I am unsure if the “mental” modules are available and running on windows 10 and Rack V2. Among other things, there was a module called “Radiobuttons” that had the name-giving function and was very useful. Do we have a similar module from another developer? I can’t find any other in the library.
There are 2 groups of 7 in- and out-ports. In each froup unly one in-out-connection can be active at a given time (like radio buttons on an oldschool radio).
A radio button has always only one position with a selection of e.g. 3 possibilities. I think it comes from the old radios where the radio band was selected with it, see photo.
In the case of the “mental” module there are two separate switches with a selection of maximum seven positions.
Maybe ‘Switch 8 8’ by Bogaudio can do the same if in the context menu the following options are checked:
- Exclusive switching by rows
- Exclusive switching by columns
Thank you. I did not know the context menu.
Maybe ‘1-8-1’ by catronomix does a better job. At the top of this module there is a rotary switch that does the trick.
Thank you, I am using this module at the moment. But the function is not as intuitive as with a toggle switch. The “mental” module was optimal because you could click on it and it is very slim.
I only recently learned of this module, and I really like the concept - I had been looking for something like it for a while. I just wish it supported polyphony
I think the SWITCH81 or SWITCH18 module is closer (with exclusive mode enabled).
But they allow either selecting one of 8 inputs to be routed to a single output, or a single input routed to one of 8 outputs. The Mental has multiple in/out pairs, and only one pair can be enabled at a time.
If the 8x8 had a mode that allowed only a single button to be activated at a time, then it would then match the mental radio buttons functionality as long as you restricted yourself to a single diagonal.
the cage can be a
a 1 to 12 switch
a 12 to 1 switch
a 12 to 12 bridges
a 12 single trig
a 12 single gate
actvable like a radio button
with keyboard
with pulse
with cv
with quantize mode
Thank you very much for your suggestion. In principle, this would be very good, but you can not see the “switch position”. I think the Bogaudio “Switch81”, as suggested above by @DaveVenom, comes closest. But by the way, what is a “vcvs” file used for, and how is it normally loaded? I could open the file only with the Windows Explorer “Open with…” dialog with Rack.exe.
Thank you very much. That’s good to know.