I’m unfamiliar with the operation of SC.CV.OFF. You might need to ask at the OD forum cause it could be a bug.

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Huh. Seems like my I2C cable was to blame. Thin wires. Would not have noticed this if I didn’t happen to have another at hand.

I’ve been searching around the docs and manual for a visual breakdown of how TT’s live screen functions. Is there a doc with a concise “this is what each icon in the corner indicates” type of explanation. I am surprised it is not included earlier in the studies doc. I was able to figure out most of them after some time digging around.

How do you enable live monitoring of variables on the live screen? Is this something included in an update after 3.0.0.? I bought my TT early-ish 2019 and the live screen is blank. Would be cool to include this in an obvious place in the docs too.

There’s not a diagram, but the contents of the LIVE screen are described here.

This is the tilde ~ / backquote ` key on the keyboard that comes with Teletype, I feel like I faintly recall someone saying this could be a problem on some keyboard layouts? Key bindings for each mode are described here.

It looks like the first Teletype study page links to this key reference, which seems out of date and in particular indicates that the tilde key switches between live mode and tracker mode. I wonder if linking directly to this section of the manual would be preferable at this point, since the manual is updated more frequently? (thoughts on this @dan_derks?) Not sure off the top of my head how this PDF key reference is generated.

Another thing that I think definitely should be mentioned higher up in the docs is that there is (terse) help available inside Teletype, where the first page is the key reference. Press Alt-H or Alt-? (Alt-Shift-/) to access help mode. I can add some of these changes / links to the docs some time today.

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I had no idea about this! Great info!

If you feel so inclined as to try out the latest beta, this adds a simple forward/reverse search to help mode, which I’d love to get some more testing on.

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just picked up a teletype and real excited to dive into it shortly - i know this question’s probably been answered before, but would it be worth reverting to the 1.0 firmware for the studies? i’m assuming that most of the firmware updates have added deeper functionality but left the more basic functions more or less the same so i might be fine on the most recent firmware but just wanted to see if anyone had thoughts otherwise!

I personally wouldn’t go back in firmware. You’re gonna experiment with things quite early on I guess, and looking at the latest manual will just make you try out what you see, at which point it would feel awkward to not be able to do so.

Others might disagree…

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While there’s a lot of newer functionality that’s not covered in the studies, the studies do get updated to be usable with the newest firmware, so it might actually be more confusing to try to use the 1.0 firmware. In particular I think a few key bindings have changed. All the commands mentioned in the studies still exist but might have some shorthand versions now. You can also use Alt-H at any time to access help mode within Teletype that has a brief command and key summary - not sure if help mode existed in v1.0. Excited for you to get acquainted with Teletype, please give a shout if there’s anything in the docs that doesn’t seem right or doesn’t make sense!

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thanks so much all! this is all uncharted territory for me but feel like i have lots of hands to hold here, very comforting :0)

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Hi all, maybe a dumb question but I’ll leave it here nonetheless.

I had the idea to use the same pattern to store values that can be used to send to different destinations (in this case different semitones to different voices of Just Friends). So on pattern 1 I introduced 8 values to be randomly assigned to JF.VOX 1 to 3 (index 0 to 7) and another 8 values to be randomly assigned to JF.VOX 4 to 6 (index 8 to 15).

I assumed that using P.I or PN.I would allow me to define the N value for these JF.VOX commands in a randomised way, but apparently it doesn’t work. Can someone tell me what am I doing wrong?

Here’s the code I was using:

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JF.VOX 1 N P.I RRND 0 7 V 5
JF.VOX 2 N P.I RRND 0 7 V 5
JF.VOX 3 N P.I RRND 0 7 V 5
JF.VOX 4 N P.I RRND 8 15 V 5
JF.VOX 5 N P.I RRND 8 15 V 5
JF.VOX 6 N P.I RRND 8 15 V 5

(working pattern was set to P 0, which was the pattern that stored the values)

If I use P.RND it works (after defining P.START and P.END) but this implies using one global range of values and in this case I need two (hence using a randomization of the index value with P.I).

thanks for the help!

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To get the active pattern value at a particular index I believe you want P RRND 0 7 or PN rather than P.I / PN.I. P.I gets or sets the current position of the playhead:

P.I 0  # playhead is now at step 0
P.I    # returns 0
P.NEXT
P.I    # returns 1

Notably P.I x sets the playhead position to x but doesn’t return anything. That JF.VOX 0 P.I 0 0 evaluates at all seems like a quirk of the Teletype evaluator that I currently don’t understand the cause or implications of, you will note that something like CV 1 P.I 0 will show the error TOO MANY PARAMS – it interprets P.I and 0 as separate values because of where P.I appears in the expression.

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Hi @csboling. thanks as always for the clarification. It makes perfect sense and it works! :smiley:

Just noticed alt-panels for Teletype have gone up on Pusherman. The first I’ve seen since the source was published. Curious if anyone has yet managed to build a DIY teletype?

I’m guessing boards will be up there soon. There were mentioned of the TXi and TXo being available in early Jan. Hoping that the folks behind the site just haven’t yet finished adding their new editions.

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Quick question - I know you can mute scripts but is there a way to mute single lines of a script? I thought I did it one time by accident but I may be mistaken and can’t find any documentation if there is a way. Thanks in advance!

Alt-/ – think of it as “commenting out” the line.

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What are some tools folks use to run the teletype as an old fashion tracker? Do folks have good strategies for doing so?

Basically I suddenly wondered if I could use the teletype as a tracker for melodies and was having some real problems with my results in that the 12 semitones system was a little baffling over 1 or 2 octaves. As well, spacing between notes with different hold times became a bit of a quandary. Any thoughts?

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Why not make use of all four patterns for different information about the sequence? First holds octave, second semitones, third length of step, fourth length of gate (or something along those lines)? Should make it relatively straight-forward to edit.

Hi, perhaps a basic question, but is there a way to have multiple commands executed if ‘if’ is true? So the opposite of Else…kinda of an ‘also’…

Thanks…

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