From the course: Learning Modular Synthesis: Moog Mother-32 Semimodular Synth

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Using the patchbay

Using the patchbay

- [Instructor] We've mounted our Mother 32 into our Eurorack case, now we just need to connect things again. As before, connect the power, except for this time, we'll do to the Eurorack case, instead of to the Mother 32, we'll take MIDI and plug that into the Mother just as before, and then we'll take our audio, and, where do we plug in our audio? If you remember, there was a plug on the back of the Mother 32's case, but now that we've taken it out of the case, we've removed that connection. And believe it or not, this is one of the things that really stumps Mother 32 users initially. Well welcome to the land of modular synthesizers. You have to connect everything yourself. The secret is to use the patch panel in the Mother 32. You notice that In is just normal white text on black, and all the outputs are reversed, there's a white box around black type. To get the audio out of the Mother 32, you want to take it from the VCA output, the voltage control amplifier is often the last step…

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