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Capicola Versio

Firmware for Versio (Noise Engineering)

Port of Heavylight Industries' Capicola keyframe time stretcher and transient-driven auto-slicer to the Versio, with the original DSP unchanged.

by Tim Cox (timncox), Heavylight Industries

ActiveSource: openAGPL-3.0-only
Noise Engineering Versio platform pictured with the Desmodus Versio firmware panel (black panel render on transparent background)
Photo: Noise Engineering, manufacturer product image, via noiseengineering.us
Distribution
Build from source yourself
License notes
LICENSE is the GNU AGPL v3, inherited from upstream Capicola; no "or later" grant was found in the README or the source headers checked.
Source
github.com https://github.com/timncox/capicola-versio

Description

Stereo input is stretched while a transient detector watches the same signal; when a transient passes the threshold, the read head jumps to the present with a short crossfade and continues stretching. Seven knobs set stretch, pitch, threshold, grain, quality, feedback and mix, and holding the button opens a second page of seven parameters. Because the Versio has no CV outputs, the envelope and trigger signals that Capicola puts on jacks drive the four RGB LEDs instead. The port layer is shared with the author's Ableton Move version. The DSP is compiled from upstream (a git submodule); the port is tested against it sample for sample on a computer. The README says it builds and passes its tests but has not yet been run on a Versio, and that the panel mapping is a proposal. The repository has one commit, and the upstream Capicola for the Alchemy Lab is catalogued separately.

Install notes

No releases are published. Build the internal-flash image with make -C firmware APP_TYPE=BOOT_NONE after initialising the upstream submodule (not recursively), then upload the .bin on Noise Engineering's firmware page. A BOOT_SRAM build for the Daisy tooling is also described. Flashing an official Noise Engineering firmware restores the module to stock.

Version history

Capicola Versio version history
VersionDateNotes
main @ acafccc2026-08-24No tagged releases; this is the latest commit.

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