#3

does the reset input on Ansible get you what you want?

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#4

Ooooh… that’s a good idea! I’m already using Teletype to clock Kria, so I could rig up a gate to reset specific channels.

I’ll give this a go (away from the modular at the moment!), but I guess it’ll reset all the channels simultaneously, like pressing the pattern button?

I do wish there was a page where you could jump around in the loops of all the channels simultaneously by pressing buttons (kind of like MLR, I guess?).

#5

That might be an interesting thing to add to the norms version. How do you see that working? There is already the trigger page?

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#6

I could imagine it would be like the trigger page in having all four tracks simultaneously. But instead of toggling triggers, pressing a button would jump to that point on the next clock tick. The tricky thing is that within a channel, trigger/pitch/octave/duration can have different lengths and clock divisions, so it would take a bit of thought to figure out how to handle this. One possibility would be to simply disable this feature when loop sync mode was disabled. Better would be to jump to some point based on the modulo of the position in the sixteen steps across the grid. (Hope this makes sense!)

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#7

It could likely figure out what all the separate loops were up to.

Hmm i’ll Have a think. Seems like an appealing feature (this would only be on Norns - i’m Not sure I want to get into alternative ansible firmwares)

#8

If you already have teletype in the mix, you might want to check out this kria remote scene that i made. i’m not sure, but i think it will let you mostly do what you’re asking for.

it lets you move around loops using a grid ops-built interface that i think is more performance friendly for this specific purpose.

no modifier key to hold down and you can have different parameters for each track all available at the same time.

with some non-trivial elbow grease, you could modify it so that the 4 loop rows are decoupled from their corresponding tracks so that you could change multiple param loops on the same track at the same time.

would be less difficult to add reset buttons for specific params.

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#9

I just got my Grid and Ansible so please forgive this newb question. And if the answer is “read the manual” can you please tell me where in the manual to look?

Is there any way to save settings such that one could return to work on a piece at a later date, even after creating something completely different in the interim?

I’m spoiled by working with Ableton of course…

Thanks!

#10

here is the manual https://monome.org/docs/modular/ansible/

and search for ‘presets’

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#11

Also remember that you can save up to 16 patterns within a preset!

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#12

Thanks! That’s really opened my eyes to customising Kria via Teletype… lots to think about.

My main aim with the modular at the moment is to try and create an instrument that allows me to start from scratch every time. My hope is to be able to perform my live sets starting completely unpatched with the only saved “presets” being in Teletype, and building up Kria sequences on the fly. I’m not sure how easy this will be, but somehow it feels like a more appropriate approach to modular for the audience to see the whole process of creation in front of their eyes (apart from the Teletype coding, I guess… I think that would be just too hard to do completely live!). Also, I’ve started to think about what makes live music interesting (especially live electronic music), and have come to the conclusion that a lot of it is about danger - about the feeling that something might go wrong, and you’re witnessing something slightly wild and unstable. Or at least, that’s what engages me!

Of all the sequencers I’ve used, Kria seems to be the most appropriate for this, because you can get from a blank slate to highly complex patterns very very quickly!

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#13

This is my desired approach as well, although I’m not sure I can fully grok TT :nerd_face:

But the patch from scratch model is profoundly inspiring as a very long time improviser…

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#14

Kria on Ansible question. I’m very new to Grid and Ansible, just slowly working through the “manual”. I don’t seem to be able to get the Duration parameter to change anything. Is that normal?

#15

I think it should change the length of the gate without changing the timing, so make sure you’re using the gate output as a gate and not a trigger?

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#16

I thought it would change the length of the note! Gate, eh? Hmmm… I guess I need to try that…

I’m not using gates much… mostly triggers to ping Optomix lpg…

What takes a gate? JF?

Thanks

#17

Duration should have some effect on the strike input but it’s pretty subtle in my experience. I usually find duration can have some expressive impact when modifying various elements (e.g. envelopes, logic gates, timbre controls) of the corresponding sequence.

#18

So does Duration affect the trigger output on Ansible rather than the CV output?

#19

Yes, it will extend the duration that the trigger output is high. This allows you to do sustained notes by passing the gate into the input of an envelope generator like maths. :slight_smile:

#20

Thanks… do you mean the signal input or the trigger input on maths? Or even the both input?

Would you then send the maths output to the cv input of a VC-1 or lpg?

I have a maths and an optomix as well as a Pittsburgh vca…

#21

twenty characters of signal input

#22

Thanks, and am I correct about the other bit?