If you can afford it, the best CV recorder module I can think of is the Analogue Systems RS-450. It is a quad unit that is basically a DC sampler that can do 16bit samples up to 14.K sample rate (yes, it can do audio). All voltages are stored with 16-bit precision so the total recording time availab...

There have been mixer companies in the past that have injected special formulated goo in the bushings of the pots to make them feel different and to their preferences. This has backfired many times. A good example is early TAPCO mixers that used inexpensive Centronics pots and lubed them for a more ...

I Have multiple 6U cabinets and skiffs. I would not combine your stuff into a larger case, but instead, make cases that are stand alone, and do one job or type of function by themselves easily. Think of the cabinet as a meta-module. I do that. I have one cabinet that is an analogue voice (my EMS syn...

Many rail makers make their rails slightly larger for tolerance reasons, or because the design is based around decorative ear covers for rack mounted versions. Older Schroff rails were like this. They had a panel to cover the rack ears that had a notch for the decorative lips to fit into. Vector rai...

We used to make these back in the 70's using video tape or wider recording tape. We used to stretch the tape, dull side down, an 1/8" of an inch over some raw PCB or other metal surface. Run the voltage to the metal and read the variable voltage from the ends of the tape (typically clamped between t...

My two 101's are in a box and not in my rig at the moment (replaced by other modules), but I will mount them up and see if I can figure this out for you. I remember doing similar to what you want, playing one shot loops and changing loops every trigger, but it may have been using the same trigger/ga...

Division6 Dual Mini Sequencer. New firmware chains multiple sequences and more. Not expensive if you build it yourself. Skiff friendly.

The easiest way would be to design your own and open source it. The pinout of the connector should be easy enough to get and the topology of the PCB would be up to your imagination. I would think that everyone that would want one probably has their one idea of what should be on it. Coming up with a ...

There is a trade show video from a few years ago where Dreadbox couldn’t show off one of the new products since someone patched it wrong and killed it. Saying that it is a myth is bad advice, imo. It's not a myth. But it's FAR overblown. And the modules still affected by it need to be discovered, c...

sorry for the dumb question, but has anybody tried using this with mutable instruements grids? Do you think it's possbile to trigger samples and also change the lenght and start point of the sample with grids? Would that make sense? Though it won't trigger the samples themselves, what you really ne...

The big question is do you need it to do that in realtime? If not, there are lots of software solutions that can be very accurate. Even the pitch to MIDI conversion in Ableton is not bad. That is one step away from CV. Of course it is targeting note generation and not the spaces between them. It can...

The deepest modules I own are a pair of TipTop Z5000 efx modules that have a huge potted module on them that sticks way off the PCB in back. Only for cases, It is a tight fit in my Doepfer P6 chassis and can't be over where the supply is. Almost all the other modules I own are ones with parallel to ...

Look into the Axolotl. You will have to buy/build a case for it, but it cost only $80. Basically think of it as a smaller Nord Mini-Modular. You can make almost any Effects you can think of - program a patch on your computer once, download it to the Axo, unplug it and never have to re-program it aga...

There isn't a patch you can come up with that requires you to stack them more than two high. Remember they are just a wire. When a patch requires more than two connections, use the other end. Think serially instead of like a star connection. The stacking of more than 2 high puts a lot of stress on t...

Here is a link to my copy of the Version 1.1 factory stick if that is what you need. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m18kjlujc0v3 ... qPRea?dl=0

If you are talking about the card inside the module, you will have to get that from Qu-Bit.

I personally feel that an In-Cabinet mixer is for mixing PARTS of a patch, and an External mixer is for mixing PATCHES. After saying that, sometimes I would like the convenience of a in-cabinet mixer but it would have to be stereo, small HP, and have AUX/EFX sends (and as many as possible) and I jus...

I dumped almost all my VCOs for wave players and granular modules but kept the two ones I liked the most, a pair of older Analogue Systems RS-90 VCOs. I like them because they are very close to the first VCOs I ever owned, the ones on an EMS VCS3 and AKS. They have similar wave shaping, though the E...

Right out of collage I lived in a group house with a couple of bandmates. One of my housemates worked at a shift that he would get home just as I went to bed in the den right off the front room. He would watch TV and I am the type that can't turn off my ears, and particularly when there is music and...

The problem with using TRS plugs on Eurorack is dependent on the jacks and the modules themselves. Many jacks in Eurorack that use plastic bushings, have their Ground connections placed in the location of the Ring on a TRS jack. Most metal bushing made jacks rely on the bushing to conduct the Ground...

I have to say up front that I am biased because I make these types of modules, but I would add some controllers to your system. If you do music that evolves over time and want to control that manually, you need joysticks, slide-pot modules, programmers and the like. Maybe som controllers that will m...

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Using a EG with CV control of the stages and has an End of Decay trigger out (makes a trigger or gate at the end of the envelope - usually used to loop the EG) then you are golden. The EOD trigger runs the sequencer and one rank on the sequencer controls one of the time functions on the EG (usually ...

Go discreet. You can buy LEDs in lots of shapes. Get some large rectangular or square ones and stack them next to themselves in a single rectangular hole. KingBright and others make some nice large ones. A lot more work of course but you can design them the way you want.

I read once that the human brain needs a sound to last at least 13ms before it can even decree a pitch from it. ALL envelopes shorter than that will be clicks. Keep that in mind.

Get some wave player/granular modules like the Nebulae or Morphagene and make sounds with Ableton/Max and then play/modify them in different ways on your modular. I dumped all but two VCOs from my rig and went with STS, 3 Nebulae's, and a Nutella.