From Kenny Balys Sent Fri, Apr 20th 2018, 01:07
From Kenny Balys Sent Fri, Apr 20th 2018, 01:07
Vermona and Doepfer are both doing stuff in 4's. Plenty of other vendors too. Its super fun playing chords on a polyphonic configured modular. I use discrete MIDI converter boxes as thats what I have (Kenton & Doepfer) but there are really nice 4 CV/Gate MIDI modules out there. A fantastic 4 CV/Gate controller is the Jupiter-4 if you have one of those. You have to put some jacks in to surface the controls but its all there under the hood. Its even more fun when the voices are all quite distinct from each other and one never knows which note in a chord will be assigned to which voice. Totally fun, sounds amazing. On 20.04.18 24:51 , Brian Willoughby wrote: > Hello all, > > BACKGROUND: > I have a stack of polysynths and a mono, all of which have extensive modulation routing. These are SSM and CEM, plus some digital in places. I don’t have any modular gear, unless you count the PAiA ADSR that I built in high school that was stillborn due to electrostatic discharge. > > I read about the all-transistor AJH Synth (on this list, of course), and actually got interested in putting together their MiniMod system. Mostly this is because I don’t have any synths that are pure transistor. > > FAST FORWARD TO THE PRESENT: > I’m currently considering a four-voice modular. I briefly thought that expanding the MiniMod to 4 VCO modules would at least be interesting, even though that setup would be paraphonic. I could use the same modules for either a hyper minimoog or a limited 4-voice. Then the obvious enhancements occurred to me: 1) add 3 more VCF modules to dedicate 1 to each voice; 2) add 4 more VCO modules to allow sync modulation of the other 4 VCO modules; 3) maybe simplify a bit and just use the PWM inputs on the original 4 VCO modules for timbre modulation rather than sync. > > Things obviously are getting out of control (in terms of a first modular rack - in size, not to mention price). Looking around at other modules on the market, I see the 2hp line which includes a couple of VCO modules (maybe just two revisions of the same product lineage). Since you really only hear the quality of one VCO when two are synced together (well, unless you actually mix both together, which can sound bad), I’m thinking that I don’t really need a full-size, transistor-only AJH Synth VCO for the second set of 4 VCO modules. Pairing a 2hp VCO and an AJH Synth VCO takes much less space for a 2-VCO sync pair. > > I also see some nice 4-input mixer modules that would help. The AJH Synth VCF is quite handy, with its minimoog-style 3-input mixer, but that only saves me a module if I operate in paraphonic mode, and even then it only handles 3 voices. The Rebel Technology Mix 04 and the Synthrotek MST Unity Gain Mixer look like fairly compact modules for combining the 4 voices. > > Anyway, I’m realizing that every time I think about this, I come up with a different patch, which then requires me to include a set of 4 more modules to implement the new patch idea. It’s beginning to sound like building a 4-voice modular is a crazy idea, so I’m here to ask what experience folks have to trying something insane like this. > > Brian Willoughby > Sound Consulting > >