#469

Couple quick questions - is there any difference in hardware between TT revisions? I noticed that the website said the newest edition would be shipping out starting at the beginning of this month, but I’m assuming that just means it’s loaded with the new firmware.

And if I wanted to bring in Ansible & Grid (running polyearthsea with JF), would I need any additional hardware besides an additional i2c cable to interface the three of them?

Lastly, and this is unrelated to TT, but what is the newest revision of Grid that’s fully compatible with Ansible? I’ve seen a handful of older ones for sale that mention not working with Ansible but I’m not sure what that’s about.

Thanks again for any info!

#470

the latest Teletype has mildly different hardware, so that plugging Grid directly into the latest Teletype doesn’t freak Teletype out. I think there might be another small improvement that I’m forgetting. The front panel and operation remain the same. Funny that you should mention firmware – unless something’s changed, Teletype is deliberately shipped with an older firmware to help ease you into learning a massively deep module.

That’s correct. My setup includes a DIY i2c cable with 4 headers to plug into the different i2c modules in my rack.

What you’re hoping for is a “varibright” grid with 128 buttons and 16 levels of brightness. 16-step brightness seems to have been the standard since 2012.

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#471

The other hardware improvement is built in pull-ups for the I2C bus, so no backpack needed.

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#472

I just got a new TT and it shipped with 3.0.

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#473

to clarify, you can plug grid directly into older versions of teletype too as long as you keep the number of lit LEDs low (and if it exceeds what it can handle it’ll freeze but you can just power cycle and it’ll be fine). but yeah, you don’t need to worry about it with the latest edition!

i don’t think it’s deliberate :slight_smile: it just ships with whatever happens to be the latest official release at the time.

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#474

Just ordered TT a few hours ago. I’ll probably hold off on ansible/grid for a bit so I can dive into JT but I’m super excited!

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#475

ahhhh, my mistake. My Teletype must have shipped to its dealer awhile ago, however, since I got it with 1.2

#476

wow, that’s an oldie! real vintage teletype… :slight_smile:
and if it looks like this you’ve got a 15 model!

typing-unit

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#477

Another newbie question.

Since teletype goes from 0 - 10V, does that mean it can only go up in scale?
What would be standard practice when tuning VCOs If you want to go up and down from root note?

#478

I’m used to pitch CVs that are unipolar, from sequencers and MIDI-CV converters. Some VCOs don’t accept negative voltages anyway.

To be honest, I tend to tune my first VCO wherever it sounds good with whatever CV source I’m using, and then I tune any other VCOs to that (usually by ear). If I’m going to work with softsynths or other instruments, either I’ll retune to a scope or do my best to transpose whatever is most easily transposed :wink:

#479

Tune your oscillator one or two octaves lower than you expect at first, then offset them appropriately with your sequencer. For Teletype you can use the CV.OFF operator to push your CV up to 1v or 2v before you start composing, then swing it down to 0v whenever you like.

(assuming you are using an oscillator designed for v/Oct tracking)

#480

In addition to both of those great solutions:

  • TELEXo is bipolar -10v to 10v (I’m waiting to order one)
  • Add an external negative offset to TT cv out in a precision adder
#481

I have a question about the expected behaviour of the TT CV Offset command. If I run the following, I would expect the net CV out to be +1V.

CV.OFF 2 V 2
CV 2 V -1

Instead the CV op will ignore all negative voltages and I get +2V.

Running the following works:

CV.OFF 2 V2
CV 2 V 1

CV 2 displays +3V.

I currently run the following to circumvent the above behaviour with added negative voltages, but it would be nice to put the offset in the INIT script and save some script line characters.

CV 2 + V 2 V 1

Did I miss something?

#482

What about subtraction?

CV.OFF 2 V 2
CV 2 SUB CV 2 V 1

#483

You can’t send a negative voltage to CV 1 because it is not a bipolar output (even though you expect the net result to be positive). Apply the OFFSET afterwards instead.

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#484

AHhhh! I had it backwards.

so like this:

CV 2 V 2
CV.OFF 2 V -1

or

#I
CV 2 V 2

#1
CV.OFF 2 V -1

Gives me +1V

So in my INIT I can set CV 2 to V2. and then in my script I use CV.OFF to apply negative voltage. Thanks.

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#485

So I just plugged in Teletype (3.0.0) for the first time and right off the bat TR1 is firing at 40ms and I can’t seem to turn it off. Maybe I’m missing something but could anyone clarify what might be happening?

#486

check the M script?

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#487

yeah. mine did that too when I first got it.
hit ESC, then turn the knob on teletype to an empty scene and ENTER to load it, to start fresh.

or you can just type ‘m.act 0’ to turn off for now. If the light is still on. ‘tr.tog a’

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#488

Thank you both! I see what’s going on now. Just cleared all scripts so I can start from the ground up and slowly make my way through the studies and manual. Literally just racked it for the first time a few minutes ago so I have quite a ways to go.

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