Molten Modular 11 - My second row of Eurorack 

I know that others have remarked upon this before, but I truly love your "I dunno" sort of approach to things. "Let's give it a go," all that sort of stuff. I find it particularly suited to the topic at hand, but I also think that the world at large would benefit from a large percentage of humans adopting more of that approach, in general. When I was 18, I was smarter than everyone. Now that I'm 46, I finally know what Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy was talking about when he said, "All I know is that I don't know nothing." It actually makes things a lot easier.

Love these modular vids!! I think a lot of us are living vicariously through you!

3-tier rack kit immediately! Thanks, Vincent! The Row Power tip was very useful.

Love it! Keep on that journey and we will follow.

I'm loving the "journey" you're taking us on! I'm also enjoying the fact that you are "winging" it. Which I feel is the way it will be for me, when I finally make that leap of faith! The problem is, is that the kit I already have is all very "secure" and "safe!" I just love synthesis and if I had lots of money I'd go the safe way of buying a Moog modular, but that's never going to happen, so the euro rack system it will be! I will keep watching and learning and when I do jump, hopefully you and you lot out there, will be jumping with me!

I recommend getting a RYO Ampmix as well. It's a 4 channel mixer but each channel can be a standalone attenuator/amplifier or if nothing is plugged into a channel input its output becomes a cv source. So at the same time you can have channel 1 acting as a cv source, channel 2 working as an attenuator and channel 3+4 being mixed together. I have 2 in my system and they are my most used mixers. You can get them as DIY or premade. They are super easy to build even easier than the Turing I think. If you come to Berlin you are welcome to play on my huge system and I can help get you more comfortable with DIY stuff because if you really want to get into eurorack for cheap you need to source your own parts and not just buy kits. Also I build cases here so let me know if you want to get a bigger custom case with power in the future.

thanks for these videos, really appreciate you putting yourself out there, lovely set you have there, Im totally in fear that I may drift towards getting my own set over the next few years, cheers

+1 for Rosie. I too was skeptical that I needed more than an attenuator, but the Rosie has so much functionality. I am always using the crossfade and send functions, and the headphone jack is SUPER useful for motivating a quick play when I have a few minutes. For mixers, I settled on a 2hp mixer and a couple of makenoise VCA's which do the same trick of being 3 channel mixers that can cascade into each other.

Nice timing on the upload of these last two episodes.... now I'm late for work! (Yes, they're that good, I couldn't wait).

i go from the vca straght to rosie. keep in mind the mother 32 has a built in mixer as well.

Absolutely beautiful. Even with the mother 32, its still a pleasing layout.

12:00 O'tool is one of my favorite modules. It's kind of a set of instructions. I'm constantly finding myself creating mental pictures of what is happening, and then when I scope something on the tool, I am always surprised by how far off I was about something.

The Transient Modules 2M is a nice pair of 3-channel mixers in 6hp. I use it all the time. It's not truly stereo (no panning, for example), but I use it constantly in my stereo setup, with some crafty patching. It's also pretty darn cheap.

This guy is awesome 😂

You don't need to keep all your modules in the rack at all times. The o-tool can be an occasional visitor to give clarity now and then. If you change your rack around, new possibilities will surface without you having to plan them out beforehand.

And another gorgeous shirt!

I hastily went for a pico output taking into account the stereo capabilities and low HP. Thinking the Rosie might have been a better option now considering all the additional functionalities.

Of course you will add a third skiff and fill it shortly,... what you think not? LOL! Of course you will as it will free up a whole new realm of modular acquisitions and they are constantly coming out new,imagine the new modules within a year!

Thank You.

Love your channel!!

Third row ........ just got into modular via the Kilpatrick Phenol. Looking at a Tip Top Happy Ending as my ‘first’ row.

Great! You are fun!!

It's shameful that I've been playing piano and keyboards for almost fifty years (Yamaha SY-1 anyone?) and never really appreciated the basic blocks and interactions of the VCO, VCF, LFO, VCA etc. I suppose I like others just dove in without thought (reading manuals) and twiddled. Although intellectually I understood the basic electronic building blocks, this series has helped crystallise things for me. I can now actually get sound out of my ancient 'Synthedit' software. I also belatedly understand the excitement when the u741 op-amp came out. Quite revelatory really. I'm off to delve into the bowels of my moXF6. :-)

What do you do professionally? You have a great teaching vibe. I can listen to you all day (I am, lol)

Hey Robin, did you get rid of the Clouds? I don't see any videos in the playlist where you covered its feature set. I've found that it was discontinued so the one you have there is difficult to come by. However, they have clones called uClouds that are smaller than the original w/additional features. I'm trying to figure out how it works via VCV Rack atm...probably have to watch a tutorial.

Hi, stumbled into your shed while looking at skiff ideas for my DFAM...which is sort of similar to the motehr in some ways, so if you were putting a DFAM in a skiff what other modues would you chuck in at the end..(about 44 HP to play with I think)..any thoughts?

Fun video, and nice progress. You're still going to need/want a quantizer, I think (?)

Any thought of hooking the 0-Coast up to the rest of the modular stuff now?

9:45 Hey man it is your choice.

Simple question: I'd love to know WHICH ACTUAL wall wart you finally decided to use and price/source you got it from please?

I updated the my modular grid tracking of your case. Not sure what the second Pico is, Are they both DSPs? www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/481582

Doepfer monster case and don't worry about case real estate.

Hi again Robin. Will you be going to Synthfest in Sheffield later this month? If so please wear one of your lovely shirts so you'll be easily recognisable!!!

What happened to the thumbscrews you used for the Mother 32?

Do you know that your Disting can give you the same functionality as the Turing Machine? Check out the Shift Register Random CVs (or quantized CVs) algorithm. That could make some room...

buy the third tier rack..fun!

Where do you get your shirts from?? They rockkk!

Case question: are the behringer case-screws on the same distances?

You can probably trade that in for a new car, when the time comes. :)

Please give us an estimate to how much money roughly went into the two rows so far? Should i start that journey?

How have you got on with the Disting? You were'nt too impressed last video. Stick with it, it really is a Swiss Army knife!

KMix shouldn't distort with Eurorack level. You may find that your signal into the pico DSP is too hot.

7:00 Do I know what it does? Of course not!

The most important question so far must be: how many patch cables do you have now? :D

Dr. Molten, may I call you doctor? Are you the cousin of Dr. Jacobi from Twin Peaks?

A single row power 40 should be sufficient to power your whole rack, no? you just need more connectors on your flying bus

Yeeeh

1 row power 40 can power both those rows....

Get that mother 32 out of that skif.

why not just keep the moog seperate from the two tier thats my plan.