Mannequins W/ (with)

[klacke]

@T.Jervell, thanks for this info.
I look forward to the next firmware.
It is a great module.

[T.Jervell]

Yes it’s VERY easy to stumble into «un-cued» territory, so attenuating your random sounds like a good plan👍🏻

[jasper_ryder]

Edit_2: Nope. This W/ is so messed up. I hope the new firmware cures whats ailing it!

Edit: Hopefully it was a power issue. I moved the W/ to a new spot with a different ribbon. Took the SD card out/in, erased the tape, did a short session with it and it worked well. Fingers crossed it keeps on keeping on!

My W/ is working worse and worse after having it a couple weeks.

It won’t record a lot of the time. Then I erase the tape with down/record and it seems to work normally for a brief amount of time before acting screwy again. When loading a new tape it has completely shut down. I can’t seem to delete cue points at all as well.

I think my firmware is all messed about. It would be cool if the current firmware was available for reflashing perhaps.

[quixot]

This is a mess, but here’s some (very (sloppy)) w/

[guillaume]

I might be an idiot, but how have people mounted W/ in their isms? The module is just the right depth to fit, but the black plastic cap of the power cable lifts it up by a few millimeters too much

[tambouri]

@guillaume I want to say the power cord on mine wasn’t problematic w/ isms depth, but if it was I probably just swapped the cable for one that had a slimmer end cap.

It may requires you to do some extra screwing/unscrewing, but perhaps check some of your other devices to see if you have any others which use the 5x2 and have a slimmer cap. I’ve definitely needed to rearrange a few times because I had used cables w/ thicker caps on deeper modules (batumi and maybe the pico dsp wouldn’t fit w/ the caps they came with but worked fine after I traded cables), but it does seem a little weird that the one supplied by mannequins wouldn’t fit in isms.

[guillaume]

thanks! ended up removing the cap of the cable altogether and it fit snugly that way.

[Starthief]

Got to playing with W/ last night and this is what came out. The W/ loop also modulates a Double Helix, and also plays through Rings’ input. Lots of VST effects added.

[garethlyons]

Not sure if this has happened to anyone else but my with is totally un-useable now. It wont retain any recorded materiel. No matter if i clear tape, switch tape, remove and re-insert SD. It feels like ive totally managed to corrupt the SD or something like that because any time i try to record onto it it just turns into a load of distorted noise or clipping, on power cycle nothing is saved. Waiting on support just wondering if anyone else experienced this? Mine was working quite well for a while when i first got it… Now its gone haywire?

[unity2k]

I’ve had my W/ a month now and I’m yet to plug it in due to exactly these kind of reports…has anyone heard anything personally from Galapagoose about the imminent arrival of the firmware update?

[Olivier]

I’m in the same boat, even after managing to clear the tapes about a week ago - none of my recordings really take anymore. I’m not too frustrated (plenty busy with Teletype and Just Type), but definitely eager for the new firmware.

[polyoptics]

Me 3! – If I leave mine on without using it, it bugs out by itself, before I get to it.
I’m not using it now, but can’t wait to!!

[davidmoorman]

I’m in the exact same boat. I have three, and none behaves exactly as expected (or in a way that I am able to reliably reproduce behavior). I’m eager to see a firmware update soon to hopefully rule out any hardware issues or user error.

[Ravel]

And me. I imagine there’s many in the same boat… pleased to have it racked, with plenty enough goodwill to be patient, but wary of digging in properly until these bugs are squashed.

[garethlyons]

Good to hear others are having similar issues. I really want to use this module as it’s intended it started so well for me. Cymru beats have offered me a full refund I really don’t wait to send it back, some communication would be much welcomed from mannequins.

[ppqq]

This is essentially the boat I’ve been in since week 1. I reliably make very little progress before I need to power-cycle which has led me to just avoid it altogether as too much of a buzz kill.

[bushel]

is anyone here using their w/ regularly/heavily ~without~ issues? not trying to incite, just wondering.

[jasper_ryder]

Same boat here too. I sent an email last weekend but have not heard anything back yet. I’m sure they are swamped so I’m not sweating it but I really would like to use the module!

[yoyosandshoes]

I am using it daily but only in the delay looping type mode. Its the only thing that works reliably although I suspect that it is mostly user error for the issues I am having. Without suggesting that others aren’t being patient with it, I have found that being patient, repeating small steps of learning, and quiting once ahead (ie giving up for the night once an issue has arisen) has led to less and less issues and more reliability.
Having said that I have kept to basic operation because of the frustration of not knowing what is a bug and what is user error with some of the expected functionality. Eagerly awaiting the firmware update so I can dive in deeper with confidence.
EDIT: I have also discovered that a few of the things I was sure were bugs were in fact user error and patching mistakes…

[photofractal]

I’ve almost sold mine many times but I’m really trying to be patient. Once that firmware drops I’ll give it a few more months. Right now it’s just too frustrating. One funny thing that came from using the w/ is that it motivated me to start recording more real tape loops. I’ve been multi-tracking to a 1 minute tape loop and I’m loving the results. I’m employing a lot of the techniques I was trying to use on the w/.