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petit choux posted:I meant to say, thanks for looking out for me cousin. You could also use a light sensor as input with the spinning wheel. It would become an LFO that slows down over time that you have to physically spin to speed up again. https://www.modulargrid.net/e/addac-system-addac308
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I've been eyeing the Neutron as my first physical synth but there's part of me that hates common sense and my wallet that wants to get the Taiga. I'm def interested in hearing more robot farts when you get more time with the device.
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Chainclaw posted:You could also use a light sensor as input with the spinning wheel. It would become an LFO that slows down over time that you have to physically spin to speed up again. Yeah, that's posssibly a better alternative to the theremin in some ways because it might have less latency. Or not really standard latency, it is designed this way. But then again, I can just run a current through a contact of some sort and have it close on the metal of the wheel, and use that in the place of a switch if I like for another option maybe (ED to clarify, I mean touching the contact against the spokes as it rotates.) The thing about the theremin (which isn't a real theremin, it uses lidar I think) is it has some depth perception so I can have the cards spinning in front of another card so where I haven't stuck any cards in the spokes, it goes to that note every time. You can come up with complex little configurations like that. I do stuff like that with my hands a lot already with the theremin but of course the wheel is in a more fixed place. (I don't use my hands so much as something bigger and flatter like DVD cases, BTW) ED2: I've been playing with this idea for years, Imma finallly just fricking do it. Part of my shtick is coming up with simple physical modifications to electronic hardware, simply because I'm a handicrafter kinda guy and I've done more woodworking than soldering probably. petit choux fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Mar 17, 2023 |
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petit choux posted:I'm thinking the best immediate usage for the trumpet is to use both the acoustic and electric sound of the trumpet together. Most of the synths don't capture all of the nuance and the acoustic signal still has it of course. But I'm kinda held up by the fact that I haven't played in 30 years and my lips can't handle it for too long RN. The thing that keeps me from getting a sax (played, badly, age 8-18) is that it reverbs in your skull and that is not good for tinnitus i kind of want one of the funny, fancy ($800ish) electric woodwind things that exist now
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petit choux posted:Frankie say WHY NOT thread title
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Feels like you could do something with a dynamo at the bike wheel/synths intersection.
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JamesKPolk posted:thread title i feel like this thread has the perfect title already, maybe the best on SA, and i'd hate to disrespect OP who sold me a Xone 4d for the cost of a $120 charity donation
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I swear one day I will finish my saxamasizer.
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snorch posted:I swear one day I will finish my saxamasizer. I'm seriously considering taking an old acoustic guitar my fiancee doesn't want anymore, taking off most of the front and shoving 84HP worth of Eurorack plus some kind of small controller keyboard in there. Plus some touchpad/knob wackiness in the neck.
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Just totally overhauled the junk storage room into a small studio/repair space. Casio Casiotone 403 Hammond 125xl Elka Rhapsody 610 Korg Trinity All except the Hammond running through a mixer into one set of monitors.  Repair area still needs some organizing. Guitar pile is getting wall mounted tomorrow. The reel to reel I want to incorporate it some how to do tape loop stuff. It might move from its current location somehow. The Peavy 6505 runs into a cabinet under the desk.  The computer area still needs some more shelving installed above it and a better solution for holding the computer. I still have to flip it over and install the keyboard slider for the midi controller. If I have enough leg space I may be able to do a double decker set-up to hold the maschine controller and the cat keyboard.
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Cabbages and Kings posted:The thing that keeps me from getting a sax (played, badly, age 8-18) is that it reverbs in your skull and that is not good for tinnitus Yeah I guess we must be related, I just try to not think of the tinnitus and try to work around it. That's what I get for attending the Black and Blue tour in 77 or so. And ACDC. I was like, yeah, he can play bar chords real good but what's he doing rolling around on the floor. But back on topic, yeah I think an electric wind instrument would be kinda cool but much like with digital drums, some of the best ones remain conventional acoustic drums with good sensors. I think using a regular instrument with an adapter is going to continue to be a good way forward for a long time. Here is what I got.  https://www.ebay.com/itm/323881190790 He's down in Australia, I don't know of anybody else that makes these RN but he makes them for all manner of instruments and you can purchase one of the piezbarrel things yourself I think. And that recorder is about 100 usd pre shipping, as is the piezobarrel itself I think, so there is a nice affordable entry level option for anybody, hopefully.  https://www.ebay.com/itm/3244051917...4.c101369.m2333 And now that I've been looking, I think I have to try using a piezobarrel with something. A bamboo flute for instance.
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I have got this kinda working, just for fun. 
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petit choux posted:I have got this kinda working, just for fun. Awesome
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Cabbages and Kings posted:i feel like this thread has the perfect title already, maybe the best on SA, and i'd hate to disrespect OP who sold me a Xone 4d for the cost of a $120 charity donation I put a rainbow dash sticker on the inside of op's rm1x hail satan
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petit choux posted:I have got this kinda working, just for fun. pretty sure my dad built something like this to keep birds away
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petit choux posted:I have got this kinda working, just for fun. channeling infrateal vs the heebie-gbs battle https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3212733&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=17#post366948284
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watho posted:pretty sure my dad built something like this to keep birds away Shiny poo poo like this does nothing to deter a sex-crazed robin from attacking the mysterious identical rival. I had to put bird spikes on my window, because he would just spend all day up there knocking himself unconscious and making GBS threads all over the place. Edit: this is officially my most pronounced Old Man Post. I tried everything I could to stop that little guy from hurting himself, and the bird spikes were the only thing that worked. dexefiend fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Mar 18, 2023 |
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dexefiend posted:Shiny poo poo like this does nothing to deter a sex-crazed robin from attacking the mysterious identical rival. LOLOOLL yeah that's a pretty old man post all right  Anyway, I got it to sort of do extremely irregular arpeggios by rotating it slowly and then placing my hand behind the discs and moving it slowly as well. The sensors don't respond to the spokes very much and so anyway. It kinda worked and I think I could tweak it to work better, I'm not at all sure the cds are the best thing to use, I couldn't find a deck of cards. This is like synthesizer chain saw art.
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watho posted:pretty sure my dad built something like this to keep birds away Yeah I should put a few of these in the front yard lol
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Synthesizer/chainsaw mutant combo sculptures might keep the kids off the lawn too.
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B33rChiller posted:Synthesizer/chainsaw mutant combo sculptures might keep the kids off the lawn too. And the ones that stick around for it are probably awesome kids.
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Here's a quirk to note for patching. I just found myself going "hmmm. I could use x module. I wonder if I have one? Time to get out the disting manual again." It's usually that, or "dammit, already using the disting for y" I would really like a sample and hold plus clocked lfo, please. No I don't want to buy either.
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Laserjet 4P posted:channeling infrateal vs the heebie-gbs battle Wasn’t that a kiddie pool? Option for the mk2 I guess
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Chainclaw posted:You could also use a light sensor as input with the spinning wheel. It would become an LFO that slows down over time that you have to physically spin to speed up again. Well I think that may work better than this thing has. It hasn't been terrible but the theremin isn't really suited. The price tag is a bit high for me today though, given I'll have to also build a rack and start buying modules, which appears to be addictive. Now back to where I was at, which was setting up these patchbays and making cables. I've purchased 40 TRS 1/4" connectors, which haven't arrived yet, and I've got a few XLR cables I can cut up for raw cable. Here is a dumb question. Do I really need to use TRS for everything here? How much is everybody doing this? Or are people mostly using unbalanced patch cables? petit choux fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Mar 18, 2023 |
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petit choux posted:Well I think that may work better than this thing has. It hasn't been terrible but the theremin isn't really suited. The price tag is a bit high for me today though, given I'll have to also build a rack and start buying modules, which appears to be addictive. If you want to go DIY, there's a lot of good options for sensors, here's Adafruit's light / color / photo sensor category https://www.adafruit.com/category/61 You might also be able to get interesting results with metal detection or something, so the spokes trigger the sensor as it goes by https://learn.adafruit.com/clue-metal-detector-circuitpython
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Watched Benn Jordan's Eurorack rebuild vid last night, and if I wasn't already poor as hell, Erica Synths would make me poor as hell. I don't think they've made a module or synth that I wasn't at least interested in.
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Cabbages and Kings posted:my first thought was, "I want a racked desktop hydra now, and a nice poly aftertouch midi keyboard". Thank you for reminding me! I want to do exactly that with my desktop hydra, but is there a way to put stuff like the strega and microcosm on there?
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rickiep00h posted:Watched Benn Jordan's Eurorack rebuild vid last night, and if I wasn't already poor as hell, Erica Synths would make me poor as hell. I don't think they've made a module or synth that I wasn't at least interested in.
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Chainclaw posted:If you want to go DIY, there's a lot of good options for sensors, here's Adafruit's light / color / photo sensor category Hey wow I think I have something for this. https://www.thomannmusic.com/doepfer_we_wheel_electronic.htm That's not a bad price for a little special purpose MIDI input. This takes 0-5 v dc and converts it to MIDI on like 4 different channels I think, or pitch wheel.   You think that plus some of these sensors would do the trick?
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petit choux posted:Hey wow I think I have something for this. Yeah, I think that would work. I would have just done it with an Arduino or Raspberry Pi as the middle device converting sensor input into Eurorack control voltage or midi output, but that's because I've got a bunch of those devices already.
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Chainclaw posted:Yeah, I think that would work. I would have just done it with an Arduino or Raspberry Pi as the middle device converting sensor input into Eurorack control voltage or midi output, but that's because I've got a bunch of those devices already. Yeah, I bought a couple of these many months ago, it could be fun to build something like you're talking about, maybe with up to 4 wheels potentially spinning at once. Right now at 9 am on Sunday I don't think that's going to happen but it's possible if I forget to take my pills again. The wife just walked in and said "What's that wheel for?" and I just said "What wheel?"
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My module that I'm never going to build but I want to build is a twitch connected module. A Eurorack module built around a raspberry pi that's connected to a twitch channel. Things like points redemption, what people are saying, poll results, donations, would all feed into settings that come out as control voltage, to use with other modules on the rack. So a "Twitch plays music" concept.
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Does anyone want to buy my M8? It's a great little device, but I just don't have the time to learn it properly. Very lightly used, includes case, original SD card, shortcut reference card, and USB SD card reader. $600 plus $30 for insured shipping via USPS. PM me if you want it and I'll open a SA Mart thread for the sale.
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Chainclaw posted:My module that I'm never going to build but I want to build is a twitch connected module. A Eurorack module built around a raspberry pi that's connected to a twitch channel. Things like points redemption, what people are saying, poll results, donations, would all feed into settings that come out as control voltage, to use with other modules on the rack. So a "Twitch plays music" concept. Mine is a dancefloor with body parts mapped to different control voltages. Not so different really.
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ColdPie posted:Does anyone want to buy my M8? It's a great little device, but I just don't have the time to learn it properly. Very lightly used, includes case, original SD card, shortcut reference card, and USB SD card reader. $600 plus $30 for insured shipping via USPS. PM me if you want it and I'll open a SA Mart thread for the sale. If you didn't sell already I'd offer you to swap it for these (the TE's the Hart minimixer and cables):  Disclaimer, the one with the blue knobs was not behaving. I just gave it a full reset and it appeared to be running but I really haven't used it much, I bought it from a goon for pretty cheap.
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Just want to point out that the M8 is getting a 'hypersynth' instrument soon, which allows creating chords on the device. Chords were the one thing that were a pain in the rear end on it before that so it's a pretty big upgrade. It sounds pretty great though for some reason every time I play with it I end up sounding like an 80's sports theme.
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I’m getting a Steam deck this week and wish I could have the whole m8 workflow on it. Apparently renoise runs well on it though so I'll give that a try.
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snorch posted:I’m getting a Steam deck this week and wish I could have the whole m8 workflow on it. Apparently renoise runs well on it though so I'll give that a try. There are people running headless on the deck, not sure if that's something you're interested in but I figured I'd mention it.
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