Pete, here's the setup of my first modular. It's a 6U system that i
chose for specific use, i really wanted something 'trash and nasty',
needed a vocoder and stuff to reproduce the Ondes Martenot sound; i'm
in industrial music that sounds a little like last Nine Inch Nails
album (btw, they have an amazing modular synth on stage, very impressive).

So, from left to right and top to bottom (the places are important !)

TOP

A180 : multiples
A110 *2 : standart VCO, didn't see the point in buying a high end for
my setup
A118 : Noise generator, noisy music -> noisy modules, also very useful
with vocoder
A131 : VCA exp, to mix the sound of the two VCO
A140 : ADSR to go in the VCA/filter, i love doepfer ADSR, much better
then anything i've tried in analog (non modular) synths
A146 : LFO, you'll never have enough CV sources,when LFO goes up to
audio range, very interesting mods can be obtained...
A106 : Xtreme filter, that filter is awesome, i'm in love with it,
resonance up to auto-oscilation + filter mod by audio and there's a
devil in your modular !
A136 : Distortion/waveshaper , that module is really cool to use both
with CV and audio, just read the doc, you'll anderstand how powerfull
and simple it is.
A180 : multiples (again)

BOTTOM

A129/1 : vocoder analysis section, love the leds, love the sound
A129/2 : vocoder synthesis section, that's the first hardware vocoder
i work with and i'm really satisfied atm.
A138c : polarised mixer, there was a mistake at the shop, that was not
the one i orderer, but that's definitely better like that. I don't
often use this mixer for audio sources as i have a mixing console in
the studio to do this task. The VCA mixes the 2 VCO sounds, i just use
mixer with audio when i need to mix the 2 VCO and the noise generator
(eg to go in the vocoder) or to polarize synchronised VCO's. But it's
usefull to me to mix CV's.
A199 : spring reverb, that's to get the D2 Ondes Martenot sound and
it's really great, very different from a M6000, but great ! I love the
sound when the springs chock to each other, kinda star wars FX !
A188-1 (1024) : BBD, no words to say how much i love that module.
A119 : ext input, i use it all the time with mics or other synths,
etherwave theremin, even beats to go in the vocoder or delay. Mixing
console aux send -> A119, the mixing console is very important in my
setup, many cables to and from the modular...


I bought a MCV24 to go with all that stuff, i can play MIDI sequences
from the computer, i can play with a keyboard, i can also use some
amazing controlers (try wiimote on modular, you're going crazy in 20
minutes, i'll post a video about that).

What i will buy when i have the cash :
- 24dB/oct filter with CV for resonance, A106 is great but if you want
the classic analog filter sound (like MOOG etc...) that's not enough.
- a third VCO
- a second ADSR
- and audio mixer for the third VCO =)
- Slew/limiters for the vocoder

That's it, hope that helps,
this thread is really interesting and usefull, i have some friends
that want to start with modular stuff i'll tell them to read that.
I learn a lot too as my system is quite small and i haven't tried all
modules and all sizes of modulars.

So thanks to all !
... and sorry for such a long post in such a 'not that bad' english ! =)
Max.