Ive noticed a few mentions of modulars, so wanted to post a pic of mine. It’s grown by about 25% since that pic :).
This isn’t exactly midibox related, so I’ll remove the pic in a few days.
Just finished remodeling my basement. The section to the left is going to be my workbench for building stuff. Section to the right is my music equipment.
This is most of my gear. bottom left is my mb-6582, not in its case yet. The silver box next to that is my cardboard box seq v3. I hope to be building a new seq4 w/ proper control surface soon.
Nothing is actually hooked up yet. I just finished the basement this morning and have been getting things out of storage today.
The black modules are an old PAIA kit, and that got me started, in the 90’s. Then I started building CGS and a few MusicFromOuterspace modules. A couple of blacet (miniwave!).
so, a quick rough list is 3 osc, 3 vca, 1 miniwave, wave multiplier, 5eg’s, 6lfo’s a moog filter, a synthacon filter, bi-n-tic filter, 2xpaia filters. 5 percussion modules (2 bass/kick drum, 1 cymbal, 2 chime). Neural Agonizer (spring reverb), some mixers, multi’s, couple of 8 step sequencers, couple of dividers. Portamento (lag) modules, and ring-mod modules too.
Up on my list to build next are a few Jourgen Haible modules. Living VCO’s, Filter Phaser, and chorus. Oh, and I just got 3 Buchla “lopass gate” pcb’s which are filter/vca’s.
I’m actually thinking about building the new stuff into a little integrated synth.. I’d have jack-ability built in, but it would also be set up as a ready to play synth.. And I’m hoping to take that idea and some midibox stuff, and maybe making an analog synth w/ patch recall.. but so far I can’t quite figure that out.. (I’d need about 24 CVouts to have all their parameters stored together, for the ultimate software controlled analog synth)
best advice I can give to someone building one of these… Get a decent drill press :). Making panels and even drilling holes for DIY PCB’s is super quick and easy. Then for the ‘artwork’ I think I used “lasertran” paper and then I sprayed them w/ lacquer to seal everything. Getting panels made ‘professionally’ for such a huge project doesn’t really make sense.
My girlfriend is an architect, and she did most of the planning. I did the work. (she did a lot of work, too)
And, thanks! we’re proud! Took us about 6 months of weekends. (Tore down old construction, built new framing, new electric, new walls, ceiling, ceiling trim, paint, floor, floor trim, DONE!)
