Muff's Modules & More

TWINSTATES · Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 6:42 pm Post subject: Automating / mapping Volta?

Hi,
Guess this is a question for stretta.

I can't figure out how to automate the envelope parameters in Volta.

So I have a sound playing and I want to tweak the ADSR envelope that Volta has created when I created a voice.

I have tried moving the envelope and sliding the parameter around to no avail
Also Kore 2 doesn't see it for some reason (i was going to open it in that and see if I can map stuff there).

What i am trying to figure (although I am a step away from this yet) is how to map Volta to My Kore hardware (not midi, super high resolution like the automation in Live)so i can control my modular from the kore controller, record the automation in and then tweak it afterwards.

Thanks!

1nput0utput · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:59 am Post subject:

I don't think Volta supports this yet. It publishes 48 automatable parameters to the host: 24 control source slot mutes and 24 automation ramps.

stretta · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:30 am Post subject:

Currently, you can automate ramps (obviously) and mute slots.

The idea of 'pushing back' on Volta parameters is an obviously good idea. There are several broad methods this would be useful:

• MIDI 'learn' of parameters
• automation of any parameter
• using a DC-coupled input from an interface

... to name a few. It is a very fertile ground for exploration and one I've thought a lot about - as much as Volta itself. I'm glad to hear people are thinking ahead and seeing the same things.

Getting Volta off the ground was no small miracle. Constraining the initial concept of Volta as an output only product neatly contained the development proposal into a realistic, manageable chunk. Anyway, the point I want to get across is the lack of automatable parameter isn't an oversight, it was a practical matter to get the project off the ground. I certainly appreciate the support of enthusiastic customers like yourself.

bar|none · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:53 am Post subject:

Make sure you let the folks back at headquarters know that Volta sales are not just software...it is selling a lot of MOTU hardware. I ended up picking up and 828 mkIII which I would not have gotten otherwise.

TWINSTATES · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:13 am Post subject:

Oh bummer, but I totally understand. . .

I am just glad to have it right now. I am getting some awesomeness going on just fiddling around but I really need to use automation. . . It sounds like it's gonna be coming though so that's cool. . .

Can I make some suggestions as to what would make Volta even more FTW.

Stop and start of the sequencer from ableton and the ability to change step speeds via automation would be useful.

Obviously every parameter could be automatable, envelopes, it would be especially super awesome if it was possible to automate the values in the step sequencer as well. I.e. stop start. forward back, someone suggested being able to have it play a scale, that would be unbelievably cool. It'd be great if we could put in or own as well. Some sort of pitch bend facility for the sequencer would be cool. So you could select certain notes and say bend up to this note and draw the curve in for them doing that. That way you could get some pretty funky stuff going on with ease. . .

Also linked sequences perhaps like on something such as the machine drum. or alternatively a sequencer with no 32 step limit if you didn't want it. That way i could build up a whole track using a few different sequencers running from start to end

CV, pitch, I'd love some way of intermodulating the cv inside Volta, sending step sequencer info through an envelope or a lfo would be cool. I guess it could be done in the rack but the cool thing about Volta is it's giving me precisely a C sharp or whatever so for pitch stuff that's great, l ike the idea of sending cv to the sequencer so its pitching the notes around in accordance with the cv but the pitch of the added cv is controlled by an envelope that I can fix what note it starts and ends on. .. Does that make sense. i am not sure if my terminology is quite right there as I am not used to CV (yet smile

)))

Cheers

TS

TWINSTATES · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:14 am Post subject:

Oh yeah and +1 about telling the people at HQ about selling more hardware. I am gonna pick up another interface soon a I want to be able to patch into a lod more points on my gear and have all of it automated from live.

smile

Analog>Plugins · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:14 pm Post subject:

I bought a 2408 mk3 and then bought the pcie card to use with my Hackintosh. Volta = Motu hardware sales razz

TWINSTATES · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:09 pm Post subject:

Oh and please please give us loads of undo functions.

What would be super greast is somehting lik photoshoip so that you can undo certain actions but not have to und all of the others that you did to get to that point.

Monobass · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject:

Surely anyone who uses real analogue gear is used to not having an undo? wink

Seriously though, undo functionality like photoshop is a massive deal for software dev... i'm sure we'd all rather have cross modulation and automated parameters first!

TWINSTATES · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:05 pm Post subject:

Yes, i agree those first, however an undo function should be along at the same time, as it's a right old pain if you make a mistake.

The ability to pull up different sequences would be a really good feature as well.

Monobass · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:07 pm Post subject:

so the others first but that one at the same time as well? wink

TWINSTATES · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:45 pm Post subject:

http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_doh.gif

Ha ha, yes, doesn;t quite compute.