#133

@baleen excellent stuff. hadn’t really considered external clock input.

also want to mess with the scale input function, and its interaction with the steps control. i really like that conception of defining a scale like a weighted probability distribution rather than a simple sieve.

@stephenvit thanks!

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#135

I’m going a little crazy with the quantizer on Marbles. I can’t seem to get it to stick to the scale I set. Has anyone else had this problem? What is the proper procedure for tuning your oscillator before sending QCV from Marbles? Maybe I’m missing something here.

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#136

If you are so inclined, Marbles now comes miniaturized.

http://www.antumbra.eu/redesign/cara

It’s not for me, but whatever spins your bowtie…

#137

wow, did they sleep waiting for it to be open-sourced? :thinking:

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#138

Plaits/Beehive also came out pretty quickly, though that came out of the ‘blackout’ period sooner.

I’m curious what they’ll do for Stages. It seems not reducible without becoming useless, but that’s my biased opinion of almost all micro Mutable stuff.

#139

ugh they’ll prob replace the faders with mini-pots :man_facepalming:

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#140

With an LED next to each pot, in place of the LED fader? Yay.

Anyway, this is the Marbles thread :slight_smile: I sold my Marbles and I kind of miss it, but have not bought it back yet.

#141

gotta say that’s really really cramming it in on the panel wow

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#142

I don’t think anyone will do a vanilla Stages shrink. It’s a huge number of components and it has barely any free space on it as is.

I like the Antumbra designs. Might tackle a Cara one day. Marbles is a great module. I mostly wish someone would make a half Marbles. I’d just like to be able to have a small single channel of the note listening mode. My favorite thing in the module!

#143

Yeah a half-marbles with basically just the X features would be interesting. Still, I love mine so much and I don’t think I’d give it up for anything at this point.

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#144

Totally diggin this module, even though some things still are a mystery. Anyone using it as a master clock? And has anyone found a way to reset it when clocked externally? this would be great!

#145

Can those of you who own the module tell me: how does it handle the power-cycle? Does it retain whatever settings you leave it at?

#146

Yes, the state you left it at is retained on power-cycle.

#147

But not the sampled sequence.

#148

Hm, are you sure? I’ve had mine locked into the same voltage range (x side) for 3 days now and it seems to be right where I left it after I turn it back on. Maybe it just seems that way since I haven’t touched the steps knob?

#149

Occasionally I use it as a master clock (other times it’s Teletype).

I think I’ve read that it resets if you wait several seconds between clock pulses, but I could be wrong. I think when most people want it to “reset” they have this perceptual idea of a start point which might not be the actual start, so short of adding another control and a reset input to the module, there wouldn’t be a good way to do this anyhow (and it would only apply to Deja Vu with relatively tight settings).

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#150

So the sequence that you might have “locked” will not survive the power-down?

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#151

That’s what I would have said, but I can’t test right now, sorry ! Anyone ?

#152

That’s what I remember pichenettes said as well.

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#153

I would like to be able to transpose the scale of Marbles X output in real time as opposed to sampling the notes in the buffer. ie. Adjust the root so it becomes an Fmaj instead of Cmaj scale etc. Has anyone been able to achieve this? Not that there’s anything wrong with some C jams.Thanks!