I'm struggling to come up with an arrangement for modules in my case that I'm happy with, and was wondering how others here would approach it. So far I've been trying to keep modules with bottom jacks in the top row and vice versa to minimize controls being covered, but maybe that's a futile effort. I'd love to hear any ideas you might have.
What makes you say that you are not happy with the current arrangement?
Your post made me laugh a bit, because I also was trying to have all the bottom jacks top row and top jacks bottom row. And I think I also spot another sin that I am guilty of: trying to keep all the modules in black and aluminium separated.
My tip would be to try to not care about the colours and the jack positions because you will always find some other module that does not fit your curated layout.
I now try to follow the usual signal path. In your case I would have Pamela Workout all the way on the left and work my way through oscillators, envelopes, LFO, Mult, filters, VCA, effects. That's ususally how it would be on a normal keyboard synthesizer like Juno etc.
If you're scared about the cables being in the way of your controls, I find that if you layout in a way that your favourite playable knobs (for me: filter cut off) are always ready and able you will be fine with it.
What makes you say that you are not happy with the current arrangement?
Your post made me laugh a bit, because I also was trying to have all the bottom jacks top row and top jacks bottom row. And I think I also spot another sin that I am guilty of: trying to keep all the modules in black and aluminium separated.
My tip would be to try to not care about the colours and the jack positions because you will always find some other module that does not fit your curated layout.
I now try to follow the usual signal path. In your case I would have Pamela Workout all the way on the left and work my way through oscillators, envelopes, LFO, Mult, filters, VCA, effects. That's ususally how it would be on a normal keyboard synthesizer like Juno etc.
If you're scared about the cables being in the way of your controls, I find that if you layout in a way that your favourite playable knobs (for me: filter cut off) are always ready and able you will be fine with it.
-- stefvanriet
Funny enough the color separation was just a happy accident! I'll try reworking it with your advice in mind.
There's a lot of modules to chew up audio, but not many to feed them.
Think about those stereo modules in the signal chain you have in mind, and mixing.
Will you be using them in stereo, or discarding half, and when?
Is Pam's the usual clock for the other clocked modules?
Will you need a distributed reset to start and stop them in sync?
More active mults can share those expensive-to-generate signals.
Sometimes, it simplifies to think in essential pairs of modules that compliment each other,
and then think of those pairs as a single unit as you're building up.
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Well I have three oscillators plus noise and the granular/sampler to create sounds. Im primarily using the CVilization as a matrix mixer. While I'm open to ideas in things to add in my open space, I'm mostly interested in arrangement/ordering advice.
Thanks for that. I'll also mention that I have both an external mixer and sequencer.
