DMNO bugs & feature suggestions

UDO Audio Gear DMNO
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I received my DMNO yesterday and am very much smitten with it, it sounds phenomenal and is a very deep instrument.

I do have a couple of remarks for the developers and feature requests:

The aux out doesn’t work when set to ‘main mix’ and DMNO mode 1, single is used? I would expect it to copy the main out, but this only works in other modes. Seems like a pretty obvious bug to me.

It also doesn’t have a volume control. would be nice to have.

Freerunning oscillators would be of course the main, if not only, vital request. The basic sawtooth sounds very odd, even compared to the supers. I suspect this is to do with it’s always resetting nature.

Sync/restart setting for lfo1 for classic mono duties

A HP and LP filter for the delay settings, to allow for dark subtle echoes and taking out the rumble.

Arpeggiator for the cv out only:

(This one i suspect few people have thought of yet, but it would be an immensely cool feature.)

An option to have an arp that is only affecting the CV out, not the onboard notes/voices. This way you could play in a more polyphonic style on the DMNO, while an external mono eurorack synth is being arpeggiated. Should be amazingly useful for layering.

suggestions for extra mod destinations:

_FX send amount!!!

_Osc 2 to filter amount

_Env2 attack and Env 2 release

_DMNO 1/2 panning

negative modulation possibilities of pitch and crossmod. Some modulation routings only give you a positive value option, unlike on the supers. especially for pitch and crossmod this isn’t ideal.

extra mod sources:

random , a random value generated on each note press (this thing’s all about chance and probability isn’t it?)

CV output suggestions: ARP, as mentioned previously, and Expression, so it will follow an incoming expression pedal or ribbon

Lastly, an option in the voice menu of the lfo2 page to invert polarity of the leftmost slider that assigns AT to lfo speed (so pressing harder will slow it down instead of up.

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Found one more bug: when naming a patch or performance, DMNO1 button should insert a space, and DMNO2 button delete. Instead, DMNO1 button will delete forwards, deleting the next character, instead of inserting a blank space.

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Gotta say this thing sounds amazingly good. One more QOL request: there is an auto patch naming function when saving. Clearly it is just 2 list of words that get randomly combined. Still a clever feature. However the list is a bit short, and very much in a certain style.

Could there be an option where there is a simple text file on the DMNO HD, where the user can add his own words to this list?

4

more findings:

tap tempo is not working, i guess this is known.

cv gates: The Cv is voltage is very high, i’m guessing only positive unipolar. As So most oscillators need to be tuned differently than usual or the cv out from the dmno offset.

Secondly, the gates are responding polyphonically when the dmno part is set to poly, meaning only one voice willaend a gate, the next X number of notes do not, depending on binaural on-off.

when in solo or legato mode, the gatesout are always mono legato, so a new note when the previous is still held gets no gate.

This defenitely needs a few improvements to be of any use. I would suggest a 3 cv output options : poly, mono re trigger and mono legato. these should be a separate setting.

This way you could play the dmno while an external modular voice is being used, For now without an arppeggiator it is almost unuseable. Maybe an octave offset option as well? basically subtracting 1 or 2 V from tge output.

I would also like an xtra offset for the dmno voice octaves in the voice menu, because i often want to offset them more than is possible with a detune of 2 oct. And it is a way to change the tilt point of the keytracking

Another suggestion: in the pitchbend menu split the pitch up and the pitch down amount into 2 different value settings (there is space for 1 more parameter there)

-suggested extra mod destinations

_lfo phase

_delay time offset (unsynced shift) So a 8 dotted delay time when unmodilated can become slightly longer or shorter when modulated.
Allows for choruses delays and weird fx

_osc2 shape

_lfo 2 speed

_osc2filter amount

_mix3 (external-dmn1>2)

_osc fine tune_osc1+2 mix (changes both osc levels gojng into the filter, different from vca amount and useful for gainstaging, while saving a mod slot for not having to do each osc separately.

_probably the trickiest one computing-wise, but super powerful: the amount of another mod slot, bipolarly

for example ‘mod slot1’ negative value will decrease the mod routing made in slot 1

suggested extra mod sources:

_env 3

-random (static value per note)

_ pitchbend wheel (not all patches need pitchbend and it can be repurposed as a modwheel or macro control

Some existing mod routings seem to do nothing, or very little. Of the top of my head. expression pedal to resonance. Some of them don’t cover the full range of a parameter even when set to their max value.

Regardless of all this i am still super happy with the DMNO. One fascinating thing is how the resonance and harmonics between osc 1, 2 and mix 3 start fighting or interesting when you change their levels. some really cool interactions. And everything seems to go to 11, which is great