#202

The gain staging update is a game-changer for me and the only change I’ve ever REALLY been hoping for, so very much appreciated! The morph chord ratios are an amazing bonus, will open up the module a lot beyond what became a pretty identifiable (albeit lovely) morphagene sound with the default ratios.

Cheers to the team and thanks for the hard work in continuing to support and develop older modules!

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#203

Is the gain setup method configurable in the settings file? I’m fine with the auto-leveling and would prefer to keep that.

#204

It’s there written guide of the update procedure?

#205

There’s a readme in the firmware download.

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#206

Same here. I love this sucker but now I’ll love it even more

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#207

Nice update! At 2:55, why are the reversed gene not at the same pitch as the forward ones ?

#208

Good question. The reason is that the Vari-Speed knob wasn’t in the same place as the previous cut. So the intervals are the same but they are transposed slightly.

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#209

Just finished my update and this is exactly what I was hoping for! Easy to access gain adjustment, and the lower noise floor is absolutely noticeable. Tested with Rings of course, since that was always quite annoying to get the gain adjustment right for. Many thanks to @walker & co. for getting this out there!

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#210

Okay ! Damn I feel too bad, cause I sent my MG back. The two main reasons were that :

  • I couldn’t set the proper gain for Rings
  • I didn’t like the Fifths produced with Morph clockwise.
#211

I installed the new firmware. Its nice to have easy gain adjustments like the Mimeophone. Digging that. I adjust the morph pitch to a major chord and it was quite nice just taking a simple drone and having those evolve to a chord. I like it a lot already.
One thing I noticed is that even on the lowest gain input setting of the Morphaggene, a sine wav from my complex osc, (Instruo CS-L) distorts the input. It could be the CS-L itself, I don’t know how hot its coming out. But its fixable enough with an attenuator. At least with not having auto-gain, you can get repeatable results. I never knew what was happening with the auto-gain thing. Good idea in theory, but manual is better.

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#212

I tested this on -3dB with sines from both Cs-L oscillators with SOS fully ccw and did not experience any distortion. Not sure if this was the result of my signal path out (I hit an in-the-rack mixer before my outboard).

I’m enjoying the <1 morph settings very much. I rarely cranked morph before, but fully expect to now.

#213

nice update, very welcome on both features. i do wish they’d address the ease of accessing the “green” or unity pitch setting… it’s the smallest sliver of colors on my varispeed knob and not easy to dial in.

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#214

I spoke with Tom Erbe about that, and (unfortunately) he said it can’t be changed due to the hardware design. The range of the offset for 1X playback is maddeningly narrow. The gain issue was a bigger pain, though–so this update is a major improvement.

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#215

ah, didn’t know it was unfixable… but i agree the input level thing was a more important fix…

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#216

It’s funny, I was watching the demo for the Instruo Arbhar, and the dude says something like, I think it’s extremely important to have a center detent and a way to easily get back tho they root pitch. It’s easy to criticize someone else’s build, I can’t even imagine the level of complexity that goes into designing the Morphagene, but you’d think that getting back to the root pitch would be high on the list of necessities for something that modifies pitch like this. I probably bump the pitch knob two or three times every time I sit down to patch. it’s just annoying how temperamental it is.

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#217

Really?

On the mutable modules there’s a “plateau” on octaves, making them easier to dial in. The code is in github, free for the coder at MN to look at. It’s not as good as a physical indent, but I do think it’s possible to improve the current situation.

There’s a million other things that could be done, how about “push putton and pitch will snap to octaves when turned”…

Software is magical.

NB: I sold my morphagene

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#218

that’s exactly what I was hoping for too. Something like the combination of holding a button and moving a knob all the way to the left and right and thereby returning the setting to the standard ‘green’ pitch. It’s almost like a game trying to find that tiniest amount of colour in there!

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#219

Thanks a lot for the update. I’m looking forward to trying out different morph pitches. The slight detuning from the demo video makes it feel like a whole new module already, completely different vibes are possible now. Very exciting.

#220

I suggested to lock pitch changes to octaves, but it was refused. But if quantizing a knob to semitones is possible in software, then it should be possible with the octaves.

#221

If you don’t touch the pitch and send CV in the varispeed input you can always return to the root note, right? I mean at least that’s what I always do. Am I missing something? Why are so many comments about this?

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