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Tremor: kicks on the Versio platform

Hello friends,

The support on the Vitta firmware has been beyond my dreams, thank you so much!

This motivated me to finally finish Tremor, a personal take on kick drums that doubles as a sidechain compressor.

I've always seen kickdrums as the margherita pizza of electronic music. In theory, you just need three ingredients to make one: an oscillator, a decay envelope, and a VCA. But then you listen to a 909, a Tanzbär or an Alpha Base, and you realize it's the cooking that makes all the difference.

Tremor is the result of my search for "the recipe" — a side quest that started in poorly-scanned service manuals, and quickly spiraled into one the most challenging Versio projects got to work on. Turns out a good kick is not that simple!

On the synthesis side: Tune, decay, pitch sweep with adjustable depth and speed, and a click that adds a bit more transients to cut through the mix.
The level knob doubles as an accent control.
You get three flavors of saturations: transistor-like gain boost, tape saturation, or digital degradation reminiscing of old samplers like the SP1200.
A tilt EQ gently cuts the highs or lows post-saturation.
The built-in sidechain compressor ducks whatever you're running through the module on every hit. Credits to NE's own Tymp Legio and to Bohm for this idea.

You can grab the flashable .bin here. Thanks in advance to those who will chip in! It means a ton.

Hope you'll have as much fun with it as I had building it!

Feedback is most welcome as always.

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u/Far_District_1854 — 6 hours ago

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Vitta: a Space Echo for the Versio platform

Hello friends,

Hope you're all keeping the post-superbooth GAS in check.

I've been working on a firmware for the Versio platform inspired by the Roland Space Echo. It's called Vitta (for "Ribbon" in latin), and I believe it's now in a shareable state.

TLDR; it's a three-tap tape delay plus a spring reverb, running in parallel in true dub spirit.

The delay has all the features you'd expect: feedback up to self-oscillation, a time knob that also works as a multiplier/divider in tap tempo mode, a low/high pass filter in the feedback loop, and an age knob that either degrades the tape quality (wow, flutter, hiss), or spreads the secondary taps in the stereo field, ping pong mode.

On the reverb, I want to be upfront: springs are nasty beasts to emulate digitally. And while the Vitta sounds "springy", it won't fool those of you who own an actual tank. On the bright side: it shoots stereo, and won't suffer from the typical parasitic noise or rumble you might get on stage.

You can grab the flashable .bin file here, on a pay-what-you-like basis (AKA free if you want).

Anything you chip in will go directly toward buying a second Versio module, which will accelerate the development of more firmwares — next in line is a BBD Delay + Plate reverb, then probably a filter bank.

Thanks in advance for giving it a spin! Your feedbacks are of course most welcome

u/Far_District_1854 — 12 days ago

▲ 18 r/modular

Hello hello,

I'm on the market for a mixer that allows routing channels to groups or buses outputs instead of just one summing. It's a very common thing in traditional mixing consoles, but for the life of me I haven't found a module that does the same job and is still available.

"All" I ask is: at least four inputs, routable to at least three buses. Goal is to be able to swap effects chains on the fly during a live performance — Eg. Send everything to a reverb, then dispatch a given channel to a delay, then send everything but one channel to the phaser, rinse repeat...

In case you're about to ask,

I did think of send/returns of course, but they don't exactly fit the bill as I want to be able to get full wet signals.
I also know that a matrix mixer could do the job of "bussing" the channels in a flexible way, but it's orders of magnitude less convenient than just flipping a switch.

Please save me from going the DIY route.

u/Far_District_1854 — 21 days ago