#922

Thank you. Does it need to be plugged in to play or does the battery charge fully? Sorry for all the questions. I appreciate your help.

#923

The battery will charge and hold for a while. But it was likely near empty when you first got it.

You can also just run it with the usb cable plugged in.

#924

Hey i recently ordered a Shbobo from SynthMall
I have not received or heard a peep from Synth Mall for over a week.
I forgot if i heard from them when i bought the Sidrax

I was hopeful it might come before christmas for my nephew
Is this normal? i cant remember

#925

Maybe not “normal” but I recently ordered a PB2 and never heard anything for a week or so. I assume this has to do with free time and or what’s already built?

I ordered a Sidrax a few days ago and that shipped next day basically. Hope you get it before Christmas though :crossed_fingers:

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#926

Came today!!
charged and it checked it out :wink:
So much fun, has an audio in now too apparently. I wrote a max patch for it based on some work @Rodrigo made a few years back where I use max to control a fourses~ approximation is nephew will have some fun as I will showing it to him :blush:

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#927

Did you get this working yet?

#928

I talked to Peter and I’m going to ship it back for him to fix. He thinks it’s something with the power. Thanks for asking.

#929

i found a really fun patch that has audio input {wind} besides is included with the zip, anyone have some hip Fish? :slight_smile:

#930

Finished up building an attenuator box. There’s a whole lot of extra frequencies and subtleties to be mined out of the Coco, works really great on PB too. Thinking a box with mute switches would Also be cool.

Super simple and cheap to make, 4 1M Linear Alpha Pots, banana jacks and a £4 desk tidy.

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#931

hey friends - im back in the “ok im getting a c-l instrument” space and looking for some advice

context: i think im going to let go of a RYTMmk2 to finance (a chunk of) it. i have the A4mk2 and i dont think percussion plays enough of a role in my practice to necessitate both when A4 is a pretty capable drum synth in its own right.

my current (paired down from Escaping Eurorack) working setup is:
voices: microwave xt, A4, digitone
processing: handful of CBA pedals (blooper, mood, gen loss) + bastl thyme + oto bam
other: op1, pcm-d100

i seem to be mostly interested in novel exploration and happy accidents lately. ive read many people saying that coco is the best first C-L instrument, but i wonder if i would find it immediately sorta redundant/less urgent in my studio due to having a variety of idiosyncratic looping/delay options with my current hw fx board. that said, i love time-based fx and loopers and recognize that coco is not just that. still this quasi-overlap makes me wonder if pb2 would be a better first buy. but the flip of this is that im not totally sure how it slots into my practice and dont feel like i can get a handle on what it does best (beyond listening to various wonky/fun “beat science” soundclouds/youtubes). i dont see myself wanting to solely make off-kilter, vaguely percussive sketches (again though, i dont know that this is how id even use it).

clearly i need some pointers/suggestions and really any advice would be super appreciated.

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#932

I’m also feeling the Ciat pull again. I previously owned a Plumbutter (which I’m thinking of acquiring again), but my Cocoquantus has never left the desk.

I think this is key. If I’m being frank, I have to say that I tire pretty quickly of what I perceive to be one of the coco’s predominant use cases these days: adding just a little dash of 8-bit grit. The quantussy is an incredibly complex modulator/voice, and I feel the instrument truly shines when the loopers are put in service of that core.

What I personally love about the coco is that I can spend hours generating incredible textures for re-sampling later, but I could just as likely play an evolving free improv set with just it and a cheap microphone or dictaphone.

As for the pb2, I feel it requires a specific mindset, and I did sometimes struggle to coax it out of its typical patterns. Surely, that’s also a limitation of my imagination. I do have fond memories of it (those rollz and ultrasound filters), and a part of me really wants to re-invest in it, perhaps with a rolzer as companion. But that speaks to another problem: all of the ciat instruments work too well together :slight_smile:

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#933

owning both a coco (more recent) and a pb2 (for a while now), I can say that while I initially fawned over the pb for much longer, the coco sees a lot more use in stuff I would actually consider releasing / letting others hear.

if you love weird loopers (which you certainly seem to), the coco will shock and delight you.

also

i dont think percussion plays enough of a role in my practice

that’s… not all the pb does, but weirdo percussion/rhythms is what it tends to excel at, so maybe it’s not what you want/need right now?

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#934

PB may be better first buy than Coco. It’s easier to understand and control. Besides weird rhythms, it does nice drones, is a good filter for external sounds, and has the fun theremin control module. I use the Deerhorn to control how the gong filters process external sounds.

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#935

fourses1.amxd (469.1 KB)
Hi folks, here’s an M4L for use with the Shbobo, based on @Rodrigo’s awesome work, i just did some preliminary conversion to M4L, i am going to gussy it up a little over the next few weeks too.

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#936

I would mention don’t overlook the PB as a stereo filter plus everything else if offers. I spent a long time not ever bothering playing stereo audio through the gongs but it’s my main use now, the sounds out the PB support the processed audio rather than being the main event, it works great. I also agree that the CL instruments grow exponentially when combined.

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#937

aaaaand i still can’t decide lol

every time i feel set that i should start with coco i’m re-given pause to think i oughta do pb

#938

yeah PB is really a wonderful stereo processor
if you hit the AVDogs or deerhorn before you send to gongs you stilll get that wonderful movement too!
heck it can be lots of fun to don AVdog into gong into deerhorn

stereo jack into deerhorn
banana to stereo jack into gong

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#939

Totally true! To my mind though if that’s predominantly what you want it for, you’re paying quite a bit for it. Perhaps worth it to some though :slight_smile:

That said, I too have been using it mostly this way of late too. It’s cool that there’s a whole other world to explore there :slight_smile:

#940

Wow never even tried that

#941

well… decided to offload enough stuff to buy both pb and cq lol. feel like this is probably fairly common.

can anyone point me towards banana cables (and anything i should consider about them or size/quantity recommendations- this is my first experience) and power supplies?

excited :)))

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