#84

Yeah, there’s still a tiny bit of whine when I have the gain up on my interface that I have to EQ out. Usually I just decrease the gain or run a gate on the input track. Not noticeable when I have sounds going in. I have such a back-and-forth relationship with my Hermod. Really like the effects, and I’ve set it up to basically be a Marbles + straight-up sequencer. But programming sequences can be a bit tedious and my eye is starting to wander to other solutions.

#85

It would appear that a fix is coming to hopefully solve any noise caused by the Hermod: https://squarp.community/t/cpu-hum-in-hermod/3069/3?u=kidyoshi

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#86

They sent me a beta version but unfortunately it didn’t help for me.

I am still getting noise (increases with the amount of button lights on) when I connect Hermod (in my Palette) to my main case (IJ 7U). Haven’t tried with any USB connections though.

I suspect it has something to do with the power supplies or even just the wiring in my apartment. Somebody said on the Squarp forum that they were having the same problem using two IJ cases together, and they fixed it by swapping out the PSU on their smaller 4U case:

I was having a hideous high pitched sound when connecting two different cases together using Hermod.
It took me a minute to track down the problem, and it turned out to be the stock power supply which ships with the Intellijel 4U cases.

MeanWell GSM60A15-P1J
15v - 4A - 60W

When I disconnect from the main case, the noise was gone.

I corrected this swapping the GSM60A with a second PSU

MeanWell GSM90A15-P1M
15V - 6A - 90W

I may try that next but have been looking for an alternate solution in the meantime.

All that said, if anyone wants to try the beta firmware Squarp sent me for themselves, shoot me a message! I’m not sure if they want it out in public yet and obviously no guarantees on my end, but it could be worth a shot.

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#87

Yes please - I’d love to give it a try.

And, that’s a shame that it did not fix the problem. Argh.

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#88

Yeah, it’s been disappointing for sure. Not a deal breaker entirely for me since Hermod isn’t my main sequencer but it is a bummer. I have heard some success stories from people using it in a 4ms Pod but I’m skeptical about that too.

#89

I imagine if it’s in a 4MS Pod and not connected to the main audio bus board it might remove any noise from the audio outs. I think it definitely depends on cases, I didn’t notice an issue on a Pittsburgh Modular case, but do on my Make Noise case.

#90

Hi all, I just got a used Hermod and it looks and feels completely brand new except that I have to push the encoder VERY hard to get it to register. This surprised me because the encoder clicks pretty easily but that isn’t registered / it doesn’t do anything. I have to click it down then REALLY bear down on it hard - the point where I can hear my case do a little reactionary groan from the pressure - for it to register. Is this normal at all? Anyone experienced this? Does it need to be “broken in” or does this sound defective?

#91

No not normal …

Could be encoder is a bit tight against faceplate , so is not fully depressing?!
Try taking knob off and pressing metal shaft see if that works ok, if it does raising the knob a bit will likely solve your issue.

#92

Thanks! I have fixed it. Weirdly the encoder is totally fine but the knob itself was somehow smashed too low onto it.

#93

Firmware V1.50 was posted. Haven’t had a chance to update mine yet, but there are quite a few bug fixes and new features.

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#94

Does anyone know if it’s possible for the Hermod to output triggers instead of gates?

#95

Not as far as I know. A trigger is just a short gate, the shortest note length on the hermod is 32th note (iirc) which should be round 60ms at 120bpm (if my math is right). A bit long for trigger (10ms is common in euro)…

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#96

New firmware (v1.60) with lots of updates/fixes:

  • TRACK LENGTH 1/16th notes (instead of 1/4): now the polymetric resolution goes up to a sixteenth note! When changing the track length, hold the encoder to add/remove a sixteenth note to the length.
  • SEQ LOOP 1/16th AND MORE: in SEQ mode, the LOOP length parameter can now be set to additional “SHORTEST”, “LONGEST”, and “TRACK X” lengths. Furthermore, for the more traditional fixed length LOOP length, the length resolution now goes up to a 16th note. Press and hold the encoder when changing LOOP to add/remove 1/16th notes.
  • MODMATRIX ATTENUVERTER/OFFSET: every modulation input can go through an attenuverter / offset stage. Buttons ① ② ③ ④ give you access to the normal modulation input/output, while ⑤ ⑥ ⑦ ⑧ show the attenuverter/offset stage for a given modulation.
  • STEP RANGES: in Step Mode, you can now select step ranges. For example, press ① and ④ to select all events from ① to ④. Pressing ① and ⑧ selects the entire page. To select every event, across all pages, press [STEP] and ⑧.
  • MOD CC ROUTING: Mod CC is now routed both to the track and the modmatrix
  • QUANTIZER: new options to allow triplets (1/24 and 1/12)
  • BETTER DAC CALIBRATION: (note that this new firmware is not compatible with your last DAC calibration, you will have start a DAC calibration again).
  • NEW ADC CALIBRATION: hold Y at startup. Select the input to calibrate (A, B, C or D) with 1, 2, 3 or 4. Rotate the encoder to fine tune the ADC voltage. Press the encoder to select the voltage to calibrate, from -4V to +4V (tips: the 8 CV OUT always output the selected voltage). Save this calibration: press X.
  • RANDOMIZER: each track now has its own set of parameters
  • MOD TRACK: it’s now possible to delete only gates
  • ENCODER ACCELERATION: scrolling the encoder fast will change the parameter faster (enabled modes: STEP note values & track length edit, EFFECT edit, Attenuverter)
  • PHONE KEYPAD STYLE: while editing the project name, you can press repetitively pads 1…8 to jump and select characters (A…D, E…H, I…L, M…P, Q…T, U…X, Y…0, 1…9)
  • SAVE AS now suggests the last used project name
  • CURRENT TRACK of the project is now saved and loaded
  • LZX CV: You can now configure whether a track outputs a CV range of -5V to +5V (1V/octave), or -1V to +1V (to follow the video synthesis CV standard, used amongst others by LZX industries). These options are placed under settings > misc > cv out. Also added, settings > cv/gate in > cv in range = -1 > +1V, in order to record properly this new CV standard.

Bug fixes

  • CC64 was sometimes erroneously recorded in a sequence
  • Advanced editor was no longer accessible from v1.50
  • Fix BPM tap tempo UI
  • CV D was sometimes not routed to the modmatrix
  • Recorded MOD events were erroneously read as CC1
  • Improved sync with Ableton
  • Ending REC by pressing PLAY (=stop) sometimes did not disarm REC
  • Improved input delay for CV/gate input
  • In SEQ mode, the first pattern played was sometimes not the first in the sequence
  • LFO phase was inverted in SQUARE shape
  • Euclid effect sometimes missed events when Hermod was synced
  • Setting CV IN RANGE to 0>5V sometimes scaled the note pitch, resulting in out of tune notes.
  • Recording notes with setting QUANTIZE NOTE = ON (GATE) sometimes caused a delay
  • Add new FX list was sometimes broken
  • CC1 … CC119 can now be used in modMatrix even if set as an INPUT MOD
  • More precise BPM when CLOCK SOURCE is external
  • Scrolling through sequencer pages was sometimes impossible
  • SEQ PLAY = RESTART was not always behaving correctly
  • SEQ PLAY = JUMP did not play notes if the playhead jumped halfway through them.

Misc.

  • Code optimization
  • Cosmetic changes
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#97

So many great additions to this update - but this one for me is the killer addition. I’ve been bugging Squarp about this for at least a year - in fact this solution borrows some of the suggestions I made for how to incorporate this into the UI.

This finally releases the full potential of the Mod Matrix. Yes!!

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#98

To put that in perspective - you can modulate (with precision) 32 effect (like Euclid Steps / Probability / LFO speed / Transpose / etc.) parameters from just 4 modulation inputs. Wows.

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#99

This is so awesome :heart_eyes:

#100

Has anyone been using Hermod to send midi data from a linux machine, or know if the USB device is class-compliant? Their homepage says that they support all available OS’es but then specify those to be Windows and MacOS…

Been looking at the Hermod for a while now, and it looks like exactly what I need for sequencing, however I only have linux-based machines so no point in getting one if it won’t work, or if I can’t get it to work myself.

#101

Good question, never tried it…

So I tried it just now, and it works just like that. I opened renoise, selected “Hermod MIDI 1” as midi output, typed notes on the laptop keyboard, and hermod reacted as expected.

Just a quick test, so more hardcore use might reveal problems (but the squarp team seems to be very keen on making the hermod work with the quirkiest of hardware), but I’d say it seems like it just works…

It probably doesn’t matter in this day and age, but I’m running debian stable…

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#102

Those are some great news! Thanks so much for trying it out, might snag a used one thats for sale in my area asap :slight_smile:. Can’t wait to explore it further!

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#103

It works sending and receiving data to and from my norns (which is linux) as well. I use it for that extensively and have never encountered problems

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