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Originally Posted by triez 
What you have now is a permanent connection, but it still works also a a pure modular, because the output of the ADSR is still available on it's socket to patch anywhere with a patch lead, but will always also appear at the input of you VCA. BUT here's the thing... If you put a patch lead into the input of the VCA, then the patch lead automatically disconnects the normalization, and bypasses it to allow a new configuration.
This is the reason that I built a custom 60 space cabinet, so that I could have all this normalization in place and move the machine as one unit.
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Great synth, Triez! Kinda like a custom Macbeth M5 on steroids. In the early '70s I learned about modular synths on an Arp 2600 and used it for a lot of live gigs, and Triez is right. If you plan to use a modular synth live, lots of normalized patches with switching input jacks gives you the best of both flexibility and ease of use.
But you gotta get some more LFOs, Triez! I can recommend the MOTM 390 dual LFO. It fits well in a Dotcom system and it costs about the same as a pair of single LFOs from Doepfer:
Synthesis Technology - Home of the MOTM Modular Synthesizer
Plus it gives you two more blinkenlites in your rig.