XOR Electronics are giving some pretty significant discount on their NerdSeq: https://xor-electronics.com/shop/.

Just bought a CalTrans, expecting that it will save me a lot of headaches! The manual states that you shouldn't touch the coarse tuning knobs of your oscillators again after calibration, but that is very difficult with some of my oscillators, which might get knocked out of tune very easily. Can't I ...

This looks great and would be a fantastic compliment to the Shakmat Hipass with its different cut-off frequencies. Thanks for sharing!

I really love my Tesseract mixer system. I usually mute my signals elsewhere (always better to mute the gates than the audio), but I haven't heard many clicks when doing so. For critical channels, like a sub bass, you could always add a dedicated mute module that has vactrols to reduce clicks. The V...

My favourite is the Noise Engineering Mimetic Sequent with the Multium expander. I like my randomness repeatable and the MS even stores the sequences on power down.
Turing Machine is also great!

SB-SIX wrote:How does the module react to power up / power down? Do you need to save your work? Does it boot up with the last project you were working on?

It powers up with an empty project, so yes, you need to save your work.

The Doepfer A-111-3 is great at tracking, and triangles, but just does not sound as fat on the squares. It has a smaller sound. I wonder if the fact that the Doepfer A-111-3 square is unipolar (from 0 to +10V) has anything to do with this? Or that, like the Dixie which sounds similar to the Doepfer...

Ginkosynthese Touch is awesome for this. Very immediate, because they're not mechanical switches with any travel in them. Can be switched to momentary or latching mode.

I mostly avoid getting duplicates, because I enjoy the little differences in similarly functional modules.
The two exceptions are:
- 2 Disting Mk.1s, for stereo clocked delay
- 2 Doepfer A-160-2 clock dividers

For those still looking for a uModII, I believe the Doepfer A-133 sounds very similar (=clean).
The RYO 2xVCX that I own definitely sounds a lot dirtier than these too.

cptnal wrote:

Heliophile wrote:Why would you need to offset the LFO? VCAs can also attenuate audio and that's bipolar too.

It's the modulating signal that needs to be offset.

Indeed, you're right, I got the two mixed up!

Why would you need to offset the LFO? VCAs can also attenuate audio and that's bipolar too.

Another vote for the Super Sawtor. It sounds better than Braids in supersaw mode.

brandonlogic wrote:Nerdseq really can’t be beat for this purpose in Eurorack imo....

This!

The NerdSeq can't be beaten. It's far more powerful than any other sequencers I know of. And it may be much more intuitive than you think!

Zerius wrote:how do you use your mod outputs ? are you attenuating your signals ? I need some ideas

I use them for modulating the VCA and/or filter to create a sense of note velocity. You can even assign note values to the Mod output in the NerdSeq, so you can create duophonic patches this way!

I use Shakmat Hipass to filter my effect sends going into my delays and reverb. And to remove any DC offsets at the end of my signal chain.
Considering getting a second one to hipass filter some of my voices too.

Tesseract TexMix is definitely a steal!
Also getting a lot of money's worth from many Doepfer modules, like the A-142-4 Quad Decay and A-178 Theremin.

I second the Happy Nerding modules.
Noise Engineering Mimetic Sequent and Doepfer Precision Adder also come to mind.

Doepfer Quad Decay and Noise Engineering Mimetic Sequent.

Tesseract Tex Mix is another good option. Add channels in groups of 4, 2 aux sends, and cheap. Haven't it tried it yet but planning on getting some. https://www.tesseractmodular.com/eurorack-modules/tex-mix Really limited CV on the Tex Mix unfortunately. You get a volume CV in on the mono panel is ...

On my Doepfer monster base A-100PMB, Pressure Points also starts up with no LEDs on. I don't think there's a problem with either the module or the case.

Got a physical copy at Superbooth. It's a great read and it's soaked in love for the modular synth community.

This is great, thanks for sharing!

Stereo can make a difference in many live situations, but will be a huge bonus if you ever want to record your live sets.