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I think so!

Is it really that hard to design basic generic modules rather than ripping off Roland ones though? I thought the remakes were kinda cute at first but it's starting to get ridiculous.

If only the white one also had white sharp keys. That said though, it's still fkn awesome and I want one.

Very true. I have the SY22 for that though ? I'm really keen on this because it sounds legitimately lush and very much in line with what I've been getting into lately. I'll give it a few months of cooling off time before I go selling something and potentially regretting it though, haha.

Yeah honestly thats a main reason why I want it. That late-80s to mid-90s rompler sound really does it for me, and it looks much easier to edit than the original synths from around that time. Does the Argon8 contain full length samples or just single cycle waves?

don't care, sounds great, I love Barker's stuff edit: I don't hear anything pre-recorded in there? He's definitely building it up on the spot, I don't think it makes sense to completely design every sound from scratch if you've only got 10 minutes

wavestate

I never really had any horror stories from online dating. Everyone I met was either mostly pleasant/attractive or just a little dull. The real horror is how many women go to the effort of putting "only contact me if you're taller than me" in their profiles. That's some real bullshit right there. What if I wrote "only message me if you have comically huge breasts"? I still maintain my stance that women can't call themselves feminists if they're turned off by a shorter person. Having said that though, I've dismissed women on dating apps based on their music taste, so that may be similar.. but at least that's a personality thing.

Ha, aimless generative music is basically all I'll be uploading this year ? https://weeklybeats.com/0F

It's different, for sure. I like it because it's more interactive/social than just messing around by myself in my studio, which can get lonely sometimes. I've just started a restream.io account, so I can stream to a few platforms at once (does twitch allow for music streaming as well or is it just games?), which should open things up a bit.

yeah this I told myself I wouldn't do it again this year, but I just uploaded a track for it. I've established a goal to do more streaming this year, so the majority of my uploads will be excerpts from my streams. Hopefully mostly using Orca as well..

Yeah Pilot sounds great, but again the lack of documentation is a bit weird. I've managed to figure most of it out, except for the 4 "membrane"/drum channels, which don't respond to envelope commands in the same way that the other channels do. The Norns build has a few weird bugs, so I may actually stick to the desktop version until they're fixed. I'd love to get stuck in to lua scripting and build my own squarp-alike but that's for another thread ?

I finally gave this a try after grabbing it months ago, with renewed interest thanks to norns (there's a port for it), and it's awesome. Made a simple little nanoloop-style sequencer with it paired to Pilot (a suggested companion synth which I still don't fully understand) and got some dark industrial techno stuff going pretty quickly. Pilot seems very much geared towards the music Devine/Aliceffekt makes, which is fine by me because I love his stuff ? My only minor gripe is that the documentation is very obscure, missing some information, or the information is spread across various forum threads and github docs (e.g. keyboard shortcuts). I think I'm gonna have to make my own little "pocket" guide or something, with all of the information I've collected on it. Actually might do that now.

It's what was called a "daughterboard" in the 90s—a board that attaches to a raspberry pi to add functionality; in this case, a screen, encoders, buttons and audio interface. Norns is a hardware device that can run lua scripts and supercollider code. It's got USB host ports and network connectivity as well, so can be basically anything, as long as you can code it (or find something that someone else has made). I'm pretty keen to get started making my own sequencers etc for it.

I ordered parts to build 3 DIY Norns shields for raspberry pi. Parts finally arrived the other day and I made one today! My first SMD soldering project. I can't believe it actually works. I'm gonna build and sell the other two, and hopefully make back the money it cost to buy the parts. Free Norns!

Mine has been sitting in its carrybag since early October haha. I kinda feel bad about not using it enough, it's so lush.

So cute to see people saying $15 for rails is expensive. Come to Australia sometime, I'll show you some real exorbitant eurorack prices ? (I paid $63AU for two 84hp rails with threaded inserts, and that was the lowest price I could find)

Yeah I've wanted a lap steel ever since I heard one in a Mogwai song 10 years ago lol.. maybe I'm due another alt country phase

Yeahhhh I think it's a combination of purist boc fanboys and wattm's general decline in quality over the past few years. I rarely promote my own stuff here anymore (though if I made a plugin as polished as this I probably would!). Cool idea for a plugin. I can understand how it's doing well, nice work!

oh shit they're still making them? I have Daphon delay and phaser pedals I bought in 2006 that are still going.. I don't use them much anymore at all but they're better quality than I expected.

Also re: microtuning, I do agree a lot of microtonal/non-standard EDO stuff is nice, but it still doesn't really make me want to make music with those systems, especially since most of my gear doesn't support microtuning anyway!

Yeah this seems to be the deal that's been happening at a few stores in Australia as well. It's kind of an insane price for what you get.

I still haven't really heard much microtonal music that inspires me enough to actually get into it myself. Stuff like this is incredible.. .. but I can't think of any way I'd fit that into my music. The closest I've come to actually making music using microtuning is using slightly out of tune samples in order to give tracks a dodgy rave feel haha

Already happening! See Microfreak and *logue examples..

Ooof, been there. For me records were my addiction before synths. I still have a collection of maybe 200 or so. I never listen to them anymore. I tried putting a bunch up on discogs, which worked for a while, but then a few people flaked out on me in a row, so it kinda put me off.