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Marbles in control of 2hp Bell into Mimeophon into Monsoon Clouds, bit of LFO hitting the Clouds and Random gates from the 2hp RND hitting the Clouds Freeze and Mimeophon Flip.

Bass drone from STO Sub into Rebach VCF-AB which is getting a Full-wave rectified LFO from Ochd.

I was too was aiming to get Tiptop's Forbidden Planet filter but then I spotted the Omsonic limited run of their (FLF) Funky Ladder Filter which is like the Steiner Parker filter but with extra control, its a very nice sounding filter and very usable. You can mult your signal and feed all inputs then tweak the levels for each HP/BP/LP, you could do this with a simple attenuator and the Forbidden Planet filter too.
https://omsonic.co.uk/product/omsonic-funky-ladder-filter-le-8hp-edition-fire-sale/

The other thing which I think should be a personal toolbox item is the Rebach VCF-AB, its very affordable and if you like the occasional dirty 303-style acid line then this ticks the box cos it will squeal like a distorted 303 because of its internal feedback path.
https://rebach.eu/catch-series/

I'm very tempted by a Stereo Ripples filter and a Patching Panda Moonphase.

Kinda tempted by the ADDAC604 as its double the same filter that they made for their ADDAC105 4-Voice Cluster, which I found more useful than the 4-voice cluster with the ability to feed it external signals, it was simple and workhorse-like, kind of set-and-forget or just throw a little modulation at it for a background element. So with the ADDAC604 being able to be used as a Dual Mono or Stereo filter its quite a good price to keep the Stereo path from other modules, it won't be too crazy but it will be very usable.
https://www.addacsystem.com/en/products/modules/addac600-series/addac604

EDITED Aug 15th 2021, 08:56

I nearly posted something the other week about being confused about Modular mixers, there really isn't one that is suitable to fit all tastes.

Things like:
Lacks enough standard Stereo channels.
The add-on mixers lack Mutes and Pan control.
Takes up too much HP.
Its massively cheaper on Ebay, buy a Mackie, Behringer or Yamaha outboard mixer second hand or even new they can be a good price.

I've pretty much decided for the playing about I do with modular I'm better with small sub-mixers.
There is almost an argument for buying a few Befaco Out v3's as leveled Outs to a desktop Mixer.

I emailed a suggestion to Befaco a bit back, make an STMIX that has Stereo Mutes and Pan control attached, thats what I need/want, and it would make the STMIX a better more functional part when coupled with the Hexmix, and in turn the Hexmix more appealing with its mono panned and EQ'd channels with Stereo effects returns.

My Current mixers are; Befaco STMIX, 2x Doepfer A-138s (for percussion mixing), and a Happy Nerding 4xMix.
There are so many modules that are Stereo, I think I have 6 stereo-capable modules in my rack now and add the outputs of the 2x A-138s's and thats 8x Stereo outs I need before thinking about Mono.

I'll leave this here, in its vaguely confused state :)

Think I've got that, I'll have to give that a go, thanks

@swaminstar I use the Sphincter VCA most days.

@Ronin1973 I'm doing exactly this.

@Lugia Sounds pretty interesting that. So you can use a VCA prior to the filter as an accent (etc) control with the post-Filter VCA shaping the sound.

EDITED Aug 11th 2021, 06:51

Proper down tempo squidgy acid :) Nice.

Thanks GfM :) This started out as some background sound at first and was very easy listening.

Cool, Canoe Modular :)

Thanks :) This was certainly a fun patch.... fairly sure the Moon Phase filter from Patching Panda might be my next DIY build to compliment the Chainsaw & ST Modular SVCA (though the latter is a weird VCA, quirky is probably the best description).

Just a mellow filtered thing....

There might be a couple of mins of Silence at the start of this as the audio capture didn't start in OBS.
Second patch with Acidrain Chainsaw, heading through HNVCF and Omsonic FLF on separate channels going into Monsoon Clouds and I've got the Rebach VCF-AB being fed some noise and self resonating with the Befaco Burst plucking and envelope ratchet triggers.
I literally just found the most simple fun too, Noise out of the Disting, into a VCA then into a Channel of the ADDAC103 and ride the 103 as a filter with the VCA for all manner of lovely blippy sweepy grunge from a simple noise source :) then thru the Pico DSP.

EDITED Aug 7th 2021, 15:31

Nice work, and way more restrained than i would have managed, good stuff :)

I've only actually connected a keyboard to a Quantiser once, it certainly made it easier to play all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order :)

I should probably say that each of the filters is on a different Stereo channel, that may or not be obvious with the Mimeophon set on Skew.

@GarfieldModular - Thanks, I need to look at working on something more slow in progression.

@Farkas - Punch is great, great for plucky blips and filter ascents, and sooo good for dirty acid lines with the Rebach VCF-AB.

@Lugia - The worlds longest URL courtesy of Reverb :) I'll have to have a listen to some Jarre see what you mean, I'll admit I'm not a massive fan of the Phaser sound but if it works in Oxygene I'll check it out. Cheers

First patch with Acidrain Chainsaw, heading through HNVCF and Omsonic FLF before hitting Make Noise Mimeophon (Clocked). Feels like a match made in heaven, now I want to get a stereo filter like a Stereo Ripples or I bet a Patching Panda Moon Phase would be amazing. Patching Panda Punch VCA in use here too. Marbles for gates and pitches.

Thanks dude :)

I'm not too sure if my Amp and Speakers don't show the bass as much as they should, I played some of my tracks on the Van Stereo and it was way too bassy.

Thanks again :)

Wow! The difference of having keyboard skill versus me hahaha, nice work :)

Using Stepped and Stepped Random into a couple of filters, Monsoon Clouds on Reverb from the STO via HNVCF, a fairly heavily modulated Mimeophon(which receives a fairly slow clock to keep it something like musical) messing with a pattern from MI Marbles controlling the Befaco EvenVCO which heads through the Omsonic Funky Ladder Filter.
Added a bit of subtle Reverb onto the percussion elements (not BD) from the 2hp VERB.

Cheers for listening

PS, there's lots of our cat Nyx in this too #CatsAndModular

EDITED Aug 1st 2021, 13:33

makes note to dig my Sony Mini Disk out of the attic, and the binaural mics :) One of my MD is broken and will only Play, the other will record full 44.1 / 16bit .wav too, I really must fine them!

Though I think the answer is YES, the Tascam DR-40X will do the job nicely.

...I just picked up an MPC One, which you could argue is not THAT much different than a traditional DAW, but it kinda is. It's a much more immediate workflow.
-- farkas

Talking of AKAI, I bought a simple MPD218, which as a non-musically skilled person was an impressive step up in comparison to using a midi keyboard with Reason, with a different interface I was offered a new means to input notes and my tracks improved. This is part of the way I see Eurorack too, its a totally new interface with a totally new way of inputting or creating notes.... In short, Brilliant Fun!

Though I doubt I'll be able to program Ba-Ba-Black Sheep on the Eurorack like I could play on the Piano ;-)

Its like, User-Interfaces for life, not all interfaces work for all people, so if one particular interface helps create enjoyment and benefits one person then thats a happy win :)

Nice, is the sample at the start played in with the micro cassette?

Glad you liked :)

:)

I have 2x ALM PipSlope and a WMS/SSF ADSRVCA, I find they are both great for different things, the PipSlope's Attack Decay isn't as good as the full ADSR if you want something chewy for a filter to get its teeth into.
If I need more I'll probably build a Befaco ADSR as it does pretty much the same as the Instruo Ceis but a touch cheaper.

I do the same with my Rebach VCF-AB which can make some knarly acid lines but it whines on self-oscillating unless the VCA shuts it down after it.

What Jim said if you happen to be able to afford proper Mutable instruments modules, buy them, as its a nice thing to do.
I'm particularly enjoying Marbles as the main control in my rack, feels like the glue you can hold a bunch of different parts together with :) (other MI modules I own are, Links, Kinks (On Jims Advice), and Veils). I own a Monsoon version of Clouds though.

Thanks as always Garfield for the kind words.
I've switched some plugs around now and its more of a dirty techno track now :)

Cheers :)

Thought as much :)

Something a bit more Ambient.

VCO>VCF>VCA or VCO>VCA>VCF?

Is there a way around that this should be or classically be wired?

I'm using both approaches to be honest, some filters seem to behave better in different configurations, for a filter that is high self-resonating I'll usually go VCO>VCF>VCA so the Envelope can completely cut off the sine resonation of the filter.. And one of my other filters seems to prefer being fed from the VCA and would distort if fed direct from the VCO.

Cheers :)

Me too, though thankfully I'm fairly OK with Goat and Sheep cheeses and a bit of good quality mozzarella on a Pizza.

How about Cheese Machine, aka, Racky Raclette? :)

I too learned something, so also a good day. Though if I ever buy a Diggy-Takt, I shall name it a digitakt :)
Lucky for me i can pronounce Elektron :)

How do you pronounce 'Digital'? Obvs everyone pronounces it Diggy-Tal cos we're all a bunch of numpties?! eh!

So why does everyone on 'the Internet Tubes' pronounce Digitakt wrong?

And don't even get me started on Mutable Instruments Plates.... Oh, sorry I meant Plaits (Pl@ts) its an AT sound ffs! You don't fecking Plate your hair do you? Maybe you do, if you do, just plate that hair up and carry on.

;-) xx

I listened to another 4 tracks last night too, all good, ambient relaxation :)

Wow, really accomplished stuff :)

Just realised I've been going over an hour now!

Lovely track :) at least so far on Track 1 :)

EDITED Jul 18th 2021, 12:19

Fact is, we aren't gatekeeping people out of modular here...but we ARE trying to gatekeep people from making some really awful decisions and winding up with a generally-unplayable instrument.
-- Lugia

Here we go, this feels like starting an argument ;-)

I realise you always put the time in to write a heck of a lot, I read your first response and those of others and I just think, "way to go, disheartening another person who is interested in modular", then the response from the post originator was clearly disheartened.

I'm not a fan of this, I dare say some of the words written to me on my first post on this forum made me think WTF and Who the F***! Hardly the hi and welcome to the forum, be careful what you spend, DON'T DO MODULAR!

I feel there are more beneficial manners of helping, Blunt Critique is your best mate telling you that that thing you built is sh!t, you laugh and buy them another Pint, not a person they have never met on a forum they have just joined because of an interest in making music / sound or simply something for pure enjoyment.

So in general, I do feel there is a lot of helpful words within the responses on this forum but folks need to chill a bit.

And I'm totally fine with it if you don't think I should be pointing this out ;-)

My main driver is FUN and I'm here for the journey, and so far a Price: €6.226 Journey.

Cats are an important part :)

This was mainly.... MakeNoise STO via DannySound Timbre into MakeNoise Mimeophon with a shed load of modulation and modulating the modulation..... then some more acid techno like bits.

I'm just going to let this play out for a while cos its weird.

But don't let that put your off experimenting ;-)

I'm pretty sure I attacked starting modular from an "unpopular" angle, that has not stopped me having a load of fun in the process.
Now I find myself at the point where my Modular Rack is more about swapping one module out for another, sure I have a wish list of modules, but its relatively cash neutral at the moment as I sell things I find I don't need.

VCV confused the hell out of me to be honest, I found the hands on experimentation of having real modules in front of me to be more educational and fun! Its got to be fun!

It helps to have an idea what you want your rack to be from the start but these things evolve as you go, just start simple and small, I got a lot of mileage out of 10-12 (relatively cheap) modules in a Tiptop Happy Ending Kit case.

That was great..... I won't be alarmed ;-)

I know its a bit draconian but could you give users the option to enter a comma separated list in their account settings so they don't have to see Modules in searches or Racks of chosen manufacturers. A Mute-List.

For instance, I have no wish to see the Orange-Perma-Tan-Baby-Ex-President on Twitter so I Mute associated words.

EDITED Jul 9th 2021, 15:15

Thanks for listening :)

Yeah, I think the Audio interface seems to have solved my problems with the pops and clicks.

Really nice work there :)

This is a lovely piece.

Where is our Capital?

Thanks for listening :)

3 sources of Sine waves; the STO, the EvenVCO and a self-oscillating Rebach VCF-AB filter.
3 effects; Mimeophon, Monsoon Clouds, Pico DSP.

I've just noticed, there is quite a lot of the top of my head, its all my own hair even if its gone grey!

EDITED Jul 4th 2021, 14:15