Clearly a strong value.I picked up a Sebsongs Bread & Butter kit. It's a 6HP poly General MIDI stereo synth voice with 128 instruments, a drum kit, 64 polyphonic voices with independent decay. It can be driven by MIDI and/or CV.
It is an easy way to provide polyphonic voices for my Tetrachords harmonic experiments without getting side-tracked by sound design. I see it as kind of like Plaits except its polyphonic.
I’ve been struck by more or less the same “problem”: the MIDI out on Tetrachords is far too appealing to ignore. This far, I’ve been using it with plugins within Bitwig, and that brings the advantage of MIDI transformation effects in the DAW. I do think this is a current weakness with MIDI within the modular domain: all those notes are sharing the same gate. Eurorack could use a multi-envelope generator that responds to MIDI (and CV, of course) and implements more sophisticated behaviors. NOH-modular is beating around that bush with their Pianist and Comper, but those aren’t EGs, nor MIDI. Hermod+ might be able to do some of this.
I don’t have much interest/stomach for using chord mode with CV. The Cycle Instruments guys are all using the Doepfer A-111-4, and I have plenty of oscillators (including a quad wavetable module) but that’s a lot of patching and modules for a 3-4 note voice, and there’s not much about that—in terms of modular potential—to excite me. Moreover, until there’s a Tetrachords output expander, there aren’t really enough CV outs, anyway.
Some years ago, I picked up a Chord 2 purely for use as a quad oscillator in conjunction with the Sinfonion’s chord generator. It’s a decent combo. Too bad the Chord 2 lacks MIDI support, but of course, then it would more controls.
Statistics: Posted by mdoudoroff — Thu Jul 11, 2024 7:26 am