#36

I’m actually working on developing a couple different touch controllers that can be mounted in euro based on my experiences with Buchla controllers… currently it’s capacative touch built on a teensy but I’m also going to make an analog version that isn’t so sensitive to grounding issues. I have a couple pretty awesome prototypes but they’re not ready for the outside world yet. Maybe I can ask y’all for feedback when I’m ready?

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#37

I’d love to hear more about how you’re using midi controllers with the ocd’s

#38

Can wait to get my hands on the stereo field and feed it into rings resonator seems like it would yield some cool results

#39

Lines was one of my first modules, & totally love it. With some practice you can use it to output one-shot gates, & also is beautiful as a kind of chaotic matrix mixer for redistributing or gating multiple signals.

Also, for those that are into digital control, highly recommend building custom phone/tablet interfaces (osc or MIRA). Even just sending offsets via touch faders or more elaborate xy pad mapping with having it all under one or two hands makes controlling a bunch of lots of processes at once really fun.

#40

Sorry for the tardy reply, I’ve been travelling. Nothing too sophisticated, just using it as a voice control, so converting MIDI info to pitch, gate, velocity and routing that accordingly, so far mostly to my ER-301. Then I’ve been programming rhythm patterns and sending those as gates. I have plans to play with the polyphony options of the ocd’s and seeing what I can do with that in ER-301, but haven’t gotten there yet. So, really, just sequencing stuff. But I’m excited to play with some of the various MIDI LFO and using the CV outputs for that which apparently is a faux pas in some circles but sounds like fun to me.

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#41

i really love my mr grassi – i did it paper circuit cigarbox first, after that i bought an euro from a friend… still have both

its like 3 runglers, i use it all the time, as noise generator and modulator… :slight_smile:

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#42

Hey, do you mind sharing more details of this controller?

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#44

Bastl Sense is also very suited for touch interactions. Best results have been when I’ve paired it with a SoftPot Membrane Potentiometer, a Sharp GP2Y0A51SK0F, piezos (also works as a mic amp!) and photoresistors. Some Arduino sensors work well and others are fiddly (like a cheap heart rate pulse sensor).

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#45

they’re a passive dual force sensitive resistor box i’ve built in runs with 3.5mm/bananas or 1/4 jacks to patchably interface with modular/pedals or what have you.

#46

I just got the Verbos Mini Horse in the mail a few days ago, been really enjoying it so far. The inclusion of so many outputs is a really brilliant design choice to me. It works as many different subsets / combinations of 16n faderbank, TSNM, ADDAC304, Seaboard Block, Tetrapad, and Pressure Points, while also being totally intuitive/modeless. It also looks great.

My only downsides so far are the pressure sensitivity is a bit finicky in the lower pressure ranges, and mine at least seems to do a strange vibrato-y thing at the highest levels.

#47

I can vouch for the TSNM. It’s a fun module, though not in the same league as the Tetrapad, in terms of functionality.

Sound Machines also make the LightStrip
https://www.sound-machines.it/product/ls1lightstrip/

And LightPlane
https://www.sound-machines.it/product/lp1lightplane/

Both are quite simple, but have quite nice gesture sequencers built in.

Only the more expensive LightPlane is pressure-sensitive, but I’ve been thinking for a while that multiple LightStrips might be quite cool.

#48

There’s also the Hackme Vectr, which I guess is t really a “touch” device, but is quite interesting, in terms of gesture recording and playback, in a more “theremin-ey” way.

http://hackmeopen.com/vectr/

#49

I’ve been looking into picking one of these up but wanted to hear about the sensitivity before doing so. Do you find that it ever just doesn’t register touch at all or is it mostly just position related/minor issues? Thanks

#50

Haven’t had that problem so far.

#51

am i right in thinking you can’t turn off quantisation on tsnm?

#52

Well, the 10 pads represent discrete “note” values, so they’re inherently quantised.

You can assign your own notes to the pads, but you can’t choose voltages “between notes” on a linear 1/12 volt-per-note scale.

Pressure values (actually area, technically) aren’t added to the pitch CV output, but you could mix them externally, if you wanted to bend notes via the “c” CV output.

User manual is here

#53

yeah, that’s a dealbreaker for me. shame, it looks like a great interface!

anyone used the lifeforms touch controller? not used pittsburgh stuff before so intereted in build quality.

#54

ive kept the tetrad writing on tete and it looks pretty damn cool. But I nearly tossed it away for the TSMU

Dont suppose anyone has both that could chime in

#55

I haven’t used my TSNM for a while, as it’s a relatively wide module, and I don’t have the HPs for it, right now, sadly.

#56

I had a Tetrapad during one of its early firmware iterations. I wasn’t crazy about, probably because although more functionally consistent, I didn’t feel it was as intuitive as Pressure Points and I started patching around it.

Two years later, I’ve started to look at sequencers that can also function as macro-controllers, accepting physical action as step advancing, and have also really gotten into using Pressure Points as stored voltages in parallel with its gate output triggering other sequences forward (Tirana II and Usta) which has now brought the Tetrapad/Tete combo into consideration.

As that combo becomes more popular, I see more affordable Pressure Points/Brains combos becoming available, and wonder if the less immediate/tiny screened nature of Tete will define its usefulness again, although it is the near perfect marriage of touch interface and sequencing.