Polyearthsea

[scanner_darkly]

oh, forgot one more thing: added shnth support. you can use bar pressure and antennas as parameters (will be assigned to available mod buses automatically), and you can use buttons to control playback of patterns 1-4 - the top row will start/stop, the bottom row will pause. this is slightly wonky, sometimes it doesn’t register a press, i’ll try to fix in the next version. for antennas to work you need to press the red button!

[unity2k]

@scanner_darkly

this is the last planned update for polyearthsea though

Last planned for this year or forever?

[alanza]

the expansion into archipelago awaits!

[scanner_darkly]

yeah once modulation changes are done it’ll be a good place to stop and switch to other projects. i’ll continue fixing bugs, of course, and adding documentation / videos. and anything added to multipass (like support for other controllers) will mean it’ll likely get added to polyes (one of the benefits of using multipass).

[unity2k]

@scanner_darkly do you have any further information on being able to squeeze the ARC code in with the PolyES firmware?

[scanner_darkly]

if you mean combining polyes with other ansible apps - yes, at some point i’ll see if i can get this working, but will be likely a while - after the next polyes update i need to work on multipass and grid studies (that’s the plan right now).

[Brennanib]

Forgive my ignorance but does this work using a cable or through the bus board someway?

[scanner_darkly]

can you elaborate, not sure what you’re asking?

[Brennanib]

To get JF to operate in Poly ES etc. What are the connections for this? A cable between the two modules, or?

[Brennanib]

Just read about i2c that’s what I would need correct?

[scanner_darkly]

you will need to connect i2c pins - SDA to SDA, SCL to SCL and GND to GND. check this page for detailed information: https://monome.org/docs/modular/iiheader/

the above page talks about teletype, with teletype you can connect just friends etc directly to teletype. in case of polyearthsea you will also need a powered i2c board: https://github.com/scanner-darkly/polyearthsea/wiki/i2c-set-up

[Brennanib]

Thanks! Will I need Teletype or will this work with WW? Thanks again for your help here!

[scanner_darkly]

polyearthsea runs on white whale or meadowphysics or earthsea or ansible and can control just friends or er-301 or telexo directly via i2c, teletype is not required.

[Brennanib]

I see. Thanks again for your help now to find some i2c cables, module!

[rikrak]

I have been considering doing a ‘depth year’ in 2019 and the fact that I am still to even try PolyES has convinced me!

[derz]

Thanks for making this happen, PolyES is amazing !

could you explain this a bit more :

@scanner_darkly

now it can be used to reset or clock other patterns, or both. this is controlled by the 2 buttons below the leader selection button.

what are the two buttons doing exactly ?

[scanner_darkly]

on pattern view it’s the 3 buttons to the right of the 4x4 square where you trigger pattern playback. to select a leader press and hold “set leader” button and then press the pattern you want to set as a leader (to deselect do this again).

by default a leader pattern doesn’t do anything, but using the 2 buttons below “set leader” button you can make it reset other playing patterns or use it as the master clock (or both).

this can be useful if you want to have several patterns playing in sync (you can do this with an external clock, of course, but since earthsea module doesn’t have a clock input this can be a workaround). but perhaps a more interesting use for this is recording a pattern and then changing its timing completely with a different pattern.

you can still apply speed and linearization runes to the leader pattern while it’s used as the master clock. you can see it in action here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Brjx4gsFfr1/.

there is one bug currently - if you are using a leader pattern as the master clock and you assign a different pattern as the leader, it will stop, and to restart it you need to deselect “clock” and select it again.

i’ve updated the doc: https://github.com/scanner-darkly/polyearthsea/wiki/pattern-playback-and-management (also updated other diagrams).

[derz]

great, will try it out. thanks for the update.

[igormpc]

i am really loving polyES here – it was a new life for my ww!

but i couldnt make my shnth works –
shnth turns on (i can see the lights of a patch uploaded there) but:

1. i had some patterns made on monome before and tried to turn some of them on/off using buttons and didnt work…
2. i dont understand well how to assign and control mod buses with the bars… (can i use antennae?)

i am using a gs128 + ww here

any help?
thx in advance!

[scanner_darkly]

hard to say with shnth since i couldn’t find a description of its HID package format, so the implementation is based on experimenting with my own unit. unfortunately there isn’t much i can do unless i have your unit to experiment with. let me think about, i might be able to make a version for you that will output some information using grid that will help me troubleshoot. i should have something next week.

for modulation see this page: https://github.com/scanner-darkly/polyearthsea/wiki/output-parameters-and-modulation

this will tell you how to assign mod buses to parameters. since you’re using ww the 2 knobs on ww will be mapped to mod buses 1&2, then when shnth is connected bar pressure will be mapped to buses 3-6 and antennas will be mapped to mod buses 7&8. this is all pre-mapped, you don’t have to do anything other than just assign mod buses to some parameters. for antennas i also found that i needed to press the top button - i wonder if this somehow depends on the actual shnth patch…