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Post by slowscape on Nov 16, 2020 18:12:37 GMT
Welcome to all of the new people! I love to see how much this community continues to grow! itsvulc, your patch is very, very nice! I can't wait to hear more from you!
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Post by dildomiami on Nov 21, 2020 21:19:53 GMT
Here's my story. I bought my first synth back in 1988 - a Roland Alpha Juno 1, which I still have and love. From there I ended up (thanks to the recession at the time) going back to college to learn audio engineering. Got to play around with some truly great equipment, and not only that but in Manchester at the very time rave was in it's prime! Great times. I became disabled about 25 years ago, and gradually my left hand side has got weaker and more erratic. I can't work and am housebound (Mostly bedbound to be frank). In recent years I'd still dabbled with messing around with synths, using the magic of Ebay over the years I've picked up an Akai S3000 sampler, a couple of cheap Yamaha SQ sequencers, A Novation Xiosynth (nice but an AWFUL layout, unreadable display and labelling), and a few other bits of stuff like Behringer FX and Alesis mixers. But it's really been a golden age in the last few years for me, with limited income but lots of time. So, I've picked up an Arturia Minibrute 2S (as I wanted to dip my toes into trying a semi-modular - you can tell how well that affected me for the reason that I am here!), then a Microfreak, and an Elektron Model:samples to replace the dated old drum machines I had. The Minibrute pushed me into wanting to go modular, and when I heard of the AE modular, I couldn't wait. That was right up my street, and I've not been disappointed. In fact, that in turn has pushed me into buying a couple of Arduinos and getting off my backside to dig into that more. And my setup largely consists of this - all sat on or around me in bed, for convenience: Minibrute next to the AE modular to make patching between them easier. Microfreak as both additional synth and a simple keyboard controller (gotta love that capacitive keyboard for expression). Trigger outputs of the TRIQ164 sent to the Elektron Model:Samples (or just the Samples running along on it's own with it's clock controlling the AEM). When writing or experimenting, I have a Yamaha QY doing the multitrack sequencing (just for ease of use, as I vastly prefer using physical equipment than PC software). Eventually if I do anything worthwhile, I can then record it to DAW. I also have a couple of Volcas and Teenage Operator POs which I mostly use for embellishing as and when (the PO 12 is great for adding percussion to the Elektron Sample's rhythm). And that's about it. I'm rather lazy, so this is what works for me as it's small enough to sit in bed using this all, and I don't have to move around to get to it all. I tend to venture into electronic dance and pop more. Your story sounds realy interesting for me! just blew my mind, reading that the AE system, because of its minimalist formfactor, also makes it way easier to use for people with some kinds of dissabillity/handycap .....just never thought about this scenario before...especially the „bed-synth-jam-setup“! thats some really cool shit  !!! maybe the bastl instruments range is also interesting for you.....but i bet u already know their stuff aaaand i cant wait to hear/read some crazy oldschool rave storys from the uk XD thx for sharing this story already!
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Post by dildomiami on Nov 21, 2020 21:32:41 GMT
Okay, I guess I'm not lurking any more so I might as well say hi. Hi! I've had a pretty great time talking on the discord and listening to everyone's music. I've been messing around with synthesizers of various sorts since I first acquired a Casio CZ101 in high school. (I sold it later, then bought another, then sold it, and now have a third one I'm going to hang onto.) Since then I've been in a few (mostly unimpressive) bands around the Boston and Worcester MA area, and I've played with a vast assortment of gear, some borrowed, some owned, some traded, and mostly not around any more. I made a bunch of music with an Emax, a Mirage, an MKS-30, and a TR505. I own none of those any more. Friends and I have played out live with a bunch of drum machines and grooveboxes (before they called them "grooveboxes") and keyboards with arpeggiators, doing what the kids these days call "DAWless jams" before they were cool and then became uncool (I guess). I've built my own gear-- I had a pretty junky homebrew modular for a while, then gave it to a friend who I think did something interesting with it (he's building esoteric homebrew instruments these days).
Then I moved away from Massachusetts, ditched a lot of hardware gear, and started building arduino things. I wrote a step sequencer for the arduino-based Meggy Jr RGB called MeggySeq (it's still out there if you want to play with it). I built a bunch of Eurorack modules from kits. I kind of dropped out of actively doing music, though, and never got back in until pretty recently. Now I live in a smallish house with no permanent music space, which isn't great. I noodle on guitar and occasionally set up keyboards and mess around, but having to set up and tear down every time is kind of hard on my creative process-- I need a space for doing stuff where I can leave things and come back later and pick up where I left off. A friend was selling his AE rack and some modules, so I bought that from him and started playing with it. This turns out to have been pretty much exactly what I needed-- small, relatively inexpensive (compared to Eurorack, especially!), and designed to lend itself to quick setup and teardown. I picked up a second starter rack (since ordering from Noisebug in the US is WAY faster than ordering from Tangible directly) and some more modules. It's kind of eaten my fun budget for the past several months, and I'm having a pretty great time making good ol' Klingklang-style rhythmic stuff with it. I have packed my rig with sequencers and spend a lot of time clocking them from different things and running things through rhythm-synced delays. I have a soundcloud set up with a bunch of old music here: soundcloud.com/solipsistnation/tracks
lol  your story was a lot of fun to read. „ gave it to a friend think he did something interesting with it“ hahaha i like this attitude! and I rly feel u on the other part in terms of having the space for something and how it can influence your creative process! this is one of the things i love most about the AE too! its so easy and fast to setup,integrate,use and stuffing it away! hell, sometimes when i get absolutely fed up with my nonsense patching, I just (gently!) pull out as many cables at once, with one or two hands,and stuff them in their box and its done 
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Post by lukylutte on Nov 23, 2020 9:13:32 GMT
From last jam with friends. Everything was fine for couple of jam in a raw. I'm trying to patch in the spirit of Steevio (main patch ready for impro). I have been patching the same patch for last three weeks. Usually 30 min before we start and closed the light a bit more every time. This time I had drums, and three separate voices (kinda: string, lead and bass)... However, after an hour of jam without problem, I accidentally unplug one cable and looses all the melodies for two voices. Was so small/dark and so on I couldn't get it back to work... It was from the patch I did couple of weeks ago and couldn't figure out how to bring it back to life. Could only found out that it was the trigger for kicks which was splitted but never figure out where it was supposed to go  . So ended up with only drum like sounds until the end of the jam looking frustrated and my mates wondering why I'm going full experimental for an house jam  ... Still couple of day after and I still cannot understand what was my patch at beginning... Lesson learned: don't unplug a patch when playing live in dark environment I don't have the skills to recover. Anyway was going to re-arrange and restart the patch when I'll get the RBSS... Just after understanding I won't recover. I don't know why but I took my phone and start recording:
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Post by tronald on Jan 3, 2021 18:03:44 GMT
So, My Modular Story Starts only about 3 years ago, I was lucky enough to get into a analog synthases course my last year at college, At Sarah Lawrence. There, over a year, we were taught on a Moog system 35 with the sequencer and key board, along with some basic protools usage. Later in the year we go to use a Classic ARP, but I don't remember its name, if that's any hint to which of the two were my favorite  , along with some other keyboards, Moog, Yamaha, and otherwise. in the last 3 weeks, without announcement, a Eurorack with 20 something modules showed up, and I didn't know euro rack was at the time and it blew my mind- Shortly after, my mind was blown yet again by the prices of such equipment.
Since I graduated I've have been on a journey to build my own synthesizer, starting with Look Mum No Computer, to buying a textbook about it, and many other sources. As I was getting deeper into synth youtube, I found Hainbach. He, a few months ago, inadvertently introduced me to AE Modular during a Q&A, saying the format is way to small for him, but mention it was affordable. After some research, and probably like the rest of you, my mind was blown and the quality and affordability of AE modular. I saved up for a few months and made my order of Dec 27th, so I'm expecting probably a 2 - 3 month wait ^^.
Other then that I play the trumpet, I sing, and I'm aiming to learn keyboard. I play around with GRM tools now and again, and I'm a mixed media artist and Dancer.
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Post by dreamsinwinter on Jan 3, 2021 22:15:20 GMT
Hey all, I finally got around to ordering my first system a couple of days ago and thought I'd say hi as the welcoming message suggested!
So, I'm a 25-year old musician from Finland. My background is actually in rock and metal, but the last 10 years or so have also seen electronic music making a steady march into my heart.
I bought my first synthesizer, a Roland Boutique JU-06, some 4 years ago after watching some videos on YouTube and instantly fell in love with the hardware way of doing things. I've since also gotten myself a Pocket Operator (PO-12), a Behringer Neutron and Crave and an Elektron Model:Cycles, which I intend to use for controlling the AE.
I first heard of AE Modular in 2019. I believe it was the Sonicstate video from Superbooth that introduced me to this format. Long story short, I liked the look, loved the sounds and could afford the prices so I started looking deeper into it and, with the last year's tax reduction thing and the TW christmas sale, I finally made the decision and bought myself a case, a bunch of modules and all the other things needed to make a system. Really looking forward to making music with it!
- Mikael // Dreams In Winter
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Post by rodney on Jan 6, 2021 0:37:16 GMT
From last jam with friends. Everything was fine for couple of jam in a raw. I'm trying to patch in the spirit of Steevio (main patch ready for impro). I have been patching the same patch for last three weeks. Usually 30 min before we start and closed the light a bit more every time. This time I had drums, and three separate voices (kinda: string, lead and bass)... However, after an hour of jam without problem, I accidentally unplug one cable and looses all the melodies for two voices. Was so small/dark and so on I couldn't get it back to work... It was from the patch I did couple of weeks ago and couldn't figure out how to bring it back to life. Could only found out that it was the trigger for kicks which was splitted but never figure out where it was supposed to go  . So ended up with only drum like sounds until the end of the jam looking frustrated and my mates wondering why I'm going full experimental for an house jam  ... Still couple of day after and I still cannot understand what was my patch at beginning... Lesson learned: don't unplug a patch when playing live in dark environment I don't have the skills to recover. Anyway was going to re-arrange and restart the patch when I'll get the RBSS... Just after understanding I won't recover. I don't know why but I took my phone and start recording: Swasome! What is the thingy with the red pushbuttons? 
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Post by lukylutte on Jan 7, 2021 6:14:45 GMT
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Post by rodney on Jan 7, 2021 12:30:49 GMT
Ah! cool thing. Is it passive? you can just patch straight into it? 
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Post by lukylutte on Jan 8, 2021 5:36:33 GMT
Ah! cool thing. Is it passive? you can just patch straight into it?  Passive and straight into it!
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