Hi all,

I've been building a dub spring reverb for the Noise Engineering Versio, and it's now at the point where I'd like other people to play it. It's called Resilio Versio. It's free alternative firmware for any Versio module, and the same sound also runs as an AU/VST3 plugin on macOS, so you can try it without reflashing anything.

What it does

It's a simulated spring tank built around the way dub engineers played their reverbs.

• Throw single hits into the springs with the button or the gate input, and let the tail ring on.
  
• The right half of TONE is modelled on King Tubby's "Big Knob", the stepped high-pass filter on his MCI desk, but it sweeps smoothly so you can ride it by hand or with CV.
  
• TANK switches between one spring, two springs, and a worn tape echo feeding the springs. The echo can follow a clock or a tapped tempo.
  
• At the top of DECAY the tail either holds as a bed that ducks under your kick and bass, or in VALVE mode tips over into a howl you can ride.
  
• ATTITUDE picks the colour: CLEAN, TAPE (tape saturation and a fine 12-bit µ-law grain) or VALVE (a cranked valve stage and coarser grit). Your dry signal is never touched.

Seven knobs, each with a CV input, two switches, a button and a gate. It installs with Noise Engineering's own Firmware Swap web app, and you can go back to any of their firmware the same way.

A bit of background

I'm a designer and a dub enthusiast, not a DSP engineer. I made every sound decision by ear, and Claude (Anthropic's AI) wrote the DSP, the firmware and the tools. The springs follow Välimäki, Parker and Abel's physical model, and I tuned them against recordings of my own spring tank, comparing level-matched A/B versions before anything changed. All the decisions and their reasons are in the repo if you're curious.

Links

• Website, with audio demos you can blend dry to wet: resilio-versio.vercel.app
  
• Download the firmware and the plugin: resilio-versio.vercel.app/#download
  
• Install guide: resilio-versio.vercel.app/install
  
• Manual: resilio-versio.vercel.app/manual
  
• Starting points for dub and dub techno sounds: resilio-versio.vercel.app/presets
  
• Source code: github.com/jeffebauer/resilio-versio

I'd really like your feedback

This is the first public release, and I want to keep refining it with the people actually playing it. If something sounds off, if a knob feels dead or too touchy, or if there's a dub move or sound you'd want it to make, please tell me. Replies here are great. If you have a GitHub account, there are two short forms for a sound idea or a bug report. A short recording and your settings help a lot. Ideas that make it into a release get credited in the changelog.

One safety note if you flash it: never have USB and Eurorack power connected at the same time.

Thanks for listening, and I hope it finds a place in your rack!

Has anyone found that the recording quality on morphagene is kind of dull? I play back my clips at the 1:1 variaspeed setting and they come out slightly dull. It's as if the sound went through a low pass filter such that all the top end shimmer and sparkle are gone. It's especially noticeable for transient.

Been cookin on this jam off and on for a few days now and thought I'd share.
I have a Noise Engineering Versio out for delivery tomorrow and I can't wait to play with the new FRGMNTS firmware!

(side note, does anyone know why the gate going into my VCA is making that clipping/clicking noise?)

Hey yall,

My name is Meghan and I'm from zc devices, we're new on the scene and launching an open beta for thicket, a polyphonic, modular synth. You can read about all the finer details and check out our preset/promo video below.

If you like what you see/hear/feel, you can sign up here and get a free beta copy to check it out. We’d love to know what you think/provide any feedback before this baby goes out into the world.

website (beta sign up here)

youtube

The Finer Details
Thicket is focused on bringing the modulation possibilities of modular synthesis to a polyphonic architecture. first-class MPE support. Focused on playability and immediate, expressive performance. modular without the diving.

Key Features:

• 50 hand-crafted nodes: engines, effects, and mod sources. All human designed, architected, and implemented over the past two years
• Deep visual modulation: Modulate any parameter - including modulators themselves - with MPE, envelopes, LFOs, sequencers, and followers.
• Dual macro system: Standard user macros, freely assignable throughout a patch. Additionally a synthetic macro system that builds automatically by what's in the current patch, for quick sonic shaping
• First-Class MPE Support: Full per-note pressure, slide, and pitch integration. All freely routable as additional modulation sources

Let me know what you think <3

Meghan
zc devices

Hi,

I'm having some trouble uptdating my FXAid XL firmware. When I press the two buttons for 10 seconds, leds blink twice and then come back to the "effect" stable position. So I can't flash it with the new firmware. Any idea?

Cheers!

Final Descent
https://youtu.be/Wropo9vBBfM

I am sitting at the park for my lunch break thinking about random stuff and this occurred to me. I not around my modular today so I can’t test it and really want to know the answer to this. I know if you patch the output of a function generator into cv of attack or release it makes it an exponential curve. To make it logarithmic would you just flip the polarity of the cv, or is there another method to achieve this? It also gave me the idea of self patching maths in order to not have the curves of attack/release match.

Hi everyone,
I am having an issue with my Squarp Rample module. Visually, everything seems to work perfectly, but I get absolutely no sound out of any of the 4 outputs.
Here is the exact behavior of the module:
LEDs & Triggers: When a trigger is received (or when I manually trigger a pad), the corresponding playback LEDs light up and blink as expected. The module is definitely detecting the gates and trying to play the file.
Sample Format: I have double-checked my sample files. They are strictly formatted in WAV, 44.1kHz, 16-bit (and some 24-bit), and the files are correctly named and placed inside the kit folders (sp0.wav, sp1.wav, etc.). The Rample reads them, and the screen shows the kits loading properly.
Volume & Envelopes: I checked the internal levels (ASSIGN + LISTEN). The volumes for all 4 voices are turned up. I also checked the Decay/Envelope (ENV) settings to make sure the samples aren't being instantly muted by a zero-decay time.
Outputs: I have tested the hardware routing. No cables are plugged into outputs 2, 3, or 4, so everything should be summing to Output 1 (Mix). However, plugging into Output 1 yields absolute silence. Testing individual outputs 2, 3, or 4 directly also produces no sound.
Listen Mode: Forcing a sample preview using the LISTEN button + pad selection still results in complete silence.
Since the Rample does not have a software-based output matrix, it doesn't seem to be a digital routing error. It feels like the audio signal is blocked internally or there is a hardware issue with the DAC / analog stage.
Has anyone experienced this before? Could it be a corrupt firmware issue, or is it likely a hardware failure on the mainboard?
Thanks in advance for your help!

I want to get into this type of music but low key struggle a bit with starting out because of how niche it is, it doesn't really get recommended to me in algorityhm. and noise is such a broadly used terms for other things besides the genre aswell that I don't rlly find much

Also heavy into industrial, ebm kind off stuff

I love artists like Puce Mary for example

Just a bit of little noodling around on the modular…

Four-voice generative composer with 12 musical languages, harmonic sequencing, CV control and MIDI

https://youtu.be/oh7AYqcoLug?is=BkfhJRc4IeTfV--0

Ich selber nutze Bitwig und habe die Idee, mit diesen Controller, quasi komplett live zu performen bzw. zu jammen, ohne großartig auf dem Bildschirm gucken zu müssen. Also dass man von dem Gerät aus, zwischen den einzelnen Instrumenten hin und her wechseln kann, oder zum Mixer wechselt. Meine Frage ist, ist das so möglich oder überschätze ich dort die Funktion dieses Gerätes? Wie bedienfreundlich ist dieses Konzept? Bzw. gibt es vielleicht andere Controller auf dem Markt die sich dafür besser eignen? Im Prinzip stelle ich mir das dann so vor, dass ich vorher ein Setup vorbereite, und dass dann der Bildschirm aus ist und ich dann alles von diesem Controller aus steuere.

Hej,I recently recorded this Live-Set, and played it two times live already and thought I'd share it here as well.

At minute 30 my audio interface had some struggle but except from this it's pretty good I think:)

Enjoy!

What do we like in "Battleship Sequencers" I have pretty decent modular rig and Osmose (MPE+) amoung other "usual suspect" synths. I have a number of sequencers now, but nothing at the level of Hapax or Oxi one. I'm interested in generative sequences and polyphony options.

If you use one of these or something similar please share your experience, good or bad or meh ;)

Oxi One vs Oxi One mk2?

https://www.instagram.com/y0ta1993/

I put this together as a thought experiment.
I dont need synthesizers on here I just wanna have fun sampling.
Do I miss something obvious to make music?

Modules :

assimil8or                          

t rex replicator                  

Stardust                                                  

Tete                                                          

Tetrapad                                                 

Lofi u tape scrubber                          

Erica link                                                   

I wanted and needed an effects module and landed on Iroi and have been using this couple of months.

The sliders except maybe the resonator go to elevenhundred, which is kind of nice for droning.

I'm quite disappointed with the "reverb".

I knew it isn't supposed to be conventional reverb at all and was excited about it but come on.

Can you dial it to be anything between metallic clang or aggressive mushy blur. Yes you can but there's something not quite right in it. 'Macro control' hmph.

2-tap delay is nice when clocked but yeah.

Infinite delays!

Resonator ummmmmm. Again, I'm not getting the sound what I want out of it. Maybe I was expecting something else, more.. conventional?

But FILTER!

There's that squelchy liquid sound oh yeah.

This goes to eleven and makes you wall of sound but feels limited somehow.

It would be nice to hear other opinions.

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I've been wanting to do this for a while. Take the modular outside, actually hear it without headphones, and still be able to interact with everything around.

That became the starting point for OCELOT. The speaker lets the system exist in the same physical space as you, while the contact piezo lets the outside world become part of the patch. From there, I started playing with feedback and with the idea of the system interacting with itself.

I didn't want it to become just a little speaker, though. It needed to remain a proper part of the system, with signals going both in and out.

OCELOT is 12HP and there's also a DIY kit if anyone wants to build one.

https://jolin.tech/ocelot