Organelle love fest

[popvulture]

Ordered.

[manymanyhaha]

Mine should be here Tuesday or Wednesday. After finding out it will do True Stereo, I have a vision for it. We will see if it can comply, or if I am capable of making it comply. If those two hurdles are succumbed, well hell, see you fuckers on the other side.

If not, then obviously, see you on the side we already sit.

[oscillateur]

Just for the record, Pure Data was created by Miller Puckette (from MIT, IRCAM, etc.) and has always been free, it's not made by a company but is an open source project. Puckette also created Max, and PD is the basis for MSP by Cycling74, which is a commercial product with a stronger focus on interface/etc. (but I'm far from being an expert on this).

The organelle looks cool, a bit like a more open version of the Clavia MicroModular (still love mine, even though I use it less these days), but the problem for me with open platforms like that is that I realized that I much prefer dedicated devices, otherwise I spend too much time thinking about the fact that I could do other things with them instead of using them .

Basing the thing on PD was a good idea, there's been a very active community around this for a long time. If the way this works fits with your workflow (i.e. preparing a patch for each piece/song/etc. basically and then using it), then this could be an excellent solution.

[stripes]

i sort of impulse bought an organelle after not being too interested in it when they were announced. it's really fun... at first i was turned off to it because i saw a menu screen and only 4 knobs and thought the worst, but it really is a simple and very intuitive device (the c&g patches anyway). i just downloaded the mellotron patch and it's so cool because you actually go to a website to download actual mellotron samples then load them into the patch. it sounds amazing!!

[thesmellofrain]

have anyone had any experience making their own standalone puredata device? using a raspberry PI and some sort of audio shield? would be fun to try and make a standalone fx box that could run the organelle patches.

[oscillateur]

That shouldn't be hard, people often do this kind of things for installations, art exhibitions, etc.

But if you spend time and money on that, buying the device that's been designed for this already could make more sense .

[thesmellofrain]

yeah I know. But I am very DIY by heart. and it would be fun to make it 100% "mine".

[UglyCasanova]

I have a Raspberry Pi I'm not using. Since you live in my neck of the woods you can shoot me a PM if you're interested. You can just have it.

[cloudscapes]

doesn't the Organelle run linux, as does the raspi? If so, can't be hard. But I've never used a raspi so I don't know.

I should receive mine today or tomorrow. tracking has it already in town!

[D.o.S.]

Yeah, it does run Linux as the OS.

[pd~]

I'm working on turning a B+ into a through-FX box. I hear the Pi has noticeable latency though (which is why people are hyping stuff like the Bela). We'll see.

[cloudscapes]

Got mine today. Mini preliminary review. Pros:

+ Amazing possibilities! Kinda knew that when I bought it.
+ Small and light

I will now be nitpicky.

- Don't like the aesthetic or construction. Aesthetic isn't really a con as it's subjective, but I feel the construction could be better. The display is unprotected, and the plastic bottom cover feels a bit cheap. For $500 I expect better on these two details.
- Knob indent on the free-turning encoder? Ehhhh
- Display update rate could be better.

The pros will accumulate once I start tweaking/making my own patches! Will take a while though. But I think this will be an amazing unit once I have patches tailored to my sets.

I also took it apart to see what's inside. Clever design with the main microcontroller + ram + flash on a little dedicated pcb (which I'm thinking might be OEM). And the main board with the codec and multiplexers and power stuff. There's a secondary arm microcontroller, far less powerful than the main one which I assume is for firmware updates and/or managing the keybed/controls. If I have one complaint of how the insides are built is the little microcontroller breakout pcb is only held onto the main PCB via SMD socket headers. I could unplug it with almost no force. I imagine a hard-enough knock on the unit might dislodge it.

[phantasmagorovich]

This looks like heaps of fun, but I don't think it is for me. I would love to screw around with one for a week or two but I just know I'm not the type that thinks up a great patch, then programs it and then uses it. I could probably do it but it's no fun for me. Still bookmarking the topic and hoping for this to be a fun vicarious ride.

[manymanyhaha]

Got mine yesterday and had great fun last night playing with the existing patches. I love my OP-1 but it has a distinct sound such that often when I hear a song with one being used, I identify the OP-1 immediately (see Low "Ones and Sixes"). The Organelle is less identifiable but even more tweakable. I'm keeping both,

I'm looking forward to learning some PD.

[aen]

gotta have it.
Also gotta learn Puredata.