Hi! I want to start building my own system to play at the studio but also thinking about performing live. Mike parker and Oscar mulero ar some of the names I follow. Percussion will be taken care of by an external drum machine and I was thinking to add a DFAM or Labyrinth to the system or just leave it outside the case to leave space for different modules. You can see in the picture what I've planned for now. Any suggestions about how to improve are really welcome. Cheers!


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You should post a link instead of a picture, easier for us to take a look. It looks like you've thought through it, and clearly have an aesthetic. My two cents are that you will likely need more VCAs to handle envelopes and modulation and you might want to consider some utilities to help you manipulate the system, like switches or routers or matrix mixers, particularly if you'll be playing live. Also, I always recommend utilities like sample and hold, comparators, or random voltage generators for folks, as they are just really fun and damn useful, but it's hard to conceptualize how they can be used until you play with them.

Good luck!


Hi! first of all many thanks for the response and noted about attaching link instead of picture. After reading your comment and spending some time in modular grid I added couple of modules and swapped others but didn't find place for all I'd wish. At this stage without having the chance to play with the system is very hard for me to judge what is essential and what could be added or swapped. I know building a system is very personal but at the moment I'm lost about how i can improve the system so I'm open for advice :P Anyways, here is the current state. Cheers!

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I don't if you have come across Lucas Marchal (dc11), but he makes deep/hypnotic techno, and has some great videos on the Verbos modules. You might find them interesting to see how he's patching his system.