What would be your suggestion for a basic roadmap? Start with the ability to bring in voices from outside the rig, in order to focus on building out (and learning how to use) the brain/control within the rack?
-- Manbearpignick
Right...Jim's got the right idea, actually. Start with one of the basic oscillator "voice" sections (the Noise Reap one, actually...get used to all of the crossmod and sync possibilities there), plus the stereo submixer and probably the Linnaeus, as it'll have the steeper learning curve. But the problem with the timing "brain" section is that ALL of those modules are intended to work as a unified subsystem, so it's difficult to take it apart. In fact, there's a lot of that going on...for example, the Blip and the Branches can function together to switch between pairs of different envelope contours. And then there's all of the comparators, discriminators, etc that read modulation curves and then output timing pulses based on the Befacos, the free-run LFOs, etc etc. which get combined via the Logic 202 and Bytom modules to create more complex composite gate signals. But then, that's the difference between a pile of random modules in a box and something crafted as an intentional instrument. With random modules, you can just toss 'em in the cab as you like...but taking something like that build apart is sort of like ordering a Steinway, but insisting that you can add the bottom two octaves worth of keys, action, and strings later. Doable...but inadvisable.