The last Eurorack sequencer you might ever buy: DROID Moto Kit Demo

This is very cool.

Are there ways to save projects? Save sequences? Say I come up with a sequence I like can that session be saved?

like a chicken! thank the maker(s).

The Master18 module doesn't appear to be available on the website yet. Just the full set. Hopefully it becomes available individually for those that already own other modules

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You always do such a great job learning and explaining the complexities of the tools you use, but my favorite thing by far about your explorations is how smart and cool and funky the musicality of it all is. You're a gd treasure to the community

the knobs move on their own and look cool but i dont like how it requires spending a great deal of time learning one module.

I love this, but at the same time, it is the price of a deluge, which leaves me thinking that a midi>CV could be the bridge to emulate all of the above

Game over. This sequencer wins. Instabuy for me. Brilliant!

Thank you ever so much for your track Musikvideo! A masterpiece!

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Really excellent demo @mylarmelodies; really spectacular.

I'll probably never own a single piece of modular gear but that won't stop me from admiring the time, effort, research and development it took to create these cool pieces of hardware. Cool stuff

Are motorized faders reliable long term?

I admire the time and effort for all this modular electronics mayhem. But controversially isn’t this for all people who didn’t go to music school to learn an instrument and music theory?! 😂 for what is lacking in music ability is often offset in electronic engineering prowess and synthesis theory.

Absolutely fantastic

Gorgeous! But super expensive unfortunately. This kit is 1500€.

Pardon my french, but this is fucking incredible! I thought the whole sequencer spiel was played out, after Modal brought as much "ordered chaos" as they could, but damn, this.. This really REALLY makes the sequencer an extention of ye ol' deck of keys. And it's so damn well integrated! I feel like there's doors opening up to actually having a good time jamming with a sequencer, without the idle hands syndrome. I thought for sure there wouldn't be anything new to be done to improve the user interface. I am so happy I'm wrong.. I'm saving up for this. Haven't played with it yet, but I can already tell this has earned it's place in the shitbox.

Loving the jams as always. What amazing creativity from the maker and the player! Nice one guys.🤟

I don't want to know how much all those parts cost collectively lol

@mylarmelodies Hi! Amazing demo. Is it possible to send midi to 4 x synths via DIN Midi? I can see 4 x midi outs… I think. Also - could a hub be connected to the usb c port to send midi to multiple midi devices via USB
?

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this is wild

This is so much fun to watch. I am almost tempted to buy one of these sets myself. Looks even more fun to design something like this myself but then I recognize the amount of work and knowledge that was put into designing this. Let's not forget that you can add more - and different - controllers and expanders if you like. I especially love the force feedback/detent style of the motor faders.

and it's only $1500!

Motorized faders are always a welcome addition!

finally, motofaders! In Eurorack!!

the only thing I'd be concerned about if I had spare rackspace and some money to burn would be how easy it might be to get lost and not know which page you're on at a glance. Can anyone with a DROID system speak to how much of an issue this is? (I don't really feel like going onto the wiggler forums)

And I thought the 303 had a complex UI/UX

Very cool. Price = OUCH!

The functionality is ace, but I would need more visual cues as to what it is doing. The motorized faders are cool, but how do I see what step I am on? I wonder if this could be built with the DROID E4 LED encoders at less cost?

It's awesome but it's so hard justifying the price, I had the Droid setup before it got really well known and I found the sequences just all really sounded so similar and it didn't have much mojo, I use a nerdseq now which I absolutely love

Looks really nice and playable. Can you expand it in terms of number of channels? Where is the memory limit? Is in the B32 or Master18? Is everything step based or could you record continuous CV with the faders?

No, sorry but no.
i like the idea, but the user interface is completely and very confusing to me. And i'm allergic to anything with motor faders.

Hey, awesome you are covering this! Really enjoying the DROID ecosystem :)

Very nice.

Interesting notion. Unfortunately, the first occurrence of the word "software" was my signal to exit. Years of experience makes it clear, "software" equals "abandon-ware". That ticking you hear isn't the metronome - it's the TTD ("time-to-death") clock. Hard pass for me.

Do you think it possible to generate sequences in the MotoKit and record them into the Squarp Hermod ? would be an amazing match to have a premium performance sequencer and a sequence ''recorder/playbacker'' (for porspuses as studio recording).

I'm looking at those faders and staring at my Ornaments & Crime. Then I'm looking over at my Disting... then I'm looking back at the screen. Having flying faders for the parameters of those modules would be kind of sick.

What is creating the acid sound in a lot of the videos. Good squidge.

This seems like a lot of fun!
Im a total sucker for sequencers.

Hey mylar, Are you still using the Droid Moto Kit or was it on loan? If so, how are you getting along with it after 4 months of use?

oh look it is another toy for rich kids. has it nice stickers in the package?

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I had such a good time watching this - seems you had fun filming. Thanks for pointing out that altering the patch or using it as a starting point for building an individualized sequencer is doable and totally makes sense. I slimmed down the default patch (generated by the patch generator inside the DROID Forge) by 1 track and freed some RAM to work with. I then added another B32 (32 button matrix) and an E4 (4 encoders) to put an algoquencer circuit to use as 4 track 16 step drum sequencer with plenty of features. Of course it does polyrhythms and polymetrics each track separately and is intuitive to use. The four tracks are colour coded, which reflects in the LED meters surrounding the E4s, so when performing in darkness I'm always properly informed, which drum track I'm working with at the moment. I should say that I'm using a DROID Master + X7 + G8 setup to have enough gate outputs to serve my drum tracks and the voice tracks of the MFPS. It's a space ship command center and performing is just so much more fun.