#762

Alerted this afternoon that the label was printed for order #1544, no indication of the actual shipping date or estimated delivery but still good to receive any update. Was a single W/ without slashes for anyone keeping track.

#764

Thanks @Starthief. I thought I had it working that way earlier but then the module froze and I couldn’t be sure. It makes sense but I had lost confidence in the procedure by that point!

#765

Awesome. I’m only 10 away, so hopefully I’ll get a confirmation soon!

#766

I still have issues with it locking up when changing tape. And sometimes it gets stuck in one part of the tape with the white loop light on but can’t navigate away…

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#767

Can’t wait for tt commands for resetting THIS and THAT when I get confused after unplugging things and/or switching modes. Also to make delay presets.

#768

Reposting something I just wrote for the confused over at MW:

Easy ways to get results:

Looping delay:

  1. Go into live mode (playing).
  2. Make sure looping is turned OFF.
  3. Make sure you have a sound source connected.
  4. Hit RECORD + DOWN (this overwrites any junk that might have been on the tape).
  5. Push DOWN to start a loop point… wait for however long you want the tape loop delay to be, and push UP.
  6. Plug in a negative voltage offset from a controller into THAT.
  7. Hit RECORD. Play stuff into the input.
  8. Adjust your offset to adjust the wet/dry and “feedback” in your loop – the lower the voltage, the more of the recorded audio will be removed on each pass; at 0V it just stacks everything.
  9. If you want to, patch a gate into THIS to punch in and out.

Jam with that a while.

Something else to try:
10. (Optional) remove or silence your input.
11. Hit PLAY to go into Nav mode.
12. Control the tape speed and direction with your offset in THAT.

And something else (it’s a sampler!)
13. Hold LOOP+RECORD to go into Cue mode.
14. Hold down PLAY to play back your loop. When you let go, it stops. When you hit it again, it resets and plays from the start of your loop.
15. You can shorten the loop by using PLAY or UP/DOWN to position the tape, and then hitting REC to add a new cue point. Try shortening it so it’s just one note that can loop smoothly.
16. (optional) You can navigate to other cue points with LOOP+UP or LOOP+DOWN. Note that if you’re in the midst of a loop (you just hit PLAY to preview it), the first LOOP+DOWN goes to the beginning of the loop, and the second LOOP+DOWN goes to the previous loop if there is one.
17. Plug a gate into THIS and a pitch CV into THAT. It’s a sampler!

(Step 17 may be tricky if your gate has any offset at all when low… detection can be a bit weird. It’s also supposed to play the loop as a one-shot with a trigger but I haven’t been able to consistently make that work.)

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W/ Firmware Update (v1.2.1)
Modular on the spot: san diego 12/2/18
#769

Awesome! Maybe now I’ll be able to figure cue mode out

#770

thank you! this helped greatly and i am able to record as well as overdub and overwrite now. still some other weirdness going on that makes me have to reboot after some time. could be a bug or user error but happy to be getting sounds out of now :grinning:

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#771

Not sure why, but I’ve been running into issues while trying to loop

In live mode: I press down to place a cue, but when I hit up it doesn’t loop. Reboots work, but it is a bit of a pain to constantly reboot while trying to work on a patch. Lost my sequence in O&C because I forgot to save.

#772

@Oneven Definitely getting similar behaviour on mine.

When it’s all working it’s great but occasionally it behaves like you’ve described and only a reboot fixes it.

#773

My w// shipped. Looking forward to joining the party next week!

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#774

After not having much chance to turn on the rack this week (grinding out a hep-th paper appearing on Monday), I sat down for an hour or so and patched up a fun example of some noise inspired application of W/:

I had Cold Mac controlling This from the Or out using Maths EOR and EOC and THAT from the Right out with no input and CH1 of Maths controlling Survey. Maths CH1 was also controlling Mangrove’s AIR. Mangrove’s Formant out went into Three Sisters All input and the Square out went in to FM with a negative bias. Throughout I played with kicking W/ out of Live and into Nav while recording was engaged or pitching Live down as much as possible to get some wild pitched up playback.

The end result brought to mind elements from Black Dice tracks like “Treetops” or “Night Flight”. Enjoy.

https://soundcloud.com/brandon-robinson-205/wcreature-comfort

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#775

Apologies to those that haven’t yet received their modules. We did not anticipate anything like this level of support. Your patience is not assumed yet greatly appreciated. We got a large batch of modules out the door today, and hoping to complete our direct orders this coming monday.

In the meantime, here’s the initial W/ Type implementation details, with a requisite custom-teletype firmware. I’ll be sending a PR for that code over the weekend.

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#776

thanks for the update, and for all the hard work you’ve put in this week. haven’t gotten mine yet, but happy to have ordered from and supported you directly!

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#778

How to address individual W/s?

(So excited)

edit: On second read, this is already very deep.

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#779

Given that we can also connect Teletype’s CV outs to W/'s THIS, THAT and IN…

I believe it is now theoretically possible, using a Teletype, 2 x W/s and a bunch of patch cables, to have the first W/ reprogram the second W/s firmware via Rule 110, such that the second W/ becomes self-aware.

@galapagoose, please tell us the key combo for Delete All Tape before it is too late!

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#780

That seems like a great start for commands, and a good approach to implementation. I had a few immediate suggestions and then realized they weren’t strictly necessary, when combining a tiny amount of manual prep work with these commands plus CV control. :ok_hand:

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#781

So glad it helped! It’s fun to start figuring this module out, so much potential. I’ve had weird issues too where I need to reboot if I overdub too much, think it might be overdrawing and locking up or something.

#782

Mine just seems straight up broken at this point. The bugs and crashes I’m experiencing are so erratic and frequent I can’t even keep track of them. I can’t even accomplish a simple loop. I just started rewinding and eventually found this sound that I definitely did not record:

“https://www.dropbox.com/s/u40s9526kwguyfz/With%20Noise.wav?dl=0”

I keep rewinding and it never seems to end. I also can’t record over it. Anyone else encounter this?

Here is an incomplete list of other problems I’ve been having:

  • Hitting record, the record light goes on, yet nothing gets recorded.
  • Hitting play and the light doesn’t go on and nothing plays. Cant enter Live mode. I can hear a clicking sound every time I hit the play button.
  • Getting stuck in a loop and unable to record over it, fast forward past it, or skip to the next cue.
  • In Nav mode I hold down or up and nothing happens. Left yellow light above loop goes on
  • Crashing every time I try to switch a tape.
  • Crashing a lot in Global mode.
  • Hitting down while in Nav mode caused a crash.
  • Cant exit Live mode by hitting play. Light stays on.
  • Hit play and it just stops at a cue point. Loop lights going crazy.
  • When loop is off I hit play and it just stops at what i think is a cue point. Then I can’t engage play again.

I ended up emailing @Galapagoose about all of this. I really just want to know if I have as broken module on my hands.

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#783

As someone who missed the first wave, @Galapagoose or @izzy do you have a sense when you’ll have stock again?