Eurorack Modular - July 25 2024

video upload by John L Rice

"It’s been a month since I’ve posted any new modular synth experiments so here’s one to get me back in the saddle! 🤓

Synth Tech: E102 Quad Temporal Shifter and four E330 Multimode VCO
Modcan: Quad LFO
Happy Nerding: 3x MIA
ADDAC: VC Rotator
VPME: T43 Precision Adder
Instruo: Quad Performance Quantizer
Klavis: Quadigy EG
Xaoc Devices: Praga VCA/mixer
Strymon: Magneto delay/reverb
Erica Synths: Black VC Clock v2
2hp: Delay
Doepfer: A-182-1 Switched Multiple (modified)
Circuit Abbey: Unify mixer"

Disting MK4 Added To This Small Eurorack System

video upload by John L Rice

"Quick test after receiving this used Expert Sleepers Disting MK4 in the mail today. The Disting does a couple hundred different functions or so but I’m just using it as a reverb here."

Vermona meloDICER
2hp Rnd
Tall Dog Electronics uBraids
Expert Sleepers Disting Mk4

FINAL arrangement of these two small Eurorack cases (subject to change 😄)

video upload by John L Rice

The left side contains:
Erica Synths: Black MIDI-CV and Black VCO 2
Industrial Music Electronics: Polivoks VCF
2hp: EG
Happy Nerding: ADSR
Electrosmith: 2164 VCA
4ms: Pod40x
Tendrils Cables

The right side contains:
Modcan: Touch-Sequencer
Erica Synths: MODulator
Synthesis Technology: E340 Cloud Generator
2hp: Verb
4ms: Pod40x
Tendrils Cables

Same Eurorack Modular Patch But Now With Added Drum And Mellotron Parts

video upload by John L Rice

"Please post in the comments what music style/genre you’d call this? I’m often never quite sure! 🤔🤷‍♂️😅

Modules from 4ms, Erica Synths, Happy Nerding, 2hp, Doepfer, Synthesis Technology, Bubblesound, Tip Top Audio, Intellijel, Circuit Abbey, Synth-Werks

With Mellotron Micro keyboard."

Another day, another modular synth!

video upload by John L Rice

"Modules from 4ms, Erica Synths, Happy Nerding, 2hp, Doepfer, Synthesis Technology, Bubblesound, Intellijel, Circuit Abbey, Synth-Werks"

Test of tiny meloDICER Eurorack case after custom mounting MEX3 MIDI expander in the side

video upload by John L Rice

Vermona meloDICER and MEX3
Rebel Technologies CLK
Tall Dog Electronics uBraids SE
4ms Pod48x
Tendrils Cables
Alesis NanoPiano

20th Rearrangement Of This Tiny Eurorack Modular Synth InJust The Last Week!

video upload by John L Rice

Vermona meloDICER and MEX3
2hp Rnd
Ladik Dual Lag
Tall Dog uBraids SE

Dreamy Chords with MeloDICER, MOTM Modular, and BigSky

video upload by John L Rice

"Quick test of a three voice Eurorack + 5U patch I’ve been meaning to try:

Vermona - meloDICER and MEX3
Synth Tech - MOTM modules 190, 300, 650, and 800
Strymon - BigSky
Lexicon - MX400
Allen & Heath - MixWizard"

Tiny Eurorack Modular Test #2

video upload by John L Rice

Erica Synths Black MIDI-CV (not used)
Modcan Touch-Sequencer
Instruo [1]f
Synthesis Technology E340 Cloud Generator
Erica Synths MODulator
2hp Verb

Processed Mellotron M4000D May 31st 2024

video upload by John L Rice

"A quick and dirty Mellotron noodle. I currently can’t stand for long (foot issue) so I took some experimental noodling audio and some rough snapshots of the gear used and edited it all into a video FWIW.

So it's the Mellotron M4000D Rack was processed through a Club Of The Knobs fixed filter bank and channel enhancer with 6 outputs of the channel enhancer mixed by Modcan and Moon mixers and returned to the main Allen and Heath mixer for some additional EQ and effects processing from Strymon pedals Mobius, DECO, and BigSky, plus a touch of reverb from the Lexicon MX400."

A Sunday Morning Modular Synth Patch - May 19th 2014

video upload by John L Rice

"Featuring self transposing Moon Modular 569 sequencer with 569ES and 569EG expanders and two 564 switches to vary the pattern. All clocked by an Oakley Slim VCO through a Synthetic Sound Labs V-Gates divider. The voice is a single Marienberg Sine Phase VCO into two SSL Tube VCAs, one STG Soundlabs Envelope to modular both, and the VCA outputs go to a Modcan Dual Delay 73B. And a few notes played on the Mellotron M4000D Rack. Strymon BigSky and Lexicon MX400 for reverb."

Remembering Gert Jalass

video upload by John L Rice

"The sad news of Gert's passing put me out of sorts and I ended up looking through old pictures and decided to make a very short and quick remembrance video out of them. Rest in peace Gert, and condolences to all of his friends and family. Feel free to share comments and stories relating to Gert in the comments section below if you like.

The simple sequence is a Moon Modular 569 Quad Sequential Voltage Source running two identical voices each consisting of a MOTM-300 VCO, 1/4 of a MOTM-380 quad LFO, 1/2 of a Moon 517 VCF, 1/2 of a Oakley dual VCA and 1/5 of a Club Of The Knobs poly EG. Also used: Expressive-E Osmose keyboard, Mellotron M4000D Rack, Roland A-88 controller, Strymon BigSky and Timeline pedals, Lexicon MX400 rack."

RIP Gert Jalass of Moon Modular

Some sad news sent my way via John L Rice who helped man the Moon Modular booth at NAMM every year. Gert Jalass, the man behind Moon Modular has passed away. I met Gert serveral times at NAMM and he was always a pleasure to talk to. He always welcomed me with a smile. He was genuinely passionate about synthesisers and the synth community. I haven't been able to make events lately and was looking forward to seeing him again. I'm so saddened that I won't be able to. I am sincerely going to miss him.

You can find posts featuring Gert here, and of course posts featuring Moon Modular here.




Musicianews NAMM 2011 Moon Modular Controller for Analog Synthesizers

Jan 2011 video upload by musicianews

The above is the first video featuring Gert on the site posted back in 2011.

The image of Gert above is from this 2019 video.

Slowly Learning The Five12 Vector Sequencer

video upload by John L Rice

"Just some baby steps as I learn to use the Vector Sequencer and integrate it into this system. The Vector Sequencer is just playing two chords and sending them via MIDI to the genXnoise dXeus machina (8 DX7’s in an 8 hp module!) and the MIDI thru goes to the Mutable Instruments Yarns which I’m selectively using to play four SynthTech based voices ."

http://www.five12.com

A Quick Wiggle With The Wave Warper

video upload by John L Rice

"Mostly Synthesis Technology modules: 510 Wave Warper, four 300 VCOs, 320 LFO, 440 VCF, and a Moon 569 sequencer."

Octasource, Derivator, Burst, and Rample (a Eurorack test, not a law-firm ;-)

video upload by John L Rice

"I changed just one module in one system recently and that has caused a 'modular-Tetris' chain reaction meltdown across multiple systems! 🤦‍♂️🧐🙄😅

Anyway, I stopped working to test a patch idea: using the Ladik J-110 Derivator to create 4 separate gates from a single Erica Synths LFO output that are used to play a Squarp Instruments Rample sample player. (Athena Ladik Burst module is processing one of the outputs from the Derivator)"

Poly MOTM Synth Noodles With A Side Of Oscilloscope

video upload by John L Rice

"Another test after modifications.

Only Synth Tech modules used:
MOTM-650 MIDI to CV
MOTM-300 VCO x 4
MOTM-800 EG x 4 (in only two spaces)
MOTM-190 Dual VCA x 2

Actually I used a custom multiples and two Moon 526 mixers for the oscilloscope feed.

#modularsynth #5umodular #electronicmusic"

Drifting - An Ambient Journey

video upload by John L Rice

"Except for some occasional knob tweaking this patch was playing itself.

Modules used:
Modcan - 58B x 2, 31B, 69B, 66B, 53B, 73B, 55B
Club Of The Knobs - C914B, C914E
Synthesis Technology - MOTM-410
Synthetic Sound Labs - 1250
Synthesizers.com - Q125

Also:
Allen & Heath - MixWizard 3 20S
Lexicon - MX400

Thanks for watching! :-)"

Quick Test After Repairing My Synth Tech MOTM-410 Triple Resonant Filter Module

video upload by John L Rice

"I built this module almost 14 years ago but made a mistake (I swapped positions of two adjacent resistors causing the Rate knob to not work correctly) so tonight I took the time to find the problem and repair it."

Phantom Of The Random

video upload by John L Rice

"A basic 4 voice poly modular synth patch (Synth Tech VCOs, Moon VCFs, Oakley VCAs, COTK EGs) with a lot of processing (COTK Spectral Modulator and Phase Processor, Oakley Flanger/Chorus) modulated by (Synth Tech, Krisp1, Modcan, and Marienberg LFOs)"

Quick Test Of The Club Of The Knobs C1670 Ensemble Generator

video upload by John L Rice

"I haven’t used this module in years so I gave it a test to check for functionality. It works about like new but could use a proper calibration? "