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Toys in the Static: https://pinebox.bandcamp.com We used to also go by the name Pinebox when we played live, but legally we could never use that name. I think our best stuff is from around 2005-2009, from what I’ve uploaded so far.

Damn, I didn’t see this thread before! Here’s our stuff: https://pinebox.bandcamp.com https://m.soundcloud.com/disko-459092969 Follow us and we’ll follow you back!

Yeah, I definitely love the ultra patch pro, it’s probably my favorite patchbay. I didn’t set out to get any specific brand or anything, but after having a few different ones over the years the ultra patch has been solid. I really have no idea how their interfaces would be, I’m just speculating. Really, I would consider myself a behringer fan, so who knows- it could be awesome! I just feel like if you’re trying to decide between a Scarlett and anything else comparable in price, the Scarlett will be tough to beat. My buddy has been having some issues with his motu (I think micpre8?) after updating his Mac OS. He’s been trying different drivers, and dealing with support and whatnot. I would have always said before that I loved motu, but I fucking hate those types of problems. I also had some glitchy stuff happening with a motu midixpress, but I have so much ridiculous midi going on, who knows, it might not be the motu. I used an rme in a studio I worked in, and it sounded great, and had no errors- but idk how long they used it for, they changed shit up quite often. Side note on focusrite- even tho I love my saffire for audio- the midi was terrible. It did this thing where, regardless of what program I was using, it wouldn’t pick up the first notes sometimes when recording in a sequence. I returned the unit and got a new one and it did the same thing. No biggie, since I use the motu for midi, but still.....

Sounds awesome! It kinda reminds me of what merzbow did on “maldoror”.

I’m scheduled to get the vaccine next week, my parents have got it, and my wife and daughter got their first shots. No side effects really, other than arm pains. We had Covid a couple months ago and for us it was pretty minor, but I still haven’t got my smell all the way back. I just heard on NPR yesterday that music festivals were being scheduled again. I really wanted to go to Movement again, the one a couple years ago with Orbital was awesome, and then the next year Covid hit and Underworld canceled. That was the last real show I had been to (well I saw Tim and Eric live, but not the same thing haha). I had tickets to see Kraftwerk last July- canceled. It’s really nice to see that they are scheduling events, even tho I haven’t seen anything I’m too crazy about.

Behringer is making some great stuff these days, but I feel like an interface demands quality that they just don’t produce. Don’t get me wrong- they make good shit, and I even think some of the cheap mixers they were making 20 years ago were pretty good sounding. Even tho everyone else talked shit about them, the hilarious-in-retrospect named “eurorack” mixers suffered more in build quality than in sound. That being said- build quality isn’t something I wanna gamble with when using an interface. It’s fine if I get a cheap $150-300 synth that is built shitty, but an interface........

It’s funny because I really only got into them initially because Faith No More (my fav band of all time) sampled them on angel dust. When I was 11 or 12 and that album came out it molded how I looked at sampling. Fnm had already changed my life and got me obsessed with music with the real thing, but then the introduction to things like this reinforced them later in my life as truly inspiring. Well enough fnm ranting in a classical thread- this whole Kronos album is amazing!

I wanna say it was winter of 97, and my friend owned some random Mike Paradinas stuff I didn’t have, so I asked him to make a mix tape of it for me. On one side it was a uziq mix, and the other side was some random add n to x and parts of Cichlisuite. Also melvins “at the stake” which he knew was my fav melvins. It was quite the mixtape! Anyways that was the first autechre I ever heard. I wanna say it was the first few songs from cichlisuite, like he just let that play at the end. Pencha is still probably my favorite track of theirs.

Yeah, this is sweet! Once again, the brass is awesome!

Yeah, me too. I also used to set up my living room to be more focused on somewhere to sit and listen, but these days it’s way more set up for reading and tv. Driving is probably as close as I get to the old days.

This is fucking awesome

Totally agree, just an amazing album. Further down the spiral was also my main intro to aphex and coil, so it will always have a place among the best. Remix albums have never had as strong of an impact on me, especially when the original was just so awesome.

Focusrite makes great stuff. I use a FireWire saffire pro, and it sounds awesome- plus the stand-alone functionality is great. Also several of my friends use scarletts and are happy with them. I recently got a sound devices mix pre for field recording and to use as something to record into and overdub in stand-alone. It will also function as an interface, and it sounds unbelievable. But, I would definitely recommend focusrite as a company over a lot of the other interface brands out there. Motu is also good, but I’ve ran into some problems with their stuff lately.

Thanks! It was an old 90s sign from inside a meijer store where they had the computer keyboards in the tech/electronics section. It’s translucent so someday I would love to build a back case with a light for it!

Hahaha I used to think it was “milkman’s ice tanks”

It’s a little messy right now- I’ve been going thru an old Windows xp desktop backing up old songs, so it’s in the way. Also my good cassette deck is out for repair, pedalboard is out away, I have some Yamaha he monitors to replace the bx5s (just too lazy) and several modules I need to install and move around (also lazy), but this is close to finished. I also have a sort of “live instrument/toy/video game playroom” in the room nextdoor with acoustic instruments, amps, tape stuff, and a piano in a different room.

I have looked everywhere in the analytics on YouTube and don’t see anyway to trace muted playback. It’s definitely something I’ve wondered before. Also, I’m always curious what quality people are choosing, I can’t find a way to track that either. It really does seem like a lot of people are paying for subs and plays on YouTube and SoundCloud. I am curious to know what changes would occur on our YouTube if we did that. Would our videos seem more legitimate? Does anyone else on here feel somewhat a victim of this? Here is some very shameless self promotion/fun fact based on your comment: https://pinebox.bandcamp.com/album/sociopathogen @Braintree and I collaborated on this project years ago, and the name is actually based on a lot of the concepts in this thread.

I’m pretty sure this can’t be done using only the bsp machine. It would be awesome though. There might be some way to do it by reversing or something, or possibly with software (I have only used mine in standalone). As far at the bsp goes, tho- I feel like you can’t beat the value of it. It’s not my favorite thing at all, but the way it can be used as a din sync/midi/cv interface, combined with the simplicity of the modes and how you could just scale a tone with a knob in any specific mode..... seems totally worth the money.

Half of my family was annihilated during the Holocaust. My grandfather was a survivor, who was in Dachau. He was kept alive because he was a mechanic and he and his cousin stole a vehicle they were working on (his cousin knew how to drive). They escaped and helped some other Jews escape as well. When he got to the states he worked as a mechanic for the rest of his life. He didn’t really want to talk about what happened ever, but he did tell us all about how he had to watch his infant nieces and nephews have their heads smashed between cinderblocks, and several other relatives of mine killed and tortured in other ways. He did this so we would understand the horror, and accept all races/religions equally, and not allow history to repeat. I am pretty confident that the Holocaust was real.

Nice! Good work, seem to have a clear focus in the eurorack direction. I always get too lost in my eurorack, you got the self-control down!

This is one of those ones that just popped up a million times, and eventually I gave in and watched it. I thought it was super entertaining, and exactly the type of “mainstream” video I like on YouTube.

Thanks! Yes, we are working on some new things that will feature the more recent stuff, but most of it is available on our bandcamp for free: https://pinebox.bandcamp.com

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