#172

OP-1 definitely works. I mostly use my Grid with the Ansible, but I have tried the OP-1 and works great. I don’t have a Digitakt, so I can’t speak to that. Let me know if you have any specific questions about OP-1 and Ansible integration and I can try them out and let you know.

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#173

Ansible expects to be the USB midi host (like a computer).

A super quick scan of elektronauts lead me to believe that Digitakt’s USB midi port is setup as a device so there is a possibility that a direct USB connection to Ansible would work (assuming the Digitakt presents itself as a standard USB midi class device).

…if a direct USB connection didn’t work using an iConnectivity mio 1 or Roland UM-ONE mk2 and the Digitakt’s DIN MIDI ports should work just fine.

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#174

Is the Ansible primarily a midi to v/oct and gate converter? It’s tough I am a bit torn as to whether I should hold out and save for a teletype as I am super interested in grid + (some interface) with my eurorack.

The more I read the manual, I am wondering whether the teletype would be more interesting. Its somewhat unclear whether the teletype would include a superset of the functions that the ansible and the grid have together, since people can share programs written for the teletype.

#175

Yeah, for a MIDI device the Ansible just converts MIDI to gate/cv. Technically, the Grid isn’t a MIDI device, but you get similar functionality. The Grid is a super interesting controller.

As for Grid/Teletype integration, keep in mind that it’s still in beta. I haven’t played around with it yet. But even without it, I love my Teletype.

I think it depends on what you ultimately want. If you want to play your modular like a piano/keyboard, get some kind of MIDI to CV converter. If you want some other type of controller, get a Grid/Ansible. I went crazy and ordered everything all at once, but I was planning on just getting an Ansible and using it as MIDI converter. You could always do that and then get a Grid later. Again, depends on how you want to use it.

#176

Hmm yeah I just got a 1U from Intellijel for that specific functionality. So I guess I am looking for more indirect / non traditional sequencing / manupulation. Teletype has really peaked my interest but I guess since a Grid is somewhere along the horizon I am having trouble deciding between the two.

Do you have any advice when deciding between the two?

#177

For me, the Grid/Ansible is very hands-on where Teletype is more writing a set of scripts and letting them do their thing. Because of that I tend to think of Grid/Ansible as more of playing an instrument and Teletype as setting up a machine to create generative music. I mean, they can both kind of play both rolls, that’s just how I’m thinking about them right now. If money is an issue and you don’t have any of them yet, maybe go with the Teletype first. It’s less expensive than gitting both Grid and Ansible. If you have the money and want an interesting controller that you can easily - once you lean it - manipulate in real time, go with the Grid/Ansible. Of course, you could always start with Ansible and use the interesting sequencers in your OP-1 too.

#178

This Mylar Melodies video on VCAs is useful:

Also this video where he plays around with BIA:

#179

Is there any reason not to merge this thread with the New to Eurorack thread?

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#180

You just plug OP-1 into ansible and ansible translates the midi from OP-1 into cv and gate? Is there a special mode for this (is it traffic)?

Hello everyone by the way, first post! (And yes, merging with New to Eurorack thread sounds like a good idea.)

#181

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#182

The Ansible is really good about detecting what is plugged into it. When I plug in my OP-1 is automatically switches to one of the MIDI modes. Be sure to look at the documentation. There are some different polyphonic and monophonic modes. When I plug my OP-1 in the Ansible defaults to a mode that shifts the gates/cv through each pair of outputs. Usually I just want the ‘normal’ monophonic mode, so you have to hit the config button a few times.

But back to the point, the Ansible seems pretty good at autodetecting what is connected.

New to modular, feedback/suggestions on first eurorack setup?
New to modular, system advice needed
#183

just a heads up:
I closed (no new replies can be posted, but the content remains visible) New to modular, feedback/suggestions on first eurorack setup? and New to modular, system advice needed, citing this Sticky thread as the main container for this topic. merging those two threads into here would’ve been a visual nightmare, so this seemed the lowest impact solution.

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#184

Ansible MIDI/CV is fairly straightforward - the various mapping modes cover a few defaults, everything from four channels of CV+Gate to round-robin poly or one channel with Velocity/Aftertouch/Sustain/Clock/etc.

It’s very much a nice-to-have - it’s expensive for a pure MIDI-CV box and the key attraction is the grid/arc applications in it. But it makes it really nice to just whip out a midi keyboard and play my synth like… a synth. Although: not my stupid Korg Micro 37 because it has a hub in that means it doesn’t work with Ansible.

I also have a CV.OCD which is superb, and perhaps a better fit if you’re interested in applying multi-channel sequencing to the modular - four CV channels + twelve trigger channels; it works well with multi-channel sequencers, and has masses of configuration via sysex - you can spit out clocks, gates, triggers, clock divisions, CV, the works.

#185

Thank you @infovore and @jakecarter. I’ve been looking at grids and being more interested in using it with the modular than with the computer and so I started looking at Ansible. I saw that it has a midi mode with various “allocation styles” but somehow didn’t realize that meant it would understand sequencing from the OP-1.

Thanks @infovore for the CV.OCD tip. I will check it out. (But what is this “hub” you speak of in your Micro 37 which makes it not work with Ansible?)

I have one more Ansible-related question – apologies if it’s been answered elsewhere – are there other grid-applications for Ansible in addition to Kria and Meadowphysics? (Or is this where the Teletype comes in?)

#186

The Korg Microkey 37 has a two port USB hub inside it, and it basically functions as a hub with a keyboard hardwired to it. Ansible does not like hubs being plugged into it (understandably, fwiw).

There are currently only two grid apps for Ansible, yes; a third (a rework of Earthsea, if you know what that is) is reasonably far along but not finished.

#187

Thanks for this @infovore.

I kind of understand what Earthsea is (and that they have, or had, their own modules, these apps – Meadowphysics, Earthsea and White Whale – which Ansible is a kind of culmination of, if I understand it correctly, with Meadowphysics and Kria (a version or development of White Whale?) living together in it, and also in the future, I have now learned, possibly Earthsea!)

Ansible is more than I first understood.

#188

If having the same functionality as a module is interesting to you also check out this one: http://www.hexinverter.net/mutant-brain

#189

20 char of thank you @papernoise!

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#191

I’ll try to clear up some of this if I can for you.

Reset sets the LFO cycle back to zero, interrupting it. Rate of LFO does not change. Sync changes the frequency.

It has to do with the bipolar voltage that the Batumi puts out. +5 vs -5 for example. Which direction is your modulation adjusting a parameter on another module, for example.

The divisions are in relationship to the rate of the 1st slider on the left.

If you do not have an oscilloscope, do you have a MOTU interface?

#192

Hi there,

I am getting a Digitakt pretty soon and I’m hoping to sequence MIDI (on ideally more than one track).
Does anyone else use their Digitakt to sequence and if so do you have a preferred module to receive multiple midi tracks?

Thanks!