#156

My go to modules for ambient stuff - Mannequins

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#157

I love everything about this, really nicely done

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#158

so i got obsessed with this patch and had to have a go at it. i used cold mac to crossfade between this and a weird sax sound. love using the asynchronous lfos to modulate the vocal quality of this patch. tried to sync the lfos by ear but ya know, happy accidents are much cooler

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#159

That is absolutely wild. Thanks for this.

I just picked up a Mangrove, and will have to try this method. Was experimenting with it over the weekend and was really pleased with a lot of the cello like sounds I was getting out of it.

Now to just add a Sisters and Cold Mac, and probably another Mangrove to the setup (if and when they’re eventually back in stock).

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#160

When racking mangrove + just friends but using JF as oscillator, are there good ways of using mangrove as modulator (shaping envelopes)? Or even as modulator + vco?
I mean besides square to fm

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#162

This is from the 2x Mangrove vs Complex Osc. thread but @Galapagoose had some fun suggestions on using a Mangrove as a modulator. Cheers!

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#163

Hello, just to share with you my last patch. I’m still at the beginning to learn the Mangroves ( yes take two directly ). Here one mangrove is the bass and the other one provides additional sounds at the end. There are really great and unique ! Main voice is form Verbos HO into Three Sisters :slight_smile:

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#164

Was ever discussed without wishing to break the wonderful magic of the mannequins module, what the barrel, formant and air functions are if you would try to patch that to another voice like just friends? I am right now looking at some diy waveshapers from „fricko“ in australia and at least by description i am quite fascinated. I understand formants okay, but is barrel sth that can be described in other modules? And what makes air different from a nicely distorting vca, are there internal connections that are rather one of a kind?

Just trying to educate myself btw. I ve upmost respect and love for all of the mannequins modules

#165

Hola.

Formant might be a bit misleading as in it is not the vowel type of formant meant here.

Barrel is controlling the angle of the ramp waveform, where turned counter clockwise it does not retrigger until the end of rise is reached, thus can create subharmonics.
Formant is akin to a pulsar VCO, where you can influence the duration of the actual wave shape w/o changing the fundamental.
Air is a nicely saturating VCA with an exponential response, which makes it great for audio rate modulation.
The elements themselves are all kind of known, but the sum and combination make it a magical module.

Further reading: https://rabidelephant.com/blogs/general/mannequins-mangrove-guide

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#166
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#167

I’m guessing you may know of them, but if not, the Mannequins Technical Maps are the best module manuals I have ever seen and answer these questions: https://github.com/whimsicalraps/Mannequins-Technical-Maps/blob/master/mangrove/mangrove.md

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#168

I am also have this issue as of a few weeks ago. Any insights from you both? I am going to try inspect it and see what I can find.
I’ve had it for 2 or 3 years with no issues other than the warm up time.
I’ll remove a couple of modules from my case to see if its power related… I dont have a second case to try

#169

The issue hasn’t recurred since I reseated the boards. I have no idea what caused it!

#170

Editing in December to say that it was not a fix and I am still trying to solve the issue
Thanks reporting back that the board was slightly loose and I reseated. It didn’t seem to fix it straight away but I again left it running for a couple of hours and absolutely no drift in that time and perfect stability. Seems the board coming loose is the culprit. It would make sense given the age and the fact that I had done a little bit of traveling with it recently

#171

This is lovely. 20 characters of praise!

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#172

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I received my Mangrove today (bought on Reverb this week because I’m impatient) and this thread was a really great read. I will probably be back with questions in the (near?) future. Comments here already prepped me to be able to explore it a little.

Thanks everyone!

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#173

I’m not sure if this has been addressed here, but has anyone ever tried the back solder mod to change the fm to dc couple? I had two mangroves but realized I didn’t need two…but I’d be interested to see how this changes the sound

#174

This!
I can’t believe I have never thought of re-creating the mangrove sound with my DPO and MATHS.
It feels like I’ve unlocked yet another dimension of my shared system.

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#175

Help me :frowning:
So i have mangrove for a while and honestly bought it because im in love with every other mannequins module. The only problem with mangrove is that most of the time i get harsh and “rough” sounds this while i like more softer and “natural” sounds. Any tips for exploring mangrove softer side?

#176

dont overuse the internal Air VCA. if you modulate it with envelopes, be sure to be able to attenuate the level of modulation BEFORE reaching the Air cv in.
start with the barrel at noon position, its bipolar, the softer spot is in the middle (iirc, i sold my mangrove months ago).
go light with all modulations, use attenuators or vca’s on them before hitting barrel, air and formant cv in.
it can be an adorable soft very organic vco, no harshness if you dont want it. it can sound like a very jazzy brass source if you caress it soft enough :slight_smile:

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