Doepfer A-149-1 Quantized / Stored Random Voltages + A-149-2 Dig Rnd Volt

[@Detroit-Berlin]

What Doepfer module tutorial next? (see description for list)

[@alanc6752]

Great demo of the A-149-1. There is not much on the Doepfer A-101-3 Vactrol Phaser. It looks rad but is it? Maybe one of the Berlin shops will lend you one to check out?

[@Detroit-Berlin]

@@alanc6752 Thanks 🙏 I will see if it’s available for demo 👍

[@samuelcameron9353]

A Ladik U-401 median module as well as a quantiser is needed to get the most out of the second section. Then you can set a ceiling or floor to the outputs that can also be modulated externally. These sorts of modules tend to dissapoint some people due to the expectations they bring to them of instaant musical results. The bottom section is purely statistical...a rectangular distribution and a normal distribution which can be skewed right or left by the knob. You won't get a musically sensible output from those until you input some musical sensibility.

[@Detroit-Berlin]

thanks for your vision 👍 I think this module is great for creating melodies when combined with the right modules because there’s a clear way of operating in the random notes.

[@ske1111]

The A-149-1-1 works well in a Krell patch. I also like to send 2 gates from the A-149-2 to the 2 gate inputs of the A-101-2 LPG to add interesting variations randomly in time with the clock. It's a great and somewhat mysterious feature.

[@Detroit-Berlin]

I need to try that, a video for the LPG will follow soon 🙂

[@mymodularjourney]

Random voltages seems to sum up my Modular patching quite well. 😬

[@MyPruha]

Hi. Is A-149-1 +149/2 the same as Verbos random sampling? Could it be a budget version?

[@Detroit-Berlin]

Not familiar with that one but if the Verbos is in the same league like the Sputnik West Coast Random yes it could do as an alternative 👍

[@KNHSynths]

The problem with this module (and the original Buchla Source of Uncertainty) is that it is over complicated for the modularist who program it, but listening to your demo and being fully "external" from it, it just sounds like any S&H + attenator to limit range. Not your fault, of course. I've got a 149-2 during a few years, so I know how it works, this is very different from a simple S&H, but for the listeners the result is quite the same. So I sold it... But intellectually it is an interesting module.

[@Detroit-Berlin]

I don’t entirely agree, it outputs cv’s in a less random way than your average s+h. When you want something similar you need at least an attenuator and quantiser module. For what it costs it’s a very nice tool to randomise or create generative music. The expander is a must-have though.

[@KNHSynths]

@@Detroit-Berlin In most modular you will find a quantizer and some attenuverters. It is not like these modules were very rare. But as I said it, the 149 is not just a simple S&H it is an over complicated S&H. Patching a S&H, an attenuverter and a quantizer together is making the job easier to understand and predict the result. I've got the expander too. And I agree this module is very interesting , intellectually speaking. But for generative music you have Marbles that is way more usable (but not simple of course). The 149 is not expensive (but it takes a lot of place with the expander), and it can bring some kind of control on the randomness. It is a good module. Just a bit too complex for the result (random voltages).