mikeleebirds

Wow! Love the look, love the description, love the possibilities.
I would definitely love to have this in my rack!


I want to immediately try out 3-osc FM + filter on that


would be fancy if it was 10 years ago, now its just the same old gold design with zero innovation with a clickbait to sort by price, i never liked this company from the beginning, look at xaoc, make noise, ssf, and this same old 20hp gold oscillator of the most mundane sounds


Artpunk

would be fancy if it was 10 years ago, now its just the same old gold design with zero innovation with a clickbait to sort by price, i never liked this company from the beginning, look at xaoc, make noise, ssf, and this same old 20hp gold oscillator of the most mundane sounds
-- compviga

Wow. I always thought that if you didn't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all, guess you missed that memo. This company is amazing as are their modules, they are definitely far from "mundane"! I feel sad for you if you can't get that experience in your world view and I hope you find what ever it is you are looking for eventually so you can spend less time dumping on other people's hard (and excellent) work.
I would love to try this module out one day, but I may have to visit Glasgow (again) to do it!

Music Is The Best (F.Z.)


would be fancy if it was 10 years ago, now its just the same old gold design with zero innovation with a clickbait to sort by price, i never liked this company from the beginning, look at xaoc, make noise, ssf, and this same old 20hp gold oscillator of the most mundane sounds
-- compviga

Wow. I always thought that if you didn't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all, guess you missed that memo. This company is amazing as are their modules, they are definitely far from "mundane"! I feel sad for you if you can't get that experience in your world view and I hope you find what ever it is you are looking for eventually so you can spend less time dumping on other people's hard (and excellent) work.
I would love to try this module out one day, but I may have to visit Glasgow (again) to do it!
-- Artpunk

It's internet, and I enjoy shitposting so what? And I do it with extensive knowledge in Eurorack. For me, Instruo synths were edgy during 2015, now it's kind of outdated (sampler mono, standalones for OSC Seashell etc), and Instruo prices are hiked up for no reason other than shiny gold panel, and here I see a module with 99.999.9999 as a cheap AD to make Instruo top when you sort modules according to the price, I am not writing about other modules, I am just writing on this module because what is that price tag? I don't see a hard-worked design module here, another bunch of same old design filters with hard to recognize what goes where input/output schematics (for the sake of edgy design, similar to Bastl Instruments nighmare). Check Make Noise New Universal Synthesizer, or even old Rossum 2015 modules, see the difference between quality of design? Yea, I am here complaining about it. Maybe he will read and make better modules.


I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for you though, or I'm sorry that happened to you. Looking forward to buying this one if it comes out one day :]


instruo

would be fancy if it was 10 years ago, now its just the same old gold design with zero innovation with a clickbait to sort by price, i never liked this company from the beginning, look at xaoc, make noise, ssf, and this same old 20hp gold oscillator of the most mundane sounds
-- compviga

😆
Aww man! I thought you liked me?


Instruo makes great modules. people complaining are the ones that cant afford them


noodle_hut

I got a Harmonàig. Afford isn't the consideration.
I was dissapointed that the thin bare board and gold nuts aesthetic seemed so cheap, that and its frequent stray notes.
Flaky meh firmware.
Still have it, and it always looks like it should be interesting, but I can't find a good place for its 18hp.

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instruo

I got a Harmonàig. Afford isn't the consideration.
I was dissapointed that the thin bare board and gold nuts aesthetic seemed so cheap, that and its frequent stray notes.
Flaky meh firmware.
Still have it, and it always looks like it should be interesting, but I can't find a good place for its 18hp.
-- noodle_hut

sorry to hear you're having harmonic issues.
Did you ever reach out for technical support?

The main circuit boards are 1.6mm FR4 which is pretty typical for PCBA. The faceplates are also FR4, but are 2mm thick to bring them up to a more typical spec of faceplate thickness.

Harmonaig always works fine for me! 🤷‍♂️
Perhaps theres something in your rack adding excessive noise to the bus board?
As I say, reach out if you need support ☺
Here's a link to a new video i produced for the Harmonaig. It was long overdue an update! Its 10th anniversary seemed a suitable time to shoot it.


noodle_hut

Ok. I'll try Harmonaig again, study how you and others are using it, and try and figure it out.
I have four of those blue QZVCOs that could be interesting with it.

I really like the idea of it, but I was having such difficulty sequencing it the CVs it wants
in the order it wants, and could never find the melody/chordings I was looking for.
Mosly from difficulty in setting those three modals using a stepped CV, precisely.

I'll take another look at it, and thank you for your assistance.

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instruo

Ok. I'll try Harmonaig again, study how you and others are using it, and try and figure it out.
I have four of those blue QZVCOs that could be interesting with it.

I really like the idea of it, but I was having such difficulty sequencing it the CVs it wants
in the order it wants, and could never find the melody/chordings I was looking for.
Mosly from difficulty in setting those three modals using a stepped CV, precisely.

I'll take another look at it, and thank you for your assistance.
-- noodle_hut

Do you mean the Doepfer A-110-4 QZVCO? That could be fun!

Some considerations:
Just because Harmonàig has four CV outputs, keep in mind that not all musical contexts benefit from full blown 7th chords! Comp like you would a guitar or piano accompaniment. The 3rd is the most important interval after the root, of course. It defines tonality. Often the 5th can even be omitted without losing harmonic context, unless you’re going for a particular voice-led cadence. In a iiø, V7, i progression, the 5th can play a bigger harmonic and melodic role.

Honestly, I keep my patches to triads most of the time. I’ll maybe only add a 7th if I’m in a minimal minor tonality and the minor 7th adds some nice character. A triadic V-I still resolves without the dominant7th, which can be overkill in the wrong context.

TZFM voices are very powerful in terms of timbre, but on their own those blue VCOs are just quadrature sine wave generators. To get the TZ harmonic timbres, they need a modulator. And as the fundamental roles reverse, with the modulators define pitch and the carriers (TZ) define timbre.

Let us know how you get on!
And if you need Harmonàig support, don’t hesitate to ask :)
(But maybe over email rather than on the MG forum under an unrelated module!)