That takes my original ideas out of the picture. total shots in the dark; I wonder what boot loader mode looks like(I’m too sissy to find out at the moment) Or can you load IZZY upon startup? Im officially out of ideas now. Hopefully support saves the day!

welp. one of mine is screwed so tight that the down toggle doesn’t work and the other is so loose that it freely swings back and forth in the rack and i feel uncomfortable plugging anything into it.

I had the “Down Toggle” problem as well. After contacting service@whimsicalraps.com, I was able to send it in for repairs. I got it back today and it is working beautifully!

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I just want to take a moment to send good thoughts to @Galapagoose and @izzy. This has been a bumpy launch and there are a lot of issues that are still being worked on. I have a lot of confidence that they are working on them, and that everyone is best served by them working hard on whatever issues there are to deal with.

I understand feeling upset about purchasing something that does not work 100% as expected, or that has some issues. But, there’s been a lot of negativity towards WR in this thread, and I really don’t think that helps whatever issues there are get resolved faster.

This is a little hippy or whatever, but I wanted to say it. I hope that, if there’s any difficult or busy times happening right now, that WR understands the music and joy that they enable with their work, and that that helps carry them through.

<3

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I could not agree with this more!

Over 1000 posts and I’ve read pretty much all of them at this point. Don’t think there has been ‘a lot of negaitivity’ in this thread. Good thoughts to all at WR is a good message but just trying to keep things realistic.

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There’s been a lot of positivity too! And people doing really cool things with W/.

We could run sentiment analysis on the thread and identify percentages :slight_smile: I mostly just wanted to convey good wishes to WR.

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Seems you already ran that analysis when you said “a lot”

I’m glad @Galapagoose is taking his time working on fixing the issues. The last thing I’d want is a half baked update. We are all early adopters and yes the bugs are a pita, but I am very pleased it’s in my rack.

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Okie doke. Substitute your preferred indefinite quantity term for ‘a lot’ then, for some percentage between 0 and 100. Sorry to have offended you with ‘a lot’!

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Sorry, I really wasn’t trying to scold the thread or the community. It seems as though it came across that way, at least to @HateNames, so I’ll be mindful of that.

When I read this thread, among the discussion of the module and the helpful videos and instructions (@Starthief and @voidstar’s contributions come to mind), there has been some amount of discussion of slow shipping dates, lack of notifications, infuriating instructions (par for the course with any WR module, any of us should know better than to get frustrated at this point). Some of this is just expressed as general frustration, and some smaller amount of it (choosing my words more carefully now I hope) is actually more or less directed at WR. I have also read every post in this thread.

I mostly find myself thinking about what kinds of situations WR might find themselves in right now. It sounds like there are some construction issues that people are having trouble with (mostly around the switch) which they may have to process an enormous amount of repairs on. There are seemingly bugs which we hope are only software related.

If it were me, I’d be exhausted, and I would feel some amount of despair. It sounded like the actual response and subsequent shipping was way more than they anticipated, and that itself was a lot of work. Which is great, that’s success! But still exhausting. And now that that’s done, there’s still issues to be fixed beyond setting up a second production run.

That’s all. I wanted to send good thoughts, since I have seen both of them comment here and so at times they read this.

It was not my intention to tell anyone else what to think, nor to identify 17.8% percent of the posts in this thread as having a net negative sentiment. Since it was interpreted that way, that’s information for me to sit with and to use to better shape my posts and discourse in the future.

(Sorry folks, sorta meta, if the mods want to (re)move this it is ok by me. Back to discussing W/!)

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Ok. Got carried away, sorry for the bad vibes. I’m sure we’re on the same page here. Apologies to @xenus_dad for lack of generosity. Peace. R x

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Faith in humanity temporarily restored. Bravo.

When devices/products stir up passion and emotions among a user base it tends to be a good thing on a larger scale at the end of the day. Means they are doing something right. Easy example. Mutable.

Peace restored and all is well.

Random thought while Typing: I may just copy this whole thread to a text to speech program and record it to the W/ and mangle. Should fill up a couple hours of recording time and still leave me with 6 hours to spare :wink:

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Bonus points for rigging up reply and like counts for each post to CV levels and sending the result to THAT.

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Now we’re cookin’!!!

great! what mode is the w/ in? and patched into one? this or that?

chalkboard has been on my radar for a bit, this is another great use.

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W/ thoughts so far:

  • sounds freaking great. Rehearsed with it twice so far, and I think it makes me sound… more like myself, if that makes any sense? A loop recorder sort of literally allows you to duet with a clone, but I think it’s deeper than that.
  • installing it upside down has worked great, everything is muscle-memory-y enough that mentally reversing up and down hasn’t made learning drastically more complicated.
  • I’ve run into a lot of the same problems people have mentioned. I think a big part of the “I’m stuck and nothing is happening” is accidentally entering global mode. I can’t seem to exit global mode without a reboot. I tried to hold down record like a punch-in toggle until I realized that was the global mode shortcut.
  • similarly, crackle/noise is easy to reproduce with really hot inputs, solved for the most part by attenuating input.
  • also having a weird issue with the output being too hot(?) for my mixer, and crackling even at low mix levels. Sounds fine if I run the mixer into W/ instead. Still debugging this. (Mixer in question is the Hikari Atten-Mixer.)
  • I’m going to try to use it live at Fete Music Hall in Providence tomorrow night, miiiight try some silly stuff like controlling tape speed with a theremin.
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it’s in nav and cv is going into that. I’ve found that Beast’s Chalkboard works best plugged into ‘that’. This is better suited for triggers(in my experience. Correct me if I’m wrong)

Is it appropriate that the first thing I made with my new Whimsical Raps module is a hip hop beat? This is wildly different from what I normally do and the part I did with the w/ is fairly simple. It doesn’t appear until about 2:30 and it then plays to the end. All the drums are from layered samples of drum machines and objects I recorded. Everything else is from a single modular patch. Mos Def acappella stolen from Youtube.

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Not a cry for help yet but scratching my head about jumping cue points via cv. when i try to recreate from the tutorial video I seem to engaging and triggering the recording parameters.

awesome track @photofractal . and good choice; Mos is the man.

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