The zippy, slippery resonance on the Happy Nerding MMM VCF is like 8 bit caramel, with a vinyl bump. For some reason the minor differences between the left and right circuit outputs contribute to presenting something like an asymmetrical stereoscape.
Yes, so so far I would say I am glad I am trying to cram stereo lines in my small case.
The only thing is I am having to ‘gain stage’ (not sure if that is the right term) my signal by passing it through two Pulp Logic piezo tiles in order to drive the circuits. Then again I am using Audulus as a VCA. My PICO VCA is supposed to arrive today though. Maybe that will drive the patches better.
Any thoughts on the Low Strike Duo or the Pip Slope? Both are available used. The cyclic skew is my only hardware envelope at the moment. Just getting close to full, must be careful.
I made someone an offer on the LXD. Something about vactrols – optoelectronics has me excited. I really like the intersections of logic and electricity as a texture. It also has a filter built into the circuit so I just need to send it an oscillator and strike it and I will have another voice. Nice to have something from Make Noise in there.
@futureaztec Full description of the module and design behind it: https://www.bastl-instruments.com/modular/tea-kick/
I did a DIY kit for it and have used it for a drum voice, fat basslines (thanks to the CV control), and even have had some great luck just using it as a CV-controlled bandpass filter with the WTF input.
I turned the Cyclic Skew on and multed the envelope to the FM on the multi mode filter, then took the high pass out and multed it to the mixer and back to the second stereo input of the filter and out of the highpass to the mixer. Meanwhile Dinky’s Taiko is getting the Cyclic Skew’s envelope multed to its trigger. The resonance on the filter is enough for the weight of the kick. Doubling the signal in a kind of loop brings it to a club level. The Taiko, trailing a bit gives that third character with heaps of untapped modulation possibilities.
LOVE the Taiko. sadly I don’t have it anymore. here’s a quick vid of some glitchy stuff, all of the drums/percussive elements are from Taiko modulated by a bunch of random lfo’s form Audulus and bubbly stuff from the STS Benjolin Taiko and Audulus
Some time ago I was thinking about the MidiFighter Twister as a way to have 16 encoders with multicoloured LED’s. I wondered whether having a hands on device like this would be good with Audulus or just another piece of equipment with a lot of functionality, but requiring enough setup that it never gets used.
When I watched the video that came out yesterday from Make Noise, it got me thinking about the Twister again. It also got me thinking about Audulus’ sequencing modules and how far people may have gotten with these.
I got into Audulus as an iPad user and just recently got the modular. So quite a few tools and patches didn’t strike me as being so useful as they do now. It would be an interesting thing to try and take some inspiration from the Rene videos and see if the MF Twister could do some higher level sequencing.
A bit hesitant though, setting up a midi device to control Audulus to control the modular. I just don’t have room in my rack for a sequencer so I am looking at various possibilities. I wish I could test the product in Audulus to see what’s possible.
But then I remember that this version of Audulus is not doing MIDI out. I suppose then I would have to run a host app and have it do the midi light control. Hard to say what might happen without trying. The idea would be to set up the same sort of cv outputs that Rene has, but coming out of the ES-8.
By not doing midi out, it means @taylor can skip a development cycle with Audulus 3 and release Audulus 4 by the holidays (hopefully). This is also why I am putting Know Your Nodes on Hiatus.
Yeah the whole MIDI thing can quickly become too much. But if you can technically send that much info down one cable, organize it and use it as control voltages, it opens up some avenues for modular prosthetics – which is a large part of what people use Audulus for.
From looking at the user manual, it would appear that the Twister can control the LEDs internally. The biggest problem I’ve encountered as a result of no MIDI out support is the inability to sync external MIDI controllers with the Audulus knobs. Audulus knobs will track CC messages from an external controller reasonably well, but there’s no way to set an external controller’s initial state based on the current value of an Audulus knob. I’ve also found that Audulus needs to be in the foreground to properly process MIDI CC messages. I haven’t tested it using IAA or Audiobus, but that would also be something I would want to verify.
This sounds amazing! Just reposted it on our Audulus account
Taylor got one of these and hasn’t used it much yet, but I REALLY want one myself! I think it could be amazing with Audulus. I’m really excited for some more complex MIDI stuff in Audulus where hopefully we could also control the lights on the controller itself to give more feedback to it.
I was wondering why you’d suddenly stopped, but this makes sense! It will be easier for people to follow along if everything looks the same. I can’t yet share the stuff Taylor and I have been discussing about the design for Audulus 4, but the jump from 3 to 4 will be as big or MUCH bigger than the jump from 2 to 3 was in terms of what you can do, the visual style, processing, etc. And you’ll still be able to load your patches from 3 (phew).
