Inktober takes some time but I made some decisions for home studio. The music one. At least for near future. Gave up thought of new eurorack case. Got quite far from plan I posted earlier. Didn’t want to spend lot of money to system which basically do what other gear does little differently. After all those krell music videos I thought more west coast oriented system makes more sense. Thing with good and versatile west coast oriented modules is they are pretty expensive. Setup I came up with costed around 5000 euros. Even smaller ones started to go over two and half thousand. I don’t want to have partially empty case for several months or up to a year.
Started to think why I wanted the system and what I couldn’t do with gear that I had or was getting in near future. Last part being Make Noise Maths. Thing I was missing was sequencer I could clock with function generators’ end of cycle trigger. Except that I wasn’t missing that. I didn’t remember I had that. Two of those to be exact. I tested with Minibrute 2. Put clock into gate mode which advance one step with each pulse and it was just what I wanted. Beatstep Pro has same clock receive mode. After I get Maths I can have two synths bleeping at random intervals. I was considering new René for this reason. Turns out I don’t need it.
There is small problem how these fit to my table. Minibrute 2 is just little bit too big but Minibrute 2S is not. And there is black version of it available at the moment. Beatstep Pro should be easier to fit. If I can’t make it fit there is 0-Control. Rather have Beatstep Pro with quantized notes than unquantized 0-Control but not sure I have room for it.
My eurorack system was Minibrute 2 and full 6U Rackbrute. Looks like all except René classic and Lifeforms SV-1 and Double Helix won’t make it to new setup but everything else does in some form. I am glad I found new use for Minibrute 2 and managed to fit it to setup. I might make Minibrute 2 goes West Coast video next weekend. It has wavefolder and somewhat complex oscillator with linear and exponential FM. So it is half way there already.
I should be getting rest of the stuff next week. After that I should have everything I wanted to have at this point. Small changes might come like getting bigger rack that fits audio interfaces and BARP 2600 but main elements should be there next week. Unless I can’t make enough room for Beatstep Pro and I need to get 0-Control. Talking about room there is enough room for making music but not enough room to have camera filming it. So I guess I won’t be making those playing your synths videos. Didn’t think about videos when I planned home studio. There is so little room I don’t think I could have arrange it in way there was room for cameras too. At least without sacrificing other things I want to do in my flat.