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Grain Bastard

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  1. That is an awesome answer dude and very good advice ?? My anxiety was more to do with the toys falling over like dominos rather than fiery studios.... like ‘real’ anxiety ? seriously though the wiring situation is something that I do need to address in my hovel of a studio. Too many extension leads....
  2. How you finding the Microcosm? I’m interested in it myself, it looks and sounds cool what I’ve seen. Sleep well pupper ?? That’s is ace but would make me anxious thinking I’m about to start a domino effect with transformers ?
  3. Will return the compliment when I’ve finished work ??
  4. https://youtube.com/channel/UCNJ3Tp9_QXc-QzMQbSRosjw
  5. WTF! Rob goes all ‘Windowlicker’ and Sean goes ‘Come to Daddy’... like some sick idm Rorschach test. I approve
  6. Nice mate. Both the audio and video i have always wanted something like this to generate videos from ever since I used to watch Winamp visuals. I guess there are programs for that sort of thing but way too little time to get into it. I also 3D model for a job (engineering) so motivating myself wouldn’t be easy.
  7. Lol - I zoomed in to look at the pedals and now I’m convinced you have tins of pilchards on the floor ? No photograph made made me go ‘what the f&@k is going on there!!!’ more than this one ? Please clean up so we know you’re ok ??
  8. That’s troubled me more than the episode of Juliet Bravo in the 80’s about glue sniffers...
  9. With the talk of old computer stuff doing FM I did a bit of digging for the old DX plug-in boards for the Yamaha XG1000 sound card that I always lusted after in the days of soundfonts etc before VSTi’s were a thing. I didn’t find anything of any use other than chancers offering the SW1000’s for sale at ‘vintage’ prices so I stopped looking. Anyway, what turns up on matrixsynth a couple of days later is this :- https://www.matrixsynth.com/2021/03/yamaha-plg150-dx-yamaha-plg100-xg-demos.html?m=1 It is actually a really expensive and awkward way of getting a 16 voice non multi timbral FM synth ? If I was going to do the old pc thing I would look at getting as many Creamware cards as I could find and stick those in. I used to have the small Luna card and loved it. Way under powered though with only 3 dsp but landing on a Scope with 15 dsp and the modular software would give you plenty of FM and a ton of shit more.
  10. This is very cool. I have read of many problems with people uploading the firmware and it not installing etc but it doesn’t brick the MD - it’s mainly caused by the speed of upload over midi (no usb) so it needs to be tweaked in some instances. I think don’t panic is the order of the day ? The best quote from the dev’s IMO was the line ‘hi hats can do baselines now!!’ Also reading the devs posts the idea of ‘new’ machines is being looked at and they are busy learning how they are coded. The new snare and BD afaik were already coded and hidden in the code and enabled rather than a new machine being written. very interesting developments ?
  11. A friend or comedian friend of Ricky Gervais. Had a few TV series about moaning so not sure if he is relevant or not.
  12. I’ve just remembered an FM anecdote.... If you own an OP-1 then some of the presets for its FM synth I created!!! You would think that would enable me to contribute more to a thread about FM synthesis but in reality the OP-1’s 4-OP FM engine is a combination of just four knobs to tweak. Just messing with it enables the creation of usable sounds but obviously lacks the depth of more complex FM synths. I suppose that I could say that if you want an FM synth that is easy to make sounds good enough to impress the manufacturer but you don’t know much about FM synthesis, then get an OP-1 ?
  13. Lol - it’s taken me a few hours to realise it’s the cover to Amber in the background ? the cabbage ? frame is too hypnotic. What is it trying to tell us??? there are deep messages in this photo. We may need help from The BoC forum
  14. It appears that the only person to heed their advice was Uli Behringer
  15. Not at all true. It depends on the robot complexity. Plenty of robots are shit at what they are designed to do. I know of several instances where very large European companies have removed automation from the production line and replaced with fleshy alternatives very similar to what the robots replaced a few years before. Humans are better at many things that robots pretend they can do. fucking things.
  16. Lol. yeah 2008, I thought SND used just a Monomachine as when they finished they took it off stage and on the way back to the VIP they stopped and chatted to Rob - Rob didn’t touch it, he was Monomachineless at the time. could well have been an MD though as I said. I should have referred to Elektron box. At the time I thought it was feasible as even though I really liked the set and Album it is quite minimal and probably didn’t need a ton of equipment to produce....
  17. I saw them live at the medicine bar when they supported Ae at the time of this album and it looked like they had done the whole gig from a single Monomachine - sounded ace but I remember them walking back upstairs and stopping chatting to Rob carrying the said synth and nothing else. Wasn’t even in a flight case ? might have been a machinedrum though and I could have been mistaken. The kick through the album does sound very Elektron.... The sound system at the Medbar was awesome though. It had the perfect setup where too loud to be useable was still crystal clear, so this material was really at home. Some DJ sets got tiring but live acts in particular sounded probably as close to how the artists wanted their work to be heard - also live performances are probably a bit more concerned with the levels etc so once sound checked they stick with it rather than trying to crank it up.
  18. I doubt Roland could re-release the 909 for that kind of money. I reckon they are breathing a sigh of relief they didn’t go for the full re-issue and having this to deal with. At least the boutique one competes in the same price range. will be interesting to see how well this sells - will people buy this over the Roland one because they want a ‘real 909’ ? I also wonder how the market actually stands for this too - I personally don’t want one as I have other drum machines and can easily cover 909 stuff with the thousands of samples and VST’s etc. Will people with an already healthy studio setup buy one because they always wanted one or they aren’t happy with samples etc.... Anyway, regarding the ARP2600 - I didn’t realise Behringer are releasing a couple of ‘premium’ 2600 clones as well as the standard ones.. the grey meanie and a blue one. Apparently it has ‘premium components’ and a real spring verb.
  19. Knackers.... I was just about to try and get my Pulsar named ?
  20. I don’t have a direct answer for you mate but I seem to remember the undo files can spiral out of control on some projects I have used Logic. I think you can chose to not save that in the ‘save as’ option. Might be worth a look.
  21. Really good advice about the command column. ?? I had Octamed on my Amiga and when I moved over to Cubase years later I always thought piano rolls are shit trackers lying on their side... I spent the first six months with my held tilted over to get used to them ?
  22. As I understand Behringer have said that the pin matrix is the expensive part of the synth. Not sure if the price has been rumoured but if it’s cheap enough I would buy one. As it is just a prototype then my guess is you might do better joining the list for an original going on Behringers past delivery records.
  23. Any news from BoC?? seems right up their street/commune etc
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