ha, yeah i def am selling 2 polys to cover the cost of my Sub37.
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I’d say worth it!
Hmm. There’s a Dark Matter distortion “locally” for $40 but it’s also an hour away. I really don’t want to travel 2h+ to save $20 
Too bad nobody local carries the Wasp, or I’d be heading there right now probably. This blank Eurorack row is making my eye twitch 
edit I look at the back of the Wasp and see input power of 12V and 1A -_- while ModularGrid says 167mA for some reason. I thought maybe the “digital oscillators” played a part but they are DCOs so still analog… Damn it, this kinda messes things up… However, I’m going to go out on a limb and say the power supplies are overkill to give some headroom, though I have no idea how much. I think I could take a multimeter to the circuit board…
I think we’re talking about the same thing. The rails with the sliders you screw into to mount the module?
Oh well, the K-2 is in my Rack Brute, now, and it powers up, so YOLO, etc. Now it just needs a friend… 3 weeks or 3 days for a little more $$$ from Sweetwater…
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I used to do the same thing with an mpc 1000 and reason, that was a sweet combo tbh!
Sounds like you are really digging the mpc
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The more permanent jam area is coming together nicely, as opposed to the one I set up on a whim with whatever from the shelf and tear down every time.
There’s a 6U rack underneath the S2400 shelf but I’m probably just going to put an inexpensive power conditioner on it. Behind the door is a small storage area for cables and headphones (on a sliding rack, it’s pretty sweet).
My S2400 needs a wedge under the left front or it rocks slightly 
Edit I forgot to prop back up my little Think or Swim monkey stuffed animal XD
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Whenever something has multiple screws I always tighten each one a little at a time in random order. If you wrench them down tight one at a time you can bend a piece of metal or non brittle plastic.
Point being–maybe if you loosen the screws on the bottom panel (if there are any) a little bit and let it set for a while the bottom panel might relax and the S2400 will sit level.
Also, setup is looking good! I admit Im a little jealous of S2400 owners. I’d love to at least have an afternoon with one.
I hadn’t thought to try that, and when I installed the K-2 I literally did just that, loosely tighten and cross angles to install each screw, etc. I just crammed a spare dice bag beneath it that’s out of sight and it worked like a charm. I’ll have to mess with the screws then, didn’t even cross my mind.
In other news, I had a brief panic that once installed in a Eurorack case, the Behringers lose the dip switches from the desktop case used to set the MIDI channels. RTFM and I discover the MIDI channel can at least be set via SysEx commands (maybe that’s always a thing for MIDI hardware; SysEx is voodoo to me…). The K-2’s USB was on the chassis, though, so unless I want to move the whole setup closer to my Scarlett, I’ll use USB MIDI on the Wasp to change its MIDI channel and the K-2 will forever be on channel 1…
The Wasp manual definitely specifies a eurorack power supply capable of 1A on the +12V rail. Damn it…
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I think you can just use any laptop PSU as long as it’s the right voltage and plug type to go into the rackbrute power input, should be easy to get a higher amperage PSU for under 20 bucks.
That’s what I discussed doing with Arturia support. They seemed to say I would need to replace the actual power supply module to do that. The module itself actually has 15V/3A printed on it, which is what the adapter it came with supplies.
"The limitation of the rackbrute’s busboard is 2000 mA on +12v 2000 mA on -12 and 2000 mA on 5v rail, on a per bus basis.
You can replace the power module with a higher performance one and split the power on each bus board the same way it is with the actual one, make sure however not to exceed 2A/2.5A per side of the busboard."
So I don’t know that the stock 5hp RackBrute power module can deal with a more powerful laptop adapter.
Arturia’s site says 1600mA on the +12V and 1600mA on the -12V (why Arturia, why… how many modules actually use f’ing negative voltage to need that much? o.O Hardly anything uses negative voltage lol…)
It’s such a tease seeing so much power just fucking wasted on the -12V rail when I’m short only a few hundred mA on the +12V side…
Overall yes, it’s a mix of being comfortable with my sound, knowing what I’m looking for and using some gear I know and that has a workflow that fits my way of working. I’m really happy with it, I only wish it had a better step sequencer but ai might add a Launchpad Pro mkiii to it.
Most of my recent stuff was just mpc.
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Occurred to me, I still have my old IKEA RAST cobbled together eurorack case with its Synthrotek power supply. No idea where the power brick for it got off to, other than it should be in this house somewhere (I think it’s probably in the attic), but it was rated for 12V/5A and something like 3A+ on the +12V side.
I can’t find the power brick for it but I did figure out the specs on the barrel jack so it’s just another $11 XD Being nickled and dimed to death right now. I may hold off on the Wasp until I sell some module(s) and/or the beginning of the year.
My “flying bus board” cable has 16-pin female connectors on it, so I’d have to plug them directly into the Wasp which has a 10 pin and a keyed header. So another bit of $$ for the right cable or an adapter XD This is getting more and more janky as time goes on and I don’t even have the Wasp, yet…
But since I’m done with Eurorack (for now…) I don’t mind “wasting” another 4hp for a second power module if I have to. Only thing going in the remaining space would be my Distings anyway, in case I want to interface the MiniBrute 2S with the K-2 in some way.
I unpacked my Pulse 2 and it perches nicely on top of the Rack Brute to lean against the wall. I just hope I have cables of the right length for all this to get to my Zoom H6 that I’m adding the TRS jacks to for a total of 6 1/4" 6.3mm inputs.
Signs point to no.
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The manual for the wasp specifies it uses 2W of power. At 12V that’s indeed 167mA. I am back in business without all this fuckerydoo… Unless that was a typo and they meant 12W 
167mA seems awfully low, but the Pulse 2 uses a 500mA 12V power adapter, so who knows…
The K-2, on the other hand, has a max draw of 12W so Behringer put its adapter right at the limit o.O
Edit I ended up going through Music Tribe’s lengthy sign up process for their tech support page and asked them what is going on.
If a company has a MIDI In, but no MIDI Thru, that’s a paddlin’. If there’s a MIDI In but no Thru or Out that can be configured as a Thru, best believe that’s a paddlin’
Kinda tired of these “cost saving measures” that make MIDI harder than it has to be. At least I have a Kenton Thru device if I really need it…
Now to figure out how and where to hook these pedals up as well as power them. My gut says behind the 2S/beneath the Rack Brute. Pain to reach but the distortions are mainly set and forget.
Edit Now I am wondering if I can clock the S2400 using the USB out of the Minibrute 2S to its host port
Edit 2 Manual says it can be clocked via the Host port so I’ll have to see… Edit 4 I can indeed!
Edit 3 I can literally use the MIDI Control Center software to set my Minibrute 2S to godless Hz/V on either or both CV Pitch Mods like the K-2 if I want to. Well that opens up some possibilities, too. TIL…
Well, everything works though I am regretting my choice of power. 6 outlets, and I’m running a Rack Brute, Minibrute 2S, Pulse 2, S2400, Phil Jones Double Four. The Double Four is a bass amp with an aux in so I’m no longer constrained to headphones. But a Furman rack will have 8 outlets on the back, and one outlet on the front which is very convenient in my experience with the one on my desk rack.
Problems:
1)I need to power the Zoom using the mini USB port. It was going through battery power relatively quickly. At least I have Eneloop rechargeables… Alkaline lasted much longer it seems.
2)Rackbrute’s power supply module seems to run pretty warm, but I haven’t used it in a long time so that just might be a normal thing.
3)The K-2 can drone if patched right, but it was not responding to MIDI plugged into the front jack. I’m not sure what the problem is. I’ve used it with the Cycles before and it worked okay. I need to try that again. The S2400 is strange with MIDI, you have two default MIDI banks, and Bank E’s pads are channels 1-8, and F’s are 9-10. It didn’t respond to any of them, meanwhile the Pulse 2 set to ch4 responded to pad four without problems.
4)No real room for pedals. Kind of a bummer but not the end of the world. I have some ideas, though.
So, some little kinks and bugs and ghosts in the machines to work out, though the K-2 thing is bugging me since I have no idea at all what it could be. I might have to drag the desktop case down from the attic and see if I can do a firmware update or something I’ll try the Cycles first. I did have a lot of fun, though, all the same.
I have a 12 outlet strip with 10 in back and two in front. I need to order another. Right now It’s powering:
5 synths
2 audio interfaces
1 midi interface
1 pedal power system (itself powering 3 further pedals)
1 laptop
1 powered USB hub
Add in a few wall-bound transformers that eat up an extra plug here and there and I’m tapped out.
Even without adding any further synths (which remains a distinct possibility) I want to add LED lighting to my stand so I can see everything nice and clear, which eats up at least one more plug I don’t have. Though when I do that, I’ll have to take everything off so I’ll want to clean up the wiring a bit too. Need to order a few extra cables and zip-ties. That just became a $200 job I want to wait until after the new year to dig into.
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I found my 12V 5A adapter for the Synthrotek power module; it was with a LiPo charger. I was looking for long USB cables and there it was. It dawned on me as I was going to sleep that I have everything I need, now. I can shitcan the Rackbrute’s power system all together, as I also pulled my Pulp Logic passive bus block from my old case which distributes eurorack power to 7 additional modules (essentially it powered the bottom row and my 1U tiles I had at the time). I can double-sided tape everything to the lower row of the Rackbrute and be in business (top and bottom rows are power by the Arturia bus board that only occupies the top row). I still have my Synthrotek bus board if I really need it, too. Probably fill the rest of the case with modulators or something.
Apparently it was a bad MIDI cable that was keeping the K-2 from working. Well, they’re really cheap and many years old so I guess it was bound to happen Have plenty of spares, at least. I know I tried hooking it up to the MIDI cable that’s connecting the S2400 to the Pulse 2 and got nothing. Oh well, it’s all working, now.
Debating on holding off until Winter NAMM 2022 to see what comes out before I get a Wasp Deluxe. I doubt anything will come out that tucks into a eurorack row like the Behringer desktops, but who knows.
Back to jamming!