#359

Poor audio quality as I didn’t really feel like getting proper video and audio recorded but really pleased with this simple patch I’ve got. I’m REALLY learning to love the Color knob quite a bit. The variation you can get out of this is nuts and having what ultimately plays like a full stereo voice is fantastic.

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#360

Meant to share this here the other day. I was relaxing with Mimeophon used as a voice, with nothing patched to the input and came out with this (some post-Mimeophon delay and reverb from Magneto).

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#361

I quite like the module, but 2 things annoy me very much to the point of considering getting rid of it :

  • Toggle behavior of the “Hold” function. A momentary control with external CV would better suit my needs (maybe an optional setting ?)
  • Repeats becoming start point when hold, grabbing the current state of the knob. Meaning that you can’t really make loops on the fly because when you come from a delay use and loop the buffer, it doesn’t loop where you hit “hold”.
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#362

I hope that they have a way to customize it a bit yourself like morphagene. I am sure they will at some point fingers crossed.

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#363

i’ll be surprised if we don’t see a firmware update with a lot of these included (toggle & buffer clear, at least) since they did a great job of incorporating user feedback into the updates for morphagene.

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#364

My preference would be for the hold button being a toggle, but the gate input to be momentary.

I agree about Repeats… I’d prefer it does nothing during hold. I commonly find myself wanting to switch smoothly from high feedback into hold, and that’s not quite what happens.

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#365

Morphagene has a text file to adjust. I can’t imagine Mimeophon being anywhere near as customizable without many permutations of the firmware being created.

Unrelated: I recently placed Mimeophon before the VCA in the chain and found the results delightful. It turned the two final outs on my Cš-L into a smeary, but controlled, organ-like voice.

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#366

Same preference for the hold parameter.

#367

OP-1 is exactly this. Max 6 minutes tape time on normal speed, but you can get more time by slowing down tape speed.

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#368

Here’s a little IG post I made doing some Karplus Strong type stuff. Also, removed the impulse and it plays like a guitar with an eBow kinda!

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#369

I’ve had mine for about a week now, though have been musically busy with a live soundtrack for a dance and audiovisual performance so haven’t explored too thoroughly just yet.

My impressions so far:

If anything, I was expecting it tobe able to be more aggressive sounding. It can do some wild sound but I was thinking it would be a bit more snarly like the Erbe Verb can be. Not necessarily a bad thing (especially for me, who fancies ambient tones), but good to note.

After having a 4ms Dual Looping Delay I was a little disappointed in the lack of sync divisions for creating polyrhythms. You can still get some decent rhythmic stuff going, but it’s not as flexible in this way as I would have hoped! Perhaps being able to change what divisions the rate knob selects could be something else that could be a user-defined option, a la Morphagene settings? I’d love something like being able to turn left from noon for odd or prime number divisions, and turn right for even numbers.

It’s a super playable module, and I think this combined with some modulation is where it really shines. I can already see myself using it a lot for build ups, tonal/dimensional shifts, and more subtle uses that will bring a lot of dynamic to performances. I love having a stereo delay that has one-knob-per-function and can change very quickly yet smoothly in sound from one thing to the next. It feels like you have a lot if of control, and while it’s not always easy to get the sounds you want, I think getting to know it’s character and limitations will help you get what you want out of it easy enough.

It works really well as something to bring a sense of room tone to a patch, and doesn’t have to be doing anything obvious to bring some lovely colour and glue to a mix.

It’s a very hyped module and there’s a good chance we’ll become familiar with its sounds and will hear it a lot over the next few years, but it is also very flexible, fun, and sounds great. I like it a lot, and it fills a hole in my system in a way that I was hoping to do so for a long while. There’s a lot to play with there for creative synthesists.

Here’s a patch with it being fed two Mangroves and an Akemie’s Castle through Sisters/QMMG and an Erbe Verb, which shows how it creates a lovely sense of space, dimension, tone and an acoustic quality (though Erbe Verb helps a lot with the latter). The bass in this is STO through LxD and Optomix then Intellijel Digiverb.

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#370

Yeah this is my only gripe too, the looping is not very straighforward. I need to play around with it more, but I couldn’t even find the setting that when synced to clock would loop at exactly 8 or 4 bars or something like that.

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#371

I don’t mind the toggle option myself, that’s how I typically use my DLD (I think that DLD has the option to switch between toggle/momentary and I have always just kept it toggling).

But the repeats immediately jumping to a hard to anticipate place in the buffer because of the setting on the repeat knob makes very little senes to me and makes it pretty hard to loop anything which wasn’t just a happy accident. That being said, I’ve had some pretty awesome happy accidents, but I’d appreciate if this was an option not the workflow.

An additional issue in my experience w/ hold is that w/ the delay in clocked mode, the delays follow really close to the beat, but when hold is engaged it appears to switch to mildly off the synced delay time, and then seems to phase out of time w/ the clock. This seems to also be apparent when I send the rate output to trigger a percussion sound with hold off I get a steady clock, and w/ hold engaged it seems to stutter and phase off the clock.

Not sure if I’m potentially missing something here, but it hasn’t felt like an intuitive workflow (I’ve checked several times that skew is set to off and double clicked again to clear any skew setting. And Nothing is patched to repeat)

All that aside, the sounds are really very satisfying, I’ve just placed it after my DLD sending plaits/mangrove loops into lovely stereofied shifting delays. Where I find the DLD to be a very intuitive loop machine, Mimeo’s charm seems to be the ease of it’s skewed stereo delays. I’ve always found myself too drawn to the possibility of 2 longer loops in the DLD to experiment much w/ running synced stereo delays. This both seems both easier and more immediately encouraged given the layout/features of the Mimeo.

I appreciate both of their perspectives, but would love it if the mimeo could be mildly updated to refine it’s hold/loop procedure.

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#372

Yeah I’m experiencing this too, but I also noticed that the hold button doesn’t seem to hold what’s actually in the full buffer but a truncated version, even when its clocked. For example, if I turn the Feedback all the way up momentarily, that performs a hold that seems to be a complete picture of what’s in the buffer, ie everything between the pulses from the incoming clock. But when I press the hold button it seems to shorten it up.

I really just want to be able to precisely loop and hold something to a clock and be able to choose how long it is, for example a 4 bar segment, 8 bar, etc…

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#373

Look at this though:

They’ve managed to get stuff in time but they aren’t using the ‘hold’ button, the feedback is maxed out. Hmmm.

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#374

This is exactly how I’ve been doing it. I’m surprised everyone is having a hard time using it as a looper. It’s pretty simple.

#375

I guess logic would tell you that the hold button would function as a viable way to loop, whereas cranking the feedback doesn’t make as much sense.
Ill try this tonight.

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#376

Yeah, usually cranking the feedback on a delay results in self oscillation. I gotta try the looper thing too.

#377

Tried this more last night… Yeah cranking the feedback makes it go into runaway oscillation, that’s not best solution. I was reading the manual last night and I forgot that the feedback adjusts the start point when in hold mode, i wish you could decouple that function.

#378

That’s a pretty smart way to handle it. I wish every delay would do that since the feedback knob otherwise becomes useless when the delay line is in hold mode. Sweeping the start point of a hold loop can open up a lot of possibilities.

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