Modular Eurorack for Ambient Sounds?

I don't do anything by halves. The spouse thinks it's a side effect of the ADHD. I get involved in a thing, then I go all out. I'll look into the Minilogue for sure, like I said, my kid is showing interest in sound synthesis, and if I can get them interested in making music, then I've won a battle I've been fighting for since they were born!

it'll happen, my son's into it, piano lessons, messes with my synths, writes little 1 minute songs, and I might teach him to engineer. He seems really fascinated with the home post-room and the plethora of contrlols and lights. Someone from his generation needs to learn to do it with real gear right out of the gate to replace dinosaurs like me and a lot of my buddies. PMTLuke on here also ahs a kid who is hella into music, plays guitar and keys and is very young. If you show them what it does they're going to get sucked in. I hope. Also check out google music lab . Its an online midi sequencer/piano roll for kids that actually exports. Teaches notation, circle of 5ths... It has oscillator shapes, hamronic generators and just teaches ages like 5 to 10 all about basic theory, electronic music and the principles of recording a bit too. Its super hands on but really educational. I can't believe all the stuff my son has learned about since his school music teacher introduced it to us. Now he's like "oh that's a since" and I'm like "test tones are always sines, if you want to calibrate soemthing to respond at a certain frequency you use the since wave at that frequency" and he's like "that makes sense they don't have harmonics."

Showed that to my kid, and they went NUTS on it. I mean absolutely nuts. Super fast arpeggated riffs, very frenetic stuff, basically exactly what I expected out of them to make. But yeah, they're learning a bit, and showing more interest than ever. I hooked 'em up with an old Casio £50 keyboard (I wanna say CTK-2000?) I had laying around, so hopefully they'll go nuts with that as well.

Now I'm trying to cipher out a decently priced actual factual workstation to get them. If this were the 2000s, I'd lean towards the Roland JX305 (if it were priced at what it's going for on Reverb right now, anyway)--but today, that's kind of a shite workstation it seems. I want them to have something GOOD, but not overly complex, but also not bank breaking, since they may not stick with it.

Again, sorry for delayed responses--likely going to be in and out over this coming year--my health is... well... If I make it it to 2022, I'll consider it a win.

So just to come back to this, I found a thing.

https://vcvrack.com

Uh... I'm going to lose a lot of time to this. But it'll likely save me a lot of spending money on things I don't need, and allow me to refine my tastes, my technique, and figure things out in a musical manner.

So that's a thing!

So just to come back to this, I found a thing.

https://vcvrack.com

Uh... I'm going to lose a lot of time to this. But it'll likely save me a lot of spending money on things I don't need, and allow me to refine my tastes, my technique, and figure things out in a musical manner.

So that's a thing!

Excellent! I'm all for not spending $3-$4k if you don't need to. Let us know how the virtual euro exploration goes. :)

Again, sorry for delayed responses--likely going to be in and out over this coming year--my health is... well... If I make it it to 2022, I'll consider it a win.

focus on that win, I'm pulling for you

Sorry Im coming in late into this thread as someone who has also started getting into modular gear after being into synths for years (Eurorack didn't exist when I first got into synths as a kid in the 80s :-) My advice would be to take your time learning about this stuff, there is just so much choice out there in modular that really its taken me about a year to learn and figure out what kind of modules I want to be playing with. Its way too easy to spend a chunk of money on modules and then realize it wasn't quite what you wanted. YouTube is great in this regard because you can find videos on almost every module. I literally only just started acquiring modules the past few months.

Some (hopefully useful) notes:

• Check out Red Means Recording's or Cinematic Laboratory's or Mylar Melodies' channels on YouTube.

• Mutable Instruments and Make Noise make the most popular / well-known modules.

• modulargrid.net is your friend.

• Cases are mad expensive! Some are really nice though and you can start small but to be clear you WILL run out of space (ie. question is when, not if). I own cases from Intellijel, Arturia (RackBrute), Frap Tools and Moog (who also sell a nice tier rack if you end up with several Moog cases). I have recently started looking into making my own cases (I found Etsy a great place to find modular parts and inspiration).

• I see you've already found vcvrack :-)

Again, sorry for delayed responses--likely going to be in and out over this coming year--my health is... well... If I make it it to 2022, I'll consider it a win.

Hang in there buddy and best of luck!