Various Questions

Hi

The big day dawns - congratulations @danngreen & the team.

How wide will the slider expander be?

How many expanders are stackable?

Is there a limit to how many plugins can be stored on the module?

Is there a limit to how many patches can be stored?

What makes the difference between whether a plugin becomes a ‘built in’ and whether it becomes a third party one?

Does the latency affect audio rate modulation?

So many questions, some of which will likely be answered once the module is in my hands on Wednesday.

The big day dawns - congratulations @danngreen & the team.

Thanks!

How wide will the slider expander be?

8HP

How many expanders are stackable?

That remains to be tested. You can daisy-chain a lot but there are some environmental issues (like noisy power supplies or modules, or long cables) that limit it.

The Audio and Wifi expanders have dedicated headers, so they attached directly without any daisy-chaining. It’s just the button, knob, slider, and DigIO modules that daisy-chain.

Is there a limit to how many plugins can be stored on the module?

Yes, but we haven’t hit that limit yet. Even if you load all the plugins available you still are using something like 10% of the available RAM.

Is there a limit to how many patches can be stored?

Nope. Just the size of your USB drive or SD Card. The internal storage dedicates 2MB for patches, so it can hold a few hundred (patch files are typically 5kB-15kB or so). But I would recommend just keeping your favorites on the internal storage and use an external drive to store your entire patch library. Even with a small USB drive (8GB) you can store half a million patches or more, so you’ll never have to worry about having too many patches.

What makes the difference between whether a plugin becomes a ‘built in’ and whether it becomes a third party one?

The built-ins are there so you can power the module up on day one have something to play with, without needing to download anything. There’s not any real practical difference other than that.

Does the latency affect audio rate modulation?

Like if you run a patch with a virtual VCO, and you patch that to a physical VCO, and then back into the MetaModule to modulate something else? Yeah, you would just add up the latency for each pass through the MetaModule. It’s not any different than the latency you see on a normal digital module. The Block Size setting goes down to 32, which at 48kHz gives you under 2ms latency (closer to 1.333ms)

So many questions, some of which will likely be answered once the module is in my hands on Wednesday.

Yes! Have fun!

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Thanks Dan.

Ample space for everything I will need it for. I won’t be building any hybrid complex oscillators then :wink:

It should be in my hands late tomorrow PM. Can’t wait.

Cheers!

Can you add a ‘whats in the box’ on the manual? At least i couldnt see if it said there was/wasnt an SD card that ships with the device. I just want to be ready when it arrives next week.

An SD card was included with mine FWIW. Also a USB3>USB-C adaptor, and four Knurlies.

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Awesome! Thanks!!! I haven’t seen an unboxing video yet.

I actually posted an unboxing video Thursday right after I picked it up, Here’s the link https://youtu.be/afIlTetRtBU

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I see you have issue number 0419, mine is 0420 from Rubadub it also says Demo, which is probably why I got it so cheap :grin: