{"id":1037,"date":"2012-10-25T17:27:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T16:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2012-10-31T10:19:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T09:19:48","slug":"a-modular-synthesizer-is-coming-to-my-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/a-modular-synthesizer-is-coming-to-my-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modular Synthesizer Is Coming To My Studio!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is big news for me: I was able to raise independent funds for putting together a Modular Synthesizer (Thank YOU, Konny!!).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1038\" title=\"modsynth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/modsynth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/modsynth.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/modsynth-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>I chose the Eurorack standard, which is supported by many manufacturers, and I just ordered 26 modules of the Doepfer A-100 system. That&#8217;s just a few more than the system in this picture. Some of them are much larger, though, so it looks like there is a lot more. I am getting it all built into a flat and low desk. It will arrive as individual components, which my occasional musical collaborator Bellows is going to assemble for me.<\/p>\n<p>Modular synthesizers are open-ended projects &#8211; they just keep growing bigger and demanding the injection of increasing amounts of funds all the time. I have been lucky with this so far, though. I had a budget &#8211; which I overshot by 260.11 Euro. Ah, well, I can live with <em>that<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Modular synthesizers are not really for playing tunes. This one will do a lot of processing of prerecorded sounds, but its main job will be making patterns and textures and exploring entirely new sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is big news for me: I was able to raise independent funds for putting together a Modular Synthesizer (Thank YOU, Konny!!). I chose the Eurorack standard, which is supported by many manufacturers, and I just ordered 26 modules of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/a-modular-synthesizer-is-coming-to-my-studio\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modular-synthesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}