 Hello, Osle to sync here. I haven't featured the modular on the channel for a little while now For no other reason than I've had other stuff to feature honestly and because I haven't and because It has changed a little bit since the last time I have featured it. I thought it might be nice just to do a fairly informal kind of state of the modular kind of video so talk about What's in the rack at the moment and why why I like it how I use it and Also towards the end of the video maybe talk a little bit about how I have been integrating the rack with other gear that I have because although I haven't been showing it on the channel I have been using it as a meditative way to make music I suppose So Yeah, so Let's just take a real chill walk Down modular alley and take a look at what's in the rack as of today because as we know a modular rack is Never actually finished So before we dive into what's actually in the rack Let's just put a little bit of context around what I was trying to achieve with this rack Why continue to try and achieve with this rack? The first thing I guess which it does inform quite a lot of What's in here is that I was trying to create a single sort of Musical workstation that was primarily around I guess primarily around sort of ambient type sounds But actually increasingly I've been really enjoying it for doing sort of like more sort of techno type stuff as well Especially when paired with other things so I was quite strict possibly needlessly strict with myself in terms of sticking with just this rack route 3u so I've got what 90 95 HP to play with or something And because of that a lot of the choices that I've made about the modules in here is that I've gone for small things and Perhaps sometimes that means that the ergonomics of actually reaching in there and tweaking things have suffered I'll admit that and While I would maybe enjoy more space I think trying to optimize what you can do within a small rack is quite an interesting challenge And one of the other things that was really important to me with putting this together Was thinking about stereo movement and things being in stereo So there's a lot of stuff in the rack which is geared towards making sure that I can do that kind of stereo move Because that's particularly important to me when I'm making ambient music in particular and like There to be some wide movement in there to keep sort of Catching the ear when the music might otherwise be moving quite slowly So that's kind of the context of What's going on in here? So maybe let's pull this patched down and Talk about what's actually in the rack So the most sensible way to talk about this rack is probably from left to right because it's kind of laid out with a logical progression of Clocks and modulators sound sources modifiers and then sort of stereo imaging and output out the other end So they the rack kind of flows in that direction anyway And the first thing that is in the rack is Pamela's new workout from ALM this As far as I'm concerned is as close to a must-have Module that exists. It will find a home in I think in any sort of rack There have been various different videos Talking about its functionality. Div kid obviously has done a really really good one Red means recording did one more recently as well talking about the way that Pamela's new workout kind of works. It is a It is a clocked thing source To call it just a clock is massively underselling what it can do. It does do that very very well It's a very very stable clock source But the things that it can do on top of that with like Euclidean rhythms with modulating itself self-patching type stuff Really really wonderful stuff. So I won't retread that ground so much but in terms of Creating rhythms with it Incredible. It also does clocked modulation sources so you can have LFO sweeps which follow the Timing of the track and everything one thing that maybe I haven't seen quite so many people talk about that I really like using it for is actually to generate Random melodies because that's a really nice feature around that. So I'll just show you that at the very least So for this example, I'm just going to take output one of pounds I'm going to go into the volts proactive of Nano rings here because this will detect changes in Pitch and retrigger automatically and I'll need another longer patch cable and we'll just go from the output Or take odd and even just go over here into my output here Even so what I'll do is I'll come over to the setup for number one here and I'll go into the menu we're holding down. I'm going to set my Mode here to random and if I press start now you can hear rings Plonking away there lovely Now those are just going to be random Voltages so it's not going to be in a particular scale or anything but what we can do here is Come across to our Quantization mode here moment it's set to no, but we can put it into a scale so maybe I'll go into like a Minor pentatonic or something And now we start getting a randomized Melody here that's all within a particular scale and we can do stuff now like Use a Euclidean Pattern perhaps Five into eight And get nice rhythms going on there if we want to constrain the range here we could go into Level and turn that down that will make everything bias towards lower notes Because the overall maximum level has been reduced But if we then wanted to constrain it to sort of more for mid-range thing we could apply an offset So we could sit everything within a particular range So you can very quickly get into a place where you've got these sort of randomized But controlled melodies And you make use of the Euclidean rhythms in there And using this as kind of like a basis for something that's going on below a chord that's That you know is in the right key can be really good. The other thing that we can do is in the Loop setting here we can also Set this to loop a particular Melody so we could maybe set this as a 12-loop And what we should find Okay, there's that little figure we had before and now we've been able to leap a particular Section here, and then you could do stuff like Put this loop control or one of the CV controls and we could treat this a bit like a A bit a shift register rather When we put it down to zero it stops looping and then we could so we could use one of these sliders here to Lock in a particular length turn it down to fill up with new ideas Lock it again by sticking up. So when we come across something we like we can Bring it into focus so obviously Pam's is a really really great stable clock source and everything but I Mostly use it for this kind of stuff to generate these sort of semi randomised scaled melodies Of course, it can do all of the other clock stuff as well for doing you clearly realize everything. It's fantastic I use it a lot for that especially more of a Beat oriented setup, but I love it for this. It's a little ideas machine wonderful So next up in the rat is a mutable instruments stages, which is a fantastic module I'm gonna say that about all of the modules. I think probably It can generate envelopes and LFOs and various segments and offsets. It's a really useful all-purpose Modulation station if you like It takes a little bit of learning I think to get into the mindset of how to use it But once you kind of get there, it's it's easy enough to get a handle on the difference with my stages To how it comes from the factories that I've loaded up with the alternate firmware called key mem I'll put a link in the description if I remember This firmware takes stages from being some things that I Definitely wanted in my rack to something that is indispensable to me because the firmware Fixes some of the gripes or implements some of the features that I wished were in here So the two main ones are that the LFOs can now go much slower than they could because they were still a little rapid for like Really long ambient draining stuff as they were so we can reduce the rates of the LFOs if we want to Crucially for me, you can now make things be Bipolar so previously with stages it would go from zero up to I guess five or eight volts now it will go Positive five to negative five which allows you to sweep things backwards and forwards which most of my modules prefer or The way I like to use them. That's more convenient but I think The biggest change and these I haven't listed all of them, but the biggest change that I find really really useful I'm a big fan of various types of random Modulation and the new firmware introduces a fourth segment type Which is a random segment type which can do various things like Sloth like random Modulation generator it can be a shift register As well so you can get repeated patterns in here and it again It just makes everything on stage is just slightly more useful for my purposes So as an example here now, I've got this on a random mode here If I press and hold to go into cycling starts flashing like this Perhaps we'll patch that to stay with the patch we had already if I push it into shape And turn up the shape modulation amount which is already Give it a bit more speed and Start my sound again So now you can hear that the timer of everything is changing at the moment It's only going up see the yellow light here is only going up if we Hold and wiggle like that We now get negative modulation as well So we can sit this in the middle turn in tony waiter up and then we're going to go which is great and And Just do the same thing on the other one go into looping mode there Maybe give this one the Position So although you can do all these complex Envelope type tricks with stages I Will often just use it set up as a bunch of LFOs some which are running in Random modes I use it for the shift register as well So essentially with this you can have stages set up to be six Turing machines more or less Which is kind of crazy And for certain types of patches especially again thinking more in the sort beat-oriented side of things super super powerful and Unlike Pam's where you're sort of doing a pseudo shift register. It's all works properly in terms of locking and Probability of letting new values in so if you've looked at Any videos on the Turing machine you kind of get a feel for what That could do for a patch especially when paired with a quantizer which incidentally with this new firmware the orange Segments can be set up to quantize to a scale as well Andy portamento So you can run a Turing machine segment into a step segment and And get that's classic Turing machine plus quantizer setup all within stages Just by using two of the six segments, which is kind of crazy So, yeah, if you've got stages and you're comfortable with it I would really recommend checking out the Key mem firmware if you haven't already because like I say it's taken What was a really useful? Utility module and turned it into something that's even more creative than it already was So rather conveniently seen as it's already patched in Next is Nano rings which is a small sort of Minimised clone of the mutual instrument rings rings itself is a nice large luxurious Module which I would love to have but I just don't have space for in this rack I would sort of run out of space really really quickly if I started using all the full-size mutual stuff Unfortunately when I build a bigger rack then I will probably Get some of those as well Both this and be hive next to it were made by a guy called T music who's in Bristol So not far down the road from from me and He's been great. He's actually going to replace the panel on on be hive for me because he's got these really swish looking new panels I'll make sure I show it in the video at some point but anyway Rings is in the rack because I'm a walking cliche and I want to make ambient music therefore I must have rings in my rack Glib but probably true. So rings is a physical modeling synth it does various different types of physical modeling and What's really nice about it in terms of sort of getting patches up and running is that we can use it just the way we Were using just here where it's set up to just detect enough of a change on volts proactive to trigger a new note and What that means is you can use rings As we have been here with just a pitch source as I've got from from Pam's here And it has various different modes with various different Types of various different types of physical modeling like this one for kind of Techno stuff as well And various different poly modes which allow us to pan things between the two Sides or everything in the middle with more of a stereo move up with position a lot of people I think maybe overlook the fact that we have a Second set of modes on this and some of these are really really good if I press and hold on the mode Sorry try again We do go into Alternate modes which do different things so red alternate gives us like a reverbed version Which is beautiful and I use this one a lot, but the one I think it is super useful is the one on green I think it is RIP everyone so this Some of this modulation Is actually a two-up FM voice? Which is really cool? I've used this for bass lines and then the orange alternate is The a harmonic resonating strings. I think it's really nice as well So it always kind of sounds good used in this way, but a lot of the time I actually Don't use it as it's as an instrument like this. I will often run things into it instead And use it as a traditional resonator So if I just take the output of this Going to in so now I'm processing a sample through a resonator which can be Kind of really interesting. It's still giving it the pitch as well. If we take that volt procter perhaps We can process other sources through it and that can be really cool as well for creating the basis for other drones And often what I'll do if I'm making use of a sample as I will malt the sample and Send it into rings as a sort of ultimate version of that sample So next up in the rack is beehive, which is a minimized version of musical instruments Plats so beehive is in here because it is a complete voice if you want to use it that way and it does a bunch of different things So it's just a useful module to have in order to get lots of things done potentially So I'm just going to give it volts procter and also pop a Trigger in here In there and we'll just take an output To have a listen to that Just go from the output Find it and go into here turn off the reverb for a second and Yeah What this gives you is is a bunch of different types of of sounds And I'm using it with a trigger which means that I am using the built-in VCA But if you take away the trigger, it's just going to drone and you can run it into a VCA or Low pass gate or whatever you want to do and I think honestly Plats has probably been Covered many many times It's just one of those things that again if you're building a rack like I am which is Short on space It's one of those ways that you can get a lot of utility and a lot of different sounds and Indeed Not need a separate VCA or filter for it necessarily chord mode, you know a staple of Techno Racks all over the world This is the The voice I've actually used this in a jam Quite successfully, but you have to put some thought into it If you have a micro freak you probably recognize a lot of the sounds on beehive because That's making use of a lot of these algorithms as well We have also got various different sort of because of a noise modes here. I particularly like we take out some of this stuff here and That's this one some of these noise modes are really useful for Triggering other things like this one here with The sort of bandpass filter vibe to it if we instead Take that into rings for example, I suspect this was almost entirely designed In order to trigger rings it sounds great doing that very pretty but you can also use it to do like kick drums So if I just go into the trigger here and We come a couple down Got some mini rings in there. So in a pinch if I need a kick drum We can get it from plats If I need a snare and of course with the aux modes you've got Often quite different alternative sounds as well symbols hi-hats So like I say in a pinch We could modulate the morph there to get opening shut sounds We get pretty funky pretty quickly So I mean as I say a lot of utility in a small package And a lot of applications depending on where you want to sit it so you can use it to basic oscillator You can use it for effects. You can use it with the noise modes to trigger other things we can use it for For beats as well and of course you can also modulate the model as well so If we stick this random bit of modulation into model here we can do stuff like that which It's depending what you're trying to achieve could be really really great, especially if you started panning that around Which we could do in this setup, but I'll get to that in a bit so yeah, it's just a Really useful friend to have around and I think that's probably one of the main themes of the whole rack is that There are lots of really useful little friends So next on the rack is the 2hp VCO So this is a VCO which is based on the same trip that a lot of VCOs are Based on that I'm now blanking on the name of it's the classic one with your triangle Saw and then a pulse width modulatable square wave output. This is a pure VCO. It's not full voice All on its own. So you do need to pair it with Filter VCA or a low pass gate, but in terms of why it's in the rack. Well, I just realized that When I was using for example rings as a resonator or I was Using this thing which I'll get to for something other than sample playback. I was often finding myself sort of lacking our synth voice so This was just a way for me to Quickly get another synth voice really and It's a nice sounding VCO into HP That's certainly in the second-hand market Really pretty cheap. So no great complaints There and it just does VCO things Yeah, it can't complain give it some pulse width modulation Keep it about happy Much need to attenuate that That's one of the downsides of having something so small is that you are going to lose out on Some of the utility there You know, I could say it's a VCO into HP. It sounds good You can use the different outputs at the same time. So We could take the triangle out to a separate Output and have that pulse away in a different rhythm to create rhythmic and trust It's got FM, which is exponential. I think so It's better for doing bell tones It's got sync there for doing sync sounds if you have another VCO you could use for that It's a VCO and it's tiny and that's kind of useful to have around So not much more to say about it. It's in there because I needed another another sound source and and so it is So next up is a disting mark for so a disting if you're not aware is an Everything module it can be configured to do a bunch of different things. You have three inputs Zed is usually control these two are often Audio inputs were not necessarily and then you have two outputs and it can do But it can do everything it can be a VCO it can play back samples. It can be a tuner. It can be a precision adder it can be a VCA it can be a quantizer it can do Your actor book la CV conversions it can do Stuff it can do lots and lots of stuff and it has a very minimal user interface Which means that it is a module that I can never remember how to use when I want to use it And as a result I mostly use it for sample playback Occasionally quantizing and getting a reference pitch for tuning oscillators And that's fine because even if it just did sample playback has the various of the sample playback modes which you still struggle to get in for HP and It's just one of those modules that if you have a small rack like I do You have this compromise of trying to cram as much functionality in as possible and This does that if I don't have a module that I need that likely it is that this thing can do it And it still gets firmware updates which add new functionality. I'm not even running the most recent firmware update actually in the offset Generator You can now basically I think replicate this module in here, which you couldn't do previously Which is partially why I got this module It's just one of those things that this thing couldn't do quite in the same way But it can now I think but I mostly use it for sample playback and for that it's Good it does stereo it does dual samples so you can have a stereo file or two mono files and have them both running at once It has various playback mode so you can play things back at half speed at double speed You can reverse stuff. It's just one of those things that it's just very useful to have so here is playing Something would just slow down and I think this is in dual mode. So if we plugged in Be here And send that to another output Or even the other side of the same output perhaps we should find that we have two different Leaps gone at once maybe come to what mode it's in honestly Isn't that making a noise that I was going to turn it up, that's why And use your watch it up. Perhaps Okay, so I think this is just in stereo mode So we've got a nice wide stereo edge there, but we can also do dual Playback where you have two different audio files playing back Lots of stuff that you can you can do with it. I most use it for sample playback But that is Definitely not the only thing that you can do with it But The user experience in terms of the interface is not the greatest It can't be with all this functionality crammed into this So I always have to go back to the manual to remember how to do anything Which is a bummer, but if I wanted all this functionality In multiple modules I would have spent more than I've spent on this entire rack. So You can complain a little bit, but not Not that much right next up is the tertiary in a from noise engineering. This is a distortion In fact, it's not a distortion. It's three distortions this one this one and this one you have three knobs They're not CV controlable. So if you want to adjust again, you're gonna have to Put a VCA before each input But you can take a sound and mangle it in various different ways. So I'll just take one side of this Go into the in here Go into the Out and into a tenuator so we don't blow things up and then from the attenuator to the output and Now we have a DOOMified version this is with the gain down to zero of That loop and you can absolutely mash it So each of these circuits has an separate input and output so we can try each of them internally or have different flavors I like that one on samples, especially slower samples Because it doesn't totally fuzz out But gives you all of that lovely sustain and grit filter that down with a band pass filter happy days And we've got this last one here Just like a fuzz circuit Which really blows out the top end as you go to the middle of the game Super if you plug into the top each circuit is normal to the next so you can Absolutely smash it through all Yes, good listening, okay Good as I say you've got no Game control there, but you could put this through a VCA and by lowering the game by the VCA You could lower the amount of distortion what I really love this for is Because you have these different circuits here. You can multi-signal to these various different circuits and And do stuff with like pinging stuff and panning stuff. So if I Grab a splitter We'll go Into that one and we'll go in To the next one that'll break the normalization between the Output of one And the input of the next And we take these two out separately maybe to two sides of this like that Grab a gate pattern there we go Plunk that into an output create Quickly create another gate pattern here Bear with me Pams for Patville rhythms That's previously discussed awesome Give that some CV and take that to our output I'm just going to the other side of the stereo here Because you've got these sort of different flavors of distortion even though we've got the same input signal there By taking those out and you treat them as two sides of the stereo spectrum you can get different enough sounds that they kind of Sit different. I mean if we just grab the kick drum off Beehive I think we're getting there our way, right? So I love using this to take a single source and then just sort of squash it in different ways I'll be able to treat that single source as two separate stereo things again one of the main Things that I was interested in when I was building this was thinking about stereo movement And that's just a way where we can Get to that kind of stage pretty quickly. I love this module. I use it loads taking pinged Filters into this and using them as drums Super Yeah, good stuff Really really like it They do a bunch of different distortion Modules the new digital one looks really really interesting. I don't have space for it at the moment But I suspect that would be one that I grab when I do Find some space So next up is either 410 or 10 depending on how you want to pronounce it from WMD This is a 4 channel attenuator, which is You know, it's a 4 channel attenuator. It lets you turn signals down Which is a useful thing to do sometimes. We've done it multiple times already. One of the things I really appreciate about this is that You have the signal light on each of the slider so you can see how much signal is coming in as well That's not what the output signal is. It's the signal coming in It's just one of those touches that I really really appreciate on a module Let's me know that stuff is patched up properly. The other thing that this does however that is really really useful That is the reason I got this over other attenuators is that if you don't patch anything in to an input You have a five volt normalized Outputs which means you have to have a slider for controlling other things. So for example, if I wanted to have control over pulse width modulation on the VCO here just on a slider Because there's no knob for it. So this is a perfect example. Well done thinking of this example on the fly So if I just pop this in here We should What are we doing? So now I have pulse width modulation On a slider, so just one of those extra bits of utility Again trying to squeeze as much out of a small space as possible Yeah, it's an attenuator plus a a fixed signal generator, which is Very useful so next up from to carb. This is the two LPG. This is the version two And this is two low pass gates squeezed into two HP and It's completely passive no power cable on the back of this tool It's not taking up any of my power strips and it sounds brilliant. You've heard it already multiple times in this video It's it's just a really good sounding low pass gate and it's passive and tiny and cheap so cheap it's like 45 quid to get the the version to even less Potentially if you if you get the old one, but you know you plug a signal in you take a signal out and You either hit it with modulation or the way I usually do it is I hit it with gates So if we just grab one of these here put some gates into it It's got three different time modes in the middle it just acts like a passive VCA, so it's not doing any attenuation to the top end Got a brighter version And a duller version it's very responsive to the level of the Input here, so if I turn this down I'm just gonna get quieter We'll get duller as well obviously that mode and For doing rhythmic stuff or For doing typically very plucky stuff. It's just brilliant and so cheap and so small I Recommend that you get one My recommendation I use it all the time. It's probably the module that is never not used So next up is the adax 604 dual filter. This is two filters in six HP It can work in stereo or as dual mono. I've done a whole video on this module So I won't go into it too much One of the things I do appreciate though is how things get normal and also That it's kind of dirty when you push it and it gets dirty quite quickly Which may be completely Not what you want frankly in some situations, but a lot of my applications having a little bit of dirt there It's really really useful So it crunches up quite quickly So you might want to tend to it going into it But you've got outputs for high pass Band pass and low pass and they can be used simultaneously so you can do spectral panning and stuff like that This is in dual mode, but we can also sit in stereo mode where we'll follow Channel one, but you can still offset channel two so you can get a Bit of a change between them. You're hearing the Band pass here. It's normaled the input across both sides. So we don't need to split or anything You hear that's crunching up there, but the output is Hot-ish there and the resonance is up. It also sounds really good when you ping it for getting like kick drum sounds. So if I Just do this so we'll just have the band pass there I'll just send it a trigger. It's not even like proper Not even like a Proper signal just a trigger here into the input It has a lovely woody Kind of vibe to it as I mentioned one of the things I like to do with that is Run this pinged filter into terse Usually the second One actually and you can kind of get a bit more grit out of it run into both just the top one The light gain or introducing some noise, but what's that noise? So, yeah Again nice thing to have all works in stereo, which as I said before is kind of a key part of my setup. So Yeah, so next up is the dope for a 113-2 This is essentially a two-channel VCA But the difference is that this one can also invert the signal as well. I originally got this to Do some additional panning tricks. I don't need it for that so much these days But I'm certainly having a way to attenuate Amplify and invert a signal is just a useful thing to have if anything I probably don't have enough VCA's in this rack now. I used to have the eight channel dope for Which was I didn't have any controls It was just a inputs a outputs and eight CVs for each of the channels had some mixing and something on it And that was a really really useful module, but not having the Control for the initial value of the initial level I should say of the VCA meant that I had to use a channel of 410 to Do that to have an initial value and then I would have to mix The signal somehow the CV signal somehow so I ended up using a lot of modules to do something quite simple Which I can now just do on this I It remains to be seen if I am short of VCA's now The nice thing is as we'll see when we get to the next module that I do kind of have some extra VCA's Well, yeah It's an inverting VCA It's really useful to have VCA's I probably don't have enough VCA's This is to VCA's so we come to my most recent acquisition, which is a make noise X panel I've wanted one of these since I first started building my rig and Couldn't find one for love nor money. I ended up buying this one secondhand for Almost a new price because I was fed up of not owning one I used to have two ADAC panners one of those broke which left me with not enough panners So why that's what kind of spur me to get the X-Pan. It's a Two channel power crossfader with an additional stereo input with a VCA so it's kind of a five input mixer With one of those inputs being stereo plus a panor. It's fantastic Let me grab Some rings probably again, we'll come come back around to rings. Why not? That was my Vox proactive. We'll just use the Vox proactive and I will Come into a here It's already patched into my output. So You can pan. I've patched it backwards. That's an eye Unpatch that and patch it around again Okay So you can pan things You can crossfade things, but if there's nothing in the other side That acts as a VCA both the panning and the crossfade are CV able So this is part of the reason that I don't need an additional VCA is I can plug stuff into the crossfade And to be side of the crossfade if I apply positive CV it's gonna act like VCA And I can start panning things around as well, but let's patch in some panning One of these already it's bipolar such be fine so we can get stuff panning around for us Just use the mandum one actually So we get some lovely stereo movement there if we were to work with Something a bit more VCA Actually, I tell you what let's Yeah, maybe on this next one if we take our Triangle wave into there into there, sorry, and if I convert This into a just a triangle wave here if I plug this into the crossfade now You can hear that we can treat that as a VCA So we have a VCA here or Another output here and put it into the other side in crossfade between those two things as well It's a crossfading panning Treat things as VCA is as well, and then we also have an orcs input here, which is a stereo input I'll say just a stereo input having a stereo input is really really good And we also have a control over the orcs level so there is a stereo VCA on this as well Which means that I don't lose a channel in my mixer Essentially, I can just plug what was going to go in there in here and I now have VCA control over it as well You can do lots of stuff with If I take this triangle here and we put it into the pan instead We can do Audio rate panning and get all these lovely side bands. So it's kind of like a Stereo ring mod, which is really cool. I wonder what ten you wait that really Yeah, I love this module. There we go bit cleaner. So it's panning VCA mixing Everything can be done at audio rate for lots of other nice Stuff as well. It's a reverb. Why not? Very fun. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. So just to finish off with the boring part, I guess of the Of the system we have a bifaco mix, which is a four-channel stereo mixer. There's no control over the The mix levels in terms of VCA or anything Or although it's it's actually four channel with volume controls and then a fifth channel Which is the oxen which comes in a unity which allows you to days you change stuff it's truly speaking I could probably get away with Plugging the x-pan into the aux in a lot of cases just haven't in this one It's Mixer I wish I had mute controls on it I would certainly welcome having VCA control over this but in six HP. I'm probably not going to find that There are some modules which do give you a bit more control in this size But don't give you as many channels for example. So this is what I've got the moment It's not always ergonomically the best thing to be trying to bring sounds in and out with these controls here So it might get changed out. I don't know yet struggling to find something which gives me as many channels In the space but with more functionality. I don't know where to put more inputs for example Yeah, and then that goes into the bifako out module, which is just an output module which brings things on to Line level you've also got a headphones out with a separate volume control and a Q input which you can send to the headphones so that you can for example Silently tune oscillators if you're in the middle of a performance It's fine. It's a bit noisy sometimes especially if you can't give it a properly Grounded output. So for example, I can't use this with my Microcosm because it ends up creating a ground loop because it doesn't have a proper Balanced stereo input. So again There are other options. I might try some out at some point, but for the moment, it's it's working okay for me in most situations So just quickly before we finish and just talking about integrating this with other parts of my setup Obviously with my mini-root 2s. It works really nicely. We can send Clock into Pamela or out of Pamela into the mini-root to synchronize them That works really well anything with CV and gate is going to integrate with this Nicely because we can just use Pam's to synchronize things or use those things to synchronize Pam essentially Pam has clock and run inputs one of the things that I got hold of to play with this a little bit more with my Electron gear in particular was the CV OCD Which is a little box here, which takes MIDI in and then you have four CV outputs and then 12 gate or clock outputs Which can all be configured To do whatever you want. So in my case ABCD 1 2 3 4 Channels 11 through Things 11 12 13 14. I think that's how I got it set it up for both pitch and gate so on the middle MIDI channels on my On my electron gear I can just plug this in by MIDI and as long as I'm sending stuff to those MIDI channels I get the pitch information out on here and I can use that to sequence stuff in the rack and then Over here these top gate signals are just related to notes on channel One of the other channels. I forget which one in particular But that basically allows me to use another channel. It's like a drum sequence or as long as I'm treating C1 as as a kick Be a D1 as a snare and so on and then on the last line here. I've got various different MIDI cock outs I had real trouble with this in theory Output 12 should be giving me 24 pulses per quarter note so I can properly synchronize PAMs but it Either drifts or skips sometimes which means that constantly desyncs. So I have to run it at a lower clock rate, which is fine PAMs will begrudgingly work with that, but it does come The clock is in stable constantly So what I did get I what I forgot was that the Digitone and the Digitapt the second MIDI output can be configured to do Dinsync which Works very well. That gives you a 24 pulses per quarter notes output and a run signal and ALM sell this cable or you can make one yourself, but Wasn't expensive. So it's grabbed one. Anyway, Dinsync goes in here. It looks like MIDI But because it's a DIN connector, but it's a Dinsync signal instead You plug this into the clock and run inputs on PAMs and it synchronizes beautifully Perfect. So I use this to synchronize my electron gear and then I use CVO CD to send MIDI data So anyway, thank you so much for indulging me as I've explored my modular rack as it stands at the start of 2022 obviously decent and never finished Thing but this is where it is at the moment and I'm pretty happy with with what it does with A couple of things that could be improved. I think maybe I was interesting Perhaps you picked up some inspiration for some modules that you want to try out or possibly some alternate firmware for modules that you already earn that you want to check out if you're Not into modular. Perhaps this has raised some questions about whether you should get into module. That's certainly hit If you're lucky, it's dissuaded you from getting into modular because that's certainly the cheaper option Yes, but as always, thank you so much for watching and And until next time take care. Bye