#5

If you’ve already ordered one Ansible, I’d wait for it to arrive and test it to see if it meets your needs. As @sakul said, it may be weird for you depending on if you’re using polyphony and, as @ether said, whether or not you want to use only USB devices. Also, it’s worth figuring out whether you would use two Ansibles simultaneously.

For me personally, I’m content doing monophonic performance with USB devices, so the Ansible meets my needs. We have a Yarns on the school modular, and the trained keyboardists love it. I find that it’s overkill for my needs… but I’m not a trained keyboardist.

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#6

I used it with an iPad and iConnectmidi2+ running various apps. Heres a demo running Fugue Machine - 4 midi channels / cv/gate with Ansible

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#7

Hello, I read ansible can act as a midi to CV converter, so can it work with an op-1?

#8

yup! works ace.

one discovery i’ve made:

if you patch the op-1 usb to ansible and then patch audio from the modular into the op-1 audio input you will get a noisy ground loop. this can be resolved with a ground isolator.

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#9

Ok so looks like the ansible may actually be preferable for me - I’m a drummer and hardly go near a keyboard and actually have no midi synths left…so this would be for iPad sequencing - maybe something from the daw on occasion…
I’ll be running it via a iconnnct midi+4

#10

Just to refine this point a bit. Ansible (and earthsea) expect to play host to a usb midi device such as a keyboard, op-1, or orther usb controllers. Computers or things like iPads expect to play the “host” as well thus they can’t be directly connected to an ansible module.

If one has an existing midi interface atttached to a computer (or ipad) and one wants to use ansible as a midi-cv interface then I’d recommend picking up one of these guys https://www.roland.com/us/products/um-one/ (that interface was used extensively during the development of the midi portions of the firmware and it something I use frequently with earthsea/anisble).

On a different note if there are enhancements folks would like to see in the ansible or earthsea firmware I’d certainly entertain working on refinements time permitting.

The current rotating voice allocation in polyphonic mode was in part an exploration into whether or not behavior like that could be used to a creative end. My personal experience has been that doing true polyphony on a modular system was far too costly and difficult to achieve compared to multiple monophonic voices.

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Digitakt usb midi -> ansible
#11

Hm, as you asked, I wonder if it would be possible to have the same record function earthsea uses for pattern recording in pattern bank performance mode too? You know, like in mar - just for earthsea patterns…:heart_eyes:

#12

For earthsea i’d like to see an option for 4 pattern recorders being outputted from the 4 cv outputs, thanks

#14

My query regarding suggested ansible/earthsea enhancements was largely directed at the MIDI functionality and what (if anything) might make it more useful…

Regarding the ansible arp mode one change I had considered was loosing the fourth arp clock division output and replacing it with an end of arp pattern trigger (along with a CV output based on the number of held notes). The thinking was to then add teletype commands for doing pitch offsets, arp pattern changes, etc. and trigger those commands via the end of arp pattern trigger to allow for lots of variation to be established.

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#15

I guess I’m in the minority here having started my eurorack journey with 3 same oscillators. I understand why, there is already so much to do with one voice. And tuning is sometimes a PITA. I often use silent way for that, as it allows to auto calibrate.

BTW polyphonic doesn’t necessarily mean multiple identical signal paths. Think 3 oscillators receiving CVs from a held chord, release one note. What happens to the next played note on?

That being said, my comment was based on the OPs question comparing ansible vs yarns. I don’t have much motivation for suggesting improvements on the midi implementation when I solely use it with the grid and arc.

#16

I completely agree that ansible’s midi functionality is a small subset of what yarns is capable of and I didn’t mean to imply that the yarns feature set wasn’t useful. IMO the ansible midi mode falls much more into the category of a useful utility which happens to sit along side the primary focus which is grid/arc.

If there are is a voice allocation strategy which seems more useful than rotate I’m all for replacing rotate.

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#17

Oh yes - sorry, I totally forgot earthsea midi capabilities. Had a look at it and find it looks quite good with all that tracking and portamento settings…I am just not using it due to having a keystep for my minimal black’n’white adventures and it has CV out. But the add-ons you did could make it interesting to try.

#19

I suggest to buy a second hand Oplab from Teenage Engineering (unfortunately it’s out of production), you’ll be able to connect everything with everything, CV, MIDI and USB in any combination, and you could play like a Kraftwerk too :smiley:
Oplab is the core of my hybrid modular-midi system (eurorack, OP-1, G2, Monomachine).

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#20

I’m trying to get MIDI to CV working on Ansible.

I’ve purchased a Roland Um-ONE ( as suggested by @ngwese in this thread ) but Ansible doesn’t seem to recognise it. The USB light on the Um-ONE does not light up when plugged into Ansible and the mode does not change.

Ansible is running the latest firmware.
The Um-ONE is recognised by my Macbook and the USB light comes on when plugged in to that.

Am I missing something here?

#21

The Um-ONE has a small switch on the side with positions labeled “TAB” and “COMP”. Disconnect it from Ansible, flip the switch to “TAB”, and try again (it should work at that point).

“TAB” (tablet) - is standard USB midi class device mode
“COMP” (computer) - is their proprietary mode which requires drivers

#22

Thanks for the reply @ngwese
My Um-ONE does not have this switch. Does this make it incompatible?

#23

That is strange. Here is a picture of my UM-ONE, the pen is pointing at the location of the switch. It is very small and hard to see.

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UPDATE: Is it possible you have an original UM-ONE (discontinued) and not a UM-ONE mk2 (currently available)? Looking at the specs on Roland’s site the “mk2” model has the switch. If you do have the original model I’m afraid that it might not be compatible.

#24

Definitely no switch. I believe it is the Mk1. Better hunt down a mk2…Thanks for the speedy response!

#25

For what it is worth I was recently given an iConnect MIO
http://www.iconnectivity.com/products/midi/mio
…I plugged it in just now and it was recognized so that is another option with the same cost/form factor.

#26

Great, I’ll hunt down one of these options.