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    in Aphex Twin

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    1 hour ago, Mattthegoone said:

    I have a couple of spare trips does anyone have any spare broccoli in Mons/Dour?

    dont trust this guy's blotter, if you can find real lsd you can find some weed m8 ?

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    Your pointless thoughts & observations

    in General Banter

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    17 minutes ago, TubularCorporation said:

    So I've always been kind of fascinated with James' Song from Twin Peaks Season 2, ecause it manages to be one of the most dry-funny moments in the whole series and also the point where it completely bottomed out and became unwatchable.  But I never noticed that it's also a complete ripoff of Love Hurts by Heart, and that makes it even funnier.

    James has always been cool.

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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    26 minutes ago, ignatius said:

    my younger brother told me it was a life changing thing for him.  sleeps great every night now. when not getting good deep sleep i guess it causes fatigue and nodding off etc during the day. 

    i got one of the Kardia devices to check for atrial fibrillation. works well and puts me at ease when i think my heart is doing weird shit and was only $80. but can't wear it to bed of course. thought about getting the apple watch but didn't want to spend the $ and have another apple thing in my life... but seems a useful health thing to have. 

    You know it's one thing for your psyche to be a little wonky but not knowing if your heart is working right or if your brain gets enough oxygen is a real doozy. I want to grow old as shit, not unexpectedly die on some Monday. Just checked the Kardia and that seems to do the same as the arrythmia check on the watch. It's nice to have a portable EKG :lol: It's actually pretty cool how advanced the software behind Apple's measurements is.. Apparently data from the watch 8 which can measure body temp helped build medical data for understanding menstrual cycles for women better. The sleep cycle tracking is really good according to this guy:

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    Probably loads of machine learning involved. It sounds stupid but I kind of hope I have sleep apnea now. For a long time now I've felt like everyone around me just has the energy of Sisyphus on a daily basis

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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    2 minutes ago, ignatius said:

    you sleep w/the watch on? my brothers and my dad have sleep apnea. the mask really helps. they make small little nasal canula ones now.  i did the sleep test at home. had to wear this thing on my hand/wrist that tracks all the things then dropped it off at the doctor's office. turns out i'm just shitty at sleeping. 

    yeah I bought the watch mostly to monitor my body, it's been really interesting to track sleep cycles, heart rate working out, time standing, blood oxygen and just overall cardiovascular health over time. mostly while trying to steer my body away from depression, wasn't expecting it to tell me my heart is too slow every morning though! kinda scary to be honest. If I do happen to have sleep apnea that might explain the constantly being tired I've been trying to wrestle.. did it make a big difference waking up in the morning for your family members?

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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    my doctor thinks I might have sleep apnea. have to go get a mask and test it out over the next week.. my apple watch keeps telling me my heart rate goes below 40 every night, maybe I'm just a zen monk in my dreams but I doubt it. my grandpa has this but he's severely overweight, i'm not.. thought when I date someone again it could be a cute moment every night.. she goes.. tell me.. why do you wear the mask.. and I can make up something every night.. so I have more oxygen to look at your face tomorrow you absolute babe :lol:

    i remember my first gf waking me up once in the middle of the night.. was sleeping so quietly, breathing so slowly she thought I died in my sleep. was pretty funny

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    in EKT General Discussion

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    9 minutes ago, TubularCorporation said:

    No, I upgraded the motherboard and CPUs in 2020, with high quality thermal paste.  It's loud because it has 6 fans and whatever surface I mount it to amplifies the sound.  They aren't actually running anywhere near full speed.

     

    What I need to do is make some kind of proper damping sysyem to isolate the rack bracket from the wall it's mounted on, but it's not bad enough to be a huge problem, jsut bad enough I'd hesitate to record acoustic instruments with a room mic or do "real" mastering or anything. It's sitting at around 40C most of the tim, except on really hot days. I watched the peak temperature for a couple months during the hottest part of summer a few years ago, and even on the worst days it was a couple degree below the manufacturer say it shouldn't exceed more than 5% of the time to avoid shortening its usable life.

     

    "loud" for audio is, like, the sound of a refrigerator fan running at the opposite end of the house, with the kithcen door closed. If I was using it for normal server stuff it would be unusually quiet.

    why are you running it at 40°C though? no wonder it's loud if you're trying to cool it that hard. I'm not too familiar with server hardware but it should be similar to normal computers? 60-65 idle, fine up to 80-85 degrees on both GPU and CPU.. :mu-ziq: 

    Studio Pics

    in EKT General Discussion

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    ah ya found the mistake.. maybe think before posting chronical.. sorry for spam mods lols

    909 doesnt get midi from kenton, it gets it directly from the midihub.. &the midiverb left goes to input 5+6..

    basically i press play on the polyend tracker and it sends clock to the midihub. that sends clock directly to all units that have a seq I want to use, 909 and model cycles.. at the same time it feeds it to the computer via USB, so the clock of renoise, 909 and the elektron are all almost perfectly in sync with the tracker, and perfectly in sync with each other.. the 303-MO and JX3P get a midihub out too for either filtering (JX3P listens on all 16 channels always like an idiot) or just quick 303 timing.. 101 can be a little late, same with the 2nd normal 303 so they get the kenton output.. I can't make psytrance levels of accurate perfectly timed transients this way but jungle works pretty well :tongue: minilogue's both the input for the tracker with the keys and a synth on channel 2.. if I want to add a softsynth I just add the VST in renoise, assign any channels left and I can just use it as an extension of the tracker instantly.. I tried to make an envelope generator synced to the tracker in VCV2 that outputs all kinds of synced waves to synths I can modulate (minilogue xd and model cycles,td-3-mo) but I think I hit some kind of sync/bandwidth issue there.. whole thing started to bug out but there was also matrix CC modulation going on with the xd's joystick so maybe shooting too high there :catnope:

    theres so many possibilities with this routing tho.. transform a 6th octave note into a trig for a phrase in renoise.. check.. transform a 7th octave note into a trig for an LFO reset going to midi CC from the midihub.. check.. write really long watmm posts about it even tho nobody asked.. check

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    Posted · Edited by chronical

    27 minutes ago, cern said:

    Very nice environment! Looks like my place when I lived in Europe. 
    I had alot of gear back then but sold mostly everything. 

    The only gear I regret selling so badly is the DSI Evolver Keyboard. Damn that thing was a beast!

    How come you don't have the PG-200 to the Jx3p? Is it Kiwi-modified maybe? 

    Looks awesome and big nice screen! 

    Ah well I sequence everything from the Polyend Tracker. If you input notes via MIDI to vanilla JX-3P firmware you can't use the PG-200 unfortunately. Which kinda messes with my workflow. I want to write things and then tweak the synth live to it.. doesn't work that way yet.. I got it as a gift from a friend who had it standing around in his shed, still gotta fix up the battery and decide if I want to go for the Matrix or Kiwi mod :lol: something fell on it once I believe, it's a little bent on the left side, esp the pitchwheel, doesnt even work in one direction, volume pot too, need to fix her up.. stereo outputs fucked too, a bassist owned it once, I wonder if he wanted it mono for some reason and messed with the output it's really odd, as soon as I plug in both jacks it goes mono.... so one cable is like half in there for now and the signal's fine :wtf:

    here's the routing.. prob some mistakes in the diagram but yeah.. I luv it
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    Studio Pics

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    If your server is consistantly loud maybe the thermal paste is old. because they really only go to 11 when your CPU goes above 80 degrees, they all follow CPU temps.. which shouldn't be too hot doing music things unless you're autechre.. but then what happens when GPU intense software barely works your CPU.. GPU overheats because the fans are just adjusting to the CPU.. yeah the GPU has its own fans but that's where heat builds up.. so maybe you're hearing your GPU fan(s?) going crazy too.. definitely worth adjusting/repasting if it's that annoying. I have it set to very low RPM until the CPU goes above 68°C or so, because usually with Renoise and the lot it stays below that, so with making music I have zero noise issues.. and with games the CPU is usually above the 68°C mark so the GPU begins getting help there.. can't play games at 240hz without a bit of wheeeeeee though :lol:

    Studio Pics

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    Posted · Edited by chronical

    14 minutes ago, TubularCorporation said:

    How's the fan noise on that computer?

     

    I use an old server I picked up a decade ago and it's still more than powerful enough for how I work, but the fans are so loud I had to build a wooden rack for it and stick it in the closet at my old place, adn at the new place I ahve it in the unfinished half of my basement with a hole drilled through the wall for the cables - but it's STILL pretty loud (not too loud to mix my own stuff but loud enough I'd hesitate to mix for anyone else)

    well the GPU has three fans already.. I squeezed one 140mm fan on the top front intake, the ones below it are 120mm.. the CPU has a push&pull double fan setup and then there's one above the CPU cooler as well just slightly pushing air out the top in case the PC has trouble with too much heat building up.. and the back fan too. I tested it for aages, writing new fan curves, restarting, doing GPU stress tests, watching temps at 100% load for half an hour in the middle of the night.. the three fans for the front intake are controlled by 1 pin only so they're all in sync.. the top one is the most efficient and blows directly into the CPU so they're pretty quiet.. I think it's now a positive pressure setup? so dust doesn't really build up in it which is great.

    all in all I fucking hate fan noise, any noise that gets in the way of music making/listening.. the amount of troubleshooting I had to do in this room with two different phases (so many noisy signals at first) on the electrical plugs has definitely been a bit of a pain to say the least.. I think what I had to settle with eventually is that it's fine to run your GPU at temp limit.. if I wouldn't mind more noise all this air could cool this GPU under full load to 70°C which is ridiiiiiculous. maybe look into noctua fans for your rack, the two on my CPU are super quiet.. but writing your own fan curves def helps

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