ER-301 Sound Computer

[yittabitta]

I have both and plan to keep both. Because the ER-301 is so versatile, it could help fill a Morphagene shaped hole in your setup but at the same time, it won’t do what the MG does better than the MG and with the MG, the 301 can now fill other shaped holes.

I absolutely love the MG and always want it doing MG things. So, I’m bias toward keeping a MG. For me, the 301 will always be the magic glue module, filling in spaces and bringing things together as my system grows/shrinks.

[jlmitch5]

Had a lot of fun messing around with the ultraviolet clouds clone and trash tape cassette emulators yesterday. I see that there’s quite a few other custom units shared on the orthogonal forum. Wanted to check here to see if anyone wanted to share which are your favorites or share custom units of their own here.

[lilskullymane]

I always find @mlogger’s autogen library essential study material for using the er-301 as a standalone modular environment. so many creative uses of delays, pink noise though eqs, skewed sine envs. some really cool stuff

Autogen301 - a collection of self generating custom units

[woofy]

Is there a morphagene clone made in er-301?

[kasselvania]

It’s posted not too far up above. It’s not a 1 to 1 representation by any means, but is a blast!

ER-301 Sound Computer

Sure thing - just a bit long. Happy to share with all. I should say, there probably are more efficient ways to do this, but i like setting it up this way so i can keep things clear in my head. Once set up, it kind comes down to how you want to use it. I like setting up a system of CV and then just playing live into it for exciting/unprediuctable results. Could set it up in other ways to more directly represent morphagene though. At the top level I just have a mixer. The whole unit is saved as…

[woofy]

hmmm can’t find the patcher

[kasselvania]

Oh, I don’t think anybody has saved it as a actual custom unit you could download. But someone has provided detailed instructions on how they personally achieve the results. That way, you can build it yourself and save it for later.

[woofy]

Aaah ok I was just checking for something ready for quick testing! Thanks for the info!

[kasselvania]

No problem! Give this a build tho! Following the steps will have the unit ready for you in 10 minutes at the most!

It was one of the first patches I ever built with the 301

[jlmitch5]

just set this up and yeah a ton of fun, even with just simple sine waves triggers slice and gate on the sample player.

seems to be a really interesting way of taking two differing tempo based things and meshing them (whatever is firing the sample player gate being the tempo of the new thing as that is what samples are resetting changing at, but still has the movement of the original thing)

EDIT: pretty silly cut of Khotin’s new song Your Favourite Building as what is feeding the feedback looper.

[jlmitch5]

o wow, the combo of granular/loop-y sample mangling thing into trash tape is fantastic.

on latest 0.5, I’ve got a pinging 3 sisters sample running into manual loops, manual grains, clocked doppler delay, trash tape and random modulators all over the place, and recording into the multitrack recorder…all of that and hitting 68% on CPU. pretty impressive

[hyena]

the problem is that actually there is no on board EOC or EOR outs from functions, but you can patch similar stuff with comparators etc…
you can check this custom unit i made for one such trick:

FuncGen - ADSR with End of Rise and End of Fall (pseudo) outputs

but the good news is that a new paradigm is coming to the er-301 via the still very mysterous “command bus” Brian is implementing, and it will probably allow to send events in a new and interesting way (probably including stuff like end of cycle etc…)
anyway, i’m very interested in trying to build a quantussy, will check peter b. website to grasp the functioning.
i made a functioning benjolin unit on the 301 if you wanna check something different but inherently complex:

Bengiolino - Rob Hordijk Benjolin ported\revisited :)

and here’s the rungler alone:

Rungler - custom source

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@hyena

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thanks for this! have not made a ton of progress so feel free to hop on it definitely studied a bunch of your custom patches looking for local routing practices. a quantussy is definitely something I would get a lot of mileage from in the er-301.

and I can’t imagine what crazy stuff brian has been working on this year… some of the implications of a command bus or porting max patches (from this older thread) are insane. I just hope we can record into a buffer and process it without clicks at some point though!

301 + Max/MSP (Gen~)

[joe_biomassa]

excuse me, is anybody except me experiencing problems trying to open ortho forums now? thanks

[ermina]

indeed O|D’s forum loads a blank page.

[ganders]

It’s dead, Jim!

[lleicamun]

You’re not alone… blank page

[kasselvania]

Oh no! If prices for these on reverb weren’t high enough already!

[joe_biomassa]

it’s back, thankfully!

[Whatwetalkabout]

Phew! Just about had a heart attack there.