my modcan miniwave arrived today. i am so in love . this is the first module i have come across that has entirely slayed me. i mean ENTIRELY. consider me slayed. fuck. everything it touches is amazing. 8bit lofi perfection but with unfathomable class. thank you wiard! thank you blacet! thank you bruce! i cannot recommend this module enough to anyone who does anything. i am sure you have all heard all this but i just had to gush...and the knob is so big. jeebus. i don't know what to do with myself. i actually have to/get to disect an eyeball in anatomy lab tomorrow and this just seems so oddly fitting and comfortable to know that when i come home i will have my new used miniwave with maxed out roms waiting for me in my modular. it warms my heart and soul. i don't even know what the second rom is. ok enough. anybody know how to tell the roms if they are not labeled and also maybe have a wavelist for anything other than the stock rom? i gues i should post some audio of what i am listening to as i write this. hold on...simple sound it isn't the greatest of patches but it was real loud and got in my head. you know how it is.
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I just bought one from Malekko, and I can't wait for it to arrive on my porch. There's only one thing I'm more excited about right now, but I'm peeing in my pants in anticipation for the miniwave. Mine is alot smaller though...
i wish i could simulcast my modular right now. and i need to go to bed to get some sleep. i won't be able to sleep over this thing though.
life the universe and everything.
the answer (currently) is:
2 lfos>miniwave bank/wave cv. miniwave audio out>diode filter being modulated by mankato as lfo. period. endless hours of enjoyment.
The Modcan Manual on Bruce's website lists all the waves in the standard MW ROM. If your 2nd ROM is the Quantizer, there is a scale map in pdf somewhere on Muff's site. Not sure about other ROMs.
I find bank 0 to be my fav for distortion.
Have you tried quantizing noise yet?
rezzn8r wrote:The Modcan Manual on Bruce's website lists all the waves in the standard MW ROM. If your 2nd ROM is the Quantizer, there is a scale map in pdf somewhere on Muff's site. Not sure about other ROMs.
I find bank 0 to be my fav for distortion.
Have you tried quantizing noise yet?
I have to try this
If your system doesn't sound good enough, you haven't spent enough
Feed it audio. If you have an input amplifier or something - a drum loop, or guitar, or whatever. It's like having Turbosynth's waveshaper in your modular.
dude wrote:oh and this 'non-linear waveform distortion'...how do i get that to happen? i put some audio in there? is there a specific waveset for that?
all of them - non-linear waveform distortion is what wavetable lookups... ARE!
yeah I have found that with the correct audio levels going into the miniwave
(and not always the loudest signal mind you),
the stock rom is sometimes more violent-sounding than the socket rocket rom
which was in part made for distorting other signals.
Reading about Miniwave has got me eager --- I am putting in for my Modcan system this week have spent time some grueling time in configurations etc... and figuring out what I wanted.
Apparently you can use the Miniwave for a lot of different things, as an LFO or as a voice.
The Modcan gear sounds great from what I have heard and from the responses I got from folks!
galaxiesmerge wrote:Reading about Miniwave has got me eager --- I am putting in for my Modcan system this week have spent time some grueling time in configurations etc... and figuring out what I wanted.
Apparently you can use the Miniwave for a lot of different things, as an LFO or as a voice.
The Modcan gear sounds great from what I have heard and from the responses I got from folks!
Welcome galaxiesmerge, I'm glad you joined up!
I hope you'll post some pictures of that monster Modan after you get it set up.
does anybody know if digital noise is a bad noise source for interesting results in the miniwave? i don't have any modular level analog noise signals so i am trying to get interesting results as someone had suggested attempting to quantize noise. my impression is that digital noise is just a fast series of gate on/offs (sorry for the oversimplification). maybe i need some analog noise as well as digital noise?
My reference was to quantizing random DC voltages. I don't think it matters if said DC is analogue or digital, although I prefer bi-polar to uni-polar DC in this case. The resulting random voltages now conform to a specific scale. Nice when connected to a VCO or VCF.
dude wrote:does anybody know if digital noise is a bad noise source for interesting results in the miniwave? i don't have any modular level analog noise signals so i am trying to get interesting results as someone had suggested attempting to quantize noise. my impression is that digital noise is just a fast series of gate on/offs (sorry for the oversimplification). maybe i need some analog noise as well as digital noise?
quantizing, as in bank 16?
yes, since digital noise wont give you anything but two values (im pretty sure), you should use another source, or perhaps run your digi noise through a slew limiter first.
dude, that was a really rich and yet kind of dirty sounding sample. the miniwave is on my Modcan A short list and that really just sounds great. what else did you use in that patch, mini, vca...?
I haven't ordered yet so I am developing serious internal conflicts over modcan A or B. The A knob is just so tiny!
i don't honestly remember what went into that. thanks for the props! the polite underpinning sound is the sh101which is also sending a very simple sequence to the miniwave> oakley superladder diode filter which is getting fm'd some in there. there may be an oakley vco somehow modulating something? lfos definitely modulating both wave and bank ins on miniwave. that is about as far as can remember. it might have been going trough a very fast sample and hold for bit reduction?
b is prettier and has bigger knobs. imo
i have come to realize that though it is shallow, i am honestly attracted to bigger knobs. and i do not mean that as sexual innuendo. i was sort of dissapointed in myself when i was honest about it. it just feels nice to touch bigger knobs. feels more accurate and welcoming...
