>From: Christopher Jeris <cjeris@...>
>I have a Klang Werk. I haven't played it that much, but I'm impressed
>with it. I think Blacet intended it to be used largely as a 1-in 1-out
>processor, with the internal carrier. It sounds, well, clangy. As you
>said, the 110 ring mod sounds very clean and hard - to get good sounds out
>of it I think you have to really know what to put in. Klang Werk seems
>to be easier to elicit musical tones from, both in and out of tune. I
>haven't tried using it without the carrier, as an "abstract ring
>modulator". Also I haven't checked its CV nulling :) The overdrive
>knob is quite nice too.
>
>Overall it's a good sounding, interesting module. If I moved the modular
>around a lot I would probably be a little worried about the durability of
>Blacet modules - although that may only be because we have MOTM to compare
>it to :) But since it's a studio only rig, no problem. (This isn't meant
>as unfair criticism of Blacet modules - I doubt anything I built DIY
>would be durable enough for gigging either, unless I filled the case with
>Silly Putty as somebody on synth-diy suggested!)
>
I have a frac-rac with 2 Dark Stars, a Frequency Divider and a
Mixer-Processor mounted in the same rack as my MOTM stuff, and all running
on the MOTM power supply. I've taken the rack to gigs before, and it has
survived, though, to be honest, I think I'm going to leave it in the studio
from now on. The Blacet stuff is not as robust as as MOTM, definitely, but
it seems sturdier than my Doepfer rack. I've been slowly replacing the 1/8"
jacks in the Blacet with 1/4".
Speaking of MOTM for gigging, has anyone ever considered building a
MiniMOTM? I was thinking about a basic voice channel (2 or 3 VCO's, an LFO,
a noise source, a 420 filter, 2 EG's and a VCA) into a pop-up rack, and
maybe with normalled connections, though with the option of patching of
course. Seems like it'd make a killer mono-synth!
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"...there will come a day when you won't have to use
gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in
your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper
type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em
together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em
together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire."
-Sun Ra
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