Building the Mutable Instruments Shruthi-1 was the first step for me to access a whole new world of truly capable musical tools that you can build yourself, with the possibility to modify it to your own personal needs and also to have the satisfaction to build it yourself !
After strolling on the Music Tech SDIY of the MuffWiggler forum during last week, i was hocked by several very interesting SDIY projects and I’ve jumped on several of them. The first one I will build is a dual analog step sequencer called SympleSEQ. This is a community funded project conceived by Hexinverter.net and who is selling different kits for this nice project. The Eurorack panel is available here.
After several days crossing France, Germany, Denmark, North Atlantic Ocean and Faroes Islands, we and our Sequentix Cirklon sequencer have arrived in Iceland ! That was a very long travel …
Here is the last version of our eurorack analog modular synth. We are waiting for a Tiptop Audio Z8000 Matrix Sequencer, a brand new Intellijel uStep gate sequencer and some utilitarian Doepfer modules.
I’ve recently bought Thesys plug-in (formely named Eloquence) from Sugar Bytes. The main reasons of my choice are:
direct integration in a VST host (ableton Live);
good replacement of my Sequentix P3 when I’m travelling;
each sequencer’s line can have its own independant loop (which is missing in the Sequentix P3).
In this small demo, Thesys sequencer is driving a sample set done on my modular synth (from what I can recall a Plan B Model 15 and a Doepfer filter were used). I started with on of the factory preset, tweak it, put some random lines, and … that’s it !
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The Early Years – Release
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