Hi guys,
looking again at this thread I was astounded that the discussion has continued. Before I write my probably most redundant reply I once more have to point out (and thereby starting the redundancy) that I’m an old guy with some experience in modular synthesis but not the slightest idea on how computer programming works.
This is my understanding of the topic:
Fehler Fabrik (Ross Cameron) hasn’t updated his modules, especially the beloved Arpanet for some years. Therefore they are incompatible with ARM Macs.
In his first reply Jens Peter Nielsen writes “It seems to be in the works.” while the links he provides rather suggest to me that it isn’t. (Most probably my lack of understanding.)
The “FehlerFabrik 2.0.2 Mac-ARM64 Build” linked in Jens Peter Nielsen’s reply doesn’t work (at least on my ARM Mac).
After Peter Vos thankfully taught me how to do so I was able to to place a working plugin within VCV which Jens Peter Nielsen even more thankfully programmed - as it seems exclusively for me because he provides the download only for a limited time and says he has no intention to make it official.
Also he confirms my suspicion that this exclusive plugin might not survive future updates of VCV and suggests to contact the VCV Support via E-Mail, which I of course did. The reply was: “We don’t tend to adopt plugins that have stopped being updated, but perhaps someone in the VCV Community might be able to with the developer’s permission.”
So my - probably naive - question is: Which technical, legal, and/or ethical reasons hinder if not Jens Peter Nielsen himself then another person of competence to implant Jens Peter Nielsen’s existing plugin to the Fehler Fabrik modules so that they stay accessible for any interested person in the VCV Library?
Should the reasons be legal, and/or ethical, would it be possible to re-label the modules and publish them again? (I remember to have encountered several modules in the VCV Library that were described as “inspired by” or “modified from” other modules.)
Getting REALLY impudent I’d like to point out that Arpanet, like its historical model, suffers from two structural shortcomings:
Each step of the Sequencer can have the logical function ON, OFF, SKIP, or RESET. Unfortunately there are only three Gate Busses. So a fourth Gate Bus would be extremely desirable. Not to compromise the original layout an individual Gate Out jack for each step would be equally effective.
The efficiency of the Arpanet/ARPSequencer would grow dramatically if the Sequential/Random toggle had a logical input (On = Random).
Maybe on the occasion of re-labeling the module a gifted person could cure these shortcomings…
@Squinky: I really love your modules, especially the EV3 for its compact efficiency and its GORGEOUS normalized sum output. If only there were CV inputs for the levels of the three sources of that output…
But I guess I better shut my mouth now before I get expelled from this forum.
Kind regards,
Wieland Samolak