ONE MODULE AT A TIME! Starting modular with a tiny case – ft. Rosci, Centaur’s Gates, and more!

When you start out in modular, you can often get advice that is far outside of your budget. Starting with a small case helps a little bit with that. The challenge with a small case is being able to do anything with it even after it’s full. That’s where smart design comes into play. There’s so many modules out there that offer a great amount of flexibility, control and playability. Putting together this small case was partly a challenge but also a bit of fun just shopping amongst the modules I already had (no monster cases here). I wanted to go through and give the impression of what it could be like to slowly add up one module at a time as if you were slowly saving up and buying modules like I did. If you have modules there, it’s so easy just to patch them up right? In the end, I had so many more jams than I was expecting and way more range in sound than I was expecting. There’s a lot of fun here, hope you enjoy it. I didn’t go deep in explaining patches this time but stay tuned for more.

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Thanks to Omnitone for sending the Rosci and thanks to Shakmat for sending Centaur’s Gates. Both work incredibly well together and independently and I’m loving having them in my case. No money changed hands and they just had to make an appearance in a video here or there.

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Time Stamps
0:00 Thinking about getting into modular? Overwhelmed?
0:16 What size eurorack case? Maybe a 4MS Pod or a case like it? Benefits of tiny cases
0:57 Let’s put a small case together and see what it can do!
1:06 What module do I start with? ALM HPO output module
1:59 We need something to make sound! An oscillator Omnitone Rosci
2:45 Rosci sounds & knob controls
4:54 Rosci paching & jam
6:18 What can modulate or sequence Rosci? Bastl Neo Trinity
7:04 Neo Trinity random patching
9:12 Neo Trinity aggressive patch
10:17 What’s after Neo Trinity? A filter! Shakmat Centaur’s Gates
11:15 A little about Centaur’s Gates
13:08 Centaur’s Gates patch 1
13:40 Centaur’s Gates patch 2
15:06 Something that’s missing? All the effects! Endorphines x Andrew Huang Ghost
15:49 Ghost patch 1
17:29 Ghost patch 2
21:14 Ghost patch 3
25:20 What goes in the last 4hp in my eurorack case? A switch! Acid Rain Technology Switchblade
26:39 What does a full 48hp case sound like? Switchblade patch 1
29:11 Switchblade patch 2
33:17 48hp might be a good size to start into eurorack! It was for me
34:03 What would a sample player do in this case? Squarp Rample
35:31 Rample patch 1
37:14 Rample patch 2