How many oscillators?

[motorhead412]

you can never have enough VCOs!

[FarmerPhilip]

672hp - 11 Sound sources: Rings, 2hp Cat and SMR being the only ones bought retail. Z3000, 3xBraids, Telharmonic, Mysteron, Even VCO and A-110-4.

148hp - unless my math sucks...

Not counting Distings, O&C or Tides, 'cuz I don't use them for that.
Actually there isn't an awful lot in the machine that CAN'T make interesting noises on its own...

No plans to add anything more unless Odessa proves to be as cool as it seems in the few vids shown up to now...

[luketeaford]

Hard to say if you count Morphagene which I don't use as a v/oct thing generally or the wogglebug which I do?

What about DUSG and VC FQ?

I have a DPO, NTO and STO in 628hp, but almost everything I have can run at audio rate: both sides of the 4 maths I have, contour, function, echophon, wogglebug, mmg, vcfs, ssg, reseq, two channels of the VCM.

My point is I have a lot of things that work to varying degrees as oscillators, but most of my modular is about creating and processing CV (and there's no reason I need to care about v/oct other than it's convenient)

[61050]

i have 416hp total. of that i have a bastl noise square, 2 plaits, a rings, and im planning on picking up a pittsburgh primary osc.

i have a dfam, bia, fracture, and a 2hp hat coming in within the same rack though. all three of my filters can self oscillate, and i have a warps which can do oscillator duties also. i dont really even feel like this is too much even though just under half of my rack is for sound sources. all of my mod sources are dense multi channel units though (voltage block, zadar, batumi, etc.). i'd need another mantis case by itself if you were to make all of these one channel per module. i dont feel over saturated by anything, nor do i feel lacking anywhere. i haven't been this content with my rack in the 2+ years i've been doing this actually.

[BaloErets]

In 520hp (5 rows at 104hp) I have a total of 3 pure oscillators; a DPO, Rubicon and a Dixie II+. Other sound sources include a Morphagene and a Transient+.

Plenty in the rack that can be sound sources when I need them (Tides, Zadar, Data and a bunch of filters).

[Xtheunknown]

672 HP - 11 VCOs.

[chysn]

One Verbos Complex Oscillator (32HP) in a small 144HP system.

[SynapseCollapse]

At mid 12U / about 300 HP I have 3 dedicated oscillators (78 HP), but a lot of other things that can/do make sound (Just Friends, Phonogene, Radio Music, TG ONE,Disting MK2 & 4).

[Pighood]

Let's face it....what other type of module creates more moistness in a wiggler's naughty regions.

[Franktree]

420 - 6 oscillators

[rew_]

208hp - 3 osc, 36 hp

1/3 exactly

that overstates it a bit as two of them are part of a 28hp complex osc. does not include a Just Friends (used most often as LFOs or envelopes) or a Morphagene

[moremagic]

idk, does the doepfer 196 count? its panel says VCO so i reckon maybe
ive got an auntie and a sto beside it, and the big pittsburgh filter with the switch to go to oscillator so i figure somewhere between 2 & 4

[Pille64]

672 HP - 5 "pure Oscillators" .

I jsut notice : in comparison, rather below average.

[MvK]

344hp

5 pure oscs @ 67hp

i count the lfo-2 as one osc, because I almost always use it as one. I still want one more, I like FM and most oscs are very good LFOs. So having one or two more than needed is good.

[x2mirko]

9 oscillators in something slightly above 1000hp.

[Monotremata]

3 actual VCOs out of 168hp (6Ux84hp). Deeper A-110, EMW 104, and the good old STO. I tend to use my modular as a bloated complex VCO though. Usually its the STO playing, the other two are doing duties as modulators.

With the size I have that's enough for me. Id love to be able to use more voices, but Ill wait until I have more space to keep it somewhat easy to organize when patching them all. If I had as much hp to work with as the OP, Id have as many, if not two or three more, than they do.

[cllpse]

2 x Make Noise Skiffs. I've got an Akemie's Taiko (using it as a synth voice mostly), Mutable Instruments Plaits and Mutable Instruments Clouds running Parasite firmware for an extra voice in a pinch. It's still not quite enough. I'm looking at a filter and a Make Noise ST-O to have "enough going on".

[zengomi]

20% of 1794 HP
21 modules/361 HP

Pure VCOs

[Migrigsynth]

With a total of 241hp I have 4 pure oscillators (80hp), so I’m at 33%. They are a Morphagene, DPO, Loquelic Iteritas Percido and a Plaits.

[cptnal]

About 15% here.

I guess I prefer my timbre modified further downstream from source.

[Blicken Synths]

Our techno live rack has 4 in 208hp. Instruo Ts-L, Erica Synths Black VCO, Noise Engineering Loquelic Iteritas and Manis Iteritas. 38hp = 18%

Got all the drum voices in there as well though. BIA, 2hp Hat and Snare and Erica Synths Pico Drums

[Dragonaut]

I had four in 208hp and figured I didn’t need that many so I got rid of the Cursus Iteritas which I regret. I’m thinking I’ll add another analog oscillator so I’ll have two digital and two analog oscillators. I save a lot of space using expert sleepers gear though and appreciate lots of variation in my voices.

[MarcelP]

12% of 1587hp is “traditional” audio VCO. VCO count might increase a tad with Odessa this year (which is quite wide) but non VCO count would also necessarily increase too - so that 12% isn’t going to change by much.

[rosten]

out of 416hp total, 90HP of things that are marketed primarily as oscillators/sound-sources (STO, Rubicon 2, Akemie's castle, Plaits, Plonk) so 22%? (but then I have lots of things that can oscillate: sisters, JF, Tides, Batumi, etc).

[kamindustries]

Two "traditional" in 208hp: Cs-L and Plaits, so 18%.

If you count Rings, that would bring it up to 22% (have a uRings). Super happy with this combo.