got the midi module for it today. (perfect circuit). no clue what i’m doing yet via midi! but you can see what it does just looking at the screen. each step in a program sequence is another “preset” cube of the filter parameters which are morphable. there are 288 of them, but you can save user presets. I think i’m going to try doing something with it only using the clock from my drum machine until I know what I’m doing. it sounds great, if you wanted to u/l a few familiar loops i’d run them through and let you hear it cyclopian 
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thats rad man, are you just running line level into it? or are you boosting the signal to eurorack levels beforehand? (I cant remember if the intellijel palette cases have inputs/outputs built in to do so)
I spent a few hours the other night deliberating whether to go with the Morpheus or the Industrial Music Electronics Bionic Lester. Ended up going with the Bionic Lester myself.
I think my rack has reached singularity; not making any changes for a while* (hopefully) ((*I might get rid of the tiptop uzeus power supplies and get a trogotronic PSU that will power the whole rack))
Just waiting on a few things to arrive in the mail now. I got the Piston Honda Mk3 yesterday and it is the best sounding oscillator I’ve ever heard, by far. I almost want a 2nd one now.
fucking around with the Piston Honda:
yeah I started out with the Intellijel Pallet 104, so the top bar has a good amount of features. From left to right it has 3 sets of “multipliers” which are 4 1/8" pin i/o’s each, which each then sum “+” to the right to a set of 2 2 i/o pins “mixers”, then 4 1/4" TRS i/o’s, then 2 pin midi in/out, and then a USB. with power across the top rail. It’s way more than I needed to just get the Morpheus going, but it’s got some room to expand. I have no intention of building a big rack for synthesis,etc. Just some boutique type fx modules which I can use as send/returns off my board, or whatever else I happen to plug into them from a patchbay.
I’m still trying to put together all my conventional stuff (for about the third time) since taking the dive going back to hardware after many years mostly just ITB. I’ve been stuck working remotely for months, so it’s been as good a time as ever for a complicated project. I got a usb Motu 128 Midi Express yesterday, and now I’m recabling all my Midi devices into it and a 5x5 Microlite so no more varied Thru latency. Check this one though; the new Motu is clearly going in a rack for anyone who buys one. But Motu does not include 4 rack screws with it! They are learning from Behringer or something 
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I’m thinking of getting one of these MIDI interfaces when I start to rebuild my hardware studio:
I might get a MOTU one though.
I still have my M-Audio Midisport 8x8 that I used in the 2000’s but it is not supported anymore. The software stopped working after Windows XP. The hardware still works, I just can’t program it anymore.
yeah I have a midisport 4x4 from then also that I somehow acquired. They were built really well for the prices back then! I’ve always stuck with Motu for timing/sync stuff. My 5x5 should get along with the 128 easily so I went with that. The iConnectivity you have linked looks nice though, especially the additional USB ports and the i/o on the front of the device.
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That’s their high end model which goes for $399. I think the high end MOTU one is $349. I haven’t decided yet. I just need tight MIDI timing. A lot of my gear is from the 80s and 90s.
I’m sure either will work for you really. Midi is such a low amount of actual data over the wire that it’s pretty forgiving anyway. I work in Logic so everything coming back to the daw as audio is from the I/O plugin and the latency compensation is really good overall. I really don’t run very much simultaneously and print everything back; a holdover from when I was primarily working sample based.
I have an Akai ME30P midi box, haven’t noticed any glitches with it, but haven’t hooked up much stuff at the same time. Gonna try that if I can organise the space needed.
my main concern with the Motu 128 is that it runs off USB power only. Which wouldn’t be a problem for most setups, but I have a pretty silly amount of stuff running off a macbook’s 4 usb ports. Here’s my project list of conventional stuff to connect as much of as possible at once:
MacBook Pro 10.14.6 running Logic 10.5.1
Lacie 4tb USB external
Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 2nd gen
Motu Microlite 5x5 Midi I/O (optional)
Motu Midi Express 128 Midi I/O
2 48 point Samson Patch bays
Allen & Heath GL2400
Arturia Drumbrute Impact
Behringer Crave
Behringer TD-3-SR
Novation Bass Station 2
Novation Nova Laptop
Moog Grandmother
E-Mu Ultra Proteus
Emu-E6400 Ultra w/ ADAT expansion
E-Mu E5000 Ultra
Akai S2800
ASM Hydrasynth Desktop
Access Virus TI2 (fkn thing takes up a usb port of it’s own)
something like that.
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Damn, that’s a hefty amount of gear, hehe.
lol i should probably get a midi interace, ive been daisy chaining everything through one output with splitters and THRUs on every device i can. would be nice to stop fiddling around with channel delay values
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I hate midi
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MIDI is so much tighter than CV/Gate.
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I’m a loose goose in the studio
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setting a “groove track” in logic is really nice with audio samples if you like some swing/timing imperfection. you enable flex pitch on all the tracks and then set one as the “groove track”, which then quantizes (to some degree) all the other tracks (that you select) based on that one’s timing. almost like a reference clock, you have a nice accurately clocked foundation like a midi triggered kick; but the other elements you hang off it can still retain some shuffle or drift within them. the thing I like best about it, is that I’d normally expect such a function to want to apply itself to every other track. in Logic, you can choose which tracks get “groove quantized” and which are ignored. pretty neat
There is a feature like that in Ableton Live called the Groove Pool. You can load in your own samples and extract the groove from that.
it can be pretty helpful. With tools like that, you can have a super tight clock, but without everything sounding over-quantized if you want. I like the accuracy to be up to me, rather than trying to deal with random results caused by latency, cv drift, etc. it’s way easier to make something deliberately funky, rather than tighten up multiple tracks all fighting against the clock randomly.
Yeah, I use ableton’s groove feature like MKS. It works well enough.
In my eurorack I have an ALM Pamela’s New workout which has some great options for ‘humanizing’ CV. I also have the same intellijel midi interface you have which is helpful.
I mostly just don’t like midi because it can be very fiddly and I’ve never owned a lot of midi gear so I’m not very knowledgeable on working out the kinks.
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