Hi everyone, nice to see such a positive response! Really appreciate the comments and interest. I'll try to answer some questions / respond to feedback...
lasesentaysiete wrote:Maybe Clouds forms part of your "others to follow" comment?
A variant of Clouds (departing somewhat from the original) will definitely happen, more details soon.
lasesentaysiete wrote:Also, Tides. Olivier said somewhere that Tides and Rings are his 2 best modules. Maybe he's onto something?
Tides is probably further down the line, but it could happen too. The format could use something like Tides since Eardrill's
Periodicity was seemingly shelved. Maybe two could fit into one panel (then you could run Tides and Sheep simultaneously).
Leoespejo wrote:Any option of cross-modulation inside the dual algorithmic oscillator or FM at audio rate?
Internal cross-mod between the upper/lower sections is not really feasible (you can always cross-patch) but Braids has a few different modes that handle audio-rate FM (FM, FBFM, WTFM). There's an excellent user-created manual for Braids in
this thread that explains all the oscillator modes (including the quantization scales).
sinowhy wrote:I think you are overusing the caps italics, and could use lowercase on the lower half..
Fellow designer? I deliberated over this quite a bit since the 200/200e use a mix of uppercase/lowercase. Aesthetically I prefer all uppercase and most of the 200-series modules use italicized caps predominantly. This also makes the overall
bouma more regular and mostly avoids
descenders (lowercase g/j/q/y) which allows the spacing between a label and the associated hardware to be a little more consistent.
sinowhy wrote:Also regarding layout, the mutabl faceplate lines up the attenuators with the appropriate pots, and CV input. It seems like their most intuitive layout. Where as here it seems 'brightness' and 'damping' jacks are reversed, and you will have think about it while patching.
Good eye for detail. I did have the Brightness and Damping inputs swapped in an earlier iteration. Unlike the Eurorack version there's not a neat alignment of CV inputs and knobs. If this seems confusing in actual practice I'll consider swapping them back again.
sinowhy wrote:What are the extra LEDs and switch for?
On the Eurorack version of Rings there are four normalizations that use switching jacks (internal normalizations are disconnected by patching the input). One is the audio input, so that's easy. But the others can't be done with banana jacks alone. The switches control whether or not the Strum, Pitch, and Frequency inputs are active (they can be plugged in, but not routed to the MCU – this is the same as leaving the jacks unpatched on the Eurorack version). The LED indicates whether or not the input is active.
MATSmile wrote:Slight suggestion, add banana audio outputs to braids
Would that be for using a DC component of the output signal as a modulation source? (I'm not even sure that the Braids output is DC coupled, I'd have to check.) You could always use a cable/plug adapter or wire up a few custom cables. I was going for the precedent of the 258/259 which have multiple Tinijax outputs for the same signal. That makes it easier to do things like routing a single oscillator to a dual filter or setting up a stereo patch.
we have a clouds and rings in the work ourselves.
