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Here's one:

I’ve uploaded a bunch of new patches utilising an idea I had when I woke up. I’ve used run a sequence on the modulator sine wave so that it changes the texture of the carrier signal when holding a note. I’ve also used a few of the drum machine ideas I had on the second processor. I’ll try and get some clips up later; it’ll require some reshuffling as I’ve run out of space on my free Soundcloud account.

The FI can fast scroll by the way: hold the foot switch down. Doing it after a single press moves up, doing it after a double press moves down. Does your new controller allow the sending of MIDI CCs? If so you can have it control PC up/down and bank up/down (among other things).

Depends very much on what you want to do. If you just want to scroll presets up and down then a small, simple switchers will work. If you want to take advantage of the C4’s deep midi capability then a more fully-spec’d controller is in order. My advice - buy a Morningstar MC6 - they come up used plenty and are astoundingly powerful whilst being really simple and straightforward to understand and program. You can make it do whatever you want from simple to complex.

I have always wondered. Very illuminating and still sounds quite Stingray-like in passive.

I’ve uploaded a bunch of envelope filter patches today which use my Mu-Tron Micro-Tron IV as the basis. Here’s a clip of one: @Bo0tsy, @GisserD

I’d never seen this before and it’s pretty cool, old as it is. I’ll check out this artist’s music too.

I just posted this on TB and thought it might benefit users here too: I've created a starting template for the C4 which should make it easy to start exploring a few settings and hearing what they do. The patch can be downloaded here: https://neuro.sourceaudio.net/preset/DyV1RQhBhF In this I have created a relatively simple setup from which you can explore various things. I've set it up to use only a single processor and a single 4-pole lowpass filter. Distortion is disabled. For the square and saw waves, I have used a simple "snappy" envelope shape on envelope 1 which gets the closest to a simple on/off "keyboard gate"-style envelope. For the purposes of this, do not touch the envelope 1 settings at all. Voice 1 is just dry input routed to the filter, controlled by envelope 2. Voice 2 is a saw wave routed to the filter, controlled by envelope 2. Voice 3 is a square wave routed to the filter, controlled by envelope 2. Voice 4 is a sine wave routed directly out (not to the filter). Instead the FM amount from sine wave 2 (not visible) is controlled by envelope 2. The reason for this is that the modulation contour will behave the same as the other voices, even though it is controlling a different parameter. It will still give the illusion of a filter opening and closing as the altering FM amount first adds, then subtracts higher frequencies. When you first load the patch, only voice 1 is active. First play around with the envelope 2 speed and sensitivity and switch between voices 1-4 individually to hear how it affects them. Then for voices 1-3, start playing with the filter 1 depth, frequency and Q settings, as well as the filter pitch track options to hear their effects. For voice 4, play around with the FM knob. That should be enough to get you started. I might add more at a later date to cover the LFO and how changing the oscillator pitch relationships affects the sound of voice 4 when using FM. Hope that is helpful.

...and some more:

A couple more drum variations:

Here's another very random thing. It's a bit unmusical though. This is a single patch in a single track. I set the pitch detection 2 input 2 so that the bass would no longer trigger it which means it is possible to play over the top of it.

I've expanded on my drum machine ideas. These patches are all available via Neuro.

Should be possible. The reason I suggested via expression is that I've heard it done where the player sweeps through subdivisions 8th-8th triplet-16th. You could do it both ways - buttons and pedal.

Yep, assign that particular CC to an expression message on your MC6 and away you go - you can even limit the range at either or both ends to tailor which subdivisions are accessible.

No. As far as I am aware. I’m sure it would have been in the specs if it did.

Perfect! Get a pedal plugged into CC1 and awesomeness will ensue.

Alternatively you can hook up the Roland UM-one Mk2 to the FI at one end and an iOS or Android device at the other and use any of a number of MIDI apps to send CCs to the FI so could you your device as a finger-operated expression controller. I use TouchOSC on iOS. You can use it to change presets etc. Source Audio Hot Hand is another option.