#10

Yeah, serves as a Poti and comes with jumpers. (If I’m not mistaken, it’s actually like two Potis.)

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#11

Is the 1hp size such that it’s hard to get your fingers in there?

I like the idea of a 1hp module which makes it conceivable to have another odd-number hp module!

#12

Works for me, but I imagine for some people’s hands it might be hard. It’s just a switch you flip.

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#13

@jwm was making 2hp POTIs for a while, maybe he still has some.

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#14

yeah i’m 99% sure i still have some laser cut panels laying around in a drawer somewhere…

batumi since its release has been pretty indispensable for me (i am also using the alt firmware). with the notion that it can all be sync’d/self patched, batumi + maths + lets splosh is a slip & slide wonderland of modulation.

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#15

Can you say more about Let’s Splosh? That looks interesting…

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Design, usability, theory, philosophy, etc. threads
#16

as @jwm got me sploshed i can confirm that it is interesting and with batumi and maths (or any other function generator, gate, clock…) is makes things quite interesting and definitely expands the possibilities of whatever you are cooking with (but relies entirely on the CV it receives).

this may not illuminate your interest very specifically but you should be interested

it does add another 20 patch points in 12hp so have cables handy.

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#17

@eblomquist yeah for sure, it looks way more complicated than it actually is (the naming conventions of the jacks aren’t doing it any favors)

so its basically a 4 in, 16 out rectifier/mixer module. send it any four signals and it will spit out 16 unipolar variations of those 4 inputs. its basically broken up into two positive columns and two negatives columns (with one or two exceptions)

an example: if you feed “natto” a bipolar sine wave, and “batter” a unipolar positive random wave, the first jack marked “ct/nb+” is going to spit out a mix of the positive half of the bipolar sine, and all of the unipolar random wave, the jack marked “ct/nb-” is going to get just the negative half of the bipolar sine, and none of the unipolar random, etc. etc.—so with just two inputs, you get all kinds of weird variations—and it just gets more bananas the more inputs you add.

i don’t have any newer examples documented, but this was one of my first passes with a sine, two random waves from batumi, and a cycling maths envelope into lets splosh…

and @baleen isn’t kidding about the patch points. had to grip a whole new bag of cables once i racked it. and once you start using the splosh outs to fm the modules you are sending in, break out the pencil and paper…

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#18

Thinking on buying a Batumi for my rack brought me here. I was pretty convinced until I saw øchd from Instruo released. I need more “organic” modulation for my rack. I have Pam’sNW, Maths, Voltage Block and Marbles, so just a few outs really free running. Fine tuning LFOs at odds divisions on Pam’ss gives great results but it’s not immediate at all. Of course without the waveshaping capabilities of øchd I wouldn’t even think about getting one. I’m wondering now if I’ll need batumi’s extra features (Individual wavebank looks great!) or an øchd would be enough.

I’m a bit tired of deep modules, I do have already tons of possibilities with my rack, adding more and more doesn’t help to get rid of the VST vibe from pc. I’m a junkie for having more options.

In any case I’ll be picking another Quadratt for them.

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#19

Ochd looks really nice!

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#20

It’s a bit reminiscent of Just Friends with the multiple A/D envelopes…

Definitely want to experience this…

#21

Love my Batumi (and baby Poti FWIW). Xaoc makes lovely modules and this one is an immediate classic in the same class as Maths, Clouds and Maths.

I’d recommend self-patching it and cross-patching it with Cold Mac for some bonkers fun that will surprise you over and over.

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#22

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#23

I haven’t spent real time with the individual wavebank firmware yet, but a quick twiddle with it is encouraging. Some of the stuff hidden behind long presses seems to be pretty easy to use. There’s just one small thing I would like to have (because I’m cursed that way…). In the advanced zoom mode, I’d love it if the fourth slider did offset rather than phase. I find myself wanting monopolar modulation far more often than bipolar. If it were a simple toggle between bipolar/monopolar that would be fine too (since it might not be capable of putting out more voltage than its current max so offset might not work).

If someone made this version I would totally be their best friend. :grin:

#24

Hi y’all. Short-time lurker, first-time poster. I’m pretty new to Eurorack and am having quite the time wrapping my head around syncable LFOs. I’ve been playing around with Tides in VCV and it does a couple of things that I am hoping Batumi does as well, if someone can educate me.

On Tides (at least in VCV), when a cable is plugged into Clock and I stop my DAW, the LFO completes its cycle and then stops. When I start by DAW again, it resets the LFO phase immediately and starts back up at the same rate as before.

This is important to me because it means 1.) it doesn’t take extra cycles to lock back to the tempo and 2.) the LFO phase is always consistent relative to the musical bar (not just the clock subdivisions). For example, a downward saw LFO spanning two bars will always peak on the first beat of odd-numbered bars (1,3,5…) and not lock to the even-numbered bars (2,4,6…).

In a way, Tides’ behavior sounds sort of like a hybrid of sync and reset. It’s really clever, although it does mean that you have to make sure to let the LFO cycle complete between stopping and starting the external clock.

Anyway, if Batumi can accomplish the same thing I think it’d be a little more bang for my buck than Tides in my small system. Appreciate any info!

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#25

Not certain about Tides, but Batumi continues cycling when the clock stops.Sync and reset are switched on Poti (or a switch, I believe, without the breakout) - only one is active at a time.

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#26

I don’t know which Tides you are using in VCV (v1 or v2) - but as @Gexex notes above, Batumi is always cycling, Tides (both v’s) can be set to single-cycle or looping.

I have found that Batumi does drag a little to catch up with clock changes.

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#27

Thanks @Gexex and @baleen. I’m using the “tidal modulator 2” in VCV and assuming it has the same behavior of Tides 2/2018 :man_shrugging:

Right now I have a WMD Modbox and it does what you describe with Batumi, continuing to cycle when the clock stops. So what happens is that I have everything running great, I stop the DAW/external clock, and when I start it again, the LFO syncs up but it syncs to the “wrong” beat (say, the upbeat instead of the downbeat).

One workaround is to set the clock division to have a 1:1 relationship with the longest desired cycle time, but this limits how many divisions I can get (e.g. if I set to one pulse per bar, I can’t get the Modbox to cycle fast enough to hit 1/16th notes).

I feel like I must be missing some obvious solution that I don’t know about because of my inexperience!

#28

Not sure if batumi is up for the task.
I think one of expert sleepers modules might serve you better here, especially since you are using modular with daw. You could just use vcv tides with modular.

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#29

Yeah that seems reasonable. I’m trying to slowly ease away from DAW and am avoiding modules with any menu-diving. I know there are some other powerful LFO modules out there but I really liked the relative simplicity of Batumi. Oh well!

Honestly, I’m a little mystified as to why more people don’t find this to be problematic. It’s not really a DAW-specific issue (should happen with any clock source). But that’s probably a broader topic for /Questions so I’ll take it there. Thanks again, all!

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