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Yes, thanks, that helped a lot! It would be nice if the patch could never get stuck, even without manual start modulation. Is there any logic module that can send a trigger when it doesn’t receive a trigger for a certain time?

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A simple backup solution might be to mix the trigger generated from the audio signal with a velvet noise unit running at a very low frequency, which would send random trigs every once in a while…

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Sure just invert+offset the output of the envelope follower and feed it into an envelope generator with a very slow attack, then take that envelope and feed it into a comparator with a pretty high threshold. The comparator would spit out the gates you need.

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Hi!
A new track from my recent album “The Logic of Nonsense”. Sounds created in realtime using 3 manual grains and my voice from a microphone using one Sample Looper. No overdubs and layering in post. Just improvisation …

https://thepleasantview.bandcamp.com/track/few-things-to-discuss

Long live Ligeti!

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Very nice!

Long live The Pleasant View

I have started to score my paintings with pretty random bits of modular recordings. It’s sort of an experiment in synesthesia. Here some examples, more to be found on same IG account

https://www.instagram.com/p/BtBRj9QDbA_/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtVYrxIDC_J/

That last melody must have been mangled through the amazing Custom Unit: Trash Tape - Realtime Crappy Cassette effect (updated for v0.5.x), but I can’t even remember recording it.

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Proud to share this long piece (in fact, the longest I’ve ever composed), which was included as part of the massive ambient compilation spearheaded over on lines. The ER-301 was critical in making this – I basically used it as a tool to layer, process and synthesize nearly a year’s worth of recordings (modular + field). In fact, I’d say it was the catalyst.

Hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!

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hey i’ll also post a track i made for the most recent disquiet junto collab at lines. ER-301 doing all the granular / looped sample playback stuff with (don’t ask lol) me scratching wallpapers.

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latest thing I did on my ER-301…its a bit on the long side :thinking:

its a track i recorded live with my eurorack before I had my 301. this excercise takes the original stereo recording into the 301 into a 3 band chain for various granular fx and internal modulaiton…

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Hey all.

Just got the ER-301 and its a joy! I’m a newbie to all this modular stuff but stumbled into something interesting while studying manual grains and clocked grains.

With intellijel quadratt1U.
White noise → A
B-> output

This way I can scan offset of ‘start’ with B and use A to expand random grains in that area. Its nice to close A so you get a consistent grain. Builds a nice rhythm :smiley:

Triggers from MI Marble.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BuVNvkEBJ9K/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

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Did a bit of playing around with raw sample players and some piano stuff. Decided to do a bit of the beginning of Steve Reich’s Piano Phase.

It’s a fun patch to leave running while doing chores around the house.

https://soundcloud.com/ptynx/er301-phase/s-DvnvT

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Yes! This piece of music was a significant inspiration when I first built the piano sample, (actually in collaboration with @Joe) this kind of phasing is something very dear to me. Strangely I can hear clicks in this more than your other example (again laptop speakers) it would be good to know where they are coming from and find a solution.

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I’ve started a thread about Manual Grains vs Sample Players for playing piano and percusión sounds and I talk about this…
Could the clicks come from stopping the sample playback and going to the new position as a new note is beeing triggered? I guess if you play slow tunes the clicks go away, right?

Today I will upload a versión of the piano Sample player using Manual Grains for you guys to test It.

I am not that familiar with the manual grains unit. But I was wondering whether playing with the Squash Parameter might be helpful to keep those pops and klick in check… did you try to shape the grain envelope that way ( rather cosine than square)?

In the song I just posted, I was using the Variable Speed Player unit. I just did some tests with the same setup, and changing the ‘fade’ parameter from 0ms to 5ms seems to have gotten rid of pretty much all the clicking.

I’m inclined to agree that it is caused by the sample switching from wherever it is in the sample (not necessarily at a zero crossing) to the beginning of the next triggered slice/sample. This sudden change in amplitude results in the click, I believe.

What I tried to say is that with MG’s I don’t have clicks at all against using sample players …

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i see…

hi,
here i basically used MI elements, clouds, er-301 and maths in this drone piece. Towards the end i added some sherman filterbank for some intense distortion.

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and now for something completly different. several processes combined with several inputs all through the 301, in and out of the machine without it even blinking

incredible piece of equipment

https://soundcloud.com/paul-rowberry-946690293/kelly-mix

This is a Plaits-into-Rings drone processed by the ER-301:

Channel 1 is three Schroeder allpass filters in series in a feedback loop with my “Feedback Keeper” custom unit (inverted env follower controlling a VCA to ride the gain as needed for infinite sustain).

Channel 2 is just a granular delay in a feedback loop. 0.25 speed and just a little bit off of +2400 cents.

There’s some some cross-feedback between the two channels, and manual control over the allpasses and the granular delay time via 16n Faderbank. I’m recording the two channels as a mid/side pair into my DAW with some Valhalla Room.

https://soundcloud.com/starthief/no-sudden-moves

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