#766

Chronoblob’s a lovely and versatile delay – my favorite one in hardware so far. Though mine could be threatened by the incoming ER-301. :slight_smile:

#767

Loving the chronoblob so far, but it is my first euro delay and I have been wanting a delay for a long time so I might be overenthusiastic about it so far. Its cv inputs and attenuverters are super handy and the stereo is such a welcome addition. I feel like my main concern with it is that it seems to have a slight bit of noise, im wondering if anyone else with a chronoblob 2 has noticed that?

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#768

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#769

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Sold everything, started from the bottom, now we’re here. I’ve never had a more playable modular synthesizer instrument.

It also is really… really… visually pleasing.

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#770

i’ve been GASing for instruo modules for a few months and this does NOT help lol. so curious about the scion - how do you like it?

#771

Beautiful, have you got any photos of it? Would also love to hear how you are using the Tanh as I’ve been pretty intrigued by it for a while?

#772

really loving the way you’ve separated the rows where it is sound stuff/dense modulation and then playable stuff on the bottom. I think it would be super fun and creatively stimulating to set things like “only use row 2”, “only use row 1 plus the complex osc”. Nice.

#773

So much Instruo! I’m jealous, I love my Cš-L and wish I had all of its siblings.

#774

I really, really, REALLY love instruo’s designs. I’ve been considering getting rid of my TSNM for a harmonaig, but I’ve made a commitment to this instrument and it’s little brother which I’m still toying around with.

@barnjazz It’s really lovely for timbrel flourishes with the Ts-L and Cs-L with the built in touch plate. I haven’t hooked it up to any plants yet (I know…), but it’s a keeper so far for that ability alone. It also pairs very nicely with Ornament and Crime given the 4 cv outs for more generative patches.

@delmerdarion

I need to swap over my sloths faceplate to black and I’ll take some photos for ya! I use tahn for two things, primarily.

  1. it’s really nice to have a waveshaper independent of those built into the Ts-L and Cs-L. I sometimes run one of the basic waveforms into it > the unity mixer in order to have an extra waveshaper on deck.
  2. Everyone who owns a Clouds should own a tanh. Clouds was so hard to find sweet spots with until I grabbed a tanh to manage some of the feedback.

In terms of playability, there’s no perfect location for the tanh in my case, but I’ll probably shift it to the right of the traigh so it’s more central for both uses.

Oh… and if you’ve never put a cycling EG through a waveshaper, you’re missing out.

@jlmitch5 The entire design of this is premised on routing a patch (top) that will be practiced (bottom). I tried a bunch of different configurations, but this is the division that stuck! Those types of restraints would definitely be fun, will try them and report back :slight_smile:

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#775

Where are you putting the Tanh in the signal path to manage Clouds’ feedback? Just on the signal input?

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#776

This might be a discussion for the Mutable thread, but I find Clouds to be unruly if the output isn’t limited/compressed. I like to patch all of my sloths outputs to all of the Clouds inputs resulting in quasi-random granular patch. I find that tanh after the clouds out keeps volume controlled when density/texture/feedback spikes. It allows for really nice textures to emerge without the volume spike. Hopefully that made sense?

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#777

Yes, helpful use case, thanks!

#778

Right on! It really is a useful little module.

#779

to chime in on the tanh:

i have been looking for a dedicated saturation/distortion module for quite some time after i came across the second waveshaping algorithm on the expert sleepers disting (i think it is pretty much the same concept as the tanh!?).
there was just nothing out, that sparked excitement (had a look at the ivan etc) before i came across tanh.

often i simply use it for subtle saturation. giving more body to all sort of sounds (e.g. buzzy wavetables and folded source material). often mixed with the original signal to keep definition.

been exploring it in a delay feedback path (chronoblob) with astonishing results (long controlled delays).

the other day i was connecting some contact mics to a mutable instrument ears and just for fun, adding the tanh after — mind blowing … you can get so much more amplification of really quiet sounds without compromising on louder ones (yeah, that’s what they call compression, i guess).

also fun: creating a version of the original sound for a nice spatialisation effect. panning the original sound hard left and the slightly saturated one hard right …

the tanh brings out many good things in a sophisticated and subtle way. really happy so far …

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#780

I finally got the chance to pick up a Bard Ivan (rare in the US for a while) and talked myself into a tanh(3) soon after. I kept the tanh :slight_smile: it’s really nice for warming up audio and can make envelopes a bit “sticky” in a nifty way. Not really my favorite thing for feedback loops usually, but there are enough other uses for it to keep me happy.

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#781

So I measured the noise coming off my unpatched blob v2 and while I can’t express it accurately in dB, I can compare it to other modules in the same case, w/ the same power, running through the same signal chain.
Basically, Chronoblob 2 has self-noise 6-8% higher than what I could find from an unpatched Rings. It had about 5% less noise than my unpatched Optomix. To get measurable noise at all I had to max all the gain stages. For me, under my conditions, noise is not a problem from any of these modules.
If you feel you have more noise than this, I might look at your power.

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#782

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getting very close to what i dreamed my Eurorack would be :slight_smile:

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#783

So I assume correctly that you sold Ivan? Would you care to expand your thoughts on Ivan? A friend of mine is making these modules so I could always pass some feedback to him :slight_smile:
Right now there is also tube VCA in the works from BARD https://www.instagram.com/p/BsQuXj2hfOD/ and from what I hear it sounds really nice
I also have a standalone tube filter/saturator + tube phaser from BARD:

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I could make some demos when I will find free time.

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#784

I did sell the Ivan. I thought the sound was fine, but what it does to input is almost like biased rectification. If I remember correctly, it wasn’t possible to dial in just “a little bit of drive” but rather, how much of the top of the wave was folded/clipped/etc.

I prefer the way tanh[3] can be used more subtly to affect the curvature, and with DC signals as well as audio, and there are three of the circuits in 4HP.

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#785

Got the new case and Mannequins modules this week. While I did imagine that I would like the modules, I could never imagine just how much! This feels like the electronic instrument I’ve always wanted but did not know existed :smiley: Absolutely fantastic expressive possibilities.

One of the “blanks” will be fit in with the Metasonix RK3 which I had to send out for repair, should be back next week or so, and with my new sound card I’ll probably get rid of the Deeper mixer eventually. I’ll be keeping both the STO and Dixie for now until I figure out which one is most useful in this configuration. The last HP once that decision is made will probably be some form of controller (if I do not go for a Roli Block Seaboard) and/or more modulation, quite interested in one of the NLC chaos modules but with all the new possibilities the Mannequins modules have provided, It’ll most likely be a while before I make any additions/changes.

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