Hi @trickyflemming, this should be resolved now and the plugin was updated. Apologies for the delay.
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No algorithm. People.
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Excellent, thank you!
Ha, yes, I was speaking of algorithms in the more general āset of proceduresā sense , which are frequently executed via the actions of humans.
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Hey there, and thanks so much again for the terrific Phasor module set.
Presently I have a bit of an issue. Iām trying to use Stoermelder Transit to select different patterns in the sequencers, and the gate switches arenāt responding to it.
On Count Modulas gate sequencer (which does work with Transit) the gate toggles print on/off state on mouseover or right click, which does not happen in the HetrickCV modules. Iām guessing thatās related.
Any chance this could be addressed? Thanks again.
HetrickCV SCANNER saved my butt tonight.
I had a polyphonic oscillator set up to play a note plus 7 partials. I needed to be able to change the volumes such that only a few of them, say, three, could be heard at any one time, and they had to be contiguous. I initially used the eight phased outputs of Bogaudioās 8FO, merged, then used it as a poly CV for VCA. It worked, but it was only going in one direction and got rather boring. I knew I wanted to be able to go back and forth.
That made me think of the HetrickCV phasor-based modules. I stumbled across SCANNER and once I got the gist of it I knew it was just the ticket. I put 10V onto the āAll Inā, and fed a signal from Bogaudioās WALK to the Scan input. It worked like a charm, especially once I figured out the business with Width and Slope to add 2 or 4 of the the adjacent notes as it randomly went up and down.
The next step was to swap out the (proof of concept) poly VCO for a poly narrow band-pass VCF through which I fed some pink noise. The result sounded much like the Sygyt style of Tuvan overtone singing (minus the fundamental drone), which is what I was going for.
So, yay!
(or maybe āDÅmo arigatÅgozaimasuā, as Retsuko would say)
[edit] It occurs to me now that I could have split the audio and run that through SCANNER just as easily as using it to produce the poly CV for VCA. Then again, with the poly CV it was easy to visualize the relative levels between the channels using a NYSTHI PolyVoltageMeter.
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I have four (!) new modules up for testing before I send them to the library. I had a long day at the airport and found a few hours to catch up on some ideas that had been sitting around for a while. Let me know if you encounter any bugs before I submit them to the library:
- Phasor Splitter: Kind of a large timeline organizer for phasor-based composition. It outputs up to 64 different phasors sequentially, either via scanning or reset stepping.
- Phasor Freezer: A small utility that is essentially an upgrade of Phasor Reset. You can take any phasor and freeze it or reset it.
- Phasor Probability: A variation on my Probability module that instead takes in a phasor signal and routes it to one of two outputs. This has a lot of compositional value!
- Trigonometric Shaper. What?! Not another phasor module? This is a nice, computationally inefficient waveshaper that turns a bipolar saw LFO into trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, and tangent, each with regular, hyperbolic, and arc variations).
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Use a lookup table for functions that you donāt have a good approximation for. I used it in almost every module I made.
Yep! I speedwrote it on an airplane without internet, and I didnāt want to launder the Unfiltered Audio code. Iām visiting family for the holidays so Iāll try to find time to add approximation functions or LUTs, but Iām always open for pull requests!
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Cool!
This may turn into a feature request, but ā¦
Is there a way to expand or daisy-chain SCANNER to obtain 16 outputs?
I tried interpolating (averaging?) seven pairs of outputs using Bogaudio OFFSET or VCV CVMIX modules, but the interpolated outputs never quite make it to 10V. And that only gives me 15 outputs (because fenceposts).
care to share this throat singing patch? The method and result are both super interesting!
Yup. I had posted it to Wilderness Soundscape Challenge (August 2024) - #7 by john_rose
I forget what you call the chord that the REFTONE modules make.
If the youtube video doesnāt cooperate, hereās the bare link to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEr2O33iEuk
The NYSTHI PVM meter (in the upper right) indicates the levels of the frequencies adjacent to the main one at any given time. That was what SCANNER made possible, with its Width and Slope knobs.
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Off the top of my head thereās not an easy way. Iāll see how tough it would be to create A Scanner Deluxely.
My newest module, Binary Counter is up on the library! There must be something in the air since I finished this the day before DocBās Binary Counter (and awesome new 8-bit set) landed on the library 
This is my take on the XAOC Lipsk + Erfurt combo, where 8 bit inputs are used to set a number that is then used to increment or decrement a counter. Iāll write a documentation update soon, but a general fun patch for this is to connect some of the bit outputs to drum triggers and then experiment with the counter value. I generally like to reset it every 16 steps to get loops out of it.
For more fun, plug some of the bit outputs back into the inputs to shake up the rhythms. This works well with my Gate Junction Expanded where you can mute or invert each bit.
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Ha! Sometimes itās just like thatā¦ 2-3 devs drop similar products at the same time. Funny how that works. 
Anyway, congrats on the release! And thanks for the great modules, they remain super useful here.
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I think there is definitely something in the air ! - new module BinaryCounter incoming from new developer.
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Ummmā¦ do I detect a nod to PKD?
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