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This product is well-designed and has solved a whole host of Midi problems. Here is my next question: Can you program the Highest notes to go to the 'x' channel notes to go to the 'x' channel? Here is a practical example: I have a two-voice pro and two Sem Modules to make it a four- and the lowest voice poly synth. I want to play a C major 7 - C - E - G - B. Since the two-voice pro is two-voice, only two will play C and E if I press four notes. However, I want G to go to SEM 3 and B to go to SEM 4. And I want this to be the standard for any chord I play regardless of my octave. How would I program this in? Thanks
This video was actually recommend by the Google Gemini AI program after asking for a real good sound example of phaser working on a synthesizer!! It was the only link it presented me with. It was what i was thinking of too!
Hi Ranzee. You've not heard from me in a while mainly due to healthcare issues. I'm still watching and will continue to support your show on Patreon because it is quality content, sorry art. I've had to commit myself to buying a disability equipped car to help my wellbeing, which has constrained synth spending for the foreseeable. As you can see from UK comments made during the show, it appears the British Prime Minister is on a mission to alienate as many voters as possible. He has already alienated many of his core support in working class areas and has blanket labelled anyone who may have valid questions about the levels of illegal immigration as 'far right' - who were also revolted by the brainless anarchy & rioting that took place, I must stress , because you have to justify all your comments on the old socials to minimise trolling . He has also picked a fight with nearly 10 million pensioners which he didn't need to do, and when the first one dies from hyperthermia and is reported in the press, he will be in serious trouble. Starmer said when asked that he thought that the World Economic Forum at Davos was more important than British democracy and The Houses of Parliament. Coming soon he may have the motorist in his sights with pay-per-mile and pulling forward the ban of new petrol and diesel car sales to 2030. Why is all this relevant? It shows that more than ever we need you Ranzee to take our minds off the stress and strains of politics and daily life of living in the UK. God bless ya and all that contribute to a truly fantastic, informative and entertaining arts show about the synth world.
Passive means it doesn't maintain the input signal voltage at the multiple outputs. Buffered means it maintains the input signal voltage at the multiple outputs. The module does require power - but the power is only being used for the gate switching circuit (the top section). You can easily see the power circuit doesn't connect to the multiples in the bottom part. I have posted a pic of the rear of my module over on my discord server: bit.ly/ranzeediscord in the #synths-and-gear room with today's date stamp. You can easily follow the circuit traces to see that they are only connecting each multiple across the rows. There isn't any connection over the columns or to the power circuit. I won't be answering any more of these questions and will be pinning this answer.
I thought passive meant its not powered. But if it wasn't powered, wouldn't you start losing signal voltage as you plug in more than 2 into a multiple row?
Passive means it doesn't maintain the input signal at the multiple outputs. Buffered means it maintains the input signal at the multiple outputs. The module does require power - but the power is only being used for the gate switching circuit (the top section). You can easily see the power circuit doesn't connect to the multiples in the bottom part. I have posted a pic of the rear of my module over on my discord server: bit.ly/ranzeediscord in the #synths-and-gear room with today's date stamp. You can easily follow the circuit traces to see that they are only connecting each multiple across the rows. There isn't any connection over the columns or to the power circuit. I won't be answering any more of these questions and will be pinning this answer.
A filter sweep on a note is the evolving timbral change in that note. It is exactly like a single guitar string, plucked and lasting to decay. You can't copyright that. Bloody ridiculous. If the algorithms were any good they could tell it's not a sample - you haven't sampled the filter sweep from the original song. It's not a phase exact sample of the original. Hope this has been fixed since your video! :)
Bad chip? no - In this video I was referring to the connectors (pins) can get oxidised and reseating them can fix some issues. I'd actually suggest replacing the chip in your case - perhaps even replacing the socket as well.
Love your video screen set up!! Lots of good info, nice clear & crisp. Great content too! Would appreciate more explanation of what you're doing in real time....what youry pressing and why.
hi there, nice video thanks - I just picked up one of these last week, for some reason they had them on sale real cheap in the UK so figured why not. its a fun little module, but one weird thing is that step 1 is actually step 2 when you run the sequencer.... unless you set it to 1 step in parallel mode, in which case step 1 is step 1! is that how the original worked too?
I wasn't going to bother with a 173 but I might now. I sold my original system 100m to make space AND a profit. One disadvantage is that each of my 191J 5 module racks had a lot of multiples, so together with tiptop stackable cables a 173 I begrudgingly admit partly compensates. But I'm trying to convince myself that the gates are more useful than I imagined, so now to continue watching!
Hi Tim - you can "hold" a step by putting the sequencer into single mode. You can also tune each step - but that is done on your oscillator in conjunction with the v/Oct pot of the steps. If you are referring to a HOLD similar to the Roland TB-303 - it won't work the same way. There's also a great companion module by Maikshift Modular called the GP82 which adds extra functionality to the sequencer and is relatively inexpensive addon. Alternatively, you could look at the Intellijel Metropolix which is based on the 185 sequencer (a more advanced version of the 182).
Hey again. Great question! Active or buffered mults are used to maintain the concurrency of voltage over the division of the circuits. That means if you place an input voltage it will divide that same input voltage equally over the output copies and then you wont lose any performance of CV. This is essential for duplicating v/Oct and envelopes (among many others). Passive mults are better for simpler tasks - in some cases they can help with things like gates and audio tasks.
Thanks SO much for this video! It's exactly the info I was looking for, pertaining to the 297 module. Do you suppose there may be a design 'flaw' with the portamento pot? Maybe the taper should be logarithmic rather than linear or vise versa?
It could be a design flaw. The only way to know is to check with someone who owns an original Roland System 100m synth and see if it behaves the same or differently. The other way around the issue is to pipe the voltage into it like I showed later in the video. Thanks for your support :)
Thanks a lot buddy 🙏,to me the sliders response was absolutly mad!!!!,for making slide or portamento it was a deception...and,i didnt tried to control it wis+10 generators to see if the response was Better !?!?and it is !!!!haha pretty nice, thanks again mate 🙏👊❤️
Hi - In the video at 1:35 I mentioned the clock and TAP TEMPO. For more information see Page 23 of the GAIA Owners Manual which refers how to use the TAP TEMPO. Also refer to Page 52 of the GAIA Owners Manual which refers how to set your GAIA Clock Source - options are Patch, System, MIDI and USB. When in System mode it will use the TAP TEMPO feature. I prefer to setup my gear with MIDI and use external clock sources such as your DAW.
I had no idea you could actually set the temp to an actual BPM, I thought the tempo knob had to be set by ear. I was actually looking for videos to sync the midi clock to a DAW because I spent all day trying to figure it out 🫠 thank you for your assistance!
I believe their new SynthTribe software takes care of this ... have you tried it? download it from their webby: www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=0722-AAM
A note on the Pi 4 - the audio headphone jack was redesigned to improve that sound over the previous generations. A DAC would still be useful, but isn't as needed on a Pi 4
Great video. ....but i tried updating to ver 2.2 in June 2024.... when I connect to Windows computer and opened the Components...it says there is an update. After successful updating ....the version shows 126.618 on the summit screen instead of ver 2.2. On my computer screen it says 'Your Summit is running Vcustom build 2126 FGPA 778 ' How come it doesn't show ver 2.2 which is supposed to be the latest version? Thanks!
It might mean that the update hasn't happened. As you have a Summit there might be some slightly different procedures to this video - you could always reach out to Novation Support and see if they can help! Best of luck!
Thanks for the info. I was able to take mine out and rebuild it because the wheel "fell apart" Spring and all. After an hour with your help It's working again🎉
Can you please do a tutorial of how to set up the Roland mix 1 with Roland Aira system 1, the Roland Drum machine tr8 and the Roland VT 3 for vocals using Ableton live 9????
👍 I liked the bit at 13m21. Nice rhythmic interplay. Now if only you did this on a Tuesday, cos you would have been able to call it an "Impromtu-esday synthy live stream". Hehe.
