#990

This is definitely a use case I am pursuing but I’ve been taking it slowly to get there. I’m thinking a sequencer into THIS in NAV mode +/- some attenuation should get there but I haven’t tried yet - I’ve been focused on the basics for a few days lest I get lost and frustrated. Assuming a voltage takes you to a cue point (as its meant to) then the loop lengths are a factor in finding the cue points you are looking for as it says +/- 5v spans the entire tape. Interested to hear how you get on with this

#991

the manual says a trigger combined with an offset in THIS which i’ve tried, with lots of attenuation but not getting much - if the voltage spans the entire tape then i can understand why. I’ve tried triggering Cold Mac also recommended in the manual but no joy also. I had joy on euro samplers before by playing about with pulse width modulation but not tried this yet. Do you jump around Cues in Play mode or Cue mode with loop on or off? - not sure

#993

I’ve gotten this only semi-working, but not without some weirdness. For me, shifting to the next loop section via voltage causes somethine like a little pause (somthing like that) then on the next trigger, that next loop section plays. Going forwards worked better than going back.

I might give it another go today

EDIT:

I did give it a try but the w/ luck was not with me. i have two w/‘s and each one was doing that thing where it either stops playing or stops jumping to cues, or plays some strange sound. Hehe.

I’m hopfull there are firmware adjustments in the works — if they are further off than a couple of weeks though, I would really love a temp fix for adding a button combo that reboots w/ without having to cycle my whole system. It just doesnt feel right to power cycle things like the er301 repeatedly.

For now after a power cyle or two, I put the w/ work away for a while :slight_smile:

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#994

Would you mind taking a shot from the other side? I’m curious how the PCB mates with the panel… (normally threaded jacks hold the pcb to the panel, but it doesn’t seem to be the case with this design…)

#995

Does the W/ cardboard box look roughly the same as the boxes for other Mannequins modules? Mine got separated from its shipping envelope and I’m going to inquire at the post office if they’ve seen it.

#996

Control has a box shot on the product page: https://www.ctrl-mod.com/products/mannequins-w

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#997

Just noticed that the faceplate on mine has gotten quite loose - what size hex screwdriver have some of you been using to tighten those tiny, tiny screws?

EDIT: Got a new hex set and answered my own question: 0.050” :slight_smile:

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#998

I have mine in the same case (Doepfer LC6 PSU3) as my 301 and managed to blow the fuse on my first day of W/ing after dozens of power cycles.

The fuse is easily replaced but now I start each session by experimenting with W/ and once it freezes, I just ignore it and start a new patch without it. I won’t power cycle just to reboot it.

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#999

i’ve been reading about multiple issues of freezing or some nasty noise being recorded but have never had any issue with this. Its never locked up. I wonder if this is a power or case related. I have an isms case.

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#1000

I wouldn’t call it locked up, just not responding in a normal way. i’ll definitely keep an eye on it though, thanks!

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#1001

Wooo… W/ totally behaved herself in front of an audience during four short sets tonight. Granted I powered down between sets and didn’t feed THIS anything. But THAT was totally amenable to CV in live and nav modes. End of the final set, I rewound, then revisited several moments and loops from throughout the night, and it was fun and funny. What a brilliant module!

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#1002

i played tonight with w/ for a couple hours. i modulated it heavily and i don’t believe it froze. although, i’d get into modes or whatever they weren’t making sense to me, but that’s par for the course when getting a new module. i’d read the manual, but it’s just a poem.

edit: i forgot to add that i had a great time!

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#1003

W/ is absolutely creative !
Second day with it and its more simple to use a i thought.

few thing i note:

  • on one tape i have the “Data” glitch. the complete tape is full with noise. This happen after scrolling via CV though the tape. (My guess it missed a cue marker and reads sounds as data)
    Good thing is i can just recorde over it.
  • sometimes i can’t “play” the tape. Scrolling to a loop helps.
  • the beginning of the tape is more buggy…
  • deleting cue’s somehow work, not always…

overall its one of my favorite modules i bought the last two decades

thanks to all for the tips and explanations…this made the start very joyfull

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#1004

Not saying it couldn’t be power related, but I’m also using an isms, and i’ve gotten to the “unresponsive/locked” mode a few times as well as experiencing some clicky digital noises in my loops.

Mostly I’ve found the unresponsive one creeps up when I start playing w/ moving/deleting cue points. I’ve found this has only occasionally worked for me, and more often than not I’ve found that it has disorienting effects. When it stops responding it’s actually hard to tell what happened. First clue is the loop edit usually seems wrong for the action I initiated, and then I notice it’s hard to navigate (sometimes it will seem like jumping cues forward and backwards to infinity leave me in the same loop). But by the time I realize “ohh it probably did that thing again”, it’s usually a little too late to pinpoint when it actually stopped responding or what I might have done that caused this path of events. This has led me to feel less confident about cue edits and mostly put my attentions elsewhere.

Hoping they get some of those deeper issues fixed (or if it’s simply user error, perhaps some more technical walkthroughs will help). But I can safely say, used even in the “safe” capacities (for me at least, play and nav mode seem to work just as expected), I’m finding this module brings me great happiness and has tremendous creative implications on my process.

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#1005

Has anyone worked our a predictable way of scanning the tape, or a section of it, in NAV mode? I manage to get it to playback sporadically, but a looping cv - from maths, for example - doesn’t quite have the result I expect it to.

#1006

I’ve not hooked it up over the i2c and teletype, but consistent loop triggering to an outside clock/signal did seem like some of the potential w/ type offers.

WS.CUE 0 should allow you to jump regularly back to a cue point (in any mode i believe) which should allow for more predictable loops especially if you could then sync this w/ your maths or other looping cvs.

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#1007

Ah okay, brilliant. Teletype is currently somewhere in the postal system. Fingers crossed it will arrive this week. Thanks :slight_smile:

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#1008

quickly chiming in to say i’m also using isms and i occasionally experience the same issues as well

#1009

I can 100% resonate about edit/deleting cue points. In some ways W/ starts to get “messy” (or my concept). probably will be careful with it till there is a update or more infos.

#1010

W/ arrived a couple hours ago! This thing is amaaaaaazing. Thanks @Justmat for the tutorial walk-through somewhere up above. I had copied it onto an index card and can guarantee I’d have been ‘stuck looping’ without it. Got through without a hitch and have been marveling ever since.

Still not totally certain of what I’m doing with this and that, but it sure does sound nice! :heart_eyes: Now to get the hang of deleting/moving cues…

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