#45

Could someone help me figure out how to use the PARAM knob as a fine tune for just friends?

#46

JF.SHIFT / PRM X
(X larger will be finer)

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#47

eg.
JF.SHIFT VV / PRM 16

This will give you fine tuning in cents.

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#48

Sweet! I was definitely over thinking it

#49

holy crap! the Practical Magic patch is crazy!

I had better results swapping the roles of Formant and Square, and liked the sound I got in sound/sustain over shape/sustain, but WOW

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#50

:revolving_hearts: ā€” can you plz share the results you got? super interested how these things live in the patches of others!

#51

So, I did in fact go back to the Practical Magic patch and decided to play around with the various ā€œtriggeredā€ modes on Just Friends to see which ones I liked the sound of. In general, formant into 6n gave a more ā€¦ tenuous sound, rather than the sustained tones from square into 6n. Definitely potato, potahtoh.

Anyway, for, like, posterity, shape/sustain was like in your video, sound/sustain and sound/transient let you play around a little more with the time and intone knobs to get different results. I think I liked sound/transient better with the square to 6n. Of the triggered run modes, I think only shift and spill will work, although I didnā€™t try the other two. For both of them you have to have run set well negative to allow fast enough retriggering.

And then, uhh, I got carried away and recorded a little thing.

So the Teletype patch is functionally the same (including cv 2 to Sistersā€™ v/8), but Mangrove is getting pitch CV from my MIDI keyboard instead of cv 1 and thereā€™s some other minor changes adding up to some aggressive, almost rave-like soundsā€¦ for 6 minutes, sorry :sweat_smile:

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#52

Going through these now and having trouble with the third study and getting a similar sequence. The voices are all just going off at the same time or very, very slightly staggered. I just want to get a rhythm like the one shown in the video. Am I missing something obvious here?

#53

Absolutely love it!!

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#54

So just got a used Teletype to use with my Just Friends and Iā€™m having zero success getting them to talk together. I have the 6 pin cable attached, red to white on each side (and have tried other cables just in case I have a bad one). But even the most basic JF.TR 1 1 command does nothing so Iā€™m getting no where with the studies.

I flashed the Teletype to the current release (it came with a recent beta OS and the prev ownerā€™s work which just got in my way while learning). My Just Friends is only weeks old from the latest batch so it should have JustType support.

Iā€™m a noob at TT but it seems to work on its own as normal as does JF. And Iā€™m not seeing anyone else with a similar issue :frowning:

Any pointers much appreciated!
Thanks
Mark

#55

So your Teletype is on 2.2? Could you share pictures of how you connected the modules? From your description, it seems like you did everything right and it should work. I canā€™t think of any source of problems other than wrong software versions or a bad connection.

#56

Hereā€™s the connection:
TT_JF-conn

And the prompt shows 8CBC031 on TT which is think is the hash for the current 2.2 code base.

Thanks so much for your help - tho it sounds like I might just be stuck. Iā€™m thinking itā€™s got to be something silly Iā€™m overlooking on my end.

#57

Follow up. I fixed the problem by loading up the current JF version JF_v3.0.5. Since my JF was from the newest batch I would assume it would be current, but who knows, maybe not. At any rate leaving this here in case anyone else gets stuck with the same problem.

Thanks!

Follow up: I wasnā€™t crazy. There was an issue. While 3.05 fixes things itā€™s not the ideal as the calibration will be off. Thereā€™s a more recent version that fixes the issue the recent batch has with TT. https://www.whimsicalraps.com/pages/jf-latest-version

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#58

i feel like iā€™ve seen something like this posted here, but i canā€™t seem to find it: has anyone made a chart that maps chords with steps for use in just type?

#59

I think @dan_derks referenced this for chords as well as this for scales. Super helpful reference not just for Just Type but for Teletype in general.

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#60

woah hell yeah!

iā€™m leaving for an off-the-grid vacation tomorrow and bringing my little system, and iā€™m planning on spending some quality time with JT. maybe a project for when i get back is mapping out various chords with C3 as 0 to take some of the mental math out of chord progressions.

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#61

I have a question about Geode, I think Iā€™m misunderstanding the relationship of JF.TICK and JF.VOX. As I understand it TICK seems to be setting the master tempo and VOX is setting a division of the clock and how many times it should repeat. Doing JF.TICK 60 and JF.VOX 1 1 -1, as expected it triggers once every second. But if I do JF.VOX 1 2 -1 it actually triggers two times a second, I would expect it being a division that it would trigger once every two seconds.

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#62

The Division sets how many times it will trigger within the period set in JF.TICK.

ie. 4 is quarter-notes, 16 is 16ths, etc

#63

Ahhh gotcha, is there a way to specify anything under 1? I tried JF.VOX 1 DIV 1 2 -1 but that didnā€™t work. Also, I noticed when I had a script that was like:

JF.VOX 1 1 -1
JF.VOX 2 2 -1
JF.VOX 3 4 -1

only the first and third outputs were triggering.

#64

Teletype uses integers only, so you canā€™t set any parameter or variable to a fraction/floating point.

As a work-around, you could set JF.TICK to half the BPM, so that JF.VOX 1 1 -1 was firing at the required frequency. Then double the Division of the other JF.VOX outputs accordingly.

Not sure why your 2nd output isnā€™t firing there.

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