#511

I agree that setting the rate kind of feels like a crapshoot at times. But I find it’s a bit less difficult when I’m not listening to it and don’t have previous repeats confusing matters when increasing Zone, for instance. Also I think I have this inclination to keep the Rate knob close to the center, and that’s not really necessary.

To some extent the module feels a bit “turn the knob and find out what happens” more than a delay normally does. Sometimes that leads to fun places, but sometimes it’s a little frustrating.

I really like the flavor of it, and how nicely it repeats, and the ability to go well into resonator territory and back out again. Hold is a little oddly implemented, but in a recent recording I used it to grab an ambient drone loop, set up Halo and Color to taste and then modulate Zone for some wildly different flavors. (Being able to pitch-shift the held buffer would be nice though.)

Honestly my main frustration with Mimeophon has been remembering which is the clock in and clock out… the iconography on those two is less than clear. Finally I stuck an LED jacklight into the output as a memory aid that will probably stick shortly.

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#512

I think the thing for me, as someone who owned an OG Chronoblob, is that Rate changes based on Zone. So I may have a specific division in mind that I’d want to try, but finding what I’m looking for is frustrating enough that it’s discouraging. After Halo and Color, it can be kind of hard to hear what is happening as well, and given the lack of concrete UI about what Rate is doing beyond flashes, it can be hard to feel confident about what the module is doing in a more complicated soundscape. I don’t mean to sound too negative about it, I think it makes lovely sounds.

So very much that. When I want that it’s good, but I don’t as yet know the witchcraft well enough to use it with purpose.

#513

As an OG Chronoblob owner too, it also took me a bit to figure this out, but it makes sense to me now.

First off, you gotta lock the Mimeophone to a clock for it to make sense. Ther are a lot of overlapping times happening between the zone and the rate. If you start with one zone, just above noon on the rate knob is at 1:1. Then clockwise and counter clockwise changes it to different ratios as listed in the manual. When you get your delay ratio to what you want it, try going to different zones, because they are just ratios of the zone you are in. Going either direction will increase or decrease those ratios. Why this is awesome is that you can have a pre-set base ratio and then go back and forth quickly to other zones to get something new and then flip right back to where you where at. You can also CV this in time with something like a sample and hold and get the switching in the zones to happen on a beat and create some really weird rate changes in time.

This becomes even crazier with the skew on, but just think of it now like two separate delay lines, one in each channel in a ratio that you select. If you have a mono signal coming in it sends to both sides. If you have a stereo signal coming in from something like a stereo mixer you can pan that signal across the stereo field for a combination of those different delay ratios.

My one gripe gripe about the Mimeophone is that the hold is useless, as it doesn’t lock the buffer in a way that stays in time with the clock. I still don’t get why they wouldn’t make that work that way. It just doesn’t make sense to me. It’s pointless to have a hold that doesn’t lock to what’s really in the buffer like that.

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#514

So I finally heard this elusive noise on the Mimeophone. It’s there the more you have it set dry. There seems to be almost a whoosing sound that envelopes when a sound is played.
I only heard this when I had headphones on and mistakenly had the gain staging a little out of whack going from my modular output to the mixer. As soon as I readjusted the gain stages back to where I usually set things it was unnoticeable again. I also set the gain on the unit to its lowest setting and that affected the noise as well. So, it seems the noise floor is the not the greatest but if your gains are set correctly, ie you are driving the Mimeophone with hot signals, it should be something that shouldn’t bother most people.

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#515

Hello, did anyone get to the bottom of how to do this without your module self-oscillating? I can’t seem to figure it out. Cheers

#516

What Zone are you using?

#517

I was basically copying what they do in that Control looping video, so the zone is cv’d and moving - I think I kinda have it under control, if you get the first sound in straight after you turn Repeat up full then it doesn’t give the feedback loop of white noise time to get started. Hope that makes sense. You still get some sections that are quite hissy but I don’t mind as long as they are rhythmic, got that industrial thing going on. Cheers

#518

Same problem here. Have the mimeophon and some other DSP modules on a tiptop zeus studio bus board, even with the new firmware I still get this issue on the tiptop board. From what I read on muffs it is due to the slow power-up of the +12v rail, which is perhaps even slower on mine with all of the power hungry DSP modules starting up simultaneously. If I unplug the QBit Nebulae next to it there seems to be a higher chance of booting properly. Wondering if you resolved this? Honestly I’ve been uncertain of these tiptop power boards, might be time for an upgrade. Did you have any luck resolving this issue?

#519

Hey! I just reached out to MN and they sent me a new Mimeophon before I even had time to box up my old one. Great customer service. But…not sure what the underlying issue was.

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#520

Hello, I have to admit that Mimeophon is one of my favorite module…

Here’s one of my last patch where I used it as the main sound source.

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#521

This is beautiful - the way you’ve controlled its feedback like that is so delicate. Any tips? I mostly find it ends up either silent or running away and becoming too intense when I try. (Although the tones are still lovely!)

#522

This is gorgeous! Is that a YouTube video? I’d love to subscribe and check out some more :grimacing:

#523

Octave range of the Mimeophon is pretty tight so I made some experimentation with Hermod to find the sweet range of voltages. Sometimes I have to turn down the feedback and put it at max again to have the sound again. Color and halo have also a big influence on feedback !

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#525

Hello again, hope everybody is fine. Here’s my last where Mimeophon is !
ER-301 as the main voice sound source + Mangrove and Rings.
Just friends, Zadar and Batumi for modulations and Hermod is the sequencer.

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#526

That is dope. :slightly_smiling_face:

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#527

I feel the same. I just got a Mimeophon in the day that I let a buddy borrow my Morphagene; I’m definitely champing at the bit to get my Morphagene back in the case.

#528

I’ve had my Mimeophon for a few months now and I’m generally enjoying it. Definitely very different from my DLD which is my other big Eurorack delay. I think I still prefer the DLD because it’s easier to be precise with it, but the Mimeophon is great for more experimental / exploratory stuff. Also that could just be a learning curve thing.

One question I have:
Can the trigger output on the Mimeophon really not activate the hold / flip inputs? It doesn’t seem to be able to and that’s a really limiting factor for self-patching fun.

#529

It works on mine. Are you sure you are using the trigger out, and not the clock in?

#530

I definitely get those two confused (really wish that was clearer to be honest!) but I’m pretty sure I remember trying out both because I was jamming with my band and didn’t have time to look it up when I wanted to try it.

Good to know it’s supposed to work though, I’ll try again after work. Maybe I just had the zone really high and didn’t give it long enough to actually send the trigger.

#531

I always remember it like the circles look like a clock, and the triggers look like gates on an oscilloscope display. I love the Make Noise Hieroglyphics even if they are a bit confusing sometimes.

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