Count Modula - Gate Sequencer

[guitooo]

Hi,

When I set a step to ON it won’t lit up on the screen.

Regarding sequencer modules it would be nice to have the possibility to hover the steps (without going into the menu) and by clicking the encoder to set the step as on/off (instead of going into the adjust and set ton on/off).

Would it be possible?

Regarding that I’m curious to how you are using these sequencers

Best

[deniSound]

Yep.
I already pointed this up, but no answer yet
Actually this is the case with all the modules that have these light buttons.

Count modula layouts issues

Hi, I noticed that all the square buttons in the count modula plugin are not green when state is active in MM. It is especially anoying on the sequencer modules since there is no other way to visually see if a step is active or not. I also notice a strange behaviour on the Euclidean sequencer. When changing the number of steps, the leds in the bottom of the matrix are getting blue and seem to become active. I couldn’t reproduce this in vcv. I really think this is not a normal behaviour. Cheer…

[guitooo]

Hi @deniSound

Thank you for your feedback.
The visual led feedback and the on the fly ON/OFF for each step is needed otherwise it’s useless

Hope our message will be heard hehe

Cheers

[deniSound]

You can already almost change parameters on the fly from firmware 2.1 by push and turn the encoder on any parameter control in module view. But, indeed, you must click on the module first when in patch view. You don’t have to open the parameters menu though.

Firmware v2.1

Firmware v2.1 is out! Download here: (v2.1.1): Update: 4ms VCV Plugin v2.1.0, which adds the Basic Wav Player, is now in the VCV Library Video overview: [MetaModule Version Firmware v2.1!] New Modules: Basic Wav Player, in the 4ms modules. [Screenshot 2025-09-05 at 1.38.33 PM] This is a streaming sample player, which means it can play very large files without needing to wait a long time to load the entire file. It also consumes much less memory since only a small portion of th…

And, yes! The lack of those led feedback on these buttons (We’re NOT speaking about the expander) is really annoying, since the count modula stuff really rocks. Especially on the sequencers.

Cheers.

[Nilz]

Back to the futu… I mean MIDI

I finally solved it with modules by “Der Mann mit der Maschine”
Namely “Droid Master18” + “B32”
You can connect the module via USB-C to the MM and you get 2 MIDI IN +
2 MIDI OUT TRS, a versatile scripting language, great controller and a whole bunch of cv outs.

Or perhaps we have to wait for the MK2 version with ws2812b rgb buttons.

My 50ct. (probably a lot more but who cares…it´s a wonderful hobby)

[deniSound]

I’m afraid it’s not related to this issue, does it?

[guitooo]

Hi @danngreen

Would it be possible to have LED feedback on step buttons of sequencers such as Count Modula?

Have a good day

[danngreen]

Yeah, they should be lit up.. It looks in the code they’re drawn in a way that’s not compatible with the way the MM draws widgets. It should be a trivial change, I’ll put it on the list to fix

[deniSound]

Good to know. Thanks. And I guess, this concerns all the modules that have this feature in this plugin?
Thank you for your awesome work and I wish all the team a merry Christmas.
Denis

[guitooo]

indeed thank you @danngreen

It’s been an amazing META 2025 !!
Merry Xmas to you and 4MS team

[danngreen]

Ok, I found the issue and “fixed” it. It was due to how VCV renders graphics vs. MetaModule’s optimized way of drawing buttons. And when I ran the updated plugin on MM firmware v2.1.7, all the buttons would default to On if I added a new module to the patch. That ended up being a bug in the firmware, which I fixed in v2.1.9. So – the tldr is to update your firmware and plugins at the same time – CountModula v2.1.0 works best with firmware v2.1.9.

[guitooo]

Thanks a lot Dann it works great!