by Citizen Dolly » Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:27 pm
Lasagna Pirate wrote: Mon Jan 18, 2021 11:20 pm
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Here is the core of my ‘modular’ stuff.
There’s some modules that aren’t racked, I’ve been delaying ordering a larger rig.
I also have a Matrix Brute and miniBrute 2s in boxes. And about a dozen various CV desktop synths.
I've been watching some modular stuff on YT. Looks like fun to play with but I doubt it'd fit at all with how I work. Could maybe spark the odd idea for a track, but it seems too open-ended and directionless for my tastes/abilities. I like to be able to pick a pre-set and start playing right away. I saw a video a few days ago (think it might have been a Hainbach one) where he was messing on de-tuning oscillators and... I dunno, fucking about with noise gates or summat to produce this really basic two-note sequence at half-beat intervals and it just struck me that it's a lot of work tweaking the routing and whatnot just to produce something so musically basic, it honestly wouldn't even occur to me to use it. Like I say, it
might be useful for shaking up my usual approach to writing - and to that end, I did actually download that VCV virtual rack plugin, though I couldn't actually get it working - will have to have another go when I get a new comp.... but it is just fundamentally at odds with what I do. Seems like an odd thing to say, but I do basically just operate within a pop music framework, rather than that avant garde shit.
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Here is the core of my ‘modular’ stuff.
There’s some modules that aren’t racked, I’ve been delaying ordering a larger rig.
I also have a Matrix Brute and miniBrute 2s in boxes. And about a dozen various CV desktop synths.
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I've been watching some modular stuff on YT. Looks like fun to play with but I doubt it'd fit at all with how I work. Could maybe spark the odd idea for a track, but it seems too open-ended and directionless for my tastes/abilities. I like to be able to pick a pre-set and start playing right away. I saw a video a few days ago (think it might have been a Hainbach one) where he was messing on de-tuning oscillators and... I dunno, fucking about with noise gates or summat to produce this really basic two-note sequence at half-beat intervals and it just struck me that it's a lot of work tweaking the routing and whatnot just to produce something so musically basic, it honestly wouldn't even occur to me to use it. Like I say, it [i]might[/i] be useful for shaking up my usual approach to writing - and to that end, I did actually download that VCV virtual rack plugin, though I couldn't actually get it working - will have to have another go when I get a new comp.... but it is just fundamentally at odds with what I do. Seems like an odd thing to say, but I do basically just operate within a pop music framework, rather than that avant garde shit. :lol: :P