First of all, leave your rack on for an hour before calibrating to make sure it’s at the average operating temperature. Then it might help to think of the calibration trim pot less as tuning the upper octave, and more as changing the width of the octave. It’s acting as an attenuator for v/oct cv, no...

You can trigger grains externally with Arbhar. And you can add externally triggered grains on top of the internally triggered grains to nearly double the total grain count. The source of Arbhar's latency is its reaction time to CV input. You can change the latency in the config file. In low latency ...

Arbhar feels more like an instrument that transforms whatever you feed it into something new and gives you a nice amount of control and creativity in scanning through that content; I actually like the constraint of the shorter buffers but having 6 of them (with a 7th that does string them all toget...

Yeah, good point. Randomization is part of most granular synthesis techniques. And the way Arbhar and Beads include random is pretty different. The attenurandomizer is a very elegant concept applied throughout Beads, whereas in Arbhar different flavors of random are tailored to suit different parame...

I'm an Arbhar user convincing myself not to get Beads. The big difference I see between them is workflow. Beads (like Clouds) has a continuously updating buffer, so it should perform best as a real-time effect. Arbhar is more of a musique concrete machine in that it excels at loading up the buffers ...

I don’t have either but from the looks of it, Planar 2 has quad mixing/crossfading and cv input and one channel of cv recording. This new Erica joystick has four channels of recording but you would need an external quad vca to do the kind of mixing Planar can do. Planar also has a trigger input so y...

Huh, that's a curious result. The slight increase as you approach the center sounds like something approaching an equal power curve, for which I'd expect rounded peaks and sharp troughs, the inverse of your graph. Given that you fed it +5V, could it be flipping the polarity of your signal at the out...

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Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:19 pm

Here's my description of the fix.

https://pugix.com/synth/addac805-vs2-gain-fix/

It's interesting that you see an exponential curve, when I would expect a logarithmic curve to give equal power panning and crossfading. Do you notice a drop in level in the middle?

What utilities to you like to pair with your Stages? I'm thinking of dedicating a mult to splitting incoming gates, and an attenuverter for the outputs.

Has anyone here used a 2hp Sine? I'm considering it as a modulator for my main oscillator, and for some wavefolding flavor. There aren't many demos of the wavefolding timbre that I can find.

For what it's worth, I'm using mine in a small case with a variety of power hungry modules and a Konstand Lab BoardPWR and I only hear hiss when I turn it up, not processor noise. Layered granular playback will multiply any extraneous noise, so that can make the mic sound noisy if you have buzzy tra...

It's not a Eurorack module, it's an outboard "pedal", so please treat this as an aside to the discussion, but the Erica Synths Zen Delay is something I've long considered getting. Ricky Tinez makes it sound absolutely incredible in this video. I wish they would make a Eurorack version of this one! ...

Hawkfuzz, belittling others doesn't help your case. I'm glad yours works, mine does too, but I had to go through a few to get it so I know this bug is real. This conversation should be about problem solving, not about being right. We all want the same thing in the end, and we should work together pr...

Many things feel out of our control right now. I understand the urge to want to fix your gear, fix your creative process, win an argument online just to feel in control of something. Amid all the real hardship, the truth has been so twisted and trampled that our desire to be right, to set the record...

Clearly this module has inspired a lot of passion. That is because it is a GREAT module. Some want to report problems they're having and some want to defend it, both are understandable. But let's not attack each other. And let's not fool ourselves into thinking this forum is the best place for custo...

Crossfading or lack thereof might be a bit of the issue. If you have a buffer recording sound and that buffer cuts off it won’t be a smooth sound. Take an audio wav in a DAW and just slice it randomly somewhere. Now paste it over and over. Chances are certain types of sonic content will have a pop/...

I think this just comes down to different eurorack manufacturers having their own voltage standards. Everything Instruo does points to bipolar control being their standard. They use bipolar v/oct. Their LFOs are bipolar. Harmonaig is bipolar, albeit with a really wide range. I think bipolar cv is th...

I should clarify, the display model was older than the others I tried. So the latest batch would be the one with issues.

I had a similar issue recently: occasional random clicks when unmodulated and unclocked (not too objectionable), noticeable clicks when modulating the rate while clocked, and loud digital chirps when I cross the zero point of the rate knob with clocking and skew. These chirps show up in the 100% dry...

is it possible to have level (amp) control over an lfo via a slider? i guess its possible using 2 segments? Yeah, you'd need to use two segments if you really wanted to use a Stages slider to scale the amplitude of one of its segments. For looping ramp segments, the slider only controls LFO frequen...

Ah cool! Well regardless, it's fun to hear your perspective. I hope you've been able to get some work done safely amid the lockdown. And that sounds like me in college, except with a Marantz recorder. Good times.

Yes I have! That's where I work. Hans' studio is quite something indeed.

However, someone in this thread or another recent thread brought up an important point. What works -is needed- for a large 'sample set' and what works -is needed- for a small sample set are not the same things. And one may not be able to distinguish one from the other as the sample set size decreas...

In my particular application, I was seeking trigger-patterns which don't repeat (or at least don't appear to repeat recognizable patterns to the casual listener). This is to simulate naturally occurring events (e.g., lightning-strikes), or other man-made "random" events (e.g., explosions/gun-fire i...

Antimatter Brain Seed isn't far from this, excepting the non-repeating-pitch-class rule (because it's random). Reshuffling the pitch-class series would compromise ordering structure, one of the primary purposes (and benefits) of serialization. Compromising the ordering structure of a set or row-cla...

Frankly, this is all starting to sound like a job for Max/MSP. Since we're talking about wish fulfillment, I think it could be fun to incorporate some other Serialist constraints. Rules about consecutive intervals, like avoiding ascending fourths or descending fifths because they imply a pitch cente...