#106

FWIW, that sounds pretty close to Meadowphysics :slight_smile:

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#107

Thats what I thought till I was trying out what I wanted to do earlier, rhythmically the results are very different.

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#108

Sorry if this has been asked before.

Is there a way to do longer notes? For example,
1,1,1,3, pause, 1,1…etc (1 is the clock beat)

What I have been doing is to put the note duration to full on the 1st row and note length
and punching in 3 notes in of the same pitch.

I know i can slow down each track so the notes are ‘longer’, but is there an easier way to do long and short notes on a track? Maybe like how you define loops, you can define how long you want the gate to stay open on a certain note.

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#109

look for the “duration” page in the docs. the duration parameter changes the gate length, but not the number of steps it takes up; I’m not sure if that’s quite what you had in mind or not

#110

For example I want a note to hold over 3 steps. I set the duration to full on all 3 steps in a row. This the only way?

#111

According to the kria manual, setting note durations should tie together steps completely, but unfortunately, there is a known bug in the code as of 1.6.1 which causes a the gate to drop for a tiny amount between steps resulting in a retrigger.

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#112

Wondering if Kria and meadow physics would be given the i2c leader treatment (ala polyES) at some point making it able to speak directly with just friends and the 301? Could this be considered a feature request?

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#113

That would truly be amazing and something I’d really like to see implemented but I’m pretty sure the person behind the i2c development said he won’t be doing it so hopefully someone with the skills could take over.

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#114

Yup read that too :laughing:
The wait continues…

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#115

For what it’s worth, you can already patch Teletype to allow direct control of Just Friends with Kria: patch Kria’s gate outputs to four gate inputs on Teletype and in each of the corresponding scripts write JF.NOTE KR.CV 3 V 5, where you’d change 3 to match which Kria channel you’re working with.

Something about as simple will work with the ER-301 or TXo (I mean, with the 301, you could just use patch cables too).

Notice this doesn’t factor in gate length, but given that you have five lines of script left, something could be figured out.

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#116

Is there a way to go down in octave on the octave modifier page? I know I can start in the middle and tune my osc accordingly, but then my range up and down is limited… am I missing something or is this a feature request? :wink:

#117

by design, Ansible outputs unipolar positive voltages (0–10V I think?), and currently Kria’s lowest note is that 0V, so I don’t think this is possible.

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#118

Could this be solved with a precision adder function? Just subtract 1v for every octave one wants to descend?

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#119

Someone on MuffWiggler mentioned that you can just take the out going CV into an attenuverter and invert the signal. Now it will go down the scale.

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#120

Not if the output is limited to 0-10 volts, however something like Beast’s Chalkboard can subtract voltage.

@TonyIdaho - I don’t think it works that way and if it did, it would be confusing wouldn’t it?

The most realistic scenario you could try (to keep the scale the same) would be to use an attentuverter to bring the starting voltage down 1 volt, but that’s hard to do by hand.

Edit: Re-reading that and what others have said, it appears it would go in a different direction. Would need to test this out to see what musical applications it has - could lead to some interesting ideas.

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#121

I’m not sure this will keep the scale relationship as defined on the scale page.

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#122

Yeah, like @Jonny, I use either Beast’s Chalkboard or an O_C running Quantermain with quantization off to traverse octaves via the two buttons (for up to four channels). I set Kria’s octave page up one or two octaves up as my ‘center’ and make adjustments with my ‘adder/subtracter’ as needed. It works pretty great.

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#123

the beauty of the V/Oct pitch control is that it will work as @TonyIdaho suggests: a half-step in the scale corresponds to a difference of 1/12th of a volt, so ascending and descending will swap if the voltage is precisely inverted. That’s a non-trivial “if”, but it should be possible with an attenuverter set full negative.

ahh actually hold on, it will change major intervals to minor intervals and vice versa, so I was wrong, but it will do something musically interesting at least

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#124

What if the scale is not equal tempered?

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#125

the V/Oct standard does presume an equal-tempered scale, but that’s also all that Kria outputs as well.

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