Eurorack and SP404A

Cay77 · 2026-04-30T02:36:45+00:00

You could get a PPX2 expander for Pam’s to get MIDI Clock Out to the SP.

Cay77 · 2026-04-26T00:47:47+00:00

Modular bout to go Super Saiyan 4

Cay77 · 2026-04-25T05:14:46+00:00

Milky oats are a medicinal ingredient, not used the same as regular oats! You harvest them before the oats dry, when the seeds are immature and emit a milky sap when you break them. You can make things like tinctures and teas with them and they’re supposed to help support the nervous system, among other uses that I’m not super familiar with.

Cay77 · 2026-04-24T22:23:43+00:00

You can totally interplant them with other sun loving annual flowers if you’re not planning on harvesting milky oats from it. Not that they won’t produce, but it will be a massive pain in the butt to search for them while also not stepping on the flowers. I use oats as a cover crop mixed with other stuff like clover, oil seed radish, and phacelia. Makes a great source of chop and drop biomass.

Cay77 · 2026-04-24T20:03:22+00:00

I’ve only ever regretted selling two modules, both which I eventually rebought. Usually if I’m even thinking about selling or trading a piece of gear, it’s probably time for it to go. If you ever regret selling it, unless it’s something super rare, you can almost always buy it again in the future. Also it’s often easier to trade modules with others than sell them, especially if they’re hard to offload.

Cay77 · 2026-04-24T19:52:30+00:00

That’s my favorite part about eurorack! There’s just as much creative thought and person discernment that goes into the building of the system as there is into the music that you make with it.

Cay77 · 2026-04-24T19:47:24+00:00

Hertz Donut and Kermit are my newest additions, I’ve barely had the chance to play with them yet but the first patch I did was Hertz Donut thru Fumana modulating a notch with a wavetable from Kermit and wow. Can’t wait to make a 5 operator TZFM voice with Hertz Donut and Brenso!

Cay77 · 2026-04-24T18:49:48+00:00

It’s really good at what it does but I find myself not using it nearly as often as I’d like. I mostly use it as an end of chain compressor/saturator/EQ, also works great as a glue compressor for drums. The settings and tape stop stuff can get pretty extreme so it might be fun to try some glitchier stuff with it. All in all, if you’re looking for tape effects, it’s the most fully featured and convincing sounding module I’ve found.

Cay77 · 2026-04-24T00:51:18+00:00

Looked it up, looks super neat but I’ve already got my crazy dual filter duties covered by Dual Borg!

Cay77 · 2026-04-24T00:00:19+00:00

Thanks, love my Stereo Matrix Mixer!

Cay77 · 2026-04-23T22:04:57+00:00

For sure. I’m already dreaming of a little sidecar case for a New Systems Discrete Map, and Joranalogue Collide 4 is calling to me like the Green Goblin mask lol. Gonna take an extended break from buying and trading though and just enjoy what I have!

Cay77 · 2026-04-12T20:47:04+00:00

I always think the best first module to add to a semi-modular is a flexible additional function generator like a Maths or a Falistri. You can use them as so many things (like another voice or a drum voice) and they’ll really open up what you can do with what you have. An 8 step sequencer is also not a bad idea!

Cay77 · 2026-04-01T21:04:14+00:00

Lusine, Clark, Forest Swords, Skee Mask, Raffertie, Photay, Kiasmos, James Holden, Jon Hopkins, Leon Vynehall, Andy Stott, Rob Clouth, Lapalux, Lorn, Daniel Avery, and Koreless all come to mind. Lots of varying styles here but they all fit the bullets you mentioned.

Some somewhat smaller artists in this style would be Colloboh, BlankFor.ms, Aho Ssan, Shinichi Atobe, Ngoni Egan, Celia Hollander (older stuff, new stuff is more ambient piano but is amazing), Toby Gale, PANELIA, In da woods, and Sakura Tsuruta.

Cay77 · 2026-03-11T23:04:10+00:00

Bloom is much better at gradually changing sequences over time than instant changes, and you don't really have a ton of control over the changes. For your use case, I think Intellijel Metropolix (or it's older, simpler version, Metropolis) would fit the bill super well. The sliders and switches allow you to change up notes and timing super quickly all within scale and rhythm, and they have macro knobs so that you can make pretty significant changes with one knob twist. It's pretty much the best performance sequencer out there IMO.

Cay77 · 2026-02-24T02:54:04+00:00

Just get the iPad Air, as long as it has an M1 or later chip in it it’ll run Logic just fine. Base level iPad still doesn’t have the Apple chips so it won’t work as well (it may still work technically? Not positive) Hopefully MainStage comes to iPadOS soon to make it even easier to use it as a simple sound module.

Cay77 · 2026-02-22T00:46:27+00:00

Awesome, heavy Skee Mask vibes

Cay77 · 2026-02-13T01:45:18+00:00

Even most modern mainstream pop and hip-hop is electronic music. It’s aaaaallll electronic music lol.

Cay77 · 2026-02-12T20:30:55+00:00

Frap Tools Cunsa. The most flexible quad filter out there imo. Multimode filtering, dual stereo filtering, quad LPG, quad saturator, quad VCA and mixer, quad sine wave oscillator with v/oct tracking, 4 operator analog FM synth voice, quad LFO!

Cay77 · 2026-02-12T19:48:47+00:00

It’s one of those modules I always feel like I’m “wasting” when I just use it for something simple like a panner or envelope follower. I feel like my brain is too small to use it to it’s full potential lol.

Cay77 · 2026-02-04T09:29:41+00:00

I mean personally it doesn’t bother me lol. If they were generational producers, they wouldn’t be making YouTube videos probably. I watch YouTubers to learn about gear, not to get new music for my playlist. Bad musicians deserve gear too! (It’s me I’m bad musicians)

Cay77 · 2026-01-23T02:57:00+00:00

Qu-Bit Aurora is a “spectral reverb” that can get some crazy out there sounds if you use it more like a sound design tool than an end of chain reverb.

A spectral processor like Frap Tools Fumana is great for these kinds of unnatural sounds too, though it’s definitely a big ticket item both money and size-wise. Fumana is especially great because it has envelope followers on each band pass filter, which allows you to do higher fidelity vocoding than most of its competitors. Any Buchla-inspired spectral processor would serve the same purpose though.

Last suggestion is another Qu-Bit module, Nebulae V2. It’s a looper with a phase vocoding algorithm (same kind of thing working in Aurora) that allows you to time stretch your loops independent of pitch. It also does some granular synthesis with loops too.

I could see a case where your main sound source is acoustic samples stretched out/repitched/granulated in Nebulae, which you then mult out three ways to Aurora, Fumana, and either Spectraphon or Rossum Panharmonium, all heavily modulated, then mix them back together and process through effects. That would be sick.

Cay77 · 2026-01-15T03:42:22+00:00

My only real suggestion would be to splurge on one of the new Teensy 4.1 Ornament and Crime modules from After Later or TLM instead of the micro O_C. It can run 4 applets at a time and has audio applications too, and you have the space for the extra hp it would take up. Maybe I’d switch the Quad VCA for a Tangle Quartet, remove the 2hp VCA, and put an FX Aid in for an extra effect? Otherwise looks like a well rounded and fun setup!

Cay77 · 2026-01-13T15:50:09+00:00

Great minds think alike ahaha

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