#525

“Holding PATTERN SELECT, the right two columns will be illuminated in a 2x8 block.” -

the block to choose a scale for keymap is 8 columns wide and 2 rows high and it’s on the right side centered vertically, perhaps to say “a 2x8 block on the right” would be sufficient?

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#526

OK, made a quick change to that paragraph:

Holding PATTERN SELECT, a 2x8 block will illuminate one the right. These are scale slots - the exact same scales available to Kria and Meadowphysics. Pressing one of these will highlight keys in the keymap that are within that scale. To turn scale highlighting off, press the currently selected scale key again. (Note that this does not affect the pitches each key represents - it just acts as an ‘overlay’ to highlight notes within a scale).

which is in my branch.

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#527

Alright, iiiiit’s pull request time:

sorry about lack of mergeability. @scanner_darkly, I updated the graphic of parameters page to include highlighted scale keys - you might want to check that.

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#528

thanks - looks good!

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#529

Just started looking into this mode. Thanks for the great work - seems like this has some wonderful possibilities!

How do people tune oscillators when using Ansible Earthsea? My goal at the moment is to be a bit fluent in playing chords. Not having a lot of music theory background I find it a bit difficult to find the different “harmonic shapes”. I tried to tune to E to get something similar to guitar strings (until the B string), which was fun.

I should probably just practise and listen more and get familiar with chord intervals. It certainly is a wonderful tool for learning. :slight_smile:

I suppose I don’t have a great question, but wanted some interaction while figuring things out. If anyone has a nice approach/some advice, that would be great!

Edit: Holding “pattern select” I don’t see the 2x8 bar indicating the different scales to have them light up in the keybed, as described in the Ansible documentation. Would you recommend getting the ansible beta firmware for this, or should it be included in the “main” ansible firmware on monome.org now?

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#530

It appears that this revision (linked from the first post in this thread) does not have the scale highlighting feature. I would recommend getting a 2.0.0. beta from here since this is what the github documentation reflects.

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#531

Ok - thanks for this!

#532

Hi. I loaded the Ansible 2.0 update, and the loader said the process completed. However, Earthsea doesn’t seem to be present. When I press the preset button, my grid (2013) only toggles between Kria and Meadowphysics. Did I miss something or do something wrong?

(Sorry if there’s information about this posted elsewhere, but I haven’t been able to find it yet. If it exists, please point me to it.)

Thanks!
ty

#533

Did you download the firmware from here? Grid edition should not matter. The shell output from reflashing with dfu-programmer should be roughly as follows:

$ dfu-programmer at32uc3b0256 erase
Checking memory from 0x2000 to 0x3FFFF...  Not blank at 0x2001.
Erasing flash...  Success
Checking memory from 0x2000 to 0x3FFFF...  Empty.

$ dfu-programmer at32uc3b0256 flash ansible.hex --suppress-bootloader-mem
Checking memory from 0x2000 to 0x203FF...  Empty.
0%                            100%  Programming 0x1E400 bytes...
[>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>]  Success
0%                            100%  Reading 0x3E000 bytes...
[>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>]  Success
Validating...  Success
0x1E400 bytes written into 0x3E000 bytes memory (48.79%).

$ dfu-programmer at32uc3b0256 start
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#534

Hello and thanks for your reply. I downloaded the firmware via the link on the monome site, which is slightly different than the link you provided, but looks to be the same place.

I followed the Mac instructions, which resulted in my previous Homebrew being updated to 2.1.10. I then ran the command ‘brew install dfu-programmer’, and then double-clicked the provided update-firmware.command file. The output looked similar to yours, and ended with [process completed]. I didn’t see any errors along the way with any of these steps.

I’ll try it again today using the manual dfu-programmer commands like in your output, and this time I won’t close the window before making sure it works!

ty

#535

Looks like I’ll have to pause this endeavor. The receptacle on the main power bus board that powers my Ansible broke. So I need to repair that before I can resume this firmware business. Sigh!

UPDATE: OK, all is well. I went through the firmware upgrade again, and read the Ansible manual more carefully this time. I suspect my earlier upgrade was just fine. The problem was that I wasn’t holding the Preset button long enough when trying to switch between apps. (cough…)

#536

Would be amazing if we could have note tie feature similar to Arturia Key Step :-))

Would this be possible in Earthsea?

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#537

i assume you want this ability for when you linearize a sequence (since in non linearized mode it’ll hold a note as long as you hold a key). wouldn’t be a trivial change i’m afraid…

#538

Yes :slight_smile: thats exactly what I was thinking !

Do you think this feature could be implemented ?

#539

sorry - this would require time commitment which i can’t afford i’m afraid…

#540

thanks! maybe one day :slight_smile: fingers crossed

#541

Loving Earthsea so far, I just started learning it today!

Quick question that I couldn’t find in a search: in the voice allocation menu, do the 3rd and 4th buttons in the bottom row do anything? It seems like only one or the other can be lit, but don’t know what they do and they’re not referenced in the manual…

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#542

that’s transposition - pressing 3rd button (from the left) will transpose down, 4th will transpose up (lights are slightly confusing - 3rd button being lit means transposition is at 0, otherwise 4th button is lit).

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#543

Excellent, thank you so much @scanner_darkly!

#544

@scanner_darkly I just posted an Ansible Earthsea with Just Friends and W/ video yesterday, so thought it would be relevant to post here.

I normally use Earthsea with samples. One thing great about this is the i2c to Just Friends which opens up a lot more possibilities especially combined with w/. I would love to see some basic w/ functions combined somehow into the Ansible sequencers and use it like the way Softcut is used on Norns. I know the W/ functions are pretty limited at the moment for i2c. Maybe when new w/ OP’s are updated it would be better.

I still have my original Earthsea module and love the immediacy of it and kind of miss the modulation pattern shapes button combination presses you make with modulation send via the 3 outputs. I know that’s been moved to a separate tab.
But the big thing I miss is the pattern recording length. On the original Earthsea I could record for much longer - 2 to 3 times longer than Ansible Earthsea, which I find limiting. Is that because of a limitation in memory button presses storage? Would it be possible to add i2c to the OG Earthsea firmware so it can be played with Just Friends / er301? I know Poly Earthsea has that but still love the OG Earthsea. I’m thinking those combo button modulation presses sent to Just Friends on the original Earthsea would work really well as it’s being sequenced via i2c. Like in this OG Earthsea video from Brian

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