4MS runs virtual VCV rack patch in a module!

[Re8et]

CDM link

This is awesome, a rack module running a VCV rack patch...
WOndering if it runs Elk... probably not... impressive!

https://cdm.link/2023/09/4ms-explains-meta-module/

[mimidancer]

CDM link

This is awesome, a rack module running a VCV rack patch...
WOndering if it runs Elk... probably not... impressive!

https://cdm.link/2023/09/4ms-explains-meta-module/

it looks cool. and would be nice to emulate different modules in my actual rack. I have not seen the cost yet.

[Jackjackdaw]

Back when it was all clinical grey Doepfer stuff I used to think Eurorack was really cool and sophisticated. These days it looks like expensive candy for man-babies. Lol

[Aosta]

Back when it was all clinical grey Doepfer stuff I used to think Eurorack was really cool and sophisticated. These days it looks like expensive candy for man-babies. Lol

But the flashing and blinking pretty lights and patterns are fun!

[mimidancer]

I also like the blinky mods. But one of my favorite utilities is Maths, which is quite grey. Modbap's Osiris is my newest module. It is black, hot pink, and teal. It's like driving through the 80s at night.

[Mattvank]

Back when it was all clinical grey Doepfer stuff I used to think Eurorack was really cool and sophisticated. These days it looks like expensive candy for man-babies. Lol

You read my mind.

[DJMaytag]

Back when it was all clinical grey Doepfer stuff I used to think Eurorack was really cool and sophisticated. These days it looks like expensive candy for man-babies. Lol

Black face modules are pretty sexy too. Some of the white & multi-colored stuff... not so much.

Disclosure: I sell black faced Eurorack modules at my store, so I'm biased.

[DJMaytag]

So whatever happened to the idea that RS floated a few years ago, about being able to run RE's in some sort of hardware platform? Did that idea die?

[Catblack]

So whatever happened to the idea that RS floated a few years ago, about being able to run RE's in some sort of hardware platform? Did that idea die?

I posted about this a couple weeks ago, with links to the old ELK speculation.

Dan from 4MS has been posting on ModWiggler about this module. It's running bare bones on the chip without ELK it seems. also:

"There are two Cortex A7 processors, each running at 800MHz, which run the audio processing in parallel. The co-processor (Cortex-M4F, running at 240MHz) handles reading the controls, USB, SD Card, and other system tasks."

The big thing is there won't be any appstore involved with it. All VCV source to be included will get put into the firmware.

It's going to be a huge deal when this module comes out. They are porting all their real world modules to VCV, too.

[Re8et]

Back when it was all clinical grey Doepfer stuff I used to think Eurorack was really cool and sophisticated. These days it looks like expensive candy for man-babies. Lol

Black face modules are pretty sexy too. Some of the white & multi-colored stuff... not so much.

Disclosure: I sell black faced Eurorack modules at my store, so I'm biased.

Also Synthex modules are pretty sexy, all DIY, with github Open Source codes for Daisy Seed.

[Re8et]

So whatever happened to the idea that RS floated a few years ago, about being able to run RE's in some sort of hardware platform? Did that idea die?

I posted about this a couple weeks ago, with links to the old ELK speculation.

Dan from 4MS has been posting on ModWiggler about this module. It's running bare bones on the chip without ELK it seems. also:

"There are two Cortex A7 processors, each running at 800MHz, which run the audio processing in parallel. The co-processor (Cortex-M4F, running at 240MHz) handles reading the controls, USB, SD Card, and other system tasks."

The big thing is there won't be any appstore involved with it. All VCV source to be included will get put into the firmware.

It's going to be a huge deal when this module comes out. They are porting all their real world modules to VCV, too.

There is already Cardinal for Linux... there-s already some guys that made way better touch screen versions of 4ms with a rasp Pi 5...
I

[Catblack]

I posted about this a couple weeks ago, with links to the old ELK speculation.

Dan from 4MS has been posting on ModWiggler about this module. It's running bare bones on the chip without ELK it seems. also:

"There are two Cortex A7 processors, each running at 800MHz, which run the audio processing in parallel. The co-processor (Cortex-M4F, running at 240MHz) handles reading the controls, USB, SD Card, and other system tasks."

The big thing is there won't be any appstore involved with it. All VCV source to be included will get put into the firmware.

It's going to be a huge deal when this module comes out. They are porting all their real world modules to VCV, too.

There is already Cardinal for Linux... there-s already some guys that made way better touch screen versions of 4ms with a rasp Pi 5...
I

That's very interesting to me. I've been after a good and cheap sample player in eurorack. I've almost finished a CTag Strampler (which is a build I started years ago, even ordered the Antumbra redesign pcbs when they came out and stuck all the ordered parts on that.) I've built a Nutella Tsunami years ago and that works now I've found an SD card that doesn't cause crackle. I'm so deep into the diy end of things you have no idea.

I'd decided to take a break from building modules for a while, maybe save up to get one of those 4ms Meta modules. But nope I got back into it. Built 2 Blattwerk Betula modules so now I've got 8 in and out ADAT. I finally fixed my PreenFM2 and bought someone's half finished kit so I'll have two, and that led me to looking into the idea of doing a euro panel for it. That led me into figuring out how to do eurorack panels, so I've got a couple designed but not ordered. (I didn't finish the preen panel, but I think someone could make a eurorack version from the published files on github. Before the dac chip is impossible to get that is.)

So thanks for the video. With my Adat setup now I can shoot audio in and out from my computer. I haven't really given it a huge shakedown. Though I now do have my beloved launchpad grid controller hooked up so my custom lua Remote interface (search my posts for the word launchpad) now controls the preen and then back into the modular rack. And I LOVE LOVE LOVE polyphony. And also the preenfm2 rocks due to the massive dx7 patches and also some good solid random patch creation. Preenfm2 really should be emulated in VCV.

So from my preamble, I am hugely interested in the marriage of sound to interface. The pen/pointer he shows in that video... ug, that'd drive me crazy. I bought a raspberry pi touch display back in 2016, I swear I'll get around to using it someday. It's just so small and like the one in that video my huge hands would need a stylus. Give me knobs!

I'm still not interested in a Meta quite yet. I think in a year or two when someone sells theirs I'll get one used. I'm not 100% sold on the Meta's look (the colors and labelling) or that I'd need to drop a lot of money into it to get the midi and such.

Now I imagine in this rasp pi 5 screen thing here you could use midi over wifi somehow, save a cable. I'm been considering putting all my euro midi stuff near each other. I'm also considering an antarctic expedition that I'll enjoy more. But to be able to set and forget some midi sample stuff -- and build the patches on my computer and then just copy it over. Heck you should be able to remote desktop in.

But you'll STILL need to get the DAC Hat for it to Euro levels. I've got a couple of things that do that but ...

I do see this earlier vid and this tindie link

https://www.tindie.com/products/deftaud ... erry-pi-4/

Which is smaller but but is powered by euro.

I'll have to do some research later this week. As it is with something like this, with my setup where I've got a couple Westlicht Performers that can do 4x cv to midi and 8x midi to cv. And also those ADAT interfaces for audio in and out... The key to all this has to be the audio levels coming out of the thing being euro levels.

[Re8et]

Which is smaller but but is powered by euro.

I'll have to do some research later this week. As it is with something like this, with my setup where I've got a couple Westlicht Performers that can do 4x cv to midi and 8x midi to cv. And also those ADAT interfaces for audio in and out... The key to all this has to be the audio levels coming out of the thing being euro levels.

I bought like 10 Raspberry Pi Pico from AliXpress for 10 Euros total... 1 Euro per Pi...
(they are copies, probably, not the original, but the HW is exactly the same and the PC sees it as a legit PI...)
I asked Grok to make me a program for Pi PIco, a clock divider/multiplier...
Uploaded the code... didnt work...
asked Grok to fix it... and it worked...

The code was so advanced I spent one week studying it...

Life is beautiful even without a display I'd say... or a costly Rasp 5.
I have a 1_B. Very old model. I set it up as a mini NAS years ago.
Also DaisySeed is cheaper than a Berry 5. 35£ is a lot more than 1Eur but... it doesnt need an external DAC...
I'm also deep in this kinda DIY Euroworld...
One day we will be able to build a Subtractor recreation, that day it's not that far out...

[Re8et]

Give me knobs!

I'm still not interested in a Meta quite yet. I think in a year or two when someone sells theirs I'll get one used. I'm not 100% sold on the Meta's look (the colors and labelling) or that I'd need to drop a lot of money into it to get the midi and such.

Now I imagine in this rasp pi 5 screen thing here you could use midi over wifi somehow,

Yeah, a lot of cool stuff to do...

I was thinking the same thing, more or less, I even commented on the original yt video about it.
Basically use the usb for a midi controller, and/or an audio card... which might come even cheaper than the hat in some cases...
I also still have like 5 soundblasters and other old soundcards but all pci...

Anyway, yeah, an akai midi controller with usb, splash a basic mixer with some send fx, and if the rasp Pi doesn't explode,
it's pretty darn good setup... Also OSC and Midi over wifi is noce but I have an older 2B with no wifi. I have a Usb Wifi Dongle,
mmmhhh... linux tablet instead of a fixed touchscreen could save some ram... just access it remotely... and you still need the hat...

that's a lot of work but yeah... a lot less cables around!
I also don't have a HAT around, but even the standard non euroline level out it's ok for other projects...
(if i'd need only some volume, If I already have to plug into eurorack, a couple of darlington on the standard out
should do the job-unless the HAT would give me like 10 in and 10 out and midi... I see no real reasons to buy one...
midi also don't need a DAC... just an octocoupler a couple resistor)
like launching a nanoloop ROM or C64 emulator, with the gamescreen with pads, 17 eur on ebay....
or configure it for midi mixing, so no audio at all... the monitor is there just as bonus...

an ADAT interface straight into the Pi without a Usb interface from a HAT??
If you can get around Linux drivers, yeah, that would be a neat solution...

Hope you get your arctic blast in b/een... here is starting the melting season...

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