u/Bleep_Bloop_Derp

Early on in Punisher season 2, Frank’s just casually hanging out in a seedy motel with a college student he’s kidnapped. (But don’t worry — he knows it’s for her own good.)

I was just sifting through the moral implications when I notice the low rent hotels in Punisher are actually an oasis of late 80s/early 90s fun — curvy, free-floating lamps, pale wood softly aglow in Miami Vice hues, and — somehow — a Sony Trinitron, complete with a local cable box, and (presumably) a Cable Connection magazine just out of view.

Do these places exist in rural Michigan? Cause I kind of want to grab my NES and head over there, pronto…

Popped into Goodwill at lunch to see if they had any 80s-tastic artifacts for the office, and lo: the very CD player I always wanted.

Plus the remote!

I’ve been having a lot of fun with Radio Music lately, and wanted to see how it would do as a kind of sequencer (or maybe…voice to be sequenced).

I loaded it with individual bass notes from a CS-80 and some silent samples to create rests. The Turing Machine makes it jump around between notes, and I’m adjusting the voltage amount and which sample the Radio Music is originally set to.

Weirdly, the sample play times vary beyond what it’s clocked at, so I’m not sure what’s going on there, but I think it sounds promising so far…

Saw the first two pics in my photo roll just as I was contemplating a new filter. Went online to purchase this week, and lo and behold…

I guess modular companies, like everyone else, are looking around at gas prices, Cheetos prices, disposable razor prices, and thinking, *Well, why not meee????*

I saw it at a house party recently, and it sounds rad.

I was pretty happy with this one. I thought of this as trying to rescore a scene from Escape From New York rather than trying to learn new frustrating things.

Here, the Turing Machine controls the pitch while a Varigate sequences the envelopes. The effects are just from the Minilogue.

Sorry about the potato video; I ran out of dollars :D

Finally got a sequential switch!

This was a Herculean feat for me. Please turn the sound up and I’ll bet you can hear it.

EDIT: Appreciate everyone’s help. I was able to flash the module with the alternate Kammerl firmware from GitHub. It took several tries with the aid of a Doepfer external in module to brig the firmware wav file up to Eurorack level.

In addition to the crazy added modes, the original grain mode seems to be behaving like it should. (Ie, the grains drop when the slider’s at zero and resume when that’s changed.)

Still unsure if this was user error, but I tried literally every combination of everything, and nothing had much of an effect.

ORIGINAL:

Is this normal Monsoon behavior?

I just got a this used, and the size, density and possibly other functions seem to do either very little or nothing.

The video shows the first/granular mode fully wet. The output is basically the same timing as the main sequence/audio input, just a fraction off. I thought the size of the grains, for one, were supposed to be readily adjustable, from short to long. I’ve tried the same thing with the density slider (and all others) in every position, and it sounds the same. (I did read that the density at zero won’t generate any grains.)

The reverb and wet/dry work as expected. The looping delay seems to work when I’m in that mode and hit the freeze button. The second mode (delay pedal -ish) seems equally useless, though. Barely any changes whatsoever.

I had a 1:1 Clouds clone when I was just starting out. I sold it as I didn’t even have a sequencer yet, hoping to pick one up later. That one had really adjustable delay times (short to very long) and everything else seemed to work much more intensely as described in the manual.

I’d appreciate any insight.

Thanks…

I’m loving the Allen Synthesis Europi, something I haven’t encountered in my reading here. Anyone using it? It’s got so much to explore (quantizer, Mutable Instruments Branches and Grids, etc.)

The only in-rack drums I have are a couple of modes on Braids.

This is a Europi program called ‘Coin Toss’ using probability to generate triggers for a kick drum and different bass tones from a subharmonic generator, with envelopes from Zadar.

So I’ve got 22 hp left (4 in one case; 18 in the other) and would appreciate some advice.

The bottom row pictured is a separate Rackbrute I’ve been adding to to do everything I’ve been missing from my original plan. It started with a Turing Machine and expanders for generative sequences and triggers, and now I’m looking to make any kind of sequence come alive. (Unless it’s reallly slow and YouTube ambient, my Turing sequences can sound very boring,)

Euclidean from Pam’s seems OK, but more world-music-y than 80s movie soundtrack. Pam’s random skip isn’t giving me a musical feel (which could be user error). A Europi is there to cover every kind of logic (which I haven’t had time to explore). An unpowered sequential switch to kind of change between two sources of whatever…

I really want to try ratcheting, but again, lack experience. My current plan is to wait for a Patching Panda Particles, which seems to add zany ratcheting and other flavor to sequences, but I’m not sure how great that would actually be for my setup (or if that’s mostly effective for drums, being triggers and not gates, as I understand it…)

TL;DR 22 hp left. A need to make sequences come alive and address any apparent gaps in my rack. No room for error!

Thanks…