#22

@dspk’s are a great place to start

i would share some of mine when I get a chance, but they’re all designed to sync with a specific modular synth setup so I’m not sure how useful they’d be

also they’re tied to specific performances i’ve done so tbh i’m a little hesitant. would need to clean up the code and make the ui more general

#23

also don’t discount the scene’s that come with the bee’s download. @tehn’s “skitter” scene is still one of the most fun things the aleph does. and it’s easily hackable

#24

found them: http://archive.monome.org/docs/aleph:bees:sharing

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#25

Thank you very much for information and insight. Helps a lot in the thinking. I don’t wanna suffer g.a.s. that’s why I ask.

#26

It would be very kind, if some of you Aleph users out there could write some words about their use of the Aleph! Do you use it more as an FX processor, or synth, or as CV sequencer in combination with modular?

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#27

I think most of us are reticent to share freely because we don’t think our crudely fashioned scenes are useful to others in their current forms

There are a few decent ideas I planned to share but have been sidetracked repeatedly from dedicating extended time to solving puzzles needed to build/prove the concepts. I put much more time into audio exploration than the “programming” scene building with aleph…I’d have been more productive if I’d reversed that until I had a better grasp of how things fit together in the system

these are all excuses really and I’d be willing to upload the contents of my SD if anybody wanted to sift thru the things on there right now

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#28

i’d totally sift through the stuff on that card!!

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#29

Also I’ll pm you with more detail if you want but for public record [quote=“kza, post:18, topic:3543”]
Do you use it more as an FX processor, or synth, or as CV sequencer in combination with modular?
[/quote]… 99.9% of the time for fx (often with duncan speakman’s gripper or mixing within iterations of test2’s prgm)

Interestingly, I only started understanding BEES in a practical sense when I sat down to make stuff for control by teletype in april

the personal progress was exciting enough to share but I wasn’t able to save the scenes properly and I fell out of codemapping shape…i’ll dive back in again when i’m sure new work can be saved

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#30

Just a question @tehn: are you or Ezra still working with the Aleph? Or are there too many other priorities?

#31

Poking my head in as I’m about to get an aleph in a trade. Not much of a programmer myself but hoping I can make some nice stuff. Is any of the modular stuff like teletype compatible with the aleph?

#32

Only via cv. The code/workflow is quite different. But the aleph is compatible with the grid and runs it’s own versions of meadowphysics and whitewhale

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#33

Thanks for the reply. I’d kind of naively assumed that aleph could run ported version of the euro modules code but seems thats really is not the case. The poor little white box seems to be the forgotten child of the now euro heavy family.

#34

There used to be a good meadowphysics scene floating around. @Ted might still have it. I don’t have a grid so I don’t know how easy it is to get MP and WW up and running.

#35

I got my Aleph 2 days ago. For the moment I am trying to follow the tutorials and understand the basics. So if anyone of you lovely fellaz has some scenes (latest Bees version) I would love to try them out for learning purpose. Did I get it right that the manual never came out? Only the online tutorials, right?

Best
KZA

#36

I found this. Just looks like the page moved slightly http://archive.monome.org/docs/aleph:bees:sharing

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#37

I’m out of town for 5 days, but when I’m back I’ll post the cv scenes that were initially released with tutorial 7

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#38

meadowphysics and ww are included as bees operators and can be integrated into your aleph scenes.

there isn’t a teletype program for aleph. honestly it would not be very difficult to port but nobody has taken the time.

recall that there are very few aleph units in the field (<100) so really development on the codebase does not have a lot of momentum and features/fixes are added as desired by the (few) people who program them.

it would be fair to say that the eurorack code environment is mostly ported from the aleph in the first place. so it is not hard to port it back.

to answer @kza earlier in the thread: i use the aleph pretty regularly as a performance tool. mostly for weird automated mixing and dealy/filtering. i don’t post scenes because they don’t seem particularly useful. i don’t try and build complex or multi-purpose things. i tend to build simple things that are directed for a particular purpose and are flexible in specific weird ways (like using footswitch to toggle between encoder mappings with the preset system.)

but… i have sadly not had a lot of time lately or, really, motivation to do a lot of low-level coding for the aleph. i have plenty of TODOs, but most of them are siginificant efforts and really require a solid week of free time. it’s been a really rough couple years for me personally and that time has not materialized; in general i feel like i’ve put plenty of work into the aleph, and when i have time to play with it i’d prefer to use it for music rather than to hack on the codebase forever.

that said, i do promise to add more functionality eventually.

i highly encourage any aleph owner to dive into C programming and consider making your own bees operators or standalone apps, if the given control-side functionality is lacking for you. we tried to make it pretty straightforward. the DSP side is a little trickier and that is where i promise to do more work when i can.

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#39

Thank you all for ideas and words. I’ll be realistic and try out the Aleph. Anyways I don’t fear to stay stuck with it. It will provide a good learning, even if I don’t wanna dive in C programming… I’ll stick with Bees. Even without understanding it deeper the provided scenes will be fun. People in other forums talked about it being overpriced for what it is. I do not agree at all if you think of devices with one special purpose (i.e. Strymon or Eventide etc.). If I can’t wrap my head around it I will sell it to someone who can later on because I think it would be sad to keep it if someone else really can add something worth and important to the very small Aleph community.

Best
KZA

ps. almost forgot to say thank you @zebra and @tehn for putting this device out there!

#40

Thanks for the reply.

I’m sure this has been asked before but are there any recommendations on where to start when jumping into C? I honestly went for the aleph as an impetus to push me to learn to code. I’ve only ever dealt with higher level languages like ruby and java so I’m a little daunted by where exact;y one should start (aside from hello world). I would love to be able to port teletype over to the aleph. Obviously will take a hell of a lot of study though.

#41

I would love to get advice to where to start.
Also got the aleph with the intention to get into coding C.
Some people recommended me the 'learn C the hard way’website.
But I recently paid for a basic intro to C on udemy.org, I’ll let you know how it works for me when I get through it, I’m more or less compete beginner in C

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