Guitarist/songwriter - help getting rack started?

Hi all, I’m looking to expand my songwriting and sound design toolkit for inspiration and fun... After many years writing for a guitar-oriented band, I’ve really loved branching out with my Moog Sub37 and DFAM - especially during confinement. The DFAM is exactly the kind of quirky idea generator I had in my head for low-fi, fuzzy, spacey patterns. I’m building on that but would love some help getting started. Here is my guitar music, though I’m branching out from here: https://karmarocket.bandcamp.com/

I have an 0 Coast and Intellijel 4U Palette on the way, and plan to fill it as a starter (yes I know, tons of research, experimentation, manual diving, learning ahead of me and I can't wait....) to make sound hands-on and combine the DFAM, 0 Coast, Sub37, guitar pedals to see what happens. I’ll expand from there one day when I know where I’m going.

Thoughts, especially to have the minimum ingredients to start cooking here? I have a Focusrite 2i2 and Ableton, but I like the idea of being able to create without turning the computer on, potentially take with me traveling. What else is needed, and is there any functionality in the modules I show here that may be redundant? I want to start small, but know I need some basic components to get going.

Thanks for looking - I know there are many similar newbie posts. Great to see all the interest.

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

The configuration you have would be great to modulate your other equipment, but not so good as a standalone instrument (IMO).

If you want something all-around that you can use stand-alone or with your other equipment, check out the Andrew Huang starter system. It's a great balance of modulation, sound generation and effects to explore.

https://www.perfectcircuit.com/andrew-huang-system.html

You could use Andrew's as a starting point and maybe swap out Plaits for your BIA. That'd give you an extra 2hp, I'd swap out MCO for Klavis Twin Waves to build a basic subtractive synth voice (check the depth will fit).

Marbles is awesome, but large for such a small case. Maybe look at a smaller Marbles clone, or Qu-Bit Nano-Rand.

I might go here with it:
https://cdn.modulargrid.net/img/racks/modulargrid_1260559.jpg

Just my 2c. Modular is a very personal exploration. Enjoy your leap!

EDITED Jul 7th 2020, 01:45

Hey - thanks very much for the response! I’m continuing to evolve my plan and now that the Tetrapad/Tête and mixup are in hand, I’ll be experimenting to connect up the 0 Coast and DFAM, control with the Tete/Tetrapad to see what I can do, then consider what is most missing. I’m sure effects couldn’t possibly hurt, what is vague to me as a newbie is how much sequencing/clock I’ll need/want in addition to the T/T. The research is fun, now time for my own discovery! I’m sure I’ll be checking in again soon...