#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 ā€“ Doesnā€™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, thatā€™s exactly what I did. Do the LEDs close to the rec-Button switching from yellow to white?

Iā€™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. Iā€™ll wait for a replacement of the switch and a bugfix for the SW :frowning:

#955

Iā€™ve experienced similar problems to the ones youā€™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. Iā€™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 ā€“ 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 ā€“ it originally went on longer, but I cut it off and washed it out in reverb at the new ending. And I grabbed the ā€œpopā€ 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 itā€™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 ā€“ the only bug that I can point to any pattern, because it seems to be 100%. And then after rebooting Iā€™m not even sure Iā€™m on a new tape because of the other bugs.

When youā€™re just trying to make it work and reboot four times and it still fails a fifth time ā€“ especially when youā€™ve got a Teletype on the same power switch and ā€œrebootā€ means either saving or losing what youā€™ve written for it ā€“ 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 Iā€™d read somewhere in these nearly 1000 posts that @Galapagoose was trying to update the firmware last week?

Iā€™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 canā€™t back out of certain steps. Did I miss something about a new date for the next firmware?

#960

Yea - I received mine today. Iā€™m about an hour in and I am already feeling a little frustrated. Iā€™ve only had one glitch in the module but moreover the interface just isnā€™t clicking with me. I thought I would get the hang of it once I had it in front of me but not at all. Iā€™m trying to follow along with the written instructions but they donā€™t clearly lay out what the LED combinations mean. You are left hitting button combos hoping that you are in the right mode. I successfully created one loop but inadvertently added probably a dozen cue points in it just trying to navigate around that Iā€™m trying to get rid of. I get its attempted minimalism but Iā€™m a long way from feeling comfortable with this thing. I hate coming off negative about a release - I see the potential but in this case my limited mental faculties arenā€™t keeping up.

#961

Just my 2 cents ā€” iā€™d definitely try it, and also stick with it.

The first session is painfull, but the next one is exponentially better! The firmware being buggy doesnā€™t help, but I think its worth getting through that rough patch asap. Its a journeyā€¦ :sweat_smile:

I wouldnā€™t get too attached to anything that gets recorded though!

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#962

Nah, start playing. Itā€™s fun!

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#963

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snazzmatazz.

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#964

Cold Mac LEFT out or AND out -> THAT is very handy indeed for fading in your current playing sample loop to balance out the volume with what you are playing at the IN. Just turn the Survey knob.

heres some stuff iā€™ve been doing






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#965

Great clips! Was Earthsea controlling a vocal sample or something? I really enjoyed that sound

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#966

got caught up w/ you all yesterday. the only weird thing iā€™m encountering is occasionally i canā€™t actually record or create loops/cues, but a power cycle will fix that.

sharing my first encounters to add to the growing pool of audio examples. everything is based on mangrove sequences/layers via ansible or earthsea, using w/ as a looping delay with heavy feedback. the first clip actually uses a loop stored in the other w/ and slight cv modulation into THAT in nav mode.

https://soundcloud.com/j_t_johnson/sets/w-first-encounters

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#967

just got mine yesterday and played a bit
ā€¦i have an interface question for all of you

when PLAY is pressed, what part of the tape am i hearing?
the whole tape on a loop? or just the sound between one specific set of cue points?

does the answer depend on which mode Iā€™m in?

#968

If loop is engaged, youā€™ll hear only the sound between two cue points. If loop is off, itā€™ll play the whole tape until the end.

#969

ok rad
i really appreciate that

now iā€™ll have a better idea whats going on when navigating and recording