I’ve used Noise Engineering’s Granulita Versio firmware as a beta tester since the summer, and listed as “REDACTED” on three albums. Happy to be able to give it its proper name now.
Granulita and Lacrima have been tied as my favorite Versio firmware for half the year. I don’t know what I’ll do when a new option comes along…
Granulita is a fun combination of granulizer and arpeggiator. In the chiptune days if you wanted chords, you’d play a fast arpeggio that sort of fooled the ear into hearing a chord — here you can overlap multiple grains that blur together into one, and/or use the built-in and very vibey reverb. Or you can leave it choppy. Or you can just not mess with the pitch at all, and still get choppy, fluttery or smeared-out, faraway textures. Or you can sequence or modulate the pitch, which is sampled for each individual grain, and get some fun psuedo-chorus and chords and textures that way as well.
While it’s not as fully featured as, say, Beads or Arbhar or the like, I’ve been using it more than Beads. It just has a nice sound and feel to it, even when you don’t mess with the pitch.
I have got my two Versios next to each other once again, after rearranging my stuff. I made room for K-Accumulator, and consolidated small blank panels into one 8HP space in case something else must-have comes along later. (In fact I could go to 18HP easily enough with minor rearranging, if I decide to let go of Katowice. But I won’t burn that bridge until I’m standing on it.)
4ms’s Pod 60 claims to have room for 33mm deep modules, but you can’t really trust the depths listed on ModularGrid. Some of them count the PCB. Some of them count the power header. And some of them actually count the power header with a ribbon cable plugged in, which is the important bit. You just have to try it. Luckily, I was able to fit Nibbler (listed as 28mm) and Drezno (listed as 20mm but it barely fits!) in the Pod.
Perfect Circuit has preorders open for the next K-Accumulator run, but… I just don’t trust preorders from them after my past history with them. So I’m waiting on the newsletter notification and buying direct. It’s okay if I don’t get one right away, it’s not like I am lacking in exciting musical tools 🙂
There have been internet rumors that Chump is being treated for Alzheimer’s and that’s why he’s needed MRIs. (You don’t do “routine” MRIs to check general health, because it’s far too easy to find false positives in a healthy person. You do them to check a specific area for specific problems that you already suspect.) But some doctors would like to point out that his symptoms aren’t Alzheimer’s-like; they resemble frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
https://frankgeorge8675309.substack.com/p/dammit-its-not-alzheimers-heres-why-c9f
I find the argument fairly convincing. I won’t say alarming, at this point, because we have known he’s a narcissist who behaves inappropriately for years, and also that it’s no longer only “rich spoiled selfish evil asshole with a persecution complex” but also increasingly out of touch with reality. Frankly the more alarming aspect is how long his people have been willing to run with the absurdity.