5 Moons – m5 hack

This is a hacked re-build of the PD patch that comes with the 5 Moons. My aspiration for this patch is to get more reliable looping and recording out of the 5 Moons, without diverging too much from the original way it works. It still records and reads to/from the sdcard, but it plays back with continuous looping and quantization, to make all the tracks line up more predictably, with some other nice features.

(still a work in progress)

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Thank you for all the effort you’re putting in. I’ll try it out when I get chance. The quantization of all the tracks is definitely a game changer with 5moons.

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Thanks! Please share back here when you have a chance to try it - I’m eager to know if it works as expected for people other than myself. :slight_smile:

I’ve had about 40 minutes playtime, and it’s definitely useable and the more time I have I’ll hopefully master it. Just one question for now :rofl::rofl:
Is it just mono or stereo?
Absolutely fantastic work you’ve put into this. Thank you!!

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Excellent question haha I should have clarified that in my documentation. Yes it is stereo - it records stereo 16-bit 48kHz .wav files, and plays back in stereo. For example, if you want to import a ‘perfect’ loop into the 5 Moons as a track 1 to quantize against, it should be 16-bit, 48kHz, stereo.

*However there is something weird in the recording and can’t quite pin down where the stereo image shifts a bit. On the monitoring side it sounds as expected. I’m not sure if it’s my imagination or not. I think I’ve ruled out connection issues in the Pd patch.

Yeah theirs definitely some difference between the monitor and recording sound, that’s why I asked about if it was stereo :rofl: but that’s not a issue with myself.
I had a good connection with a iPad not so good with the 201 pocket piano but I need explore a bit more my side. So I would say theirs no connection issue.
I probably miss the Input VU Meter, I can never judge the noise level.
I’ll hopefully get more time to explore the patch more over the weekend. You’ve left excellent instructions on how to use. I haven’t really used the 5moons in the last 6 month so it might take longer than the weekend to get my head around. :grin::grin:

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You might find this hilarious, but I went to add the VU meter function back in tonight, and I discovered it was already there. So somehow when I was writing the documentation I forgot that VU was already functional. It should work the same as before, with the same button, so please try it & let me know if it works for you. I’ll update the readme next time I make further changes to the patch.

I think the next thing I would like to add is some experimental built-in compression, and more finesse for the “audio level” starting trigger.