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Hello I've been reading these forms for the past few days and have 
read through all of the literature on the Wiard website (seems to be 
down quite depressing as I wanted to read again) and have decided to 
purchase a Wiard Modular.  I was wondering which would you purchase 
first and why?
Or what are your favorite modules (I know they are all great)?

I'm really looking toward the Waveform City and Maybe one of the 
filters but just don't know.  I was also eyeing the Sequantizer.  
Anyhow any response would be greatly appreciated. ;)

dustin

hi Dustin,

Although all Wiard modules have tricks up their sleeves, the most far 
out are the Waveform City and the monomorphic Filter. The Waveform City 
does more with wavetable lookups than any other analog module ever did, 
and as a result is a huge part of the Wiard sound.

the Filter also goes further than anyone else ever tried to. The fading 
between modes is a really powerful feature and almost everything else 
anyone ever did with a 4 pole filter is in there as well. A real 
powerhouse.

However, these 2 are also the most expensive modules. they are the most 
densly packed with circuitry as well.


If you want to start with something a little cheaper, I wholeheartedly 
suggest the Borg filter. It includes 2 VCOs that are stable enough to be 
used as main VCOs if that's your desire and the truely awesome Vactrol 
filters. All for less than either of the 2 modules above.


sadly, you are gonna have plenty of time to dream about it since the 
waiting list is now quite long.

mark

poison_in_a_colorful_bottle wrote:

>Hello I've been reading these forms for the past few days and have 
>read through all of the literature on the Wiard website (seems to be 
>down quite depressing as I wanted to read again) and have decided to 
>purchase a Wiard Modular.  I was wondering which would you purchase 
>first and why?
>Or what are your favorite modules (I know they are all great)?
>
>I'm really looking toward the Waveform City and Maybe one of the 
>filters but just don't know.  I was also eyeing the Sequantizer.  
>Anyhow any response would be greatly appreciated. ;)
>
>dustin
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Hi Dustin,
   
   First off, I think that Mark Verbos gave you some very 
well-reasoned general advice. I don't know anything about your 
application. (ie: what, if any, modular gear you already own, what 
general type of music you produce) so I must qualify my 2-cents-worth 
here.
   IF you already own some other modular gear (some VCO's & a VCF 
maybe?), AND keyboard is NOT the center of your production method...
     I recommend that you try the sequantizer. I'm old and I've 
accumulated a pile of different sequencers (after a couple of decades 
they just seem to stack up, like kids, or old nat'l geographics!) and 
when I was kicking the tires (and smacking my lips) over the Wiard 
catalog, the LAST thing I wanted was another damn sequencer. But when 
I visted Grant to pick up my gear. He demo'd the features. He showed 
me how it functioned at audio frequencies as a CV-variable complex 
waveform generator, and that CV-variable sequence-order is a very deep 
feature. Even the octave feature looks a bit pedestrian on paper but 
in use, it's deadly! This is NOT your dad's old sequencer. I'm a 
fasitidious old curmudgeon and I was totally sold. So...if sequencers 
turn your screw, try the sequantizer. 
    It's WAY more than 8 polite little beeps in a nice neat row!
best.
-doc



--- In wiardgroup@y..., "poison_in_a_colorful_bottle" <clockwork@s...> 
wrote:

> Hello I've been reading these forms for the past few days and have 
> read through all of the literature on the Wiard website (seems to be 
> down quite depressing as I wanted to read again) and have decided to 
> purchase a Wiard Modular.  I was wondering which would you purchase 
> first and why?
> Or what are your favorite modules (I know they are all great)?
> 
> I'm really looking toward the Waveform City and Maybe one of the 
> filters but just don't know.  I was also eyeing the Sequantizer.  
> Anyhow any response would be greatly appreciated. ;)
> 
> dustin