#1044

This seemed to work for me. I changed tapes first thing, and didn’t have a tape full of nasty glitches. I was able to use it pretty much as normal.

Now I wish I’d kept the “dirty” 2.2 Teletype version that has W/ Type instead of trying the 2.3 beta that doesn’t; ever since I got the idea of syncing my loop length to tempo in my head I’ve been wanting to do that :slight_smile:

I’m encountering something else I suspected, but wasn’t sure of – sometimes when overdubbing (and more rarely when overwriting), there’s a click EXACTLY on the loop point that isn’t coming from the audio signal.

If I patch a dummy cable into IN, start with a silent loop and just let it overdub a while, I get a gradually building noise floor with a sort of rapid clicky overlay – whether that’s from my PSU or if it’s emulated tape noise, or a combination, I’m not sure. But I get a definite click every time the loop resets too.

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Often the click is pretty prominent on just one or two dubs, even when recording material at a more normal level rather than just a noise floor.

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#1045

Woohoo! My w/ has finally arrived. I haven’t gotten too deep into it yet, but I’m already in love with it.

Thanks a ton to @Galapagoose, @izzy and the rest of the Mannequins crew for working so hard on this release. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for this incredible and imaginative module.

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#1046

And it gets loud and crazy after a while. Had this problem repeatedly yesterday to the extent that it was happening more often than not. I know these issues have been discussed above, but thought I’d report that in my case I have the following bugs (I have one W/):

  • Stuck in a (short) loop and no action aside from a restart fixes it. Sometimes this doesn’t work straight away

  • IN sometimes doesn’t “hear” the audio and records a loop noise and rising noise floor

I’ve checked these as best I can to try to exclude user error. I’m happy to persist to learn this thing as its the most exciting module for I’ve got and suits my style but I worry the power cycling could harm other modules and the case.

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#1047

heres a new one. i think i want another one :slight_smile:

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#1048

Very cool, thanks for posting.

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#1049

cross-post, for the curious! I’ve found that 15 minutes into a W// session with a single voice is the sweet spot for me. after rolling through small sequences of source material, it’s super fun to patch each W/ to the other through their own filters, record at different speeds, and then play back at 1x.

have had some jam-ups setting loop points or trying to edit old ones, but have also found enough joy in keeping to one set loop and overdubbing/overwriting. these things are magic. dang.

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#1050

I kept waiting for Teenage Wasteland to start … :slight_smile: Well done!

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#1051

A few days in, and I have encountered some of the same stuff that’s been mentioned upthread:

  1. Crashes on (attempting to) change tapes.
    a. One tape appeared to already be full of noise I couldn’t record over (?)

  2. Material I didn’t record suddenly blaring out after I hit play and then left the room (woooo was it loud…sent me running back in!)

  3. Occasionally getting stuck in a short loop that i may or may not have user-errored my way into

Still loving it. Having a little difficulty moving/deleting cues, but have gotten both to work on occasion.

While I am still in a somewhat confused state, decided to go full force with it and ordered a teletype :rofl:… guess I know how I’ll be spending the summer!

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#1052

I have no idea what I’m doing.

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#1053

My probs with w/ seem to have gotten a lot worse the more material I have on the ‘tape’.

Rebooting starts me at the begining of the tape, and just forwarding and/or jumping cues though 30+ mins to a clean spot seems to be enough to bug it out. I record some audio, but afterwards, I can’t play it back or hear anything from the tape most of the time.

Currently I just don’t (can’t) use it. Since I was able to use it for quite a while and record some super cool stuff, i’m reasonably confident its not user error, but its hard to tell.

Waiting patiently, but eager to get back at it! — just wanted to update my status here. :slight_smile:

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#1054

Yeah, I’m in the same boat, and I’m noticing similar behavior now that I’ve gotten a couple of hours worth of recordings on a single tape. Haven’t tried switching to another tape yet, fwiw.

Much as I love this thing, it’s kinda been put on hold over the last week. Looking forward to getting back to it soon, though!

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#1055

Part of why I welcome finding out what the command to erase the tape is… :slight_smile:

#1056

Cross post from Latest Tracks thread. I am using the looping delay set up that someone described above. (forgotten who but thanks a lot, its been wonderfully helpful)

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#1057

Well i’ve totally bricked mine again. Just recording on a new piece of tape its started crazy clipping. Then just became un-responsive. After re-boot no light nothing working. Second time this happened to me last time i managed to get back into the izzy sequence and it got he module going for me again… Not working this time. Dont know what else to do. I love this module and the concept but im seriously considering trying to send this back to the shop.

I know others are getting crazy bugs anyone else had this?

*Edit weird, i managed to get back into the tutorial again but at the end it goes dead.

#1059

Well…there’s the workflow for clearing tapes a lot of people have been waiting for :slight_smile: I wonder if that clears all of them at once, though.

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#1060

Waiting for mine to arrive - stuck in customs…but would it be possible to copy the removable flash card before using w/ to have a recoverable initial state with clean tapes to return to if some of the issues discussed in this thread occur? I know this isn’t an ideal solution…but it would provide a workaround while waiting for any firmware updates.

#1062

Why do you specify a full disk image?

#1064

Holy shit this did the trick!!! Thanks a million for telling me this i was just about to ship this back to Cymru beats!

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#1065

Fair enough, however I don’t think there are any hidden files. Just a single monster binary file that takes up very close to the entire SD card.

#1067

Is this procedure different from the one explained earlier that will just get you back to the Izzy tutorial? Hopefully this is not the only method for clearing a tape and cue points?

They should really think about implementing a easy way to clear an entire tape and all cue points, plus a way to immediately jump to the beginning of a tape so the user has some awareness of where they are on the “tape”.

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