#553

Got a new console-style mic for the Coco yesterday. Here’s a test run with all vocals

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#554

GAS for cocoquantus intensifies…

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#555

which one of Dunst, Fourses, Denum, Swoop and Sprott is analog and which is digital?

#556

All are analog.

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#557

Dunst manual says that it “computes” its randomness by sampling a stochastic waveform to mark an arbitrary voltage… so, is this a ‘literary’ description derived from software programming of a rather analog process?

#558

Sounds like a description of sample and hold. But computers can be (and were originally) analog.

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#559

Yeah, that Peter B speak for sample and hold on some sort of noise.

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#560

Some news from the Synthmall checkout aisle:

“The Quatrax Organ shall be a new device in the summer of 2019. It has 14 tunable barres and three master knobs: pitch, timbre, and chaos. Order now to get on the waitlist. Orders shall be filled in the order they were received, when it becomes available.”

Sounds pretty intense.

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#561

Crikey, sounds interesting, wonder if it will be half Triangle/Saw?

#562

Hmm, given that it looks like an update to the “organ” lineage, I wonder if there will be similar updates to the coco and plumbutter lineages as well.

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#563

That sounds so appealing! Can’t wait to see and hear it.

#564

Seems like that’s the Quatrax on the bottom shelf? I count fourteen barres and three knobs. (Slow day at work edit: Second Instagram link has some info from Peter B)

Also, Patch Point apparently had one at a demo last month

(honestly, I’m not trying to do this much detective work. I’m looking for a few IFM modules and this is a pleasant byproduct :slightly_smiling_face:)

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#565

To be honest, one of the biggest advantages of Tetrax or Sidrax is their compact nature. At least for me. So – even though I’m happy there’ll be something new from Peter B – I’m not really holding my breath or trying to figure out a way to fund the new instrument. Which is a good thing, I guess :wink:

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#566

Ah right, just looks like a double tetrax, ala the double plumbutters of the past.

#567

Apologies if this is a bit of a threadjack but I wasn’t sure it justified a thread of its own…

I’ve just ordered a Tetrax and, while I’m waiting for it, I thought I’d try and get a power supply and some banana cables.

So I’d like to ask, can anyone recommend suppliers of:

(1) a 12 volt DC power supply (@ 300ma or greater) with a tip positive, 2.1mm plug, and

(2) suitable bananas (I think they may need to be 4mm but I’m happy to be corrected on that - also, sorry but I’ve no idea how many or what length I should get)…

The catch is, I’m in the UK, so it’d be great if delivery/postage costs were less than the wallwart and cables!

Thanks in advance for any suggestions :slight_smile:

#568

You’re in luck on both counts.

Bugbrand has great power supplies that work perfectly with all of the CL stuff AND he also sells great banana cables.

He doesn’t have the power supplies listed on the page it looks like (from what I can find), but if you email him, he has plenty of them. These are the same ones that come with all the instruments from Patch Point.

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#569

Thank you so much - That’s super helpful! Much appreciated!

#570

Yes, CL is using 4mm bananas. Addition the excellent Bugbrand that @Rodrigo suggested, people also thend to like Pomona cables that are basically lab equipment and not on the cheap side of things. I personally like 4ms Glow in The Dark cables that unfortunatley are out of production for now.

As of how many - I would start with 20 for one instrument. I dont own Tetrax so I can not comment the suggested length. Probably 25cm is fine if you dont want to cross patch with other instruments.

There is also question of the colour. Most of the users tend to prefere several colours. Some, like me, prefer one colour.

Finaly, some cables have longer tip and some have shorter tip. Not sure how this affects CL machines but in some other systems the longer tip will be visible.

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#571

Thank you, Marek, that’s really useful info - especially about the tip length variations (haha - now that’s an album title in the making!).

I think one of Bugbrand’s regular packs is 20 x 25cm, so that seems like a good enough place for starting out. I’ll be self-patching it, at least to begin with, so the 25cm length should be more than enough.

Your comment on the colour preferences is interesting, I hadn’t thought about “colour-coding” the patching process. Again, as a definite noob to all of this, I’ll probably follow one of my day job mantras (I work in IT support) - “If in doubt, stick to the defaults” and take what I can get!

I do like the idea of a riot of colour going on in the patchbay, especially given the generally colourful visual aesthetic of Cl designs. Out of sheer curiosity, is there any reason you prefer to stick to a single colour for bananas? I’m not sure if I’d find it less or more confusing!

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#572

Probably raleted with some weird wiring in my brain :wink:

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