#372

It’s not DC coupled so I’m oretty sure this means it can’t record CV.

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#374

(sorry, dont’ know how to quote a post on this forum)… but, @rikrak mentioned the confusion about a long-press on REC to enter global mode… this exact thing happened to me as i was trying to make recordings, i unknowingly put myself in global mode and was thoroughly confused.

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#375

highlight the text with your cursor and a box appears with “quote” - left click that.

#376

I thought I have seen something about AC coupled but was hoping against all hope…sigh oh well

#377

thanks :slight_smile:

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#378

ooooo, this seems helpful! haven’t gotten mine yet, but this cleared some stuff up.

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#379

Thanks for the tip here! Tested this morning and this is working ok for me as well. Here’s a short example of working within the confines of a loop, manually feeding both negative + positive CV from a Triatt to THAT in order to morph between overdub and overwrite recording modes. You can hear the remnants of previous layers drifting in/out depending on what’s coming into THAT

Can’t take credit for the sounds – it’s just a bunch of beautiful Jan Jelinek/Masayoshi Fujita layers smushed together for demonstration purposes.

https://soundcloud.com/creurer/w2-1

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#380

I’m enjoying sending -4V into That to turn a previous recording into ‘worn tape’ as you Record over with new material.

Try filling the tape with white noise first.
Push that back with the -4V into That.
At the same time, record some Speech over the top.
Push it back again with -4V while Recording a new signal… etc, etc.

Very realistic old tape effect!

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#381

After adding it to a shopping basket on three or four occasions over the last few days, I finally gave in and bought one. I’ve got a gig in a little over a months time, and might see about trying to fold it into the plans.

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#382

i love this. as soon as the w/ was revealed and i read the manual, i knew it would lend itself well to sound collage / musique concrète styles.

i would love to hear more about your approach for this track. was this recorded in one take or pieced together? and clearly there was some CV and manual manipulation happening throughout?

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#383

I’ll leave it to those much better at learning and integrating new modules to explore the possibilities of playing W/ and using all of its functionality. I just wanted to get a feel for the way it sounds manipulating something basic looping through a single section (here a dumb piano sequence played from an ER-301 with Trash Tape adding a bit of hiss and flutter). Cold Mac is used to manually set the NAV playback speed to a very slow rewind of a recorded loop. The original sequence is faded in a bit in the middle for comparison (with a little TLA from Morphagene to add some spice). Nothing special; just something to add to the growing collection of explorations.

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#384

Definitely pieced together - it’s a bit of mix and wasn’t really planned in any way, but I’ll try and explain what’s going on.

Sounds

I used a radio, my phone’s voice notes, the modular itself. I was starting and stopping the recording as I was going in some cases - and occasionally re-recording the same voice note repeatedly. I would also stop recording, rewind, and then record more material over what was already there

Techniques

When recording a sound source - I found it interesting to insert a cue point with DOWN and then later press UP to start looping - I would then record more content and create a weird little loop of noise.

I really like repeatedly changing the recording speed whilst doing this.

I also like tapping the record button (or using cv) to chop an incoming sample into isolated slices. Works well with radio adverts.

The recording also includes some Morphagene that I recorded into W/. I’m finding that the two modules work really well as a pair - recording each other and passing audio back and forth allows you to stack up various fun manipulations. M gives you a lot more hands on control over what the audio is doing - but it feels a lot more like a pure looper - where as W/ feels like having a blank page, and the tools to do almost anything you want with it.

I’d love to hear about other people’s weird W/ discoveries.

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#385

Can’t believe I hadn’t found Lines till now…

Anyway, got my W/ yesterday and am glad (kinda) to see other people having problems, but I haven’t noticed anyone else seeing what I’m seeing.

I got through Izzy with a bit of work, but now I’m stuck in a mode where no audio comes out. I can see the input light blinking, I can work with the l/r/p buttons and lights turn on and off in predictable ways – just nothing is coming out of the output.

It’s entirely possible this is user error, but I’ve tried pretty much every key combo and gone back through Izzy but haven’t shaken this loose. I heard Izzy, the output works, and I heard my input, so that’s working. Just something about the mode I’m stuck in here.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Thanks

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#386

Have you tried holding down record to enter Global mode and then hitting record once more to activate monitoring?

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#387

Yes, I had exactly this. Try stopping the tape (Nav mode) then go into Global and change the tape. Then reboot.

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#388

Ah ha! This was the problem.

Of course, immediately after doing that the unit froze up and had to be rebooted. I’m not sure how to do much of anything yet, but at least I have sound coming out. Many thanks.

#389

Did you Stop the tape before entering Global mode? Mine freezes if I change tapes in Global mode WITHOUT stopping first, but not if I do.

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#390

I think that’s when I’m freezing the most.

#391

Well I couldn’t resist this either. Mannequins modules are utterly fascinating. Can’t wait to get hands on with this.

#392

Thanks to the folks who helped me get ‘monitoring’ turned on. Sound came out, and that was cool. But recording doesn’t seem to do anything, I haven’t been able to go back and listen to what I’ve heard or jump between cue points or much of anything. I did manage to get a 0.1s click that looped every 4 seconds or so, but as I mucked with it, I somehow put it back in a state where the monitoring is off and won’t come back even after multiple attempts and reboots. Sigh.

I genuinely can’t tell if I just have no idea how this is supposed to work or if it’s just buggy as hell. Has someone made a “Your first 2 minutes with W/” video? Maybe I just need to see it in action. But right now it seems like it might just have to go back in a box until a firmware update. This seems to be a bit of a QA disaster.