This is the new xor.eu. It replaces xor-electronics.com, which had been running more or less unchanged since 2014.
What’s here now
All downloads are on one page now: firmware for the NerdSEQ and every expander, manuals and the new guides. No more digging through forum threads for the right file.
The NerdSEQ manual can be read right here in the browser, in English, German, French, Spanish and Dutch. The PDFs are still there for every language, a dark one for the screen and a light one for printing.
There’s a new Field Guide and a Mapping Field Guide to get you started with the NerdSEQ. Both have their own pages under Tutorials. The release notes now list NerdSEQ and expander firmware together, every release so far.
The shop has moved to shop.xor.eu.
Some things stay as they were. The forum is still the place for questions, for showing what you’ve made and for older firmware versions.
NerdSEQ 3.03, codename “Acid”
Out now, together with new firmware for the Dualchord (1.4), the Trigger16 (1.1) and the Video Expander (3.3). All of it is on the Downloads page. The release notes run to 140 entries, so here are just a few:
- Fill Pattern. A new screen that fills a pattern by rules: density, scale and key, ranges, euclidean or step blocks, per column. It can be fired from the sequence or from a mapping, so a pattern can rewrite itself while it plays.
- Samples. Loop and ping-pong, an oscillator mode, better sound quality with 12-bit samples, support for 24- and 32-bit and float WAV files, and resampling when a sample is too long.
- Automator Record. An automator slot becomes a clock-locked CV recorder. Record a CV input, a mapping row or a variable, then play it back as an LFO.
- Mapping. Eight new calc functions, fifteen chained operations with three parameters each, CALC as a destination, and a selector that lists every option, just like the FX selector.
- Dualchord. With firmware 1.4 it gets a complete voice: envelope, filter with 20 modes, VCA, noise, wavefolder and hard sync.
- Video Expander. Textures and sprites in shaders, and 16 transition types between them.
There’s also a basic four-channel scope, so you can see what internal and external signals are actually doing.
Alongside the release there’s tools.xor.eu, a set of browser tools for the NerdSEQ. NerdSEQ Backup copies projects and other files between the NerdSEQ and your computer over MIDI, and makes firmware updates easy. There’s a converter that turns MOD tracker files into NerdSEQ projects, one that turns project files into JSON and back (with a full description of the format, if you want to write your own tools), and the VEX Creator, a shader editor that previews live on the Video Expander.