Check out the Timepod by Modern MIDI.
Love the idea. Why have a 4×4 encoder controller when you can have a 4×4 encoder controller with presets and morph? But looks like it’s still very pre-production. Lot of details still missing.
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Can I just say one thing?
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Painful. Hopefully you can dim the lights.
If you dont use a DAW… er is this useful?
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Seems to me like it be much less useful with a DAW. With a DAW you could do all of this with automation after all.
I picture using it the same way as I might use a faderfox or MIDI Fighter Twister to control, say, my DN — but with the added ability to trigger presets and morph between them in a kind of like OT scenes.
But again, not a lot of details, so don’t know how feasible this would be.
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Do we know if its gonna have a midi out port? (Not only usb)
Midi out, even TRS would be attractive. Or USB midi host perhaps…
Plenty of scope for this if the developer is aiming to carve out an innovative niche… if it has enough CPU onboard, to be a lot of different things … multi page note/CC sequencer etc
I’m already imagining how the presets/morph could be great in a dawless setup. You could set up each preset to be your intro, verse, drop, etc. One initial thought I have, is that only 8 preset slots is not a lot. I wonder if it could have “pages” you could scroll through, with 8 presets on each “page”? Could plan out an entire live set that way.
EDIT posed this question and received an answer on that YouTube comment section. “Hi, there are 8 banks of 16 configurable parameters, each bank having up to 8 snapshots.”
Side note: anyone know what that Euclidean sequencer program he was using was?
I’ve experimented a lot with this sort of stuff, eg turn one knob, sixteen CC’s are sent.
I’ve learned this: MIDI can’t handle it currently. Certainly not DIN or USB. You might be able to send 16CC’s to one synth and everything works okay, but then send notes as well and they’ll be late.
RTP-MIDI works fine for this but obviously no good unless your hardware has the ports etc.
My guess is, this’ll work fine for some applications but not for others. Giving this a DIN port of any kind is asking for a lot of customer complaints.
That’s my opinion and experience anyway!
Kickstarter mail:
"Originally, I had planned for the current hardware to be final. But now, I want to surprise you all with some exciting upgrades at no additional cost to you.
First, Timepod will now feature a significantly more powerful computing chip. I’ve been hesitant to change the chip as this requires us to completely reroute the boards and rewrite a lot of the code in the firmware. But because of the resounding success of our launch, I want to show my appreciation by going the extra mile to make Timepod truly futureproof.
The upgraded chip will allow for much more advanced software integrations in Timepod, such as instant MIDI mapping assignments (e.g. inbound MIDI auto learn), real-time communication with the desktop app, additional onboard banks, more extensive customization options, MIDI 2.0 support and more.
And most importantly, with the new chip, we will now be able to add the highly requested MIDI ports to Timepod! This has been the most requested feature from our community. We have listened, and are now looking into adding TRS MIDI in and out ports so that you can use Timepod to directly communicate with hardware synthesizers and devices. "
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Now that this has midi ports it looks very appealing. Will keep my eyes on this.
From the latest update it sounds like these are getting boxed up for shipping very soon. Great to see it coming through, regretting not grabbing an early one as it would be great for controlling perfs on rytm. Price will surely go up once they hit market proper. Anyone here back this?
I wonder if midi 2.0 will solve the bottleneck?
Almost certainly as it has far greater bandwidth. OG MIDI is ancient by today’s standards!
There are ways around it if you can process the MIDI, like no duplicates (don’t send a value if it’s the same as the last), thinning the data (eg send every 3rd message only).
The Hapax does this with CC automation, it works well and solves the problem.
I wonder if they could implement something like that here?
Some overlap here with this:
Both look interesting!