#94

i’m not ruling it out, and agreed i was being overly dismissive. you can always do whatever you want with these devices! what i meant was that in the applications i design, i absolutely try to strike a balance of how much light is coming out-- partially because of power draw, but also because the newest devices can simply be blindingly bright. testing the arc requires me to look at it sideways!

so yes, fear not, i will not arbitrarily hinder the capabilities of these. but it’s good for people to know that lots of lights means lots of power draw.

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#95

yeah, i think having all leds on is something that wouldn’t be unusual to happen on arc if it’s used as a simple controller app where the ring is used to display the current value, for instance.

been thinking that one way to get around not being able to plug a grid and an arc at the same time could be by using arc plugged into teletype as been suggested already. this would probably require a new script that gets triggered whenever an encoder is moved, and 4 new variables for delta. then you could use arc/teletype to change patterns on WW etc.

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#96

[quote=“tehn, post:18, topic:3168, full:true”]@polyoptics must spread out the surprises hey!!
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How about spreading some more teasing surprises?

Mid june is near…

:santa:

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#97

After the last newsletter I was hoping there would be some more teasers, but I guess the newsletter (pics) were the teaser.

Balls…

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#98

Oh, so there’s a newsletter? I would be interested in those pics…

#99

It’s worth getting on the newsletter. It’s just a once-a-month thing. Here’s the pic from the most recent newsletter.

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circles — we’ve been making a lot of round objects out of brass, aluminum, glass, mylar, paper, acrylic: by cutting, milling, lasering, waterjetting, printing, visualizing. perfecting a mechanical object requires patience and sometimes unreasonable optimism that something could (hence should) be better. soon there will be an instrument.

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#100

Thank you for the beautiful and encouraging picture!

Eventually I found the button an subscribed - I automatically uncheck all newsletter boxes that come across as they mostly just link to some site to sell me fancy polo shirts or ableton plugins…but fancy circles are great.:heart_eyes:

#101

newsletter subscription at the bottom of http://monome.org

#102

update!

i thought i learned my lesson, about announcing ship dates. producing a eurorack module is a incredibly predictable endeavor. designing weird mechanical devices is hilariously less predictable.

the good news is that the prototype components after a few tuning rounds feel great. by tuning i mean change dimensions by 0.001" at a time. the mechanics underwent a substantial change after a sudden electronic redesign-- i’ve switched from magnetic detection back to optical.

so, mid june was mistakenly optimistic-- my aim is to perfect this device, and not redesign it again.

i’ll announce a ship date when i have component completion promises. in the meantime, i’ll be able to share developments soon. perhaps some details about the eurorack module and new applications.

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#103

Can’t wait!
Even though I’m not a big euro guy, I’m really looking forward to seeing what the interface will be, as the euro monome mappings are all really slick and creative.

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#104

Checking here every few hours for the exciting post that will reveal the functionality of the module.

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#105

By “soon” I don’t think tehn means today… but I am with you brother! :slight_smile:

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#106

newsnewsnews! when? :fearful: (sorry for the pointless spam… can’t wait)

#108

Eeeee!

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#109

Holy jezus, sweet lord that thing looks amazing!

#110

More than perfect…

#111

totally getting 4 of these to have a 4x4 grid of arc knobs… just to stare at while i eat breakfast!!! seriously.

#112

Wow, that looks great. Struck by how much thinner it is compared to the previous version.

#113

Looks lovely…when will you be able to share details of the associated eurorack module? Can you tell us when arc and module will be available?

#114

these would be a perfect interface to digitalize Peter Blasser’s "nob"bing new incarnation of instruments
peter has crammed a lot of communicable information into a single Nob in the analog realm surely this could be done in max

I never had ideas for how I wold use the Arc before but I’m not anticipating its release

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