W/: ideas

[tejomay]

[borrowing approach from ^^ crow: ideas]

Given the plethora of i2c commands available in the upcoming W/2 firmware, I thought it would be a good idea to have a thread to spec out app ideas for W/.

What can we come up w/ W/ and, what? crow, norns, Teletype, Max for Live, more W/s — much is on the table.

W/Tape:

Mannequins W/2 Beta Testing

this post is a Wiki. you can edit it if you’d like to add clarifications or questions W/Tape W/Tape takes the original W/ firmware and strips it back to the essentials. It’s designed to operate as a virtual tape deck with a large memory (~8 hours), for capturing performances and sonic vignettes. Full vari-speed control, even while recording, allows histories to be manipulated in a performative style. The static ‘cues’ of v1 have been removed, instead opting for a simple live-looping style. Thi…

W/Del:

Mannequins W/2 Beta Testing

this post is a Wiki. you can edit it if you’d like to add clarifications or questions W/Del Something between a tape echo and BBD delay. You get ~2seconds of delay time at 1x speed. You can (dramatically) reduce the speed to get loops up to 20ish seconds. Controls loop yellow: Mix white: Freeze (toggle on/off) play yellow: lowpass (currently non-functional) white: modulation amount. positive is fast rate, negative is slow rate record yellow: time white: feedback loop + play: tap-tempo…

W/Syn:

Mannequins W/2 Beta Testing

this post is a Wiki. you can edit it if you’d like to add clarifications or questions W/Syn 2-op FM poly synth. Can be triggered with v8 & gate as a complete synth voice, or via i2c for full poly control. Params loop yellow: LPG time. envelope time of the ‘vactrol’. down is slower, up is faster. (big range!) white: LPG symmetry. skews shape of the ‘vactrol’. down is faster attack (and default is almost at the minimum). up is a big lazy ramp up. play yellow: FM envelope amount. Sets the am…

Quoting from the crow thread:

ideas for scripts + functions, please post here.

include detail! the more detail provided, the better we can collectively assess the possibility of realization and how an idea might become a real thing.

[tejomay]

I’ll start by parapharsing myself from the W/2 beta thread:

W/Tape — tape sequencer

A recording process where the tape head skips around in a programmatic and/or stochastic way (modulate timestamp ?); tape speed ( freq ) and erase head ( rec_level ) could also be sequenced.

Imagine keys, drums, or even a human voice cut up, splayed, stretched, layered, and re- and/or de-constructed along some portion of the W/ tape… 2 HP Cubism.

This could be accomplished in crow, norns, or Teletype.

[vinc]

Haven’t tried the new beta fw yet. For tt and w/ I always want something like:
WS.TIME -2 to 2 //control the playback speed
Even better with slew control on change of speed:
WS.SLEW 500 //slew the speed 500 sec

[plainjanefrancis]

I love the simplicity of the M4L ^^W_Synth. I’d love to see a M4L ^^W_Tape device as well. Maybe something similar to the functions of Morphagene. Being able to midi map 4 knobs to tape speed, loop length, loop start, and “slide” window within the loop. Basically a 4hp morphagene max 4 live device

Even better! If the device also took the synced pulse out feature from Lubadh. So maybe all 4 outs (or an out of your choice) of crow (or W/'s this and that) could send time division clocked pulses/lfos in sync with the loop.

[cosmicsoundexplorer]

That sound like an awesome crow script too! 4 inputs mapped to the 4 parameters, plus 4 outs for all the extra goodies!