#799

Just bought a 0-ctrl and I have a little comment to make on the design side of things.
The touchplate seems to be badly calibrated on mine, it is impossible to use at the moment and I am lucky the sequencer was started so I can use it for that. The unfortunate design part comes from the fact that the calibration trimmer is just a little to low for my screwdriver. I can see it just coming short by 1mm, it’s incredibly frustrating and feels like a detail that would trigger an obsessive movie character to dismantle his whole house (you know that kind of scene). I have ordered another screwdriver that seems to have better reach and to see if it is indeed a calibration problem. But I strongly think that either the calibration should have been better tested, or the trim should be reachable with equipment a little bit more common to the music hobbyist.

#800

With my Pressure Points and René I find they work much better if I’ve put some moisturiser on my hands, compared to when my hands are feeling dry and the touch plate responsiveness goes down to about 50%.

#801

I’ve read that the sensitivity on the 0-CTRL was much better. Anyway, I tried moisturising my hands before and it didn’t help. But thanks for the advice!

#802

This might be a simple issue with ground. I realized after replacing my monitors to new ones that were not grounded that 0-ctrl stopped working. After a lot of error searching I connected a separate ground to my eurorack case and now it’s working perfectly. Does it work stand alone with nothing attached (or even turned on, I had trouble even when my eurorack was turned on but not connected to 0-ctrl).

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#803

Incredible, that’s exactly what’s happening, it works perfectly when my eurorack is turned off and not anymore once I turn it on. Thank you so much, now I need to find a way to make those work when both are turned on :slight_smile:

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#804

I used a crocodile clip with a wire to ground on my electrical socket. Attached to a “knurlie”. Another option (which i have not tried yet) is to buy a power supply with proper ground, the Meanwell I have now has “ground lift” so it looks like it has ground (fooled me).

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#805

I will look into that, thank you!

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#807

I have grounding issues with my 0-ctrl and eurorack case as well. It is unfortunate. I have a wire attached to ground on my busboard. When I hold the wire to my skin and use the 0-ctrl it woks well. I also recalibrated mine to make it more sensitive.

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#808

has anyone had similar experiences using pressure points in a skiff accompanied by a larger euro case? i was getting lots of “stuck” touch gate responses last i had mine together, but i think it happened only when i patched between the skiff and the case.

#809

No my system is fine with a skiff with PP and brains with a main 7u MN case. It could be the cases PSU , the modules sensitivity setting , the temperature of the room vs your fingers etc. good to play around with all those factors

#810

Do you have at least 2 cables patched in? The video i watched today said that was necessary to avoid grounding issues.

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#811

Yep, it says this multiple times in the manual. Without at least 2 cables plugged in I have observed bizarre behaviors like the clock running at Ludicrous Speed.

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#812

Interesting. I didn’t know that. I do patch multiple cables pretty much always. I forgot to mention the main issue I have is with the pressure outputs. Everything else works pretty normal like.

#813

Hmmm. Only other time I came across that is when I had a cable patched into tempi external tempo when it was i2c linked with Rene v2

#814

I had serious problems with Pressure Points, to where the pads would usually activate if I licked my fingers (and kept licking them) but I had no ability to play expressively on it. My 0-Ctrl has been fantastic from day one though. This makes me wonder if all along, I could have adjusted a trimmer on Pressure Points and gotten it to work :blush:

I’ve also heard that the Microfreak’s touch keyboard and especially the pitchbend slide area have problems without proper grounding, but I’ve been able to run it off USB power with no problems.

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#815

I dunno about that. I tried pressure points in several different cases, in different locations (different power), and I never found them reliable. I seem to be a lousy conductor. Other people have no such trouble. I would love to hear 0-CTRL is different—I may want one of those next year.

#816

One of the biggest complaints of PP and Rene where the plates not being responsive due to PSU. Since then as far as im aware they tested Rene v2 on a few PSUs and seems to be better. I am assuming that due to the o ctrls own PSU it completely negates that issue. Or at least it does in most cases

#817

So far my 0-Ctrl has responded just fine. Hopefully it will continue to be reliable through the winter when my skin dries out badly.

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#818

Welp, had to order a new power supply, moving the trimmer changed nothing. The 0-CTRL is now 50 euros more expensive than planned, kind of a bummer…

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#819

sorry to hear :c Was it damaged? If so is it under some kind of warranty?