Right hand encoder to select and the left hand encoder to go back, if you know what I mean
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Yeah hopefully this will be fixed with the up and coming updateā¦fingers crossed
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Has anyone heard any word on when the BFF or Mr. D will drop? Iāve emailed Melekko and dmāed them on their Facebook page a couple of months ago but never heard anything. Just curious to know if anyone has heard any progress on these two. Iām in love with my Manther and would really like to have the trio one day.
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The lack of communication with them seems quite disturbing. I am interested in that Mr. D as well.
Hopefully they will be released once the manther has been updated and when everyone is happy 
Yeah I wonder given that those boxes are seemingly even more complex on the software side of things. Maybe they are really trying to iron out all issues in the manther and then the same on those units before release. They are a pretty small company and each of those boxes is pretty ambitious. If you like the look of those I feel like the gotherman stuff is probably worth a look also, I think he makes stuff that could potentially fill the role of both those boxes. Never used one and they are expensive but also totally wild.
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looks like a lot of manu divingā¦
Still very tempted by interface + sound + sequencer of the manther. Hope they can work things out.
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No not compared to other machines
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Looks like they just posted the firmware update. Havenāt had a chance to update yet but the changes are listed. No mention of the sync change bug or timing. Hopefully itās fixed.
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What 
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i wonāt update mine, some problems over at muffw. , and i am not interested in new functions. I had zero problems ex. i donāt like how encoders fell wrong.
Actually, they added osc range is saved now with the sound. Thats cool 
gotherman stuff ? Thatās what i was referring to
These days it pays to be cautious - and I dont blame you because I feel the same way - but as of now, there is a total one person on muffw complaining about the update. Maybe thats the only person in the world having this problem. Butā¦ Iām still not upgrading until I read at least one success story - or Malekko provides a copy of the 1.0 firmware so I can roll back if I have problems.
i am not updating because i donāt have any problems, i donāt need new futures. Saving OSC range is nice, if they add pattern change midi messages, i will update (maybe).
When i bought my malekko manther i was just hoping he will sync and save sounds and patterns, which he does, everything else is unimportant in this moment for me, even the crazy encoders, i donāt care, interface is great and the sound also, that is why i am in to this synth.
Could it be better? jeah , sure, everything could be better, there is not one single damn thing done perfect. As we all have to be fed up with that fact all over again, day after day like in some stupid nightmare.
Yeah, they should provide the roll back to 1.0 possibility in some way, or be sure they have got 1.1 right.
Who doesnāt like something, sent it back and go on with your perfect lives.
Kind of agree, great they are supporting but Iām not in a rush. Itās a fine machine
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tl;dr: I went ahead and updated and it seems to be working correctly.
Its an interesting process sending an audio signal to the gate input. Reminded me of using cassette tapes to back up and restore my first computer. My first two attempts failed. They were not joking when they said the signal needs to be loud. I would have said extremely loud.
The fast envelope adds a whole new dynamic to the sound. I will probably use this more than the slow one.
My only gripe so far is the transpose workflow. It feels like something a computer programmer would like better than a musician. With the sequencer running you can transpose by hitting shift+transposeUp or down to transpose an octave. Thats logical. But if you want to do semitones, you need shift+transpose+keyboardButton. So shift+transposeUp+F takes me up 5 semitones. If I keep shift+transposeUp depressed and click C, then my root note is back to C. Kind of what I would expect. Iām calling that āabsoluteā. But if I release shift+transposeUp+F the current transpose becomes baked in. Now if I need to return to root C I need shift+transposeDown+F. That seems odd to me. I can see some logic, but I dont think Iām going to like that so much. Iām calling that ārelativeā. I think I would prefer to work in absolute mode almost all the time, but to do that Iād need to keep shift+transpose engaged, which is not really going to be possible. Maybe Iāll get used to itā¦ maybe not.
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New update up ver 1.11
Also up is ver 1.0
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VERSION. 1.11 UPDATE INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
ISSUES WITH TRANSPOSE
Fixes octave transpose related note value changes, no longer allowing pitches outside of 6 octave range.
ISSUES WITH STUCK NOTES
Fixes stuck notes when using internal keyboard.
ADSR ENVELOPE IMPROVMENTS
SLOW MODE attack envelope now linear only.
LFO IMPROVEMENTS
LFO SLOW MODE MAX SPEED now approx. 20Hz
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Ever since I got the Manther Iāve been really interested in the other two tabletop boxes that are in the works.
I reached out to Melekko to see what theyāre up to and this is what they sent me. I thought Iād share for those of you who are also interested:
Hi Jay thanks for getting in touch and glad youāre digging the Manther!
We are looking at 2019 for the BFF now (Manther was actually a slightly larger endeavor than we originally anticipated and really wanted to get it right). We have a few more products we want to release and then weāll be back on the tabletops so stay tuned!
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