Can we talk about modular synths?

[Inconuucl]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beFlCIG-N2Q[/youtube]

Okay, this is actually pretty cool.

[behndy]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beFlCIG-N2Q[/youtube]

Okay, this is actually pretty cool.

yah. looks very interesting.

i am INTERESTED.

..... but. way more curious about the CIP and Distortion Of The Month from NoiseEngs.

[Dark Barn]

QPAS might be my po man’s Res-4, close enough for me?

Too bad I’m full on HP, maybe I should get another case but, fuck man, where does it end?

[behndy]

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[codetocontra]

QPAS might be my po man’s Res-4, close enough for me?

Too bad I’m full on HP, maybe I should get another case but, fuck man, where does it end?

Yeah, I am just about full and I haven't achieved my goals yet, got sidetracked by trying to build a music production station in 7U when I should have focused on treating the case as it's own instrument instead. Now I am out of room and not as diverse as I once dreamed. There are too many interesting modules I would like to try still, maybe a good problem to have. Not sure if I should expand and if I do how to do it. A skiff? Buy a 2nd 7U case? Wait for an eventual expansion lid? Get a bigger, future-expandable rack and keep my current 7U for gigs/travelling? Where does it end?

[behndy]

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[mr. sound boy king]

My solution to having finished 12U is to unplug most of it and re-arrange into a couple different skiffs. Not everything needs to be plugged in all the time, mans. Now I can buy 'n flip modules still without worrying about "oh, I ran out of hp." Nah, man, I just won't use Piston Honda mk2 for a couple weeks, if you get my drift. Speaking of, anyone want a euro Benjolin? It looks like my trade for an Elements fell thru.

[behndy]

i mean, if anything here tickles you i'd lurv to check out a Benjolin?

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[MrNovember]

QPAS might be my po man’s Res-4, close enough for me?

Too bad I’m full on HP, maybe I should get another case but, fuck man, where does it end?

Yeah, I am just about full and I haven't achieved my goals yet, got sidetracked by trying to build a music production station in 7U when I should have focused on treating the case as it's own instrument instead. Now I am out of room and not as diverse as I once dreamed. There are too many interesting modules I would like to try still, maybe a good problem to have. Not sure if I should expand and if I do how to do it. A skiff? Buy a 2nd 7U case? Wait for an eventual expansion lid? Get a bigger, future-expandable rack and keep my current 7U for gigs/travelling? Where does it end?

This is all sounding very familiar to what I said when I decided to drastically downsize my setup

[yeatsvisitslincoln]

QPAS looks and sounds pretty cool, but I really want to hear the Stereo Dipole from SSF, too. Not necessarily in the market for either, but those two look similar. That Smile output on QPAS sounded great with the sample running through it in the demo last night.

[baremountain]

That Smile output on QPAS sounded great with the sample running through it in the demo last night.

Yeah I freaked out when they started modulating the cutoff frequency and radiate settings on that sample thru the SP. It sounded just like some of the best Animal Collective filter/formant sounds, and (as if they rest of the demo hadn't) completely sold me on it. Luckily I unloaded by MMG last week, I imagine their price will plummet now that there's a new shiny Make Noise filter. I've never heard a filter that made me think "boy I'd love to run a whole stereo mix through that" before, but here we are
Once the tax man gives me muh daggum money back you bet ya boy is hopping on that QPAS preorder. I was looking for something to replace the MMG & Mysteron in my performance case, and this fills that gap pretty perfectly.

[behndy]

'm not the biggest fan of how it looks, but the MicroFreak sounds.... interesting. CV out, PCB keys, Karplus-Strong, Wavetable, and Virtual Analog oscillator types, Mutable put Plaits in it?

and only 3 hundy.

kinda interested.

edit - annnnnnd never mind. didna realize it looks like the fucked Emilie on the "Mutables Collaboration".

from Muffz -

That postage stamp screen is adorable :hihi:

MI's brevity of response has me thinking that they are not entirely pleased with the final package... hopefully that displeasure is limited to the branding and not the implementation of the synth engines!

Arturia is just using what MI has released as open source designs. Not a real "collaboration" since she had no say in the implementation.

Per reddit post: "They put Plaits' code in a design about which I had nothing to said. Paid in PR."

Advertising it as 'our partners at Mutable Instruments', and 'collaborations with Mutable Instruments' is kind of disingenuous. Totally not supporting this instrument now. Buying more MI modules instead lol.

so. yeah. no more interest. woot! saved 3 hundred!

[MrNovember]

'm not the biggest fan of how it looks, but the MicroFreak sounds.... interesting. CV out, PCB keys, Karplus-Strong, Wavetable, and Virtual Analog oscillator types, Mutable put Plaits in it?

and only 3 hundy.

kinda interested.

edit - annnnnnd never mind. didna realize it looks like the fucked Emilie on the "Mutables Collaboration".

from Muffz -

That postage stamp screen is adorable :hihi:

MI's brevity of response has me thinking that they are not entirely pleased with the final package... hopefully that displeasure is limited to the branding and not the implementation of the synth engines!

Arturia is just using what MI has released as open source designs. Not a real "collaboration" since she had no say in the implementation.

Per reddit post: "They put Plaits' code in a design about which I had nothing to said. Paid in PR."

Advertising it as 'our partners at Mutable Instruments', and 'collaborations with Mutable Instruments' is kind of disingenuous. Totally not supporting this instrument now. Buying more MI modules instead lol.

so. yeah. no more interest. woot! saved 3 hundred!

Oh, well that killed any gas I had for it. I didn't even know that Plaits was part of it, but it's kind of ridiculous they're calling it a collaboration

[behndy]

yeah. just read through the Muff's and Reddit threads on it, and she doesn't seem that pissed, more annoyed that she got no say in the design, which...... is STUPID if they passed up a chance to have one of the biggest names in modular be heavily involved. sure it would have been at least a consultant fee, but they're going to lose more in sales over making a fasle claim about a collaboration than they would have had to pay her to do anything that i would assume would be an improvement.

[Muse FTW]

Not surprised Arturia managed to fuck up an interesting product tbh. Was pretty excited for MI but that quickly turned into disappointment when I read that reddit thread.

Gonna unload a whole lot of modules soon. Really just want to get rid of it all at this point but still find enough utility in some of the modules to keep it going.