Holocene Non-Linear Memory Machine

[jkanizzle]

So this popped up in my youtube feed....anyone have any experience with it? Seems super rad.

[fastlanestranger]

I love the design of it. Had to force myself to not purchase/order as I'm in a time of no money... so the credit cards were sweating a bit. But it looks way cool.

[jschussler]

Now if they'd just implement a second delay line we'd have the Soma Cosmos in eurorack I've been looking for...

[ExMagic]

Seen it in the PCA new stuff email…
Had some interesting features but seemed kinda expensive to me for the feature set…

[dvdmllr]

Has anyone purchased this and is able to provide feedback?

[Phitar]

Now if they'd just implement a second delay line we'd have the Soma Cosmos in eurorack I've been looking for...

Buy two maybe?

[snailed]

Just ordered one. Anyone else have one yet?

[decimeter]

Now if they'd just implement a second delay line we'd have the Soma Cosmos in eurorack I've been looking for...

Oof I've been looking for a Cosmos alternative for quite a while. I haven't tried it, but the Praetereo 3rd party firmware for Versio looks promising.

Anyway, I'm intrigued by this Non-Linear Memory Machine and will keep an eye out for reviews.

[snailed]

I've got Cornflakes, Lubadh, Morphagene, W/ and a bunch of delays. I hope there isn't too much overlap with the other modules I have. The scrubbing seemed particularly nice on this unit and I like the feedback knob + pitch shifting as well.

[starthief]

the Praetereo 3rd party firmware for Versio

This is the first I've heard of that. All I can find is a YouTube video with a link to a ZIP file on Google Drive with the BIN file. It's a bit annoying there isn't even a text document or description listing the controls -- one would have to rewatch the video and take notes I guess

[jschussler]

Now if they'd just implement a second delay line we'd have the Soma Cosmos in eurorack I've been looking for...

Oof I've been looking for a Cosmos alternative for quite a while. I haven't tried it, but the Praetereo 3rd party firmware for Versio looks promising.

Anyway, I'm intrigued by this Non-Linear Memory Machine and will keep an eye out for reviews.

Very nice. Don't know that this completely replaces the Cosmos, but it's well into that territory....

[jschussler]

Got the Praetereo firmware installed, it's very cool. Started a new thread for it:

https://www.modwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=276033

[dvdmllr]

Just ordered one. Anyone else have one yet?

I was close to ordering multiple times. Would love to hear your thoughts after it has arrived and how it compares to other modules that are out there.

[Arrandan]

In the demo, the Holocene sounds much more like a granular manipulator with lots of manual controls that happens to have a long buffer. The Praetereo on the other hand is a plain looper without much processing going on. Both sound really cool though - I need both which would mean a 3rd Versio in my less-than-400hp rack. Would that be overkill?

[jschussler]

which would mean a 3rd Versio in my less-than-400hp rack. Would that be overkill?

In my experience you can't have too many Versios. Decide you don't need the functionality you have? Flash a new firmware and it's a whole different module! Really like mine, have several.

[ohnoabear]

Now if they'd just implement a second delay line we'd have the Soma Cosmos in eurorack I've been looking for...

Oof I've been looking for a Cosmos alternative for quite a while. I haven't tried it, but the Praetereo 3rd party firmware for Versio looks promising.

Anyway, I'm intrigued by this Non-Linear Memory Machine and will keep an eye out for reviews.

Praetereo developer here. As others have mentioned, it's more of a looper, with two big, asynchronous loops. It's funny you should mention this, though: I also made an asynchronous, multi-line delay network that's pretty similar to the Cosmos. Maybe I should port it over to the Versio...

[decimeter]

Now if they'd just implement a second delay line we'd have the Soma Cosmos in eurorack I've been looking for...

Oof I've been looking for a Cosmos alternative for quite a while. I haven't tried it, but the Praetereo 3rd party firmware for Versio looks promising.

Anyway, I'm intrigued by this Non-Linear Memory Machine and will keep an eye out for reviews.

Praetereo developer here. As others have mentioned, it's more of a looper, with two big, asynchronous loops. It's funny you should mention this, though: I also made an asynchronous, multi-line delay network that's pretty similar to the Cosmos. Maybe I should port it over to the Versio...

OMG, yes please

[Arrandan]

Now if they'd just implement a second delay line we'd have the Soma Cosmos in eurorack I've been looking for...

Oof I've been looking for a Cosmos alternative for quite a while. I haven't tried it, but the Praetereo 3rd party firmware for Versio looks promising.

Anyway, I'm intrigued by this Non-Linear Memory Machine and will keep an eye out for reviews.

Praetereo developer here. As others have mentioned, it's more of a looper, with two big, asynchronous loops. It's funny you should mention this, though: I also made an asynchronous, multi-line delay network that's pretty similar to the Cosmos. Maybe I should port it over to the Versio...

OMG, yes please

I'll second that: YES PLEASE!

[closedLoop]

Anyone know what's under the hood of this module?
Is it Daisy?

[jschussler]

I also made an asynchronous, multi-line delay network that's pretty similar to the Cosmos. Maybe I should port it over to the Versio...

And here I thought the Praetereo firmware was my Xmas in July...if you could get us a Cosmos firmware, you'd be Santa on Steroids....

[trevormeier]

Now if they'd just implement a second delay line we'd have the Soma Cosmos in eurorack I've been looking for...

Oof I've been looking for a Cosmos alternative for quite a while. I haven't tried it, but the Praetereo 3rd party firmware for Versio looks promising.

Anyway, I'm intrigued by this Non-Linear Memory Machine and will keep an eye out for reviews.

Praetereo developer here. As others have mentioned, it's more of a looper, with two big, asynchronous loops. It's funny you should mention this, though: I also made an asynchronous, multi-line delay network that's pretty similar to the Cosmos. Maybe I should port it over to the Versio...

Heck yes!

[hawkfuzz]

Now if they'd just implement a second delay line we'd have the Soma Cosmos in eurorack I've been looking for...

[snailed]

Can we make this thread about the Holocene Non-Linear Memory Machine and not the new Versio firmware?

[ohnoabear]

Did not mean to derail this thread, especially because the NLMM looks pretty cool. We need more modules that let you scrub through an audio buffer with CV!

All the examples sound a little too lo-fi for my tastes, though. I wonder if that's because of the demo, or if it just sounds like that. Looks like the sample rate is only 22kHz, so it might be the latter.

[jschussler]

Can we make this thread about the Holocene Non-Linear Memory Machine and not the new Versio firmware?

Here's a dedicated thread for the Praetereo firmware: https://www.modwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=276033

[snailed]

Just got mine. First impressions: I really wish this thing had a clock input. Also, the freeze button is red when it's *recording* and unlit when it's frozen. Sort of the opposite of what I'd expect, but whatever. Levels are kind of low at 100% wet. Overall though, I'm having a lot of fun with it and it's staying.

It would be really cool to be able to set the time of the window of the grain loop (is that the right way of explaining it?)

edit: quick demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpEnQtxszmg

[snailed]

So, I actually contacted Holocene due to the low output level and they sent me a replacement board. Much hotter output now. Very happy with this module.

[The Junglechrist]

While i'm working on a proper demo video for the NLMM, I've used it quite a bit in my recent demo of the Amnis, for those who might want to check it out:

[The Junglechrist]

Here we go for my proper demo of the Non-Linear Memory Machine ;-)

[snailed]

Quick demo with Plonk: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw0846-usSd/