Quadrax

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#37

There’s a USB connection on the back of the module and there’s instructions in the firmware updater app.

#38

ahhh yess thank you!

#39

so glad to hear!

#40

I also hope that one day the maximum stage times could be longer than 20 seconds :slightly_smiling_face: thanks for the hard work on these amazing new modules

#41

There’s a trade-off to longer maximum times in that you lose resolution for shorter times. Maybe we will add it as a toggleable option in a future firmware.

#42

thank you for clarifying and considering that!

#43

Toggling between longer and shorter times sounds great.

I’m looking to buy Quadrax before I buy a clock generator, so I was wondering if I can use it to clock itself. I’d think the link modes would allow me to use channel 1 in cycle mode as a clock for the others, but it’s not explicitly stated in the manual.

Nobody seems to have them in stock right now. Is this related to the DAC issue or did it just sell like hotcakes?

#44

Yes you can use one channel to clock the next when in link mode. For example an LFO to trigger an AD envelope in the next channel.

The DAC issue was only at the beginning of the first batch, already fixed and I believe there was already a second batch as well… they are just selling quickly.

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#45

i’m experiencing some odd behaviour from my quadrax…when turning on my case today (intellijel 7u)
all of my settings were gone from my previous patch…meaning all lights on 3 of the 4 channels were off and channel 4’s mode/destination button is failing to light up. i’m on firmware 1.1.2
any ideas on what could have suddenly happened?

#46

Is it otherwise behaving as expected? If the issue persists you should probably contact support@intellijel.com.

#47

yeah otherwise everything is working as it should. channel 4 is miraculously dead for some reason:/

#48

hmmm also the cv assignments now don’t seem to work…seems like a software issue

#49

ok so reloading the newest update on the firmware seems to have solved the cv assignment issue but unfortunately channel 4 is still unresponsive…i’ll open up a ticket with support

#50

just wondering if this is still being considered. I would love to get a second quadrax to cover my long envelope generation bases - for now, I’m using Zadar for this but Xaoc really shot themselves in the foot with the crappy encoders they used for that module, and I trust much more Intellijel’s long term build quality…

#51

We tweaked the curves in the 1.1 firmware, are you just looking for longer time periods? how long?

#52

Yeah, the new curve options are great. Extremely grateful for that.

Re: ‘how long’ – I’d personally be happy if the maximum duration (sum of all stages) were at least 10 minutes. A few points of comparison that I know of:

  • Make Noise Maths & Function have a maximum cycle duration of 25 minutes
  • WMD/SSF Mini Slew’s max is ~30 minutes
  • Xaoc Zadar’s max is 30 minutes

While I’m dreaming, I would also love to see a toggleable option for Quadrax envelopes to reset when it receives mid-attack triggers. But I realize there’s only so many mode switches possible with its interface :slight_smile:

Thanks for always listening to our feedback.

#53

Afaik Maths and Function achieve long cycle times when CV is applied. For now you can also do that on the Quadrax to get really long times.

I’ll look into possibly adding some more options for future firmware

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#54

oh, I wasn’t aware of that. the manual does state a few times that “using CV extends the range even further” in regards to Burst and LFO modes, but I never thought to test that out.

good news!

#55

Hi Kamil, just wondering if this is still on the table. It’s good to know that we can slow down the cycle times further with external CV, but that ties up a CV input and an external DC offset source. A “range” toggle (if there’s any room in the UI for that) could allow the fine resolution of the knob to be retained for the current range setting.

#56

Building off this suggestion…

If the CV matrix worked such that an unpatched CV jack had 5V normalled to it, then we could just use one of these sources in the mod matrix to extend the time range of a stage. (For example, by assigning the unpatched jack with the desired level of attenuation to the Rise and Fall parameters of Out 1.) There’s clearly not much sensible room in the UI for additional “modes” in each channel, but this could work.

A bonus that would come from this is that we would be able to use one of these 5V-normalled CV sources to set attenuation (and polarity) of an output directly on the module (useful if you’re short attenuverters).

The only downside I can think of (besides complexities in actually implementing this, that I have no visibility into) is that when someone removes a patch cable from any assigned CV inputs, the effect that the normalled voltage then has on the assigned parameters could be a source of confusion.

I guess if this were a system option (5V normalled to unpatched CV inputs: True/False), everyone could be happy.

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