Trying a few things and getting somewhere with arrays and adding synced loops mode, pitch, reverb etc.
Long way off anything road worthy though! But the little 5 Moons processor seems to be taking this in it’s stride.
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Nice! Oh yeah just to put some numbers to the CPU capability, from my own experiments:
RAM: About 500MB total, about 300MB free running just the vanilla patch + wifi for ssh.
CPU: Uses about 35% of the single core with 5 tracks playing + input monitoring enabled + audio line in + USB audio stereo out + wifi/ssh working. (So the vanilla setup should have a bit more CPU headroom than this.)
(This is just one sampling, other’s results may vary.)
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Thanks! Yeah this is just under 50% from logging cpu with nothing that’s needed to make it stress much more.
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Considering that it has very similar specs to Organelle-1, It should be able to definitely do 5 stereo tracks + a couple of effects
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Click track is now a drum track to play along and be synced with (the 6th track). Also added a mute track mode so the non-synced can be stopped and started from beginning.
I’m needing to smooth out / put overrides on the sliders and might change the reverb as freeverb doesn’t work with the pan when wet.
Should also add it doesn’t have a song mode and works with arrays (so has inbuilt length of track limitation currently set to 20 seconds but could be longer).
If anyone wants to try it as is I’ll upload it somewhere and write some instructions. It’s meant as an alternative patch for the 5 Moons not a replacement.
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Wow!!! I’m blown away with work you’ve put in here. I love the unpredictable you get with the 5moons but the 6moons on a different sd card would be fantastic if you could upload it and definitely leave the instructions.
Just the sync record would of been enough for me but it’s fantastic all the other extras you’ve put into it especially the pitch.
I am truly grateful for the time & effort you guys put in to make C & G gear even better.
Hope it works!
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Thanks. Had a play around with it yesterday and the potential of creativity when I get more time and my head around it, will be amazing!!
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Yeah, did think it might be a bit user unfriendly as quite a few changes, but tried to leave the core functionality the same. If there’s a better way to use the buttons / shift or colour leds I’m all ears as that’s quite easy to change.
The one thing I need to do something about is that sliders have inherent analog noise so even though it’s controlled a bit in patch it can chuck a value in a menu when you don’t want it too e.g. change pitch of track if you linger in the pitch menu too long as the slider is in volume position. Override works well on the Organelle when you can see a value to go too. I’ll have a think at some point!
Wow, incredible work!! Had a lot of fun with 5Moons as drone/experimental/ambient recorder, but really hoped it would be nice for these kind of layered guitar tracks as well. Seems you are on a good way to make this dream a reality!! 
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Just added locking of slider values to avoid big jumps in values between “pages”. So, if no bugs, that’s this patch complete. Well it works for me anyway 
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You’ve given this amazing device the functionality it needs – bravo!
Can you make the track length recording time longer or unlimited?
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Longer yes, I’ll try something and put back on here if it works.
Wow – that would be amazing! It’d be rad to use this like an old ‘4-track’ tape recorder. The work you’ve done is incredible! Panning!
6Moonslonger.zip (5.5 MB)
That’s the time up to 180 seconds. I haven’t really tested it other than it not crashing on start up. There’s a note on the bar length changes to accommodate longer times in the zip.
Not sure it really works that well like this, due to preloading number of bars. Open to ideas as haven’t really though about it as brain is occupied on something else currently.
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Thank you! It’s so impressive you’ve been able to hack this device into something seriously usable. When you write “it doesn’t have a song mode” do you mean one can’t save different songs? What would be killer is to also have unlimited song lengths for songs that could be saved. Thanks again for your hard work!
Yeah, this uses song mode buttons for other things. Unlimited is an advantage of the core 5 moons patch. The way this is coded to do other things takes that away too. Win some, lose some.