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Three weeks ago I had surgery for a teared rotator cuff. People told me it was going to hurt for a long time but I really did not expect it to be that bad. Being stuck for weeks with just one arm sucks, makes you realize how valuable our body parts are (well most of them). Patching and playing with only one arm is a challenge but it sure beats doing nothing all day. Enjoy my recovery track https://soundcloud.com/gautier-gillon/solar-wind
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I know some of the best creations have come to me while on the mend. Get better soon goat.
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I’m gonna try making my own synths because I don’t have money for modular
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Hell yeah, this thread is already super rad, I hope it starts exploding with DIY projects  Electronics thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2734977
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That is rad. You will want a big breadboard (get an rsr mb-106 or something that looks like it) and two packs of breadboard wires. If you start with single supply stuff (cmos/ttl digital sound makers, inherently awful but very convenient single supply opamps), the power supply is just a wall wart, a power regulator, some diodes and a couple of capacitors. poo poo won't spark much or be too scary if you short something. just generally a chill way to get your feet wet. stanley lunetta inspired cmos stuff is cheap and easy to build. electromusic has a subforum for it, but schematics and videos and demos are all over the web. for parts https://www.taydaelectronics.com/ carries most the stuff you will ever need and usually have a promo code up somewhere. you will probably want an assortment of common value resistor, electrolytic capacitors and nonpolar capacitors. you'll need to get those from ebay, or look up the average contents of one and line item duplicate it on a tayda order. you'll want some of these: https://www.taydaelectronics.com/l7809cv-l7809-7809-voltage-regulator-ic-9v-1-5a.html and maybe a heat sink. a couple of 3906 and 3904 transistors these are o.k. to drive small speakers https://www.taydaelectronics.com/ic-integrated-circuits/audio-amplifier-instrumentation-op-amp/lm386-lm386l-audio-power-amplifier-ic.html these are the through-hole versions of the opamps in the korg littlebits synth https://www.taydaelectronics.com/lm358p-lm358-358-low-power-dual-op-amp-ic.html if you want to go analog instead of digital, that's as good a place to start as any. for tools, you'll need a multimeter. frankly, a $20 one from harbor freight will be adequate. you'll need pliers and forceps and tweezers and snips and wire strippers and then you'll need stuff for soldering but you can figure that all out in time.
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Get CD40106 for first CMOS. Cheap, runs on a wide range of single side voltages, schmitt trigger so it's not finnicky about sagged inputs. One resistor and one capacitor gets you a square oscillator. You can also use them to make logic gates using passive components (thanks always to Ray  ):
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omBreIHzTQM It's starting to come together. This thing is loving nuts.
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Everybody should build an Atari Punk Console once in their lives
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Mine is in a little Altoids tin on my shelf along with a Mimms book timer. a e s t h e t i c.
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I keep meaning to finish mine up before I move. I've got all the parts on my bench.
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This is a long shot, but does anyone know how Yamaha's .QSF files work for their Quick Sampling? Friend of mine wants to convert these to wav.
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Jul 6, 2020 00:39
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instrument model number, year of manufacture? can't find anything for the format or the extension.
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PSR EW410, manufactured around 2018 I think? The manual claims recordings are made as two-channel stereo in 16 bit at 44.1 kHz. That matches up with the size and description of the file I was given to play with, so I don't think it's compressed. Audacity hasn't been able to import it as raw data, and I'm starting to think it may be encrypted or something.
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https://twitter.com/ilhanmn/status/1279941072752390147?s=21
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never been prouder to be a Minnesotan
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Whattup. I need a desk. I have my dx7 on its case on the floor, underneath a table with my desktop/monitor/speakers on it, at the end of my bed of which I use as a chair. It's really bad. I have two laptops (t470 <arch linnux> and 2020mbp) on a suit case trunk of which I sit on a yoga mat. I don't *mind* sitting on the floor, but it makes it hard to play the synth. I don't know. I move so much that portability is important to me (nothing more portable than the floor). It'd be nice to get the keyboard closer to the macbook so I could connect the two. lol, I haven't found a good solution yet to my floor setup. well any small desks that could fit two laptops, audio monitors, typing keyboard, and mouse, and dx7 ?
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folding picnic table for everything except the keyboard. little x frame keyboard stand for the keyboard.
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excellent bird guy posted:Whattup. I need a desk. I have my dx7 on its case on the floor, underneath a table with my desktop/monitor/speakers on it, at the end of my bed of which I use as a chair. It's really bad. I have two laptops (t470 <arch linnux> and 2020mbp) on a suit case trunk of which I sit on a yoga mat. I don't *mind* sitting on the floor, but it makes it hard to play the synth. I don't know. I move so much that portability is important to me (nothing more portable than the floor). It'd be nice to get the keyboard closer to the macbook so I could connect the two. lol, I haven't found a good solution yet to my floor setup. well any small desks that could fit two laptops, audio monitors, typing keyboard, and mouse, and dx7 ? Congrats, you've reached the "I couldn't find the perfect desk setup for my gear so I became a DIYer and built my own" phase of music production. Splinter fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jul 6, 2020 |
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Splinter posted:Congrats, you've reached the "I couldn't find the perfect desk setup for my gear so I became a DIYer and build my own" phase of music production. It's funny how much of this hobby actually has very little to do with PRODUCING music.
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If you have a couple hundred to spend the best you can do is probably a Husky workbench. they make adjusting-height ones and they’re currently very popular in the Desktop thread. On the cheap side IKEA’s desks, worktops, and diy desk bar line are all good. I had my gear on some $15 trestles and an old door for a while.
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Cool lol thanks. As odd as this sound, I fixed my problem by changing position of the trunk to face the room, and put my back against the wall with a big pillow. Now I have something to lean against. Theres a little space to my left I could fit the keyboard. My back muscles were getting sore. I had been playing guitar constantly, but now it's going to be "synth mania" as soon as I get the Philips Audio Philips SHP9500 headphones in the mail.
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check out the "post your actual desktops" thread in SH/SC if you haven't already - they cover a lot of adjustable height desks and ergonomic stuff. Personally I got a solid core door and screwed ikea legs to it so I have a 2m+ workspace.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:It's funny how much of this hobby actually has very little to do with PRODUCING music. what is this music you speak of
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A MIRACLE posted:what is this music you speak of it's another name for Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" but to date nobody's been able to recreate the phenomena
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EBB posted:this is the hobby for hot tools and swearing right? i don't know how many of us are actually hot
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:It's funny how much of this hobby actually has very little to do with PRODUCING music. TBF that’s similar to how a good chunk of what being in a touring band is is driving/carrying amps around.
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massive spider posted:TBF that’s similar to how a good chunk of what being in a touring band is is driving/carrying amps around. Don't remind me of how buff I was carrying around an SVT4 Pro and 2 8x10 classic cabs. 
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Picked up the NDLR because I couldn't just do some backing tracks in Reaper or Ableton to play music over, I apparently needed a generative monster. Easy to use. I have five synths and five synths would be run off it if I had enough MIDI cords, which I don't but I plugged a MeeBLip Geode, a Neutron and a cheesy little 8-bit box into it and the interface is really intuitive. I ran out of synths so I am going to bust out my two Korg X5s for the 90s cheez. It's been a lot of fun so far.
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That's awesome, the NDLR is so cool I'm shopping for a desktop synth to pair with my electric piano's keys. It doesn't have a mod or pitch wheel so I would love to get something that has that for live playing. Something that will do pads well. Thinking about a Boutique Juno.
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A MIRACLE posted:That's awesome, the NDLR is so cool you need me to put my jx3p and programmer up on reverb for you?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zp2ndNU8W8 hell yea, finally!
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Anything have any details on the LZX Chromagnon? I've been wanting to get into video synthesis for a while, it sounds like a compelling starter all in one unit, but I can't find videos of it in action.
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I don't think I posted this, but it was from when we were doing the Bach stuff (and also everyone was getting excited about the Behringer 303 clone): https://soundcloud.com/user-576305780/toccata-in-d-minor-on-acid/s-raqiY And I've been playing around with Berlin School space sounds: https://soundcloud.com/user-576305780/berlin-school-exercise-mastered/s-KcHS8tnI2xz Go easy on me -- I'm a complete noob at this. They're pretty basic and a little rough around the edges, but I figured it was best to get them completed in some form and posted somewhere. They were pretty good exercises for starting to get to grips with the SoundToys suite. Now I'm off to do some noodling in Loom 2.
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Erica Synths is discontinuing the first line of DIY for a new gen, and are open sourcing the first gen: https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2020/07/11/erica-synths-open-sources-its-diy-eurorack-module-designs/
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EBB posted:Erica Synths is discontinuing the first line of DIY for a new gen, and are open sourcing the first gen: Saw this! A whole pile of stuff out on github with gerbers. Pretty flippin' awesome of them to do this. Some refinement and I bet a few of those could be $20 full diy kits.
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The Bassline module is really good.
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the mix on this is poo poo but ive been on the phone all day dealing with bullshit, so i thought i would record that bullshit. figured out a way to make trills without MATHS. https://soundcloud.com/user-44349750/carolina-phone-tag
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EBB posted:the mix on this is poo poo but ive been on the phone all day dealing with bullshit, so i thought i would record that bullshit. figured out a way to make trills without MATHS. trill recognize trill
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