Synthesist f1oat3d shared this live performance, featuring four simultaneous timbres from the Heritage Modular synthesizer.
Here’s what they shared about the technical details:
The Heritage Modular Synthesizer is a unique system, created by Frédéric Rible, that’s designed to mimic the look and feel of a vintage modular synthesizer, but with 8-voice polyphony and MIDI MPE support.
The core of the synthesizer is based on Pure Data: a powerful sound engine for the generation and processing of audio signals. A dedicated set of hardware modules has been designed to act as controllers for Pure Data. These modules are populated with knobs, switches, lights and jack sockets, modeled on the classical modular synthesizer.
The communication between Pure Data and these hardware modules is done via an I2C bus implemented over a standard 16-pin Eurorack connector.
For more info on the Heritage Modular Synthesizer, see the project site.
Kinda missed the point…
If they would have gone with switches instead of patch jacks (think Matrixbrute), they’ve could have made a polyphonic synth with patch memory, that looks like a modern modular.
Actually, this machine will have patch memory in a few weeks!
That is possible because the patch cables are used to drive ON/OFF switches of the virtual connection matrix, they do not carry directly CV signals.