Looks like about to be discontinued, sale price at Erica website shop. Not sure if i should get it read a lot about defective screens and bugs that were never fixed.
Thanks for getting the camera right up in there, I know that LCD screens can be tricky to film. The added clarity really helps demonstrate the intricacies of the interface.
There's brightness and contrast settings for the display, by adjusting those and camera shutter it's possible to get good clear video of the module no matter what the lighting conditions are. But obviously camera positioning is critical as well, and it's spot on here.
Brightness and contrast goes some way but the key is getting a lot of good light in at the right angles so focusing on the screen doesn't result in the rest of the image blacking out entirely.
@@DivKid loved this module, but I’ve moved onto the 4ms SWN, and it’s an absolute dream. Gotta thank Erica for such good UI and quality, though. I’ve had multiple things from them, and it’s all been top tier.
DivKidVideo oh I didn’t mean you Ben! Didn’t they announce this module like four years ago or something? I wasn’t trashing on anyone or anything like that, I just meant “yay, it’s here!!!”.
Just picked up this module and can confirm it's a beast. The only gripes I have are that the copy of the oscillator through the sub output will only discretely step through the wavetable, and the fact that there isn't a fine tune control for the oscillator. Aside from those, I patiently await the forthcoming update to allow loading waveforms.
Yeah discrete stepping on the sub is a bit of a shame at times I agree. Fine tune would be nice but I haven't struggled with the scaling on the one pitch knob so far.
DivKidVideo it remind me of Blofeld but with more graphic movement on screen, and the fact you can draw waves in box and yata mashata, this box bad! The Blofeld is most definitely powerful too! Check out my channel?
I'll take a look at your channel, the Blofeld is great. I just couldn't get past the interface for most things and ended up trading it. Kind of regret that.
This is really nice! Might have to make room for one after all :) I definitely hear some tones in it I don't like raw, but might be great with an LPG -- and it's got a lot of flexibility beyond those anyway. It seems kind of a shame that there's not a way to get the modulation osc tracking but not syncing with the V/OCT, but I guess that's what stackables are for. Also I bet self-patching the sub out into the input for FX modulation works nicely (or in some cases, feeding back the main input)!
It can get quite aggressive and abrasive but I love those tones through filters or LPGs. I just split the signal in the video when I wanted the FM to track. Some feedback patching would be cool! Not tried that yet.
Hey, is anyone here having trouble getting the Erica synths graphic VCO to play in tune? I’ve calibrated it and tried everything I could find online. I’ve tried turning the internal quantizer on and off, tried using an external quantizer, nothing works.
doesn't feel super menu divey to me in use but making the demo there's definitely a fair bit of hopping in and out of settings. However you just save snapshots and there's barely any menu usage at all then.
Its understandable really as this does so much and the video demonstrates the interface very well and sure, you can save presets and use those. But yeah, I think I would prefer this module to be bigger and be less encoder driven. Anyhow, very nice in depth demo and it definitely sounds better than my Shapeshifter that went on sale today.
I can appreciate that, few more HPs, few more knobs etc. Then people would say "I wish it was smaller for my live case" etc. I think they have a good balance, although more knobs I would like I aren't sure which of the features I think I'd definitely want to have on knobs if say they added 4 knobs to it. Hard to pick when it does so much.
I think for every day use just don't try to do everything it can do, or worry about having lots of options. But if you were using it everyday I bet you'd fly through all the options if you wanted to.
Would you say this is a strict improvement on the Black Wavetable VCO? This clearly has more functionality but I seem to prefer the sound and less menu-intensive aspects of the Black Wavetable.
Not so much improvement as a different product. For simpler functions and just instant wavetables to move through the Black Wavetable VCO does a great job. I see this as a more patch saving / preset machine for setting up more complex VCO behaviour, sub tunings and FX. Fantastic for performance. Sonically with the same waves loaded they're similar.
Can the FM modulating oscillator be set to a relative frequency? (Relative to the carrier freq)? Normally in FM you want that to track the V/Oct along with the carrier, at like, +1oct or -1oct or something like that...
Well I'm not sure. I don't own the Graphic VCO, and I don't really do live performances. But the Graphic does seem to have more menu diving than the Shapeshifter, so I suppose I'd probably choose the Shapeshifter for that personally.
Mark McCarthy On Graphic VCO you can save Snapshots and recall them instantly during live performance and that will chance the sound radically in a fraction of second. But which one suits your performance better, it’s your decision.
ah RTFC I thought was "code" not "comments". Just having a little joke around around a few conversations about how pointless the description can be. As it seems less than 10% bother to look.
