Still Struggling with Quantizing HALP

[Karlo]

I'm just another asshole with a negative opinion on the internet.

Good day fellow internet asshole.

This issue I had with the pitch quantize is it quantizes per tick. If I have a quarter note and each quarter note is comprised of 6 ticks I hear the table quantize the quarter note to 6 different pitches instead of just holding one. It's infuriating when you have whole notes, some eight notes, sixteenths, etc. in one pattern. Infuriating as in inferior... like my NerdSEQ skills in getting this to work. LOL.

This sounds like either coin-flipping and/or a table being clocked at the wrong speed, no? Though, in fairness, it could be cool if coin could (optionally?) flip again only when its source note changes. And/or when gated. Or something like that.

Also, please please please, put all the expanders info in a separate manual or an addendum at the end. It's painful scrolling through pages and pages of information for something that is an elective add-on to the NerdSEQ and not relevant to it's core functionality. Put it at the end of the manual. Please.

If we’re putting in our two bits: As an owner of all expanders, please don’t. Instead, please use whatever documentation tooling is needed to have each expander section cover all of the supported FX for that track type without just pointing the reader back to the modular track type FX section of the documentation. Yes, I know it is duplication, but this is a PDF and not a printed manual.

The envelops - All my modular envelops are digital so I'm not sure your comparison to analog envelopes is relevant. For comparison, I have an Intellijel Quadrax and/or IME Kermit mkIII (both digital and buttery smooth) and neither of them contaminate my signal like the NerdSEQ envelopes. I think what MGD said - it might be oscillating and making a short ringmod type sound to my output signal on the VCA - but I don't know why it would oscillate. I don't have the envelope set to cycle, it is set to one shot or once. I would argue Digital envelopes are superior to analog... just not the NerdSEQ envelops. Something you may want to look into.

Could this perhaps be a 12 bit vs 16+ bit DAC thing?

- clock dividing happens on the following pattern and is not instantaneous

I for one would appreciate this if optional.

Ratcheting... again, I'm hopeful for the next release that this is addressed and can be set to musically division in the trigger column instead of all the button pressing trying to find the right combinations of repeats to trigger length as seen in the 1.23 firmware. As others have stated... if you later decide to change the BPM of your pattern, the repeats to trigger lengths will be "off" and you have to go back and go through the the massive amount of button presses to find the perfect combination of repeats to trigger length.

I admit that I’ve been holding off on the pre-release firmware so I’ve not messed with them yet, but are you perhaps using repeats when you should be using ratchets?

Good day.

Quantize works as expected using a bunch of different note lengths in my pattern with out it quantizing per tick, it had nothing to do with the quantize up/down/Coin you just have to set it up a very specific way not outlined in the manual.

I don't have any expanders, and I have a small system with no space or use for all the expanders. Yes I can use PDF search, but I still have to click through the search results of what seems like a thousand pages of expander info to get to the patch screen or the table screen. Just put it the expander info at the end... then you know exactly where you're precious More CV expander info is instead of embedded half way through the manual somewhere.

12 bit should suffice for smooth envelopes, I've had 12bit midi converters and never had a problem with them adding "artifacts"

Clock dividing on some other non-relevant upstream pattern as an option is fine by me, still doesn't make any sense tho. LOL

Yes, I would love to use ratchets, but where are the ratchets in 1.23? I've only found/used the repeat triggers in the pattern screen.