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JamesKPolk posted:are these the same? I remember the second one dropping but hugest lmao if they re-released w/ a rectangle it so it fits in someone's rack better Looking at modulargrid the rectangular one came before the vampiric edition.
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My Lovely Horse posted:The implication that there are water, air and fire modules floating about are somewhat disconcerting, to say nothing of like mercury and arsenic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4pMhM27Am8 Xenon! 
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j.peeba posted:Looking at modulargrid the rectangular one came before the vampiric edition. word. different modules or the same one w/ a new plate? I remember a lot of angst about the coffin shape for something that was literally dirt lol
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I’m insane and I thought someone’s ashes were interred into a module.
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Well I mean you'd use an urn and not a coffin first of all.
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snorch posted:I'm having a heck of a time finding an axoloti for sale, does anybody here happen have one they don't use/want to get rid of? where you live? when’s your next/closest expo?
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snorch posted:I'm having a heck of a time finding an axoloti for sale, does anybody here happen have one they don't use/want to get rid of? I don't use mine, but if I ever start doing modular again I'm going to need a multistage looping envelope generator which is the reason I have one, somewhere, fossilizing on the workbench with flying wires running to in and outs and potentiometers. as such I would be open to trade for such a module especially if it's +/- 15v friendly
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I'm in Vancouver, not sure what you mean by expo. Like a synth meet up?
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What am I looking at here? I don’t know enough about weird world of modular synthesis to take in what my eyes are showing me 
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It's a distortion from ERD that includes earth sample as part of the circuitry, but in this picture the cables to the soil seem missing https://www.modulargrid.net/e/erd-micro-research-erd-erd e: Also it seems you have to regularly moisten the soil sample to keep the module running SpaceGoatFarts fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:It's a distortion from ERD that includes earth sample as part of the circuitry, but in this picture the cables to the soil seem missing Oh ok that’s kind of what I thought but without the cables I was like.. OK it has a plexi box of dirt for ??? reasons? lol Modular synth is so cool but also just so out there with possibilities it seems like a whole other world. If it can make or alter a sound I’m going to slap it to an aluminum faceplate and screw it into a rack 
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Martytoof posted:If it can make or alter a sound I’m going to slap it to an aluminum faceplate and screw it into a rack yes 
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Martytoof posted:Modular synth is so cool but also just so out there with possibilities it seems like a whole other world. If it can make or alter a sound I’m going to slap it to an aluminum faceplate and screw it into a rack My favorite synth module has a tiny sample of uranium and a geiger counter. No computer could ever simulate atomic decay perfectly because of quantum mechanics, so this is a unique sound that can only be obtained from a tiny vial of uranium  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj1PhEqVBq4
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I got my Minilab II and it came with a B2.0-to-C cable. I only have A-to-C conveters and B3.0-to-A cables. 
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Next time you have a minute go on Amazon and order 80 different cables and adapters then tangle them all in your desk drawer.
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I need a desk drawer that isn't completely broken first. Actually, I think I might just remove it entirely and get some totes instead.
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whoa whoa whoa why is everyone talking about the module that plays your signal through dirt and not the one that lets your synth smoke voltage controlled weed https://www.modulargrid.net/e/erd-breath
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i use 1 gal ziplock bagsto "organize" my cables
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JamesKPolk posted:why is everyone talking about the module that plays your signal through dirt and not the one that lets your synth smoke voltage controlled weed Finally, GAS we can all enjoy
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JamesKPolk posted:whoa whoa whoa lol that’s just a module with a heating element stuck on its front well played
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Sorry is this the thread where we come to talk about our incurable GAS affliction E: You just KNOW I’m hunting for an S950 too some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Oct 26, 2021 |
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Martytoof posted:Sorry is this the thread where we come to talk about our incurable GAS affliction Oh HFY. This is insane but would you be down to post like a very basic 808/909 kit play through (or something similarly ubiquitous and neutral) from that and from the 1k? Been curious for years where exactly they differ I'd always heard the 2k+ rack samplers described as basically a MPC2k, which to me is just.. bland? That sounds like a diss though and I don't mean it like that, its just the things I like about it are its relative sterility/etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71whkVenRi8 ^^^ that was all MPC2k afaik
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Yeah for sure, I can make that happen — just need a little face time with this thing because the UI isn’t super intuitive at first kick. The 3000XL is one of the “sterile” 16bit samplers unfortunately — the 3000(non-XL) is supposed to have a lot more character, whatever that means. I am on the lookout for an S950 just because I want a 12bit sampler (for the sake of owning a 12 bit sampler, apparently — nothing in my workflow demands or even wants one), but I’ll definitely have to REALLY want one since they tend to go for WELL over $1k typically :/ I picked this up locally for under a hundred because the left input channel was dead — which was just a weak solder joint and fixed up in seconds  But basically I’ll work my way up to the sought after early 90s Akais, this one I just had to have at this price though, even if one of the input channels was dead 
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Martytoof posted:Yeah for sure, I can make that happen — just need a little face time with this thing because the UI isn’t super intuitive at first kick. The S3000XL is probably my favorite sampler. Do you ever mess with resampling? That and the time stretching have pretty unique sounds. Also if you’re looking for a 12 bit sampler, the S900 is pretty similar to the S950 and a little cheaper. I really regret selling mine before moving a couple years ago 
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Haven’t messed with it yet, but that is something I am about to hit up! There is so much fun stuff I want to try with this but I feel like I need a good few hours to pore through the manual and establish just how the workflow is supposed to go. My initial experiments were frustrating but also gratifying — just need a lot more time in front of it. It doesn’t help that the backlight is near dead so I have to stoop over to see what I’m doing. I’ll try to grab a replacement backlight one of these days, but until then I will figure out some way to angle it up towards my face. S900 vs S950 is one of those decision that will probably come down to what they’re available for when I’m ready to dole out for one. At $1000+ they’re squarely out of impulse buy territory, and if the price difference will be like $500 then I’ll just get the 950. Right now Reverb shows a 900 for 900  and a 950 for 1200 which would be a no brainer. There are also suspiciously expensive 950s so I can never tell what’s what.I’m excited to see if I can get my way around to making it work like this, except maybe with my Polyend Tracker instead of a laptop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ZaQoT4pW0 (Not that I’m holding that up as a paragon of what I think this can do, just that’s how I envision myself using it  )
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Mixer question (attn: petit choux if you're there  )I'm trying to electrify my trumpet! I know petit choux posted a dope piezo mic hookup for a trumpet, which I'm definitely going to look into in the future, but right now I already have a clip-on bell mic from Shure. What I'm hoping to do is hook that up, through a mixer, to my Zoia, and see what wonkiness I can get up to. Based on my very little mixer knowledge, I think the best way for me to do that would be to buy a cheap(ish) mixer with an Fx send/return - I've been basing most of my research on the Behringer Xenyx Q1002USB. I do have a Scarlett Solo, but I don't think I have the proper interface to do mic->Scarlett Solo->PC->Zoia->back to PC. Anybody have advice they can give me?
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Arturia has apparently updated the Microfreak to add a wavetable mode. Haven't tried it yet.
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Tayter Swift posted:Arturia has apparently updated the Microfreak to add a wavetable mode. Haven't tried it yet. Man -- that gets more and more tempting.
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Tayter Swift posted:Arturia has apparently updated the Microfreak to add a wavetable mode. Haven't tried it yet. looks/sounds pretty good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa4LI-6imlg
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I now want to put Carbon, Strontium, Digi III and Modern Talking on mine and finally have the hardware version of Massive I've been after.
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late 2000s style brostep revival baby!
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Johnny Truant posted:Mixer question (attn: petit choux if you're there Sounds to me like you're on the right track. I'm currently using a Yamaha SilentBrass mute, which has a pretty fancy preamp built in. Random thoughts: Just as a quick and dirty you can just preamp the horn and plug it right into the Zoia, right, and just handle the signal path just like you would your guitar or a keyboard, not bother with a send/return? I bet the Zoia has a dry/wet adjustment anyway.
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petit choux posted:Sounds to me like you're on the right track. I'm currently using a Yamaha SilentBrass mute, which has a pretty fancy preamp built in. Random thoughts: Just as a quick and dirty you can just preamp the horn and plug it right into the Zoia, right, and just handle the signal path just like you would your guitar or a keyboard, not bother with a send/return? I bet the Zoia has a dry/wet adjustment anyway. gently caress me running, I never thought about running the preamp into the Zoia itself! how do you like the sound that comes out of the silent brass? i've contemplated trying to pick one up, just for the pickup 
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Johnny Truant posted:gently caress me running, I never thought about running the preamp into the Zoia itself! I only use it because I'm in an apartment and I don't want to irritate the neighbors. I haven't found a silencer mute design that doesn't gently caress with your sound considerably, but this is the best I've found. It works and you learn to work around its shortcomings for the purpose of practice. In other news, I'm buying another horn and moving to a bigger place where I won't have to use the silencer. I would think running your horn through that should be really fun. If you do anything that amuses you, please put it up for us. ED: here's the guy with the pickups: https://www.ebay.com/sch/safron60/m.html?item=322578320423&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 petit choux fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Oct 27, 2021 |
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Is there such a thing a pair of passive speakers that doesn’t suck? I want a little pair of speakers for when I’ve got the MPC 1K out with me away from the “music desk”. I bought a JBL pill 4 bt speaker with 3.5 input and it’s got really good sound but it has this really weird thing where it’ll try to auto-modulate volume or something, so if I’m not constantly feeding audio through it, it (and I’m sure this is wrong but I don’t know what else to call it) goes to sleep and then when I hit a pad on the MPC the sound is super quiet before it hits normal volume again. This happens if it’s quiet for more than like five seconds so it’s super duper annoying. I want a pair of passive speakers so I don’t need to plug in power, and I realize it’s super weird to complain about plugging in speakers when I already have to plug the 1K into mains, but I ordered the battery pack power supply unit so the 1K will soon be mobile and I’ll be making beats in E: Sorry I just realized this is not at all synth related at all, I’ll maybe go post this in IYG but I guess I’ll leave it here in case anyone has suggestions but if it derails I’ll delete.
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Martytoof posted:Is there such a thing a pair of passive speakers that doesn’t suck? I want a little pair of speakers for when I’ve got the MPC 1K out with me away from the “music desk”. What you have is a battery powered active speaker (with a bunch of extra circuitry for Bluetooth, EQ profiles and what sounds like an auto-off function for the 3.5mm in). A passive speaker is just a speaker, no batteries- you need an amp to drive one, so they wouldn't work with your MPC. You want a battery powered speaker that is as simple as possible- looking around online people recommend Minirigs a lot?
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Do I actually need power? In my mind passive speakers would be just like wired headphones which don't rely on any active power but I could be completely, incredibly wrong. I'll definitely look at the minirig though. I think I looked at them before I bought my JBL and made the wrong choice so I'm ready to call it another failure of my "buy once cry once" policy.
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