2024: A Year in Gear (What You've Bought or Want to Buy in 2024)

[vurt]

arrived! installed! yay!!!

[elxsound]

arrived! installed! yay!!!

Congrats!

[vurt]

arrived! installed! yay!!!

Congrats!

got a free 1hp blanking plate too

[Constructed Identity]

Are you using any of these mixers for panning? I keep landing back at x-pan if I don’t use CVilization.

I don't do much panning in the synth. It tends to limit my options in terms of panning when I'm mixing a track. I do have an X-Pan but I use it more for the crossfaders than for the panning.

When I do panning inside the synth, it's more to split a signal between two parallel signal paths, and for that, I usually use something like the Happy Nerding Dual Xfade. With it's normalled connections, it can act as a single panner, same is true of Doepfer A134-2. This way I don't use up a mixer just for sending/modulating a signal to two different channels.

Yes. Crossfading and just playing around with mixes on-the-fly are great reasons to have a physical mixer. Is there a module that does DJ style filter + crossfades? I also heard someone makes a switchable mult.
Kobol Expander & Pamela will arrive in the next couple days and then I will consider next step.

[sin night]

Last week I bought a Sherman Filterbank 2 rack.

I’m trying learn it. Feature wise it’s not too much complex, but the way the modules (filters, adsr, lfo…) and the controls are connected requires some learning; also the front panel has a MS-20esque vibe to me (it seems to make things harder than what they are). For example, I find it hard to tell if I’m using the ADSR or the envelope follower from the graphics on the front panel. Same for the LFO waveform. I have to learn the actual positions.

But I knew what I was buying. And I love the sound.
Maybe at first I wasn’t fully sure about my purchase (it’s quite different from, let’s say, a Moog filter… and I have two MF-101 for reference…), but as soon as I started running a drum machine through it, I understood why I need the Sherman Filterbank. It’s different than anything else I own.

[McLilith]

arrived! installed! yay!!!

Congrats!

[vurt]

Are you using any of these mixers for panning? I keep landing back at x-pan if I don’t use CVilization.

I don't do much panning in the synth. It tends to limit my options in terms of panning when I'm mixing a track. I do have an X-Pan but I use it more for the crossfaders than for the panning.

When I do panning inside the synth, it's more to split a signal between two parallel signal paths, and for that, I usually use something like the Happy Nerding Dual Xfade. With it's normalled connections, it can act as a single panner, same is true of Doepfer A134-2. This way I don't use up a mixer just for sending/modulating a signal to two different channels.

Yes. Crossfading and just playing around with mixes on-the-fly are great reasons to have a physical mixer. Is there a module that does DJ style filter + crossfades? I also heard someone makes a switchable mult.
Kobol Expander & Pamela will arrive in the next couple days and then I will consider next step.

doepfer do a xfade. make noise do rosie, which can be used as a manual xfade with other useful things (a stereo output, it has a send/return).
but search on modular grid under cross fade as function, im sure theres many.

[vurt]

arrived! installed! yay!!!

Congrats!

[Constructed Identity]

The Kobol Expander arrived today and I have been going through what Starski Carr did here:

Love it

[gaf_thit]

A "cheap" 2nd-hand Boss rc-505 mk2 is waiting to be picked up today and an Akai MPK261 is on it's way.
Was planning to splurge out on a flagship hardware synth, but went for a couple of vsti instead.
Think I'm done for a while, but was tempted by a cheap Solton MS40 unit today... I'm a sucker for old desktop versions of arranger keyboards.

[DRMR]

The slight problem with VCV, though, is that there's no obvious way to filter out the modules that arent MM compatible. Maybe 4mS could do a fork of Cardinal.

I had suggested this to falkTX: create a special build of Cardinal that only includes Meta Module compatible modules.

Unlikely to happen any time soon though, would welcome anyone to do this of course.

[D-Fusion]

The Kobol Expander arrived today and I have been going through what Starski Carr did here:

Love it

Have they fixed the Thump sound on it in a Firmware update?
I bought it when it was released but Quickly sold it because of that annoying thump sound.

It sounded awesome but the Thump is something I hate hearing on any synth and it was impossible to get rid of it on my unit.

Found a Video of Starsky Discovering the Thump Around 20 minutes into the Video.

[Constructed Identity]

Didn't notice, but the synth is not normal at all. I found ways to make it sound like a broken machine. I don't understand the functions of what I did yesterday but it reminded me of the Pearl syncussion in its blooping and zipping.
Years ago I burrowed an old Juno 60 and only sampled the weirdest sounds it could make so...
I plan on using and abusing it.

[justin3am]

I finished assembling the last module on Thursday and the case arrived yesterday. I've already got soooo many patch ideas!

[vurt]

:love::love:


I finished assembling the last module on Thursday and the case arrived yesterday. I've already got soooo many patch ideas!

congrats, shes a beauty!!