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- Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:10 am
- Forum: General Gear
- Topic: What new booty did you buy?
- Replies: 7713
- Views: 647979
Re: What new booty did you buy?
Supro Delay pedal - finally got down to my go-to music store after an age and a half (yadda yadda, plague era) and they had it on clearance. Much nicer than the cheapo Donner BBD I was using. Looking forward to playing around with this.
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 1:54 pm
- Forum: Music Software
- Topic: Dear Audacity: please die. Horribly.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 2668
Re: Dear Audacity: please die. Horribly.
My theory is that the kind of people that enjoy working on open source projects in their free time are generally not that interested in usability / user experience. User interface design really is a seperate skill, and developing a pleasant, efficient user experience is hard work. It is. Unless you...
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:17 pm
- Forum: Artist Discussion
- Topic: Games as time capsules
- Replies: 15
- Views: 712
Re: Games as time capsules
The Descent soundtrack is basically a full double album of ass-kicking '90s industrial as filtered through the General MIDI standard:
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 10:25 am
- Forum: Eurorack Modules
- Topic: Your unusual approach to modular!
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2196
Re: Your unusual approach to modular!
I buy my modules in pre-configured hard-wired packages with lovely panels laying out all the functions in relation to each other and creating a nice workflow. I understand these are fairly popular in the broader musical community.
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:07 pm
- Forum: Music Tech DIY
- Topic: Arp Omni Troubleshooting
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1151
Re: Arp Omni Troubleshooting
Good to know, thanks 

- Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:31 pm
- Forum: Music Tech DIY
- Topic: Arp Omni Troubleshooting
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1151
Re: Arp Omni Troubleshooting
First step: check the tantalum caps - they'll fail dead short which will pull the rails down. Think I may have stumbled into this myself as mine also went dead in a similar manner while I was recapping it (PSU works, but no joy on powering the synth itself.) Just to ask before I try, is it safe to ...
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 12:53 pm
- Forum: Production Techniques
- Topic: Creating transitions
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2482
Re: Creating transitions
I actually like the record scratch idea, a song sounding like it ended via physical means rather than just ´stopped playing´ is something I hope to accomplish. My favorite for this is still the album version of "Knife Edge" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer - I assume they contrived to stop the motor on a ...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 2:36 am
- Forum: General Gear
- Topic: Zip drives, USB sticks. Do you trust them?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 486
Re: Zip drives, USB sticks. Do you trust them?
Modern gear manufacturers are weirdly reluctant to include USB master functionality even for highly-standardized things like mass storage or MIDI connectivity. It's one of the things that makes MIDI-over-USB so aggravating to use in a non-DAW-centric setup.
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 10:09 am
- Forum: General Gear
- Topic: What new booty did you buy?
- Replies: 7713
- Views: 647979
Re: What new booty did you buy?
Mmm. I should pick up a full-size one of these days...though the Mini has served me faithfully 

- Wed Dec 30, 2020 12:41 am
- Forum: General Gear
- Topic: Zip drives, USB sticks. Do you trust them?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 486
Re: Zip drives, USB sticks. Do you trust them?
I'm having a good chuckle over the linguistic drift from Iomega Zip drives to "zip drive" being one of the pile of assorted synonyms for a USB flash drive that have accumulated over the last ~16 years 

- Tue Dec 29, 2020 10:11 am
- Forum: General Gear
- Topic: Zip drives, USB sticks. Do you trust them?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 486
Re: Zip drives, USB sticks. Do you trust them?
Ten out of ten medieval monks recommend sheepskin.
- Mon Dec 28, 2020 9:36 pm
- Forum: General Gear
- Topic: Zip drives, USB sticks. Do you trust them?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 486
Re: Zip drives, USB sticks. Do you trust them?
I have some that have been reliable over the years, some that have crapped out completely, and some that still technically work, but have gotten corrupted and needed a reformat. They're damn useful for transport, but I don't trust 'em for long-term storage. But that said, with any backup strategy, t...
- Mon Dec 28, 2020 7:58 pm
- Forum: General Gear
- Topic: KORG to Remake ARP Odyssey
- Replies: 772
- Views: 101321
Re: KORG to Remake ARP Odyssey
I might have to try that sometime, but I suspect that softening the resistance would only make it harder to get precise pitch-bends. Just a dumb design all-around, and one that I would gladly have forgiven Korg consigning to the dustbin of history. (Imagine a Kodyssey with a Korg-style joystick in p...
- Fri Dec 25, 2020 4:39 pm
- Forum: General Gear
- Topic: Sequential's "magic" vintage knob.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 823
Re: Sequential's "magic" vintage knob.
If you read engineers discussions from back in the day, they didn't like the variations in tuning and stability and were always looking to improve it and get to a theoretical ideal pitch stability and tracking. Asking an engineer to 'make things worse' was not something you asked for back then. Mus...
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 10:16 am
- Forum: General Gear
- Topic: Gear That Ought To Be Cloned
- Replies: 81
- Views: 2546
Re: Gear That Ought To Be Cloned
I'm still waiting for someone to do a modern analog drum machine that isn't fundamentally an 808/909 clone. Give me some kind of ultimate combo of the Mini Pops line, or a CR-8000, or...anything else, please?
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 10:15 am
- Forum: Production Techniques
- Topic: Creating transitions
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2482
Re:
When it comes to transitions I will often "compose" through them. In other words I write little melodic and harmonic sections to get from one section to the next all while trying to keep the ears attention :party: This in particular is very good advice. Lots of good sonic/synthesis bits have been c...
- Sat Dec 12, 2020 1:55 pm
- Forum: Production Techniques
- Topic: Multitracking and reverb?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 970
Re: Multitracking and reverb?
I'm using all-hardware except for the actual mixing by choice, so as useful as VSTs are, they're not what I'm looking for here. But the advice about recording a dry and wet channel has been very useful, and I figure on doing a second pass for the reverb after that.
- Sat Nov 28, 2020 2:20 pm
- Forum: Your Tunes Here
- Topic: "I Need a Way" A Pink Floyd styled tune.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 82
Re: "I Need a Way" A Pink Floyd styled tune.
Really digging these - thanks for sharing!
- Fri Nov 27, 2020 7:01 pm
- Forum: General Gear
- Topic: Behringer MiniMoog Clone
- Replies: 989
- Views: 100454
Re: Behringer MiniMoog Clone
Of course, this is more general to the Minimoog, but it never fails to amaze me how dirty and nasty this beast can get all by itself. Working on a piece where I really wanted a big crunchy power-chord sound, and I didn't even have to bring in any FX for the job - between oscillator FM and the extern...
- Wed Nov 25, 2020 11:33 am
- Forum: Music Software
- Topic: Dear Audacity: please die. Horribly.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 2668
Re: Dear Audacity: please die. Horribly.
Trying to get the hang of Cool Edit Pro. We'll see how it goes.
- Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:51 am
- Forum: Music Software
- Topic: Dear Audacity: please die. Horribly.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 2668
Re: Dear Audacity: please die. Horribly.
Anyway, nearly a week later, I've recovered all the bits I could recover and re-recorded the rest, so I'm back to where I was last Friday, huzzah.
- Tue Nov 24, 2020 7:49 pm
- Forum: General Gear
- Topic: What new booty did you buy?
- Replies: 7713
- Views: 647979
Re: What new booty did you buy?
Picked up a Boss VO-1 as a birthday present to myself. Need to borrow a spare mic, though.
Also, bought for me by my brother: a Stylophone Gen X-1
Also, bought for me by my brother: a Stylophone Gen X-1

- Sun Nov 22, 2020 6:21 pm
- Forum: Music Software
- Topic: Dear Audacity: please die. Horribly.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 2668
Re: Dear Audacity: please die. Horribly.
See, the thing is, I don't need realtime effects processing, etc. All of that stuff I'm doing in hardware, and in general I'm much happier and focus more effectively with a simple tool that does a few things I need than a complex one that does a million things I don't. Audacity would be perfect for ...
- Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:39 am
- Forum: Music Software
- Topic: Dear Audacity: please die. Horribly.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 2668
Re: Dear Audacity: please die. Horribly.
Yet again, the problem isn't that it crashed. That's irritating, but understandable. The problem is that, thanks to stupid design decisions that have never been fixed, crash recovery is a major freaking ordeal when there's no good reason this should be the case. Scheming out an alternative that woul...
- Sun Nov 22, 2020 4:14 am
- Forum: Music Software
- Topic: Dear Audacity: please die. Horribly.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 2668
Re: Dear Audacity: please die. Horribly.
You can boilerplate and legalese and CYA all you want, but this does not change the fact that if you offer up something that is, in its design, clearly intended for a particular purpose, you are in essence making a claim that it is fit for that purpose. If you need to throw the rabid lawyer hordes o...