‘Tritussy’ (Cocoquantus Quantussy Clone) Custom Unit

lilskullymane · March 6, 2021, 4:56pm

peter blasser’s quantussy from the ciat lonbarde cocoquantus, brought to the er-301. the ‘tritussy’ custom unit is a three petaled flower, each petal containing a triangle wave oscillator that can be cross connected to the other petals in different ways - from very slow lfo speeds to high audio rates… designed to give many options for spiraling, unpredictable, but somewhat repeating, fractal like patterns.

here is a brief overview of the quantussy and how it works

TLDR

Each VCO in cocoquantus clocks two S&H. One S&H is sampling one of the other VCO’s triangle wave. This is the S&H that produces the ‘castle’ output. The other S&H samples the castle output of the other VCO and this is fed through a VCA to FM the VCO that is doing the clocking. The VCA’s control input is the Chaos pot, which controls the level of FM on all the oscillators at once.

the front panel consists of -

vcas for each vco & castle out (summed into the main mix out) edit - keep the sum under/equal to 1 to avoid clipping
a three way range switch for each oscillator (cvable which isn’t possible on the cocoquantus)
fm inputs (blue jacks on the cocoquantus quantussy) that can act as individual frequency controls for each petal
toggles that turn on and off the blue leds (the 2 sample & holds for each petal turn into track & holds) and the yellow leds (changes ‘partner’ vco, see ‘overview’ link above) in the center lozenge for each petal (green jacks on the cocoquantus quantussy, very fun modulating this with any of the 3 vco outs)
a global speed knob, and a global ‘chaos’ knob, which sets the modulation depth for all the cross modulations (the global knobs are also cvable, which isn’t possible on the cocoquantus)
each individual vco/castle output can be tapped in the local routings, scrolling all the way to the right and selecting a choice with 5 asterisks (vco 1 *****, castle3 *****, etc)

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there are 3 versions (mono only) -

packaged for v 0.6.02
Tritussy.pkg (45.4 KB)

v 0.5.04 - 0.4.27

_lite (2 petals, blue lozenge LED, 30%)
tritussy_lite.unit (181.6 KB)
_min (3 petals, blue lozenge LED, 51%)
tritussy_min.unit (270.3 KB)
_max (3 petals, yellow & blue lozenge LEDs, 69%)
tritussy_max.unit (378.7 KB)

firmware v 0.4.27 or later, requires accents. everything looks good in v 0.6.02 as well but feel free to ping me if somethings not working. to get started, turn up the vco 1 panel control and turn up the chaos knob. vcos are triangles and castles are s&h unless the blue leds are on. the lite and min versions are great as audio/modulation sources for @scttcmpbll’s ‘trash echo’ custom unit!

would love some feedback! (im new to this and there’s probably plenty of room for improvements). i made this to better understand the coco as well as the custom unit architecture of the 301. and i hope this is interesting to others looking to explore the amazing world of ciat lonbarde

nabra

Bparticle · February 23, 2021, 8:24pm

Whoa thanks! I never played with any ciat lonbarde instrument but they have fascinated me for forever. Hope to get a feel for them with these units. Those modulation shapes look great!!

lilskullymane · February 23, 2021, 10:14pm

thank you there’s so much play and joy to be found in pb’s instruments, whether you understand them on a deep level or have no idea what the hells going on. i really like that they steer towards more chaotic and darker sounds as well. here’s a great video of some quantussy mangling through both delays of the coco -

avenir · February 23, 2021, 10:18pm

Wow! Thanks! I will try later😄

joe_biomassa · February 23, 2021, 11:02pm

tried the “max” unit so far. already a sea of gorgeous and very useful sounds. i have not had a chance to play with a physical quantussy (i own and love only the plumbutter 2 and a shbobo shnth) but from what i understand from videos, you nailed it! congrats and thanks! will try the “smaller” units as mod sources.

lilskullymane · February 23, 2021, 11:01pm

that’s great news really appreciate the words

hyena · February 24, 2021, 10:12am

yay! great units! more chaos!!!

lilskullymane · February 24, 2021, 5:28pm

glad you like it. and thanks for beta testing just missing the nice smell of the wood and alligator clips

Bparticle · February 24, 2021, 8:19pm

I tried the max version today, briefly, and I had a hard time keeping it from clipping, but apart from that it’s a wonderfully mysterious and unpredictable unit! I’m curious to see if I can get some understanding just by noodling around…

lilskullymane · February 24, 2021, 11:25pm

hmmm maybe i should have attenuated the sliders a bit. try keeping the sum of the vcos/castles under 1 and it should be ok! (could also go into - edit controls for the front panel and clamp the values to 0-1 instead of 0-5 to lower the chance of clipping)

also messing with some coco techniques like preset voltages into the blue fm ins to tune to melodies, like a chaotic troika box. castles though a quantizer driving external vcos/vs samples is always a good time too

Bparticle · February 26, 2021, 12:42pm

Oh by the way, if you load the “max” unit in a stereo chain, the machine crashes, probably because of a close to double load on the CPU? I tried it three times before I figured out what was happening.

lilskullymane · February 26, 2021, 10:26pm

the lite version might run on a stereo chain would be nice for some CL stereo goodness. appreciate you messing around with it though

was thinking of (at the cost of a few cpu%) setting up the 3 vcos in three mono mixers in the subchain of the blue/yellow toggles. muting/unmuting them would feel more like banana patching/stacking instead of diving into the local routings every time.