles.
Befaco Burst is prefect for the triggers because you can set probability that the triggers are likely to fire so that makes it sound more natural, I found interesting results varying the mode on Mimeophon with anything from quite a tight delay to more expansive repeats and looping all seem to work well or make for variety, I also have a bit of subtle CV hitting the Rate control.
The envelope from Punch is also sweeping the filter cut-off.

I'm currently using my AI Modular Matrix Mixer as a pre-mixer of 4 inputs then sent to 2 outputs, so i can send bits of audio to either Monsoon Clouds or Mimeophon, I think this is kind of the arse-backwards way of Effects Sends on a Mixer.
They are also great for mashing up modulation sources.

Good stuff, thanks for turning that dial :) I'm definitely not a sound engineer, Mechanical Engineer actually.

Weird, it sounds OK here, though I agree it does start quiet, I was afraid of making the recording clip so i set things so I knew they would only pip the red-line with all parts playing.
It was a one-take live stream so not recorded on anything but direct to Youtube.

Much craziness, Liking it :)

Digital Birds in an Analogue world.... freshly streamed.

Quite a messy patch, full notes would be a bit messy too!
Patchingpanda Punch bird song made with a resonating Omsonic FLF with Punch is plucking at it and triggers from the Befacosynth Burst and looping in Makenoisemusic Mimeophon :)

I get the distinct impression that I use Marbles and the 2hp TM for distinctly different things, I find the TM+Tune better for simple bass lines with a beat whereas Marbles doesn't seem quite as usable like that.... Marbles is probably great and I just need to twiddle the knobs to different settings.

Talking of Doubling up the SINE inputs to Timbre Seriously Top Tips there, I've been using the output of 2x resonant filters as my sound sources and I'm getting some Mad interesting sound sculptures out of Timbre into Clouds :) Then riding the filter cut-offs for the sine tone gets crazy AF!
Much happy noodling with dark ambient madness!

I don't have a Ceis but I'm interested to know how it Steps through?

I had assumed from looking at it when thinking about buying one that the only Steps are the Gates generated that come from the A.D.S.R points and that the actual envelope that is made simply flows like you would expect from any ADSR module.

You will get a different effect depending on whether you are sending it a Trigger or a Gate, the length of gate corresponding to the SUSTAIN section as the level that the sound holds while the key is pressed, even my A-R envelopes (PipSlope) respect the Gate length versus sending it a simple Clock or Trigger.

EDITED Sep 17th 2021, 07:04

Did you have any 1HP gap on your Rackbrute 6U? I found that after I put in 88HP of modules, there is a 1HP gap...if you had that as well and still had overheating issues, I'm going to be concerned.

-- jb61264

I never even got it full, only managed about 1 and a quarter filled.

Talking of heat, I think the Rackbrute case I bought had a problem, it got really hot and smelled like burning plastic and made the room stink. This ended up going back to the supplier who fit a new Power supply and sent it back. I'd lost faith in it by this point so left it boxed up and sold it on.
I'd never had a problem with my TipTop uZeus (x2) or my subsequent KonstantLab Power, I even found some of my modules ran cooler when NOT in the Rackbrute.

Hopefully this was a one-off and you'll have a good experience with Arturia.