#41

Likelikelikelike…and order placed!

#42

Pre-ordered ansible via Control Voltage.
Now I need to sell some stuff to buy an arc

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#43

will this work with arc 2?

#44

Very cool looking shit indeed. The friction/brake is a nice touch too, and I’m sure ‘feels’ great to play.

Also cool to see how multipurpose it is as well.

I’ve not ordered one yet, but hopefully will do so later in the year. (OT but I’ve suddenly had to move house, which is always fun…)

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#45

wow. after watching the demo video again, and seeing the friction/cycles stuff…let alone the first half…i might not need my MI tides anymore. takes some more manual knob movement, but it seems ansible+arc is capable of generating some pretty random, or pseudorandom-nicely-synced LFOs and clocks. would need a mult or something to get a few of ansible’s outputs feeding into one or two inputs on e.g. Clouds, for some constant subtle movement.

#46

I sprung for Ansible, but since I also sprung for second-hand Teletype and White Whale this week, I’m gonna have to let the bank account rest for a while. Hope the Arc supply lasts a little while…

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#47

Me too!

PDXers should have an unboxing party. :gift:

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#48

The first half of the intro video seemed to borrow very heavily from the Frames module. Frames with 4 big knobs. However the second halve with the friction and sync to 1 knob and looping capabilities made me smile a lot more. This is were it became a lot more original and inspiring - very clever :slight_smile:

There is obviously some love for Frames because Earthsea also had some Frames like functionality! I have Frames and i won’t be ditching it, but will definitely be persuing Ansible for its other functions.

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#49

Need moar modulation will def keep Frames and my desktop space is currently at a greater premium than my rack space :slight_smile:

#50

[quote=“chapelierfou, post:39, topic:4447”]
It gave me also a few ideas for uses of Arc + Max as well…
[/quote]Yeah my first thought was control possibilities for aleph

it’d take a bit of tweaking sans led feedback but some ideas could carry over

#51

Not sure of reasoning behind putting Kria and Meadowphysics in Ansible instead of a new apps

Kria (grid) - live step sequencer, polyphasic parameters, emergent patterns.
Meadowphysics (grid) - rhizomatic cascading counter.
Levels (arc) - rotational pattern instrument.
Cycles (arc) - physically manipulated waves.
Reach (teletype) - further ecosystem output and input.
Traffic (midi) - device voice allocation and various arpeggiation.

#52

Maybe just because it is possible and for a smaller system to switch between different apps when you would not use more of them at the same time anyway.

I wonder if kria will be clockable in this incarnation.

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#53

they both have many new features, and kria was always an alt-firmware that i expect wasn’t widely used.

also, because they are good.

yes

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#54

arc is usable without ansible, right? – I think that was a yes, but I’m not sure how the interaction works.
Was this posted before and I missed it? :sweat_smile:

#55

In that case, you’ve got max/msp patchers and other software interaction.

(FWIW, though I ordered an ansible I’m also keenly looking forward to updates on the max front!)

Oh, and WW firmware Orca too right @scanner_darkly?

#56

Can White Whale and Meadowphysics modules be updated with the new features / firmwares that Ansible Kria/MP uses?

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#57

there are five years’ worth of arc apps, long before there were modules:

http://monome.org/docs/app/
http://archive.monome.org/docs/app

i remember when tml and edw first came out, seeing and hearing the beautiful things made with them. excited that i finally get to try them!

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#58

Sorry I should have been more clear – I was wondering about arc + MP/WW

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#59

yes, orca supports arc [and i’m planning to port it to ansible at some point, so you’ll have 4 sequences generated instead of 2 and the ability to globally reset from a trigger input]

i’ve been also working on an arc mod for ww firmware, it’s taking quite a bit longer than i expected - i want to make sure it supports all modes including drunk and random, and predicting a future random value is less trivial than i anticipated.

it’s pretty simple to add some arc support to ww/mp, but i want to do something that’s a bit more interesting than just using it as a transport controller…

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#60

some features could port, but not all unfortunately. MP modules doesn’t have DAC outputs, and WW has only two.

oh yes. a few arc apps listed here: http://monome.org/docs/app though there are others i need to dig up. i’ll also write up a “Arc Study” guide that shows how to program it similar to http://monome.org/docs/grid-studies

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