Nebulae v1 with pure data

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Hello all! I just recently picked up a v1 Nebulae to use as a hardware Pure Data device and am having some difficulties. I’ve gotten a very basic patch to work, where I just create an osc~ and use a couple of knobs to control the pitch and volume.

But I can’t seem to get MIDI to work. That is, if I have pitch hooked up to the pitch CV/knob, it seems like MIDI notes will affect the pitch, but if I add a notein object to my patch, it never seems to receive anything. Is there a trick to getting my patch to respond to MIDI?

Other questions:

  • Can I receive separate signals from, say, the pitch CV jack and the pitch knob, or are they hardwired together? Is it the same for all the knob/jack pairs?
  • Can I control the LEDs?
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One more question. If I start up my Nebulae with the USB stick plugged in, and then unplug the USB stick to add more patches, when I plug it back in to the Nebulae, do I need to power-cycle my modular, or should I just be able to press edit-recall to step through the new list of available patches? It seems like sometimes this just doesn’t work, but maybe it’s just when I have bugs in my patches. I have nothing on the USB stick but Pd patches.

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You don’t have to reboot to reload files. Hold the Edit button and tap the Next File button. This should reload the USB stick.

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