Seaside Modular Announcements Thread: v2.5.2

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For sure. What I am doing is taking the Meander melody with arp and the bass part and quantizing to your Ahir Bhairav scale as learned by Impromptu Adaptive Quantizer. I hope to not offend any raga purists.

Of course, I am mixing in the Proteus and Jawari parts also. I think it sounds very good and interesting to my raga naive Western ears.

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Oh sure, nothing wrong with using that scale. The crime is in my calling it “ahir bhairav”. But it’s a misdemeanor.

I have a new commit that takes out all the INFO statements.

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Needed to repair disk errors and update to most recent rack version. At least those steps were taken and no more crashes.

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I’m playing with Jawari for the first time tonight, it sounds fantastic, thank you for all the hard work and to all the testers! Very fun module.

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New version, 2.4.2:

Jawari:

• Adds v/oct tuning

Proteus/Px:

• Adds tuning, and bhairavi scales. Tuning mode just outputs C’s and is for tuning your oscillators (holdover from hardware version).

• Fixes bugs loading and saving of sequences

• Density is now accurately maintained when the sequence changes in length

• Sequence light positions have been fixed

• Lights no longer advance during rest, instead light 1 blinks orange

• Rest and Transpose adjustments go away if Px is not connected to Proteus

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Tala, a sample-based tabla machine, is now available for beta testing on github:

Demo video here:

As always, thanks for your help in finding issues, you can mention them here or log them on github.

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Oh wow, this is very exiting! I look forward to testing this, I really like what I’m hearing in the demo. If it’s good there’ll be a new, sudden influx of Indian Rack users :smile:

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The TA button, when pressed first sounds fine, then clicks and right channel goes silent. Not tried yet to trigger it, but suspect it’s the same . The NA one clicks at the end. Triggering does cause same, but even worse, if it cllicks, and sound cuts on right channel, it cuts the wholoe audio out’s left channel until next trigger. Very disconcerting. Happens rarely and not sure which other output does it as I skipped the problem ones. Also I see the DHIN port lighting up as if I pressed the button, occasionally, but there is nothing connected to it.

here is the patch: FG_Tala_Testing.vcv (13.4 KB)

MacOS 13.2.1, M1 Mini 16GB, Rack 2.3.0 Pro (in standalone mode). 48Khz, 24bit, 256 byte buffer

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Seems ok on linux, however every now & then it spits something out of the left channel that causes Mixmaster meters to peg for a while, nothing audible though.

Great! I will install the test build and start integrating it into my sitar emulation patches. I need to remember this is a test build. I just realized recently that the patches I have been posting were based on a test build of Proteus and Jawari and users may not of heard what I intended if they had not installed the test build.

The demo sounds excellent to me.

Thank you for developing this module.

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I dropped Tala into one of my sitar patches, replacing the Trummer tabla emulation. Super easy and sounds very good. Unless someone finds a serious Tala bug, I will start work to retrofit my several sitar, Proteus and Jawari patches to use Tala.

Here is my first test of using Tala as a tabla machine along with my other sitar et.al. patch.

Note: This patch uses the beta test version of Seaside Modular plugin and Tala module. Make sure you have installed this before trying this patch.

Edit: With 44.1kHz sample rate.

Tala Tabla Test -1.vcv (14.4 KB)

But the audio recording is at 48kHz.

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Thanks. I suspect my sample interpolation needs some work (the sounds are 44k). Curious if you get the same issues if your rack sample rate is set to 44kHz.

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Oh my! This plugin is rounding out to a mighty fine collection of modules that play beautifully together. Exciting stuff!

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Ah, good point. I have now switched my audio interface and Rack sample rate to 44.1HHz. It does sound better, but since I have recorded at 48kHz, I will leave that up, but here is the 44.1kHz patch:

Tala Tabla Test -1.vcv (14.4 KB)

Edit, well that was probably not necessary as the sample rate is set in the Audio module and at the Rack engine level.

Sorry, I thought you had replied to me. So, ignore my sample rate responses. Now I do not know if it really sounded better, or if it just sounded as if it sounded better in my head :wink:

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Further, now I’ve split the outputs across two mono channels, there is an audible click when the meters get pegged. Definitely an issue with the left output.

I see this on Windows also in the mixer but I don’t hear any audio artifacts so I had missed it earlier.

OK, at 44.1 it behaves sound-wise (output is a wee bit hot, have to damp it by 2.5 Db to stay unclipping on the mixer.) However the DHIM port button still blinks on and off on whatever it feels like, as there is no trigger plugged in, so it has seemingly it’s very own mind? Or is that intentional if it’s left neighbour is triggered? it does not blink on and then after a couple seconds off in tim,e with that neighbour.

Should only blink if its sound is made by the drum pattern.