Tag Archives: Modular Synthesizer

Mixing inside Eurorack

I finally gave up on mixing externally or via my mac, instead I will try to put a complete mixing console, including FX sends into my eurorack.

This will definitely upgrade live performances.

After Later Audio Bartender

the main mixer module with 4 channels and output + cueing

After Later Audio Barback

and this one, I bought twice for 4 more extra channels

Next modules for my Eurorack

Divkid Ochd Expander

some more modulation outputs derived from the Ochd module, the musicstore will get rich with me as a customer 😀

Doepfer A-124 Wasp Filter Special Edition

hell yeah, I really like this filter an absolute beast, still thinking about buying the deluxe version

Doepfer A-151 Quad Sequential Switch Vintage Edition

hopefully this module will bring some automated chnages for my voice selection

Doepfer A-180-2V Multiple Vintage Edition

you can never have enough multiples, right ?

a few more eurorack additions

Another week of OnCall passed, time to invest the extra money into some more eurorack modules….

Squarp Hermod+

not using the sequencer functionality right now, for me it is more or less a 8/8 channel USB bridge from my Akai Force

Expert Sleepers ES-9

I use this one to connect to VCV Rack and have DC coupled modulation going from my mac to the eurorack

Instruo EAS

yes probably the most expensive logic module, but I had the money…. 😉

Eurorack – Blade Runner Vibes

Blade Runner Vibes – on Modular Synth

Since I’m a big fan of the old and the new BladeRunner movies, I simply had to do this tribute synth patch. Please enjoy and re-watch the movies.

The Blade Runner style melody pattern is randomly advanced by Qu-Bit’s Bloom fractal sequencer. No pre-recorded melody here.
Bard Quartet arpeggiator plays the bassline on Brains.
A rainy soundscape is generated by Ensemble Oscillator waveshaped into pink noise, which is then delayed and processed in Nautlius.
Mixed together with some random envelopes triggering an VCA to form kind of raindrop sounds impacting from time to time.

Typhoon, FX Aid and Milky Way shift all sound layers into an appropriate atmosphere using long delay reverbs.
Fractal sequencer – Qu-Bit Bloom Voices – Bastl Pizza (main synth) / Behringer Brains (bass) / 4ms Ensemble Oscillator (rainy noise) Modulation – Behringer Chaos (Marbles) for clock and random filter CV Filter – Bastl Cinnamon EG – XAOC Zadar with slowly randomized envelopes ARP – Shakmat Bard Quartet VCA – Behringer Four Play FX – Qu-Bit Nautilus (De-Shimmer Cascade) / Endorphines Milky Way (Tape Echo) / After Later Audio Typhoon (Spectral Clouds) / Happy Nerding FX Aid (Delay Magneto)
Mix – Endorphines Cockpit Samples – 2HP Play with a sample Remix FX Vocal Warp FX 03 from Apple Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools (pitched up and mixed into rain noise)

Audio recorded from my #eurorack synthesizer and video recorded via iPhone combined in Final Cut Pro in HDR.

Eurorack – again

still searching for more self-generating melodic patterns….

Vermona Melodicer

this one is a great probabilistic pattern sequencer, it is so easy to enrich patterns with more notes, and come back to more sparse notes or completely blend into different base chords

After Later Audio Fuse

yet another Mutable Instruments clone of Warps, but with an updated Parasites firmware with many more new modes

Eurorack power up issues

Spent the whole weekend reorganizing my eurorack modules, but I still have powerup issues for some modules, so I decided to buy one more WMD softstart adapter. Hopefully this will help, otherwise I need another expensive power supply.

WMD Softstart

delays the power on current flow for a “low energy module” so that the bigger ones can get the startup juice first 😉

And of course I could not resist to get some extras….

DPW Design SW-1

the module version of my self mode simple A/B switch boxes, much more convenient, I use them a lot

Erica Synths Pico Input

always good to fill some tiny gaps with useful modules…. this one allows for quick audio input from various sources shifted to eurorack levels

Eurorack – Stepper connected

Stepper connected – on Modular Synth

An improvisation inspired by the era of accustic modems, when FidoNet was more affordable than internet. And printers and floppys were using stepper motors that we made music with.

The main arp voice is steadily modulated by random envelopes, and gates and notes are also triggered with probabilities from Black Sequencer.

Typhoon gets triggered from time to time and freezes into an interesting long spectral reverb cloud….
Sequencer – Erica Synths Black Sequencer Voices – Bastl Pizza (bass) / Behringer Brains (Plaits super saw arp) / 4ms Ensemble Oscillator (stepper sound)
Modulation – Instruo 0chd / Behringer Chaos (Marbles) EG – After Later Audio Baker modulating Brains VCA – Doepfer A130-8 for gating
Clock – ALM Pamelas New Workout FX – Endorphines Milky Way (Gated Reverb) / After Later Audio Typhoon (Spectral Clouds) / Neuzeit Instruments Quasar
Mix – Bastl Aikido / Endorphines Cockpit
Samples – freesound.org-546450 Internet Dialup / Remix FX Vocal Warp FX 03 from Apple Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools

Audio recorded from my #eurorack synthesizer and video recorded via iPhone combined in Final Cut Pro in HDR.

Eurorack – Bloom v1

Bloom v1 – on Modular Synth

My first try creating a melody with Qu-Bit’s Bloom fractal sequencer.
I tried to let it sound a bit underwater bubble like, with some whale like noises in between.
Almost everything is modulating everything else, hard to tame….

Fractal Sequencer – Qu-Bit Bloom
Voices – 4ms Spherical Wavetable Navigator SWN / Bastl Pizza / 4ms Ensemble Oscillator / Neuzeit Instruments Warp
Filters – Bastl Cinnamon / Bastl Ikarie
Modulation – Instruo 0chd / Behringer Four LFO / Joranalogue Filter 8
EG – After Later Audio Baker / Klavis Quadigy
Clock – ALM Pamelas New Workout FX – Endorphines Milky Way / Qu-Bit Nautilus / After Later Audio Typhoon / Neuzeit Instruments Orbit
Mix – Bastl Aikido / Behringer Four Play / Endorphines Cockpit Drums – Endorphines Queen of Pentacles
Visualization – Mordax Data

Audio recorded from my #eurorack synthesizer and video recorded via iPhone combined in Final Cut Pro, first try HDR.

Beautifying my Eurorack

Befaco Bananuts – beautiful color anodized aluminum nuts

since I’m a visual guy everything has to be color coded in my rack,
who wants to learn every jack’s function or read fancy fonts when you simply see which color does what

My color coding:
Midi/Clock – Purple
Audio – Blue/Red
CV – Silver
V/Oct – Yellow
Trigger – Green
Modulation – Black

After Later Audio Popple

a clone of Mutable Instruments Ripples V1, multimode filter

Another Behringer Eurorack Go case

same problem, too many modules and still not enough power 😀

After Later Audio SHTH

a sample and hold, and track and hold module in 2HP