a good multi effects module is brilliant with a modular, but the main
reason for having this in a eurorack module (given that signal
strength is eminently surmountable) is fetish value.

i have a zoom 1201 which i use a lot, £30 second hand.

http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm prodID=1633

i took the front panel off to make it look less naff, but it sits
nicely on top of my new nice wood doepfer case, and so very unusually
for me i am not experiencing gear lust at the site of this new piece
of eurorack kit.

i am however soon going to buy a doepfer crossfader/fx-send module to
have more automatable control over the 1201's activities...

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Mark Pulver <mark@...> wrote:
>
>
> poke-poke...
>
> http://www.tiptopaudio.com/product.php goto=features
>
> http://www.analoguehaven.com/tiptopaudio/z5000/
>
> This is a pretty cool little module. At first glance it appears to
be an
> "oh, reverb and delay in eurorack". But it's much more...
>
> The Z5000 is best thought of as Another Module to provide sound
shaping in
> your system, but not in the scope of being a filter. Think down the
lines
> of splitting a signal _within_ your modular, adding delay or reverb
to a
> piece of it, then mixing things back together and on out to the mains.
>
> Or... throw a VCA and an EG in front of it and create synch'd gated
reverb
> effects on demand.
>
> Or... Overload the analog front end, get the delay into "crunch
mode" and
> just go nuts with it as an edgy bit slicer. :)
>
> The "worst" thing you can do with this module is to think of it as an
> end-loop effects device. It's a lot more than that. :)
>
> See the sound samples up on TipTop's forum:
>
> http://tiptopaudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php t=20
>
> Mark
>