#326

Posting because it feels like I have an embedded glitch on an SD card or something. Not sure and feel like I can never quite be completely sure with this little dude. But I clear tape and it comes back - same little rhythm of glitch. I switch tape and it comes back - same little rhythm of glitch. What’s wild is that when I use shift THAT to full overdub mode it gradually fades out, but then it’ll just come back shortly after. Seemingly randomly.

Any wisdom?

#327

I have the same problem. I always get lost: where on the tape am I???
So now I always have a short sample (+ cue) at beginning of tape saying ”START” or something similair. When I get lost I jump back until W/ tells me ”START”
:grinning:

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#328

I’ve encountered something similar on both my W/s while looping is engaged. In some cases I am pretty sure the glitch sound at the end of a loop was some audio elsewhere on the tape, like from the next cue point over; in other cases it is not easily recognizable as sound I recorded. When this happens I can overwrite the entire loop with silence, and hear nothing coming out of the audio output for the entire duration of the loop, but when I go back to overdubbing the blip at the end of the loop will appear again. I’ve also tried adding a cue point right before or after the sound to try to splice it out of the current loop, but I believe when I’ve tried this I was still getting the same glitch at the end of the playing loop.

#329

Could these possibly be SD card degradation? The write to card is pretty interesting and could just be ready for a change. But then again who knows

#330

the failure i had this past spring (pretty sure it’s upthread) was resolved with a new card. about a week preceding full failure W/ playback was almost constantly glitching (repeated clicks/cuts in the playback), then the module stopped responding or booting.

i get the same error @sellanraa reports on occasion, and while i have really done a lot of troubleshooting (it usually occurs when i’m in the middle of something i don’t want to put a stop to), its a repeated glitch as above for a few seconds at the start of a cue, so my big assumption is that a write error is produced under certain conditions.

i’ve got ~six months without another card failure but all our use cases are different and individual media is individual media. maybe not a super helpful contribution here but it’s what i got.

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#331

I had some nasty clicks and glitches on my W/ but it sort of went away when I formatted the card (FAT32 as suggested by WR support). The clicks still appear from time to time on looping points but it’s bearable.

I noticed that the slower the tape goes the quieter the signal gets. It would be really useful to have some kind of gain compensation/compression that correlated to the speed of tape.

Another idea popped to my head while trying to wrap my head around navigating cues. It’s probably a long shot and I have no idea if that would be possible, but an expansion module (4hp lcd or smth) which provides visual feedback for waveform, cues and current THIS/THAT modes would be super useful. And maybe an additional encoder for precise cue point movement and labeling? :thinking:
The screen would help a lot in live situation when you want to play a particular loop but are not able to go through all the loops and listen which one is which. Just looking at the cue labeling and the waveform you could tell that the right loop is ready to be played.

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#332

I have been tossing around the idea of creating some simple i2c control of w/ with the teletype and grid ops. Granted, this basically is VERY niche in that you need a teletype, an i2c bus AND a grid for the teletype grid ops, but it would add some physical buttons to the whole kit and work flow. I’ve just started to get my head around the module and teletype, so it might be a while till I get everything worked out (gonna take some time away from this stuff after my baby is born) but it’s still a fun idea and a nice companion to the whole thing.

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#333

I’d love this! 20 sweet sweet chars

#334

I believe someone made a script just like the one you are describing

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#335

Thank you for the advice!! :slight_smile:

#336

I’d be curious to see it. I had looked around and not seen anything yet. But hey! A working script is a working script!

#337

i think this is what you’re looking for

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#338

Mission Accomplished, y’all! We can pack it all in. Thanks for finding this. Would’ve been cool to make myself, but can’t complain with the dang results. Haha.

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#339

My ‘working’ W/ just exploded, like INSANE volume spike of digital noise, out of nowhere. Has anyone had this happen to them? Cleared tape seems to be working, but increasingly feeling like this module is still too buggy to rely on.

#340

OK, it’s been over 2 weeks since Trent said he’d mail me a new micro SD card, and I’ve been ignoring it while I wait, but now I noticed that that W/ isn’t even powering on like the other one. There’s a little flicker of the white light above loop and then no other lights. It doesn’t respond to signal coming in or anything.

Anyone experience that before?

Thanks!
Connor

#341

i have had 3 W/'s , one just stop working. I sold one that worked perfectly then i regretted it and bought another one it just stopped power up and also what i find is that the faceplate separates from the body and the play light stops illuminating. i was right in the middle of a project so i had to replace it but i am more than a little curios to hear other experiences too. i love what it does and it’s size but this post reminded me

#342

Yeah, I’m sort of trying to develop some work for live shows next summer and I really am having a hard time deciding if it’s going to work reliably enough. I had emailed Trent asking if he would be open to selling me some backup cards that I could take with me, just in case they had issues. Haven’t heard back in 2 weeks about that question either.

Definitely found that the form factor and ergonomics weren’t as problematic as I thought they might be. I had been having a good time with a pair of them. The reliability remains the big mystery. Given how relatively silent this thread is, perhaps most people have abandoned the module? I have no idea really.

#343

The thing I struggle with is the lack of ability to set cue points programmatically, either via CV or i2c (unless I’m missing something and that’s possible). That would make synced loops and delays more possible.

Crow was a big effort and it sounds like they just moved HQ as well. Maybe when the dust settles and there’s been sufficient rest and downtime there will be energy for further W/ development.

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#344

Mine fails regularly (as in, completely unresponsive, won’t play). At one point, I could no longer get it to function with a reboot (and nothing would work, so I couldn’t clear tape). I was certain it was bricked until I managed to get it working again by powering on as of updating firmware.

I’ve kept it racked since, when it works, it can be quite useful for its size; but I probably incorporate it into ten percent of my patches on account of the unreliability.

#345

i’ve said this privately but for the sake of the post: I really like and almost love W/. does a lot of “almost exactly” what I want a sampler/looper-ish module to do and my preference is to keep one in my rack.

upthread I reported a failure literally days before a gig. didn’t wreck the gig, didn’t cripple my patch. maybe it never happens again, but (as I also wrote upthread) we had the same failure.

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