Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Molten Modular 10 – Installing a Moog Mother-32 into a Eurorack Case”.
Hello, I’m Robin Vincent and welcome to molten modular today we’re gon na stick a mogh mother 32 into a proper eurorack case. Now, if you’ve been following, my journey, you’ll know that the mother 32 was the first sort of semi modular synthesizer that I got hold of and kind of kicked off. This whole cascade of madness into the world of modular. And although I love the sound, I love. What this taught me, I love the sort of things you can get out of it. I’Ve always been in two minds about its place in my modular rack over here, because it’s huge it’s always going to take up a whole load of space. And I don’t know whether that’s a good or a bad thing, because I’m really now interested in individual modules and that’s why I want to explore, and so it takes up so much real estate.
This single thing here that it just makes me wonder whether I should just let this go and concentrate on individual modules. I think it’s a question that a lot of users of the month 32 encounter the problem became that my indecision about it was kind of preventing me from moving on, and so I’ve made the decision. I’M going to incorporate this into a bigger case to make it a proper part of my eurorack, then I can stop fussing and feeling about and get on with developing my second row. Oh yes, it’s time for that.
Second row: that’s sort of difficult, complicated second row that you’re not really quite sure whether you should do or not and do build on the excitement of the first one. And is it the same way you suddenly sort of twist it up with artistic and creative differences? And not entirely sure which direction to go in that kind of second row and I’ll be making a video all about my second row choices right after this one to see what I can squeeze in alongside the mother 32, so do go and check that out. But for now we’re going to focus on taking this thing apart sticking it in this box. Let’S do that, as with all my videos, I’m not coming at this from some kind of massive place of experience. I haven’t installed 50 mother 32s into cases and are now showing you all the things that I’ve learnt along that journey. No I’ve never done this before in my life.
I am gon na stumble on in there like some kind of newbie that I am just to demonstrate how that might work or not we’ll discover it along the way together. That’S the plan, so I reckon these screws should go. That’S going to be a good place. To start I mean I’m assuming it goes without mention that it shouldn’t be plugged into power when doing this kind of thing, I’m not responsible for your health and safety.
Maybe before we go any further, it’s be a good idea to have a quick look at the manual. Well, yes, there is this little bit here about installing into a eurorack module and really all it says, is taking out the eight screws, which is what I’m doing at the moment, lift it out, disconnect the cables and then connect it up, as shown that all sounds Very easy one could of course use some kind of electronic screwdriver, but I prefer the analog feel of something more traditional right. Let’S see if we can pull this out without putting the knobs off okay inside it’s connected by two cables. You see that one on the left, one on the right, which I will endeavour to remove like so it’s out, look at that.
It’S really very, very shallow. Perfect for any sort of skiff, it’s very, very skiff friendly. I wasn’t expecting that. I was expecting a lot more gubbins on the back there you go. That’S the feller just that now the important connection on the back is going to be this one here, which is the eurorack power connection, so I’m going to need a ribbon cable that goes from here to the ribbon power bus. What’S it inside my new case now, do I have one of those what I’m pretty sure that it doesn’t come with it, so I’m gon na have to route around to see if I’ve got a spare one.
This is also a mode case, just like the first one. The idea is, I’m going to put it into a two-tier stack, maybe even three tiers in the future, but for the moment two tiers. I think it’s going to be plenty so this I should sit in there perfectly, but look at all the room it takes huh. I don’t know it does my head in it’s a beautiful thing. This make mother 32, but it does take up all this space. You know I’ve only got this much left for more modules, how it’s frustrating and yet beautiful, and yet this is awesome, because it’s a complete synthesis got a sequencer.
It’S got all this stuff going on in it, but it just eats up so much room. Oh wait! Oh yeah, the question is, of course, so he put it on the left. You put it on the right. Let’S sit better over here then put different modules in here, but some reason they looks like there’s more space on that side, which is obviously an optical illusion.
I’M inclined to keep it on the left, because I have gone with oscillators on the left, but no Xplode reason and also because of this. If that’s all the way over to the right, it means that every cable is going to have to go across it, whereas here it can, you know it can spread out to different points on the gyro rack without dragging cables over everything. So that seems to be the best place for it. In my view, right I got to find that cable now now what I found with my mo Kandra for HP, your atcase is that I get Kable. This is the temp in 16-pin ribbon power, cable that it’s absolutely ideal for the mother 32. I believe.
That’S handy, let’s plug that in now, you’ve got a look to see where the stripe is. It says the stripe. Is there that’s the stripe. That’S that way up that should be the stripe stripe here, pin stripe.
That should be how that goes, and next I need to plug this into the power bus here, make sure it’s also the right way round red line red line. It can only fit in one way – that’s plugged in now to mount it in the case, I’m going to need to line up these holes here with some of the sliding rack nuts here in the mote case, if it’s all sliding rack nuts, which is very convenient, But also very tricky, if you’re trying to install something like this, so we’re going to have to attempt to line it up like so on, both the top and the bottom and that sits about right now. I use these fantastic murli’s from the fat. Oh they’re, just the best thing ever I mean it’s a little bit extravagant.
You spend a little bit money on some screws, but they are awesome and they make the whole moving things around in your racks. So much easier. Okay, that’s in slide it all the way to the side and tighten it up there we go now. Does it work good question? Just take the power out of my other rack, plug that in yeah. It appears to let’s see if I can make it make some sound. Yes, it certainly does and yo.
One thing you need to know is that, on the case of the original Mogan weather 32, you have this lovely audio output here, so you can treat it like. A normal synthesizer, that’s great! Well, what do you do when it’s in your your rack? Well, the output. You need at least I think so far – is the VCA output here, the amplifier output.
That is the one that will give you your sound or at least the resultant sound. There are other things you can use, that’s the pulse output, that’s the saw output and the noise out there, which is a whole different thing. So you can have the individual oscillations bits and pieces coming out of different holes over here or if you want the whole thing just plug into the VCA, see I’m all really excited about that because it’s a great sin.
This is an awesome synth and I want it in there. I’M just still marginally upset about this little space, how small this space is and how it’s gon na probably push me into a third row, far quicker than I imagined our knee to. However, there you go mother hurry to inter you’re at case job done now check out my next article, which is going to be filling this tiny space here with a couple of new modules. So look out for that and in the meantime, go make some tunes. .