Also the waveform mixing on the dual oscillator can have a lot of phase cancellation and you can create square waves from saws and triangles :) They won't always do this because the two oscillators aren't synced and so won't always be phase aligned, but It's something to consider.
@robertsyrett - thanks! that's a bug I just caught :) I'll check out these patches.
Here's v6, with a very exciting Tube VCA that sounds as good as you're gonna get to tube on that little CPU, IMHO! It even has a nice feedback option. I'm finding that atan(x) is much more musical and smooth than the harsher tanh(x) soft clipper, btw.
Wait, so the tube VCA has a feedback that is run though a Z-1 node. It acts a lot like the damp knob on the optomix and actually makes the sound darker. I'm used to feedback making things more resonant and eventually self-oscillating.
@robertsyrett - the feedback on my tube starts to choke the sound and make it (at some settings) almost sound like an HPF is being applied - it's pretty close on this module! :) It doesn't self-oscillate, but if you can figure out how to make that happen, i'd be grateful
@robertsyrett - I added a negative feedback option for the tube VCA (which self-oscillates a little), so 0.5 = no feedback, 0 = negative feedback, 1 = positive feedback
v8 with gateable quantizer and some other repackaged utilities.
61!!! new/reused modules in this library right now. Break 100 by tonight??? maybe...
If you don't notice already, check out this patch below - it shows the advantage of this form factor. Tightly packed modules (more controls on a screen at a time), you can stack modulation modules below the modules they're modulating while keeping the clock/sequencer/audio patch relatively straight at the top, making the patch easier to "read" for others.
I got the quantizer finished. I included 8 scales. Major, natural minor, harmonic minor, pentatonic major, pentatonic minor, blues major, blues minor. All are even temperament. To simplify there is no tuning of individual notes. I stored each scale as the decimal equivalent of a 12 digit binary number so I was able to reduce the demuxes to one for scale storage. I included the binary/decimal converters in case anyone wants to change the scales
One issue I seem to have, at least on the mac, I can connect to the gate-able toggle, but once connected, I can't disconnect it. I can't disconnect the ones on your version 8 post either. Am i missing something? Tried on the iPad as well, same deal.
@stschoen@robertsyrett - yeah its not ideal as is, but you can delete the module you have gating it to get rid of the wire. I’ll talk to Taylor about this as a feature add. The problem is more when you have outputs on buttons where you cant push the button (easily) without getting a wire pulled out. A compromise is to have the I/o slightly offset from the button, but aesthetically I like them right on the button for this collection at least.
Also since people are starting to add their own stuff, one standard I’m shooting for is that all oscillators output (roughly) in the -1 to 1 range. If you stack multiple oscillators on one another they can have a tendency to add up to more than that. Just something to consider for predictable VCF/VCA drive response.
@robertsyrett - you can cut/paste what is connected to it and the wire will disappear - or undo. But for now I’m leaving it centered pending what might be a minor fix from Taylor just for some unified design rules. This is definitely a kind of exercise in simplicity/unified aesthetic that I love about Audulus - think of how many iterations I’ve personally gone theough since v3 came out let alone all the other aesthetics cropping up! Thats one thing I love so much about Audulus I can usually tell who made something just by how it looks :) the notes being highlighted is a great add though so I replaced it with your version
And yeah I’m harmonically boring major/minor is most of what i’m interested in personally so a mini quant like that is awesome. Will make another with pentatonic too since its nice to have the bass playing the pentatonic scale and the melody on the more expanded one.
Actually, what I would like to see is a toggle/trigger that could be connected to natively. Input >0 would switch the trigger on and switch states on the toggle. The same idea as the knob, but 1 and 0 only. I made a copy of the quantizer I posted with the gates.
Here's a minimalist design where I extracted the guts. Roll your own scale by inputting a 12 digit binary number (in decimal of course). I included some to get you started. Root goes from A=0 to G#=12, transpose is +-6 semitones.
@biminiroad that patch is outstanding. I've been letting it play for several minutes now and it's very melodic, it hasn't repeated as far as I can tell bu tit always seems to be going somewhere! Think I'll build a uMod version of the Riemannian with just the primary transforms.