Adding Mod to Existing M4L Devices

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wilkins_micawber
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Adding Mod to Existing M4L Devices

Post by wilkins_micawber » Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:01 pm

The LFO has the mod capability now. I have a bunch of M4L Devices that do not. Is there an easy way to add this to current m4l plugins?

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Re: Adding Mod to Existing M4L Devices

Post by wilkins_micawber » Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:11 pm

Ok, so I tried simply replacing the live.remote with a live.modulate. The biggest issue is that the depth knobs do not behave as expected. Also, on native modulation devices, you can choose bipolar and +/- mode, which is important and not possible when you simply swap the two. The only solution to using automations as modulations is to hope for or create a device that sums automations and then outputs a modulation... We'll see if it's ever made.

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Re: Adding Mod to Existing M4L Devices

Post by [jur] » Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:15 pm

You could copy the bpatcher from eg LFO and replace the one in your device with this one.
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Re: Adding Mod to Existing M4L Devices

Post by wilkins_micawber » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:24 pm

I think Modulat has a modulators output. I tried seeing if the above was possible, but at least for the cc 8 mapper, it's not that easy

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Re: Adding Mod to Existing M4L Devices

Post by [jur] » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:47 pm

Oh, if you're trying to do this mod to Modulat then just update it to the latest version, I'm pretty sure it's been updated recently to add this feature.
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Re: Adding Mod to Existing M4L Devices

Post by wilkins_micawber » Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:50 pm

I was trying to do it to the cc map 8 device. But yes, I mention Modulat because I think it will let me sum automations into a modulation out

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Re: Adding Mod to Existing M4L Devices

Post by S4racen » Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:57 am

Modulat has been updated in the last month to include the Modulate module.

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