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Well we should have something to inform us of how many HP we have free on our racks and when you hover your mouse over a free space it should input the amount of HP free on the space! That would rock and would make my life much easier!
-- AThousandDetails

Took me a while but Space Guides, a similar function is now available.

Space Guides

Hover over a module in the planner and see how much space is available to the left and right.
Works also on drag'n'drop, on all formats and 1U.
There is a Space Guides on/of function to disable it, similar to the Popover states.

Good transaction with @yalivec LEVELS arrived safe and sound

Any recent recordings with this? I'm interested to hear how things changed since the rainmaker was added

I would want a quantizer that can work with CV from other modules. Not sure about this one.

So apparently that Erica Synths Pico SEQ offers "Quantised CV output – 7 different scales."

Nice update! If you have some thoughts on integrating the Morpheus filter into your setup or perhaps even a video of it in action I'd love to see and hear it. Other then that, thanks for all the patches!

Waiting for two of these to arrive, planning on doing the same thing. Panel looks tricky 'though.

I appreciate the aesthetic discipline involved in this rack layout!
-- sempervirent

Thanks. It's a curse. Haha.

Also if anyone out there is wondering whether I'll allow them to buy all this gear for me, well you're in luck, because the answer is "Yes."

EDITED Dec 7th 2016, 07:20

I appreciate the aesthetic discipline involved in this rack layout!

Thanks wiggler55550. I may be wrong (bear with me), but the Yarns youtube review and the user manual seem to suggest that it could do quantized sequencing, which I could potentially use on musical scales or just on values (to affect, say, the Couds "position" or "freeze" values), and that I'd be able to independently play MIDI notes (on, say, channels 1 and 2) while the sequences are being sent (on channels 3 and 4). Does that sound right? If so, perhaps I could just get Yarns to be a 3-in-1 (MIDI, seq, quant) for my purposes?

EDITED Dec 7th 2016, 07:12

piezos on the back of touch modules,
cuts on rail that allow fr4 bends.
touch - squish
titanium is cold and walnut is warm.

触摸板背后安了压电片，
盒子上面挖槽所以电路板有空间弯曲。
触摸——挤压
钛很凉，胡桃木有体温。

http://mengqimusic.com

Updated the rig now includes the bottom 3U sequencing Skiff, also missing is the Nord Drum 2, and Eventide H9 but that is pretty much it :-)

If you plan on playing your oscillator/s with your sequencer in musical scales you will need a quantizer.

Great transaction with @bj_gzp . Animodule sob arrived quickly and good comms throughout.

Thanks for the reply, and I really appreciate the help! I guess I'm used to thinking of things much like a simple guitar pedal signal chain, with each unit simply taking that one signal and modulating it with its own flavor, etc. and passing it on. So I hadn't considered the usefulness of a mixer. Also I know sequencers are huge in the modular world but I'm not big on them. My plan is to play music through it via MIDI keyboard, and to modulate/manipulate the sound via the various eurorack knobs.

You'll see I've just updated this sketch by adding a dual LFO (mainly for modulating the braids and the Modal 008), and adding a Clouds (more modulation) and a tube mixer before sending it to the Strymon. Do you think this would be a pretty complete setup for what I'm trying to do? Also, perhaps I'll need a MIDI converter, like a Yarns? Thanks!

-EDIT-
I've just added some sequencing options for manipulating clouds, etc., and a duophonic MIDI interface.

EDITED Dec 6th 2016, 09:37

what's your goal man? this looks like 3 sound sources and a tape echo. Is that what you want? where's your modulation source? what are you going to use to control it with? do you have a sequencer? You have no mixer to blend the oscillators in and no way to control / modulate them.

I'm looking to use a MIDI keyboard with this. Would I need to add some kind of MIDI interface, like a Yarns (or perhaps something even smaller)?

Also, if I want to get the 008 to sound unstable or if I want to add envelope capability, would it be as simple as just adding an LFO and/or envelope module(s)? If so perhaps someone could recommend a small, simple unit, perhaps even one that does both? Thanks!

a minimalist music computer, where digital polysyntheticism meets touch sensitive relabi.
rolz + eurorack + cherry mx blue + black walnut

i think perfection is balance in dynamics. for electronic musical instruments, it's of digital & analogue, generative & control, deterministic & improvisational, scarcity & redundancy... and freedom to travel between them by preference and coincidence.

我认为完美是动态中的平衡。对于电子乐器来说，是数字与模拟、生成与控制、确定与即兴、缺乏与冗余…和在其中有意与无意的行走。

http://mengqimusic.com/

EDITED Dec 4th 2016, 03:16

Um that's too bad. Even when they are less than 1% sometimes you hit one of those.
-- wiggler55550
I'm going to look the best part of this: I have lost a little bit of bad karma :)

Um that's too bad. Even when they are less than 1% sometimes you hit one of those.

The seller should be able to produce some kind of shipping receipt. If not, full refund.
-- wiggler55550
I'm agree with you, but he is not... After I wrote him the same thing you said he has never more answered.

The seller should be able to produce some kind of shipping receipt. If not, full refund.

I want to alert all of you that the user @vjunker has cheated me.
I paid 227€ (through bank transfer...) the 20th september for a MI rings which is never arrived. After my mails about the delay, he said that the package was without the tracking number, so, he could not do anything. Unfortunately I have his mails in which he wrote that the package was insured (and i can't imagine how a package could be insured without a tracking number. Anyway, his last reply to my mails go back to 20th october. He is still selling modules, so, if you don't want to be cheated like me, avoid this user.

-- norakant

Customs problems?
A shipment form Switzerland once took 4 months for me to clear.
Where are you located?

-- wiggler55550

I'm pretty sure it's a custom problem... the dilemma is that I have not a tracking number and so i can't seek it.
I'm Italy.

I want to alert all of you that the user @vjunker has cheated me.
I paid 227€ (through bank transfer...) the 20th september for a MI rings which is never arrived. After my mails about the delay, he said that the package was without the tracking number, so, he could not do anything. Unfortunately I have his mails in which he wrote that the package was insured (and i can't imagine how a package could be insured without a tracking number. Anyway, his last reply to my mails go back to 20th october. He is still selling modules, so, if you don't want to be cheated like me, avoid this user.

-- norakant

Customs problems?
A shipment form Switzerland once took 4 months for me to clear.
Where are you located?

Bought a Doepfer A-106-6 from @rogersentry. shipped fast and packed well. Good transaction.

Purchased a Befaco Hexa VCA from @mistertim. Shipped from the UK to California. Good deal, fast shipping, great transaction!

A12bit version of this would be great! But still awesome as it is.

Maybe records should only be approvable/lockable when the basic data is complete?
-- wiggler55550

Only the manufacturers can lock their modules. If they don't care about complete and reliable specs all is lost
There is a message button on that Seal of Approvement. It's a hot wire to the manufacturer. Shout at them.

I would love to see better Product Lifecycle data. Maybe we make an announcement for a MG Data Day or something.
I mean there are 20000 users and only max 8000 modules. All data could be solid on one weekend. At least one can dream.

It is, and was before at least for those who care enough. Same case with power requirements. So now that you gave us better db capabilities the question is: How do we convince submitters do create complete module records? Maybe records should only be approvable/lockable when the basic data is complete?

Thanks a heap!

-- wiggler55550

Thanks, although now it's pretty obvious that a lot of modules miss entries for depth.

1. ...sort by ...Depth
2. Click twice to reverse...
   -- modulargrid

Great, been waiting for both of these. That's some serious gain in usefulness right there. Especially for us folks with shallow cases (1. ) and considering that you cannot just jump to the end of the (dynamic) list (2.).
Thanks a heap!

Feedback frequency modulation. Unless you carefully control the fb level you will get some disgusting noise.

New sort features

1. You can sort by Manufacturer and Depth
2. Click twice to reverse the sort order

Ah, of course, you need some way to control the depth. Thanks for being so informative, I'm learning a lot here
Ok slightly different train of thought: What would happen if you plug an Oscillator's output into it's own cv input making a loop? Would it make a complex wave shape, or just break the module?
Haha, sorry, just trying to learn how these things behave...

Not necessarily. But you will want an attenuater/verter. Unless you prefer a vibrato spanning multiple octaves ;-))
Put it however you like, a attenuverter/scaler/shifter is one of your most basic modular needs.

Nice, that sounds very useful. But to use an oscillator as a modulator it doesn't actually need the offset, right?

By using a CV conditioner like the Ladik M-120 . It can mix two channels of audio/CV (and invert them) and add a negative or positive offset to the mix. It is 'DC coupled' meaning it will not filter out DC (as opposed to audio/hi-fi gear).

EDITED Nov 30th 2016, 20:59

Very interesting, and how would you add the offset to make the voltage above zero?

Amazing, so there's no issue with mixing AC and DC signals?
-- Plurnstyle

As long as you respect the expectations on the receiving side, no. (As in most cases in life ;-)
Meaning most audio gear - like PA systems or studio gear - will get upset when your modular output has DC in it. Such gear usually has steep filters to prevent anything below 20Hz to ever reach a speaker. Power amps often shut down when they sense DC. At the very least it will lessen your headroom. But inside a modular often mixing of AC and DC ist required for CV, such as shifting a LFO signal (AC) swinging between -3V and +3V into unipolar so it moves between 0 and +6V by adding +3V offset (DC). Even audio gets hefty DC applied to it in some distortion units.

EDITED Nov 30th 2016, 18:30

Amazing, so there's no issue with mixing AC and DC signals?

Hello to all members,

I am new to modular, but i want a small case to use it next to my MFB Tanzbar analog drum computer (with CV and clock out) My question is: Is it possible to sync the LFO, VCF and Drum modules like this? Or do i miss something?
I will use the Tanzbar (drum computer) for clock sync out and also the sequencer (3 CV outputs). Also this rack must function stand alone with the Arturia Beat Step (V1).

Thanks....

EDITED Nov 30th 2016, 01:57

I want to alert all of you that the user @vjunker has cheated me.
I paid 227€ (through bank transfer...) the 20th september for a MI rings which is never arrived. After my mails about the delay, he said that the package was without the tracking number, so, he could not do anything. Unfortunately I have his mails in which he wrote that the package was insured (and i can't imagine how a package could be insured without a tracking number. Anyway, his last reply to my mails go back to 20th october. He is still selling modules, so, if you don't want to be cheated like me, avoid this user.

So how would you set up an Oscillator with no cv output, as an LFO? Presumably you just slow down the Oscillator and plug it's audio output into a cv input, right??

-- Plurnstyle

Yep. Any OSC that can go slow enough can work as an LFO.
Likewise, an audio OSC with square output and adjustible pulse width can produce triggers and gates.

EDITED Nov 29th 2016, 17:55

So you can plug audio signal into cv input even though it's AC to DC?
I just want to use an a basic oscillator as an LFO, it should be simple...

So how would you set up an Oscillator with no cv output, as an LFO? Presumably you just slow down the Oscillator and plug it's audio output into a cv input, right??

A bigger boat

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