#262

Maybe the in-depth discussions re: merits of preordering at one place vs another would be better served in a different thread?

I already have a Magneto that covers some of the same ground, but after watching Loopop’s video, I feel like they are different enough that I would get a lot of mileage out of the two together! I used to use a Memory Man w/ Hazarai and an El Capistan together to cover totally different ground, and this is a more flexible version of the same idea.

I’m really stoked on the clips & videos trickling out that include Morphagene and QPAS! They seem to play wonderfully together, which is great since I decided on holding out for the complete Tape and Microsound Music Machine system.

I emailed Makenoise and they said it will be out late October, with more specific info like release date and price coming in about a month. Can’t wait! Already saving up.

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#263

First play with it tonight. Thing sounds great. The character reminds me of an early digital rack multi-fx unit, particularly with color farther left. Although the resolution of the zone switching and skew is way beyond an old rack unit.

I like the halo echo verb too. Even a basic patch became pretty evil.

#264

Regarding shipping and preorders, Make Noise simply ships orders out in the order that they were received. (After invoices are paid, of course.) Not knowing how various retailers’ ordering and accounting departments work, I can only assume that places like Control and Synth City getting theirs before Perfect Circuit and Control Voltage has to do with a mix of getting their orders in later down the line and UPS transit times taking a bit longer to get to the west coast.

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#265

Nope, Mimeophon is 30mm + cable, just like Morphagene. I messaged Make noise about it and they confirmed it will not fit in the regular 4ms Pods. (Unless you use spacers)
They are closer to 32mm deep - I have a Pod60, and I had to use two plastic washers to fit SSF URA in (which is 33mm deep).

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#266

Yep, it doesn’t fit in the classic, thinner pods. Thing is an absolute blast though, very versatile and hands on. Zones is a much more interesting concept / area to modulate than I expected it to be.

#267

regular delay time zones, using the bright color mostly to accentuate the hiss. smooth random modulation to uRate for warbles. really loving this module.

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#268

Very long recording of 0-coast being fed into QPAS then Mimeophon, tempo synced modulation to color and zone, euclidean gate to hold, and the 0-coast’s envelope patched to halo. Honestly just can’t get enough of this thing.

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#269

First play with the mimeophon. Time to go through the manual now :sweat_smile:

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#270

how make noise didnt send u a promo module i dont know, i almost wouldve bought it just to play all of a stroke of blue thru it <3_<3

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#271

hehe, maybe some day! :pray:

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#272

Do the little windows in the COLOR section ever light up? I don’t see them lighting up in the videos, it doesn’t say in the manual (that I’ve seen).

#273

Mine don’t but i feel like they should!

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#274

I don’t think they have LEDs behind them but I like that they let through the light from whatever other LEDs are on the neighboring module and a little of the Zone LED. Do blinking lights have any meaningful impact on power consumption? If so that could explain why QPAS and X-PAN don’t have any lights at all, since those already consume so much power.

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#275

I’m simply an enthusiast and not an electrical engineer, so I’d encourage anyone more knowledgeable to correct me if I’m wrong. As far as I know LEDs only draw a few milliamps at a few volts, meaning the power consumption is very low. You need circuits to make them behave the way you want, and that takes up space on the circuit boards. With digital modules it’s trivial to add because the microprocessors have output pins that can be used to drive LEDs, and then their behaviour can be set in software.

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#276

Spent some time with the mimeophon last night, running Rhodes through it. Lots of sweet spots. Was enjoying the longer zones for some modulated Frippertronics stuff. Looking forward to digging in some more. The only thing that I’d ask for in my brief time so far is a shortcut to clear the buffer— it would be helpful in the longer zones. (I didn’t see a way to do this, but I may have missed it?)

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#277

I find the unit less intuitive than expected, despite having consumed a lot of content and reading the manual beforehand.

It seems learnable, but figuring what to put through it and and what settings to use when doing so is an art unto itself when working with robust patch that is more than feeding it some melodic lines in isolation.

So as expected, it isn’t “a delay” and attempting to use it as such will be a mostly disappointing experience (even if it sounds good).

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#278

Having the same experience! It feels less like a delay than it does an ecosystem of which delay is but one use. Still not able to use more than one parameter at a time with a sensible result, but love the discoveries I’m making along the way.

#279

Halo and Color are really knowable, but the other controls are much more complex.

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#280

Certainly! I’m finding it best to approach it as an instrument to be learned and less like an effect to apply. Mimeophon is currently in a pod 48 with clouds, w/, CM, a mic input and a headphone out. The little case is turning out to be quite playable as a looping-smearing-repitching-livesampling-soundsmoosher

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#282

I am curious, is that because of a lack of visual representation of the buffer content and the read point? I can see that this could become problematic especially in the larger zones and that in order to get predictable results you have to keep good track of what exactly you have fed into it. Which in a complex patch can become hard to do if your focus isn’t only on the Mimeo alone all the time.

Or is there other reasons for why it doesn’t feel very intuitive?