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lijnenspel · 2020-09-10T11:41:57.827Z

Yes! It’s cool, Gieskes is awesome! I was looking for something less technical and easier to swap different hourglasses out and ended up going for piezos. I’ve been playing with the idea of productising it into a white noise generator/meditation timer. Unfortunately bigger hourglasses are very receptive to room noise and active noise cancellation would be difficult to get right. So the product is on hold and I’m recording a lot of different hourglasses in an anechoic chamber as an album instead.

pulplogic · 2020-09-10T11:46:36.646Z

Thank you. It’s good to see like minds.

I would like to learn how to properly work with glass but I’m a total beginner. I used a diamond hole saw drill bit under a stream of water to open the top and bottom holes. It was slow going and still cracked a little. The top funnel is just glued in place.

kbit · 2020-09-12T00:51:10.704Z

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jdrew · 2020-09-12T16:58:59.461Z

How does the SP fit into your workflow? I’m always curious to how others make it work for them.

kbit · 2020-09-12T17:22:18.398Z

The long sampling time and myriad of effects are really what I like about the SP, so mostly for resampling and playback of textural samples. If I want to do rhythmic stuff I’ll use the Rytm, but I will send the source material to the SP for processing / EQing on the way to the Rytm’s sampling input.

I really need a patch bay.

barksten · 2020-09-14T08:51:46.724Z

Just completed my make noise shared system build:

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SYS2064 · 2020-09-14T13:32:24.842Z

This is not a picture of my “sound-making machines”, but It is my home “office" desk. In Italy we are still working from home due the Covid situation
Yes, I may get distracted…

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optiminimal · 2020-09-14T16:46:18.995Z

I am curious about that white box at the top, it looks pi based. Actually the harder I look the more questions I have , can you do a quick run down of your desk projects?

Justmat · 2020-09-14T17:03:24.577Z

The white box is a monome aleph, no longer in production though

sakul · 2020-09-14T17:47:57.597Z

I know the struggle too well…
Also, I realized (after almost half a year ) that my mixed office/studio desk was 80% sound devices and a tiny bit of office. Not very smart considering 80% Homeoffice I since reorganized and have a more relaxed office space and don’t face the modular all the time.

Mandatory random pic:

This is a setup I had for a while. In front a cell48 without sides. Not only do I like the ergonomics of the upside down o+c in a skiff, since the side was open I could also plug in micro usb to use it as a midi/cv converter, was good friends with norns too I should put something similar together again as I liked this configuration a lot.

mheton · 2020-09-14T19:10:38.977Z

I always wondered, … what is the difference between aleph and norns? Or is it more or less the same…

sakul · 2020-09-14T21:04:38.299Z

My two cents:
(bear in mind I’m not a aleph nor a audio dev and have spend little time with it)

While they share some similarities (user programmable dedicated audio machine, separate control and audio backend components. nice screen and beautiful objects altogether. best friends of grid and arc), the experience is quite different.
With bees, alephs control editor, you can make apps by stacking and connecting operators, on the device itself. No code writing needed. Though the result is a list that is hard to read next time you want to modify something. Since it’s open source, nothing stopping you from replacing bees with something different altogether, which gets more involved, think monome eurorack module alternative firmware. The audio dsp component, running on a blackfin micro processor, is said to be cumbersome to program (no floating point processing unit).

Compare that to a relatively simple syntax and framework with lua and supercollider as audio backend, a widely spread audio dsp language. On aleph you have to swap sd cards, vs. matron running in a web browser, wifi+ssh.

It can be easily seen that monome took the vision and experience from making the aleph and improved a lot of the aspects and made a way more approachable and accessible device with norns. It produced quite a few programmers this past few years

That said, aleph is bare metal (dedicated micro processors instead of full blown linux machine), which means ultra minimal latency. It has CV and more audio io.
Also Aleph is an even more impressive device to touch imo and is built like a tank, that of course also means heavier and more expensive.
Norns has battery.

SYS2064 · 2020-09-15T10:27:49.572Z

from left, Norns-Fates, monome Aleph, Axoloti board, Blokas Pisound environment that I usually use in MODEP configuration, a Mod device emulator, Dave Smith Instruments Evolver, a Bela board.

SYS2064 · 2020-09-15T11:57:46.445Z

first of all, I agree with @sakul, I just would like to add to his review a couple of notes.
Imagine BEES, the main Aleph environment, like a hardware version of Reaktor from Native Instruments; the Reaktor Modules (units of processing for control signals) are the Aleph Operators.
BEES written in C and is open source, so you can make new Operators to add to BEES.
I think that Aleph is more “hardware” oriented than Norns, you always have to face the limitations and peculiarities of Blackfin and Arm microcontrollers. Supercollider, Lua and monome libs are the Norns’ “interfaces” to the machine, and it is great.
From a programmer side I think that Aleph is fun thanks to its “limitations” and, on the other hand, its capabilities.
For example, you can use it as an empty box to make an esoteric app like this (I have no idea of what aleph really does but I love it)
ah… last but not least: Aleph is one of the most stylish things that I ever seen

autreland · 2020-09-16T00:58:20.465Z

if this doesn’t look like my idea of a good time, i don’t know what does

Justmat · 2020-09-20T18:23:24.036Z

eurorack banana hybrid teletype + txi.

i jumped all the signal pins from the mini-jacks over to bananas and added a ground connection from the power supply, can’t really see it but it’s exposed as a banana jack on the side of the case.

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renegog · 2020-09-20T18:28:25.426Z

wow naive art vibes, love the colors. can’t wait to see what you do with this and your ciat lonbarde family

LLK · 2020-09-20T19:12:30.982Z

I’ve made another post with this one, and then realized, hey ! Finally a pic of my sound-making machines !

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Rodrigo · 2020-09-21T12:05:50.901Z

I managed to set up my second RASKOG as a ciat-lonbarde trolly, which is all wired up to an onboard mixer.

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I found that as much as I loved playing with the PB et al, there was always some friction to set it up on my desk, get the wallwarts wired up, run the ground cables, etc… so I’d use it for a bit, then put it back on the shelf. So after seeing how much I enjoyed having this modular trolly (which has a single “cable” coming out of the back which leads to my studio I/O), I thought to do the same when @Angela offered me a second RASKOG.

At the moment the PB, Deerhorn, and Shnth are wired up, but there’s also a coiled cable on the side for my Shtar or any other bits I’d want to use as well. There’s nothing wired going back to the instruments as I haven’t really done much with that, but the option is there with the mixer.

rmro · 2020-09-21T15:52:12.916Z

Nice, I’m presuming you made the wooden panels that sit on top, I could benefit from that too?

I lifesaver for me was making my own ground cable to link the devices together, that and mogami minijack cables with the angled plug.