thawkins

Speaking of hard to tame gear, my Kastle is again gathering dust somewhere and I think the main reason is that I do not really have a good source of melody->CV so I have to depend on the internal step sequencer which is really unsuitable for making controllable melodies that make sense & feel nice to me. Maybe there is a way to make it sound something similar to how Acid Mothers Temple uses the Roland SH09.

Why do you need thunderbolt 3 though? I think it only matters when you have a huge number of tracks coming in. I got a MOTU Track16 a while back, which quite obviously wants to be something like an Apollo Twin except without the plugins and the super great preamps.

You can definitely do this. Setup a midi track in ableton with an output that goes to your IAC bus that Super Collider is setup to use as a midi device. MIDIClient.init; MIDIClient.list; // to check, which are there, you can query them // create a midi out connection ~midiOut = MIDIOut.newByName("FastLane USB", "Port A"); // substitute your own device here // you may want to adjust the latency here ~midiOut.latency = 0.0; ~dirt.soundLibrary.addMIDI(\midi, ~midiOut); Then you can setup your device to respond to your midi clock via tidal: d1 $ midicmd "[start/4,midiClock*48]" # s "midi" Thanks, I will try to check this out when I get time to play with TidalCycles again.

What I wanted to do was control and sequence my external hardware (or Live instruments) from TidalCycles. Getting the MIDI to Live and recording it is no problem, you can do it easily with the IAC Driver or Midipipe. Synchronizing TidalCycles and Live is a bit more difficult. The best would be to just slave TidalCycles to Live, but it does not seem to have any means to listen to an external clock. The other way is slaving Live, and it should be possible to somehow generate MIDI timecode from TidalCycles.

It's a fun thing, I kind of got stuck with synchronizing it to Live though. Because it would be a shame if all those sequences don't get recorded properly.

I finally broke down and ordered a second hand Push version 1. I figured I at least got to give it a proper try before I start yet another thread on some obscure Live MIDI mapping problem.

I would send back the 250ohms and get the 80ohms instead. I don't know if there is an interface for driving 250ohms for the price that you mention. I think it probably does not exist because 250ohms is a niche thing and the people who care about this will already buy a high end audio interface as well (such as SPL Crimson). Here's a discussion about this sort of thing https://www.gearslutz.com/board/low-end-theory/942967-audio-interface-driving-250-ohms-dt-990-without-amp.html Personally I have always though it is pointless to have a 250ohm headphone setup unless I am absolutely prepared to buy all the headphone-amps and whatever other stuff is necessary to get them to the correct level and have the sound be not colored or changed in any way.

I have felt that it's best to try and make some cash from selling merch and albums after lives than to expect to get paid from the show alone. Usually when we've done gigs with a full band we have at least gotten back transportation costs, maybe some beers and enough to cover a dinner after the sound check. Not sure how much this applies in electronic music though.

I've had a few things sent from a Japanese eBay store (ms_tokyo) and they have not only been packed incredibly well, but they've also arrived unusually quickly.. and they always put cute little notes in the packages. Just thought I'd share a positive story :D I too got a note and some chocolate when I ordered my Roland A33 keyboard. Checks out. :)

Damn this story sounds really dire. I have read about the USPS being starved to death too, it's really sad. I hope your country gets better soon. Living in Japan now the mail service is first class - if you miss the first delivery time you can reschedule for when you are home or select a post office where you can go get it by yourself. I do remember back in my home country (which probably does count as poor on a global scale) I never got anything delivered at home because the post office didn't really offer this service - all you got was a slip telling that you have a package, now go get it from the fulfillment center on the bumfuck edge of town. Maybe there was a way you could get it delivered at home but I think it cost 10-20 bucks extra so I almost never used it.

Imagine I posted one of those videos where airline baggage personnel are seen tossing around cardboard boxes without giving even an ounce of a shit about something breaking. This is just the result of capitalist profit min-maxing - it's not that people do not give a damn about doing their jobs properly, but rather they get paid fuck all and are pushed to the limits of their productivity. I think it's quite literally a choice between pissing your pants because you spent all that time packing properly or doing the minimum possible to keep what is left of your human dignity to match your Amazon quotas so you don't become unemployed and homeless. Edit: sorry if this sounds mean, I been reading John Brunner recently... :)

As oppose to recoding from inputs in real time? Re: drink spills... no fakn way id allow drinks to be less than 3 meters away from my gear! Mine or anybody’S, being in my home or at gigs. I think I didn't really register the sampling capability of octatrack because everyone always mentioned that they "load stuff in octatrack" and then play a set. I had no idea it's actually good for live recordings. In retrospect this sounds really stupid I know. :)

Yeah I get what you mean with having people over to do a jam session - I would just be sitting alone in the darkness illuminated by the LEDs on my gear (and christmas lights), and no matter how popular the streaming thing can become I still would prefer real people and real presence. I am a drummer so I usually can spill the beer anywhere I want, acoustic drums don't run on magic smoke. For electronic gigs I do see the point in taking care of your expensive boxes (that's why the drinks are stored on the floor, not next to or not even close to anything that can't take a spill). Bonus points if you hook yourself up to a CamelBak for these long long house sets.

Personally it's really weird to see someone preferring an online presence to the real thing. Maybe it's just me but I really miss the regular gigs at small cozy places with friends coming to see and people having a good time. My day job is already mostly sitting at a computer and doing stuff so it feels scary to want this as my hobby too. As for the Octatrack, I finally watched the original presentation video for the thing yesterday and now I am finally beginning to understand what's it actually good for and considering what I have spent the last year trying to coax my computer & other gear to do with Live it does seem really appealing to just get that box, get the workflow and remove all other distractions that come with the laptop. Previously I though it wasn't so good for live experimentation because you had to load all the stuff onto the SD card before or something. It's always felt to me to be a thing that's too expensive to spend money on, but now I am not so sure anymore.

It's OK to treat yourself once in your life - get into eurorack.

In the vein of MIDI issues I discovered yesterday that the cheap piece of trash USB-MIDI interface I got last year is truly a cheap piece of trash - a 1/16 100% gate arpeggio sent to the MS2000R results in total silence. Went back to connecting it directly with a MIDI cable.

FWIW I am using my 80ohm Beyerdynamics all the time in laptops, phones, whatever and it's rare that the volume needs to be turned up to the max. Right now on the work laptop its at 40%, and I think around 50-60% on my iphone. I think 62 ohms is even nicer.

Even if the build quality isn't great, it will still affect the market and may lower prices on boutique modules. They did the same with their line of digital mixing consoles a few years ago. What's that from? I'm totally out of date on my post apocalyptic entertainment.

A+ would like to do jam sessions in that space.

Decided to bite the bullet and continue doing the weeklies here. Can't afford to drop off the wagon.. Shameless plug: https://streak.club/p/34295/sun-6-jan-by-thawkins

In the nuclear hellscape of the future, having any recyclable electronics will be way more valuable than a pile of paper money or a number on a hard disk that's long been vaporized.

It's really great for getting into a rhythm of creating something every week, but I felt at the end that I was both out of ideas and all my weekly music time went towards weeklybeats only. Often I would just crunch something out quickly on Sunday evening to get it done. Now I wish to take the time and pick out all the worthwhile ideas I did for wb last year and do something great with them, so if I take on another weekly thing, these two initiatives are probably going to clash hard. I really liked the way it disciplined me to do something every week though, so I really don't want to lose that..

gotta wait until 2020, it's biyearly There's this though, found it in the wb forums https://streak.club/s/1002/weekly-music-2019

I went to a music store and got to play on a couple of Roland V-Drum sets and damn it's been almost a month since last rehearsal as well and now my treacherous mind is looking for all the excuses it can give to get a set. Only 1600€ used for a low end kit.

I find myself more and more not really liking the "granular" paradigm. More and more I'd rather just use samplers to do faux-granular stuff. I'd rather spend the money on a used octatrack MK1 and just be able to put on some timestretch(or not) and put on some combinations of LFOs, parameter locks, and slide trigs that modulate retrigger times, start times, lengths. I can't really get that super dense cloud of sound grains sound but I can get pretty close and get all the sounds I really want + some good filtering and some good reverbs. And if you really want that cloud of grains sound you can throw in an axoloti and do it yourself for way cheaper than $1000 for not much effort. That GR-1 looks kind of meh to me, it's powered by a raspberry pi and the build quality doesn't look that great to me. The screen is neat but besides that I just, it doesn't seem that nice otherwise. Yeah, after experimenting a bit, I too have come to the conclusion that granular is meant for breakfast, not music.