Count To Five

[multi_s]

Im getting a lot of noise when my CT5 is engaged, anyone else have this issue?
making recording very difficult.

please feel free to email me directly if you have any issues with the pedal mtl.asm@gmail.com, i'm sure we can work it out.

Thanks vidret. yeah I'm still exploring the ct5.

Hey Scott, the quantize feature of the ct5 brought me to an idea for a new pedal. you gotta make an arpeggiator and these are some of the features:
- a great variety of skales, not just major/minor.
-of course they can be playbacked from very slow to very fast, forward and backwards.
-and you can go through the skales with an expressionpedal for handsfree operation.
-but heres my main feature: the eqd arpanoid sounds cool but the arpeggios are a bit "stiff" to me. They're alway in time (which isn't a bad thing, of course). But I think you're able to built an out-of-time parameter. Imagine the notes of a scale as dancers in a country line dancing group (or something similar) and of course some of them are bit out of time so they are one or two steps early or behind. That would produce a loose and lively feel on the arpeggio. And by adjusting the parameter from slightly out of step (beginner-mode) to totally out of step (drunk-mode) you can conduct the little group for fun. Of course one could determine via toggle switch or expressionpedal which dancer(s) are out of time. "Hey, the fifth and major 3rd in the front row are bit behind!" Scott, you can do that! (I don't know if you did that already )

ya those are good ideas. I have stared to work a bit with another fellow who studied music tech and we have talked a lot in this vein, devices that focus more on live/on the fly composition by using more complex pattern generation than is typically available. I should wrap up the ct5s this week or early next, but I'm not sure when we will have any other devices done/avail, hopefully by the end of the summer.

[PaulB]

Im getting a lot of noise when my CT5 is engaged, anyone else have this issue?
making recording very difficult.

If you can exclude a power source/daisy chain issue, you can try this: I had the same issue with my ct5 (bought it used).There was a huge hissing on the looped/delayed signal. Especially in Mode 1 you could hear it quite good, because when you switch between the buffer length setups (knob 3) the pedal was dead quiet for a second and then there was the hissing again.
I emailed a lot with Scott about it. I almost send the pedal back to him (no fun from germany to canada and back) and after a guided test with the inside "offset" trim pot (best contact Scott about that) I adjusted the gain trim pot and the problem was gone! It seemed that the gain trim pot was adjusted nearly counterclockwise (not much input signal goies into the DSP -> white noise was looped/delayed) but after turning it nearly full clockwise (more guitar input goes into DSP) the hissing was gone. I will turn the trim pot down a bit more because the pedal is a bit too loud now when I just want the wet signal. But it's totally fine now.

So, just try the pedal alone (guit-ct5-amp) with a reliable power source and turn the inside gain trim pot carefully clockwise. Don't touch the offset trim pot unless Scott guides you through that procedure.

My ct5 is "dead quiet" now. Hope this helps. It's a great pedal (we all know that )

[PaulB]

ha, Scott was faster.

[Iommic Pope]

Can't wait for GB24 pcbs. Cuz gonna house it with an SRR for ultimate good times

THIS! Want so bad!!!

Cuz think about feeding this dual with some drippy filter or even better, an s/h filter! :o

yes the boards are ok/i will have some soon. i jsut want to clear the ct5 orders before doing anything else. maybe 1 more week or 2.

Have I missed the boat on these?

[multi_s]

Can't wait for GB24 pcbs. Cuz gonna house it with an SRR for ultimate good times

THIS! Want so bad!!!

Cuz think about feeding this dual with some drippy filter or even better, an s/h filter! :o

yes the boards are ok/i will have some soon. i jsut want to clear the ct5 orders before doing anything else. maybe 1 more week or 2.

Have I missed the boat on these?

no, i just haven't released them yet. i will make a thread in the shark tank when they are avail. sorry to tease, figured id get my friend who was working a bit for me to handle it but he has moved back to nyc so I'm just holding off till all the ct5;s are shipped. should be a week or so then I will have more news.

[Iommic Pope]

Sweet!

All good man, just wasn't sure if they had happened yet.

Cheers!

[zoooombiex]

Cross-posted from this thread: viewtopic.php?f=149&t=46449

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Thanks Scott for making a fantastic and innovative pedal! I've been enjoying this for a few weeks and it's become a really unique part of my setup. I had a couple thoughts about how it might be more versatile. I thought I'd share in case anyone else has any to add-

1. Wet send/return - I'd love to be able to modulate the wet signal with some other effects

2. Remember quantization - it defaults to no quantization each time it powers up, but it'd be nice if it remembered the last setting.

3. Access quantization from any mode. Sometimes I'm in mode 2 or 3 with a loop going and want to change quantization while the loop keeps playing. But you have to be in mode 1 to change quantization (hold down tap and change the direction knob), and if you switch to mode 1 it destroys the loop.

4. Save loop when switching between modes 2 & 3. Sometimes I have a loop on mode 2 and then want to switch to mode three to add layers or overdub, but it destroys the loop if you switch modes. it'd be nice if it kept playing the loop. I understand the loop time in mode 3 is longer than mode 2, so if it has to chop the loop when switching from mode 3 to 2 that would still be fine ... mode 2 is usually chopping and mangling the loop anyway

5. Separate wet/dry volume knobs - this might be my own usage quirk, but i sometimes would like to be able to have loud wet & dry, or quiet wet & dry, or mute the dry altogether and adjust the wet separately

Thanks again Scott!

[multi_s]

Cross-posted from this thread: viewtopic.php?f=149&t=46449

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Thanks Scott for making a fantastic and innovative pedal! I've been enjoying this for a few weeks and it's become a really unique part of my setup. I had a couple thoughts about how it might be more versatile. I thought I'd share in case anyone else has any to add-

1. Wet send/return - I'd love to be able to modulate the wet signal with some other effects

2. Remember quantization - it defaults to no quantization each time it powers up, but it'd be nice if it remembered the last setting.

3. Access quantization from any mode. Sometimes I'm in mode 2 or 3 with a loop going and want to change quantization while the loop keeps playing. But you have to be in mode 1 to change quantization (hold down tap and change the direction knob), and if you switch to mode 1 it destroys the loop.

4. Save loop when switching between modes 2 & 3. Sometimes I have a loop on mode 2 and then want to switch to mode three to add layers or overdub, but it destroys the loop if you switch modes. it'd be nice if it kept playing the loop. I understand the loop time in mode 3 is longer than mode 2, so if it has to chop the loop when switching from mode 3 to 2 that would still be fine ... mode 2 is usually chopping and mangling the loop anyway

5. Separate wet/dry volume knobs - this might be my own usage quirk, but i sometimes would like to be able to have loud wet & dry, or quiet wet & dry, or mute the dry altogether and adjust the wet separately

Thanks again Scott!

hi, ya most of these are good ideas and things i have thought of too so here is my comments:

1) It can't happen on the current version, but the plan for future versions is stereo input/output jacks and a way to choose whether it's stereo or mono with an effects loop.

2) Yes this will be fixed in a firmware update to the current version.

3) I can't think of how to actually set that up physically, but it could be changed somehow in the firmware too. But for example in modes 2 and 3 all the physical knobs/switches are already used, holding the soft switch also already does something. In a future version i t might be a dedicated knob/switch.

4) Yes this will eventually happen on the current model. actually it will save between all 3 modes.

5)Yes this seems to be subjective. For now i just use mix because it is less hardware. It could go either way.

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[Tristan]

Wow, that would be so super awesome!
I don't mind about the effects loop too much but a dedicated switch to toggle between quantize modes would be really great and having both a wet and dry volume would be the most useful upgrade you can do on the CT5 in my opinion since it tends to be quite loud and at times overpowering in the higher frequencies / registers.
Another feature I'd really dig is some kind of lofi filter toggle to make it sound more like the GB24.
Just curious, would there be a way to hack the separate wet / dry and lofi filter toggle into the current CT5?

[multi_s]

Wow, that would be so super awesome!
I don't mind about the effects loop too much but a dedicated switch to toggle between quantize modes would be really great and having both a wet and dry volume would be the most useful upgrade you can do on the CT5 in my opinion since it tends to be quite loud and at times overpowering in the higher frequencies / registers.
Another feature I'd really dig is some kind of lofi filter toggle to make it sound more like the GB24.
Just curious, would there be a way to hack the separate wet / dry and lofi filter toggle into the current CT5?

The mix knob is just 2 volume knobs stacked, so if you rehoused the pedal and removed this pot you could just use 2 pots that aren't ganged together.

You can probably just reduce the resolution in the firmware to make it sound more like the gb24, but i don;t know if that is something i will release for the current version of the board.

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[Tristan]

I guess this resolution reduction can't be put on a switch or pot right?
Might be cool for a future iteration though.
Like it is the CT5 already is one of my favourite pedals ever.

[multi_s]

Yes it would be difficult to hack that onto the current version. Also it is already pretty full inside so positioning extra hardware might be difficult.

Maybe something could happen though, i just meant it;s not a priority. gb24 kits thopugh soon eh? maybe just use one of those to get that classic crunchy toan.

[Tristan]

Ya, I sold mine, them quantizations and samplings ya know...
If the GB24 had quantization modes it would be a different story, then I'd have kept both.

[multi_s]

ya definitely.

maybe that can be hacked on though. i already made some boards for the kit but it is infinitely easier to hack things onto it because it is all through hole and all the parts are huge.Also i made a bit crusher witha sort of S/H waveform LFO for someone for secret santa one year using the same board, so that will be available too.

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[Bellyheart]

Yay