#1135

Thanks for the kind words, and right back at you! TXn is a very neat redesign, and I’m stoked it’s now available. Can’t wait to see what people get up to with it.

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#1136

Exact same thing here :sweat_smile:
Today I woke up in the middle of the night and grabbed a TXn.

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#1137

Would have loved to buy TXn but can’t justify it financially right now. :frowning: Will try and build one once the files are up :slight_smile:

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#1139

Got my TXn and (2) TXo upgrades today.

TXn/Nearness is every bit as good as I hoped. I have some plans for the extra TXo horsepower.

Thanks so much for making these, they are clearly a labor of love. :slight_smile:

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#1140

I managed to break every jack protector off in both of my TXb :sweat: the struggle to get the bits out is real. @bpcmusic, any tips for clearing the jacks?

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#1141

Just received my TXo and installed but cannot get it to respond to any TT commands. TT becomes unresponsive and freezes with any command issued. Any thoughts?

I’m on TT 3.0. I’m using a backpack on my “green” TT. FWIW, Just Friends and Earthsea seem to be working fine with this setup but my W/ mysteriously died (this could be unrelated but is suspicious).

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#1142

I think you may have plugged the I2C in the wrong way round

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#1143

Wow - you were right. I was actually (stupidly) using the 6 pin header on the back connected with the gnd on the thick line side of the header. There were 2 other banks of 3 pin headers but the labeling was so tiny I couldn’t see what they were. I had to use a flashlight to find the gnd connector, connected it up, and now it works. I didn’t see any reference to this on the github instructions but I think I’m good now. I wonder if this is would have killed my W/?

EDIT: looks like whatever happened to W/ was unrelated.

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#1144

I hope not! My experience misconnecting I2C was the same as yours: Teletype would crash immediately upon issuing an I2C command, and all seemed to be well on restart once I fixed things.

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#1145

All - pin configuration is in the manual that I included in your package (it was folded in with your invoice). The basic setup and configuration is documented there. :slight_smile:

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@Justmat - ARG!! Do you have any tweezer-guys that can get in there? Will it shake out? PM me and we can figure this out.

@jnoble - thx!!!

Finally - the last of my shipments should be boxed and in the post this weekend. (I’m boxing as fast as I can!)

Cheers!

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#1146

You are right - thank you!

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#1147

Maybe TXb rev2 should have thru holes behind the jacks :joy:

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#1148

Well that explained why one of my jack protectors was shorter than the other. I only need one but being into Eurorack meant there was no way knowing this I’d be able to leave that situation like that. I found that taking off the face plate and using a needle to work the tiny window on the side of the jack I was able to maneuver the tip into a spot where I cajoled it out of the jack. Phew…

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#1149

I got all but one jack cleared. I too discovered the window!

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#1150

I’ve received a few reports of the plastic jack plugs breaking off when removed (including those above) - enough to believe that this is a thing that will happen frequently. Sigh.

I’m removing the Jack Plugs from all TXb that haven’t yet shipped or that were given tracking numbers today. During this process, I’ve verified that if they aren’t carefully removed, the things can snap off.

Aside: I’m so sorry this happened.

I’ve been testing the plastic jacks for a year and didn’t find any problems with them. While I was a little worried about them breaking off, it hadn’t occurred for me or any of my beta-testers. My hypothesis is that there was a printing error that I didn’t catch where a row of filament was missed causing a brittle middle in the jacks. Resting under pressure in the jacks for the several months that these have been ready to go exacerbated their susceptibility. Sigh.

Ok. If you have a TXb already or it shipped earlier in the week, I suggest you carefully remove your Jack Plugs and then throw them in the bin. If one breaks off, you can carefully use the windows to coax the bit out as described in the thread above. Be careful not to let the broken bit fall out of the shaft - once it does that, it appears that it is pretty impossible to remove with the jack still soldered to the circuit board.

Now, if you have one that broke off and you can’t coax it out you have two things you can do:

  1. If you like to solder (or you have a friend that does) it is pretty easy to desolder the two jacks. The plastic bit will then fall out or be easily removed with a pair of tweezers.

  2. PM or email me and we will work together to get it fixed.

Again - I’m really embarrassed about this and super-sorry about the hassle. I thought that the jacks would be super-cool and a nice protection against errant patching that could cause problems (if not damage). I suggest a bit of electrical tape over the hole once you get the plugs out - just in case…

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#1151

Hot needle works if it falls too far down the hole.

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#1152

Ok; that is brilliant!!

#1153

Installed my TXo+ yesterday (which also happens to be my first expander), and wow — I’m floored by how deep and intuitive it is. The best feeling for me is when I coax completely new sounds out of my system, which happened a bunch of times yesterday. Huge :+1: to @bpcmusic !

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#1154

Dumb question.
How do you set the ‘root’ of the TO.OSC?

TO.CV 1 V 5 [sets the volume of the osc]
TO.OSC 1 V 5 [Sets freq of OSC]

I have a Pattern of Notes. [0,3,7,3]
How do I keep V5 as the root and use the pattern to change 1v/oct?

Do I have to Add it each time?

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#1155

You could give yourself a root note as A V 5 and then write TO.OSC 1 + A N 12 or what have you? I had a (brief!) look through the manual to see if there was something like JF.SHIFT, but I didn’t see anything.

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