#325

Yes, with the 301. At least the videos are thorough and well done.

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#326

The other thing that can be daunting for a newcomer is that the videos are out of date in many cases. The firmware has changed navigation and visualization quite a bit. Neil didnā€™t have to put them together and they are great though.

#327

Neil has made a couple of new (and quite fantastic) videos for the latest firmware, 0.4, the longest of which is intended for brand new users. I think heā€™s got some more in the pipeline, too! Itā€™s a nice way to get acclimated to the basics of the ER-301 while also being introduced to the latest features (like scope mode).

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#328

For what itā€™s worth I put out a request to Neil over on the O|D forum that maybe he could warm up his cat for some new meows in the background of a 0.4 focused tutorial.

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#329

Iā€™m working my way through the 0.4 videos while I graze the older ones, but theyā€™re all great. It really isnā€™t my preferred way to learn technical topics, though. (Thanks again to monome for the substantial Teletype manual.)

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#330

Iā€™m feeling the love! :blush:

Itā€™s a tricky one. At one point I was debating removing all the vids prior to .4ā€¦ but there was a lot of fun and happy accidents of discovery in some of those,

One thing to keep in mind is ALL versions share the same core fundamental workflow. So they may look slightly different, but itā€™s 95% there. I guess the takeaway with legacy videos are: any of the fun cool stuff done a year or so ago, could be done now with even more flexibility. Especially with the new direct patching of ā€˜everything is a localā€™ in 0.4.

I really do want to make more, but Iā€™m slammed with work until at least February so Iā€™m not sure if Iā€™ll have a breather before that. You never know though, when inspiration strikes I just make them on the fly! :slight_smile:

Happy Holidays!

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#331

Thanks for pointing out my devices. Itā€™s still really in development, though.
I just dropped a MaxForLive device that let you write a Midi clip into a pitch CV file. Itā€™s really promising to me. Could make whole songs in Live and just drop them in the ER-301.

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#332

I watched a lot of the 0.3 videos a few months back, and the 0.4 beginner video is much appreciated. :+1:

The view on the Locals screen seems really useful and I love the idea of freely patching stuff around in that way. Iā€™m pretty sure Iā€™ll go ahead and start with the bleeding edge version ā€“ I donā€™t have any old stuff saved that I could lose :slight_smile:

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#333

You did see the wiki manual? http://wiki.orthogonaldevices.com/index.php/ER-301

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#334

very simple track made with a lunchbox with tempi, ansible\grid, fh-1(with korg nanokontrol), some 1u tiles and the er-301 (basically doing almost everything except sequencing).

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#335

Hi. I was wondering if thereā€™s someone in the San Francisco area who can solder and who would be interested in helping me get my ER-301 up to i2c standards (and maybe help me sort out getting my 16n and TXb and Ansible hooked up). Thanks. Much appreciated.

#336

What board revision do you have?

#337

Unless Iā€™m even more clueless than I think I am, I think itā€™s 7, but Iā€™ll take a photo after dinner.

#338

PS: Yeah, itā€™s rev7. (I had a few minutes while the broccoli is steaming.)

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#339

hey there folks so I just got a 16n from Michigan Synth works, how doI use this with the ER-301? In particular I am looking to use I2C? Many thanks!

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A user's guide to i2c
#340

Hey @disquiet did you ever get this sorted?

I was TERRIFIED to do mine (also rev 7), but it ended up being alright. My wife and I had a baby right afterward, so I really havenā€™t waded too far in triggering the er301 but Iā€™ve gotten Teletype, Just friends, w/ and TXo playing together and the i2c leads to other modules didnā€™t pose too much of a problem.

Long story short, I have extra i2c leads, live in SF and an inflated sense of confidence after soldering one thing once.

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#341

I would greatly appreciate the assist. Iā€™ll shoot you a DM about meeting up. Itā€™s been eight years since I had a newborn, but I remember it well. Which is to say: foggily.

#342

Would you say that the ER 301 becomes irrelevant when using it in a system that also uses Ableton Live?
Iā€™m interested in one but Live is the base of my whole system.

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#343

Can you be more specific about why you think it would be irrelevant? Ableton can do many things. So can the ER-301.

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#344

I think it came mainly from the perspective of ER 301 as mostly a sampler/effects processor which Ableton can do and very well. Live can also do oscillator and envelopes although Iā€™d argue they donā€™t sound very nice.
I would like the ER-301 to replace a couple of oscillators/filters/env/vca on my 208hp and provide some feedback patching/effects plus saved presets which I quite need for live shows.
Something I could never figure out from the demos and sound compositions people posted on the OD forums is the sound quality of the waveforms. Do they sound (and I know this is subjective) "cheap digital) like Ableton ones do or?
Iā€™m not versed at all in the ER-301 so I just want to avoid spending close to 1k on something to find out later I couldā€™ve used something else I already had.

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