#940

wow, someone else. a watchmaker synthesist is interesting =-) am i being dramatic though about having to correct on my own the lack of thoroughness of the seller?? also not happy about them not including screws like everyone else does

#941

FWIW I’ve never once used the screws provided with a module. They’re always M3 (that I’ve noticed) and I have a skiff that takes M2.5 and a larger case that takes 4/40. All the provided screws stay in the box they came in, awaiting resale. I’d personally just as soon they not be provided.

Now if a power cable were not provided, that I would take issue with.

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#942

I was just about to say, not all cases use the same type screw so I don’t mind not having those.

#943

fair enough point taken, hopefully ill get taken care of sooner rather than later, have a nice evening everyone

#944

For anyone who runs into a similar issue, I think I fixed my down switch problem. I think the hex screws were over tightened in the sides of the module. I loosened them a tiny bit and now it works fine, no idea what caused that but I’m glad it’s fixed without any major repair!

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#945

hi! as i’ve been reading though this thread i’ve been thinking that there is so much talking about w/ but very little listening to w/. i was wondering what the heck the rest of you all are making w/ this cool new thing. this recording is obviously very unpolished, and it doesn’t really go anywhere, but it’s the coolest sound i got out of w/ tonight.

https://soundcloud.com/user-388295829/w-loop-march-28

patch notes:
dixie ii > optomix [with envelope from maths ch.1] > three sisters [little bit of mod on span and FM from pam’s new workout sine waves] > w/; little bit of reverb from Balance Teufelsberg Reverb [suggested by @beforeitwascool ]

it’s a simple sequence from SQ-1; loop in w/ is made ~half a step too short to build up this syncopated thing after around 5 plays. w/ THAT input fed a little bit of negative voltage from maths ch.3 so that each successive play is a little less prominent. shortly after this track starts, i stop the input so the ghostly marimba plays out.

i’m a newbie when it comes to polishing recordings - i know this isn’t necessarily the forum for it, but any suggestions on how to balance this out a bit would be appreciated!

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Mixing / mastering
#946

Here’s one thing I’ve done with W/ so far. Plaits in filtered noise mode, slowed way down, among other things (notes in the link). Less of a W/ study and more just using it to do what I’ve been doing recently. :slight_smile:

https://soundcloud.com/starthief/wheelhouse

There was noise in the “tape loop” which I embraced and emphasized in the mix, and a pop too which I decided to enhance rather than fighting, this time.

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#947

this is great, nice work.

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#948

can someone give me a fool proof tip, how I can delete a cue point? I don’t get it.

#949

So in cue mode; once you’ve auditioned the cue and decided, yup that’s gotta go, you then have to do go back to the start of the cue using l+up. Then press r to delete the cue.

Edit: I realised that might not be totally fool proof given that this little bugger can be slightly confusing.

From Nav mode press l and r together to get into cue mode. Scope around your cues using the l-up and l-down combinations. When you’ve alighted on one you want to delete, you have to navigate back to the start of that cue in order to delete it, as pressing play doesn’t automatically return the marker to the start of the cue. L-up to return to the start of the cue, r to delete!

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#950

Sounds gorgeous to me. Characterful. I like the artefacts and spectral movement.

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#951

Wow that was truly beautiful. Did you record that in a single take?

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#952

Hrm – Doesn’t Loop+Down go to the start of the cue (back), and Loop+Up to the next cue (forward)? I thought thats the way loop traversal operates in Nav mode too.

#953

Sorry yep absolutely too much w/ has inverted my mind

#954

thanks, that’s exactly what I did. Do the LEDs close to the rec-Button switching from yellow to white?

I’ve the feeling that the module does randomly add and deleting CUE - Points.I think the weak toggle switch is bouncing as hell and therefore and maybe it does not work correctly. I really like the concept of the module but at the moment it is useless. I’ll wait for a replacement of the switch and a bugfix for the SW :frowning:

#955

I’ve experienced similar problems to the ones you’ve described, regarding cue points mysteriously appearing. I put it down to my thick thumbs but it does all feel quite buggy in parts, lots of freezes. I’m sure these will be addressed as soon as they get around to sorting an update. Annoying though, I sympathise!

#956

We definitely need a description of the rec leds in cue mode.

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#957

Thanks! It was sort of a single take – I recorded a loop in W/ first, let it keep playing, then switched Plaits algorithms, set up everything else including most of the effects, and recorded a take.

There was some editing afterwards in Sound Forge – it originally went on longer, but I cut it off and washed it out in reverb at the new ending. And I grabbed the “pop” sound, processed it some and pasted it back in at each repetition.

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#958

Sigh.

I have Teletype and W/ talking to each other. But things are just so buggy that it’s a constant struggle to make W/ function in even basic ways. I keep running into three things:

  • Recording is active, but nothing is recorded. Requires reboot to fix.

  • Weird glitchy noises instead of whatever is supposed to be on the tape (or, maybe those weird glitchy noises got recorded somehow).

  • Crashing when attempting to change tapes – the only bug that I can point to any pattern, because it seems to be 100%. And then after rebooting I’m not even sure I’m on a new tape because of the other bugs.

When you’re just trying to make it work and reboot four times and it still fails a fifth time – especially when you’ve got a Teletype on the same power switch and “reboot” means either saving or losing what you’ve written for it – it just stops being fun and I give up.

Hoping for a firmware update with bug fixes soon, as well as the instructions on erasing tapes.

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#959

I received my W/ on Sunday but have been reluctant to start the tutorial as it seems quite apparent that there are bugs. I thought I’d read somewhere in these nearly 1000 posts that @Galapagoose was trying to update the firmware last week?

I’m thinking I should wait for steadier firmware and instructions on how to erase tapes as it seems the first steps I make with my W/ might be regretted as I can’t back out of certain steps. Did I miss something about a new date for the next firmware?