#345

On default settings you don’t need a trigger into play. I’m on my phone so I may be wrong about the next bit: In the blue settings when clicked (morph below about 10:30, y?), I think each clock pulse advances the slice by one gene

Edit: the default response of the play input: high signal stops playback, low signal/no input enables playback. This can be changed in the SD card options.txt.

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#346

I started trying to figure this out last night, got sleepy, and gave up. Then found this post this morning. THANK YOU!!!

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#347

It was a total PITA to figure out so I’m glad it’s been useful to some! :sweat_smile:

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#348

Heya :wave:

Im building my first complete system around a Morphagene:

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I was very inspiered by music like Tetsu Inoue and Muslimgauze, especially the blend of field recordings mixed with electronic sounds. So i thought about making a tiny sample only travel rack, which i could power with a power bank and bring with me on hikes/holidays. This is my 6th revision, and 2nd case (started out with a nifty bundle, but switched to this instead) and im slowly growing as far as funds allow. Currently its sample only, with no dedicated oscillator. The blank 1U row is a Disting MK4

Any thoughts?

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#349

Looks fun!

Maybe you need some way of mixing your mono and stereo together?

W/ might need to go on an end - for you to be able to access the buttons…

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#350

I never thought about mixing them seperatly, i usually pan the stereo outs in the mixer and use the SOS or blend from clouds to level the W/. Should i cram in a 2hp mixer or something?

Sadly there is a screw on both ends of the case, so placing the W/ besides Ears is my only option. It also barely fits the case, with only 1/4 a centimeter space to the bottom…

#351

I guess it depends on the use-case. When I see multiple outs I think of layering things together - so blending some morphagene stuff (direct) with clouds, then extra layers from W/ or Ears back in… I think more often of patching and mixing in parallel rather than series I guess…

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#352

I usually like to keep my signals in parallel as well!
but since my mixer only has 4 ins, i need to get creative with patching and combining. Its a bit of a shame since this usually cuts clouds stereo to a mono, so i thought about getting a new mixer (maybe intellijel?), but currently this is the only one that offers hands on panning and 2 stereo jack out.

#353

I mostly make beats and tend to use my modular system as one element in ableton, alongside other elements, drum racks, etc - I’ve found my favorite thing to do is pair Morphagene with the intellijel uMIDI, using the gate or trigger to the play input in Morphagene, and the pitch output to Morphagene’s slide input - sometimes paired with MI Stages for ADSR through a VCA - lets me use a midi controller to have a very flexible sample-slicer, which maybe I add more modulation to or route through effects. Maybe this is obvious but I like it!

#354

At that size I would keep it sample only. Make Morphagene the star. I would make some changes: 1) Get rid of Ears. You can input directly to Morphagene. 2) Get rid of the output module (or find a much smaller one if you need headphone output). 3) Replace Marbles with a smaller random source module. 4) To fill up all that saved hp, I really, really, like filters with MG.

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#355

You also may want some kind of voltage offset for W/. Ive not yet made the leap to 2.0 firmware, but on the older firmware the decay for looping/delays will definitely require a voltage source, and its nice to be able to dial in the amount of feedback you want with something like duatt/quadratt/triatt/etc.

Edited to say you can do that with your o_C but I’d want a dedicated module for it and o_C doesn’t put out a full -5 to +5 volts if I remember correctly (its something like -3 to +7 I think???). At any rate, I used to use o_C for a voltage source for W/, and then realized I wasn’t getting a full voltage spectrum and started using quadratt.

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#356

Thanks for the feedback!

I really do need some filters, and I thought about the possibility to cram a 2HP MMF into the tiny gab in the 3U to 1U adapter. Another random module I’ve thought about was just friends, but i find it really confusing and unintuitive…
I tested a wogglebug from a friend, but didn’t like it at all. The thing that draws me to marbles is the Turing machine style locking system and the fact that it can do all kinds of gate patterns, including the cartesian grids thing (sorry if that’s wrong). Maybe I’ll get one in a smaller size, but I don’t like fiddly tiny knobs :confused:

Ears is a hard one to get rid off, i love this thing so much. I use it more as a controller and modulation source rather than an IO. I run multed audio from the clouds or W/ into it, and use the gate and Env. Follower to modulate the audio with itself. I also like to have it control the clock inputs of marbles, making bursts every time i touch it. If i were to remove it, id need a 1U touch interface and a 2hp env. Follower

#357

Oh wow, i never knew the O_C had that. W/ is the newest thing i have, and I haven’t explored it fully. I tried using the ±5V from marbles, and I don’t know if it made some difference in sound. Does the Disting have any modes with offset? What module would you recommend for that?

#358

Just friends is not random. At it’s simplest it’s a collection of 6 LFOs or ar envelopes.

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#359

Not sure about disting but if you plan on using W/ as a delay/looper I think you’d want a dedicated module. Intellijel Duatt/Quadratt are the best candidates. There’s also triatt, maths, etc, but for a palette case I think a duatt at least would be a mandatory utility.

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#360

This may have been asked and answered some point above, but I can’t find it: does anyone have tips for figuring out the key of a morphagene splice/reel to play along with it, or, conversely, tips to fit a morphagene reel in key with the rest of a patch?

#361

I think your best bet is to tune by ear and assign the varispeed setting to track v/oct. I believe it’s changing the text file from 0 to 1.

Tuning is easier with shorter splices by turning up the gene size and focusing on a more central element of the sample.

#362

This video might be helpful:

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#363

Heres a new reel I just uploaded

These live acoustic recordings i made with a Sony PCM M10 around my house / farm in Thailand. They concentrate on the percussive hits, scrapes, cuts, frogs, insects, water wells, metal farm things, gongs, railings, fans, crushed snail shells, creaks, dogs, drips and clicks. Useful for musique concrete artists.

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#364

I’ve been closely following the thread tones of insightful information. Just to let you know if it inspires you or if someone can comment on caveats. While designing the module I changed a bit some perspective, Initially I exclusively wanted it for sound mangling, now ( that’s stills the FIRST use for this ) has evolved in to being capable of being more hybrid.

I picked up excellent recommendations from this thread regarding changing the Maths by a Delta-v, introducing a Monsoon instead of mBurst, getting rid of 2hp pluck because Plaits overlaping, and others…

That would be the system:

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Let me now your thoughts.

Thanks!