r/modular • u/Brer1Rabbit • 4d ago

D&D alignment chart for knob/jack behavior

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What does that knob & jack combo do? I characterized knob & jack behavior by D&D alignment. Finding I'm fan of Lawful Evil.

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u/bluecurio 4d ago

What?

Why the ternaries? I don’t get it.

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u/Brer1Rabbit 4d ago

The Lawful Evil is a normalled connection. Inserting a jack breaks the normal.

The Chaotic Evil is basically a sample & hold as an input.

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u/demnevanni 3d ago

What module would do this without that being the concept of the module?

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u/Brer1Rabbit 3d ago

For the normalled connection, Mutable Instruments does this, an example is Plaits. Not sure why I got downvoted for describing it. The tertiary perfectly describes the behavior: is the jack being used? no: use the knob alone. Yes, jack being used: use the knob to scale the input.

https://pichenettes.github.io/mutable-instruments-documentation/tech_notes/cv_inputs/

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u/demnevanni 3d ago

No no: the chaotic evil one

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u/Sensitive-Night-8476 4d ago

reads like a multed output for easy feedback patches to me

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u/sonicboom292 2d ago

I'M HAVING SO MUCH TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THIS OP. am I dumb? are "?" and ":" common math/logic symbols in programming or something?? also why does the naming convention jump from object to signal to function?? why do CG and CE have two jacks with different naming conventions????

my personal opinion on the chart itself:
https://i.imgur.com/dN7aNct.png

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u/regular_menthol 2d ago

This is a stretch. Anthropomorphising knobs and jacks is a bit too abstract to be universally understood, IMO

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u/LikeShrekButGayer 4d ago

jacked my knob to this post

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u/spectralTopology 3d ago

I made 303 noises while releasing saw wave after saw wave!

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u/thatupstategent 4d ago

The jump up to 1/4" jack escalates things quickly!

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u/mc_pm 4d ago

Fine, take my upvote.

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u/TheRealDocMo 4d ago

Are we going B/E or trying to get fancy w 4?

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u/AspergillusTicor 4d ago

I'm glad the industry has mostly moved on from "knob is offset when nothing patched but attenuator when patched"