2022: A Year in Gear (What You've Bought or Want to Buy in 2022)

[imrae]

Was looking into drum voices and heard good reports around the 2hp modules, but just wondering if anyone knows is there some kind of power splitter option or do they all need a full eurorack power slot to themselves? Thinking if I clustered three together it’d be a stretch to power the next module along. I suppose they’re useful scattered around wider units instead?

You could maybe use ribbon-cable based flying power leads...

Right, if you have the ribbon cable stuff it is easy to make a power lead with three connectors close to one end.

[whyterabbyt]

Was looking into drum voices and heard good reports around the 2hp modules, but just wondering if anyone knows is there some kind of power splitter option or do they all need a full eurorack power slot to themselves? Thinking if I clustered three together it’d be a stretch to power the next module along. I suppose they’re useful scattered around wider units instead?

You could maybe use ribbon-cable based flying power leads...

Right, if you have the ribbon cable stuff it is easy to make a power lead with three connectors close to one end.

I think even a premade one should work; they're reasonably flexible. They're available with 'bus' power connectors or 'module' power connectors.

https://www.thonk.co.uk/shop/bus-cables/

[pekbro]

So the Swart Atomic Jr I got sounds incredible. Well worth the money IMO.

*It's pretty loud, don't let the low power fool you, definitely a great bedroom amp, or
even a small venue if you want.

[WatchTheGuitar]

Was looking into drum voices and heard good reports around the 2hp modules, but just wondering if anyone knows is there some kind of power splitter option or do they all need a full eurorack power slot to themselves? Thinking if I clustered three together it’d be a stretch to power the next module along. I suppose they’re useful scattered around wider units instead?

You could maybe use ribbon-cable based flying power leads...

Right, if you have the ribbon cable stuff it is easy to make a power lead with three connectors close to one end.

I think even a premade one should work; they're reasonably flexible. They're available with 'bus' power connectors or 'module' power connectors.

https://www.thonk.co.uk/shop/bus-cables/

Thanks guys, good stuff. Pretty much same deal as the old IDE/SATA power leads then, sweet. Super narrow modules wouldn’t be much use without an option like that IMO.

ION my SEM filter arrived today and in brief time I spent with it so far had great fun sending the same pitch and gate signals from a Tangerine Dream style sequence through different VCOs one into a SEM and the other Wasp an octave apart on different envelopes. Very trancey.

[Prototech]

Looking nice when producing lovely ambient. Im searching for something like this crazsy scifi versatile daark like this, maybe somebody know what is it https://www.instagram.com/p/CXHBbO2gAJd/

https://potardesign.com/drop_shop/product/sound-urchin/

thANKS

[elxsound]

Downloaded Overbridge, signed up on the Elektronauts forum, watched several videos but it's still just a flashy Digitakt at the moment.

I hope it likes it's new home.

[Constructed Identity]

Well, WANT to buy...but

It would be the ultimate digital keyboard/synth. So much power I don't know what I would do with it...

[WatchTheGuitar]

Back pay wasn’t as much as I’d hoped after tax etc so reined in my expectations from a number of modules to just a Pamela’s New Workout. Thought I could make do without it and just use clocked gates from VCV though they use up my ES-3 outputs, but then found out it can do LFOs, euclidean rhythms and a few other things so probably a good reason it’s so popular.

[imrae]

Yup, PNW is a beast. It also has an interesting implementation of swing (delay amount and division of delayed pulses). The clocked LFOs have pulse width and phase so you can create all sorts of rippling sets of modulators in sync with your MIDI gear.

[foosnark]

I've decided to downsize my modular just a bit -- emptying out the Pod and just sticking to the 12Ux144HP case, plus the Strega & 0-Ctrl in front, Minibrute on the opposite side. Launchpad in the middle behind the QWERTY keyboard. Awkward stands will all be set aside.

I bought a Doepfer A-150 for simple switching, and my Mixwitch, Angle Grinder, Jena, Crush Delay and Plancks are all on the way out.

This also helps bring my budget back into line, which will give me the excuse later in the year to spend it on a cool bass.

[vurt]

I did the inevitable -- I bought a Strega

about time

have fun

[WatchTheGuitar]

Mutant Brain and Pam's arrived today. Just been playing around and it's an absolute gamechanger.
I'm still making lots of unlistenable rubbish, but hey it's polyrhythmic nonsense now!

[foosnark]

about time

have fun

It arrived yesterday. A little bit baffling for the first hour or so but wow, it can do so much more than I thought. It's got both the Buchla sort of "weird until you understand it" and the Lyra-8 "weird because feedback/interaction make things unstable in a good way" but way more flexible than the Lyra-8, and invites experimentation. I wound up staying up late and recording a track with it plus drones from Shapeshifter and EnOsc.

I love the overall sound and odd modulation sources and feedback routings. The "tones" knob is great (until now I haven't been a fan of Make Noise waveshapers generally).

Minor nitpick: if it were up to me, the delay would have a PT2399 and a clean-ish delay (or a BBD?) in series, so you could get longer times out of it with less breakup noise (but not none). At this point I've had the Koma Field Kit FX, Synthrotek Echo, Lyra-8, Crush Delay and now the Stega is the 5th thing I've owned with a PT delay... so the noise it makes when heavily underclocked is getting a little stale for my tastes. But I love how it sounds at medium to fast clock speeds.

...

With no more hardware purchases/trades planned for a while, here's where things are:



Plus the Launchpad Pro mk3, Minibrute 2S, Model:Cycles, Hadean fretless uke bass, Ibanez Mikro bass, and a few random small toys

...

Maurizio Uber Basses has a Miezo 16/5 available right now without the usual wait time for custom orders. Tempting. But I'm not ready to throw $950 so soon, and I'm leaning more toward the 18" than the 16". And I think I want to get better at the bass before I treat myself. But, damn it's a bad case of GAS.

[vurt]

re the pt
at first i was in the same boat, but there was one of the videos with harper, explaining using the agitation as an oscillator, helped me understand why they went with the range they chose.
it made more sense imo as he explains, it's not really a synth with a filter and delay, they are all there to be parts of the synth sounds.

although, i have had some nice dubby delay with it, but it's more useful to me adding texture rather than echoes.

i know you also have some acoustic stuff and contacts, it's amazing how much fun you can have just scratching around on a table, with a contact mic into koma/strega

and yes, i too found it quite eye opening just how much is possible with it, i expected to love it purely for the noisy type of stuff but there is so much more, definitely recommend the make noise videos.
plenty of other videos too, there's a girl who does more acoustic instruments in to it, she gets some lovely non noise stuff from it, but can't remember her name off the top of my head

[vurt]

and that's a weird but sexy looking bass!