#1582

Fully responsive, nice! Thanks for doing this

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#1584

This is incredible, thanks so much for sharing!

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#1585

Thank you for offering this to the community for free! If you choose to put the repo up, folks could create PRs against it and help out instead of just demanding improvements to this amazing free thing that has been offered freely!

Making the repo public is your call of course. Again, thank you for this gift to the community!

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#1586

Yep, the repo is public. Have at it:

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#1589

I have a 2hp space in a small case and got thinking about how to use it. How durable do people feel the W/ is? Ignoring the concerns about the firmware/bugs (which seem to be ironed out?) that little toggle switch and buttons has always had me wondering ā€˜huh, I wonder when those will break?ā€™

Do people feel like itā€™s durable? Has anyone had issues with that breaking or losing responsiveness in some weird way?

Thanks for the input. :slight_smile:

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#1590

The switches and buttons feel surprisingly durable in person imo. They are very low profile. The screw at the bottom of the faceplate came loose on one of mine, but it tightened up no problem and hasnā€™t loosened since.

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#1591

so far so good! i got mine as part of the first batch, i play it regularly, and everything still feels super solid. same story about the little bolts on the faceplate, but they were easy to tighten with one of the bits included in the tool kit i got for PC repair. my module still freezes up every now and then, but thatā€™s another story.

one thing to keep in mind is that it may be a tight squeeze in a 2hp space if there are power ribbons directly adjacent to it. i was initially planning on mounting mine to the right of my 4ms row power, but had to put a spacer in between them.

#1592

w/ is actually more solid than i expected. feel very confident jamming on the rocker switch.

itā€™s a bit shallower than the other 2hp (size and brand) modules iā€™ve had but yeah definitely mount it next to something shallower if you can. also basically mount it at the edge of a row

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#1593

I will echo all on how robust the build feels. The little toggle even has a little spring loaded releif if you push in on it so that its not stressing the mount points if it gets bumped. The little tactile buttons do not stand too high and still feel nice and responsive after 6-8 months of jamming on them.

My only complaints are not with the build but with the firmware which freezes if i completely ignore w/ for too long after power up. Iā€™ll often just set a loop playing muted in the background if i intent to use w/ in a patch but not for at least 30+ min after startup. This seems like a functional workaround when i remember to do it with the most recent firmware build. The strange clicks and pops seem to be gone (unless you put them in intentionally, i rather liked their effect some times).

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#1594

Letā€™s reflect: tomorrow W/ has been out for exactly one year.

How are you feeling it? Still using it as much as you thought you would?

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#1595

It was a rocky start and I even had to send it in at one point until the guys figured out that I had a defective SD card. After getting over my poor 55 year old memory and finally getting mostly familiar with the controls Iā€™m fully in love with my W/. The speed at which I can just record something into it for nearly endless amounts of time and then send more fragments over the top makes it absolutely unique and essential for me.

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#1596

W/ is very fun and a big value add in a small case, I use it at the edge of a 54hp lunchbox and it feels super durable.

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#1597

very rocky start, which has caused me to pretty much avoid using mine altogether since I donā€™t want to integrate it into a live rig only to have it be the least reliable part of it. I am hesitant to sell them since on paper they do a lot of things Iā€™m very interested in and it seems like the firmware is getting to the point where it might be reliable enough to invest the time to fully learn it, but the learning curve / their UIā€™s (to me) near-total lack of intuitiveness is another hurdle tbh. Iā€™m hoping to update mine once Iā€™m back from this trip and spend some time figuring out a workflow with them.

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#1598

I havenā€™t found a crucial place for it in my regular process/workflow - very keen to hear how people have integrated it well. But for me it has hugely excelled in dedicated sessions recording extended passes which I have then cut up and re-sampled, building tracks from later.

Iā€™m interested to see how future developments for W/ Type will change my use of it.

#1599

364 days ago when i preordered it i said:

that was when i had roughly 3 months of euro experience under my belt; i still agree and i definitely donā€™t regret my purchase. like many of us, i have had a love-hate relationship with w/. when itā€™s working itā€™s a dream, when itā€™s not working itā€™sā€¦ not a dream. the new features weā€™ve seen (limited w/type, selector mode) have made it much more useful and fun to play for me, and iā€™m very excited for what is to come. though i have fun with it every time i play it, iā€™m nowhere close to having it ā€œfigured out.ā€ iā€™d recommend it to anyone who has at least two of the following: limited rack space, patience to learn the ins and outs of an obtuse UI and firmware, teletype, a way to get acoustic instruments into the box.

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#1600

In a similar boat as others, especially around live usage. If there was a way to clear the tape/remove cues without reboot, that would help me quite a bit (even if it was a TT command).

The depth of the module excites me and I know that thereā€™s a lot of territory to explore. Iā€™ve created some really unexpected and compelling sounds while experimenting.

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#1601

This, and the ability to add cues from TT.

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#1602

I never use mine, I cannot figure out howā€¦ at some point Iā€™m going to see if I can meet up with Alanza or another Boston lines member who know W/ well to test it out and hopefully share some insights on how to use it!

Lunch on me! :sunglasses:

Edit typo

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#1603

I am holding onto mine for the moment (have a pair), but I still find them a little frustrating to just pick up and use. This is partially also on me; I havenā€™t taken the time to develop the muscle memory needed for them to be effective. That said, I think thereā€™s something to be said for modules being somewhat self explanatory, and W/ is not that.

I think they will become SO amazing if more robust Teletype commands are developed for them, and also if they become able to be addressed independently. I understand WR are working on other things, and also most likely burned out by dealing with the launch and subsequent issues. That said, it still feels unfinished.

#1604

I donā€™t use mine terribly often. Patches tend to survive on my system for an average of a week. The fact that mode isnā€™t preserved on power cycle means I need to unpatch w/ each time, then re-patch.

My most common use case at the moment is ā€œsketch book:ā€ capturing fun little loops which fail to materialize into full songs, but which I donā€™t want to allow to evaporate altogether.

I also use it to capture Morphagene mangling (often for feeding back into Morphagene).