On my mobile setup, the NiftyVCase I have collected my diy modules (with excepition to the Doepfer A-124, I had to include for its great sound). It features a kick-drum from erica synths, an even VCO, Sampling Modulator, A*B+C and Rampage from Befaco. As well as the Divebomb III for some delay. Last but not least a Zlon skew lfo and a BCM086 Diode Ladder High pass filter.

This time, we have a convoluted patch, featuring a new member, the random sequencer from rat-king, which,as the name suggests, delivers nice randomly sequences. Also we have a new mixer module, self-build. We also utilize both VCOs and both LFO modules…​

jam session Audio

So here is another small patch idea for the Doepfer A-100 system, this time featuring the SEM filter from Oberheim, incarnated in the Doepfer modul A-106-5. We also utilize two LFO modules…​

LFO SEM Patch Audio

LFO SEM Patch Audio 2

LFO SEM Patch Audio 3

To this day I did not find the right audio recorder,and I am recording with my smartphone, so the sound quality is rather bad. I am still searching for the ideal recording hardware.

So here is another simple patch idea for the Doepfer A-100 system, this time featuring the SEM filter from Oberheim, incarnated in the Doepfer modul A-106-5. We also utilize two A-110 oscillator modules (one standard, one basic), and the LFO.

SEM Patch Audio

To this day I did not find the right audio recorder,and I am recording with my smartphone, so the sound quality is rather bad. I am still searching for the ideal recording hardware.

So here is another patch idea for the Doepfer A-100 system. The results of the Doepfer oscillators are pithlily "knarzig-kernige" sounds. We utilize two A-110 oscillator modules (one standard, one basic), a ring-modulator (A-114) and a wasp-filter (A-124), together with some utility modules like a sequencer and an LFO.

pithily…​ Audio

So I bought a low cost eurorack case from doepfer and a set of frontpanels plus power adapter for the pocket operator modular 400 from Oddvolt to put the said machine into a eurorack modular system. I also bought a small, but decent sequencer, since the one from teenage engineering is not very handy to use. I have two further modules on my list, the Doepfer A-119, an input module, as well as the Doepfer A-124, a wasp filter, to complete the setup.

Plong…​ Video

With the random module we can sample & hold a signal from the input. Its companionship is the noise module. We feed the saw output to the input of the rand module.

Beep,bleep…​ Video

sweeping sinus…​ Video

We can expand the setup by using the sequencer and utilize the filter. Because the nice thing about modular synthesizers is, that the filter can be used not only in signal paths but also in control paths ;-) .

Ein analoger modularer Synthesizer war schon immer mein Traum, letzte Woche habe ich mir diesen Traum erfüllt und den Pocket Operator Modular 400 von der schwedischen Firma Teenage Engineering bestellt. Wie bei den Möbeln der anderen beliebten schwedischen Firma muss man ihn erst selbst zusammenbauen, bevor man damit einen Ton erzeugen kann. Das hat etwa 3 bis 4 Stunden gedauert. Aber es hat sich gelohnt.

Hier sind einige Patch-Ideen. Im ersten Beispiel mischen wir einfach die Ausgänge aller 3 Oszillatoren zusammen und steuern den Sinusoszillator mit dem Dreieckausgang des LFO und die Impulsbreite des Rechteckoszillators mit dem LFO-Rechteck.