harpooneer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 1:23 pm
That second panel is a nice selection (I think - I'm not sure what the "First Aid" is!)
But - and this is just me being devil's advocate - part of what I like a about Serge is not thinking so rigidly about a module's purpose and category. The DTG is a utility as much as it's anything else - clock, gate delay, etc. A matrix mixer is a control and performance module as much as it's a utility. And I'd not personally enjoy running long-ish cables to and from a dedicated "utility" panel every time I needed an attenuverter or a VCA.
If you look at, for example, some of the Loudest Warning panels on MG, they may have designators like voice, control, or modulation, but they still have a mix of elements. Even within the constraints of your chosen aesthetic, I'm not sure there's much advantage to grouping repeated modules as you've done here?
I think in time you'll be as comfortable with the minimal color/label thing as most of us are with our more traditional designs, but the module arraignment, which you'll be stuck with, is something I'd review.
Any particular reason you're doing these as full panels, not individual modules?
First Aid is R*S module:
https://www.modulargrid.net/s/random-source-first-aid
I'm coming from a long exposure to euro-rack & ciat-lombarde

just turning to the serge stuff now (leaving Euro, keeping just 3 crucial for my sound modules). What i like about Ciat is the Hot outs and Cold Ins - marking just i/o without even a hint of what it does made me explore more and have more fun/happy accidents. What i take from euro experience is how i grouped modules - by functions. Dunno, my brain just works that way, i don't mind the cables in euro at least. This saves me from patching in same way (i had previously set ups like VCO > Filter > VCA > FX and they led me to auto patching in similar ways). So the UX/placement decision i've made with both of that factors in mind. As for the Whole Panels - euro gave me the swap-a-roo sickness that i want to get rid myself off

so many options to re-arranging, swapping modules and generally fiddle with hardware more than making sounds so Whole Panels is the attempt for me to heal and stay with "The Instrument".
I've also always looked at R*S, LW and STS panels as designed to be standalone in small packages - the intent was probably for each panel to be able to function regardless of the rest of the system. What i'm trying to do is create a holistic system/instrument from the get-go and create function-specific panels... but maybe this approach is "wrong" in serge land
I love the sound of the DUSG as OSC and Res EQ (cant wait for the VC res eq from R*S

) - think my voice panel would also be unusual - im not really in love with NTO/Precission osc, just gimme these juicy slopes, Res EQs and filters

. Whole Serge system for me will be 6 panels total...
I really like how the Serge mixer sounds, but dunno if its not better to mix outside of the Serge for final audio. Saves precious HP, but that decision has not been yet made. Have motu 828x and like to mix in a box~~~ but maybe some outboard hardware mixer is in line?
But of course if people would like the panels separately its a non-issue to make a batch
