#261

It saves state when you press one of the small buttons. Maybe it somehow helps to figure what happens

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#262

Aha thank you. This guided me to the answer in an old Emilie post.

State (including Deja Vu buttons) is saved when you change any of the 5 mode buttons (the small ones).

However, state is not saved when pressing the Deja Vu buttons - the reason is that saving state takes a few ms during which the module freezes, and turning Deja Vu on/off is something I consider a “performance gesture”.

I’m surprised this isn’t in the manual!

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#263

Has anyone successfully sent CV to Steps when using the X section for quantized CV? I want to figure out a good way to add some slew (or smooth) to only some of the notes. Haven’t been able to get a clean result from this yet.

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#264

you would need to slew them with a separate module to maintain quantization. from the manual:

Horizontal and vertical “steppiness” of the generated voltages. At 12 o’clock, generates the typical S&H steps. Turn CCW to generate smoother edges, then random linear segments, then smooth random curves. Turn CW to quantize the generated voltages to a scale, then to progressively strip the scale of its notes until only the root note remains.

TLDR - once you pass noon going CW, yr in quantized steps only.

#265

My new patch with Marbles + Plaits combo.
Can’t describe how much I love them
Better to listen with headphones.
Explanations under the video on youtube.

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#266

hey everyone. i’m loving my marbles. been trying to find a simple way to clock it from my octatrack. ive been using ansible and that works great but i recently got a palette case and i’ve been shrinking everything i can. does anyone know if this module would work to send clock to marbles from octatrack? it aparently sends 24ppqn clock. i just don’t know what that means haha. does that means it literally multiplies a clock by 24 ?

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#267

PPQN = pulses per quarter note
This value represents the resolution of the clock, and 24 ppqn should work just fine. I believe this is also standard MIDI clock resolution.

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#268

Yes 24ppqn is the standard MIDI resolution. Most modules on the other hand expect to receive 4ppqn, which is basically 1 pulse every 16th note. If the MIDI2CV converter does not do the division, all you need is a simple clock divider.

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#269

Marbles has the multiplication option in the clock input, does anyone know what clock resolutions are designed to work with those? I don’t remember exactly how I clocked Marbles when I had it but I’d imagine at least the slowest would work with 24ppqn. Or you could get an interface that has clock dividing built-in, like the Intellijel uMidi (there’s also 1u version), or something configurable like Hexinverter Mutant Brain.

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#270

Marbles can also probably easily divide down from whatever clock you send it via the “/4” setting and the rate knob.

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#271

thank you everyone for this information. unfortunately i can’t fit another module for clock division so i was hoping on board division of marbles would work. i’m just having trouble understanding how this would work. i think the octatrack sends a 16th note midi clock ( thats how it comes out of ansible and its what i want ) would i be able to use the on board divider to get the 24pqn clock down to 16th notes ?

#272

What I usually do, since I’m too lazy for all the math, is to set up a track with 16th notes and feed the gate output from there (through the mutant brain) to the modular. The mutant brain is great for this because of the many gate outputs it has.

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#273

Oh yeah!! I can just clock it using notes on a midi track placed on 16th notes. Clock it using Gates. I’ve done this with ansible too. Brilliant thank you :pray:t4:

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#274

And the nice thing is you can do stuff like swing and irregular tempos directly in the “clock” track!

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#275

I do the same thing clocking the modular with my digitakt - one midi track is just dedicated to clock with 16ths (or whatever division of my digitakt clock i want)

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#276

Mutant Brain too controlled by an Octatrack, I have the 8 first gates coming from the OT midi tracks, and the 4 last setup as clocks 1/16, 2/16, 3/16 and 4/16 and I clock Marbles with the last one (because I rarely use sequences faster than 1/16 but I love long progressions of several bars) It’s the most usable clock rate for me

#277

I have a 32HP Doepfer Beauty case.
My original idea was to use different types of random to create a “rack of randomness and uncertainty”.

After some research, I stumbled on Marbles. What modules can I put to compliment it?
I want to have ability to create a musical random sequences and generate modulations.

#278

With that theme, a Sport Modulator would probably be fun. Maybe an Omsonic Stochastic Inspiration Generator depending on what constraints you want to put on the randomness :slight_smile:

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#279

Cold Mac and…something else or Let’s Splosh

edit: also if you can fit in even a passive attenuator to self-patch Marbles that’s a big bonus

#280

You could also have a slew module after the marbles output