SergeModular

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Maybe get an Animal instead of a Blue Voice...

--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, "beschaving@..." <beschaving@...>
wrote:

>
> hello everyone,
>
> so i finally gave in to my desires and started to seriously think
> about buying a few serge panels.
>
> partly because of comments on this list, i'd like to try to get most
> of my wishes fulfilled by a small selection of shop panels, mostly
> because they should offer a kind of fool-proof ideal configuration
> for new users like myself, and also because they should be relatively
> easy to sell again should that be necessary.
> on the one hand i think the only way to put together my ideal system
> would be to hand-pick and combine modules myself, but it feels safer
> to go with shop panels. i could try to get four panels, where the
> last one would be a selection of the things i'm missing with three
> shop panels.
>
> a few general remarks about my ideas and uses for a serge:
> predictably, i want a few oscillators, both kinds, as well as one or
> more filters and vca and panning functions.
> i want the system to be heavy on the processing modules. i play
> experimental/improvised music doing a lot of processing of external
> sounds and with a big emphasis on sound sculpting and noise making
> rather than traditional synth or keyboard "voices" or rhythms.
> i want cv sources, of course, but would be more likely to go with
> relatively few modules and i would lean towards having a small number
> of multipurpose cv sources rather than many of them with specific
> uses. one reason is that i do a lot of manual control, and that i
> tend towards "spontaneous", manually triggered events rather than
> complex pre-programmed cv shapes. this is why i'm thinking of the tkb
> manual controller rather than having many lfo/ar/adsr modules and
> related cv processors.
>
> the system should be small enough to be carried onto a plane! is
> there any way to do this with four panels? how about a suitcase with
> two panels in each lid, with the control panels almost touching each
> other when the case is closed?
>
>
> my idea for a three panel setup now comes down to this:
>
> -blue voice
> i know i want several oscillators, the ring mod, and the standard vcf.
> i'm not all that familiar with the wave multiplier but it's been
> consistently praised by others, and it's unique to the serge.
> it has a mixer, we all need mixers.
> the module on this panel that i would be least likely to hand-pick
> myself is the uap. i want true stereo panning (like on the dcsm), and
> cross-fading and dual vca functions can be gotten from the smaller
> dedicated modules, with the benefit of both being available
> simultaneously (in other words, i'd probably get a crossfader and a
> dual vca rather then a uap, if it were up to me).
>
> -soup kitchen
> i do a lot of external processing, so a preamp detector is a must.
> a frequency shifter would be great, but does the soup kitchen also
> offer the version with external carrier?
> the c/m is only there to fill up panel space behind which the frs is
> located, and i'd prefer the c/m over an adapter module, because it
> "does" more.
> i'm extremely curious about the wad (not the most flattering
> abbreviation). i'd love to hear comments about this module.
> another mixer, ok.
> of the two main filter types aside from the standard vcf the variable
> slope one appeals to me most, and it would be great to have at least
> two (different) filters.
> i love the serge eq, i'd definitely get one of those.
> phasing, i'm not so sure. what are the uses of this aside from the
> familiar whooshing phasing sound we know from guitar fx boxes?
> the dcsm, definitely. i want true stereo panning.
>
> -tkb
> although i can't seem y self ever playing melodies on a serge, or any
> other synth, i'd like to have sophisticated manual control over the
> synth, and a kind of "push button" access to sounds or modulations to
> my sounds. sequencing...i'm not so sure, i've never used a sequencer
> in my life
>
>
> the trouble i run into:
> no noise/random module! i must have a noise and random module...so
> this would have to be on a fourth panel, but i'd kind of like to
> stick with three, both because of cost and portability.
> no dsg's! this seems like the most universal, flexible and not-to-be-
> missed cv module in the system, and the line-up described above has
> none and also nothing similar to it, so missing out on a dsg
> altogether would be problematic.
> i guess a cv 2 panel would solve these issues nicely, but i'm
> thinking that would be a little over-the-top in the cv department for
> my way of working. i'd probably rather add a few more audio modules
> instead in case i'd really get a fourth panel.
>
>
> any comment on these ideas would be immensely appreciated! i'm just
> sort of thinking aloud here, so don't be shy to correct me. sorry for
> the rambling post.
>
> thanks very much
>
> alex
>