#252

And adding QPAS is like quadruple cheating :slight_smile:
Clearly, your partner has excellent tastes! :laughing:

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#253

Curious what matrix mixer you are using. I’m pondering either the NLC Clump or Doepfer A-138m…

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#255

I’m using the Doepfer A-138M. I especially like the option to toggle each row between attenuation and attenuversion. Although with the latter, it can be difficult to find complete silence around 12 o’clock.

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#256

Has anyone heard when Three Sisters is going to be restocked?

#257

Not sure if this include those sisters, but I’ve heard that Just Friends and Mangrove are coming in two months or so.

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#258

Thanks for info. I hope that includes Sisters, because people are selling them for $400+ on Reverb.

#259

That’s (20 characters of) crazy

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#260

whimsical’s page is now updated to say “late 2020.”

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#261

We’re having manufacturing issues, but things are moving along, slowly. If I had a firm date I would tell you, but I simply do not. I wish we could be selling these modules too!

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#262

Thank you for the update! I lucked out and got a used one off Reverb for about the same price as new but I had to replace the fuses which caused some confusion with the transaction. Worth the wait to get a new one I reckon.

#263

I love the sound of multiple 3sisters outputs through LPG’s while oscillating, this one has a little tanh3 to shape the slightly fm’d waveform on the output.

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#264

I think my SPAN is a little wonky - I can’t get the filters in unison or to spread evenly apart. Is there a calibration control/procedure for that? The Technical Map has a procedure for V/Oct calibration, but I don’t see one for SPAN.

#265

If I remember correctly, the three are never all on the same exact frequency and will usually have at least a little beating. how far off are they from unison? & what kind of weirdness are you experiencing with a sweep of the span control?

#266

It seems like LOW and HIGH are at least about a semitone off from each other when I try to tune one or the other to 1 octave from CENTRE.

#267

I think that’s within the scope of the design, it’s not really meant to be a solid 3 oscillator voice. As the manual says, only the low output is calibrated for v/oct tracking, and there’s no temperature compensation to ensure rock solid tuning stability like a more typical oscillator circuit.

#268

OK, thanks for confirming. If there was a way to calibrate or modify that (assuming it was some trimpot twists or even resistor replacements), I’d be willing to open it up and perform that. I’m a little wary about quirks in my unit than I would be otherwise because I got it secondhand, I had to perform the fuse replacement, and it also has somewhat scratchy pots.

#269

Well scratchy pots could be something worth replacing, not sure what else there might be worth checking for your specific module. I’d hit up whimsical’s support email for inquires of that nature.

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#270

I hate to put any pressure because I know the circumstances are making things exceedingly difficult, but is late 2020 still the estimate on these and Mangroves? I’ve been searching around if there’s been any discussion on the subject but haven’t seen any updates as of late.

#271

I mean 2020 really borked the supply chains, and there’s but a couple weeks left to go now, so I reckon “sometime in 2021” is a safe bet.

#272

That’s kind of what I figured, I suppose I was being a bit optimistic. Fingers crossed 2021 shows things turning around, I worry a lot about this industry with all of the slow downs, more than likely unnecessarily but :man_shrugging:t2: