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Yeah, I use a really old (second version, bought used in like 2008) MOTU Midi Express XT for input and routing, and an Expert Sleepers Usamo for clock or anything else that needs solid timing, since I've never gotten very good timing from any USB interface on any OS or computer I've ever used. I don't know if I've ever actually used the Midi i/o on my audio interface.

I still kind of want to build one of these, though: https://www.alpesmachines.net/index.php/product/stereo-one-o-six-chorus-kit

I haven't used one but there's a lot of competition in that price range. For $500USD he could get a used MPC500 and have enough left over for a Volca Keys or something. Not necessarily a better choice but something to consider. And going used means if he doesn't like it he can probably sell it at cost.

I've been using one of these for a while now and the chorus is basically a CE-2 (or maybe a CE-3, opinions seem divided) but with a second output so you can do wet/dry pseudo-stereo. I really like it, second favorite chorus pedal I've owned after the original, old, blue DOD chorus that I don't sue as often because the actual effect sounds wonderful but the old DOD bypass buffers sound awful. I bet that Waza Craft one sounds fantastic. Can you do the vibrato trick with the stereo outs (use it as a mono pedal but plug a dummy cable into output 2 so it takes the dry signal out of output 1 so you get vibrato instead of chorus)?

I haven't but I've done comparable stuff and it hasn't been bad. This looks very doable but not risk free. The hard part will be getting the old parts out. https://supersynthprojects.com/super-jx-display-replacement/fitting/

Replace it with an OLED: https://supersynthprojects.com/

Also it looks like this is almost as expensive as an original pressing ($60-$100 USD for the repress on Discogs vs. about $70-$120 for an original - way to much for me in both cases but if I was going to spend that much I know which one I'd be getting)

This is pretty cool but the obsession with remastering... why? It's virtually never an improvement over the original.

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It's not a lifetime license though, it covers two full versions worth of updates. I registered in I think 2015 (after about 1000 hours in demo mode) when v.5 came out. v.6 came out last year. So at that rate it's more like an 8-10 year license.

Being able to book a show spur of the moment a few weeks in advance and know that I/we could just show up and be guaranteed 75-150 people or more without putting any effort into promotion or anything. I don't miss moving all the gear, though.

Sound Forge 4.5 and earlier has some really musically interesting time stretch, too. Not sure how much longer they kept it after the Sony buyout but I used to mke entire tracks by jus tstretching out, say, a single snare hit to 4 or 5 minutes in Sound Forge 4 and then building up around that.

Sunvox runs on anything.

Reaper's probably lighter weight than a lot of DAWs that were actually made for hardware that old. I'm running it on a 10 year old computer and I still haven't felt any need to upgrade. Also The CS-2 era version of Adobe Audition/Cool Edit Pro is still grey-area free. EDIT: actually they took down the download links finally, never mind.

Historically, successful artists usually got more like 5% or less but I have feeling that's 15% of a smaller amount of profit. Still beats being someone like Elmore James and making all of your money posthumously for Jimmy Page. EDIT: point being, the music business has always, always, always been utter shit for artists even when it isn't being a literal criminal enterprise. EDIT2: and business in general.

Every track I do is amazing for about 3 weeks, and then it's terrible for 3-5 years, and then it's pretty good.

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Not being interested in buying new things is the best, though.

Basically it's down to "industrial/military grade part that will last 100+ years if it's treated well but costs more than I spent on food in the last 3 months" and "plated through holes in a PCB that will wear out sooner or later because they were never meant for constant friction, but they also aren't ludicrously expensive" Both have their pros and cons, what I'm hoping is that Uli will be using his child army to make a part that's comparable to the Ghielmetti but sells for something like $100USD or less, because in that case I'd probably have to hold my nose and buy one.

The old ones are actually machined metal bars for each row with another layer of perpendicular machined bards for the columns with a whole purpose-built frame to hold them, they aren't PCBs. There was one company in, IIRC, Italy (EDIT: Ghielmetti, actually Swiss; I saw the $600-ish price on some old 2000s thread about DIY VCS clones) that was still making them to order a few years ago and it was the big limiting factor in making a DIY EMS clone. But I hadn't looked in a while and the market has definitely changed: https://matttechmodular.co.uk/product/mtx9-pin-matrix/ Ghielmetti actually made the original Synthi part (and probably the Arp 2500 too, but I'm not sure about that) but they're a high end, specialty industrial manufacturer and they're priced that way. EDIT 2: This kit has one of them, and the parts cost breakdown linked from the page says $515.

Yeah, back then it was possible, rents have gone crazy over the last decade. When I left Boston in 2009 I was making about $12k a year and I was able to live pretty comfortably (and that was back when rent and cost of living was higher still in Boston than it was in NYC - the only US city more expensiv ethan Boston in the 2000s was San Francisco). When I moved back briefly in 2010 it cost me $1000 a month rent to live in somebody's living room on the edge of the projects in Mission Hill and we were getting below-market rent even then. Today it's just not even worth thinking about.

Last time I looked the only standalone pin matrix I could find in current production (just the part, not a module) was around 600USD for the smallest one. They're pretty expensive.

Fair enough, I didn't even think of it. The sub-$40 was for a whole floor of a brownstone in what's now one of the most expensive neighborhoods in one of the most expensive cities in the country. Anyway, too far off topic at this point.

That's a room, not an entire multibedroom apartment. It wasn't that long ago you could find a room for under $400 in Boston or Brooklyn if you had 4 or 5 people sharing an apartment.