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20010: A Space Odyssey A dogme film about a group of stoners in Washington dc. One of them might be a paedophile. There's an infamous penis shot.

Hats Anthropomorphic headwear sing Andrew Loyd Webber songs about stupid shit.

Caravan of Courage: A Woke Adventure An ensemble cast of indeterminate gender and ethnicity star as a group of friends travelling across the US in a caravan to join CHAZ.

Don't Look Cow! 24 hrs in an abbatoir from a bovine pov.

A bout de soufflé It's a 1950s nouvelle vague film about a chef running out of eggs.

I'm pretty sure the tr8 has 909 sounds as well. Another option is the Roland R8. Go for a mk2 if you can find one, but if you're looking at rack mounts you can usually find an R8m for cheap.

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A couple of female friends have confided that BLM has made them a bit scared of black people. Well, now you know how men feel about feminism sweetheart.

Book is now taken. I have a little library going of books on electronic music. The best introduction to modular is probably the Patch & Tweak book that was funded through kickstarter, but its quite expensive. Equally useful for the beginner is a book by a guy called Peter Elsea on muffwiggler, who used to teach a class on modular synthesis. It's just one of those print on demand spiral bound jobs, but the quality is fine. http://peterelsea.com/Notes on Modular Synthesizers.html

I have somehow ended up with a second copy of this: https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/guide-modular-worlds Still sealed. Happy to pass it on at no cost to a watmmer if they think they would find it useful (assuming postage isnt ridiculous, it's fairly hefty).

I set up a voltage controlled fleshlight, but stupidly fed it bipolar cv. If I'd offset and attenuated it to a more manageable unipolar signal, I might still have my penis attached to my body, rather than in formaldehyde on my mantelpiece as an outre conversation starter.

It's good for simple pleasures. Sometimes it's just one oscillator beating against another, sometimes it's just a filter sweep. I'm the least spiritual person I know, but I dont know how else to describe my relationship with my euro serge. Sometimes I just let the simplest patches drone away, while the rest of my modular looks on in disgust.

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Can't wait for the protestors to find out Mohamed used to rape slave girls. There won't be a minaret left standing in Bristol.

That's the point about modular aiding both serendipity and intention, its up to you how you balance those two ideas. As an example using melody, I have an Er101 sequencer. You program each individual note in, both pitch and length. Its very intentional. You only get out what you put in (Ignoring its maths function and the fact that it can become more playable with practice). I also have a sequencer that is very jammable (Metropolis), anyone can mess about on it and get results, and two sequencers that are very playable, MN 0-Cntl with touch sensitive pads and Intellijel Planar, which is a joystick controller, but can sequence and record the joystick movements. I can go from a fully generative system or I can set up patch that is a playable instrument, or anywhere in between. A visual aid is really useful when thinking about modular, if you wanted to get into it VCV rack is a good start and has an oscilloscope.

The way to approach Eurorack is to start with the most fundamental concepts and work up. Everything is voltage. When you connect one module to another with a cable, regardless of what those 2 modules are, you are sending voltage. Voltage can be either 'control voltage' or 'audio'. But actually the only difference between control voltage and audio is frequency. That's why Maths can be both an LFO/envelope Generator and an oscillator. That's why an oscillator that can be tuned low enough to act as a clock, as a clock can be as simple as a very slow square wave. Control voltage can be divided up further into things like modulation signals (i.e. they send a continuous voltage like an LFO) or pitch cv or gates and triggers etc. But there's nothing stopping you using an audio signal to frequency modulate a filter. Hence audio rate modulation. Voltage can be unipolar (i.e. only positive or negative) or bipolar. So every signal has a voltage level (amplitude), a frequency and is either unipolar or bipolar. Every signal can be described just in those 3 terms. This is where an oscilloscope can sometimes come in handy as essentially any signal in a modular can be represented visually. I find the strength of modular is that it aids both serendipity and intention. As an example today, I've been experimenting with a voltage controlled switch. A simple switch in modular terms is a device that switches between several inputs and sends to a single output. A classic way of using it would be to chain sequencers together i.e. send the output of 2 sequencers to 2 inputs on the switch and then either sending a trigger at the end of each sequence to switch to the other sequence back and forth, or sending a random trigger so that it jumps between the two in a more complex way. However some switches will respond to a signal at the trigger input up to audio rates, so I've been passing various oscillators into the switch, switching between them at an increasingly high rate in an attempt to create some kind of analogue wavetable synth, though at the moment what I'm hearing is more like wavefolding. So I have an idea, some understanding, but not complete understanding of what's going on, and something useful may or may not come out of it.

I have a Maths and a couple of DUSGs. Key to understanding it is that beyond the 2 function generators it is a 4 channel mixer for both audio and cv, with logic, and that all these things combined together gives you a lot of functionality. It's the serge idea of patch programming. But actually you don't need to understand it to start off with, this patch book is really helpful. http://w2.mat.ucsb.edu/mat276n/resources/systems/CREATE_teachingSynth/manuals/8c_Maths2013-V1.11-printable.pdf

Spent the day deleting black artists work which I've paid for, then re-downloading them from slsk. Took the Desmond's vhs boxset to the local barnardo's.

I was into black people before they were popular. I've got some Alice Coltrane records, jerk bbq is awesome and I fucking loved Desmond's. Now that everybody else likes black people, I'm a bit more ambivalent to be honest.

Having real problems finding a strap-on that will fit my cat.

Where's this from, is it on the Kijimi fb group? That just about settles the decision for next diy job, I have 9 eurorack filters and the e440 is still my favourite 6 years after I got it. Sometimes I'm tempted to sell the rest and just got 7 more e440s.

I try to keep politics to a minimum on social media, but I have to admit I'm kind of enjoying seeing the trustfund techno twats egging things on and riding to everyone's rescue again.

I'm assuming you mean more controller rather than interface. Electra One might fit your needs, not back in production until June. Price was around 400 euros iirc. https://electra.one/ I use a Faderfox EC4 with my cheetah ms6, m1000's sibling, but doesn't do sysex. However Faderfox are supposed to be releasing a 32 pot version which will do sysex at some point later this year. The kiwi m1000 upgarde adds CC control I'm pretty sure. Nuclear option but this is the GAS thread. Stereoping Programmer. Probably cost more than you paid for the matrix. https://www.stereoping.com/synth-programmer/?lang=en

Mine turned up today, though probably not have time til next week to get into it. Don't have 0-Coast and no intention of getting one, though I do have a Contour. Purchased originally to match with my 6u of euroserge as a poor man's tkb, but I'll be using it with the main modular as well. In which case I'll probably end up using it more as a 16 or 24 step sequencer.

Travel lightish.