well said Vytis! it seems that you are even a bigger fan of Doepfer than i am    :-D

 

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From: " vytis.puronas@... [Doepfer_a100]" < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com >
To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2017 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: 1 A Verdict.

 

I have an 18U 100% Doepfer system I have carefully assembled in order to produce complex west coast sounds and sequences. For me Doepfer system A-100 is the ultimate liberation from prejudice, worn out tricks and getting stuck in a comfort zone. I have never been more productive and my music has never sounded as interesting. Moreso, I love the grayscale lab aesthetic.

Let me tell you this:
Over the last few years I have had the luxury of owning and extensively using 'high end' and 'whacky' modules by just about every popular manufacturer, including Verbos, Make Noise, Sputnik, Mutable Instruments, Wiard, Intellijel etc. Last year I sold everything off (except for the Doepfer modules I had) to fund a Buchla system. At that point, however, I have decided to stop for a moment and evaluate my ultimate goals and the means to achieve them. I concentrated on building an all-Doepfer system instead as I have carefully compared the oscillators, FM and waveshaping options and found that I am able to achieve on the A-100 the sounds I had in my mind, without any predetermined paths, tricks and 'philosophies' imposed on me by others. Doepfer A-100 was the only system permitting me to design according to my own 'philosophy' from the ground up.  For digital stuff it's much more flexible just doing it in Pure Data on a computer or even an iPad. Menu diving and complicated button combinations on a modular is just not inviting to me at all. Thank you Dieter for not going this route.

At this point I have the core of my system consisting of 4 x A-110-4 QTZVCOs, all the waveshapers including A-126 frequency shifter, some of the most amazing filters I have heard. To me, Doepfer is not just about 'utility' modules. Yes, Dieter's utility modules are super strong, but the sound of the A-110-4, for example, is hardly matched by anything else in the analog realm. On any modular platform. I make very melodic music, and I have decided to make my own stage addressable sequencer from A-152 + A-138m + A-151. Doepfer offers you the freedom to go for this, or get the A-155 + A-154. How amazing is that!

Doepfer A-100 is not about economical decisions either. Maths is cheaper, so is Furthrrr Generator, so is Rene, so is Optomix or Wogglebug. Even a Buchla 208 isn't significantly more expensive when you try to replicate it function for function. But then you get stuck with a set of functions you can't use for other tasks. For me Doepfer A-100 is the freedom to connect the modules together when I need a complex oscillator or use them individually for other purposes when I don't.

Thank you Dieter Doepfer for bringing to me the ultimate music making machine!

All the very best wishes from Vilnius, Lithuania
Vytis Puronas
http://soundcloud.com/sfx-lab

---In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , <diegora@...> wrote :

Absolutely MARTIN Brinkmann, sorry !

:-)

The more I use Doepfer modules the more I enthusiastically adore them. They are also so much appealing to me because of their “look”: such a spartan design which makes me feel at ease with the sounds coming out from them, just like I would with pure vintage material, instead of dealing with panels decorated with uncertain taste and pastry esthetics. 

Endless thanks to Dieter for his initiative to start up in the middle of the nineties. 

My only doubt concerns the slightly heavy course of the pots, sure you discussed enough about it many times… In few circumstances I would have preferred to can make rapid changes, rather than smooth ones.

As for the comparison done few mails ago between Doepfer and Buchla (the original vs I hope), I do believe that the ladder features components which likely couldn't be found into the Doepfer modules without being obliged to sell them at much higher prices. Just don't know. Somebody told me that pots, for instance, adopted by the majority of ER modules producers are at least 10 times cheaper than those used by Moog. I still don't know, though I am sure that such a debate doesn't affect, anyway and anyhow, the value and quality of creation, having witnessed, as listener and music lover, thousands of beautiful tunes made out of the cheapest instruments ever.

Best, 

Diego

Il giorno 11/feb/2017, alle ore 21:41, " mars@... [Doepfer_a100]" < Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com > ha scritto:

 

Martin Brinkmann, maybe
Just having a look at his patches now, some great looking stuff.
AFAIK the Nebulae is powered by a Raspberry Pi and runs LibPD, a
small-ish Pd interpreter.
There are other solutions, e.g. using the Heavy compiler which can
generate optimised code for different embedded architectures.

My own company Rebel Technology makes the OWL Modular, which uses Heavy
to run Pd. Then the OWL is also programmable in C++, FAUST and most
recently Max Gen (end plug).

As a modular maker, I wouldn't bother to make anything that already
exists: another resonant low pass filter or ADSR for example. Not unless
I felt it had a unique feature which made it worthwhile. Product
development is really hard, and if you're not innovating then I don't
see the point. We are all really lucky with Eurorack that Dieter has
made such an amazing range of quality modules, which you can combine to
build just about any type of modular system. It means that as a small
maker I can focus on the unique bits that I want to contribute. This in
fact is the very reason I do Eurorack.

Martin

On 2017-02-11 19:43, Diego Ragnini diegora@... 1 wrote:
> Does Nebulae load Pure Data files That's amazing, really! I love
> that software! Thomas Brinkmann is sharing materials since ever on his
> web site. Though I can't see to what extent it loads PD files… I did
> believe that it loads audio WAV files… sincerely I don't know
> Nebulae at all, I purchased MN Phonogene, tried it for few weeks and
> gave it away since it seemed just crap to me, compared to granular
> synthesis software which do the job more efficiently for sure. Of
> course I am not a pure fanatic of modular synthesis, since I can use
> pc without shame.
>
> Beginners prefer pre patched modules (for instance, MN Wogglebug which
> can be replicated by coupling few doepfer modules) just because they
> are beginners: afraid of having to dedicate too many hours to learn
> several functions and schemes in a short time. Then pre patched
> modules need less room in the racks and, as everyone experienced, they
> get filled very fast!
> :-)
>
> Diego
>