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The Cleaner
Jul 18, 2008

I WILL DEVOUR YOUR BALLS!
:quagmire:

Startyde posted:

Good farts :golfclap:
Is that the cvThree from control?

No. It's a bunch of other modules and stuff.

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Mrwimmer
Feb 18, 2014
They keep adding new synth engines to the Atmegatron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=becxY5mYMcU

I'm becoming more and more lured in.

Tan Dumplord
Mar 9, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
As much as I'm in love with chiptunes, the aliasing on everything I've heard from the Atmegatron really turns me off.

I really wanted to want one.

Startyde
Apr 19, 2007

come post with us, forever and ever and ever

The Cleaner posted:

No. It's a bunch of other modules and stuff.

The case I mean

The Cleaner
Jul 18, 2008

I WILL DEVOUR YOUR BALLS!
:quagmire:

No I built the case from scratch.

Cost me about $90.

Sizone
Sep 13, 2007

by LadyAmbien
Looking to pick up a used Ipad G3. What are good apps/accoutrements? Gonna run Z3ta+ and Lemur on it for sure, need a minimum of a midi interface and an audio out.

edit: My synth white whale is almost conquered. Managed to get a copy of unisyn running on my oasyspci mac (sadly, lost the usage of the oasyspci in the process). Now I have a functional patch editor going for the Asr-x pro. The thing, red with the blood from startyde's brother, now has max ram, updated o.s. and CAN....BE....PATCHED. Next paycheck, I'm going throw some good money after bad again and try to get the scsi/cf working so it has storage.

So, now you may be asking why. Why invest so much time, money and frustration into such an obvious boondogle?
Here is why; 1: handrolled transwaves. I love that crunchy wavetable sound and being able to make my own out of reified frustration and samples from robot cake farting porn is super dope.
2: Resonant filter. Let's assume for a second that you're me and that you have, for whatever stupid reason, fixated on the ensoniq MR hardware class. The only two instances of it that have a resonant filter are the Fizmo and the Asr-x. Though, now that I finally can actually patch it, I'm disappointed that the asr-x doesn't, at least not yet, sound as plasticky and strange as the fizmo filter.
3: Microtonal scales. In hardware there are, like, 2 things that support doing microtuning with a decent resolution, ensoniq MR stuff and the Marion synths. This is important to me because 12 notes is not really enough to be unlistenably dissonant in, except for the occasional MUSIC SHOULD BE FUN light project, everything should be in an exotic tuning, preferably Harry Partch's 43 tone scale.

and, yeah, outside of software the only convergence of all 3 points is the Asr-x. Oddly, if I were to pick up an EXP-3 expansion card, the fizmo (sans arpegiator, knobs and vocoder) would be wholely redundant.

Sizone fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Aug 19, 2014

WAFFLEHOUND
Apr 26, 2007

Sizone posted:

Ipad G3... Z3ta+

Whaaaaaaaat?

Sizone
Sep 13, 2007

by LadyAmbien

WAFFLEHOUND posted:

Whaaaaaaaat?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/z3ta+/id810393174?mt=8

What is the whating about? I don't get tablets in general and I really don't get apple's hardware variations. Is that not enough Chinese death camp factory power to run it?

minidracula
Dec 22, 2007

boo woo boo

Sizone posted:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/z3ta+/id810393174?mt=8

What is the whating about? I don't get tablets in general and I really don't get apple's hardware variations. Is that not enough Chinese death camp factory power to run it?
I think WAFFLEHOUND didn't know about Z3TA+ on the iPad is all.

vkeios
May 7, 2007




Well seeing as iOS 8 is coming out soon with some neat poo poo that could be used real nicely with music apps, you probably don't want to get the 2 year old iPad.

Sizone
Sep 13, 2007

by LadyAmbien

minidracula posted:

I think WAFFLEHOUND didn't know about Z3TA+ on the iPad is all.

Synth thread: poo poo, all the stuff we talk about really could be done with an ipad

or

Synth thread: Waffle blew 200$ purchasing, and half his honor defending, the Tb-3 when he could've just gotten a 15$ app.

or

Synth thread: Hey Moby, hurry up and take my zr-76 before I fix it and keep it or part it out.

Sizone
Sep 13, 2007

by LadyAmbien


vkeios posted:

Well seeing as iOS 8 is coming out soon with some neat poo poo that could be used real nicely with music apps, you probably don't want to get the 2 year old iPad.



Yeah, but I also don't want to spend more than 200$ for something that's mostly going to be for the wife to play video games and browse coupons with and for the baby to chew on and occasionally make baby beats with.

W424
Oct 21, 2010

vkeios posted:

Well seeing as iOS 8 is coming out soon with some neat poo poo that could be used real nicely with music apps, you probably don't want to get the 2 year old iPad.

It says it's an offline process so it should be just fine? Or are you implying that iOS8 will run like absolute poo poo, my ipad3 feels pretty sluggish under ios7.

minidracula
Dec 22, 2007

boo woo boo

Krustic posted:

He changed his mind. I'll PM you some info and pics in a minute.
Got your PM, PM'd you back.

A Winner is Jew
Feb 14, 2008

by exmarx

vkeios posted:

Well seeing as iOS 8 is coming out soon with some neat poo poo that could be used real nicely with music apps, you probably don't want to get the 2 year old iPad.

Between this, gadget, and zeta+ it's been a pain waiting until the new ipads come out in a few months before I dive into ios synth stuff. Working with Alchemy and Bazille I've become a fan of what "good" VST's can do, not to mention I've already been using my wife's mini ipad to start setting up a controller for my Kurzweil gear with this: http://iosmidi.com/. Really, nothing hardware wise is pulling me to get it right now except for the ipad, an A4, and for guitar a red panda particle and a gem 2g.

vkeios
May 7, 2007




W424 posted:

It says it's an offline process so it should be just fine? Or are you implying that iOS8 will run like absolute poo poo, my ipad3 feels pretty sluggish under ios7.

Yeah, I was implying the second thing. Apple is usually lousy about iOS updates on old hardware.

0dB
Jan 3, 2009

Sizone posted:


2: Resonant filter. Let's assume for a second that you're me and that you have, for whatever stupid reason, fixated on the ensoniq MR hardware class. The only two instances of it that have a resonant filter are the Fizmo and the Asr-x. Though, now that I finally can actually patch it, I'm disappointed that the asr-x doesn't, at least not yet, sound as plasticky and strange as the fizmo filter.

Got an MR Rack and the EXP-3 and was happy that I spent $200 where a FIZMO rack is $2000. Then you tell me that the filter is strange and I hate you.

Mind you, $1800 for a goddamn filter.

Sizone
Sep 13, 2007

by LadyAmbien
A track pretty much done. Need to figure out how to get record to trigger in Reaper when I push play on the sequencer to make syncing easier, record each track separately by pattern, loop and mix. I'll put up the STEMs after I record in case anyone wants to use mathematics and technology to drop some science.

https://soundcloud.com/rid_labs/back-turned-to-the-future-raw


Sounds are JX-3P, JX-8P, CZ-101, RS-7000 drums
samples are some Casio MT-68 breaks, a little circuit bent MT-240, Bruce Haack and Logan's Run.

0dB posted:

Got an MR Rack and the EXP-3 and was happy that I spent $200 where a FIZMO rack is $2000. Then you tell me that the filter is strange and I hate you.

Mind you, $1800 for a goddamn filter.

If it makes you feel better, I picked up an MR rack after having had a Fizmo for years. The MR is -a lot- easier to interact with.

Sizone fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Aug 19, 2014

Startyde
Apr 19, 2007

come post with us, forever and ever and ever

The Cleaner posted:

No I built the case from scratch.

Cost me about $90.

Nice!


CRACK YOUR WALLET ASUNDER WHEN YOU SEE THE BLACK WHALE
BREAK YOUR BANK AND DIVORCE THE WIFE IF YOU WISH TO PREVAIL

Sizone posted:

Yeah, but I also don't want to spend more than 200$ for something that's mostly going to be for the wife to play video games and browse coupons with and for the baby to chew on and occasionally make baby beats with.

iPad3 was a kludge and too underpowered for the display they shoved in there at launch. I would avoid. The mini is at Target for $200 this week if you're in the states. It's literally a bite-sized ipad2 but is still on the roadmap for 8. I know it runs a hell of a lot smoother than my buddy's 3. On paper it's more powerful but it spends too many cycles drawing that screen.

I bought two EXP-3 both glitching with bitrot before I found one that was 100%.

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib
IPad Air is real good and I justified it by selling my blofeld and getting waldorf nave

WAFFLEHOUND
Apr 26, 2007

minidracula posted:

I think WAFFLEHOUND didn't know about Z3TA+ on the iPad is all.

I didn't, and I love z3ta. Can you transfer patches over?

Sizone posted:

Synth thread: Waffle blew 200$ purchasing, and half his honor defending, the Tb-3 when he could've just gotten a 15$ app.

Hey now, let's be fair. I spent $280 on the TB-3 and already have ~$90 VST because sometimes I don't want to program my actual TB-303.

Sizone posted:

Synth thread: Hey Moby, hurry up and take my zr-76 before I fix it and keep it or part it out.

Sending you an email.

A Big... Dog
Mar 25, 2013

HELLO DAD

I still wanna talk about my unending passion for SuperCollider, by the way, but this thread rules

WAFFLEHOUND
Apr 26, 2007
We need a gang tag

edit: MOOG'S ROGUES

net work error
Feb 26, 2011

~*Dave's Prophets*~

VoodooXT
Feb 24, 2006
I want Tong Po! Give me Tong Po!
Well, I was going to use it as a synth band name but whatever.

The Sons of Moog

Laserjet 4P
Mar 28, 2005

What does it mean?
Fun Shoe
ROBOT FART BOX

ynohtna
Feb 16, 2007

backwoods compatible
Illegal Hen

WAFFLEHOUND posted:

MOOG'S ROGUES

This is the only choice that's in vogue.

renderful
Mar 24, 2003

You'll love me, I promise.
Dongo's Bongos

renderful fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Aug 19, 2014

Your Computer
Oct 3, 2008




Grimey Drawer

WAFFLEHOUND posted:

We need a gang tag

edit: MOOG'S ROGUES

net work error posted:

~*Dave's Prophets*~

I don't know which I love more :swoon:

minidracula
Dec 22, 2007

boo woo boo

Startyde posted:

The mini is at Target for $200 this week if you're in the states. It's literally a bite-sized ipad2 but is still on the roadmap for 8. I know it runs a hell of a lot smoother than my buddy's 3. On paper it's more powerful but it spends too many cycles drawing that screen.
Wait, is this the same sale they were doing a little while back (in stores)? I missed out on that then, and was a little bummed by it.

In other news, from an email I got an hour ago...:

quote:

"Greetings Special Stage Denizens,

Big news this week! Ming Mecca will finally be available to purchase in late September / Early October."
http://www.specialstagesystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/PatchWithPossibility.png

http://www.specialstagesystems.com/modules/

minidracula fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Aug 19, 2014

net work error
Feb 26, 2011

Man these sound like lovely 80s band names what an awful idea.

Akai Senpai

I hate myself.

WAFFLEHOUND
Apr 26, 2007
Moog's Rogues rhymes and therefore is best imo

Radiapathy
Dec 3, 2011

Snooping as usual, I see.

WAFFLEHOUND posted:

Moog's Rogues rhymes and therefore is best imo

I like it but Dave's Prophets is more insidery, and therefore appealing to my exclusive nature.

minidracula
Dec 22, 2007

boo woo boo
WAFFLEHOUND, PM me about your euro case and module(s) for sale. That's still available, right?

Flipperwaldt
Nov 11, 2011

Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?



Korg's Dorks

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib

minidracula posted:

Wait, is this the same sale they were doing a little while back (in stores)? I missed out on that then, and was a little bummed by it.

In other news, from an email I got an hour ago...:

http://www.specialstagesystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/PatchWithPossibility.png

http://www.specialstagesystems.com/modules/

I'm excited about this but poo poo it's steep. Not by modular standards...

treasureplane
Jul 12, 2008

throwing darts in lovers' eyes, &c.

net work error posted:

~*Dave's Prophets*~

Yes, yes, I think this is the one

minidracula
Dec 22, 2007

boo woo boo
I'm in favor of Moog's Rogues so far.

RIVAL GANGS!

A Winner is Jew
Feb 14, 2008

by exmarx
:spergin: buchla autists :spergin:

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WAFFLEHOUND
Apr 26, 2007
Buchlautistic

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