I’ve decided to step into the eurorack/modular world and want to integrate it into my current setup, thus I need a midi to cv converter. the mutable instruments yarns, after constant research the past few hours, seems to be the one holding my attention.
my question is can I use the midi out on the yarns to arpeggiate my moog sirin (or even a track on my digitakt) via the external devices midi in? could I use the midi out on the yarns to send anything else interesting to my sirin or digitakt aside from clock?
I think my inexperience in this area is giving me difficulty articulating myself. I believe what I’m trying to get at is if I could send CV chord info from a separate module to yarns and for yarns to convert that CV signal to its midi out which I could send to sirin in the form of arpeggiation.
also if yarns, through any means with or without the use of other modules, could send midi out to an external synth for any meaningful or interesting purpose aside from clock. sorry to be so vague and difficult in my wording, I’m just curious as to why yarns has a midi out where most other modules in its category only have midi in.
>> (OUTPUT MIDI MODE) : MIDI output routing. When set to OFF, none of the events received by this part are forwarded to the MIDI out. When set to THRU, all events received by this part are forwarded to the MIDI out without any processing. Finally, when set to AR(P/SEQ), all the notes generated by this part’s arpeggiator/sequencer are sent to the MIDI OUT.
I’ve been working on this on and off for a few years, and am excited to release it to the public! I hope people enjoy using it. Pasting from the README:
Objectives
Enhance Yarns as a tool for solo and collaborative musical composition
Obtain maximal functionality from a minimal MIDI controller
Expand Yarns’ abilities as a digital synthesis voice
Features
New layouts, including a layout that features a 3-voice paraphonic part with internal envelopes
Looper with real-time recording
Global control and display of the active part and its play mode
Oscillator PWM
Velocity filtering
More control over vibrato, input octave, sustain behavior, and sequencer/keyboard interaction
Oscillator timbre can be internally modulated by envelope, velocity, and LFO
Tremolo LFO with variable depth and 4 shape options
Can be applied to both envelope CV and oscillator
Changed how velocity modulates envelope amplitude: new PEAK VEL MOD sets the degree of velocity scaling for the envelope’s attack-decay peak only, leaving the sustain level unaffected, to allow direct control over envelope ‘punch’
New FILTER mode for the hold pedal: part receives notes only when the pedal is in the state selected by HOLD PEDAL POLARITY, and latches any notes that are “silently” released. Allows using the pedal as a part selector!
Tweaks
Wider range of envelope segment times: min 1ms, max 5s
Envelope uses buffered rendering and linear interpolation for higher audio quality
Display optimization
Minimize redraws by switching active character only after completing a brightness PWM cycle
Replace transposable checks with a note routing strategy that gives direct priority to the recording part
Disable LFO frequency variability between voices of the same part
Reduce CV/gate sample rate from 8kHz to 2kHz
Reduce loop/step sequencer note count from 31 to 30
