Recent content by Starthief

ADDAC does tend to be pricier than average even for Eurorack. I like the idea of doing something fun with electromagnetic/acoustic stuff and synthesizers but this just isn't it, for my tastes.

I want to point out that the Reface CS isn't referring to CS-80, a bit more akin to the CS1x from 1996 but kind of its own thing.

I had the Reface CS. It was pretty fun for something that kind of looks toylike, but a couple of the modes REALLY wanted more precision in the sliders. It's not just that they're small, but they were digitized without enough resolution. When it's used for controlling the offset of a ring...

New one from me, as close to pure drone as I get. Headphones-in-the-dark stuff. Mostly Eurorack and software, but there's Miezo on one track, processed so much it's basically a breathy synth pad. Notes are at notes: Jnana

I do like the Plexiphon -- love some of the sounds from it, when it's not doing the ping-pong stereo thing anyway. But I realized that the most logical thing for me to drop to put one in my case would be Mimeophon and that's my favorite hardware delay ever. I have software plugins that do the...

I think if I were inclined to go for a pricey reverb pedal, Solis Ventus would be the first one I looked at. The one I have that I'm doubting now is Slöer. It sounds gorgeous but I feel like the settings almost don't matter, except modulation depth/speed But I still use it anyway 🤷 I'm...

I expect so. I have a Dark Star V3 (the stereo one) and have generally used it for synths, I'm not sure I've even tried it on my bass yet, but I'm running Aalto through it right now with a 31Hz drone and can get some pretty good stuff going on. The pitch shift is in the feedback path, and both...

Ambient is a really, really poorly defined genre that can cover a lot of different territory. I would say... generally more electronic than not (but there are exceptions) most of it is instrumental usually abstract in some way generally slow, but not always not necessarily having a...

Growing up on the Gulf (of Mexico, dammit) in Florida, if the air was warm enough the water generally was too. But I got a shock when we went to Juniper Springs, where you can see through 80-foot deep water perfectly clearly and it's coooooold by comparison.

I've got the two Eurorack modules I preordered last year, Joranalogue Walk 4 and Fancyyy K-Accumulator. Walk 4 is cool. It's basically a set of 4 circuits that do this: - on each clock pulse, add the input + knob + random value from its own white noise generator, to the current stored...

I've been really happy with my Focusrite Scarlett 18i20, 3rd gen. (4th gen has difitally controlled levels and an autogain feature, 3rd gen has actual knobs.) I have a Boredbrain Optx Eurorack ADAT interface for it.

They were showing earlier iterations of this at Superbooth for 2-3 years. Korg Berlin started out as a sort of experimental lab where they were working on this concept and didn't know if they'd end up turning it into any products. What they started with seemed like it had a lot of potential...

I'm going to do a "No New Gear Year" in 2026. GAS hasn't really been a *problem* as such, but I'm treating this more like an opportunity to get to know the gear I have better. Some of it I do know quite well, and some of it deserves a lot more exporation and deeper familiarity. It's not going...

I've thought about getting it multiple times, and never jumped on it because I didn't want to let go of anything big enough to make the room. But then this got announced. https://www.fancysynthesis.net/ It's too good and too interesting for me to pass up. So I had a showdown between a few of...

I'm happy enough not to be that thrilled about granular for the most part -- I have a couple of FX I like in Eurorack, which are enough. I'm also really not into the new Whimsical Raps Atrium. But I did recently get myself a used u-he CVilization. I had one before, and decided my mixing needs...