#860

General banana advice: all devices need to be connected via the ground cable. These can indeed be stacked.

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#861

Some more Ciat focussed work here:

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#862

Having an issue on my Cocoquantus with the right 1/8" audio input where I only get sound if I push a cable in about 3/4" of the way. If I push it in completely or jiggle it at all while its in part way the sound on that side cuts out.

I’ve tested with a few cables that work fine on the left side, so definitely seems to be an issue with the jack.

Found some posts on other forms from people with similar issues (not on Coco ins but on Plumbutter in’s) but the only response anyone seems to offer is “sounds like a bad jack”.

Any thoughts on a solution? Do I just need to solder on a new jack? I emailed Peter but haven’t heard back…

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#863

That’s marvelous! Love it!

#864

are you comfortable soldering?
have you ever opened up your coco?
it really isn’t too bad to get these instruments opened up especially the coco (only a few screws on the top)
I’m a solder novice for sure but it was pretty obvious that my banana jacks soldering was no longer good when I opened my plumbutter

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#865

I’m a novice myself but I’m comfortable poking around. Going to open it up and see if I can figure things out inside.

#866

Pro tip: I just figured out they’re both stereo jacks. Mono cables plugged in all the way only send sound to the left side.

I was getting sound on the right with a mono jack pushed in part way because I was hitting the right stereo input…

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#867

Thanks much appreciated. It’s all free to download if you’d like.

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#868

haha yes stereo is important here in CL land!

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#869

I have a Coco 2 since a few weeks and though I’m loving it I have the feeling that the possibilities are quite limited when manipulating recorded audio (vs. the internal OSCs). To the long term users: Is there any approach / patching / trick you only discovered after a while?

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#870

Using the grey delay outs can be really fun for audio-rate modulations elsewhere. I also find that interesting/rapid modulations of flip and skip while recording lead to beautifully fractured, almost granular textures.

Honestly, though, it’s been a long time since I’ve used the coco to sample and mangle pre-recorded sounds (though it’s still endlessly fun). My favorite approach is to use the XLR input with gain cranked to generate feedback, and then using the envelope follower from that section out to the quantussy inputs.

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#871

I really like putting passive button/switch/pressure things between coco CVs you really start to feel more in control

however that may not be what you are after

patching the black ground banana jack to inputs can be helpful (like the FM input of the sampler for low low drones)

self grey outputs into flip and skip with momentary buttons in between specifically is a blast

feedback through the XLR input is great as you have an attenuator built in

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#872

Can you explain the feedback through the xlr a little more, how you patch it up? Can’t quite get my head around what’s going on. :+1:

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#873

well if you aren’t already using the mic for something else
you can just have it on as a feedback mic

or mult an output from the back and through some cables +/or adapters get from 1/8 to XLR

then that could get patched anywhere via the white banana output through some passive attenuation it might be able to go back into the inputs

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#874

Time to revisit a previous concern I’ve had. Would someone please help me understand if my Plumbutter (2) is behaving ‘normally’. I find that the Gongues are very low in volume especially compared to the ‘snare’. If I try to patch a kick / snare combo the volume of the Gongues would have to be at 100% while the snare has to be at 25%-ish. If I remember correctly from trying PB out at Patch Point I was really impressed by the deep loud bass I got from the Gongues. But my memory could be wrong. I am running it from 12V PSU, not a battery.

#875

My Man with the Red Steam is also very loud in comparison to the Gongues. I most often don’t go past noon with any of volume controls when I use all instruments to prevent distortion when it all sums up. To give the Gongues a bit more of a boost/distortion you can add some volumes by adding cv offset to the verso on the mixer: I like to use the control outputs of the Gongues to drive the mixer cv inputs.

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#876

Thanks. Yeah I’ve considered the summing / compression to be part of my issue. Will keep laborating with different volume combinations.

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#877

mostly because it ends up being this with a lot of people but you are using stereo cables right?

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#878

Yup got that covered!

#879

When you say “chaining odd and even Rollz together before sending them to the sound circuits”, how do you to this chaining in practice?

Thanks for the PCBs by the way, I just finished Lil Sidrassi this morning and am about to start working on Rolls and Ultrasound next :slight_smile:

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