#289

The switching point has been set to approx +1V (rather than 0) and is controlled by the ‘switch’ input. If nothing is patched into switch, then the signal on the lower input jack controls the switching.

I can build these to switch at 0 if anyone prefers, it is simply a matter of leaving off a resistor.

So, if the signal on the switch input is above 1V the the upper input arrives at the output and the lower input is passed for for under 1V. At approx 1V is the zero point, which is the click you hear when passing audio, hence this module is great for CV but not so much for audio.

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#290

nonlinear-circuits

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#291

Question for the 1050 Mix Sequencer owners in this thread:

What exactly do the two switches do? I know there’s the option of running it as an 8:1 sequential switch or as two 4:1 sequential switches, but since the switches aren’t labelled on the panel, I just want to have some clarification on their functions before I decide to buy or build one of these.

Also, if you are an owner of both the NLC 1050 Mix Sequencer and the Make Noise QPAS, please let me know, as I’m curious about the pairing of these two. I’m imagining running it as two 4:1 sequential switches and basically treating it as a stereo sequential mix sequencer. Wondering about the smoothness of transitions since this isn’t a vactrol-based mixer like the RxMx.

#292

let’s splosh as a rectifier for audio rate signals (feat. clouds)
patch notes in the soundcloud description…

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#293

That is absolutely lovely. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

I’ve mostly been thinking about complex control signal into Let’s Splosh, completely overlooking using an offset like you did here. Seems like Cold Mac will be a better friend of this module than I thought…

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#294

oh yeah, for sure, the mac is a great companion to splosh no matter how you slice it, especially since, in theory, you could have audio and control all swirling around in a feedback loop between them. imagine that would get bonkers real fast.

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#295

I also run a Let’s Mac situation and do strongly recommend for all of the reasons.

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#296

I will now forever use the phrase “Let’s Mac” when powering on my case, and for that I thank you.

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#297

After much too long prodding around, it turns out I just had to reflow one resistor to get my DelayNoMore 3 working properly. Now it sounds terrible :smiley:

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#298

Took delivery of some Nonlinear love a few days ago. Statues, Let’s Splosh and Resonate to be exact. They’re all just lovely. In the below video I decided to coax melodies out of NLC modules, that was fun:

Two 1U Sloth modules are fed to a Signum switch and then that into Statues. Statues is triggered by Marbles and the outputs from Statues are quantized to form two melodies. These melodies are then played by Tides and Sheep, through the LxD low-pass gate and finally through Cold Mac’s analog logic section. These come in around the one minute mark in the video

The rest of the music is just rubbery drones :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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#299

That’s marvelous! Love it

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#300

one of us, one of us

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#301

I had a dream about a standalone NLC instrument with 4 voices this morning.

Two “drum” voices (a high and a low tone) and two “melodic” voices. It was a mounted on a single larger white and gold PCB - maybe 12 inches by 24? Was still DIY-able, obviously.

I specifically remember “playing” the mixer, which had a kind of CP3-thing going on where you could push the voices over top one another. Each channel had a pair of red LED’s which, I’m not sure exactly what they were tracking. Maybe they were CV mixing as well? I dunno. It was a dream! :upside_down_face:

It sounded very noisy, but also great. I think it had some kind of built in touch sequencer, but I don’t remember well enough about any details. The mixer and sounds were the only things that stuck.

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#302

so what’s that: a bong0, a doof (or badumtiss), a dual vco/lfo (or a couple flavors of vco), a mogue, throw some sloths in for good measure, and a yet unannounced NLC version of a TKB (imagine??) perhaps you’ve had a premonition of the null-a3?!

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#303

Most peculiar, as a standalone instrument, it distinctly either had very-few-or-no modular jacks.

It kind of makes sense. I’ve been thinking about what modules would constitutes a slightly more traditionally aimed NLC instrument as a kind of random background thought on occasion.

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#304

hiiii. i’m considering building a “let’s splosh” and was wondering if anyone has anything else to add about their experience with it? i get the feeling that having one live beside a matrix mixer would open up a ton of sensitive/chaotic passageways. any particular modules you like feeding into it?

also does anyone have an old mouser cart etc laying around from a past build?

the bom is a little vague so i thought i’d ask here first,

thanks!

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#305

I’ve quite enjoyed it but my use has been “limited” to patching fun things into it and getting fun things out. That always works, for the record.

I haven’t done anything remotely smart with it yet but some of the things I like patching into it includes:

  • Several øchd LFO outputs
  • Random sample & hold in different rates
  • Several outputs from one or two oscillators to get new waveforms (for example all outputs from a Tides).
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#306

oh man, splosh with a matrix mixer would prob make yr head explode scanners style. its a lot to keep track of on its own depending how varied you get with your input sources, never mind matrix’n it…

here is my mouser essentials cart…

https://www.mouser.com/ProjectManager/ProjectDetail.aspx?State=EDIT&ProjectGUID=5d8d1413-f546-4676-bde3-d2c1e1396f5a

…then tayda for resistors (which are dirt cheap, and its a minimum $5 purchase, so get a ton of everything, because a) you will invariably sneeze and lose some and b) nlc designs use a lot of the same values and i’d be willing to bet this won’t be your last foray into them) leds, jacks and power pin.

https://www.taydaelectronics.com/50-x-smd-chip-resistors-1-0k-ohm-1-8w-1-0805.html
https://www.taydaelectronics.com/50-x-smd-chip-resistors-10k-ohm-1-8w-1-0805.html
https://www.taydaelectronics.com/50-x-smd-chip-resistors-100k-ohm-1-8w-1-0805.html
https://www.taydaelectronics.com/led-3mm-yellow.html (do not get super bright as per the instructions. they are too bright, unless you want to burn your eyes out or do the math to figure out an alternative resistance calculation. these yellows work great with 10k as is, but anything with similar fwdV will do)
https://www.taydaelectronics.com/hardware/3-5mm-plugs-jacks/pj-3001f-3-5-mm-mono-phone-jack.html
https://www.taydaelectronics.com/2x40-pin-2-54-mm-double-row-pin-header-strip.html

let me know if something is missing…have fun!

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#307

wow thank you for all the info! vv helpful.
your video above was actually a big selling point for me…

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#308

Just launched the new nonlinearcircuits.com website! Still in the process of cleaning up years of blog posts and Andrew is working on some new photos/content for his current set of modules. The new site hopefully helps keep all things NLC organized, at least when it comes to a centralized location for his modules, BOM/Build guides, etc… Order a panel/pcb & help him work out his new order-fulfillment workflow! :v:

You can hit any 404 page to find Randy.

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