I’ll give it another try 
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Here is the Falistri green section (the yellow section above, out of frame, is identical in function but laid out slightly differently to squeeze everything in, as you can see from the edge of the yellow trigger button). I added the labels A16 and A17 to the photo so I could refer to these switches in the text of my flânerie FIMS (the labels are used in the manual).
Starting at top left: the switch A17 controls loop/AD/AHD behaviour. Below it, the “force loop” input, and the trigger input (the ‘>’ iconography for this is consistent across Frap modules). To its right, the green trigger button, the green shape trimmers, the green attenuverter for the green output (note that the ones to its left have the unipolar ring around them). The MAX output combining the yellow and green attenuverted outputs (useful for ADSR and other complex envelopes) and the Q quadrature switch for linked envelope behaviour.
Next row down. The A16 switch controls timescale (down for audio range; Falistri is a great oscillator). V/oct input below it, and CV inputs for rise and fall, with trails leading to the main rise and fall knobs. To their right, the full bipolar and unipolar green outputs, and the labelled End of Rise and End of Fall gates. The dashed lines around the bipolar output indicate a normalization (this is also standard across Frap modules); in this case, it is going to the four-quadrant multiplier (bipolar VCA) in the red section below (out of frame), so with the green section oscillating at audio rate and the yellow section as an envelope (unipolar output normalized to the other input of the 4QM), Falistri is a complete voice without any self-patching needed.
I don’t think this is particularly obtuse. You do have to read the manual once for some of the icons, but most of them are pretty straightforward.
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Great explanation! I also dont have to read their manuals since i was familiar with they logic/iconography, only if i have to look up something very specific.
I also find their video-tutorials very helpful if needed.
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!!! amazing
i’m definitely in this camp. i’ve never owned any frap stuff, and while it does look really great, the thought of navigating those cramped panels and tiny switches on a dark stage makes my skin crawl 
i’m sure it’s fine in practice though
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Until you realize you have no mixing utility…
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Looks nice. No wiggly trimpots, what’s the brand?
Thanks
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If you’d like another fx: Monsoon it’s a Clouds clone in 12hp
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it’s my own one. spectral modular or short SPCTRL
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Pay no attention to the module behind the curtain
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Rare moment that my horn is unpatched. Otherwise, finalizing my final Serge panel with Charlie/LW and very excited about it.
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That looks like super fun. Love the Silver. Only thing that would make it really amazing would be a W/ 
That Fancyyyy module looks interesting. You liking it?
You know, I had a lot of reservations about w/ (I pre-ordered every other module immediately when they were announced) and I finally tried the w/ in a sort of Parmegiani-esque mini-concrete case for a west coast tour that COVID ruined and quickly realized how unreliable they are. I don’t think Trent will ever iron that out and it may be due to foundational aspects of how it is designed. Great idea on paper for a module and obviously I’m a huge fan of Trent’s work, but it was his only miss really.
Rung Divisions is great. Super worth the wait when it was finally announced because I simply wasn’t having luck tracking down the v1 release.
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I haven’t had any reliability problems, but I just use it a 2hour loop recorder and resampler. Sometimes I use the delay which is crazy. But, I got mine after the new firmware (a few years old now) and have had no problems. It’s cool for slowing down recordings and then recording at different speeds. I would say my only gripe is not having a faster forward scrub function, but then again, it’s like a a time machine where I find strange recordings I did last year somewhere in the 2 hour loop. It’s it’s own thing for sure. I still haven’t tried the FM synth, which I’m sure is crazy as well.
Yeah, I feel like I had the most recent firmware and still found it unreliable and that’s when I knew it was time to sell and admit defeat. But also thought it was revealing that the firmware update was a subtle unspoken pivot to no longer being what it was designed to be and instead introduced the delay and FM functionality. I bought it to be a simulated reel to reel as it was designed to be initially and in that, it overwhelmingly failed the test for reliability time and time again. Frying SD cards regularly and harsh blasts of digital noise due to some unknown glitches. It’s a shame but if I’m using this shit live, which I do sometimes, I have to know what I’m working with will behave.
To be clear, I had two (an obsessively symmetrical design and stereo hard panned plan) and both had issues, so I couldn’t even say ‘maybe it was a bum unit’. And also several friends had the same issues.
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I have two and have had no problems with either. But, yeah, I understand concerns. I bought it for the reel to reel function as well. I guess I just got lucky.
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I’d be interested to hear workflows with w/ - I had one and sold because I could find a reliable way to find and reuse loops, etc. However I’m now thinking about selling my 2hp loop (which is great and does exactly what it should) and trying w/ again. Advice on keeping track of things?
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i had a nice workflow with w/ a few years back. sounds counterintuitive, but the tiny interface/switches/buttons led to some focused workflows, where you had to very deliberately zone into the panel and sound. i mostly used it as a (sos) tape delay, not messing around with any of the other modes outside of it’s original intention. i also never used it to store things, so that was never a concern. i really enjoyed its sound quality though, had a nice degradation to it that complemented the other mannequins/OD modules i had at the time. i would recommend it if it looks appealing to you
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Thanks a lot again - you’ve explained it all super clear. Went through all of the parts you described so those all make a lot of sense now. Amazing that Falistri also contains a separate vca then, to be patched with whatever or as is pre-Normalled. And I love that is has attenuverters on the outputs.
Will you help with understanding the blue segment?
I’ve tried the manual, but Frap Tools only give a general manual with another module as example. From that I believe I gather that the S-icon means “Volt per octave integrator CV input”. Do you know what that means?
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