I don’t miss mixing down to DATs but live mixes were always fun.
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Insane ! Kind of what I imagine a giant swan concert to be like !
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youre much smarter than me and I’ve been thinking about how to set up a solenoid that activates on gate cv. I know that I’ll prob need to use some sort of controller to actually switch the power on/off to the solenoid. Hoping you have some electrical knowledge to drop on me haha
sounds cool, what’s the solenoid gonna do?
idk much about eurorack (yet…) but im guessing CV is somewhere around +/- 10v at a few mA. unless you have the world’s tiniest solenoid, you’ll need more power, so i’d have a separate circuit/box powering the solenoid and then using the gate cv to switch the power (probably something like 12 or 24v dc, couple amps)
you might be able to get away with just switching it like that, but the “proper” way to do it is with a driver IC. easiest is probably just a MOSFET though
i’d probably do something like this: gate cv goes into a voltage regulator to get the voltage to the MOSFET gate requirements and boost the current. that switches the mosfet which gives power to the solenoid
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aleikum salam
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Yeah, im envisioning something where I could send gates to control a few solenoids that act as percussion instruments on something like a metal sheet with a few contact mics sending audio back in.
I’ll look into it, I had a feeling that I would need some sort of driver/controller. I would like to do it without coding lol, I’m bad at coding but I should prob just start working on some sort of arduino/feather ting to get it done cheaply
this is prob overkill af, but yeah, hopefully can find something similar and probably much simpler haha
https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=2422
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asked my dad on the phone about this
he says fuck the driver lol, apparently its really not that important unless you’re doing super high performance stuff. just a MOSFET is good enough
also a comparator would be better than the voltage reg I suggested earlier, then you can also have an adjustable threshold voltage
I think that controller would work, the trigger inputs are nice, but you could probably DIY it with like 15 components total instead of spending $600 
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Sick! Big ups @ Dad. Yeah this is where I sort of thought I would land, but super helpful in terms of getting me in the right direction <3
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especially this, gates and trigs in the eurorack world aren’t fully universal as there are a few different standards. Such a good idea to use a comparator
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retinas going zoinks
got a new angled floor rack today. the idea of desk racking is great, but it sucks for anything that doesn’t just sit there. (like a patch bay, amp, i/o etc). you just end up using anything in there less, and hating it every time you need access to back panels. poor for workflow. this should work 
i may take the hydra out and put two more old samplers in. think it might be too much weight for this thing though. the hydra is very light.
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Anywhere I can listen to your music Clone ? All the stuff you post about gear makes me wanna hear what you come up with…
i’m more still at the stage where when i go back to projects, they still get better every time. be that what it may, still learning. shoot me a pm
sorry about tl;dr.
this rack thing as an example, i should have done this rack/patchbay move already, had I thought of it. it’s a lot of sh*t to learn, type of still learning. i should have thought of this already. some of this stuff is still confusing (patchbay) 
i have a MOTU microlite 5x5 I can use to run the MIDI from the rack to computer. i don’t believe it has wireless AVB, but it doesn’t have an ethernet port for certain.
1 usb to the older stuff/motu , and one from the hydra to the computer (hub, whatever). the top patchbay is going to 8 mixer channels via snake. so that is just 1 stereo pair from each device into the back of the patchbay. so, I would like to connect the patchbay to the sampler ins, without making a feedback loop… the patchbay can switch to normal/half normal, so i’m not sure. i should probably label stuff.
i am thinking I can get away with using a small usb hub for only the hydra and the motu. my concern is logic not seeing stuff connected by hub sometimes. I think if that works, the amount of actual midi data will not be a problem with latency and so on. if the patchbay to sampler ins is setup correctly, i should be able to bypass the board with optical to and from the sampler. (but only from one device at a time)
Anyone know what program people use for diagramming stuff like this?
It does not seem to be Photoshop, but apparently it is sort of common. usually they come out the same style
To be fair, you could mock up something reasonable in MSPaint
true. but most of the ones you see all appear like they come from the same graphics program. i think it is more to assist you with routing/signal flow concepts, rather than actually just the image. (instead of typing it out like i did in above long post).
all my devices outputs going to the board is pretty straight forward stuff. but taking advantage of fx/aux sends from the board, and also the patchbays re-routing stuff to some of my devices inputs is quite confusing to me still. i can feed analog signals into the samplers and some of the synths. done wrong though, and you just get feedback loops.
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Maybe something like Auto-Cad then.
Not sure tbh.