Hypno Ideas/Feedback

Just for posterity: 1.7 firmware now includes a whole lot more presets/slots accessible with MIDI.

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Oh another thing, when the unit is running in a 16:9 resolution like 720p, the polarization is ovoid instead of circular. Not a huge deal but circular polarization when using 16:9 would be nice.

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That would be nice! The way I solve this is to pull Hypno’s 16:9 HDMI output into OBS Studio, stretch it vertically to 1:1, and then crop it back to 16:9 so everything is circular. It would be awesome if Hypno could do this natively.

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I haven’t heard anything new and exciting for a while, so it’s feature request time!

Can you expose some way for custom shapes and feedback modes to be added? I don’t know how they’re implemented internally, but it seems like there’s a huge opportunity here for customization. Like, for shapes, I’d love to see stars or geometric shapes, where mirroring / fractaling could be used to change the number of points / sides. Or maybe there’s a way to read in a custom shape SVG (like a heart, smiley face, or custom logo) from a folder on the micro SD card? For feedback modes, I’m not sure, but I’d love to have an opportunity to write and share custom code!

Also, like I’ve said elsewhere, I really would like the knobs to turn into offsets when CV/MIDI data is received, because right now, it’s either one or the other. Either you use the knob, or you use CV/MIDI. But trying to use both just doesn’t seem fun to me.

Thanks!

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Aspect ratio correction is already implemented in a future patch.

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I will consider the offsets but for now this feature isn’t high priority and offsets can be implemented trivially in a midi device.

Custom shapes are coming but not in the way you might expect :wink:

BTW You are always able to easily implement and share custom code with Shadertoy which does not require loading Hypno with anything. I believe for now this is the best and most user friendly solution. Starter code of doing stuff like this is in the Shadertoy thread.

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Trivially? How many MIDI devices do you know of that will take an input (MIDI or CV) and allow you to apply an offset to it? :slight_smile:

I was thinking of Elektron boxes and VCMC, idk about other ones. Anyway the feature is on the list to experiment with.

Sweet! I can’t wait to have something to experiment with!

Seconding on an expanded shape selection!

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What’s your favorite trick/patch with Hypno so far?
Curious to hear, or should that be a diff thread?

That would definitely be a whole new topic imho so I started one here

Would it be reasonable to expect MIDI mappings of the video input page in a future version of the firmware?
Started using Befaco’s CV Thing to modulate unreachable parameters and I am amazed by the results. I’m dying to modulate the luma min/max.

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Hey pkar, moving this to our feedback thread.

Using MIDI and video input together would require a USB hub, which is not a supported configuration and generally advised against to prevent damage from excessive power draw to the USB port. Due to this we don’t have any plans to implement MIDI CC control for the video input.

Makes sense.
I realise my use case is a bit special since while I’m using a hub with a webcam and MIDI controller at the same time, the controller (CV Thing) is powered off my eurorack system thus the hypno is only really powering the webcam.

@pkar which hub are you using? I have had poor results using hubs in my tests so I am curious what is working for you.

I’ve been using this one and this one without any issues. I have also been able to use an LPD8 and a logitech C920 webcam at the same time with either hub. Always powering hypno through usb.

Thanks for that info, Ill test this type of functionality and explore adding midi mapping for the video pages if It appears stable in my tests. (Will also start testing hubs to add to the USB accessory list)

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Would it be possible to have some way to reset all active self modulation? Perhaps some simple button sequence? (And midi)

A thought regarding shape frequency/size; I (apparently) like exploring large shapes. A single large square for example. But it’s quite hard to dial in - that space between the shape disappearing and it being slightly too small.
Some kind of way to explore smaller increment changes could possibly be cool?

:slight_smile:

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Good ideas… I too like this zoomed in realm but the oscillator disappears a few millimeters before fader reaches full south… so if that’s a possible fix would be great.
I’d like to add a point on video input… I would like if it was easier to have a “home” or base position with the original video feed and then mangle from there but I cant seem to dial it in and gets pretty wild pretty fast. Maybe it’s my set up or my unit or the way it’s designed. It’s still loads of fun but would be nice to have a start point and can mangle from there. Haven’t had much time with video input but that’s what I took away so far.

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