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.

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...

The Descent soundtrack is basically a full double album of ass-kicking '90s industrial as filtered through the General MIDI standard:

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.

Good to know, thanks

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Mmm. I should pick up a full-size one of these days...though the Mini has served me faithfully

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

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I trust good old fashioned pen and paper. It is time consuming no doubt, but nothing beats just writing down the 1s and 0s on acid free foolscap in archival ink. Some people prefer hex but a hex on that I say. Binary is the language of truth.

Ten out of ten medieval monks recommend sheepskin.

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...

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...

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...

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?

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...

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.

Really digging these - thanks for sharing!

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...

Trying to get the hang of Cool Edit Pro. We'll see how it goes.

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.

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

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 ...

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...

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...