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

[cryophonik]

Looks like a lot of fun! And you got the sine wave version.

Yup! And that delicious Fuzz switch!!!

[vurt]

woah! you are going for it arent you!!!
lots of fun new stuff

bit jealous, except im in the not sure what i need/want for the modular.
theres a couple of modules id like, but not sure if thats just because ive not bought owt new for a while, or if i really want them!! so ill hold off for a bit, and im kind of tempted by the thorpy scarlet tunic pedal now...

[pekbro]

woah! you are going for it arent you!!!
lots of fun new stuff

im kind of tempted by the thorpy scarlet tunic pedal now...

Ooo, I like that one too, cept I'm out of monies. Well, I can't buy it and be a responsible fellow at the same time nyway.

I did get my blast beats unit, finally. I haven't hooked it up yet as it's got so many outputs and
I need to decide how I am going to go about it.

[WatchTheGuitar]

Had a ball playing with this Westlicht Performer sequencer. Adds a whole new thing when I'm not driving all the notes from either the DAW or pure random Turing type stuff. And I'm using ornament and crime to switch the notes every now and again between source tracks on a random basis so it's a kind of vaguely structured randomness which is my favourite sort.

[foosnark]

Wogglebug... again. I had one in 2018, underused it and sold it. But for the past year I've been thinking about getting a second one. I think with more experience and perspective, and doing somewhat different things musically now, I'll make better use of it.

Anyone here had or still got a Michigan Sound Works XVI?
There’s mention of MIDI and USB out but I can only see how their connections work on the desktop unit, no outputs on the top of the unit so how go they work on the eurorack install?

I don't have one (I have the Tesseract Sweet Sixteen instead). But it looks like they're just on the back, a micro USB port and headers for MIDI and i2c. You'd have to make your own MIDI cable and route it through your case, or get the expander.

[vurt]

woah! you are going for it arent you!!!
lots of fun new stuff

im kind of tempted by the thorpy scarlet tunic pedal now...

Ooo, I like that one too, cept I'm out of monies. Well, I can't buy it and be a responsible fellow at the same time nyway.

it's a hell of a lot cheaper and will be more reliable than an actual selmer amp

I did get my blast beats unit, finally. I haven't hooked it up yet as it's got so many outputs and
I need to decide how I am going to go about it.

sweet! look forward to hearing it!!

[WatchTheGuitar]

Wogglebug... again. I had one in 2018, underused it and sold it. But for the past year I've been thinking about getting a second one. I think with more experience and perspective, and doing somewhat different things musically now, I'll make better use of it.

Anyone here had or still got a Michigan Sound Works XVI?
There’s mention of MIDI and USB out but I can only see how their connections work on the desktop unit, no outputs on the top of the unit so how go they work on the eurorack install?

I don't have one (I have the Tesseract Sweet Sixteen instead). But it looks like they're just on the back, a micro USB port and headers for MIDI and i2c. You'd have to make your own MIDI cable and route it through your case, or get the expander.

I think I prefer that as it's much less hp, but everywhere's out of stock at the moment (there's a lot of it about rn).

Cheers for the info about the USB and MIDI, bit of a con really to say it 'has it' if you have to build all that yourself.

[vurt]

the expander adds the ports without the need to build anything. does add hp though.

[pekbro]

Take those behringer semis out of the rack, plenty of room after that. Personally I don't get why folks want to do that, for me they would stay in the cases they were born with. To each his own.

[WatchTheGuitar]

Take those behringer semis out of the rack, plenty of room after that. Personally I don't get why folks want to do that, for me they would stay in the cases they were born with. To each his own.

Literally only there so the case doesn’t look empty.

Still got the original cases for them waiting, they’re just off on holiday.

Must say I don’t use them as much as I should so having them there in the case is a good reminder, but yes it’s a lot of real estate.

[vurt]

Wogglebug... again. I had one in 2018, underused it and sold it. But for the past year I've been thinking about getting a second one. I think with more experience and perspective, and doing somewhat different things musically now, I'll make better use of it.

i still need to do a deep dive with wogglebug.
i use it mostly as a clock or the random output, but have never really explored it fully, been too busy just noodling
but have recently decided it's time to get the most of every module, so not just sticking to my common uses.
some modules offer so much, that you can just miss bits, so picking one module at a time, ive been going through as many patches as possible using the different bits.
been fun so far, although something like maths, ive followed tons of tutorials and such, but there is no way i can off the top of my head repeat some of that my memory isn't made that way!

[justin3am]

Woggle Bugs are definitely one of my most used modules. A great companion for Maths. I think it really comes alive when you start playing with an external input via the ID/Ego Balance and the Influence input. It's even possible to use it as a simple PLL. I find myself using the audio outs quite a bit and self-modulating heavily.

I'm really bummed that I'm down to just two of them since losing my Shared System.

[justin3am]

I repaired an Ornament-8 sequencer from Soma for a friend of mine recently and really took to using it with my Pulsar-23. At first I realized that I could cover all of it's functionality with the 4 DTGs in one of my Serge panels so I did a bunch of experimentation with that setup but it's really nice to have something that I can patch with alligator clips to handle timing on the Pulsar. So I decided to buy one for myself.

It's really stupid simple. It's actually just 8 identical negative slew/decay envelope generators which output a gate at the end of the cycle and which cannot be re-triggered until the end of the cycle. The most basic patch is a variable clock divider but when you start cascading the stages, you can build some very interesting, un-gridded rhythms. Even though the core components are very simple, it's possible to do some complex stuff and it's very playable.

[pekbro]

Wogglebugs awesome imo...

[pekbro]

Take those behringer semis out of the rack, plenty of room after that. Personally I don't get why folks want to do that, for me they would stay in the cases they were born with. To each his own.

Literally only there so the case doesn’t look empty.

Still got the original cases for them waiting, they’re just off on holiday.

Must say I don’t use them as much as I should so having them there in the case is a good reminder, but yes it’s a lot of real estate.

Ahh that makes sense, definitely. I'm sure you could find some 3D printed stand for them later,
couple that with an in-the-rack patchbay maybe.

https://www.mazzatron.com/ makes some nice patch utilities for cheap.
*Everyone should at least have his quad gate inverter in their rack imo, super useful.