Enso + Gauss x4 (Drambo patches)

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Update: now also with Gauss.

Enso patch: https://patchstorage.com/enso-x4/

Gauss patch: https://patchstorage.com/gauss-x4/

If you do any looping in Drambo, perhaps you’ll find these patches useful.

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4 Enso loopers (1-4) in a Rack.

– 4 audio inputs
– Input matrix mixer. By default sends IN-1 to looper 1, IN-2 to looper 2, etc.
– CTRL: control all 4 loopers from one place without opening UI
– Modifiers: Control pan, sends, etc. from one place
– Loopers with FX section
– Output meters
– Sends to A/B as XY for each looper
– Optional limiter
– Record to Flexi for capturing patterns live

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Some ambient noodling with this patch, using a single Quanta as input. Sound is ok with headphones, not so good without … and there were some screen record issues. I have an old device.

Synthi

lovely! thanks!

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I added a Gauss version, see first post for link.

The CTRL section only has the bare essentials; record, undo, (snap) speed.

You could add more, but there is a bug with Drambo display in compact mode when having lots of hidden parameters. I’d like to see that fixed before adding more control (Giku said one of the next updates would fix it).

Gauss patch is much smaller in size! 14 MB vs 113 MB.

Btw, there seems to be an occasional bug in Drambo with the inner section FX folding in the layers. If it gets stuck, seems like you have to un-compactify and collapse. This bug was not there before the recent updates.

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Sorry downloaders - I had a bug in the input matrix mixer. Updates to both patches have been uploaded now.

The off-diagonal elements were turned all left, which was intended, but the min value was -1 instead of 0 for all knobs. This causes signal leakage (with polarity flip) to all loopers, which was not intended by default. It wasn't apparent in the video I made, since there I was using the loopers in a more generative way, where the input was being intentionally fed to all loopers at the same time, to a varying degree.

Either download the new patches, or go into the Input matrix, double tap all knobs, and set their min value to 0. If the current value is negative, this will become 0 as well.

yowza

When loaded in Drambo the whole rack is so big and shifts everything so far to the left so that you can’t access anything to the left or put anything before it or access the AU window. I’m not the most savvy Drambo user and don’t use it often enough and have to relearn the interface every time I use it so I’m sure it’s user error. Any tips on how to use this rack? I’m on an Air 3 so it’s not a big screen. Thanks!

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You should definitely use it in rack compact mode, do this by tapping the top right icon of the rack, all the way to the right. Did it not open in compact mode on first load? At least I saved in compact mode, and my inserting of it always open as compact.

I´d say only use non-compact whenever you want to add things, like extra modules in FX or Modifiers, for example.

Also, the foldable sections (Input, CTRL, etc.) are good to open/close regularly to avoid too much horizontal scrolling.

yowza

It doesn’t matter, either way you can’t move the whole rack to the right to add a synth AU or whatever before it to feed into the looper. If you try to slide it right it pops back to its original location.

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Hm, I have not had problems sliding it to the right to add stuff in front. Not sure if this has to do with Air 3 or not.
If you want to make it more compact, you could try to add foldable Section also in front of the output meters, then you could hide them. Although I prefer to see the looper activity without having to tap around.

I normally keep this rack on a separate track, and keep synths inputs on preceding track(s), like you see in the video. So I'm not normally putting much in front of it.

yowza

It’s hard for me to discern what’s going on in the video probably because I don’t know Drambo very well. I usually end up running back to my guitar after beating my head against the Drambo wall for a while. When the rack is expanded I can’t access the icon on the far right to collapse it again like the whole thing is too wide for my iPad. Thanks for your help!

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I get that:)
Here is a quick setup video. I put the rack on track 5. In the first minute, you see how sliding and inserting AUv3 in front should normally work. After 1 minute, I use the Drambo multitrack view (enabled by red rectangle in the Drambo top right corner) to connect input sources from tracks 1-4.

yowza

Thanks again for your help but when I insert your rack on any track I’m not able to slide it to the right to add anything in front of it. I don’t get the plus sign, the window moves slightly right then pops back to the left again. I do know how to slide items to the right to add things in front but it doesn’t work. I appreciate your help but I think it’s time to go back to the guitar. I might try again later

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Strange, I've never heard of that. @rs2000 have you heard of any problems with sliding longish compact racks to the right (to reveal + sign) on smaller devices such as an iPad Air?

rs2000

@yowza
First: Try grabbing the colored head of a module very slowly to the right and watch the "+" circle in front of it grow. If you let go the module while the "+" is shown, a menu will pop up to let you choose or search for a new module.

Second: I have no large and expensive iPad either. iPhone, iPad Mini, classic iPad. However I tend to reduce rack sizes to a width that can be still handled well, ideally without scrolling.
The rack compact view allows you to hide any of the contained modules so that can be done most of the times.

@bleep No, I never experienced that but who knows if @yowza hasn't found a new bug? If there are clear steps to reproduce then we want to know 😊

yowza

I just tried this again and was able to get it to work but I had to grab the module header on the far left side. If I grabbed it anywhere but the far left end of the module it would move and then pop back to its original position and no plus sign showed up. Maybe it has to do with the size of the module, who knows? Thanks