The Baby8 and APC are the perfect entry into modular. The Rakit team are lovely people and the kits are beautifully designed. I wanted to make more music with these two kits and you've given me that nudge!
Thanks for watching. I have to say, the folks at Rakit are some of the nicest I've dealt with. They seem like really good humans. However, I'm legitimately loving their kits. They've got some great ideas.
I really appreciate you tuning in and watching all these vids. I've decided to do a Modular Synth 101 series in the near future. It should be a collection of short videos covering things like "what does an LFO do" or "what is a voltage envelope". Stay tuned...
Those are fun little modules. Do the jumper cables work to send CV (the small non patch cable ones) or do the just do power transfer? Fun video as always
Thanks for checking it out. Great question. There are 5 active pins. The top pin provides +9V and the bottom pin is common ground. The middle three pins are CV1+, CV2+ (I can't really figure out what this one does LOL), and Gate+ from the sequencer. Even if you don't use the power wire, you still have to connect the ground to get the CV/Gate signals to flow. So there will always be a minimum of 2 pins used. I didn't really explain it all that well but I demonstrated it around 8:55.
@@musicalmiscellany I was curious as to weather or not they would play well with a bastle kastle or volca modular as they use the same mini jumper cables
Thanks for watching. That would be a cool feature. I'm sure it's possible with this kit but I'm guessing it would be pretty difficult since they currently switch to one mode or the other and then use the same set of switches for reset/skip. You'd have to add another set of switches plus a logic circuit.
Confirmed it works by using only a row of ON/OFF/ON switches and two diodes, using the RAKIT pcb LED+ output tied to middle pin of an ON/OFF/ON switch for each step. Tie all pins on one side of the ON/OFF/ON switches together using bare wire, and separately do the same for the other side. Tie one side to the RAKIT RST/SKIP switch right pin, and the other side to the left pin. This way only one side is active at each step, but never both. Also tie both sides (using diode) to the right pin of each RAKIT channel switch. Perhaps this will help someone looking to do the same.
I love these kits
Yeah. Rakit makes good stuff. Thanks for checking out the video.
The Baby8 and APC are the perfect entry into modular. The Rakit team are lovely people and the kits are beautifully designed. I wanted to make more music with these two kits and you've given me that nudge!
Thanks for watching. I have to say, the folks at Rakit are some of the nicest I've dealt with. They seem like really good humans. However, I'm legitimately loving their kits. They've got some great ideas.
I am learning so much from you
I really appreciate you tuning in and watching all these vids. I've decided to do a Modular Synth 101 series in the near future. It should be a collection of short videos covering things like "what does an LFO do" or "what is a voltage envelope". Stay tuned...
@@musicalmiscellany That would be so freaking wonderful
I feel very much lost and alone out here in Canyon Texas
Those are fun little modules. Do the jumper cables work to send CV (the small non patch cable ones) or do the just do power transfer? Fun video as always
Thanks for checking it out. Great question. There are 5 active pins. The top pin provides +9V and the bottom pin is common ground. The middle three pins are CV1+, CV2+ (I can't really figure out what this one does LOL), and Gate+ from the sequencer. Even if you don't use the power wire, you still have to connect the ground to get the CV/Gate signals to flow. So there will always be a minimum of 2 pins used. I didn't really explain it all that well but I demonstrated it around 8:55.
@@musicalmiscellany I was curious as to weather or not they would play well with a bastle kastle or volca modular as they use the same mini jumper cables
@@id.unknown1283 I would imagine they would. I remember seeing a video of someone using the Baby8 with a Kastle.
Wonder what it would take to modify such that you can skip some steps, but also reset on another step
Thanks for watching. That would be a cool feature. I'm sure it's possible with this kit but I'm guessing it would be pretty difficult since they currently switch to one mode or the other and then use the same set of switches for reset/skip. You'd have to add another set of switches plus a logic circuit.
Confirmed it works by using only a row of ON/OFF/ON switches and two diodes, using the RAKIT pcb LED+ output tied to middle pin of an ON/OFF/ON switch for each step. Tie all pins on one side of the ON/OFF/ON switches together using bare wire, and separately do the same for the other side. Tie one side to the RAKIT RST/SKIP switch right pin, and the other side to the left pin. This way only one side is active at each step, but never both. Also tie both sides (using diode) to the right pin of each RAKIT channel switch. Perhaps this will help someone looking to do the same.