New Critter & Guitari Video Synthesizer

ETC
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We have a new video synthesizer the ETC. It is a kind of visual sibling to the Organelle:

https://www.critterandguitari.com/collections/video-synthesizers/products/etc

Also creating this new category ETC for discussing!

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Hereā€™s a video of the ETC video synthesis:

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is it possible to run GEM on it? is it ony python code?
it looks cool

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Thanks for checking it out! It runs Python only.

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Does anyone know if the foot switch will accept control voltages from eurorack?

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No, itā€™s a binary control. Hereā€™s the manual: http://etctv.io/#The_Ports

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I honestly should probably do a bit of reading first as I know nothing about footswitches, but the footswitch being a ā€œbinary controlā€ does not exactly answer my question. But going with what you say, is there any reason I would not be able to send binary voltage to that port? Basically the idea is I could send a gate from eurorack to the footswitch.

The reason I ask is because the ETC honestly looks seriously badass. It is amazing looking, but when I perform live, I am completely computer and midi free. It would be absolutely incredible if I could somehow add a bit of control from eurorack. The LZX stuff is a bit more of a commitment than I am looking for.

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The footswitch wonā€™t provide this unfortunately. It only senses an open or close switch state.

What you want is something like this:

http://www.schneidersladen.de/en/doepfer-a-192-1-cv-to-midi-interface.html

With a module like this you can could map 5 CVs to the 5 knobs on ETC.

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Thanks for all the answers. Iā€™ll consider the possibility of CV to MIDI for control. :slight_smile:

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Is this going to be open-source software like the Organelle? Is it roughly the same SBC architecture as the Organelle? This looks very exciting!

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The potential here is amazing, much like with the Organelle. They would make a great pair at a live show.

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Which NYC dealers have this in stock NOW!! Can I pick one up asap from the C&G office!? So stoked to give it a shot I have two big shows this and next week!!

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I looked through some of the ETC python files on GitHub. It seems that there are some files not on GitHub required to try out these scripts. Similar to the mother-pd file for Organelle, will this be supplied for those of us that want to try out the environment prior to jumping in? I love the visuals from the video, but donā€™t currently understand where video generation fits into what I do.

Thanks!

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Hi- No, the ETC is not set up the same way the Organelle is with Pure Data being able to run ā€˜out of the boxā€™ on different platforms.

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The rest of the system components are up on Github now. Everything related to ETC begins with ETC_. The main Python component that runs the mode scripts is ETC_Mother. Like chrisk mentioned, these system components are platform dependent so making it run on a desktop is not as simple as with Organelle.

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Ok this thread has already some rust and dust on it :wink: but Iā€™d like to add, that a gate to switched trigger converter like from Doepfer (FAQ General) works like charm.
Now you have to change in etc_system.py the function that is called by

 def foot_pressed(self) :
    if (len(self.scenes) > 0) :
        self.next_scene()
    else :
        self.next_mode()`

like

 def foot_pressed(self) :
        self.audio_trig = True
        self.trig_button = True

(untested)