René
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Installation: The Make Noise René is an electronic analog control signal generator requiring 80mA of +12V regulated power and properly formatted distribution receptacle to operate. It is designed to be used within the euro format modular synthesizer system. Go to http://www.doepfer.de/a100_man/a100t_e.htm for the details of this format.
Overview: René is deep, but all you really need to know: Patch one clock to X‐CLK, and a second clock to Y‐CLK, adjust clock rates and/ or divisors, tune voltages per location (the knobs) as desired. Adjusting those two clocks relative to each other will create seemingly infinite variations on the theme that is your sequence. Much joy may be had without any further knowledge, but I am certain you will want to know more, so read on.
2 1 5 3 7 6 11 9 17 10 13 12 15 4 16 8 18 14 19 20 René Panel Controls Inputs: 1. 2. X- CLK Input: clock/ gate signal (of width greater than .5ms and amplitude greater than 2.5V) applied to this input drives the X- Axis Counter. If using MATHS to clock, then set Vari- Response to LINEAR. When René counts Snake Style, X- CLK steps linearly through a stored set of coordinates; it drives the sequence.
Inputs (Continued) 7. Y- CV Input: control signal at this input generate a number that is added to the number generated by the Y- Axis Counter, to create the Y coordinate. When René counts Snake Style, Y- CV selects stored set of coordinates.. Y- CV is normalled to +5V so that with nothing patched the attenuator acts as an offset generator. 8. Y-CV Input CV Attenuator Sensitivity: 9. Touch Grid sensitivity control. To increase sensitivity, set the position 100% clockwise. Outputs: 10.
CONTROLS 4x4 CV Programming grid: potentiometer sets Tuned Voltage for corresponding location 0 thru 15. 4x4 touch grid: In PLAY, the touch pads may be used to set ACCESS in real time, effectively allowing the performer to play the ACCESS parameter. In use, this means that René will go to only the locations that the performer is touching. Additionally, touching and releasing a single location while René is PLAYing will set a new start point, thus creating a variation on your sequence.
APPENDIX A (X‐FUN and Y‐FUN) COUNTING: FWD: for every Clock Pulse, associated counter advances one digit. 0, 1, 2, 3. After 3 counter returns to 0. BWD: for every Clock Pulse, associated counter recedes one digit. 3, 2, 1, 0. After 0 counter returns to 3. PEND: counter advances from 0, 1, 2, 3 and then recedes 2, 1, 0. The motion is like that of the pendulum of a clock.
Musically speaking, Seek moves more, and Sleep will rest more. Using Sleep and ProGraMming Access and Gates, it is possible to create rests, pauses and etc... LOGIC OPERATIONS There are 3 rows of the logic processing. CLK by MOD, Gate by MOD and Gate by Opposing CLK. With the Clock Logic Ops (locations 9, 10, 11) the MOD input is AND, OR, XOR against the CLocK and the result drives the counter for the associated Axis.
APPENDIX B Stored Quantized Voltages While at the Quantize Page, to store all 16 Voltages as set by the potentiometers and the ProGraMmed Scale as set by touch grid 0 thru 11, touch and hold either 12, 13, 14, or 15 until all 6 PGM LEDs flash. When any one of 12, 13, 14, or 15 is ON at the Q Page, QCV OUT will produce voltages per location as stored, in the scale stored. Scale may still be edited on the fly, but the knobs will no longer be “live” while any one of the Stored Quantized Voltage sets is in use.
APPENDIX C Snake: Memorized Coordinate Sets: These drawings illustrate the SNAKE like paths that René travels, reading coordinates from memory. Conceived and Illustrated by yerpa58.
Patch Examples Voltage Controlled Raga: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHf4q7pehtg QCV -> VCO 1v/Oct. Wogglebug Woggle CV Out -> Rene X-CV. Put Rene in Snake Mode and clock it with your choice of clock source. Mult clock to Wogglebug Clock Input. Set Woggle Time to full CCW (0%), all other Wogglebug controls full CW. Adjust XCV input attenuator slowly up from 0% until the Woggle out begins to destabilize the sequence, adding embellishments. Adjust Woggle Time and Wogglebug Chaos Control (Clock/Slew) to taste.
