Gliss Patch Notes 6

The release of Gliss Firmware v2 opens up a new range of possibilities for performance and control in your Eurorack system. If you already own a Gliss, you can install the firmware for free here with our easy-to-use installer, and all new Gliss modules ship with the firmware already installed. The forthcoming episodes of Patch Notes will show you how to make the most of the new features, one of which we’ll be looking at in this video. They will also make use of our new 1U faceplate. This allows all Gliss users to convert their module to the 1U format, and is available now from the Bela Shop.

For our second tutorial, we introduce the ability to sync events in your system to the length of a gesture. The length of a gesture is determined by the beginning- and end-point of a recording made with your finger on the Touch Strip. By maximising the voltage output for the Touch Size parameter in Record Mode, we can generate a trigger signal that resets at the beginning of a looped gesture, allowing you to trigger sequencers, envelopes and other modules using the Bottom Output. Of course, the length of your gesture is dynamically variable—you’re free to change its length at any time, which then changes the rate of playback of your synced modules downstream.

This gets particularly interesting when using a pair of Glisses. In this example, both modules are advancing a different sequencer, both of which are controlling the pitch of an oscillator. As we set the first sequencer in motion by recording a gesture, we playback through a scale as determined by the gestures’ length. Then when we begin moving the second Gliss, thereby triggering the second sequencer, both sequencer values combine to create different pitch transpositions. We are then free to use touch to control their rate of playback, resulting in a musical, hands-on experience that’s typically Gliss.

Learn more about Gliss check out the Patch Notes Playlist.