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offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 07:44 [#02586393]
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Do you have a list of all your gear at the moment? I'm
interested as you seem to have been picking up a few bits.


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 08:53 [#02586405]
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Teisco 60f
Roland mpu 101
Eurorack
Akai vx 600 broken
Atari ste 520 4mb ram with satandisk and sm124 monitor
Marion msr 2
Roland tb 303
Roland tr 808
Roland tr 909
Elektron digitakt
Joyo pedals
Yamaha ys 100

I just sold loads of stuff



 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 09:17 [#02586406]
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Ain't got the dough at the mo but I've been looking at a
squarepusher type of setup. Akai s6000, Eventide FX, akg
spring reverb...

For the Eventide h3000 series can be upgraded to have all
the presets. The dsp4500 has all the 4000 series presets and
the h8000 looks good with the remote. I'm shit at
programming custom patches so the h3000 is where im looking
at first.

There's a doepfer club in Bristol called emis music that
sells monster cases for cheap. You can get a plain wooden
eurorack case for 549 which stores 6 rows of eurorack.


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 09:52 [#02586407]
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http://www.emismusic.co.uk/doepfera100.html

A-100 LMS9

9u Low cost frame with 6x 84HP (3x 168HP)

£549


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 10:02 [#02586408]
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Teisco 60f
lush pwm single vco monosynth, can find these for £350-400

Roland mpu 101
midi cv gate, probably not worth the money, you can get
eurorack ones for cheaper these days.

Eurorack
https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/953323

Akai vx 600 broken
the volume pot is broken, needs replacing, causes distortion
making the synth unusable.
all the pads on this album were made with it
https://umbromaniii.bandcamp.com/album/rags-acid

Atari ste 520 4mb ram with satandisk and sm124 monitor
i use a piece of sequencing software called sequencer plus
one, it can load midi files. very useful for programming on
the laptop as a midi file then copying over to the atari st
to get the tight midi timing and sync.
https://umbromaniii.bandcamp.com/album/merchant-navy-acid

Marion msr 2
https://umbromaniii.bandcamp.com/album/merchant-navy-acid
all the pads were done on the msr 2

Roland tb 303
broken,only capable of 1,2,3,or 4 bar loops

Roland tr 808
broken, only capable of up to 16 bar loops

Roland tr 909
broken memory battery holder, doesn't backup memory on power
off

Elektron digitakt
fucking great for playing live,limited to 4bar loops
https://umbromaniii.bandcamp.com/album/digitrax

Joyo pedals
analogue delay, bbd chorus, phaser, digital delay cost
about £20 each

Yamaha ys 100
havent used this much yet,the presets are awesome,needs a
new battery for custom presets, has to be programmed with a
laptop or atari st
basically a 4op fm synth with pitch env and simple fx. the
tx81z doesnt have a pitch env.


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 10:05 [#02586409]
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oh yeah i've still got:
roland d110, drexciya used this, it's a dirt cheap digital
rompler with synth section. i havent really used it on a
track yet. they cost £75 or less

doepfer ms 404, had the power supply modified,got it for
sale on ebay atm £220

fostex spring reverb 3180 with missing cap on one of the
pots. for sale £220 on ebay atm.

yamaha qy300 sequencer, i use it mainly for the piano keys
to control and test stuff out. much prefer the atari for
sequencing. cost me about £60 in japan years ago.the floppy
disk drive got damaged in my luggage bag.


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 10:10 [#02586410]
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geek out

stuff recently sold
roland r8mkii with most of the cards sold separately
korg volca drum
korg volca modular
akai s3000xl
akai s3000xl spare screen
boss se 50 with new battery
boss bx 4 mixer
elektron digitone
c64 mssiah cart
c64 mouse
boss dd7
yamaha fb 01
faulty roland csq 100
korg er 1
mutable instruments shruthi
roland pg 300
akai eb16 *2



 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 10:22 [#02586412]
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Shit man, how much are you using when you play live?


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 10:23 [#02586413]
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just the digitakt now



 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 10:23 [#02586414]
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I just took delivery of an 84hp skiff to expand my
grandmother, gonna put in the modules tomorrow


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 10:26 [#02586415]
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was it doepfer?stick your modules on modulargrid :-)
there are eurorack bargains to be had on ebay


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 10:27 [#02586416]
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LAZY_TITLE

I planned it on modular grid, about 50% doepfer ATM.

The teisco looks dope, going to keep an eye out for one


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 10:28 [#02586417]
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i have one timo rozendal 3340 cem vco too in my eurorack,
modulargrid doesnt list it. and i have a 2hp digital delay
which is really cool.


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 10:29 [#02586418]
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there's a few teiscos on reverb.com
the teisco 110f is worth about £1000-£1100
the teisco 60f £350-£400
you can knock them down
people always ask for stupid prices


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 10:30 [#02586419]
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I looked at the 2hp stuff, am tempted to swap my dreadbox
delay for a few 2hp effects instead


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 10:33 [#02586420]
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how are you going to sequence that setup?


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 10:37 [#02586421]
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equinox vco and vcf are cheap
i didnt rate their envelope design
their vca and lfo are probably not bargains
the vco and lowpass vcf are really good designs though


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 10:37 [#02586422]
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Tempo locked beatstep, microfreak and grandmother. Also
bitwig.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 10:39 [#02586423]
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Although microfreak has a complex enough sequencer to do
everything I want with that synth


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 10:39 [#02586424]
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nice


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 10:43 [#02586425]
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Btw I am replying my umbroman t-shirt worldwide. South
Africa, Budapest and Ibiza so far


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 10:43 [#02586426]
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Repping


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 10:46 [#02586427]
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Someone in Pacha asked me who "oombromanny" was


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 10:54 [#02586430]
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lool

can you send me a pic of you wearing it? i want to put it up
on my bandcamp page


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 11:00 [#02586431]
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Yeah sure m8


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2019-09-30 11:50 [#02586435]
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you have this stuff already? hows the A-147-2 and A-110-4???


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2019-09-30 11:52 [#02586436]
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did u guys see the new cheap line from dreadbox? nothing
over 99euros

LAZY_TITLE


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 11:55 [#02586437]
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looks good


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 12:05 [#02586438]
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Yah but I haven't plugged it all in yet.


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 12:11 [#02586439]
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also been looking at the yamaha fs1r, they sell for about
£600 if you knock them down

it's a 4 part multitimbral synth used by squarepusher on go
plastic, it has 8 formant filters and 8 op fm synthesis but
you need to program it with an external programmer to get
the most out of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joJzReGLETs

i think he used it for the acid line on this track, i wish
you obelisk
im tempted to stick it on my list but im probably not
talented enough to get the most out of it, i think i might
as well use my yamaha ys100 and try to get used to fm
synthesis before messing with formant synthesis


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2019-09-30 12:16 [#02586440]
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this thing is cool, but way too overpriced

… funny, the last time i looked they were costing much
more bcos of hype. just found one for 650 euro (which is
still more than i would pay)

there are also new fm synths popping up like this one
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offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 12:19 [#02586441]
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nothing worse than buying an expensive piece of kit that
just sits there on the shelf


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2019-09-30 12:30 [#02586442]
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im too afraid of that so i buy nothing over 600 bucks. and
im hesitating with modular but honestly im very close to
spending my savings on some eurorack

sometimes stuff sits on you for months and then you take the
time to get into it and explosion


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 12:38 [#02586443]
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I ummed and ahhed about it for years but I have 4 or 5 boxes
with CV on them now and it's an obvious extension of
max/bitwig so I just thought fuck it, especially as I have
the organelle and can transfer some of my max sequencers to
pd and work completely outside the computer.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 13:02 [#02586444]
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Having said that I still think I'd probably have been better
off getting 3 semi modulars for the same price.


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 13:33 [#02586445]
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have you had a look at the marion msr 2?


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2019-09-30 14:28 [#02586446]
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i think you did a good job with your modular rack. lots of
modulation possibilities at a pretty good price. i hope you
will post some snippets of what you will do with the thru
zero osc. im interested. i also didn't know about the milky
way module. a small stereo effect with modulation
possibilities? pretty ace!


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2019-09-30 17:02 [#02586447]
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(I just typed up a big thing and then zilty shitted it. 2nd
attempt:)

Hello, gentlemen. If I may join in...

Umbro, did you build all those GSMN modules yourself? Or
what attracted you to the brand? Just curious. How do you
like the Doepfer VC Phase Shifter? Do you use that as an FX
or to modulate CV? Both? Neither?

Indie, that looks like a great and fun starter (finisher?)
eurorack. I love the sound of the Wasp filter, but
apparently it's got a habit of randomly frying one if its
IC's. It's an inherently unstable circuit, wouldn't you
know... So I've been too afraid to buy one. Do you have the
Milky Way module already? Seemed like those new endorphines
modules were just announced. Very interested in the FX types
in that and how they sound.

Here's my thing, if anyone's interested LAZY_TITLE. The
only discrepancies are that I don't own the 2hp Freez,
haven't built my DIY Arcade yet, and have a Loafers for LFO
rather than the 4ms QPLFO (which I eventually intend to pair
with the QCD). I'm open to any suggestions for better CV
modulation/mangling stuff. I've nearly bought like 4
different "Random" modules but I think perhaps I'm less
interested in random than I am in complex but predictable
waveshapes/envelopes. Dunno... I'm also endlessly annoyed by
the current 2hp gap in my case. Considering pulling the EOS
and replacing it with something in 4hp. Thoughts?


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 17:15 [#02586448]
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A guy from muffwiggler built 8 modules for me for 600 euros.
It was an open source thing but the developer dumped it and
has gone commercial again with the brand equinox. His VCO
and lowpass VCF are good and cheap. I gave the gmsn env a
1/5 on modular grid and the designer was insulted, instead
of changing the design he kept it as is. "It takes few mad
for genius." The GMSN sequencer and quantizer are amazing.
Sadly I didn't get the quantizer module. I've got GMSN down
in my watch list on ebay,I'm especially looking out for the
quantiser. Somebody offered me a GMSN filter recently on
modular grid but I didn't know how to reply to him. I bought
two other GMSN modules off of ebay, one was an older type
VCO done discretely, it's hard to tune because it doesn't
have a fine tune knob. Paid about £50 from a guy in Poland.
And a basic LFO with tri and square outputs.Paid £35 ish
from a guy in uk.

The phase shifter is good when you use it with its own LFO.
I use the two bandpass filters to get a similar effect. I
just use the phaser on audio signals. Never thought to use
it on cv, not sure what would happen.

https://umbromaniii.bandcamp.com/album/merchant-navy-acid

On this album there's a monophonic line on each track coming
from the timo rozendal vco (Very beautiful pwm) going
through either the phaser or the two band pass vcfs.


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2019-09-30 17:19 [#02586449]
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if you don't already use your disting for it, i would
suggest a dedicated S/H module. 2HP has one

LAZY_TITLE


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 17:27 [#02586450]
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you guys are geniuses,genii? whatever i dont understand what
half these modules do. i guess they have more than one
function.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 17:43 [#02586452]
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The milky way arrives in two weeks, that and the second
passive mult are replacing the dreadbox echo that was in
that spot. I was in two minds about the wasp but as it's a
cheaper module and the box is to supplement a moog I thought
it'd be good to add a bit of colour.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2019-09-30 18:14 [#02586453]
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Me: You meant EON, not EOS.

Umbro: Oh, I am so very far from a genius. I don't know
whether the VC Phaser is even dc-coupled (can process CV)
but I'm just trying to keep an open mind as people on
Muffwiggler repeatedly remind me how narrow my imagination
is when deciding what to patch to what... (There are
supposedly no limits to the experimentation with dc-coupled
modules.) Figured you might be using the phaser in some
weird way I wouldn't expect. I enjoyed your write-up on the
GMSN modules; got a chuckle out of seeing that the rating on
the Env is still 1/5 on modular grid with your 1 vote. I do
think those Equinox modules sound very good, if a bit big
and empty on the panel space.

DADONCK: I've actually got (rudimentary) S&H covered by the
Neutron, so I was thinking more of smooth random rather than
stepped, or "complex" random like Mutable Marbles or SSF
Ultra Random Analog. But I'm having a hard time
understanding what is supposed to be different about smooth
random than just slewing the rate of change on a stepped S&H
module... (see Umbro, I'm pretty much a noob). And no matter
how many times I look at the SSF U.R.A. I never can tell
what anything is or does.

Indie: Hopefully I didn't take the wind out of your sails on
the Wasp. With any luck yours will be worry-free. I bet it
sounds sweet on the Moog! Would you post an update when you
get the Milky Way to let us know your thoughts?


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 18:22 [#02586454]
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the doepfer sem is about the same price as the wasp and does
the same thing practically with less distortion


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 18:23 [#02586455]
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£73.99


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2019-09-30 18:25 [#02586456]
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I'm excited to get this stuff sorted and start making music
again, ain't really done much this year. Gotta move house
over the next fortnight though. How boring


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2019-09-30 18:43 [#02586458]
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ah ok, some "smooth random" you could maybe get from a chaos
module like a sloth

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offline DADONCK from here on 2019-09-30 18:49 [#02586459]
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good example


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2019-09-30 20:35 [#02586476]
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any of you guys done research into eventide fx? mermaidman
brought up the h3000 in a thread a few months ago, anyone
else have one or used an eventide? there's a good thread on
muffwiggler from someone who used to work for eventide. and
there was a deece article on reverb.com about the h3000
series.

https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=79265

https://reverb.com/news/tech-behind-eventide-h3000-ultra-ha
rmonizer


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2019-09-30 21:26 [#02586481]
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i played around with the Eventide H8000FW cause a friend
bought one and didn't know how to use it

i myself am fine with this. sean costello knows what he's
doing
LAZY_TITLE

other than that i love my empress reverb. its like putting a
dramatic magnifier on sounds. if i want gritty and different
i throw stuff through a midiverb ii or a zoom 1201. both can
be had for 30 bucks


 


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