can anyone think of a way to use a simple midi keyboard to “lock” a quantizer? I’ve been trying to alter the bouncing balls patch that Kira made so that I can play a chord on my midi keyboard and it will alter the 4 quantizers to shuffle through my selected chord each time press they keys. I cant seem to find a quantizer module that lets something like that happen…
Im not quite sure I understand…
a midi keyboard is already quantised, you’d not need to use a quantiser.
I’ve not played with this patch, but in theory, just remove the quantisers all together, and use the pitch from the midicv.
however, playing chords requires polyphony (as a min from the midi → cv), this is currently not released, but you can try the experimental poly branch.
to shuffle through my selected chord each time press they keys.
without poly, you could use an arp on your keyboard (to “shuffle” thru notes)
with poly, perhaps there will be an arp module ported,
if theres no arp, you could possibly create one using shift registers or similar.
again, this is a bit of a grab bag of ideas, as Im not familiar with patch, nor what you are trying to do exactly - so some of the above may or may not be useful.
Ya, sorry I wasn’t very clear!
I used I think similar to your suggestion of just using the keyboard as the quantizer. Which did end up working well enough! (But I still am kindof chasing this quantizer lock for further patch refinement)
I think the polyphony update (if I’m understanding, it will accept multiple midi notes simultaneously without needing to use the splitter module?)
here’s the patch “solution” I do want to explore some of your other thoughts though
The “quantize lock” I desire, explained a bit further
For example:
The VCV quantizer module lets you click different keys on the represented keyboard and can either turn “on” or “off” notes that the quantizer allows to get through. If I use the latch or arp function on midi keyboard it locks in notes it’s playing. But it doesn’t allow further manipulation in the patch from say modulation to choose the arpesiator’s position in the scale.
I want to have that “mouse click” function available in vcv rack, but controlled by MIDI.
So for example I play a C chord on the midi keyboard and the quantizer hears that signal and turns off all of the other notes. So when a modulation signal goes into the quantizer what gets let through are only notes within the C chord.
My desire to try to figure this out is from the bouncing balls patch in the patch gallery.
Kira the patch creator had put a VCA connected to the bouncing ball’s position and this was a really elegant way to represent the ball’s motion in JW’s bouncing balls module. Because the bouncing balls module tracks the position of represented balls on the screen and it’s really fun for people to watch the little buddies bounce around and make the sounds they are hearing.
Like, when the ball went up vertical the scale climbed, and when it went down the scale descended.
this is a really cool trick when trying to represent motion in music. But I wanted to take it a step further and be able to add the ability to play this patch alongside other musicians, so if I were to play a chord on my midi keyboard that representation would be in the same key as the ensemble.
i couldn’t figure out this exact patch still. But I got something workable for last nights practice!
I do plan to make a few tweaks before the first performance next week.
Thanks for the thoughts technobear I’m going to play around with your thoughts and see if I can get closer!