New Loco Modules - A Texture sampler and double pendulum LFO

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Windows please :slight_smile:

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thanks but when I press load png file and choose some nothing is happened. try different png, different file names - same result. Windows

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That’s very strange. It works from me (I have tried different png formats). Sorry: I don’t know :frowning:

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sorry, this is bug from screenshot saver program, other png work fine!

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thank you for the modules! one note - I’ve got zero volts at the bottom border when y = 10volts. and when y = 10 and x = 0 I’ve got strange trigger signal.

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is it possible to have a built for linux?

@lukeperkin the CHAOS could become one of my favorite LFOs :+1:

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Thanks, I’ve added this to the released page on github.

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Hey @lukeperkin and welcome to writing rack modules

and your modules look super cool

May help since you are releasing binaries yourself now, I wrote up a thing a while ago about using free azure pipelines to make github releases automatically for linux, macos, and windows on every push to master. Azure Pipelines for Github allows build of plugin

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@lukeperkin I’m testing now your TEX module and noticing that CV input of Y axis doesn’t match with some of XY controller in VCV (from JW and from Voxglitch), it has such an inverted value of Y axis. Could you add invert Y axis option in right-click menu?

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Yes, a specification for the XY controllers at the TEX module would be helpful. The knobs values are added to the incoming CV values? So the XY controllers are often leaving the picture range?

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At the Chaos module I am missing a reset trigger input to stop the pendulums. Also it could not been used as LFO because the pendulums need a new kick after some time, it would be nice to have the possibility to switch this behavior off.

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@VCVRackIdeas good point, I’ll make sure TEX and CHAOS have consistent co-ordinates with other modules by default. @jue CV in is added to the knob value but clamped, I’ll make sure to mention that in the manual. The pendulums should keep going for a decent time if you leave Dampen off, at the moment I’m using just Euler integration so it’s not the most accurate simulation, I think I could make it last even longer if I switch to RK4 or an energy conserving integrator.

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Thanks! This looks interesting, will definitely take a look.

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Sorry, I just now noticed this was directed at me.

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New release here https://github.com/perky/LocoVCVModules/releases/tag/Nightly for all platforms.

  • Switch between two different integrators for CHAOS. Runge Kutta is a more accurate simulation however is more expensive on the CPU. Euler is the simplest integration and cheapest, however it can introduce issues such as the total energy of the system increasing or decreasing over time.
  • There are two KICK modes available from the context menu: “keep velocity” and “clear velocity”. Keep Velocity will keep whatever velocity the two pendulums had before the kick, I recommend you dampen then pendulums if this is set.
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Hi, I find your modules to be very interesting. Both Tex and Chaos can be really useful. I just noticed that your modules weren’t available through the VCV library. Is it an intentional decision? Just felt that these modules will be highly appreciated by the community, will be much easier to find if it is available through the VCV library (though i had no trouble installing it from Github).

Thanks for these awesome modules and congratulations on the progress you are making on the Wired VR project. Thank you

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I got distracted and just never got round to it! Thanks for reminding me though, will see if I can get them on the library when I have a spare moment this week.

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Great, Thanks a lot.

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I played with the TEX module and some Instruo’s modules

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