Cold Mac Ideas

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Soundtracks for Animal Crossing.

Really playful and fun!

[madeinspace]

That’s sick! Welldone!

[adrianf]

@Galapagoose I know you are busy with the other new modules but wondering if you have a stock update for cold mac? I was hoping to pick this one up!

[steveoath]

Signal sounds and cymru beats in uk have them i think (noticed when i was looking for some other stuff).

[alanza]

@adrianf if there’s a dealer you like that stocks them, couldn’t hurt to ask there. I know Control is expecting a restock of Three Sisters, like, todayish so depending on how that works they may also get some Cold Macs with that? Or maybe, because their Cold Mac stock only sold out a few weeks ago, it might be longer.

…okay typing this I am now embarrassed about how many times I have visited Control’s Mannequins page

[barnjazz]

Latest tracks + videos

https://soundcloud.com/user-388295829/mutant-pluck sequence is generated by a korg SQ-1, sequencing a mutable instruments braids in pluck mode. quantized internally by ‘bees in the trees’ firmware. output through mannequins three sisters. the first ~35 seconds are the patch by itself, then i stack a few layers of the patch for something a bit denser. several channels of random from pamela’s new workout are running in time with the sequence at various divisions of the clock. random outputs are …

cross-post from latest tracks - cold mac is driving the train here! more info in the other post. the first ~35 seconds are the patch by itself, then i stack a few layers of the patch for something a bit denser. of course, after i put this together and posted it to soundcloud i though of 10 things i’d do differently, but it’s a start! i’m still very new to DAWs and manipulating recordings and trying to learn the ropes a bit.

[praffensperger]

Cold Mac Gate-to-Trigger

Set SURVEY to Full CW
GATE IN --> SLOPE
MAC --> OR (input in the middle of the module)
OR OUT --> TRIGGER OUT

[smbols]

Anybody here done much patching with Cold Mac and MI Frames? I’m planning to add a Cold Mac to my rack and use that with Frames as a sort of central nervous system that ties everything together. If any of you have done some work with this I’d love to read what you’ve learned about their interaction.

[ornateexit]

Anybody here done much patching with Cold Mac and MI Frames?

Haven’t used frames personally but from my understanding of its function as a dynamic mixer it shares a lot of the potential of the RXMX which I’ve found pairs with Cold Mac wonderfully, especially when Cold Mac also influences the sound sources upstream.

[praffensperger]

Here’s another Cold Mac patch idea:

Oscillator -> Optomix Ch 1
Optomix sum out -> Cold Mac crease
Cold Mac crease -> Optomix Ch 2
Cold Mac crease -> listen

This patch can be harmonic, noisy or chaotic, depending on how the Optomix parameters are set. If you leave out the input entirely, then Cold Mac and Optomix can be an oscillator all by themselves.

You don’t have to use Optomix, any low pass filter will do. Actually you don’t need to use Cold Mac either. Here’s a demo of some possibilities with a few different combinations of modules:

[dansimco]

I get excited every time i see a new post in this thread

[lohacker]

Thanks, great patch full of possibilities and nice video too!

[Aetherpulse]

Twenty characters of sounds awesome!

[ioflow]

cold mac mult: paired trigs from a single impulse.

monome walk momentary out -> CM slope in
CM slope and crease outs -> any 2 destinations. click the walk pedal to send simultaneous trigs via CM, regardless of survey knob position.

possibilities: synced punch recording and playback, identical manual tap tempos, etc.

[desolationjones]

dual mac: Place two Cold Mac adjacent in your rack. Connect Survey (1) to Survey (2) using a stout rubber band, coupling their rotational movements.

[caelmore]

it shares a lot of the potential of the RXMX which I’ve found pairs with Cold Mac wonderfully, especially when Cold Mac also influences the sound sources upstream.

I’m curious about this combo. Got any examples to share?

[alanza]

the idea is that left is “in phase” with Survey input (so if you put +5v into Survey, or put it full whack, you should see +5v), while right is “fully out of phase” or the inversion of the Survey input.

[Jonny]

Putting something into the LEFT or RIGHT inputs breaks the normalization of the voltage.

I believe the diagram is showing a crossfade between the input to LEFT (a sinewave LFO) and the +5 volts of the RIGHT, which is normalled (no input).

This part from Martin’s Patching Cold Mac explains it a little more:

In both scenarios above, the outputs at RIGHT(OUT) and LEFT(OUT) are affected by the default -5v and +5v signals normaled to LEFT and RIGHT, respectively. If you insert a dummy cable in either LEFT or RIGHT, that will break the normalization and constrain voltage range of the output at RIGHT(OUT) and LEFT(OUT) accordingly. Moreover, you can insert your own signals at LEFT and RIGHT to modulate the voltage range at RIGHT(OUT) and LEFT(OUT).

[Jonny]

I think you have the right idea – LEFT OUT always outputs +5v at full CW unless you plug something into the RIGHT IN. There’s a relationship between LEFT and RIGHT and their normalizations.

[coreyr]

Ah! The offset finally makes sense! I just kept thinking of left and right for audio cross fading OR as inverse voltage sources with nothing plugged in. Never crossed my mind to use offset input to offset an lfo with a constant voltage!