#239

Looking through back through he thread looks like there has been some brief mentions of this. It was new to me though.

#240

Manual does not mention them, what do they do?

#241

actually i’ve forgotten about them recently! i was with them for a bit as a good way to pop back and forth from one T mode to something different, then back.

#242

@baleen It was exciting to find!

I use it with plaits trigger I put mostly so I never had to change the gate length before. Last night I started messing with gate lengths and found this by accident.

I love the alternate orange mode but once I get a setting I like, bias is sort of finicky and hard to change slowly. I end up getting no change at all and then suddenly throwing it into super fast multiplications on one side. Other times it works more intuitively and I’m not sure why. Have you had the same experience?

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#243

Green is the same except both gates can fire at once.

Orange is a divisions and multiplications but it doesn’t change on its own from what I can tell. You need to turn the bias knob. And the ratios are different that the normal orange. More interesting to me that the normal orange mode. Someone else might have a better explanation of how they are different.

Red, I’m not sure yet. I don’t use normal red enough to know.

#244

I have a vague recollection that normal orange is powers of 2, and orange also includes triplets?

#245

About the alternative modes:

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#246

i looooove marbles. it alone had made modular click for me in a way i didnt think it would. i finally feel like i can use my eurorack live and also that im done with buying things. system complete.

i have a few shows coming up and this here will be my setup. it will be the first time i use my modular live. thanks to marbles

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#247

Marbles isn’t a be and end all module for me, but I do think it’s a very special one.

Tonight, taking a break from learning Metron, I turned to Mysteron, then Marbles, and other ones for more modulation. Made a keeper.

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#248

If you record anything, I’d like to hear it.

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#249

Is anyone using marbles for modulation/gates around their system rather than just as a sequencer? curious to hear thoughts on this!

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#250

Perhaps not the sort of response you seek, but while developing the timbre of the most complex voice, I use it for pitch cv. This frees me up to focus on the timbre without concern for composition while still conveying a sense of how the voice sounds at various pitches.

Once I have that voice squared and the others tuned to it, I tend to switch Marbles to bipolar mode for non-pitch cv. One or two x-outs usually end up in Morphagene while the last is often involved in the more complex voice in some way.

I don’t have a go-to use for the t-outs - still exploring there.

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#251

I don’t think of Marbles as a sequencer and don’t try to use it as such. CV i’m using for pitch gets used elsewhere, T outs get well distributed around my patch for sync/triggering other CV sources. I strongly encourage the use of Marbles for all sorts of CV goodnesses and self patching.

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#253

Excellent, because thats not my plan for marbles shall I choose to bring one into my case.

I love the sound of that. Seems like this may be what I’m looking for.

Thanks!

#255

This makes sense. Kinda nice to have the option of smooth or stepped too.

I’ve been having a lot of issues with my patches being static and a bit boring so I think some extra modulation in my case would be a good decision. Thinking of adding Marbles & Just friends should be a load of fun.

#256

these two would be uh pardon the pun but pretty good friends

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#257

Thats what I’m thinking, especially since I already have stages in the mix… think I should be good after that :slight_smile:

#258

I have two marbles, the only duplicate in my smallish 7u 84hp system, and the main reason is to allow one for use as more of a sequencer and one for use as more of a modulator. When i started exploring it as a modulation source it began to make normal lfos seem a bit bland. I love being able to capture loops of modulation sequences.

Marbles to me is a modular embodiment of that well-worn advice in music - when you hit a wrong note, just play it again and they’ll think you meant it. If the randomness sounds wild, lock it in a loop suddenly everything makes sense.

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#259

i’m not drooling my shirt is like this all the time

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#260

my marbles boots up with both deja vu buttons either on or off - but inconsistently, and often not in the configuration i left them in when powering off. haven’t been able to figure out the rhyme or reason for this, does anyone know? thx!