+1, this was the standout for me as well, great track!
Wild that it’s just Hidden Path No Path. Did you utilize any of the JF i2c ops, or just patch cables?
There’s a short bit about this in the manual under Voltage Standards. Teletype ops primarily work with 14-bit integers, but the ADC and DACs are 12-bit, and the VCV Rack version faithfully mimics the hardware behavior (or at least an ideal version of the hardware behavior, since every device will have slightly different conversion within the rated specs of the chips.) The Rack output voltages are tuned to minimize average error rather than being exactly at 0V or 10V, so yes, if you need more precision than +/-0.002V or +/-3 cents you ought to add an external quantizer or rounding module.
(It would be nice to add an option in the future to disable the DAC simulation and get “perfect” 14-bit output, for situations where precision is more important than hardware fidelity, but I suspect this would require patches to the upstream firmware that are more invasive than I currently want to make.)
Thanks for the clarification. I am probably a strange use case as I tend to do a lot of meta-sequencing by sequencing parameter value input “eigenvalues” that produce discrete “eigenstates”. I.E., I set parameter values via CV rather than modulating things with CV.
It could be that Monome s not a good fit for this use case.
Much appreciated! No, I believe that I made it with patch cables only as I don’t remember doing any edits to the preset. I ended up naming it after the i2c ops to keep the song titles consistent. Most of the heavy lifting on that patch is being done by the Rainmaker, as the various echos are adding both the pitch-shifted delay line and that more percussive, hi-hat like sound. I can’t remember how I got that, but I think it was kind of an artifact from pitch shifting a sharp transient.
The other three tracks used this Teletype patch by LaborCamp. I remember doing more edits to it along with a lot of self-patching. He shows the patch around 1:46 here:
I copied that patch as a learning exercise and edited it while recording a couple hours worth of output. I then found three appealing sections and edited those down. I didn’t set out to make an EP out of it, but I ended up really enjoying the results.
Attowatt’s instagram had daily videos of Teletype patches, and that album is the result. There’s a more detailed breakdown here: attowatt — S C R I P T S - Releases - lines
The only modification I made is that I added SCRIPT 1 to the M script. I then set M 400 in the manual prompt, although that could be appended to the I script. I’m trying to recreate the delay sound and am having absolutely zero luck
The PCB fabrication files and bill of materials for DIYing Teletype hardware are available here:
Lots more info including build and troubleshooting tips in this long thread:
You can purchase partially populated PCBs from Pusherman (linked in Nik’s post) and occasionally other vendors. Check the lines thread directly above for some extra info on getting the recent Pusherman board runs working. The Cody Deschenes post linked in Nik’s post also has lots of helpful info.
Version 2.1.5 is in the VCV Library, and it requires the still-prerelease VCV Rack 2.4.0. There is a new minRackVersion setting that should allow future releases of Rack to ignore plugins that require a newer version of VCV Rack than you have installed, but it’s not clear yet how 2.3.0 is expected to behave with this information. If you have difficulties with the official library, the entire past history of manually installable builds are always available on the GitHub releases page.
Anyhow, the only new feature in monome 2.1.5 is support for Rack 2.4.0’s dark panels preference.
I wasn’t going to post here until it was available through the library, but yes, big update posted last night on GitHub for the early adopters! (teletype 5.0, faderbank as teletype parameter expander + hardware interop module, hardware grid mirroring…)
On the blue moon triptych stream this coming Saturday, we’ll have a trio of monome/VCV performances as a sort of release party or something like that, including a rare software-based performance by yours truly. I guess I should stop poking at code and write some music…
The original kria prototype on the white whale hardware
New module: faderbank, a hardware controller and teletype parameter expander
Makes it easier to use a hardware 16n faderbank with VCV Rack; supports automatic MIDI CC/channel mapping via sysex config detection
Also works with non-16n MIDI hardware, either directly if your hardware sends CCs 32-47, or through the standard Rack MIDI-Map module for arbitrary CCs
Adds 16-64 additional 14-bit parameters to teletype via the FADER/FB ops
Teletype 4.0 supports one faderbank; teletype 5.0 supports up to 4 faderbanks/64 parameters
Voltage range is selectable 0-10V, 0-5V, or +/-5V per faderbank
Option to output all 16 voltages on a single VCV Rack polyphonic cable
2.2.3 is now available in the library; it fixes the aforementioned Faderbank pixel gap, and also fader range initialization.
The other major change is a customizable Teletype keyboard map system for supporting international keyboard layouts, more details on how to use it on GitHub here. US Dvorak and UK alt layouts are included as samples, everything else is currently an exercise for the reader.
