BrainModular

Hi !
Would it be a good idea to have an audio module that allow any audio that come at its input to be recorded on the grid ?
I'm not talking about a full fledge Reaper sort of thing but more like a notepad for audio.

Or maybe redirect the already present recorder into the grid ?

Or a multitrack audio module, like the audio sampler recorder, but with functions like
- arm or de-arm tracks
- punch in/out
- undo ?

Cheers

Olivar

Something like that : work in progress

+1

Very good idea!

Hey Olivar,

Good suggestions, but don't you think it is a Pandora box ?

Sylvain

SylvainT wrote: ↑

06 May 2025, 14:35

Hey Olivar,

Good suggestions, but don't you think it is a Pandora box ?

Sylvain

indeed, but as I said, the goal is not to do a Reaper thing inside Usine, but to have a scratchbook, a bit like the Zoom L6

I'm actually on a user module for it, I started to build the transport mecanism with play, record, stop and position request (in % and in seconds).

I already have a midified Fostex remote control for it !

I only have trouble understanding how to use the audiofile thingo in the SDK and to link it to my vectors.

Cheers

Olivar

Hi,
Still a work in progress, I choose to stay in the "multitrack tape recorder" kind of thing, hence the "channel/monitor" switches
will probably add few things as :
- a "load file" button (that will induce the need for an output "nb of used track") .
- varispeed at record and play (the chipmunk paradigm !)
- some sort of a wave visualisation, although its clearly a luxury.
- the position input should jog the audio, maybe that can be done by patching outside the module ?


As I said earlier, it is not a DAW, it will be only a simple multitrack "tape" recorder I make for quick and easy tracking inside Usine.

example :
- the rows of switches can be expanded with polyphony number
- the name of the file can be changed with the "string constant" module. again, that can be improved by patching (increment name at each hit on the "save file" button. )



Tell me how it goes !

Olivar

Hello,

Thank you for proposing such module!
I've tried it quickly and have noted a few things:
- monitoring switches have a strange behaviour while "listening" to the original sample: if you click just one it soloes the corresponding track, but if you select two or more
no sound is outcoming
- it's a very good idea to have also the ability of recording datas! When looping there's a little audio click (to me anyway)
- for me "some sort of a wave visualisation," wouldn't be a luxury:-) Especially if we can visualize the time shift between the different track. But maybe not easy to do.
- I'd like also to have a graphic difference between arm and record - like the led going from orange to red or something like that. Maybe it's planned?
Anyway, that's really good job, thank you!

thanx for the comments.

Gilsornette wrote: ↑

22 May 2025, 15:51

- monitoring switches have a strange behaviour while "listening" to the original sample: if you click just one it soloes the corresponding track, but if you select two or more no sound is outcoming

can't reproduce the bug on my side. do you use last HH6 version ?

Gilsornette wrote: ↑

22 May 2025, 15:51

When looping there's a little audio click (to me anyway)

the looping is very crude, only there to rehearse before recording , once the recording is done, I guess you'd better load the file in a Usine audio sampler (or reaper) anyway, that's the idea.

Gilsornette wrote: ↑

22 May 2025, 15:51

- for me "some sort of a wave visualisation," wouldn't be a luxury:-) Especially if we can visualize the time shift between the different track. But maybe not easy to do.

Same here, you can load the file in an audio sampler to visualize the recordings, I didn't planned to do a visualisation so far as I use my eyes as little as possible when making music

Gilsornette wrote: ↑

22 May 2025, 15:51

- I'd like also to have a graphic difference between arm and record - like the led going from orange to red or something like that. Maybe it's planned?

This can be patched easily outside the recorder module. I'm trying to make the modules as much "patchable" as possible so they can be used in many different ways.It is why the module has as few bells and whistles, only the things that factory modules can't do.

next is loading file and varispeed at play AND record !

back to work.

Cheers

Olivar

Hello

Thank you for your answers.

can't reproduce the bug on my side. do you use last HH6 version ?

I'm using HH 250506.
Maybe it's because the monitoring function has only to be used to monitor the recording and not the audio input (what I thought it was also dedicated for)?

Hi,
it is like an "inline" recording desk : on the same strip you can even listen to the incoming live audio (channel) or what is recorded (monitor)

https://www.audiomasterclass.com/blog/a ... whats-that

did you try the example or just the module ?

I tried the example. But I was mistaken about how it works. Thanks for the "inline desk" explanation. Now it's ok for me:-)

Now in the addons !
Varispeed will be for another time as is very tricky to make a nice sounding speed control. Will explore this with the Hydrogen V5 !
cheers
Olivar

Thank you!!