How some learned to stop worrying and love the spinchip

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Re: How some learned to stop worrying and love the spinchip

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I'm beginning to wonder whether there's room for people to just release spinchip memory (programs) on ICs for people to load in their bitquest.. hmm.. we almost need the much-anticipated-but-never-successful "cartridge" style pedal?
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As a software developer, the idea that I might have a pedal platform to write code for is appealing. But if I got a Spinchip development kit, it won't necessarily be compatible with how the Bitquest is set up. :shrug:
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mathias wrote:we almost need the much-anticipated-but-never-successful "cartridge" style pedal?
Cooper FX is making just that.
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mathias wrote:we almost need the much-anticipated-but-never-successful "cartridge" style pedal?
Cooper FX is making just that.
Elta is developing a cartridge pedal, too.

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Also: obligatory Axoloti mention. Uses SD cards as cartridges, you can program whatever you want.
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echorec wrote:
UglyCasanova wrote:
mathias wrote:we almost need the much-anticipated-but-never-successful "cartridge" style pedal?
Cooper FX is making just that.
Elta is developing a cartridge pedal, too.

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I am so excited for a race to cartridge-based pedals.
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It's not a pedal (and perhaps it's been mentioned in this thread already), but Tiptop Audio is also using cartridges for their Z-DSP Eurorack module. If it hasn't happened already, then I imagine another builder will be releasing their own cartridge module for Eurorack in the coming year.

The Avalon from Abstrakt Instruments has 5 filter cartridges for modifying the synth's characteristics. (Moog, Roland, Oberheim, ARP, Wasp)

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Re: How some learned to stop worrying and love the spinchip

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2uRGzTVnqQ[/youtube]

It uses two spin chips and four memory chips (swapped by a switch on the back). They wrote a ton of stuff for it too.

I think they use a clock on it that can be kind of turned to overclock or underclocked the spin. The actual patch designer has more videos (DDP I think they are all listed).
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echorec wrote:
UglyCasanova wrote:
mathias wrote:we almost need the much-anticipated-but-never-successful "cartridge" style pedal?
Cooper FX is making just that.
Elta is developing a cartridge pedal, too.

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So, uh, no one mentioned this is called the Console. :erm:
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But which of these can I, as a mere mortal, write code for / make new cartridges for? Guessing the Axoloti but not sure about the rest?
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Yes to axoloti. It's rewritable all the time, but if you want to save 'patches' then you can do so on SD cards and load them that way.
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I need to get in on the race to the pedalboard. Seems right up my alley.

I really want to do a "glitch-o-lay". I was thinking about how I'd write the C code to glitch the buffer (array) as it looped, in the shower, the other day.
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Re: How some learned to stop worrying and love the spinchip

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Elta Console is preordering now.
https://www.eltamusic.com/console
Elta wrote:There are 10 cartriges available for start. Each contains 3 effects.
Cathedral - Reverb and space effects
Magic - Pitched delays
Time - Classic Mod delays
Vibrotrem - Modulation efects
Filter - Filter and Wah
Vibe - Rotary phase mods
Pitch Shifter - Octave and Pitch
Infinity - Big ambient effects
String Ringer - Audio rate modulation
Synthex-1 - Bass Synth
Kinda I want to for the joystick alone.

Do we think these are new algorithms or likely ripped off?
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