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

[Constructed Identity]

Eurorack could lead to some very specific rabbit holes:

Well done glitch 'n' bass here. I'm betting someone on this forum has this module.
The genre gets old too fast with me but I can easily see the appeal - even a dedicated rack...

[thecontrolcentre]

This just caught my eye ...


https://pittsburghmodular.com/voltage-lab-2

[cryophonik]

Everybody’s losing their minds over the PolyBrute 12 and Muse and I’m just over here thinking…


…gimme that TEO-5

[vurt]

This just caught my eye ...


https://pittsburghmodular.com/voltage-lab-2

nice!

[Shabdahbriah]

Everybody’s losing their minds over the PolyBrute 12 and Muse and I’m just over here thinking…


…gimme that TEO-5

Indeed... some really sweet {and quite unique} sounds there. And that arp!

[egbert101]

I dunno which I would prefer, Take-5 or Teo-5, very difficult to choose. I think I would prefer Take-5 for bread and butter sounds. Or maybe just go with a Pro-3!

[Uncle E]

OB-6 > Prophet-6
TEO-5 > Take 5

For the discrete filter circuit, mainly.

[KBSoundSmith]

This just caught my eye ...


https://pittsburghmodular.com/voltage-lab-2

Has it just caught your eye, are are you actually going to get one? Just curious, because admittedly this synth I find sorely tempting. But lack of space and a stubborn sense of responsibility toward others areas of life have prevented me If you get one, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

[elxsound]

This just caught my eye ...


https://pittsburghmodular.com/voltage-lab-2

Has it just caught your eye, are are you actually going to get one? Just curious, because admittedly this synth I find sorely tempting. But lack of space and a stubborn sense of responsibility toward others areas of life have prevented me If you get one, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

Space and responsibility. Always a thing.

I really like this, but yeah… it would need too much space, or I should say I’d have to part with too much to give it a home.

TCC has version 1, so the much larger version 2 would definitely make sense

[thecontrolcentre]

As I already own v1 of VRL and Taiga. It's on my radar, but still deciding how I can justify spending £1800 on another semi-modular (altho I am interested).

[Shabdahbriah]

As I already own v1 of VRL and Taiga. It's on my radar, but still deciding how I can justify spending £1800 on another semi-modular (altho I am interested).

I could only justify it by selling a few things, but it makes some extremely cool noises.

[elxsound]

Anyone here can comment on Desmodus and Imitor?

I’m looking to add some flexible and musical effects for my desktop/semi-modular station. I have Beads in there now, but I’d like more options.

[pekbro]

Anyone here can comment on Desmodus and Imitor?

I’m looking to add some flexible and musical effects for my desktop/semi-modular station. I have Beads in there now, but I’d like more options.

Yea they are good, plus you can 'easily' swap the firmware and all, so very quite versatile.

[foosnark]

Anyone here can comment on Desmodus and Imitor?

I’m looking to add some flexible and musical effects for my desktop/semi-modular station. I have Beads in there now, but I’d like more options.

Noise Engineering makes plugin versions of both of them.

Of all their plugins I think Desmodus is the closest match for the hardware version. The plugin adds the ability to sync to host tempo but otherwise they sound and behave basically identically. It's one of those reverbs that sounds fantastic with some material but doesn't quite sit right with other stuff. Since you can dial it somewhere between delay and reverb a bit like Valhalla Supermassive, it does have a fair amount of flexibility.

Imitor I honestly feel is much better in software form. I wasn't a huge fan of the Imitor firmware -- it sounds pretty good but you just don't get much control over it. But in the software you can set the number and pattern of the taps, have more control over the modulation and what happens in the feedback loop, and as a result it's one of my favorite delay plugins.

There are a lot of great firmware choices for Versio. I have two of them in my rack

My favorite firmwares:

- Lacrima -- multimode filter/autowah with some great saturation, a self-modulation knob, and a Juno-style chorus. Often I use it for the saturation and keep the filtering subtle. it just sounds fantastic to me, and I've kept one of my Versios dedicated to it since its release. (There's no plugin version.)

- Melotus -- granular delay, but where most such effects use a single buffer and multiple read heads, I'm pretty sure Melotus has multiple delay buffers that it rotates/crossfades between. (There's no plugin version.)

- Electus -- a variant of Desmodus, with fewer taps but it's clockable, has longer delay times and more distortion. (There's no plugin version, but the Desmodus plugin is also clockable.)

- Ruina -- wild distortion with a sub-octave chorus ("DOOM") that sounds huge, and a variety of overall sounds from more acid-like to really harsh buzz. The available parameters and the sound are different on the firmware vs. the software, so sometimes the firmware makes its way to my rack for a while.

They offer faceplates you can put over Versio modules so the panel text matches the knob functions. Highly recommended.

[elxsound]

Yea they are good, plus you can 'easily' swap the firmware and all, so very quite versatile.

Noise Engineering makes plugin versions of both of them.

Of all their plugins I think Desmodus is the closest match for the hardware version. The plugin adds the ability to sync to host tempo but otherwise they sound and behave basically identically. It's one of those reverbs that sounds fantastic with some material but doesn't quite sit right with other stuff. Since you can dial it somewhere between delay and reverb a bit like Valhalla Supermassive, it does have a fair amount of flexibility.

Imitor I honestly feel is much better in software form. I wasn't a huge fan of the Imitor firmware -- it sounds pretty good but you just don't get much control over it. But in the software you can set the number and pattern of the taps, have more control over the modulation and what happens in the feedback loop, and as a result it's one of my favorite delay plugins.

There are a lot of great firmware choices for Versio. I have two of them in my rack

My favorite firmwares:

- Lacrima -- multimode filter/autowah with some great saturation, a self-modulation knob, and a Juno-style chorus. Often I use it for the saturation and keep the filtering subtle. it just sounds fantastic to me, and I've kept one of my Versios dedicated to it since its release. (There's no plugin version.)

- Melotus -- granular delay, but where most such effects use a single buffer and multiple read heads, I'm pretty sure Melotus has multiple delay buffers that it rotates/crossfades between. (There's no plugin version.)

- Electus -- a variant of Desmodus, with fewer taps but it's clockable, has longer delay times and more distortion. (There's no plugin version, but the Desmodus plugin is also clockable.)

- Ruina -- wild distortion with a sub-octave chorus ("DOOM") that sounds huge, and a variety of overall sounds from more acid-like to really harsh buzz. The available parameters and the sound are different on the firmware vs. the software, so sometimes the firmware makes its way to my rack for a while.

They offer faceplates you can put over Versio modules so the panel text matches the knob functions. Highly recommended.

Thank you! Didn’t realize about the plugin versions, but too bad there’s no demo!
I’ll need to consider that but I’ve seen some decent deals on the modules. I might grab one and try the ones I’m interested in. For the right deal, it could be cheaper than buying the software (if I don’t use the software).

I have Tymp Legio and am very impressed with it. I still need to try Librae Legio.