This is a work in progress collection for Rack version 1.
Divisions is four clock dividers and two auxiliary inputs that act as trigger sources. Each trigger can be routed to one or both of the available buses, and the slider controls the gate length.
The module has three outputs towards the bottom that will be high when their selected buses are high.
The four clock dividers can be controlled by CV (0 - 10V) and if a jack is connected the knobs will act as attenuators to limit the range of the clock division.
Shifts is a hybrid mixer and Bernoulli gate. Each knob mixes linearly between two things as long as the knob is in the top part. When going beyond the gray markers and pointing the knob down it starts acting as a Bernoulli gate letting the other side take over more and more.
When a knob is in the Bernoulli zone it will always fully choose one
of its two channels: deciding which one by flipping a coin at each
trigger from trig if connected or from ab if not. The probability
of the coin toss is skewed according to the position of the knob. This
is how all three knobs of the module work.
The top section distributes ab or pans it between A and B
according to the top knob and can be modulated with +/-5V CV through
aΦb. This can act like a panner or a standard Bernoulli
gate.
The middle section controls the input of the bottom section. The
two options are x for using the external a and b inputs or X
for using the outputs from the top section A and B. The knob acts
the same way as the other knobs so it is possible to mix between the
top section X and the external input x either linearly or randomly
shifting from one to the other using Bernoulli gates. Both the A/a
and B/b mix will be affected the same and can be modulated with
+/-5V CV through XΦx. This can act like a send-return to two
different effects or a simple mixer.
The bottom section: AB is mixed from a and b according to
the top knob and can be modulated with +/-5V CV through AΦB. AB is
a linear mix of a and b or shifts from one to the other if the
knob is in the Bernoulli zone. This can act like a mixer or a
reversed Bernoulli gate.
Tables is four sequencers in one module. Inspired by the Metropolis and the Ryk M-185, Tables focus is more on the rhythm and randomness control than on the melody.
Tables has two rows of outputs, the top one are the main gates for the four sequencers and the bottom one emits a trigger for each sequencer when it goes from one stage to the next.
Each of Tables' four sequencer has eight stages than can be programmed
using the buttons in the mod and sel columns. The bottom sel
switches between sequencers: the green light indicates which one is
currently being programmed.
The top eight sel buttons select which and how many steps the
corresponding stage will use. This is indicated by how many lights
become dimly lit in the stage.
Each stage will take as long as there are active steps in it. The maximum number of steps is four. When steps have empty lights in front of them in the pattern the number of empty slots indicates the probability of that step being muted. The total time a stage takes doesn't change with this randomness, only the gates being outputted during the stage do.
In general the probability a step will play is 1 / (1 + number of empty spaces). How this interacts with Stage Modes is explained in
the Stage Modes section below.
The mod column of buttons are used to switch between four modes for
each stage and between four modes for the sequencer itself. Which mode
is currently being used is represented in binary by lighting the mod
and neighboring col buttons.
Let's list all the possible modes:
These modes are chosen with the mod buttons in front of the eight
stages.
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. .: wait mode will simply wait during the given amount of steps. Randomness in stage selection has no effect in this mode. -
@ .: first mode will only output a gate for the first step in a group of adjacent steps. This allows for a short pulse with the number of steps after it being the amount of time we wait before the next stage. Randomness requires gaps in the pattern and will cause this mode to output multiple gates in a single stage. -
. @: all mode will output a gate for each step in the stage. Randomness has the effect of muting the gate directly after the gap. -
@ @: join mode will output a gate as long as a group of adjacent active steps. Randomness has the effect of muting each group of steps according to the probability indicated by the size of the gap in front of it.
This mode is global for each of the four sequencer and is chosen using
the bottom mod button.
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. .: forward simply iterates over all stages in order top to bottom and then cycles starting from the top again. -
@ .: random picks a random next stage each time one is finished, it is possible it picks the same one again. -
. @: brownian has a 50% chance of picking the next stage, 25% chance of repeating the same stage, and 25% chance of picking the stage above the current one. -
@ @: reverse iterates over all stages from the bottom to the top then cycles starting from the bottom again.
Watches is a passive multi-connector similar to a classic multiple. What's different is that each socket has a 3-position switch to connect the jack to one of three internal buses.
All inputs on a bus are added together and sent to the output jacks connected to that bus.
The top section has three inputs and two outputs, the bottom section is the opposite and has two inputs and three outputs.
Normally Watches is separated in a top and bottom section that act
independently. When the + button is red the top three buses are
connected to their bottom counterparts and the module act as one.
The neutral switch position connect jacks to the middle bus.
The middle bus is special and acts differently according to the 2:3
switch:
- On
2only two buses are active, the middle bus mutes. - On
3the middle bus is independent in each section. - In between the middle bus is shared between the two sections even
when
+is not active and they otherwise act independently.