Got into the whole modular thing at the beginning of lockdown, wanted to get an O-Coast and a few other bits and bobs but they were never in stock thank god, would have spent all my freelance support cheque given half the chance.
Tried the https://vcvrack.com virtual rack but just not the same.
I’ve been teaching myself the basics of using modular using the Cherry Audio VM (which is free).
It’s a fine line with modular, right? Easy to get lost in experimenting stuff and at least for me the learning curve was / is a steep one. I now find myself with what could be call a very expensive riff-generating machine, but it never fails to inspire something and although I have nothing against (tweaked) presets on soft / hardware synths, there’s obviously none of that with a modular.
Quite a collection! I had an Alpha Juno 2 - my first ever synth in fact - and loved it. Sadly, at a house party we threw, someone spilled a sticky alcoholic drink over it after which it died a slow, painful (for me) death. I do love hardware for sure and often think about but ultimately reject the idea of investing in a Juno106 or something similar. In the meantime, I’ve discovered the TAL plugins and consider them fairly decent simulations.
I have tried other synths from Tal previously and liked them. I don’t have any recent soft synths as my recording computer is something like 17 or 18 years old, it’s a Power Mac G5, so I can’t install any new software on it. It works perfectly as a midi sequencer and audio recorder so I haven’t upgraded. I certainly wouldn’t spends loads on a new hardware synth. Everything I have was pretty affordable at the time I bought it.
My favourite thing about the Alpha Juno 2 is the dominator patch - I have never recorded with it, but I can sit there and just make dominator noises through a delay and move the pitch slider around and imagine I’m at a massive rave in 89 or something like that… Here’s a demo of it for anyone not familiar, it’s really fun, but I never record the rave noises for any of my tunes:
Yeah it is but I’ve kind of got it where I want it now. Quite a lot of ALM Busy Circuits modules (Squid sampler which is my favourite, Mum M8 & Fizzle Guts filters, Akemie’s Castle which I just got which is nuts) and some Mutable (Plaits for bleeps and Rings for other stuff) and then with the Metropolix and Atlantis doing an SH101 it’s fun times. I swapped a Rene2 for the Metropolix as I just didn’t get on with that at all. Anyway, love it. It’s taken a year or so but I feel like I’m getting to know it.
A bit late to the party… but just been through the thread and loving the variety of productions from everyone. Would love to hear more!
Here’s one I put out last year.
I did this a little while ago…
I made this recently, feedbacks are welcome:
another daft Ravey/Breakbeat number from me
You sending these to posthuman. I imagine this is his vibe. Seems to be doing things with his labels.
I’ve got a few on the go I think I’ll send to him 
Nice! You’ve nailed the vibe
Here’s a thing… Been meaning to do something with this chord structure for about a year and never really got round to it till tonight - found some nice free mac software that actually has midi out! -
Studio One Prime if you’re asking.
just a taster… might change it completely 
Cheers @30ftBelow… haven’t done any boom tish for an age. Like putting on a pair of comfy slippers.
Should finish it Dom…
It’s the finishing I’m not good at! Got a hard drive chocca with unfinished masterpieces 