[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":22},["ShallowReactive",2],{"writing-post-modular-setup":3},{"slug":4,"title":5,"subtitle":6,"date":7,"body":8,"paragraphs":9},"modular-setup","My Modular Synth","Current build, motivation, and future additions","Spring 2026 (ongoing)","---\n\nI purchased a MOOG studio (Mother 32, Subharmonicon, and DFAM) last winter as a Christmas gift to myself. The system is weird. The subcon makes polyrhythms that are based on the subharmonics of two oscillators' frequencies. The DFAM is an oscillator based drum machine that has only 8 steps. The Mother-32 is the most traditional of the three but has a wildly inconvenient sequencer and confusingly supports MIDI input.\n\nI spent a few months learning these instruments and fell in love with the process of jamming on them. Unlike firing up Ableton, sitting in front of a synth lends itself much more to improvisation and happy accidents. I believe a lot of this has to do with the fact that everything is in front of you and, if you've built out your system, you (ought to) know what each component does. Naturally, I became interested in pushing the sound further with additional modules. That was my primary reason for going the Eurorack route.\n\nI build an A-100 case that has 2 rows that are each 84 HP. My dad and I made it out of plywood one weekend. We struggled with the poorly translated German instructions, used a tap to create threads in the racks so it could actually be screwed into, and signed our names in the back to memorialize the accomplishment.\n\nI loved the process of building the case so much that I started ordering DIY kits for modules. Right now, 6 out of 7 modules in the case were built by me, including:\n\n- Two passive 4ms mults\n\n- S&H\u002FNoise module\n\n- Noise modulator\n\n- Polivoks VCF\n\n- Polivoks VCA\n\nThe only one I've purchased second hand was the Make Noise Maths. \n\nAll of this is wired into a Behringer UMC1820-Uphoria interface which goes out to my speakers directly if jamming or into Ableton for mixing.",[10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21],"---","I purchased a MOOG studio (Mother 32, Subharmonicon, and DFAM) last winter as a Christmas gift to myself. The system is weird. The subcon makes polyrhythms that are based on the subharmonics of two oscillators' frequencies. The DFAM is an oscillator based drum machine that has only 8 steps. The Mother-32 is the most traditional of the three but has a wildly inconvenient sequencer and confusingly supports MIDI input.","I spent a few months learning these instruments and fell in love with the process of jamming on them. Unlike firing up Ableton, sitting in front of a synth lends itself much more to improvisation and happy accidents. I believe a lot of this has to do with the fact that everything is in front of you and, if you've built out your system, you (ought to) know what each component does. Naturally, I became interested in pushing the sound further with additional modules. That was my primary reason for going the Eurorack route.","I build an A-100 case that has 2 rows that are each 84 HP. My dad and I made it out of plywood one weekend. We struggled with the poorly translated German instructions, used a tap to create threads in the racks so it could actually be screwed into, and signed our names in the back to memorialize the accomplishment.","I loved the process of building the case so much that I started ordering DIY kits for modules. Right now, 6 out of 7 modules in the case were built by me, including:","- Two passive 4ms mults","- S&H\u002FNoise module","- Noise modulator","- Polivoks VCF","- Polivoks VCA","The only one I've purchased second hand was the Make Noise Maths.","All of this is wired into a Behringer UMC1820-Uphoria interface which goes out to my speakers directly if jamming or into Ableton for mixing.",1781061117433]