Winter Plankton Zaps Firmware Update 1.1

Zaps new firmware - 1.1 video upload by Plankton Electronics

00:00 Intro
00:14 Randomize Sound
00:38 Randomize Banks - Bass Drum
03:06 Randomize Banks - Snare Drum
03:55 Randomize Banks - Low Drum / Tom
04:27 Randomize Banks - FM Perc
05:00 Randomize Banks - Punchy FM Perc
05:18 Randomize Banks - FM/AM Perc
06:26 Randomize Banks - Glass AM
06:57 Randomize Banks - FM Tone Pitched
07:40 Randomize Banks - High Tone
08:00 Randomize Banks - Multi-Drum 1
08:25 Randomize Banks - Multi-Drum 2
09:33 Randomize Banks - Chaos
10:12 Randomize Banks - Dirty 1
10:55 Randomize Banks - Dirty 2
11:38 Randomize Banks - Retrigger Env1
12:16 Randomize Banks - Retrigger Env2
12:51 Randomize Banks - Full Set
14:13 Screen Saver
14:53 Trigger Delay

"Winter Plankton Zaps firmware has been updated to V1.1. We have introduced new randomize template modes for quickly creating bassdrums, snares, and other percussion sounds, simultaneous control of both oscillators (for melodic lines), a new trigger delay setting to get proper slot changes with mot sequencers and an screen saver among other things.

New features and improvements:

New 'Randomize' templates for creating Sounds and Banks: Bass drum 1, Bass drum 2, Snare drum, Low drum toms, FM percussion, FM and AM percussion, Glass AM, Pitched FM tones, High tones, Multi-drum 1, Multi-drum 2, Chaos, Dirty 1, Dirty 2, Retrigger envelope 1, Retrigger envelope 2, and Full set template (for Banks).

Simultaneous CV IN control for pitch 1 & 2: You can now control both oscillators with just one CV source.

New Trigger delay setting: for all the Gate and CV sources that change the CV after rising the gate, we have added a configurable trigger delay, so once the trigger is received we wait x ms to read the CV.
Screen saver: We added a new adjustable screen and energy saver following user requests.
Now it's possible to randomize a slots or banks via CV IN trigger.
Added CV in control for Retrigger time and Slope type.
Improved SLOT buttons behavior in MUTE, now we show both muted slots and playing slots (with a more intense light)
Bug fixes:

Fixed a bug where the HPF noise fader CV value was not being sent when it was assigned as an output.
Fixed a bug where the slope parameter was not responding well to random values.
CV in 'Morph to' bug fixed
Fixed a bug where the morph destination was no correctly reset after removing the cable from the cv input.
CV 6 input was not working with CV BANK Change.
Other minor bugs fixed.


Files:

Zaps V1.1 updater file: https://github.com/enoughframes/ZAPS_Updater
Zaps manual for V1.1: https://www.planktonelectronics.com/docs/zaps/Zaps_Manual.pdf"

Winter Plankton ZAPS Tutorial / Overview Videos

video uploads by Winter Modular

Playlist:
ZAPS 1/10 General Overview
ZAPS 2/10 Edit Group, Freeze and Revert
ZAPS 3/10 Sound Settings
ZAPS 4/10 Random
ZAPS 5/10 Morph
ZAPS 6/10 Copy and Paste
ZAPS 7/10 Snapshot
ZAPS 8/10 File System
ZAPS 9/10 CV Assign
ZAPS 10/10 Extra and Config

Winter Plankton Zaps - Some melodic meanderings

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"I'm working on a full review of the ZAPS and thought I'd share a few minutes of unexpected loveliness."

You can find additional demos and details on Winter Plankton Zaps here.

Exploring the Winter Plankton Zaps eurorack module.

video upload by Markham Synth Society

"A short video of messing with the Winter Plankton Zaps."

ZAPS Makes Me Feel Funny Inside

video upload by Red Means Recording

"Winter Plankton Zaps is a percussion-line synth eurorack voice designed for creating organic sequences that can mutate over time.

The unit in this video was provided by Winter Modular.

00:00 intro to zaps
02:29 zaps walkthrough
08:19 zaps as a melodic voice
10:36 bank exploration and jam

Join me on Patreon and get access to music, presets, samples, and a great community: http://bit.ly/rmrpatreon

Take a lesson with me: https://rmr.media/education"

Eurorack drum tips feat. Winter Plankton Dassbrum & Zaps

video upload by Tom Churchill

"This is the first of two videos that I’m making about drums in Eurorack. In them, I’m going to combine some demos of specific modules with more general patching tips and techniques.

In this one, I'm focusing on two modules from Winter Plankton - a collaboration between Winter Modular and Plankton Electronics. I’m using Dassbrum, which is their all-new kick drum module, and Zaps, which has been around for a couple of years now.

I met the guys behind these modules at Machina Bristronica last year, and they’re kindly sponsoring this video. But rather than just doing straight-up sound demos, I thought this would be a good opportunity to dive a bit deeper into various approaches to making beats in a modular synth context."

Winter Plankton ZAPS eurorack percussion module

video upload by Winter Modular

Details here.

Winter Plankton ZAPS - Jamming with the banks and slots

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"Just a quick demo of the ZAPS banks while the slots are being manipulated."

Plankton Electronics ZAPS Percussion Module Coming to SUPERBOOTH

"ZAPS percussion module. Analog voice from Plankton Electronics and digital control from Winter modular ⁠. Interaction and interface design by Miguel Eedl ⁠

Come to see us at Superbooth (Booth Z195) next week!"

Facebook translation of the image:

May be an image of text that says 'TRIG ~P1 ~P2 FINE COARSE DATA FINE COARSE WINTER ZAPS PLANKTON BNK: LAY ENVI>P1 CV4 ENV2>P2 BANK|LISTEN LAYER ATTACK1 SLOPE1 REL1 HOLD1 FUNC ATTACK2 SLOPE2 REL2 HOLD2 CV5 VCOs RANDOM CV6| SOUND FREEZE MORPH CVASSIGN OUT AM ENV1>AM COPY ENV1>FM XFM- MORPH SNAPSHOT MIXP1 HPF1+2 MIXP2 RANDOM EDITALL EXTRA CONFIG'"

Funny. Didn't realize FB did that.

Reverse Reverbs Revisited | ZAPS | Versio x 2, Maths | Erbe-Verb, Mimeophon

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"I am still dreaming of a Reversio, a module that can take an audio source, reverse it, add reverb and reverse it again. But no. It's 2024 and we still don't have a module that can do it, EXCEPT Lubadh, but it can only do it in mono. Anyway, I've been thinking about it a lot, and I wondered why I never used Desmodus BEFORE the Melotus. These are the true questions in life. Melotus offers reverse grains, so in theory I should be able snippets of reversed reverb. And it works, but there's so much going on you can barely hear it.

I've been using Winter/Plankton ZAPS for this experiment, which was lying around for about two years because it's so deep, and you can't figure it out without a manual. Sure there's one, but it's a reference manual so it's hard to figure out how it works as a whole. Regardless, it's one of the coolest modules I have. Using it with the Versio's has been an adventure, but my experiment failed.

Then I remembered that Mimeophon can reverse the long repeat. So I used Erbe-Verb fully wet in a send/return, only reversing the reverb tail and pre-delay. Yeah! This was very close. You can always rely on Tom Erbe. People often regret the Erbe-Verb has a mono in, which makes sense because it was designed for the mono Shared System. But reverb works fine with a mono send/stereo return, in fact it works better. I tried to explain how you can work in and out of a camera frame when you're close, but when you're in the back of a hall, that same distance looks very small. I had an amazing session and I hope you like it too."

modular sketch 12-4-22 [ winter plankton zaps ]

video upload by brandon logic

Winter Modular & Plankton Electronics Zaps Sound Demo (no talking)

video upload by Limbic Bits

0:00 IDM Sequence
0:59 Old School Percussion synth
2:15 Lousy finger drumming while exploring some preset banks
5:43 IDM Performance with Intellijel Atlantis