My wife just got me the EKT'ers dream gift

[ten fingers ten toes]

http://www.synthesizers.com/system-entry1.html

 

So it won't be until month 5 that I have an Oscillator and I'm already salivating for it (I can at least run that Osc through my Micro-Modular and use its filters and envelopes until I get the rest of the kit).

 

I'm so fucking psyched for this is unbeleivable. Im already trying to pick out stain that will match my desk to stain the case in.

 

It's hillarious, because I PMd version2006 the other day asking him if he ever got a modular system, and which one he ended up going with since I was going to be doing this at some point this year.

 

Best Christmas Gift Ever.

[BCM]

nice one! i've just bid on ebay for a Casio CZ-1000 and a Kawai 100F Analogue Monosynth......fingers crossed....

[ten fingers ten toes]

Sweet!

 

I have a Kawai K5000s addative synth, which has little to do with the 100m, but I can at least say they build a damn tank! Knobs and keys are wicked solid.

[BCM]

nice, nice....

[kokoon]

haha awesome!

[impakt]

Great gift!

[chaosmachine]

payment plan.. nice

[Guest môak]

rippin

[Guest analogue wings]

Clever lady. Now you can't leave her for a whole year.

[Guest Glass Plate]

I could actually do this with my paychecks, but I don't know shit about modulars =/, I mean I have an idea of it, but I don't have a full grip, and I have much more important things needed for my studio atm. (recording equipment)

[Guest analogue wings]

Sheeit. You don't even get an LFO.

 

Modulars are just a life-wrecking addiction waiting to happen.

[ten fingers ten toes]

Sheeit. You don't even get an LFO.

 

Modulars are just a life-wrecking addiction waiting to happen.

 

That's half the fun! Ive spent the last few days pouring over synthesizers.com deciding on what to add.

 

I think I want the Oscillator Aid as well, definately the S&H...

 

You know by the end of the year, the entire north wall of my studio will be modules top to bottom.

 

 

Glass Plate.. if you want to get a good idea about modulars, download this little tool for free: http://www.clavia.se/products/nordmodular/demo.htm

 

Its limited to one voice, will eat up a ton of your CPU, and not all of the modules work, but that will cover all of the basic concepts (including things that neither of us would ever be able to afford with real modules). Really I decided I absolutely wanted a hardware modular after spending so many years enamored with my Nord Micro Modular. Which is sortve curious, since, technically, my micro modular can apss for easily $150,000 worth of modules at the same time. Nothing like the feel of patch cables I suppose!

[ten fingers ten toes]

actually, urr, the Q106 Oscillators double as LFO's (a nice "LOW" setting on the frequency range dials.

 

Which is kinda cool actually, since alot of times you don't really need an LFO, especially for short bass stabs and such.

 

 

Now, about that filter bank.....

[Guest iep]

check out BRIDECHAMBER.com

 

they have some cheap and strange .com-format modules, in kit-form too ! like a theremin-style photocell based cv controller (1 U) , a 3U ken stone wave multiplyer ,, a multimode filter combined with a osc into one 2U module (wtf), and a cheap (125$ for a kit) dual 2U lfo + some more strange stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

i'll probably get a bunch of their modules after i finish my current project (a soundlab-based synth built into a geiger counter)

[chim]

jesus. awesome gift dude, that's one hell of a missus.

[Guest LJG]

LoL I knew exactly what this was going to be before reading the thread. Congrats! That is going to be uber fun. I don't know much about analog modular stuff, but I would imagine as your core gear grows, it will be easier and easier to expand upon it...

 

Fuck yeah enjoy it man. Post pics of the build!

[Guest we_kill_soapscum]

grind in? grind out?

[ten fingers ten toes]

Absolutely will do.

 

The case is supposed to arrive in about 3 weeks, she paid a few months up front, so I think I might get some of the modules with it, will have to double check that.

 

I'm toying with the idea of building a set of stands to angle the box up 3/4, like a tabletop mount basically. I guess Ill see when its here how necessary that would be.

 

BTW iep, I'm now completely stoked about the bridechamber modules! Although, after building a PAiA Fatman, I'm not sure I want to go down the DIY route again. It certainly is economical though!

Do you know of any other manufacturers that produce dotcom format modules?

[kokoon]

http://www.cluboftheknobs.com/

 

they're dotcom/moog format and if you ask me, they look simply fantastic. pretty affordable too.

[ten fingers ten toes]

http://www.cluboftheknobs.com/

 

they're dotcom/moog format and if you ask me, they look simply fantastic. pretty affordable too.

 

I love how all the res knobs are labeled "Regeneration". Even mildly instructive for those of us who don't know how resonance is accomplished!

[kaen]

you are fucking crazy my man

[Guest Syntheme]

if you know any people who are good with a soldering iron, you could build a few modules yourself

[Guest Idiron]

hehe, i found my old electronic projects kit from when i were wee and made a sine wave with pitchshift and then added pulsing... it was way too fiddley and i spent hours and hours with bloody resistors so i took it apart and raided the potentiometers for circuit bending.

[Guest Dr. Elemeno von Hat X: PhD]

who here's down with MOTM?

 

ten fingers - i actually found build the paia fatman kind of addictive! i was sad when i finished it... but only until i got it in my rack...

 

am def. going to go back and mod it sometime soon..

[Guest A/D]

YOU GUYS ARE ADORABLE

 

we say hi!

 

have fun with that . . jesus