Loving the module. It's making a lot of things possible. There are a couple of things I'd love to be considered in a future firmware: 1. Bypass the internal envelope. The envelope is great, but modular is about extensibility and I'd really like to have other options sometimes. It would be great to bypass the internal VCA/envelope and have an always open gate which I could then handle in other parts of the rack. I'm a particular big fan of very slow attack envelopes with Tides, for instance, and the poly nature of this module works brilliantly for these slow build pads. Even with the release and sustain fully open it doesn't really hack it for me. For a similar function, the way the Subharmonicon does it with a long press on the EG button to keep the vca open would be an ideal approach. Maybe hold shift and turn the release knob all the way or similar. 2. As a less important companion to this, being able to forward midi gate triggers from the midi in to the trigger would be super useful (assuming that the trigger could act as an out as well as an in). Given that it's unlikely that you'd ever need to send a trigger gate into the module when MIDI is attached, perhaps the trigger port could switch to out when a jack is plugged into MIDI in, and then replicate any triggers out of that port. This would enable those gates to be sent to other destinations in the rack. Anyway, looking forward to the next build and cheers for a great module.
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The maximum attack time is 8 seconds.
What is the attack time slowest time?
I was thinking to have an alternative "slow" mode in which it lets us dial way longer attack times for those of use that like that.
Im interested in buying one in the next months.
If you turn the Decay to just past the midway point it will sustain indefinitely. Turning it further will lower the sustain level. So as long as midi never receives noteOff it will sustain forever.
basically yes, droning. I'll try and record an example for you later. but essentially, let's say I hold a chord down on a midi keyboard, even with the sustain open and the release full, the sound fades gradually. so if I wanted to do some sharp gates over a very long held chord, I can't really do that without retriggering poly cinematic. the same thing is true if I just send an open gate to the trigger. Essentially I'd like a constant drone of the notes. voice stealing would be fine when you hit polyphony limit, this is how i'd expect it to work anyway so that I can move through voicings without retriggering notes. But basically whilst the midi note is on, the gate should be fully open and the vca fully open, so that I can deal with amp envelopes elsewhere in the rack.
Hi There, Thanks for your suggestions. 1) I’m not sure how to handle the polyphony in your proposal, would all 8 voices be droning? As an alternative method have you tried pulling out the midi trs cable, this will play the current notes indefinitely. Or continuous triggering might work, there is new firmware coming out in mid January that can be retriggered without note stealing. 2) trigger out is already top of my list for hardware improvements, it would open up many paraphonic eg/filter options in the modular world, unfortunately the trigger in can not be repurposed as an output but I’ll have a think about this.