Very nearly bought a Behringer System 100

Hello Max,

Thanks for replying good of you. Apologies for not giving you some of my history re synths.

I made a mono synth in the late 80's with a keyboard, couldn't play it gave to a band.

Recently started and gave up on a DIY project, got TH VCO-1, TH VCO-555, and AS3340 VCO's working e.g. 555



I realised that the time I could allot to the project was too small to finish it this year.

Thanks for saying 'these modules sound good' nice of you. I could only find two filters on the Juno site I would like to know if there are others, this is exactly the sort of information I need, thanks for that.

Your right there are a fair number of modules but the price is still ever such a lot less than the System 100 bundle with 3 additions.

I will order some more patch wires :-)

Cheers
[edit] I found the Delay modules on Juno will use 2 of those, saved a bit of dosh, listed under Tangible Waves and not AE Modular, must investigate those listings

Good starting point but for 3 voices only 1 sequencer seems a bit limited. Maybe sample and hold and some logic could help. Also should check wonkystuff rbss (and all the other wonky modules).

Some modulation 2lfo, O_C, modulator....


Definitely, more patch wires 😉

A starter pack wouldn't be a mistake in any case...

Hi jimread,

I understand that it's better to order from Juno due to the Brexit tax nightmare...

However you should definitely check out the main website at tangiblewaves.com where all modules are presented and explained more thoroughly.

Cheers,
Carsten.

Hello keurslagerkurt

Thanks for the welcome good of you to do so. Your right about the DIY stuff I think one would have be a real electronics devotee to make a whole synth from scratch.

I agree about the TH VCO-555 it does sound very good but is a complex build I found a single sided PCB layout and made that using the UV film method. I also found lots of PCB layouts that were the wrong size and had to measure and resize them in Photoshop. The other thing that bothered me was the amount of copper that needed to be removed, wasting the etch fluid. Photoshop took care of that as well e.g.
From this;


to this


This would be inverted for the UV film method

Which results in this



This was the first one I did, now I can get the edges better using a hair drier. It worked every well first time.

I have ordered two SEQ8's and two LoFi Delays from TW Juno had sold out and are rationing the patch wires. Kevin who lives over the road from us and makes model planes says he'll get me some cable and the 0.8mm plated plugs.

I didn't buy the single VCO but two dual ones I think I'm right in saying that they track very well indeed.

Thanks for the additional VCO suggestions I'll be looking into them as I progress.

Cheers

Hello pol

Thanks for the information sadly the order I place this morning is over the limit. I have just sent, in case it hasn't already been shipped a message to TW asking to do a couple of things to get around it other wise 30 euros EU VAT (already paid) +£30 Admin handling +about £28 UK VAT.

Such is life I'll know next time :-)

Hello dizzeesatchel

Thanks for the explanation of the O_C godness gracious worra module, I'll bear it in mind for later.

I'm OK with making up leads and I've already got some heat shrink stuf, thanks for the link though.

Juno are a very good company Charlie is a great bloke and very kindly cancelled an order of mine with the utmost politeness.

Cheers both

Hello there,

I am concerned about the connections and need some advice please.

The Master module has P1 next to the Eurorack Bus and at the lower side P6 should the Red cable be adjacent to these.

The modules, I see CN1 on the ones I've opened, am I correct in assuming that this means 'connection 1' which means the red cable adjacent to it and which I assume is the 5V one.



Cheers

Don't use the Eurorack bus! That's only for connecting to euro systems which take more than 5v, the power supplied from that will fry TW modules. In Are modular land the bus cable always connects to the 5x2 pins in the lower right of the module. I don't think it matters whether the red strip is at the top of bottom (but someone correct me if wrong!)

*I say lower right, it's lower left in your picture of course because they're lying face down

As the cable connectors aren't keyed it's easy to install the cable upside down. Normally the red cable should be on the top. All power connectors for all AE modules are at the bottom.

The wiki has more detail about the signal flow along the bus:

wiki.aemodular.com/pmwiki.php/AeDiy/SignalsOnTheBusCable

Hello admin,


Here's a close up pic that may explain it with a simple image.




The RED cable is the +5v one and is "closer" to the top in both of these modules, on the left the Master and on the right a synth module.


I would be very grateful if you could you see that this a/. correct and b/. is put somewhere that can be read by anyone and will save people like me asking in the future.


I will put it on my blog/site that I am authoring: aemodular.blogspot.com/


Cheers

Thanks pt3r,

At last :-)

Would it be possible to put the pic on the wiki where the cable details are.
Thanks for the heads up about the Eurorack cobble up
I'll put it on my site:-)

Cheers and thanks a lot to you and to everyone else for your kind help