Dualchord Expander

[megarat]

Hi Thomas, do you have an estimate for when the manual for the v2.02 firmware update will be completed? I’m intrigued by the Dual Chord expander, but I’d like to get a better idea of its capabilities first.

Also, now that the Dual Chord is finished, what’s next in the NerdSeq pipeline? I recall years-old gossip about a 6 CV/2 Trig expander and an 8 CV/8 Trig expander. Are they still viable future products?

[XORadmin]

Hi Thomas, do you have an estimate for when the manual for the v2.02 firmware update will be completed?  I’m intrigued by the Dual Chord expander, but I’d like to get a better idea of its capabilities first.

Also, now that the Dual Chord is finished, what’s next in the NerdSeq pipeline?  I recall years-old gossip about a 6 CV/2 Trig expander and an 8 CV/8 Trig expander.  Are they still viable future products?

I'm working on it but as usual too many things come in between.
I hope it will be done in the coming week.

And hey....even without manual you should know already that you can buy my products blindly, don't you?  ;-)

There will be no 6CV2Trig nor a 8CV/8Trig anymore. CV16 and T16 cover that very much and it takes actually too much time to add one more pattern screen and everything around to match the hardware.

[XORadmin]

Just a little announcement. I made a slight mistake and so all Dualchords out there which run already the Firmware 1.1 (they are only very few with V1.1, most out there do run V1.0) got a little note offset of 5 semitones. I will do a maintenance update in the next days where this will be fixed again.

[XORadmin]

The Dualchord Firmware has been updated to V1.2 (fixes the note offset issues and the knob initialization on project load).

https://xor-electronics.com/forum/showth...p?tid=1921

[XORadmin]

Sound examples:

[kriskeyman]

Is clone to modular not available for Dual Chord track? I was hoping to send column 1 note of Dual Chord to local CV 5.

[XORadmin]

Is clone to modular not available for Dual Chord track? I was hoping to send column 1 note of Dual Chord to local CV 5.

No and it is not needed anymore.
You can simply use the mapping to get an additional flexible routing of all your played notes. For example if the Dualchord is on track 1 and you want to use the 1st note column to local CV5:

Code:

TRCK  TRK1   NOT1    >   CV   NOTE   CV 5

And for example the 2nd note column additionally to MOD6:

Code:

TRCK  TRK1   NOT2    >   CV   NOTE   MOD6

[kriskeyman]

Ah, of course! Thank you Thomas!

[kilgore]

I'm a bit confused about how to connect the expanders together.

So I now have my Dualchord, which is connected to the NSA port on the Nerdseq. If I want to connect the 2hp MIDI expander, that should be connected to the Dualchords second NSA port (not that other port on the Nerdseq?).

So I need a ribbon cable that goes from 12pin (MIDI Expander) to 14pin (Dualchord NSA).

Do I understand this correctly? Somehow I never realised how many different kinds of ribbon cables there are....I don't think I have a 12->14pin one!

[XORadmin]

I'm a bit confused about how to connect the expanders together.

So I now have my Dualchord, which is connected to the NSA port on the Nerdseq. If I want to connect the 2hp MIDI expander, that should be connected to the Dualchords second NSA port (not that other port on the Nerdseq?).

So I need a ribbon cable that goes from 12pin (MIDI Expander) to 14pin (Dualchord NSA).

Do I understand this correctly? Somehow I never realised how many different kinds of ribbon cables there are....I don't think I have a 12->14pin one!

No.

Midi got its own port -> 12 pin   -> 2hp, Midi-IO or Multi-IO (one of these)
NSA got it's own port ->14 pin   -> Trigger16, CV16, Dualchord, Video Expander (VEX)

There is never a 12 -> 14 pin adapter