#25

nah - I think I’m really just trying to understand how long the delay is, and if I’m getting that long of a delay too. maybe just like record yourself recording a loop so I can hear the transition from input -> loop, if that makes any sense ?

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#26

oh, hello. This is really, really good.

I’m still wrapping my head around a few things - timing decent loops, which I’m getting to; working out how to have channels fed to different places - it sounds like ekphras is my friend there - and how metonomy works.

I’ve found issues where, having replaced a loop, I then hit the metonymy “location” button… and metonymy starts playing the old loop. Unsure as to why that is, it may still be user error.

My main note about usage would be gain staging, and that metonymy sends seem cooler than the anachronism output. My only real feature request would be - and I have no idea of how to implement UI for this - having speed options beyond powers-of-two multiples, to get effects more interesting than octaves…

#27

It’s actually something I wanted on norns mlr as well, I guess I should go and try to code that myself, ah…

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#28

the idea is that anachronism sort of has a small, curated set of controls mapped to the grid, whereas ekphras allows you to access all the parameters in softcut without much moderation. it has a separate pitch control that’s un-quanitized for example.

I just pushed updates to both their repos that include preliminary versions (I pulled out controls that weren’t working) of anachronism.remote and ekphras.satellite, which allows the anachronism interface to directly control ekphras instances rather than outputting the loop form the anachronsim device. this allows for loops to live in separate tacks at the default location, and adds additional controls to each loop.

I am still very much working out how to explain all this.

might this be a result of the buffer selection on the right ? (metonymy, specifically, is hella untested rn. I bet this breaks it)

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#29

I welcome additions to prosidy (it’s part of the point of it), but the codebase is very undocumented and there will likely be changes to the standards I’m using (diction, a JSON format for doing cross-device communication, and an un-named javascript api for grid stuff) sooooo: later

would very much like to hear what kind of things developers would want to get into and how much help would be needed

#30

Without recording an example the best way I can explain it is if I am recording drums the beginning of the first kick lets say doesn’t make it in on the first transient. My buffer is set to 256 but I don’t experience this issue in any other recording situation in Ableton

#31

right, yea, I’m figuring it out, that seems consistent with what I’m getting - this won’t be a priority fix for me but I’ll work on it at some point.

do you think it’s only ever clipping the beginning of the loop? it never misses anything at the end?

#32

oook: update: took out the metonymy/location stuff cuz it wasn’t working super well but I added a “”“beta”"" of the ekphras/multi-tracking stuff which is running pretty smooth so far. plz experiment/break/have fun. fixed some buffer switching bugs too but timing is still whack

#33

I am loving Anachronism, even with this rubbish cellphone video.

(moved from the Anaphora thread, because I was being a wally).

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#34

role call: would anyone be bummed if I went down to 4 voices in the nxt version of anachronism ? I’m finding it’s more useful to focus on less (esp. with overdubbing between voices) & 8 voices feels like wasted real estate but happy to version stuff if it’s useful to others

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#35

i still haven’t used it but i almost always only focus on one buffer, 2 if i am feeling spiced out therefore is see 4 as luxurious and 8 as ridiculous.

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#36

yea I’m feeling u here

#37

I’ve liked using more than 4 loops that I can then bring in and out of a mix using either the volume control or the play/mute button.

So I’d vote for splitting the 8 voice into a different version (even if you focus development, bug fixed etc on the 4 voice version).

Although having said that, there’s nothing stopping me from just renaming the “old” 8 voice version…

#38

might as well just do that in the main repo tho ! easy to do, and there’s already multiple versions between the remote script & standalone anyway. just need to find a reasonable way of naming stuff so it isn’t painfully confusing

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#39

! added a 64 grid x 4 voices layout !

ignore the minor change in the 128 layout, forgot to update that in code. route button is still the 4th key from the end

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#40

I haven’t really checked this out thoroughly on my end but just quickly wondering if this might be the same bug (is sounds like the problem w/ anachronism also has to do with loop length)

#41

I doubt it. See the fix pr. First initializarion of subhead assumes 44100 samplerate, arbitrarily. Samplerate should be set explicitly after initialization. Bug on norns was recent - softcut reset func Re-ran the unit and stupidly reset the SR.

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#42

I can have a basic use of this device with my GS64 and it’s a lot of fun. So, thank you!
But I don’t understand the way to record and play-back buffers changes

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#43

tonight marks gorgeous success finally as i got this to work. the pic up top shows an implication of how everything should work and the gliss is bliss. thank you so much andrew. my grid is of course transposed but this time playback head from buffer shows clear as day on grid leds and for this i am grateful!

i am still trying to understand the “route” function and the remote/satellite aspect. but i need to keep poking. it just sounds too good to stop. combining with a rhodes and A64 -> assonance+egfollower and a tape emulator, convolution verb and @Rodrigo cloud.

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#44

i go back and forth between this and anaphora in terms of my “favorite” but combined with assonance and alliterate it’s been my favorite combo for awhile now (my modular has been gathering dust).

me too! i’ve not really dived into yet because (a) I can’t quite grok it conceptually and (b) I get very sidetracked/focused on enjoying anachronism/anaphora. Would love to hear some examples of the remote/satellite aspect if you start figuring it out.