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vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:20 pm

aye, triggers are fun!
specially with data bender and morphagene, mimeophone.
i use a bastl knit rider, 6 trigger sequencer, 64 steps.
and a bastl little nerd too. (that does lot of things considering its a tiny tiny baby).
then division and such things.
plus i have a wobblebug.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:24 pm

although, knobs is trying to get me interested in even more qu bit, the chance looks fun for triggers
and do i need a nebulae? would that be too much like another morphagene (which is a future thought anyway...) or different enough that they will compliment one another...

this guy has cost me a fortune!

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:39 pm

as for memorising manuals? i still ocassionally have to open manuals of older modules, too much to remember everything.
but then a steady diet of 34 years on weed, plus about 22 years of varying pain and depression meds, some days i forget to eat

elxsound · Post by **elxsound** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:53 pm

I should have mentioned... Memorizing the highlights/main points!

My post-covid regimen has been full of RTFM to shake off brain fog and I think it helped (I hope), but there are just too many subtle differences between devices and modules on top of these things being new.

The ones that will trip me up the most, in the beginning, are Cascade (color-coded mode switching) and CVilization.

The worst manual so far has been for Data Bender. I understand why they wrote it in the order they did, but it should be re-written (IMO). It's short, but it reminded me of those choose your own adventure books in some ways.
I just feel bad for the guy that made the video from the manual. Great intentions and an even better way to learn (by teaching), but I think this is one time that deviation is preferred.

elxsound · Post by **elxsound** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:54 pm

vurt wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:24 pm although, knobs is trying to get me interested in even more qu bit, the chance looks fun for triggers
and do i need a nebulae? would that be too much like another morphagene (which is a future thought anyway...) or different enough that they will compliment one another...

this guy has cost me a fortune!

I have not watched it yet and I'm a bit scared to see it.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:56 pm

the cheat sheet for cvlization, keep it handy. the manual is for deeper stuff, all your colours are covered in the cheat sheet

more modules could benefit from similar

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:59 pm

elxsound wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:54 pm
vurt wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:24 pm although, knobs is trying to get me interested in even more qu bit, the chance looks fun for triggers
and do i need a nebulae? would that be too much like another morphagene (which is a future thought anyway...) or different enough that they will compliment one another...

this guy has cost me a fortune!
I have not watched it yet and I'm a bit scared to see it.

im always apprehensive pressing play on a knobs video, i know it is usually going to cost me money.

not always the things he's actually demoing either, but the little toys he leaves lying around

im a sucker for colourful plastic

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:03 pm

vurt wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:24 pm and do i need a nebulae?

Nebulae default program is phase vocoder/granular, might find it more like Clouds than Morphogene?

Maybe best to think of it a bit like an Organelle as module, though? The 'thing' about it is that its actually a 'proper' computer in there (Raspberry Pi running Linux) and it'll run PureData, Csound and Supercollider, or whatever. Or even stuff compiled in C or C++.
(In fact, its got wifi, and an ethernet socket and an HDMI port too, though those sockets not on the front panel and wifi is off, so 'whatever' is technically a bit more than most DSP-based modules, could possibly be doing yer visuals in fact...)

Going to be a lot more hackery to build your own firmwares, of course, but there's a fair few alternate instruments/'firmware' for it on the QuBit website, and other places.

https://www.qubitelectronix.com/alternate-instruments

(One thing Ive just discovered is that Technobear has done some firmware mods for this, and also seems to have done some ported the Mutable code from VCV to PureData externals, including for RaspPi's, so I'd be interested to know if this could eventually be made to run as a Clouds etc as well.)

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:06 pm

Mind you Ive still got my Nebulae on the default granular patch.

'gang aft agley' as usual...

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:11 pm

whyterabbyt wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:03 pm
vurt wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:24 pm and do i need a nebulae?
Nebulae default program is phase vocoder/granular, might find it more like Clouds than Morphogene?

Maybe best to think of it a bit like an Organelle as module, though? The 'thing' about it is that its actually a 'proper' computer in there (Raspberry Pi running Linux) and it'll run PureData, Csound and Supercollider, or whatever. Or even stuff compiled in C or C++.
(In fact, its got wifi, and an ethernet socket and an HDMI port too, though those sockets not on the front panel and wifi is off, so 'whatever' is technically a bit more than most DSP-based modules, could possibly be doing yer visuals in fact...)

Going to be a lot more hackery to build your own firmwares, of course, but there's a fair few alternate instruments/'firmware' for it on the QuBit website, and other places.

https://www.qubitelectronix.com/alternate-instruments

(One thing Ive just discovered is that Technobear has done some firmware mods for this, and also seems to have done some ported the Mutable code from VCV to PureData externals, including for RaspPi's, so I'd be interested to know if this could eventually be made to run as a Clouds etc as well.)

yeah, that sounds like it may be a damn fine addition! ill have to watch some more videos, but i can only see them confirming what im thinking

not a hacker myself, but id imagine if qu bit are sharing them, there will be more than enough choice without me breaking anything

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:14 pm

does it come with the usb drive? or can any generic one be used?
although, i do like the look of theirs, the aesthetic works better than some big red plastic thing like the usb drive i have

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:29 pm

vurt wrote: Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:14 pm does it come with the usb drive? or can any generic one be used?
although, i do like the look of theirs, the aesthetic works better than some big red plastic thing like the usb drive i have

I honestly cant remember what Ive done with the original one, its 'somewhere safe'. Any generic one will work, though; Ive got a Sandisk Cruzer Fit plugged in mine, its barely longer than the USB plug. Its only 16Gb at the mo, though if I remember rightly I did test a 256Gb!

Im just a sucker for reprogrammable modules.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:34 pm

Aha, found the original, its a 4Gb 'swivel' type, the size you normally expect them to be...

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:50 pm

ah, that looks like it's much easier to nudge when patching, i like the sandisk less chance of hitting it with my big clumsy hands

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:57 pm

Yeah, full-sized one would have got in the way a bit.

Just checked, 16Gb Cruzer is £4.62 on amazon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07 ... UTF8&psc=1

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