drewfx1
 

Wookiee
Enjoy and remember take notes and close up pictures of your patches and module settings it is the only way. 

Interestingly, there's a school of thought that I adhere to that anything achieved is ephemeral and to just embrace that.

True in some cases.

bapu
That's quite a long "link" you have there Drew.

Perhaps.
 
But it's not the length of the link, it's that it points to just the right place that counts.

eph221
 
Your other half?

I'm a bloke and my "other half" is my good lady, so to speak
 
Of some thirty odd years, which is quite amazing considering what an a-hole I am sometimes...

drewfx1
Welcome to the club!

 
Thanks Drew
 

drewfx1 
Let me know if you have any euro-related questions. And if you aren't already aware, MW has the gold forum for this kind of thing

 
Thanks, yeah, I've signed up at the MW forum
 
 

drewfx1
Interestingly, there's a school of thought that I adhere to that anything achieved is ephemeral and to just embrace that.

 
I think I can relate to that
 
Just hit record!

drewfx1
I should also post this in case you aren't already familiar:

 
Indeed, yes, I have set up a place there too:-
 
https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/362915
 

synkrotron
Indeed, yes, I have set up a place there too:-
 
https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/362915
 

That's quite a capable system already.
 
And I always had my eye on that Xpander filter but ended up going in a different direction.

Oops, double post. 
SFS.

drewfx1
 
That's quite a capable system already.

 
Yeah, probably too capable and against popular opinion over at MW, which I can understand, but I just got fed up of looking at all those lovely Mutable Instrument, Intellijel and what ever else stuff and talked my lad into getting this so called "basic" system on the grounds that the Doepfer stuff always gets a good word on the various vids that we have watched and that the other stuff can be quite a bit more expensive. Admittedly, they do more, but can also be harder to get to grips with.
 
James insisted on the Metropolis sequencer, and I wanted something like that anyway, so that it the single most expensive item in the rack.
 
I added the Wasp filter because I used to have one of those little plastic things when they first came out. So for the sake of a bit of nostalgia
 
Still early days and there are some modules that I haven't even tried yet...

synkrotron

drewfx1
 
That's quite a capable system already.

 
Yeah, probably too capable and against popular opinion over at MW, which I can understand, but I just got fed up of looking at all those lovely Mutable Instrument, Intellijel and what ever else stuff and talked my lad into getting this so called "basic" system on the grounds that the Doepfer stuff always gets a good word on the various vids that we have watched and that the other stuff can be quite a bit more expensive. Admittedly, they do more, but can also be harder to get to grips with.

 
While admitting that I have become a huge Mutable fan, the anti-Doepfer vibe some seem to have isn't justified, IMO. The only reason I don't have more Doepfer stuff is it usually takes more space than I'd like and there's also just so much to choose from that it's almost impossible not to mix and match. But the Doepfer stuff I do have is just great and I like to use the phrase "deceptively clever" to describe many of Dieter's designs in that sometimes there's some little addition that might not seem sexy but ends up being really useful. 
 
The only thing that might be behind the perception is some of his filter "clones" might not be as accurate as some would like, even if they still sound great. The Xpander is probably accurate though, as I'm pretty sure it uses the same chip as the Oberheims from 30 years ago. Other than that, I suppose Doepfer just isn't "elitist" enough for some.
 

Still early days and there are some modules that I haven't even tried yet...

I keep thinking I ended up adding too much stuff too quickly as I have a backlog of about 8000 patching ideas I keep meaning to try, but once you sit down... 

drewfx1
but once you sit down... 

LOL! Yeah... I know what you mean
 
I must admit that I am not too bothered about the clones being that accurate. I'm pretty certain that even the modern day Moog synths are not exactly the same as they used to be.
 
As long as there is at least some perceptible difference between the different filters, which is why I went for the Wasp, for instance. I was watching a mylarmelodies video last week where he looked at half a dozen different filters, each claiming to be a clone of something or other. That was interesting