andrew
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does w/ just move the play head before the write head to get this behavior, or is something more complicated going on ? I wouldn’t think something that simple would sound like tape loop decay, but if it does that’s pretty cool
maybe I should adventure ovr to the proper thread
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i believe the answer would be “no” – there are people on this forum with intimate knowledge of the technical side of both w/ and real life tape machines I’m sure but I’ll answer as best I can:
what w/ does is replace the erase head (in the tape metaphor) with an attenuator. -5V puts the attenuator before the read head, +5V puts it after the read head with everything in between lesser degrees of attenuation in both directions. As the manual describes it, w/ itself is doing the same action both direction, we’re just listening to the tape before attenuation rather than after. I guess this could be thought of as moving the play/read head as you said, but not in relation to the write head because it doesn’t affect how you’re hearing new material coming in - only looping material.
the video tutorial and manual are both really really good, and maybe there’s a technical map on the way too 
i reckon mods will move this whole convo to the w/ thread, but figured i’d answer here for now.
edit: here’s the section of the tutorial video that talks about this
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Same honestly, I’ve been eyeing one and a mimeophon to start a little utility/fx rack to go with my 0coast.
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With the Pallete in mind i wanted to make a complimentary rack for my 0-coast and MS-20 mini. I think i’m set on everything but the 1U row (but pretty close to set)
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@wipeyadocsoff can you help me understand how the included 1/4” audio jacks work on this case? i’m having a hard time figuring out how to route external audio into the system and also be able to output the audio to my mixer. i feel so dumb for asking this but i legit cannot figure it out.
kveye
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i guess simple answer - there is no way to do both for stereo. You have to get one of their 1U modules for input or output and connect it to the jacks.
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yeah! they have connectors that connect to a few of their 1U modules (Stereo Line Out and Pedal IO) and Mixup (3U). There’s also a stereo line in 1U module that will connect to it that is not yet released. They talk about it in a bit more detail in the manual:
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thank you!! this is super helpful. can’t wait to see how your case turns out. 
crim
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to jump on board the intellijel palette train - I dreamed up this little guy this morning…
I left 2 hp open for a crow. It probably needs more VCAs, as the old adage goes… Also something to provide envelopes for just friends in sound mode… and before you know it I need way more hp again
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You could use a chronoblob 1, saves 2hp, which could be filled with a (double) VCA 
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pfig
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I’m thinking of selling one of my kidneys, and Omri Cohen pointed out the Intellijel cases the other day (and then I found this thread - might need to sell two kidneys).
Anyway, I love Mutable Instruments:
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This is exactly what I did with my 104 7u. I used the din midi out port and made a cable connecting on the inside to the ER-301. Also had to make a din midi to 3.5 socket cable but it works flawlessly!
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Fleuw
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Got my Birdkids The Bateleur 42HP system back after lending it to a friend for 6 months.
Pairs well with Digitone 
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I recently downsized out of my large case into two Pod 48x, here is one of them:
Basically half Just Type, half W/ looping. I’m running this into/with my Moog gear: Mother 32 + DFAM + Grandmother. I’ve totally re-fallen in love with my DFAM for processing the audio from this set up.
The other pod is Morphagene + Maths + Lxd + Quantum rainbow 2 for jamming with outside sources and a different kind of looping setup.
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cocco88
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super cool setup!!! what between teletype and JF? tell us more about CM+3x w/
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How good is this setup!?! I want to know more and hear it!
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That’s a txn/nearness mixer between JF and TT, which will either get used as a final mixer or as submix for the individual outputs of JF. I’d gone back and forth about whether having 3 w/ was overkill in a small system, but realtime loop/tape music composition and unconventional sequencing is what I like about modular so I kept all 3. I keep the two on the left as a constant pair to use together and the one of the right as an aux delay/looper for whatever I need. I’ve talked in length about my w/ usage in the past over in the w/ thread, but my go-to patch these days has changed a bit:
-I’ll mult a mono audio source (rhythmic sources are especially fun) into two different w/ with different loop lengths, turn off monitoring, send a 5v offset into THAT so you are only hearing one pass at a time. If I want more density of sound I’ll modulate that offset down to wherever, just keeping it positive. Between messing around with different loop lengths and source material there is plenty here to keep me busy. You can monitor it in stereo or mix together back to mono.
These days I’m almost always sending the w/ outputs into my Moog gear, especially now that I’m relying on JF as my main voice. I, honestly, don’t love the sound of JF, but running it through the Moog mixer and ladder filter gives it a little more life. The square wave out sounds decent, and I do like the sine wave with intone FM tuned just right, but the saw just doesn’t work for me and I’m a huge fan of saw waves in general. Still love the workflow of Just Type and knowing that I’m in tune no questions asked when jamming with other folks.
I don’t really use Cold Mac any consistent way, it fills so many roles I try to use it as the patch calls for it. Panning, mixing, vca, compression, offsets, patch surveillance. I really dig the location circuit modulating things. My old go-to CM+W/ patch was single w/ to panning section of cold mac out to the two other w/ in stereo. With a really slow triangle LFO modulating survey/fade and long, drastically different loop lengths on w/s, thats a pretty good base for an ambient patch.
While I don’t have any soundclips readily available of this current set up with Just Friends, my last two EPs (Terrace and Steep Way) have multiple w/ all over it. Feel free to check them out.
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can I hear something? I’m definitely curious!
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