I learned I would have to wait for the case I was planning to get for few weeks. Desperation made me try if RackBrute would fit into my home studio. It was tight but when I set stand to correct position and everything to correct angle it did fit. Which meant no need for new case and more room for modules. This time picture is from home studio. It is Lifeforms & Make Noise based system. For now. Make Noise will stay there. I give Lifeforms change to show they deserve to be in case.
I started modular journey with Lifeforms modules. Lifeforms modules work in mysterious ways. Designers made them for their own use. At least it feels like it. You can’t trust documentation fully. After calibrating SV-1 and playing the setup with tuner on I have found how it actually work. I think I do. Splitters which we supposed to be passive work with V/Oct signals but multiple which should be buffered doesn’t. SV-1’s filter feels like it has 100% key tracking on. There are many other things which doesn’t work like I expect.
Lifeforms will stay there for now. Mainly because replacing them is quite expensive. In previous system Lifeforms were mainly utilities. In previous plans other modules were there to support Lifeforms. This one is different.
Make Noise part is quite close to my dream Make Noise system. It is smaller system Make Noise have in their latest videos minus Mimeophon and STO replaced by MMG. XOH is on its way. My local store didn’t have it. Had to order it elsewhere. Initial feelings of XPO and QPAS are really good. So far experiences are mono only but both sound really good mono. There was one disappointment with XPO. Sync is not hard sync. I probably shouldn’t expect module to have hard sync if module has sync in. It is not as big disappointment as SV-1’s sync. XPO can do gritty sound I would have used hard sync without hard sync.
Plan was to have homestudio setup complete by the end of the year but latest change of plan changed that. It almost is. Midi keyboard might change. The one I want wasn’t available. It lead to this eurorack case thing. There is one pedal I want. It wasn’t available when I build the pedal board. Now this. Swapping modules left empty spots to utility case. Knowing myself those empty spaces will disappear.