#1

… sometimes. This is just so stupid I still bang my head for it. So I was recently playing with Arc and Ansible and the idea came to me that I could use one CV out to scale another CV out. So I directly patch them together with Stackables, now one out can transpose another… so stupid but took me a year to get to this… This might make a lot of you frown like stupid?!, but there might be one or the other out there that hasn’t thought about this solution too. I know that this isn’t the most elegant solution, but that was not the goal.

#2

I don’t know how Ansible is designed and if it is protected but generally I think mixing voltages with stackables/multiples is not a very good idea in modular synths. I would rather use a mixer or, for transposing pitch CV, an precision adder.

#3

Beware though that this (mixing) is not what stackcables were made for. I think it won’t lead to issues with monome-modules, but in general, it’s not safe to assume that connecting multiple outputs together with stackcables won’t lead to damage on your modules.

#4

Totally agree with you both, but a small system needs samll solutions and I read somewhere that the monome modules are all diode protected or something… mybe @tehn can chine in on this…

#5

Ah, yes, I think you are right - there was something mentioned when the Just Friends run issue came up. Make Noise and Verbos are safe too but I still would recommend to always make this clear just to prevent someone from taking this for granted and fry his/her metropolis…

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#6

Mannequins modules, as far as I know, are all protected and can be used like this - super useful with Just Friends and 3 sisters. But I’ve never read that monome modules are so I would avoid this until you hear from @tehn

With regards to Make Noise, I thought it was just the Gate outputs which were safe to use like this. I’ve not really looked into it though.

#7

tehn mentioned it here

#8

Hm, now that you are saying…might be the best to just don’t do it…