Doorway blank signal

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#1 — mfrosbot · 2022-07-20

Hi all,

Apologies if something like this has been addressed before, I didn’t see any past posts that seemed to match my issue but I may be mistaken.

I got one of the project yellowjacket Doorways, and have only had a tiny bit of time since the spring to even power up my rack, so my new Doorway has only gotten a tiny bit of airtime since purchase. However, I have only been able to get the Doorway to output a solid full-screen field of color.

I am routing from my Fortress/Diver into the Doorway, and from the Doorway into the RGB inputs of my Memory Palace. However no matter which outputs from fortress/diver i use, or however i configure the knobs/switches on the Doorway I am just getting a solid positive output from the Doorway with no semblance of keying, foreground, background, etc. Is there a secret trick to getting this module to behave as expected, like a switch that I may be missing somewhere? Would love to know if this is a user error or if my module is in need of some more technical TLC. Thanks all!

#2 — rempesm · 2022-07-20

Do you have photos of your patch and the output you’re getting that you can share?

#4 — Robbertunist · 2022-07-21

Hey Mfrosbot, @7pip has helped an awful lot by including a photo of the panel with suggested settings for passing a signal through. The middle Switch toggles between solid & outline. If you input a diamond ramp from Visual Cortex, it’ll be solid if the switch is at the bottom position and will have a space in the middle in Outline mode (switch in the up position) depending on the Threshold & Gain knob positions.

The key thing are the top two pots. If they are both at the full or 5pm position & you’ve got signals going in there, I think you’ll get the Whiteout problem. First just use the regular input & not the FG & BG inputs, position the top knobs as 7Pip has suggested. Hopefully you haven’t got a defective module

#5 — mfrosbot · 2022-08-21

Thank you @7pip , this was super helpful. I think something may have been amiss with the Doorway’s power connection, as I scrolled through the settings you specified here to no avail for a while, and then the next time I turned my rack on the Doorway seemed to be working. The next couple of times I powered on the rack it was kind of hit or miss so I wasn’t sure for a while if it was the module or something else, but now it seems to work pretty consistently. Thanks again for your thorough response! Greatly appreciated.

Cheers!