I can't work out what's moving some of the controls on the devices used in some of the Combinator preset patches. For example, the Feedback dial moving left to right on a DDL-1 or patterns changing on a Matrix.

I can record my own movements with the 'Edit automation' option but this requires a sequencer track (which won't be saved with the patch). What's making these dials are move of their own accord? How do I record my own movements?

It could be if you have a midi device hooked up that the device is somehow screwy with midi signals and is reporting movement to reason when it's really not. If do you have a midi controller then try unplugging it and making a song, if it doesn't do anything then, then that is most likely the program. It could also be the midi driver that you installed messing up. Try reinstalling the drivers and resetting the devices. I've never witnessed this so that's kinda crazy to me.

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Hey Happyfrood,

Many of the combinator preset patches make use of the combinators programming abilities. At the top the combinator you will see a button saying "show combinator or device programmer" In here you can assign the four combinator knobs and 4 buttons to parameters on devices within the combinator.

If you look at the cv from the matrix it will be wired into the combinator and thus have an effect on these knobs. Subsequenttly the combinator knob moves in accordance as does the assigned knob on the device it points to.

This is the only way of having active moving knobs, if you wire the matrix straight into the device and not via the combinator you will find that despite getting the same effect the knobs don't move. I'm unsure as to why this is the case. It would be nice to have active knobs all over.

Hope this clears up your question.

Thanks guys - checked out my MIDI devices no problem there, turned out to be the CV gates that NUTTSDUTTS suggested:

LFO output of an empty NN19 sampler into the Rotary 1 CV input on combinator (via a spider). Then Rotary 1 assigned to frequency responce of an EQ

All to make some crazy cool sounds, try it! Or load up this Combinator patch to see what I mean:

Sound effects/Boiling Ether.cmb

Cheers