The subtlety that you use with the soma gear is extremely inspiring. I usually turn knobs all the way up and make ridiculous industrial whale sounds but this makes me want to try to use the noise generators as background textures.
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trytyke
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Thanks, Iām so glad I was able to inspire you. It can produce really fascinating textures.
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rdomain
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Some great ideas @trytyke with the ND and OT and I really dug the end results too. 
Will have to hook these up and give it a try. Iām STILL in purest mode as even just the combo of Pulsar 23 and the Lyra 8 still blows me away. Will dig out the Ornament 8 again soon for the full rabbithole effect. 
Just had a session today after being busy with other projects the last couple of weeks. Feels so good to return to this environment.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CT_aY4dhBPL/
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trytyke
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Thanks, yeah patching with only the Pulsar is already special, but the Ornament opened it up.
I actually donāt use the Nord Drum that often but I like using my whole setup as an instrument and the Ornament became the core of this setup. I will integrate my field recordings as well that I can send to the Pulsar and process them there.
By the way, there is some kind of Pulsar community in Instagram and I find some of the users really inspiring (surely youāre one of them) but the thing is, I really donāt like using social media for it. Sometimes I think that it would be great to exchange ideas there though.
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I think maybe Iām getting too old and too OCD in my old age for this stuff butā¦ hear me out.
I finally bought a Pulsar 23 a week or two ago.
I love it.
Butā¦
What is Vald thinking putting the master tempo knob in amongst literally dozens of patch points requiring a finger and a thumb?
I was just working on a very simple experiment. I accidentally changed the tempo 3 or 4 times over a couple of minutes.
For an instrument that is aimed at improvisation and live performance, these seems like a massive oversight / error.
Add to this this attenuators for modulation coupled with the 0-10v regimen, meaning modulation can only increase values I find myself pulling my hair out already.
Am I alone?
Jonny
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I donāt have a pulsar (interested though) but canāt you just use the inverter utility section? It sounds like you are comparing it to other gear maybe with bipolar modulation by default. The manual suggests using the inverter to create ducking effects for example.
I tried that, but as far as I can tell (I havenāt run the signals through Data, yet) this just switches 0 and 10, high and low, and because the attenuators arenāt attenuverters, subtraction seems impossible. Iāll look again at the manual, though, thanks.
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Jonny
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It says that there are 2 types of inverters (the 2nd one seems to be the one youāre referring to):
INV NON-CONTROLLABLE INVERTER
Inverts the incoming signal relatively to the value of +5 volts. It can be used for control and audio signals.
INV CONTROLLED INVERTER
Inverts the incoming trigger signal when a voltage higher than +5 volts is applied to the CV pin. It can only be used for trigger signals since it has a binary output of 0 \ +10V.
So you should be able to use the first one and then send that to an attenuator to control the amount (no need for attenuverter then)?
And if all else fails for your preferences, you have the big array of 3.5mm jacks to pins jumbler to hook it up to a small eurorack utility rack, right?
iām trying to use the irregular crackle outputs of the snare or hihat section as a clock for the shaosā¦no luck. the manual states that basically every signal can be used as clock as long as itās āa source with a low output resistanceā. does that mean the audio output of a module has a too high resistance to be recognised as clock? if soā¦can i somehow patch it so the resistance goes down? thanks for any help!
Thanks! But none of this leads to a subtraction, just an addition (controllable by attenuator) of the inverted signal.
Thankfully, Double Knot uses attenuverters and while the clock out from DK, is half of what P23 expects, Iāve found that the clock pin will work as the 16th beat.
Some progress. Video to follow.
And, yes Iām probably going to assemble a small-ish Eurorack case to sit underneath the P23 in my set up. Really happy I didnāt sell Propagate!
I was hoping for a standalone instrument to limit my OCD, but I guess I was being overly optimistic.
āsubtraction is ground?ā
Not sure I understand what is being asked/suggested here, Iām afraid.
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just wanted to add to the discussion that the bass module in midi mode has become my favorite bass monosynth in the studio, just massive and totally unlike the moog/korg sound
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And, many of the things Iāve enjoyed the most listening/learning havenāt used it as a ābassā at all. Sometimes a clave, sometimes a spacey noiseā¦ Really looking forward to diving in. But first I must create an operating system/environment for P23 to work within, for me not to be tearing my hair outā¦
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what confounded me was deciding to place the +10V pin directly next to the electrical ground pin
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oliodnb
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I tried his and I got some interesting results, especially by running more textural souds through the snare and hh channels.
I agree on this, itās the only obvious UI design flaw IMHO.
Iām having a lot of fun using the Pulsar together with the modular/Digitakt combo, next I want to try to sequence it via MIDI using Nornsā¦ any recommendation about interesting scripts to try?
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Cyrene is a port of Mutable Grids and looks ideal for this
I had a very quick go the other night and got as far as being able to map my Faderbank Controller to Norns for the density controls for kick snare and hihat as well as the X/Y for the map of beats and had it working well with the internal engine. Next plan was midi out to the Pulsar, but I ran out of time so need to try it later this week
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Jonny
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Thought this was an interesting tidbit from a Music Radar review:
Pulsar-23 is set up to eliminate the risk of āwrongā connections too ā although it responds to voltage signals between 0 and 10 volts, the permissible voltage range for its inputs is -20 to +20 volts, and all inputs and outputs are protected from overloads. As a result, you can pretty much approach Pulsar-23 with a ātry anythingā mindset, patching elements internally and externally at random just to see what happens.
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One thing to bear in mind as you build that environment: Pulsarās trig inputs are voltage-sensitive. This threw me off at first. Essentially, the different āvelocitiesā that one can achieve with the manual contacts are also available via voltage control. This is a long-winded way of saying that, for the full THWACK, you need 10v at the trig input. A lot of sequencers max out at 5v gates/trigs, so you may want to either (a) have utilities on hand for scaling/doubling that voltage or (b) use a sequencer that can output 10v.
Anyway, this may or may not matter to you, I just remember being a little bit bummed when I figured this out and thought Iād pass along!
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Jonny
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Thatās sounds awesome, I donāt know why you all are bummed out by these various unique features to be honest!
In my case, I just wasnāt equipped to use Kria and Meadowphysics, but Iāve since rectified the situation 
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