December 2018 - Merry Christmas!

Dear AE modular Community,

The year 2018 comes to an end, and I want to take this opportunity to say a big THANK YOU to all of you! It was an exciting year with really a lot of work. Over the last few months there was even so much going on that those of you who had ordered in this time had (and still have) to wait several weeks for shipment... Although I’m not happy about this fact, it nevertheless made it clear to me what an awesome community you are. No one was really complaining, instead I have heard so many understanding and encouraging words from you, it’s totally amazing!

In the meantime I got support for the production, and a big bunch of development tasks (see below) have been done, so I am looking forward to a wonderful and exciting year 2019 for AE modular! Together with your support and inspiration it will grow with a lot of new modules and mature further - and all this would not be possible without YOU!

A special thanks goes to Carsten and Felix for their incredible and enthusiastic support; you guys really rock! The heaven has sent you!

So again, a BIG, BIG THANK YOU! You are such a wonderful community!

New Standard Rack and Modules

Just in time for Christmas I have finished work on optimising and redesigning some modules that are part of the standard Rack 1 and Rack 2. In addition there are now also new variations of the cases which can now also be connected to each other.

Rack 2 now contains the trigger sequencer TRIQ164 as standard (which is the successor of the STEP10)

As before the complete systems are available in the shop now in their new configurations.

These are the new modules:

1. 2OSC/d is a replacement for the old 2OSC module. It is still basically an analog oscillator, however the frequency is controlled via a digital circuit which ensures a good tracking over several octaves and almost no temperature drift! It is now available in the shop.
2. SVFILTER is state-variable filter and will replace one of the Wasp filters in the standard rack, so the standard rack offers two different filters in the future, which brings more variety. More information in the shop.
3. 2VCA R2 is a replacement for the old 2VCA. It adds a switch for each of the VCAs to change from audio to DC mode. This reduces the ‘popping’ sounds you sometimes get for fast audio signals.
4. RACKLINK will finally be officially released. This is being used to share the bus, power and 8 free-purpose connections among two separate cases. It can now be bought from the shop.
5. 2ENV will replace the old ENV module. This is a dual attack/decay envelope generator with  inputs to retrigger and CV control to change the attack and decay times. It even has a button for each of the envelopes to trigger them manually. It is now in the shop.
6. LOPAG is a low-pass gate based on a vactrol. (Not part of the standard rack) More information in the shop.

As you can imagine this was quite a lot of work, but in my opinion it was necessary to overhaul some of these fundamental modules before they are released to a much greater market in 2019 (more about this in a later post).

News from the Forum

There wasn’t a huge amount of discussion on the forum, but I was really happy to see more original performances and I am impressed on how well those artists managed to fit the AE system into their compositions!

• Spacedog released his first track “Ice on Mars” http://forum.aemodular.com/thread/112/ice-on-mars-spacedog
• The Tuesday Night Machines released two new tracks
  • A calm jam session http://forum.aemodular.com/post/698/thread
  • A good old jam http://forum.aemodular.com/post/648/thread
• Leonsdl released a track which features the Electribe 2 in a duet with AE Modular http://forum.aemodular.com/post/682/thread

Meanwhile The Tuesday Night Machines was tinkering again and is now controlling his AE modular with an IR remote: http://forum.aemodular.com/thread/114/receiver-module-easy-building-attenuator

Superbooth 2019

Just a reminder for everyone, that tangible waves will again be at the Superbooth next year and that we will make this an event that you don’t want to miss!

​Early Bird tickets are still available until 31st December at https://www.superbooth.com/en/tickets_en.html