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Ugh. I unsoldered all the pots and found some shorts in the TSSOP14 OPA1654. But the pins are so fucking tiny that I can't even tell whether they're connected. I guess by being pulled onto the board by the corner pins, that pressure might be enough to make contact? I plugged the module in without the pots and I got the same arrangement of Christmas lights; obviously didn't test sound because I assume the pots are needed for that.
I will really have to get astronomically lucky to properly solder this with my old Weller because I just can't properly solder anything but the corner pins even with 0.3mm solder. I don't know whether this is a job for the 858D but I'm guessing it could only have better luck. It's those 4 fuckers on the left, between and slightly below the pots.
This is gonna be a real adventure. I think this is gonna be my last MI until I level up a bit. I went through this with the Shruthi too, although back then it was because I was a total soldering noob. Fortunately I don't really want anything else of hers at the moment, heh. The only things I really want for now are a couple more clock/logic/sequencing options and VCAs/mixers (though if I can get this Veils working I might be covered there). Maybe a delay. NLC has been good to me so far, so that's probably what I'll do for those.
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44 minutes ago, Hautlle said:
I have a cheapo "858D" hot air station I use for all my SMD stuff. I never tried building SMD w/ an iron as I knew I was going to fully jump in and wanted to make it easy on myself.
There's lots of different brands, but they're all labeled 858D
Cheers, that looks way less bulky than what I had in mind!
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3 hours ago, Hautlle said:
This is a recent photo of the area where I create stuff. Messy, but that's me. I'm searching for a solution to get a bigger/deeper desk to get my monitors off the 90° angle but I'm probably just going to end up building something.
I need to move things around in the room to make some space and get everything out of the corner though...
I dig the rack - is that just 4 Happy Endings bolted to a couple planks of wood? What are you doing for power?
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I was getting in a good rhythm over the last week - did a NLC 8-Bit Cipher and it went pretty smoothly, feeling like I'm getting alright at hand-soldering SMT, at least 0805. Then I tried to do a Veils today and phew, it was a disaster. I plugged it in and I'm getting Christmas lights but no sound. At least it looks pretty. I'll have to go hunt down shorts tomorrow, I guess. I think I'm gonna stick with thru-hole and 0805 for now until I take the plunge and get an oven.
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1 hour ago, dingformung said:
American bashing has become lame at this point. No need to point out the obvious
I'm pretty OK with it. If you can figure out how to get 40% of our country to pull its collective head out of its ass, though, that'd be better. But I have next to no hope for them.
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2 hours ago, Enthusiast said:
The danger here is that he will split the moron vote
So 40% of the country, give or take?
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On 3/25/2020 at 1:12 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:
The clipping resonant synths at the towards the end of g 1 e 1.
So much tasty resonance on that whole piece. Reminds me of really old electronic compositions from days of yore (long before me or ae existed)
For me, this is the most poignant thing they have ever done. It often breaks me down in tears.
The sound design is incredible too - it sounds like the kind of buffer manipulation they've been doing since the Tewe days or earlier, but it's so delicate and timeless - it breathes, glows, haunts.
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12 minutes ago, Gocab said:
Best president
bresident
brexident
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12 minutes ago, ignatius said:
What, no way...
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He definitely did sample that track for Qtio.
Claro and Qtio are great, but there's so much more. Airliner Series, Rktic EP, Kobn Tich Ey, the (relatively recent) compilation tracks, remixes, the Narita EP with Blamstrain, and dozens (hundreds?) of mods. But, yeah, not enough... I'm greedy.
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Lassi is so good. I can't get enough of his stuff recently. I mean, literally, there just isn't enough of it.
I think I might just start wholesale copying his style so I have more of it to listen to. Just really go over it with a fine tooth comb and reverse engineer it. It's not like I have anything better to do musically.
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11 hours ago, Roo said:
The 'Karen' thing was always a mistake. From the go, it always felt too misogynist-enabling and prone to over application.
Like, I get it, there is a type out there, but the more broadly you use it the more you dilute it until all that is left is straw man.
I did enjoy these people getting called out when they really deserved it, after all this behavior pattern has grim roots in American history. I guess I've been in denial about the misogyny aspect of it, probably because gender roles discourage white men from taking the "I am offended/victimized and demand an immediate response" angle. But I see this dilution already taking place with a couple instances now of a white woman in a fairly mundane dispute that got forcefully escalated. Now that the term is truly mainstream, I guess the dilution is inevitable.
Strawman or not, I do think it's still a useful idea to discourage white people from being assholes in public, especially to PoCs.
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12 hours ago, TubularCorporation said:
I'm so against the new minimalism.
I could tell
I'm no minimalist either, for what it's worth, but I definitely have too much stuff and I want less of it. Having a healthy amount of space is more inspiring than any configuration of gear.
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4 hours ago, thawkins said:
Is this the Marie Kondo thing?
lol yeah. It's cheesy but I like the idea. When I look at my stuff and some things just don't give me good vibes, it makes it easier to let go of things.
Of course, the problem is that people tend to like the same kind of stuff, so the things that are less joyful for me end up being a harder sell in general.
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5 hours ago, modey said:
I'm beginning to think I've got too much stuff and it's hindering me a bit.
I'm feeling this too. I made a list of gear that's not sparking joy for me, and there's like 14 things on it. I'm digging DIY modular at the moment, but anything else is just going to get in the way, with very few exceptions.
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11 minutes ago, Zephyr_Nova said:
In answer to OP's original question: with disdain mostly. It took 330 pages, but there's your answer.
Thanks, I've been wanting to say this for 300 pages.
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Those options seem cool, but when it comes to picking a platform, community support and maintenance are pretty crucial for me.
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17 minutes ago, TubularCorporation said:
I was going to say VVVV and Processing, too.
You might look at Pixilang, not sure how useful it would be for processing live video but it's definitely worth a look.
Yeah, vvvv seems great, if I had a Windows machine kicking around. Oh interesting, is this made by the same guy who does Sunvox?
17 minutes ago, thawkins said:What I mean is that if you have got Hydra which can process webcam, and you have OBS where you can set up a virtual webcam that shows some other window where your pre-recorded video is playing, then if you set your OBS virtual webcam as the input in Hydra, viola you can now mess around with that video in there. Does this make sensei?
Oh gotcha. Good point. It would be cool to be able to control playback of the video though, as in play from a certain index, etc. I do seem to remember a demo where ojack was doing something just like that - like she recorded some footage of herself and then was manipulating the time playback or something. Could get messy trying to treat a pre-recorded video that way but it's definitely a possibility.
WebGL seems like just what I'm looking for, especially since I already know JavaScript... Hydra might be a really nice abstraction on top of it too. I think I'm going to go through the Web GL tutorials mcbpete posted. Hopefully I won't run into some stupid gotcha, but it seems very mature at this point.
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Actually that WebGL stuff looks pretty frigging awesome...
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6 hours ago, Nil said:
Hydra can process cam RT input (~ 18 minutes in), so maybe it can work with video clips ? https://chat.toplap.org/channel/visualists might be a nice place to visit too
Oh yeah I played with this a bit a while back (probably a year ago) in the browser. It seems really cool and it's probably come a long way from when I last used it. For some reason I get a strong feeling it can't use pre-recorded video (seems very oriented toward sort of ephemeral web-based collab) but that's worth looking into.
Yeah I was hanging out on toplap for a while but I found the chat really awkward to use. I should probably give it another go.
3 hours ago, thawkins said:This might be helpful for setting up an OBS steam as a virtual webcam. https://streamshark.io/blog/using-obs-as-a-virtual-webcam-on-windows-and-macos/
This is good to know. I'm not trying to stream anything quite yet, though, just farting around for my own amusement. I guess if the stream could be exported to video that might be cool? Or if you could script it to use pre-recorded video instead of streams, kind of like what Nil suggested about Hydra? How much tweaking of the video can you do with OBS? To me it seems designed to display a kind of static arrangement of video streams and maybe some images or something. Maybe it's deeper than that?
3 hours ago, mcbpete said:I was gonna say vvvv but if you're more into the live-'coding' side of things gl/pixel shaders would probably be more your thing:
https://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-shadertoy.html
https://github.com/Gargaj/Bonzomatic
This looks really cool too but it seems like it's more about creating demo-type graphics from scratch by making shaders than about processing video. Could be fun for sure.
I played with Gem in PD a bit yesterday. The video was a bit janky to control but it seemed promising. I was kind of surprised how much picking PD back up was like riding a bike - I wired up jumping to specific frames with a counter in no time.
I guess there's also something called openFrameworks that's C++ based but it looks cool too, and can also be used with PD. https://openframeworks.cc/ofBook/chapters/image_processing_computer_vision.html
Blender seems good too. I always thought of it as not so real-time oriented, but apparently it can send and receive OSC messages, and I've heard a lot of good about its video editing capabilities so maybe it's decent for real-time video processing as well? I mean there's a freaking 3D engine built into it. And maybe what I want doesn't necessarily need to be real-time, I just like that synth-like workflow where you can fart around and tweak a bit here and there, as it runs.
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Hey, y'all, I can't believe this isn't a topic already (...or IS IT??)
Anyway, just like it says, I'm looking for something like SC/PD/Max but for video. I think I already have a Jitter license actually but I only have one shitty old Mac and I'd prefer something lightweight and FOSS that runs on Linux. I started trying to learn Processing and I got those smelly old legacy vibes. It seems like PD can do some of this stuff but it'd be cool if it was something more code-oriented.
More specifically what I'd like to do is get some rando video footage and do some weird masking and color grading and stuff on it, make little goofy circles and overlay things. Just fuck around without any particular aim, see if I can come up with anything cool. Honestly vvvv is probably most like what I'm looking for, but like Jitter it's more visual-programming. Maybe I should just stick with Jitter?
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I'm probably SOL on the stump pots. I ordered something more comparable to what I needed on Mouser. It'll still take some jerry rigging to squeeze the pins into the PCB (7.5mm vs. 5mm) but that's not nearly as severe a hack.
Thanks for the ideas, y'all. New plan - any cool ideas for stumpy 100k linear pots? They're probably a bit much for, say, a passive mixer, eh? Hmm... maybe passive attenuators. I need some of those anyway.
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I ordered the wrong pots for some projects. They're hella short. Now I'm stuck with these stump-dick pots. Has anyone tried something like lengthening them w/ screws and spacers? Or is that doomed to fail when the knobs turn CCW? I might just have to do some shitty Arduino project so as not to waste them.
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