ER-301 Ultraviolet Granular // Custom Unit Clouds Clone
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Orthogonal Devices ER-301 Custom Unit - Ultraviolet (Clouds Clone)
As a challenge, I set out to make a Clouds "clone" custom unit on the Orthagonal Devices ER-301. It's not strictly or exactly a clone, but rather a Clouds-inspired custom unit that expands on the Manual Grains unit in the 301. It adds a few Clouds-inspired controls, as well as a few other twists. I ended up with 2 different versions for now (more on that later). It's heavy on the CPU (65%-75%) and there were two features I played with swapping out. There are two main Clouds features missing - one is the reverb and the other is the texture control that shapes the envelopes of the grains.
This current version was built with and was only tested on firmware 0.2.18!! It may work with previous versions, as long as it has the highpass filter. I would recommend only using it on 0.2.18 for now. It's only in stereo for now as well. The input is automatically set to IN1, but may be changed.
Shoutout to Lance Drake and Bryan Noll for helping me test this! And shoutout to Joshua Saddler for notes and ideas.
Here is a list of the paramters and what they do (everything can be put under CV-control)
Wet/Dry - Sets the wet/dry mix between the input source and the granular unit
In Gain - Sets the amount of the input signal feeding into the recording buffer/granular unit
Freeze - Gate input, stops the recording buffer from recording
Trigger - Trigger input, triggers the grains
Reverse - Toggle input, reverses the grains
Density - Triggers the grains internally without the need for a trigger input
Position - Sets the start point for the grains
Size - Sets the size of the grains
Cut - Cutoff of the filters
Res - Resonance of the filters
Pass - "Spread" of the filters
V/Oct - Volt per octave pitch control of the grains
Warble - Adds a small amount of pitch warble to the grains. Has a chorus effect when you can still hear the dry signal
Spread - Stereo spread and panning amount of the grains
Mod - Adds internal random modulation to the Position and Size parameters that are synced to both the Trigger Input and the Density Input
Gain - Grain gain
There are two versions of Ultraviolet - one has a feedback control which feeds the grains back into manual grain unit. The other has a control called Refract that is a distortion/bit crushing unit. I'm including a custom unit with both controls, but it's prone to pops after a while.
The recording buffer is set to one second, just like Clouds, but it can be changed pretty easily.
Hope you enjoy!
You can download these units here - www.dropbox.com/s/zv0xxseb5za...
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Aaaaaaah, so beautiful! Thx Austin for making this. The ER301 is one of the few modules that truly interests me right now.
oh man, refract is a gorgeous addition. well done. the building blocks this thing offers really gets me excited for creating my own ultimate drone effect. dreaming of something along the lines of that video in infinite jest that was so perfect that it drove people insane.
Gorgeous
@rbeny
3 жыл бұрын
thank you mr. Red Means Recording! big fan
Some gorgeous glassy tones there sir.
Gorgeous.. I'm about to join the 10 week waiting list.
Richard , you rock and I wish the best for you man keep moving on forward .
Add any missing superlatives and a heaping dose of thoroughly being impressed and that's where I'm at today with Ultraviolet
About to make the jump into Orthogonal, and came across this right away. This is deep and I'm LOVIN it.
@rbeny
6 жыл бұрын
You are gonna love it man!
Brilliant stuff! Makes me super curious about the ER-301
beautiful sounding patch. really lush.
Love the Refract slider!
Utterly beautiful!
Amazing demo sound capacibilities! thanks for share! my respects
Excellent work dude!
You must have been a rock guitarist or enjoy that genre who else would appreciate and finesse this kind of beautiful distortion and tremolo 👍🏻
@rbeny
5 жыл бұрын
indeed that is my background
Damn that's a really good demo
Excellent work
Wonderful stuff!
That refract parameter is awesome
Looks great !
Excellent, thanks for posting!
gorgeous
Because 2 clouds aren't enough. Lovely
Wonderful
lovely!
Awesome!
hallucinant !
Great
Damn, son.
Where did you get these beautiful cables? ...It looks what Arturia gives when buying the Keystep.
@rbeny
5 жыл бұрын
they are sold by mutable instruments. great cables!
this thing sounds much nicer than clouds. i wish it had knobs for all the parameters you're manipulating.
@rbeny
6 жыл бұрын
The Voltage Block is near-perfect to use as an interface for this. Making me consider 2.
any opinion on this vs the Eloquencer?... hesitating between both. Love the Eloq UI. I like melodies more than beats btw.
@rbeny
5 жыл бұрын
kinda hard to compare since the eloquencer is a sequencer and the 301 is something else entirely. maybe you are thinking this is the 101?
Hearing this, I suspect you to be Abul Mogard 🙂
@rbeny
5 жыл бұрын
I wish ;)
ER-301 is so awesome. Makes it hard to justify other modules. Boo!
Nice. So you're processing in realtime? Peak chords?
@rbeny
6 жыл бұрын
Real-time processing indeed. Rings easter egg mode chords :)
@fredericvanwalleghem
5 жыл бұрын
r beny Rings triggered by Voltage block?
Very nice music! But frankly, seeing this reminds me soundwise and regarding the interface of early nineties digital synths...
Is your music on Spotify? I need it in my life. ;-;
@rbeny
6 жыл бұрын
It will be soon.
Does the ER-301 do real-time granular sampling?
@rbeny
3 жыл бұрын
it can be set up to do that, yes.
hello i am new to the er-3031. i downloaded your files you graciously provided. Can you advise where they need to be placed on sd card in able to access? i looked all files on current card and none have a lua extension...how do i make your file from that into a unit...thanks again i always enjoy all your work greatly.
@rbeny
3 ай бұрын
hey there, so the custom units I had up would be pretty outdated at this point, only able to run on the 0.2.xx firmware. custom units now have the extension .unit or .pkg (pkg meaning it would be available as a regular unit and not just a custom unit variant). I also optimized ultraviolet a bit since then. here's a link to my OD forum post that has the latest files still up (someone made a .pkg file as well): forum.orthogonaldevices.com/t/custom-unit-ultraviolet-granular-clouds-clone-new-version-for-0-6-14-out-now-post-215/747 let me know if that works. I'll have to update my dropbox, but will probably include both versions for anyone still running an old firmware.
@supright44
3 ай бұрын
@@rbeny thanks many really appreciate it.....will give it go...that explains the different extensions from years gone by to now...have a great night!!
@supright44
3 ай бұрын
@@rbeny got it to load properly and now my issue is cant get sound out of it. i have a vairiable speed player working with audio playing when i bypass the ultraviolet unit but as soon as i turn bypass i have no sound. i applied a gate to the trigger thinking that might be it but still nothing...thanks again for replying earlier...baby steps i guess. LOL
@rbeny
3 ай бұрын
@@supright44 it's been a while since I've had the ER-301 racked, I'll try to check it out soon. gate to trigger or turning density up would be two of the ways that you should for sure hear the granular effect. but you should hear the dry signal going through the unit, depending on the dry/wet settings. just to check, which ER-301 firmware are you using?
@supright44
3 ай бұрын
@@rbeny it’s 0.6.16. Thanks again for your time.
I need this module...im afraid of it but i want it...Why?
@rbeny
5 жыл бұрын
it's deep for sure! i love having it around, allows you to do more complex patching within a smaller system
@wackenthaljef
5 жыл бұрын
@@rbeny Thank you rben!
So, what is this module?
@rbeny
4 жыл бұрын
orthogonal devices er-301 sound computer
Added to www.modularmusic.tv - awesome!
885 dollaridoos... ouch. It does sound lovely tho
@rbeny
6 жыл бұрын
It's a good thing I like ramen