#172

Discovered another use for CM: Clock/Trigger mix/crossfade. Two different rhythms into left and right, and another into Offset(perhaps a constant steady rhythm). Survey the blend of patterns you get! You could extend this concept with setting different voltage levels of the pulses to have a sort of sequencer.

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#173

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#174

My patching is finally catching up with my brain (or maybe vice versa??)—I’m just realizing how cool it is that if I patch up one section of Cold Mac, the other sections still work and can be either related to each other or not, depending on how I patch. :open_mouth:

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#175

Do tell! I’m still trying to wrap my head around CM…

#176

So, here’s what I was doing: I had patched the top section so that an LFO patched into survey would pan my sound around in stereo

more about patching panning just in case it's helpful

In this patch I have high, low and centre of Sisters patched to left, right and offset on Cold Mac. Moving survey using the knob or CV will crossfade the left and right inputs into their corresponding outputs with opposite proportions, creating panning. I think, that anything into offset will be panned center regardless of knob or CV.

and then I realized that actually my crease out would give me a “creased” version of the LFO I had patched into survey (i.e. as the LFO crosses zero volts, the crease out jumps from +5V to -5V) which I could use to introduce a big change in my patch related to the LFO. (Haven’t found anything I liked yet though xD)

and what’s more, If I wanted to mix my stereo signal down to mono, say to modulate some part of my patch or run through W/, the mac output would give me exactly what I wanted—even if I were using the other parts of the module to make CV! :open_mouth:

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#177

These are exactly the type of use cases I want to use Cold Mac for but I haven’t been able to find those inspirations for multiplicity yet… Starting with the crossfader and working out from there seems like a good starting point!

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#179

Question to folks using 2 Cold Macs, curious to know how do you use them?

Starting this new thread as I am curious how folks with 2 cold macs are using them.

This I am guessing should eventually be merged with the Cold Mac Ideas tread, but figured my post there was missed by some with 2 Cold Macs, hence the new post.

Looking forward to hearing more ideas about this!

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#180

I use them for pretty straight up uses, so having two for me is basically doubling up on the utilities that they can do ie panning, logic, wavefolding, etc., and using them as two big master CV knobs to do all kinds of things within my system, or using them to route something like a single LFO or sequence into 14 outs. Super flexible, super useful. Doesn’t necessarily have to be weird or complex.

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#181

Thanks for replying!
Curious what other modulation sources do you have in your rack?

#182

Marbles, 2 x Just Friends, Triple Sloth and Maths :slight_smile:

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#183

another serving of Cold Mac

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#184

I get a 404 without the https://www

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#185

yay mac is on the way

#187

Damn They are upping their boxing game! Great looking packaging!
Coldmac & w/

[Album] Imgur

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#188

20 characters of damn!!

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#189

I love it. Synths (and the packaging, manuals etc.) should be more fun.

The cold mac artwork reminds me of Buchla (and Madrona Labs :heart:).

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#190

Extremely beautiful. Is this a new revision of the cold mac? I don’t remember mine a fire tower on it - but maybe I didn’t look in the rush to plug it in…

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#191

Question for all you Coldmac owners.
I think mine is defective. :frowning:

Plug in LEFT and RIGHT with 2 Osc. Monitor LEFT(out) and it doesn’t fully crossfade when turning knob completely to each side. There is bleeding on 1 of the channels.

When I monitor RIGHT(out) it fully crossfades left and right without bleeding.
It should be able to fully mute yes?

#192

not an expert on this but signal bleed is par for the course w/ mannequins modules and mac in particular has a lot of variation between units (due to its complexity and MF’IN FULL ANALOGUE CIRCUITRY). best course is probably to lean into the idiosyncrasies.

also maybe try patching your oscillators into a vca that closes completely (optomix, in my system) before patching them into mac rather than after so that the bleeding signal will be at 0 most of the time anyway. for most use cases a little bleed from the other channel shouldn’t be too noticeable and using another mixer / crossfade (also optomix for me, with the panning signal into channel 1 and an inverted copy of the panning signal into channel 2, monitoring outs one + two as though they were mac L/R).

awaiting a “that’s not actually how you do it” from one of our resident sages…

good luck!

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#193

I like @yams’s suggestions. To add my own: try the same test again, but this time with a dummy cable patched into offset? I don’t know whether this will change anything, but it’s worth a try.

You could also try this: patch an offset into survey and do the same thing. See if making the offset progressively more negative will allow it to close fully. If so… not to spoil the magic, but Cold Mac has so many trimmers, so one of them could probably help you.

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