Noticed post upgrade that sometimes when whipping through the presets it will display “CCCCCCCCCC” instead of the preset name, turn the encoder to the next preset and back and the proper name appears…
Actually that happened to me yesterday too.
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We’ll check this out, thanks for the heads up.
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After several hours of jamming on my rack
#30,31,32
Up/Dn Gliss and Sub Octave patches all stopped working suddenly.
As I increased the DRY to WET it would just be totally silent. I tried messing around with the other knobs and turning on and off the comb and delay but nothing.
#29 and #33 worked fine. I didn’t go through all the others.
Powered my rack off and back on and it started working again.
Latest FW and Display.
Weird… I’ll do a bit of tinkering and see if I can recreate it. Let us know if it happens again.
I have always wondered - when you select different preset ramps, one click just seems to adjust a single tap by like … 1 value or something. What’s that all about?
Also would there ever be the chance of extra shapes? Certainly for panning I like to something go 1L, 1R, 2L, 2R, 3L, 3R… things like that 
Or 16L, 16R, 16L, 16R etc… it would be so cool if you could store your own user shapes!
Hi - I guess it’s Intellijel device update day here!
I updated the Rainmaker display to 1.09. Are there written instructions somewhere for updating the FPGA to 143 using a PC? The zip file only contains a .jic file that I’m not sure what to do with.
EDIT: disregard, I found them. Thanks!
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Glad you were able to sort it out. Please reach out to support@intellijel.com if you have any difficulty with the update. You can also check out the firmware troubleshooting FAQ here: https://intellijel.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000356893-Troubleshooting-Rainmaker-Firmware-Updates
Thanks! No issues - smooth and easy once I found the instructions.
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does anyone else notice presets being pretty different after the update? my user made ones particularly.
their modulation on the new setting seems much stronger than before, but when i reduce the modulation to low settings i feel like i just cant coax the same magic out of my presets.
was anything else changed that would affect the sound other than the modulation depth?
I’m on 1.07.
Have tweaked quite many presets and was considering if doing this update.
Is it suggested?
How this manages all the existing user presets?
Many thanks
You can back up your presets first using a SysEx dump or Laser Mammoth.
I acquired a Rainmaker a few months ago and it’s on firmware 1.02
What I’m about to attempt is scaring me to death!
What’s the chances of me bricking it?
I also have the Shape shifter…
I’m hoping the gods aren’t in a funny mood tonight.
I think I might be better off getting the kids to do this…
I have a mac but I have a windows laptop running windows 10.
Which usb tiny file should I be using?
Thank you
@werp I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Rainmaker brick from doing the firmware update wrong. If you need help please reach out to support@intellijel.com
In your case because you have both a Windows and Mac computer this should make your life easier. I would recommend using Windows to update the FPGA to version 143, then use the Mac to update the display to 1.09. No drivers are required on the Mac side.
thanks Scott, I appreciate your reply. Our power dropped out four times last night. Just as I was about to start writing ‘successfully updated an fpga thing’ into my curriculum vitae.
I took the hint and went to bed.
I shall wait until one of the kids rocks up for a visit. I’ve burned through enough bravery already this month
A few weeks ago I finally got myself a Rainmaker and really love the user interface, well done!
I have a question/request for the comb section though… Wouldn’t it be possible to add feedforward combfilters? And further even using them in combination with the fb combs to create a “multitap” allpass filter? I could imagine that this would add a lot of sonic possibilities without the need of more “processing power”, as the basic structure should already allow that somehow… This would really be a huge update, is this something you would consider?
There seems to be a March 2022 Firmware update, is it anything important?
I’m not sure what you’re referring too, there are no recent updates for the Rainmaker, other than for a hardware revision to the display board in January (which was only changed because of part availability), this would not affect anyone on a rev001 unit.
the updater package download has a very recent date in the file path for me too - repackaged a week ago, but i dont see any releases beyond v143 so i’m not too concerned.
download was named this when i saved it the other day: “Intellijel_Firmware_Updater_Windows_2023-04-27”