

Hits: Polyend Tracker- I don’t even need to elaborate on this. I ended up selling because it did me no good not being able to connect to anything IK’s customer service was pretty bad too and I never ended up getting a replacement unit. The sound is meh and it feels like a toy. The unit I received was scratched and had a non-functioning midi USB port. This was a huge disappointment right away. The other one is the IK Multimedia UNO synth. Sucks because I really wanted to like this module. Finally after the techs at the shop I bought it from couldn’t figure out what was going on they refunded me and I moved on to other percussion sources. Unfortunately I had two defective units back to back. The filter section is really nice and it has a generous supply DSP processing. It is a great module and sounds really awesome. I was looking for a straight forward complete hybrid drum voice and that what it is. Only two misses that I had this year so farĮndorphin.ES Queen of Pentacles.

A wonderful exploration of sound synthesis. Forever drifting between seemingly random CV values to shockingly musical and beatiful coherent patterns. Its eerie to modulate things with its various outs. Its difficult to explain but something about this module is alive, and has a will of its own. Nonlinear Circuits Triple Sloth Chaos - This is currently my favorite module. Mutable Instruments Marbles - I found it to be interesting and instantly inspiring, one of my favorite modules to add movement to a patch. Weird as hell, but behaves when it wants to Noise Engineering Ataraxic Iteritas - On the surface an aggressive digital oscillator, but discovered it could be massaged into all kinds of interesting sounds. Joranalogue Filter 8 - bought for filtering, found a new love for it as an 8 out LFO I got back into modular and most of my purchases were related to that this year But, opposed to the Matrixbrute, it’s small and reasonably affordable enough to just enjoy it sometimes. On the fence because I often don’t use it, because time and again I find how much I love the focus of Rytm + small modular into OT. I really like it, for its sound and simplicity. Often use the Mangledverb with a small 16th predelay. PS: Oh and I think I got my two H9s this year! Pure win, use them in everything.I love the techno loops that flow so easily from it. Smaller, less panic-gassy modular, this second time around.
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Plus it was a bit too difficult to get sounding good for me - too many oscillators, gain stages, filters, for me to sweet spot it. Plus the way the arp couldn’t be recorded like i would’ve liked.

Staring at me, asking why I’m not turning it on constantly. Big and expensive gear can more quickly feel like a burden to me. Still on the interested/GAS list: Lyra-8, DNK, Oto Boum, Zen Delay, a reverb pedal, Strega, the perfect mixer with a lot of stereo and digital outs (but secretly I want a Six and to replace the RME I shouldn’t have sold). It cemented how I just need to learn keyboard better rather than fighting the scale limitations of a grid. Polyend/Dreadbox Medusa - instant, surprising hated of its overall tone and frustration with the tiny screen, menus & sequencer/controller.I thought I had nostalgia for it, but it turns out I don’t. voice chips and refurb for my Juno-106: it’s great to have it fully functional, for the first time in many years, but maybe I could just let this go now I have Matriarch and the Rev2 I got last year.I’m glad I have it, but I still don’t love it It’s so quick, easy and useful that it feels like an extension of me I use it for sampling, recording practice jams, recording performances for posterity/sharing, getting candid comments from people. Tascam DR-40x: it’s so liberating to have a hand-held mic+recorder combo.I love the immediacy, of being forced to record it right now if I want to keep anything. Even simple sounds have a quality that makes them more polished than similar ones from other gear. Moog Matriarch - beautiful in form, function and sound.Finally own my own MS-something and it’s as wild and fun as I remembered. Korg MS-20FS - I borrowed my school’s MS-10 30 years ago.ARmkii - total love I’ve been gushing about it for two days on other threads so I’ll save the repetition here.A reward for spending 10 years saving to buy a house and having a bit left over. I bought some big ticket items this year.
