[sdiy] Modular - sound or song

[Ian Smith]

> So what that takes me to.. do you use your modular as a sound generation device, like a normal synth, that you play w/ a keyboard or sequencer, or do you use your modular as a semi-random song creation machine?
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> I started my modular w/ the idea of it being a normal playable synth, but after the first time I patched it up, that philosophy changed. Now, I almost always start a patch w/ a clock going to a divider, going to a percussion module and to some semi-random CV generating module, etc, and build my patch into a song.
> so, im just curious how others use their modulars.

I'm right there with you. I'm in the process of building up my first modular, but I keep finding myself designing pseudo-random tone generators and sequencers and being drawn to modules like Ken Stone's CV cluster and Ian Fritz's Chaos modules... I'm beginning to think that I may leave off the MIDI to CV converter for quite some time.

-Ian (randomness) Smith

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