What should I add to this rack (and why)

I have this little case that I’m quite pleased with. The power supply doesnt occupy rack space. So I have 4hp on the bottom row, and 10hp on the top going spare.

I built the Dysmetria diy kit, and that was good fun so I’m looking for other DIY ideas.

I’m open to ideas as to what to add, if you have any suggestions please let me know. DIY prefered, but not a deal breaker.

I had thought about a befaco spring reverb, but I’ve got spring reverb elsewhere.

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Not a lot of room… looks fun already! Pam’s seems like an obvious one. What do your ears and fingers say?

EDIT: If DIY preferred (and you are cool with sourcing components), you might scope out some of the more compact but still bonkers offerings from NLC. I can vouch for Divine CMOS turning 2 oscs into something absolutely menacing, and it’s cool for modulation; 8-Bit Cipher is also fun, even though I don’t know what the hell it’s really doing.

You’ll have to help me out there, what does a Pam’s do? (One thing I severely dislike about eurorack is the stupid naming, just call it what it is! ) anyway, thanks for suggestions. I guess I’m looking for modulatey stuff, and maybe another sound source if its something weird? There was a tiny Vowel module I saw that might be good. 2hp I think

Pamela’s New Workout, it’s a module by ALM that basically does a bit of everything. It has 8 channels that can be LFOs, envelopes, triggers, clock, sequencers. It’s very versatile, but the interface is a bit menu divey.

I wouldn’t bother with another voice, I’d definitely be thinking about a versatile modulation source and maybe some VCAs.

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Thanks. Yeah that wont work for me. I want stuff I dont need to look at, can just do it by feel. So far the SV1 and Dysmetria fit that bill. I can sequence pitch and gate from my OT, so dont need a sequencer either.

You could pop one of these in your 4hp gap.

It squeezes a lot into a small module, but there are tradeoffs, as it doesn’t have much in the way of control, so you’d definitely need a lot of VCAs or attenuators to make the most of it.

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Ochd, A-118-2, 6 hp utility (3xMIA, Triplatt, etc)

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Yeah, that’s a big problem for me with a lot of eurorack these days, trying to put too much functionality into small modules and turning them into a menu problem.

Yeah, something like a 3xMIA is a good choice.

Get yourself signed up to modulargrid and start shopping mate.

A Noise Engineering Versio module - you can swap out the firmware between them so you’re never locked into one effect, and they’re really great modules.

Electus Versio is a delay/reverb - that’s what I’d go with - or maybe the distortion one if you like dirt. Along with something to mix/send your signals into it with the 4hp gap.

Very tactile modules, nothing’s fiddly, it’s all there on a top quality knob and a convenient patchbay with CV to everything.

Blank panels. Use what you have for a while until you figure out what you’re lacking.

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Yeah that’s pretty obvious.
Ive had the SV1 for a couple of years. The dysmetria I finished a few months back. The main reason I put them in the rack was to reduce PSU’s.

The audio outs from both will go through my OT regardless, and that will most likely provide fx, midi, and sampling.

I’m not a eurorack rack guy, I dont know whats what. Ive messed around with Mirack for a while, but here my question is specifically about what will fit in the gaps. Looking for cool ideas.

Understood. Are you currently taking audio straight out of the SV-1 and Dysmetria into the inputs of your OT, without any attenuation?

In the 10hp slot you should put in a small box. And two 4 hp blanks and use as a piggybank. So you can afford a bigger rack because you know you would want to expand your system later!

How are you with the filters?

Happy, or would another flavour of filter add something?

If OT is doing fx and you’re not convinced you need allllll the modulation you can get, a wavefolder would be good.

Fold 6, 6 hp utility, ochd or A-118-2

If you already have a sequencer, mixer, fx then perhaps some modulations could be nice.

Make Noise Function as it can do many different things

then a mult so that you can use up to 6 LFOs from Function (the normal one and reversed one)

this is 10hp.
I would keep adding different type of LFOs with the 4hp left or… a mixer.

I thought Drezno could be fun to add but 12hp…

DataBender too but 14hp…

You already have a sequencer but sometimes it’s fun to use different sequencers:

A sequencer can also be used as an LFO. (You may need a quantizer if used for pitch sequencing)

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DIY Turing Machine & øchd.

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Yep. Or running Dysmetria into SV1 mixer, Or running both through my mixer then to OT. Works fine straght into OT though.

Very happy with filters.

Not much in the DIY realm then huh? I looked at the NLC stuff. To be honest it just irritated me, the silly names, what the fuck is it then? and the aesthetic, not exactly nice to look at. And yeah, that stuff is important.

Loads.

Check out synth DIY guy on YouTube, visit thonk’s website, though I don’t know if it’s worth your while shipping from them to Australia, but it’ll give you an idea of what’s available.

Good DIY brands:

Befaco
Music Thing Modular
Frequency Central
Shakmat
Beepboop

You can even do a DIY search on Modulargrid.

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