#194

It’s normal for there to be some high frequency bleed due to the nature of the design - patch a sine wave into the LEFT input and listen to the LEFT output - it should pretty much close all the way. Now patch a saw into LEFT instead of the sine; the high frequency content will bleed a bit more.

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#195

Thanks for the info guys. Being in nyc I just went to Control to test another coldmac and it is indeed part of the design. On to learning this beast!

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#197

That w/ box looks sooooo cool.

#198

just noticed a new CM video by Martin Doudoroff

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#199

While the link has been posted here before more than once, Martin just today pushed out an updated page he’s calling a “Massive 2.0 Rewrite”:

http://doudoroff.com/cold-mac/

Also, Control in NYC will be hosting Martin in store for a workshop on the Cold Mac possibly in the next week or two. Maybe we can generate enough interest to encourage them to livestream the presentation?

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#200

A livestream of that would be great!!!

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#201

also raising my hand for a livestream :raised_hand:

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#202

They have live-streamed stuff previously

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#203

Live stream please MD

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#204

Hi, y’all. I don’t expect a live stream—perhaps Control will surprise me—but I’m hoping it will serve as a dry run for a new demo video. Or maybe a new demo video will be the dry run for the presentation? Depends how the days go next week. I got a fancy new microphone that will make my life a bit easier. Anyways, I’ll try to check in here a bit.

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#205

i’ll be there! love your coldmac page :+1: cya wednesday.

#206

Thanks for all you have done so far. I wish I could be there, but alas…

I will be grateful for whatever new insights you’re able to share with us remote folks, in whatever medium they may be embodied!

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#207
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#208

New video on the Location circuit:

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#209

Thanks. I’ll be picking your brain on Wednesday at the class. :slight_smile:

#210

My Cold Mac arrived yesterday (absolutely beautiful new packaging by the way)…and what was meant to be a quick ‘just connect it up to the system’ ended up with me loosing four hours to it :grinning:

First thing I tried was using the xfade to blend/send two voices to Chronoblob 2’s separate delay lines (with Cold Mac also modulating delay time, FM depth to voices, and using the location output to trigger delay hold when the location voltage exceeds the threshold).

This module is so much fun, and I can see it being super useful for tying a patch together and orchestrating patch movement/changes (without needing 8 hands to do so) :heart:

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#211

Ooo now that’s a fun idea - Are you using the gates for note inputs? That way it would lag behind just a bit and freeze the note that was just played… One thing that could be fun is to trigger a random accompanying gate length for each note, providing some interesting variety. I need to try this later…

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#212

Whoa another I just thought of - I wonder how Location would behave with clock inputs? Basically I think you’d get a laggy proxy CV of the tempo, as each clock trigger will get averaged in? You could also kind of get a value of the “note density” if you used note triggers (maybe gates?) that might be interesting to use (while playing a keyboard, you could get volume swells on a flurry of notes, and then start to come quiet down on long sustained notes)

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#213

I like the thinking, but LOCATION responds very slowly (even at its fastest rate), and you can’t adjust that response range. You’d also need to have a negative offset in there to drag LOCATION back down between pulse stimuli, or it’ll just work its way up and stay there.

I can approximate what you‘re describing with an elaboration of the MATHS patch here: https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2969049#2969049, although really getting it to work requires an additional voltage offset and possibly some gate length jiggery pokery to get the right amount of stimulation.

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#214

Ah, yea I was thinking it seemed too good to be true. But I may have dreamed up a little Teletype script to write instead :wink:

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