I’m pleased to announce my new module called Sapphire Chaops, a left-expander that adds new functionality to the chaos generators Frolic, Glee, and Lark:
- Store/recall the state of the chaos module with 16 independent memory cells. Allows you to reset/sync the chaos state, or set up repeating output patterns.
- Morph the output between position vectors and velocity vectors. This greatly expands the variety of chaotic signals you can create.
- Freeze: pause/resume movement of the chaos output.
You can operate all three functions manually, with control voltages, or both.
Here’s a video that explains all this stuff in detail.
I’m eager to hear what you think! I’ll be watching here for your questions, comments, and other feedback.
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Thank you, Don, this is another ingenious addition to the Sapphireverse! I look forward to experimenting with Chaops. 
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I just wanted to let everyone know that I discovered a bug in Chaops today. When you place Frolic/Glee/Lark to the right of Chaops, and change the MORPH control to any value other than zero, the polyphonic P output is correct, the Tricorder graph is correct, but the monophonic X, Y, Z outputs still act like MORPH is zero. This is wrong because X, Y, Z are always supposed to match the 3 channel voltages in P.
Fortunately, there is an easy workaround: if you want to use MORPH and you need independent X, Y, Z values, for now you can run the P output through a splitter.
This video demos the bug and the suggested workaround:
I will fix this in the next maintenance release. For tracking purposes, this is issue #77 in the Sapphire GitHub repo.
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