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Announcing ALM017 - Pamela's NEW Workout |
| mattcolville |
I love Pam's, I use it in almost all my patches, but I discovered something weird today.
I wanted to use Pam's as a source of random voltage for a patch. I use the EOC on Maths to clock Pam's. All 8 outputs are set to Random.
But they're not random. They just cycle between two values, over and over.
If I unplug the clock into Pam's, and hit the yellow button, it behaves as expected with 8 random voltages supplies for every clock pulse.
If I plug Math's EOC back into the clock, we get like one or two random cycles, then it goes back to the cycle where all 8 outputs appear to be just bouncing between two values. Is very odd. |
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| synonymist |
| mattcolville wrote: | I love Pam's, I use it in almost all my patches, but I discovered something weird today.
I wanted to use Pam's as a source of random voltage for a patch. I use the EOC on Maths to clock Pam's. All 8 outputs are set to Random.
But they're not random. They just cycle between two values, over and over.
If I unplug the clock into Pam's, and hit the yellow button, it behaves as expected with 8 random voltages supplies for every clock pulse.
If I plug Math's EOC back into the clock, we get like one or two random cycles, then it goes back to the cycle where all 8 outputs appear to be just bouncing between two values. Is very odd. |
Hello Matt. Trying this just now with four channels of Pam's, I was unable to reproduce it. A few things come to mind:
What Pam's firmware are you running? I am running 1.99, and now I see there is a 2.01 available.
What is your PPQN setting in Pam's? For this test, mine was 02.
My results were almost the opposite of yours. With Pam's clocking itself, the four channels were random, but similar; it took a few seconds for them to become really dissimilar. With Maths clocking Pam's, the four channels were immediately random and dissimilar.
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| ALM |
| mattcolville wrote: |
If I plug Math's EOC back into the clock, we get like one or two random cycles, then it goes back to the cycle where all 8 outputs appear to be just bouncing between two values. Is very odd. |
Do you have EOC patched into 'Run' rather than 'clock' ? |
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| mattcolville |
| ALM wrote: | | mattcolville wrote: |
If I plug Math's EOC back into the clock, we get like one or two random cycles, then it goes back to the cycle where all 8 outputs appear to be just bouncing between two values. Is very odd. |
Do you have EOC patched into 'Run' rather than 'clock' ? |
No, it's going into clock. *Should* I patch into Run? I thought that was basically "turn the clock on" rather than "advance the clock."
Neat to get a reply from ALM themselves!  |
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| mattcolville |
| synonymist wrote: | | mattcolville wrote: | I love Pam's, I use it in almost all my patches, but I discovered something weird today.
I wanted to use Pam's as a source of random voltage for a patch. I use the EOC on Maths to clock Pam's. All 8 outputs are set to Random.
But they're not random. They just cycle between two values, over and over.
If I unplug the clock into Pam's, and hit the yellow button, it behaves as expected with 8 random voltages supplies for every clock pulse.
If I plug Math's EOC back into the clock, we get like one or two random cycles, then it goes back to the cycle where all 8 outputs appear to be just bouncing between two values. Is very odd. |
Hello Matt. Trying this just now with four channels of Pam's, I was unable to reproduce it. A few things come to mind:
What Pam's firmware are you running? I am running 1.99, and now I see there is a 2.01 available.
What is your PPQN setting in Pam's? For this test, mine was 02.
My results were almost the opposite of yours. With Pam's clocking itself, the four channels were random, but similar; it took a few seconds for them to become really dissimilar. With Math's clocking Pam's, the four channels were immediately random and dissimilar.
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Hey thanks for the help! I played around with the PPQN, based on the manual's recommendations, but it didn't seem to make a difference. I'll record a short video of what it's doing. I'll check the firmware, I don't know when I last updated it.
I sort of wonder if it has something to do with how Pam's determines "randomness." |
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| synonymist |
| mattcolville wrote: | | synonymist wrote: |
Hello Matt. Trying this just now with four channels of Pam's, I was unable to reproduce it. A few things come to mind:
What Pam's firmware are you running? I am running 1.99, and now I see there is a 2.01 available.
What is your PPQN setting in Pam's? For this test, mine was 02.
My results were almost the opposite of yours. With Pam's clocking itself, the four channels were random, but similar; it took a few seconds for them to become really dissimilar. With Maths clocking Pam's, the four channels were immediately random and dissimilar.
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Hey thanks for the help! I played around with the PPQN, based on the manual's recommendations, but it didn't seem to make a difference. I'll record a short video of what it's doing. I'll check the firmware, I don't know when I last updated it.
I sort of wonder if it has something to do with how Pam's determines "randomness." |
You are quite welcome. ALM will help you solve this, I'm sure. Meanwhile it will be good if you can post the video. |
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| Jaypee |
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| ALM |
| Jaypee wrote: | I love my PNW but can't use its LFO's with VCA (Veils in my case). I can hear the LFO through it
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Pams outputs are 10 bit and run at limited update rate (see manual). If you modulate the amplitude of a pure-ish signal with clean VCA then you may well hear 'zipper' type noise from aliasing in the modulation signal.
Possible workarounds include; running Pam output through a low pass (to smooth it out) pre target, using a slower modulation speed and using Pam just to sync something analog which then in turn modulates the VCA audio (at much higher res). |
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| Hek |
Pam is great and so on. Would be cool to see more expanders though.
Either a module that gives you more hands-on control, maybe cv-switchable save states. Or some kind of a ALM take on a multtrack transposable cv sequencer with scales. |
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| Jaypee |
| Just an expander with some simple buttons to naviguate more quickly into menu would be G R E A T. |
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| wm.wragg |
| ALM wrote: | | Jaypee wrote: | I love my PNW but can't use its LFO's with VCA (Veils in my case). I can hear the LFO through it
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Pams outputs are 10 bit and run at limited update rate (see manual). If you modulate the amplitude of a pure-ish signal with clean VCA then you may well hear 'zipper' type noise from aliasing in the modulation signal.
Possible workarounds include; running Pam output through a low pass (to smooth it out) pre target, using a slower modulation speed and using Pam just to sync something analog which then in turn modulates the VCA audio (at much higher res). |
The WMD Quad AAF might be useful for this. |
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| BTG |
| ALM wrote: | | Jaypee wrote: | I love my PNW but can't use its LFO's with VCA (Veils in my case). I can hear the LFO through it
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Pams outputs are 10 bit and run at limited update rate (see manual). If you modulate the amplitude of a pure-ish signal with clean VCA then you may well hear 'zipper' type noise from aliasing in the modulation signal.
Possible workarounds include; running Pam output through a low pass (to smooth it out) pre target, using a slower modulation speed and using Pam just to sync something analog which then in turn modulates the VCA audio (at much higher res). |
Would totally buy a Super PNW with higher bit DACs, higher clock, and like just two more buttons... |
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| AThousandDetails |
Hi! I need you guys help!
I think I have a problem either with Pamela (199 before rev62)... My 2 sequencers (Metropolis and Eloquencer)... or power.
So basically I am syncing Pamela with an ERM Mutliclock, DIN Sync. Everything is alright, I trigger a basic 4/4 kick from Pamela to BLCK_NOIR all good in sync with Ableton Grid even. As it's always been.
Problem is my 2 sequencer. They always start offbeat, or some ms out of sync. Maybe 2 out of 6 times they are OK and in sync with Pamela, but it's a lottery. Anyone with the same problem or run into the same situation as I ?
For the sake of things:
-Metropolis is in rst_F with only a x4 clock output from pamela to CLK
-Eloquencer I have it on Play-Stop option, 1 output x4 to elo clock and a channel with the _|- output into Reset.
Thanks for helping out! |
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| synonymist |
| synonymist wrote: | | What Pam's firmware are you running? I am running 1.99, and now I see there is a 2.01 available. |
My Pamela's New Workout is less than 18 months old. Today I tried to upgrade it to the 2.01 firmware. It loaded, but then the module did nothing useful when I pressed its start button. Its display dimmed slightly is all. Then I tried the 2.00 firmware and got the same result.
Luckily I saved the 1.99 firmware. Reloading it restored my PNW to its normal function. (Folks, always save a copy of known good firmware, drivers, etc. before trying to switch to a newer version.)
Did anyone else experience this and find a workaround?
ALM, can you advise?
Thanks. |
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| ALM |
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| drowld |
I have rev 052. So it's even earlier ?
edit: nah it's actually fine i adjust latency in live and compensate |
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| synonymist |
Thank you for confirming this. I mentioned the age of my PNW because I suspected that might be the case. |
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| drowld |
What does the clock calibration you can do at start change ?
I've tried to maxx it and it doesnt seem to do anything.. |
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| soon_come |
Add me to the list of people who has an encoder that got steadily worse and is now skipping values or going backwards while I scroll forward. Thankfully ALM is going to take a look at it.  |
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| aroom |
hey ALM
a feature request:
would it be possible to imagine using one of the CV input as tap tempo?
it would be great to be able to assign some of the outputs or all to an external tap tempo, lets say by patching a gate in one of the CV inputs
thanks |
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| lisa |
aroom:
| ALM wrote: | | Thanks but please keep in mind there is NO space left for any new features. Pam is FULL FULL FULL FULL ! |
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| aroom |
oh I forgot about that  |
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| JakoGreyshire |
| Why don't you just tap a tempo into the clock input? |
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| aroom |
| JakoGreyshire wrote: | | Why don't you just tap a tempo into the clock input? |
I'm already using the clock input but I was wondering if it was possible to use the other CV inputs to sync some output to another clock / or a tap tempo. |
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| JakoGreyshire |
| aroom wrote: | | JakoGreyshire wrote: | | Why don't you just tap a tempo into the clock input? |
I'm already using the clock input but I was wondering if it was possible to use the other CV inputs to sync some output to another clock / or a tap tempo. |
Oh right, I missed that part... yeah good Idea... Like, assign some of the outputs to a different tap tempo, and maybe have the other outputs at another steady clock...
Or, make the clock input be separate from the internal clock on only some of the outputs that one would want...
Cool Idea!  |
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