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Modular

Ive noticed a few mentions of modulars, so wanted to post a pic of mine.  It's grown by about 25% since that pic :).  <br />This isn't exactly midibox related, so I'll remove the pic in a few days.



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    jojjelito
    Jun 15 2012 08:39
    Nice! What's in there?
    The black modules are an old PAIA kit, and that got me started, in the 90's. Then I started building CGS and a few MusicFromOuterspace modules. A couple of blacet (miniwave!).
    so, a quick rough list is 3 osc, 3 vca, 1 miniwave, wave multiplier, 5eg's, 6lfo's a moog filter, a synthacon filter, bi-n-tic filter, 2xpaia filters. 5 percussion modules (2 bass/kick drum, 1 cymbal, 2 chime). Neural Agonizer (spring reverb), some mixers, multi's, couple of 8 step sequencers, couple of dividers. Portamento (lag) modules, and ring-mod modules too.
    Up on my list to build next are a few Jourgen Haible modules. Living VCO's, Filter Phaser, and chorus. Oh, and I just got 3 Buchla "lopass gate" pcb's which are filter/vca's.
    I'm actually thinking about building the new stuff into a little integrated synth.. I'd have jack-ability built in, but it would also be set up as a ready to play synth.. And I'm hoping to take that idea and some midibox stuff, and maybe making an analog synth w/ patch recall.. but so far I can't quite figure that out.. (I'd need about 24 CVouts to have all their parameters stored together, for the ultimate software controlled analog synth)
    best advice I can give to someone building one of these... Get a decent drill press :). Making panels and even drilling holes for DIY PCB's is super quick and easy. Then for the 'artwork' I think I used "lasertran" paper and then I sprayed them w/ lacquer to seal everything. Getting panels made 'professionally' for such a huge project doesn't really make sense.
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    technobreath
    Jun 16 2012 10:28
    This looks nice... :D
    I love modulars. That setup looks awesome. Been eyeing some of the same modules you've got ever since I built my paia fatman.