Doepfer

Its a big advantage to go after others have already mentioned a lot of 
my favorite modules, because I get to add a few more of my favorites 
to the list:

A190/A191 - by which I mean that I find the A190 by itself just too 
frustrating and primitive, but the A190/A191 together makes for a very 
decent Midi/CV interface. I think they should be considered to be a 
single module.

A150 VC Switch - The threshold voltage (~3.6V) can be exploited in all 
sorts of useful ways - velocity cross-switching, keyboard splits, 
delayed modulation (via a slew limiter), comparison logic, etc. Its 
also an indispensible companion to the A155 sequencer.

A132 Dual VCA - one of the 4U "small gems", worth its weight in gold. 
Too many uses to enumerate, I find myself reaching for it in every 
single patch.

I'll also second Martin's nomination of the A165 Trigger Modifier, for 
the same reason. It's a tiny gem, and always seems to find a way to 
make itself useful.

Regarding polyphony, My A100 is essentially a 3-VCO voice, but I 
occasionally use an external CV/Gate source to operate it as two 
independent monosynths (one of them will only have one VCO and one 
ADSR, of course). I may eventually expand my A100 to support two 3-VCO 
voices. But for the amount of money that it would take to buy enough 
modules for polyphonic chords, and the amount of time it would take to 
manually duplicate a patch for each polyphonic voice, it doesn't seem 
worth it to me. There's at least three excellent analog polysynths 
currently in production, with good modulation routing flexibility. 
There's also several "virtual analog" polysynths available as well.

Joe

> I would like to ask 2 things to the people here:
> 
> What are your 3 preferred modules ?
> (sorry for starting an unofficial poll ;)))))
> 
> Are there people using modular polyphonically 
> I would like to know if it is feasable, may be with the midicv24 
> Doepfer for the enveloppe and lfo ?? 
> 
> Linium