Microcosm | Hologram Electronics

[Ryokogogo]

I dont believe there is a retailer at all, all orders go through hologram electronics, and they are made to order, they ship worldwide.

[captain8]

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[captain8]

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[Muu]

Microcosm coming next week.

[Sox]

Anyone have any issues when using midi. I was doing some testing feeding a tb03 into the MC midi out tb03 to midi in MC.i couldn’t get a single effect sound out of it.i tried reducing the speed of the pattern and making it less busy.still no joy.then plugged the midi cable out and the MC effect came in.

[Andreas_R]

The TB needs to send clock, not sure it can, look for an option to turn clock send on.

Other then that, I’ve found that divisions of 1/2 and 1/4 tempo seem to have issues letting sound through or activating the MC. At tap tempo the MC becomes active. Can’t tell if that’s its supposed behavior, but slower, as you said less busy, is very desirable in some cases.

[xmit]

I send clock from my Squid into the MC … the Squid is sequencing an Easel Command with the MC effecting the Complex oscillator out. no issues at all… just a flurry of gorgeousness

Also locks nicely for quantized looping…well tight enough for ambient anyway. Think if you were doing techno etc you might struggle a bit more.

[Sox]

I think you may be right with the start and stop clock being the problem.when I ran the same sequence thru it with out midi.It picked up the signal even if it was busy.im gonna do some more testing today with a different clock source

[captain8]

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[uhstevenk]

I received my Microcosm the other day and I am absolutely loving it so far. I was initially thinking I’d be selling my CB Mood after this purchase, but the two pedals are very different so I’m keeping both.

Habit looks very interesting but I think I’ll wait just a bit

[captain8]

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[Blasted_pingin]

Seems like there’s a new firmware but i can’t check their website at the moment (my iPad’s browser is too old and can’t access it).

Anyone confirms? I’d be curious to check the change log.

[dokev]

No Changelog on the website or in the download, other than

Updates include:
-Various bug fixes and stability improvements

probably nothing to be too excited about (unless you were plagued by a bug - I haven’t encountered any personally)

[Blasted_pingin]

I actually had some issues with MIDI. Quite strange to not communicate on which bugs were fixed.

[dokev]

Actually now you mention it, I did have an issue with MIDI Thru just stopping working after a couple of hours of being powered on - I’d forgotten since I just gave up and changed my MIDI routing. Hopefully that is fixed - would be nice of them to say what the bugs were!

[xmit]

hmm… I use the MIDI thru on mine…often for 4 hours plus at a time… not had any issues…so far…eek!

[yokermoon]

ah, was hoping for something a bit more substantial but this might address some of the small issues I have. Even if it addresses some of the non-responsive moments I sometimes encounter that would be great.

Hopeful in future for: smooth filter interpolation, fx tails when switching presets are the big ones.
Smaller nice-to-haves: would love to be able to change the reverb->filter order i.e. filter->reverb, I realise it’s quite probably not possible…sure I had more…did submit feature requests/feedback to them with all this last year.

[Blasted_pingin]

It took them like a year to push a firmware without releasing notes, i would not expect much to be honest. I did send them features requests, they did not seem so open for it.

Besides the pedal not answering to MIDI under not clear circumstances, the main issues i see are:
*gain staging: hard to trigger sometimes and some other times it is really loud in the output. Figuring out a way to even the output volume.
*having the choice if i want the reverb or not. There’s a reverb knob i i want some, i don’t use some presets cause them force the reverb.
*being able to use the Time division with MIDI and not only the Subdivision.
*Being more consistent when changing mode or presets. Sometimes the loop stops, the trails are cut, …

I know they are busy selling boxes like bread, contacting Youtubers to promote more and more but taking care of actual owners would not harm.

[dokev]

I just want to be able to change the filter to high pass - low pass filter is useless for so much of the stuff I put through it and I’d love to be able to cut some mud when running it as a send effect.

[Phillip]

I would love a band pass filter.