Poly Stereo conversion to mindmeld format

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I know this has been discussed before but I can’t find a good answer with search right now.

Ok, so. I have, say, a Surge VCO producing 16 stereo voices. MixMaster has these useful poly inputs addressing specific channels.

Would be nice to use these to get the 16 stereo voices each to a stereo channel. But the Surge outputs are L1…L16 and R1…R16, whereas the MM expects L1R1…L8R8 and L9R9…L16R16.

Is there something out there that handles that conversion without needing to patch the 32 cables? I could’ve sworn there is, but I am probably making things up…

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I set up a BASICALLY to do it now. Easy of course. Still curious if anyone knows another way though. I really thought there was a specific module or something… but it seems I must’ve been dreaming. :slight_smile:

Stereo Interleaver.vcvs (1.2 KB)

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Nysthi to the rescue, I believe

(although I usually just patch the 32 cables with docB M16 S16)

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Nice, but for 16 channels you need to first split the left and right into 4 groups of 8 channels and then use two Interleavers.

There are multiple options to do the spliting. Below I use Venom Multi Split, and then I also show how to go in reverse with Multi Merge. The two Recurse modules are generating convenient values representing the left and right poly signals where the absolute value represents the channel number.

Green (positive) = left
Red (negative) = right
Blue = interleaved

Poly Stereo to MindMeld Format
Poly Stereo to MindMeld Format1675×960 247 KB

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Ah, yes. I was just going from memory. Thanks for illustrating.

Off topic – looks like the logjam is cleared, excited to try yours and CV Funk’s new modules in the library!

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Good memory!

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Thanks both! That’s the one I was thinking of. Good to know I wasn’t actually just making things up. And yeah Dave at one point while thiking about this I had a Multi Split outputting 8l+8l+8r+8r, figuring that has to be a part of the solution. But I couldn’t think where to go next from there.

The BASICally solution is also a good one for me. But I am now also realizing there’s another problem: you don’t get any sound from the insert inputs unless there are cables present at the channel inputs also. That’s a little unfortunate since it means patching 32 cables anyway. Though I guess it is a little bit quicker to just copy a dummy cable over all those inputs than to patch all of them from the right outputs etc. Still, kinda wish there were a way to just use the insert returns even with empty channel inputs.