Modularworld, and more recently Monorocket.

Modularworld’s offering offers a number of features that the doepfer cases don’t have (built in multiples, attenuators, momentary buttons). Monorocket looks even more exciting. The interview on trash audio gives some clues as to the prices.

Lexington 600HP $1000
Rack6 168HP $250
Mission9 168HP $500

The Lexington may look quite expensive initially, but at 600HP, it works out at a per-HP cost at $1.66. The only other eurorack case with a ratio near it, is the wooden low cost doepfer. Comparing the two cases, the Lexington is a hundred times better looking.

The racks are also really appealing. With a per-HP cost of $1.48, they will be the best value available right now for eurorack cases.

All the current prices are preliminary and subject to change, but if they stay close to the prices already mentioned, Monorocket has potential to satisfy a lot of customers when they start shipping.

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New eurorack case options.

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Examination of the board showed that the battery had started leaking salty rusty ooze.


Doepfer must have been unprepared for this, because they chose to use a battery that is soldered to the board rather than some easier to replace form.

The actual replacement procedure is pretty trivial thankfully. Unsolder three pads, pull the old battery out, stick the new one in, and add some new solder. I’m no electronics genius by a long shot, but this was even within my capabilities.

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A-112 sampler battery maintenance.

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Revisiting the earlier post about a “per-HP” cost of cases, I compiled a list of all the possible cases currently available from Analogue Haven, noisebug & bigcity, and worked out the per-HP cost of each.

I think I’m going to hold off on buying any of the above though, until I can add these to the matrix..

The ringers will be a little more complicated to really put a per-HP pricetag on, because I’ll need to factor in at least one power supply to go with them.

updated March 13th: Added the Cwejman. Ouch. That’s just crazy talk.

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Breakdown of per-HP costs for eurorack cases.

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If I had held off a few days on my used modules purchase, I could have saved some shipping
I ordered a plan B model 11, STG wave folder and Tiptop Z3000 VCO a few days ago when they appeared on the used pages.

Lots of new toys next week!

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NAMM Sale on at Analogue Haven

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assmaster!

It’s also good to see new module manufacturers introducing euro modules. In the last year we’ve seen modules from bubblesound, flight of harmony, tiptop audio and probably more. I’m sure I’ve forgotten someone. Also some other format manufacturers making the jump to euro, such as stg, and soon, metasonix.

Another newcomer to the eurorack format, is Malekko, known mostly so far for their great stompbox effects. The pic to the left is their forthcoming conversion of their assmaster distortion pedal. I love the serge-esque knobs, and who doesn’t need a CV controllable ‘ass’ ?

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Malekko Assmaster.

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Something that seems to have been forgotten however, is that there are still a lot of the older ‘v1′ doepfer cases out there.
These are pretty much identical to the newer variant, but they have a smaller power supply, than can only supply 650mA of current. These tend to get sold off as ‘inferior’, and carry an even lower cost when sold these days.

I picked up one recently to house some of my HP hungry modules. As long as you keep in mind the power limitation, and do some simple addition to make sure you don’t exceed it, they remain a cost effective way to house those wide modules.

Here’s what I squeezed into mine:

(almost) fully populated.

A-188-2 tapped BBD (30HP, 120mA)
A-143-1 Complex envelope generator/LFO (28HP, 70mA)
A-113 subharmonic generator (26HP, 150mA)
A-128 fixed filter bank (20HP, 20mA)
A-101-3 12 stage vactrol phaser (30HP, 50mA)
A-127 triple resonance filter (28HP, 100mA)

And I still had more than enough room for a multiple.
Total power usage: 510mA. Didn’t even come close to running out.

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HP greedy modules.

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A week or so back, I picked up a Blacet Miniwave and eurorack conversion kit. I’d heard nothing but good things said about it, so it was one of those modules on my “get it at some point”. It’s funny how the right price can drive an impulse buy.

The instructions on noisebug’s site made it sound like a pretty simple project. Nothing is ever simple in life.

I popped off the knobs, and started unscrewing the pots. Off came the face plate, easy enough so far. Now on with the new plate. Oh, the knobs/pots are in different places on this faceplate.
Some wiggling and poking later, and I’d got them lined up except for the input select switch, whose wires weren’t long enough to reach the plate. At this point I’d figured I’d done something wrong, and start moving the rats nest of wiring around trying to untangle them into something that would make it fit.

This was my first mistake. My pot juggling skills seemed to be better than my “remember which pot is which” skills, so I ended up emailing Antonio at noisebug to get a picture of a completed module (thanks Antonio!) for reference. I’d actually gotten them lined up correctly, but that one switch was never fitting in that hole with the stock wiring. According to Antonio who had just recieved a bunch of miniwaves, the first ones he’d seen hadn’t been this way, but the newer batch was, so if you’re looking to do a similar conversion, this may or may not affect you depending on the batch of miniwaves yours came from.

I was beginning to fear this was going to turn into a bigger project than I anticipated.

Out came the soldering iron. I desoldered the three wires from the switch on the board, soldered on longer wires, and then joined the old + new together. Kind of ghetto, but my soldering skills leave a lot to be desired. Success! I could now mount the switch on the panel.

Flushed with the success of holding my completed euro-miniwave in my hands, I walked to the modular with a view to fitting it. My kit didn’t come with instructions, but apparently they say something along the lines of “in a G6 case, you have to fit it between the bus boards”. Well, we’ll see about that.

The width of the miniwave pcb + the blacet power connector + the planb power adaptor is wider than the gap between two sets of pins on a bus board. I scratched my head for a while, and tried various contortions but couldn’t fit the damn thing in a way that wouldn’t involve shorting out something. A brief conversation with noisesource later inspired me to (in his words) “say fuck it, and do it my own way”.

I decided to unscrew the top bus board in the G6, and shove it over a bit, to give some extra space at the side of the case for the miniwave to sit in. If you only halfway unscrew the board, the screws and the nuts in the rail will slide with a little bit of force.

With this case modification done, that freed up an inch or so of space at the right hand side of the case. Triumph!

This project was a bit more work than anticipated, but was it worth it?
After screwing around with the module for five minutes, oh hells yes. It’s going to take a while to figure out how to get the most out of it, but it’s one of those modules that you can have fun with instantly.

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Miniwave Eurorack conversion.

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