I am pleased to inform you that in one week from today I will have my dream Eurorack system almost completely assembled
It's a "Mostly Mutable" system, which I've been trying to put together since forever ago. Now that Emilie is getting out of the game, I've decided it's now or never, so I've sourced 208hp (in two rows) of Mutable and XAOC gear.
It'll be sequenced by Marbles and Frames, modulated by Peaks, Tides, and Batumi (with Poti), voiced by Plaits, Braids, and Rings, and effected by Beads, Clouds*, and Kamieniec, with Maths, O/A/x2, and Out v3 assisting with various functions.
This is a big milestone for me, because I sold off _all_ my Mutable modules and most of my modular gear when my father died last year. I lost my ability to create and blamed it on my gear when, well, there's a much more obvious reason.
But I'm back, baby!
It's a pretty "modey" system; Batumi, Clouds, Rings, Plaits, and Braids are all very much N-in-1 modules, which means that it's sort of meta-modular. Each patch will involve selecting which instruments I want to use, both by patching and by setting modules' modes.
Lots of fun secrets hidden in these modules, too, like Kamieniec's built-in LFO stage which can just be used as a normal LFO.
Oh, also worth mentioning Ripples! It's my favorite filter of all time, and I'm going to have _both_ v1 and v2. Ripples is a gorgeous synth all by itself - you can self-patch FM, play it like an oscillator, and more - but with two of them and a phase rotator in Kamieniec, I'm going to have tons of fun just building self-playing all-analog patches.
The best part of Eurorack is that it teaches you just how wacky things can get with two filters and an oscillator - which is fundamentally a necessary intuition if you're going to do any kind of analog electronics.
... huh. some simple arithmetic says that this instrument has around 154 billion distinct modes, prior to patching, and disregarding the many althernate firmwares that are available
that's pretty fucking wild
I will freely admit that I don't really understand how the phase rotator works :/
"Finished Product" except that I _do_ want to swap out Maths for Veils and Warps, because Warps is gorgeous and I definitely need more mixing.
Heck, I had a two-Veils "mixer core" in my previous rack and it was like 20% smaller than this.
audio kranch module. put a signal into the input and it kranches it (amount of kranch is voltage controlled of course) before sending it to the output
(this is basically just Clouds)
@tindall i feel like i get a lot of what maths does for people from my stages
they're not comparable apples to apples, but they both have that fun design that rewards creative patching
@gaeel yeah, I really miss my stages...
@tindall i'm currently working on swapping out a bunch of modules, and the stages is definitely staying right where it is, it plays a crucial role in every patch i make
Update: I figured it out. The phase rotator puts the signal through several stages of very short delays, mixing it back with the dry signal each time, which leads to interference at particular frequencies but not others. Cool!