I’d need to dump another $3,000 into it to have something I’m happy with… to still likely have a more limited system than even a couple pieces of my fixed-architecture gear.Īt this point, I haven’t touched it in two months, and have considered selling it all.
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I really only have a small handful of viable, musical patches available to me and little room to experiment. Each time, I felt the constraints of my module selection and ran into hard limits on what I can do. Each time it changed, I thought I had a plan and heavily researched the modules I bought. The Rackbrute changed pretty drastically over the last year - from a crappy limited monosynth to a collection of utilities for my MB2s, to a wavetable synth with a spastic drum machine to just a drum machine. The MB2s paired well with some modules, worse with others.
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I started with a minibrute 2s and subharmonicon, sold the SubH, and filled a Rackbtute 3u. I got into modular over the last few years, and I’m so torn on it. However, I’ve come to love Doepfer: great functionality at excellent prices (best function-to-cost ratio in Euro bar none), and eurorack shines when you have plenty of the seemingly boring utility stuff! SIDE NOTE: If you decide to dip your toes into modular, I recommend starting with a palette case and mostly Doepfer modules, with maybe one or two non-Doepfer modules at most! The danger when starting out – and I definitely did this – is to go for the fancy fun-looking stuff. It’s the end result for one specific kind of music nerd but everyone is different! The benefit of semi-modular is that it’s much friendlier, not to mention cheaper.
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It’s really important to keep in mind that full modular doesn’t work for everyone and that’s ok! It seems like Eurorack has become the final boss of music-making, in that it’s often positioned as the ultimate test/goal of a Srs Music Producer. However, I’ll buck the trend here and say that I vastly prefer Reaktor Blocks to VCV! (I don’t like that VCV has become the de facto plugin modular and I think it’s extremely unfriendly to beginners as compared to the well-curated selection in Reaktor, but I’ll save that rant for another time.) It’s an alien workflow at first, so I agree with the recommendation to try a plugin modular system to start with. (I guess I also love not having $$$ in my bank account…) With eurorack you have to be comfortable not knowing the end result in advance and just playing around until you find something serendipitous. For me, I enjoy deep & obsessive sound design so I love full modular.
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There’s no universal answer to this question. Yes, building a similar sized case will end up costing you that much anyway, but when you build up yourself you don’t have to buy it all at once! Over here a Shared System is about £4500, which is a serious chunk of change. Single manufacturer cases are good for taking some of the instrument design out of your hands if you’re less interested in that (and the Make Noise Shared System is beautiful, I have many of the modules in it and they’re all masterclasses of design) but they’re pretty much all a huge upfront investment. It can still be useful to have a small case/pod just for boring plumbing jobs (eg getting voltage into the right intervals for your semi-modulars to talk to each other nicely). If you can’t find said modules that fit that spec, that probably indicates you’d be pretty happy with a bunch of semi-modular synths instead. Personally, if you have some semi-modular equipment already what I’d go for is a small case (eg a skiff or a Tiptop HEK) with a few choice modules based on what’s difficult to do with semi-modulars alone and treat it as an extension of your semi-modular and see how that feels. I deeply enjoy the Lyra/Pulsar/Ornament combo in any case. It’s kind of the opposite experience to (semi-)modular, more about embracing the mystery and enjoying the ride. All kinds of cross-talking madness that you could achieve with patching is happening inside the box, but it’s impossible to know for sure what exactly is going on. Lyra is fantastic but wouldn’t recommend it for someone who’s decided the patching lifestyle is for them - there’s two CV inputs: a less than useless pitch input that doesn’t track 1V/Oct and a slightly more useful one for delay modulation.