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Looks like one of those: https://www.pure.com/uk/dab-radio/products/siesta-s2/graphite

I think some of my favorite pictures in this thread are like this - just a laptop (or a picture of a laptop) somewhere. While I do get GAS out of looking at people's spacious gear-filled (but tasteful) rooms, I am even more jealous of people who can make all their amazing music just on a laptop without all that pesky audiophile infrastructure.

That looks like a nice and powerful setup. What's the mixer looking thing on the top? Are you trying to catch that moment when that precariously set TV finally drops on the floor? Or am I just too used to living in earthquake country and worrying about trite stuff like that. :)

You seem enviably productive so I think you’re doing nothing wrong really. After all it’s only human to have GAS. :)

I would gas for the twister as well if I had not got the Livid Code. But reading the rest of your post... I’m sorry but it seems you have sold out. :)

That list is basically: Want to buy some acid Also some weed Oh and I liked those pills the doc once gave me for a headache so I guess I'll try out this meth thing. My GAS news is that I just wrote like 5 lines of code to my Live remote script and now I've got per track EQs (or whatever first 4 params of the first device of the track) automapped to my Livid Code. It turned out to be easier than I thought.

Good luck in rehab everyone! I also decided not to GAS for anything bigger than a couple of cable adapters for the time being, as I just spent some time listening to old works in progress and there's seriously nothing physical missing from anything, I just have to buckle up and make things work with the gear that I have. image_of_confident_baby.jpg

I have no idea about JS scripting, but you can replace recursion with an iterative stack-based approach - this should generally work in all languages. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/159590/way-to-go-from-recursion-to-iteration

I had my regular aversion to buying software combined with "hey I am a programmer I bet I could do it without Max" and "want to get this Live stuff sorted so I could focus on learning my hardware". Here I am though a year later, stuff is still bugging me and I would rather music around instead of trying to find solutions. Life is to be lived, rules are made to be broken, better to rule in hell than serve in heaven, the flame that burns twice as bright burns twice as fast!

* cr-1604 I had a CR-1604, really loved it although I only got to use it when recording our band. Both the build quality and the number of features was so nice. In other news, been getting the GAS for Max4Live and Max recently. Pure Data is nice but it does not play well integrating with Live, especially because I am only interested in messing with MIDI (for now), and while Live has it's own MIDI effects, it is a real bitch to make your own and even if you do, Live treats them as Audio effects which messes everything up. When is the next M4L discount coming again? :)

I finished the first working version of that Arturia inspired sequencer. I am hoping to integrate the thing better into my future sets so that I have some step-sequencing available when I want it, but at the same time it's not conceptually married to being a drum machine.

I don't understand a lot of what you guys are talking about because of my unfamiliarity with more advanced Reaper stuff, but damn I am getting the baddest urges to try all this stuff out myself. I just have this feeling that it will be a hell of a learning curve and lots of trial and error, and I already have spent the past year on Live doing this stuff. In general, how much of this plugin stuff is available for free?

Traditionally I have used Reaper for tracking and recording things and Live for mostly because of the controller scripting API, session view and live looping capabilities. I always felt Reaper has the "traditional DAW" thing handled much better than Live, but I have forgotten a lot of how Reaper works and what it could be used for because I do most of my stuff in Live nowadays. Turns out there is a plugin thing for Reaper which emulates the session view now - http://www.helgoboss.org/projects/playtime/. Edit: oh yeah and while the availability of different plugins and things is cool as hell, I am afraid that for me it will just make everything more complex because of the multitude of decisions available to build up my workflow. And also if I depend on some plugins a lot, who can ensure me that N years in the future that stuff will still be available and maintained so that I can open my old project and not be greeted by All Of The Errors And Nothing Works.

Yeah, I got the email too. Didn't really seem the great to me, but I am getting into development here and there. Kind of on the fence about it. JUCE uses C/C++ so it's applicable knowledge to anything else low level. I have messed around with the JUCE developer kit a bit trying to make babby's first android application, and the process was pretty painless. However take that with a grain of salt because I have some professional experience with C++ so I (hopefully) know some basic stuff. I still view C/C++ as one of the most difficult languages to write something in, both because there are so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot and also because I often spend a lot of time trying to get some extremely basic stuff working, things that you achieve with a couple of clicks or 1-2 lines of code in other languages. This probably says more about me than the language, though. :) I am not really on the fence when it comes to this deal as I already feel I have enough non-musical side projects as it is (got to finish up that sequencer vst), however my new job does have me writing C++, and the Camomile pure-data-to-vst-thing is also JUCE and could use some tweaks. I definitely don't have any more room for any control surface hardware, my studio desk can't even fit a laptop anymore (which is a good thing that forces me to mess with the hardware more while the laptop is more like a recording device where I can micromanage tweaks and arrangements later).

I woke up today to an e-mail saying JUCE (the guys who make Roli blocks and the seaboard) are offering a free development kit of two blocks to anyone who will buy a subscription or something. I did some math and the cheapest subscription seems to be $420 so I am not really sure if this is a good deal or not. I have seen the blocks for sale in a shop for around $100 a piece which is kind of a nice price if the software stuff they have also makes it easy to make your own custom stuff. The dev kit is 2 physical blocks and some software https://roli.com/products/blocks/developer-kit-a This is probably more your thing if you are already interested in making music apps and I guess it's a publicity trick to get people to buy their hardware platform. Not sure if there are any amazing applications to the things yet.

Thanks! Seems I can justify my GAS with this very well.

The Field Kit has an envelope follower, so this basically means I can hook it up to the Kastle and control it this way?

Have you ever played with a volca? The knobs are about the same size. I think the fun is supposed to be in the patching. You can control pitch, waveform, LFO speed, that kind of thing. There's really not that much to it. It does have, yeah, CV connectivity, both in and out, so you can use it as an oscillator, LFO, or primitive sequencer. It can definitely do some lo-fi bleeps and bloops. The best sounds I get out of it are those ominous growling drones. I can't imagine trying to make anything but noise with it. Thought of something in the rehearsal last night... I would be really glad if some Kastle/Softpop owners could comment. I have a Koma Field Kit and a bunch of contact/piezo mics which I have been planning to hook up to drums or whatever percussive things I can find. The Field Kit is basically meant for generating CV out of stuff like that, so now I was wondering if I could also hook the Kastle or the Softpop up in that setup and use it to generate some more wackier sounds out of the drum kit. The signal flow would basically be drum - piezo - field kit - (optional env follower) - kastle - field kit - some efx pedal. Basically I would want to trigger bleeps and bloops from the Kastle by playing an actual drum kit.

Two updates a week, updates every two weeks - potayto potahto. I too use Reaper as a mastering DAW mostly, because most of my musicing is done in Live. I am not too good at mastering though and recently I just end up slapping Legowelt's tape machine thing on everything.

How easy is it to "play" the thing? I am mostly interested in having it as a extra layer playing some loop or sequence that I can then tweak to make the bleeps and bloops, but the melody itself would be carried by something else. This probably requires some CV out which I don't currently have..

Made the mistake of checking CL again today and god damn there's a Kastle and a Softpop and I don't have a thing that outputs CV either but

They're really only good for circuit bending. There's basically no real-time control of anything and the sequencer is x0x 16-step but less fun because you can't mess with the sequences while it's playing and it's annoying to program. For that kind of a thing you'd be much better off with one of the Yamahas of that era. Thanks, I am no good at electronics so this means it's good to just leave the thing.

Someone's selling a TR505 on Craigslist. I realise it's not some legendary techno thing but I was wondering if it's still a fun thing to play with even though I probably can't be arsed to circuit bend it. Mostly interested in it because of the cheesy sounds, step sequencer (videos seem to show one) and maybe some midi sequencing capatibilities so I could use it to drive some other things.

I read that it's kind of limited as a master keyboard as well - velocity goes only up to 100 and transmits only on channel 1. It would be a fun project if I had both the time and physical room for it.

There is a DX7 for sale on the local synth boutique place. The description says it's pretty beat up and it probably only works as a master keyboard or as a sound module if lucky. http://fiveg.net/?pid=129491699 Only like $75 though.