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[disquiet]

Not sure if it shows in the picture, but the quote is attributed to New Orleans legend Ernie K-Doe. I got the postcard from Westy Reflector, a longtime Junto participant, and stuck it in my ukulele so I’d stop reaching for my uke and stick to guitar. When he sent it he had no idea I’d attended Ernie K Doe’s second line when I lived in New Orleans.

[kin.sventa]

Some shots from a show I played last night. A really great monthly experimental hiphop/electronic show in Oakland called smart bomb. First show with my new simplified set up of using just the octatrack and samplr. wish I jumped on the octatrack earlier. So much fun.

[lei]

I just got a belgrad and a tides myself recently, loving the belgrad. The double notch makes wonderful phasery sounds, think i’m going to grab the xaoc phaser to fill in that spot.

I’m still learning tides, can’t wrap my head around it just yet, how do you use it ?

Beautiful rack, cheers !

[lei]

Lovely and streamlined, would love to hear it.

[AlessandroBonino]

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[infovore]

every time Tides comes up, I’m happy to sing its praises:

• I probably use it most as a VCO. it’s a lovely almost-full voice - tracks perfectly because it’s digital, Smoothness becomes an LPF to 12-o-clock and then a wave folder thereafter; I like it mainly as a triangle wave, but modulating Slope can lead to fun things. And it’s got a VCA on the Level output. So that’s handy. It really likes modulation and that can lead to great tri bass tones. (And you could use the square outs as a square oscillator too)
• PLL mode makes for fun VCO sounds, but also means you can use it as a tempo-synced LFO, which also means you can use the HIGH/LOW outs as clock division. And sometimes, when I really need another clock divider, that’s what I’ll use it for.
• it’s still a very handy LFO/envelope/function generator, and I’ll sometimes use it as a funky LFO (given all the modulation options). I almost never use it as an EG.

It’s Olivier’s take on a west-coast function generator (eg DUSG, Maths), basically, with a neat digital twist. Like its predecessors, it’s lots of fun at audio rates. But the most important thing is: things you learn at one rate apply to another; although for reasons the controls slightly modify their behaviour, they end up feeling the same. And that means something you discover in its LFO capabilities will have interesting applications at audio rate.

Tides digression over!

[lei]

I think I noticed some weird digital pops and clicks when I run it at audio rate and tweak the slope knob slightly when it’s around all the way to the right, should I be worried ? Any experience with parasites by the way ?

[lei]

Lovely, the ER-301 surely looks like quite a thing. Was thinking of picking up an octatrack but I should maybe look into this.

Checked more of your instagram, quality stuff ! Subscribed

[infovore]

I mean, you should’t be ‘worried’ but that’s not an experience I’ve ever had.

No experience with Tides Parasites; I’ve never needed it, and Tides feels perfectly balanced in terms of functionality and UI. It doesn’t really need anything more multimodal adding - I think it’s fine as it is (and it always gets use).

[lei]

I’ll try to post an audio example when I get home. Since the module is all digital I figured either it works or it doesn’t, that’s why I’m not sure about this clicky stuff, doesn’t sound like it should be there. Maybe reinstall the firmware or smth.

[SYS2064]

[yoyosandshoes]

Trying to work on a live modular set and keep getting distracted by this old dog. I think I’ll be incorporating this in my next project

[xexyz]

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[oscillateur]

Very nice space…

Did you stain the wood on that Cell case ?
I have a Cell90 and mine are definitely a lighter colour…

[declutter]

That table! Where’s it from?

[xexyz]

not sure it was from a retail shop, it’s my roommates, she was out of town so I set up in her sun room:)

[xexyz]

Thank you and no I didn’t stain it, it came like that. It’s a Pittsburgh Modular Case, selling it actually…

[sellanraa]

Pertinent mainly to the studio furniture thread. After being diagnosed with severe osteoporosis due to a glandular issue, I’ve tried to be more mindful of ergonomics and posture. Always a work in progress, but I put my laptop up on a shelf and it’s now at eye level. I got a nice chair too that has been way better than the clunker I used for 15 years. I like that I can stand at my laptop and still use it with better posture than when I sat and it was on the desktop where the synth is now located.

[lei]

Hey that looks a lot like mine ! Have the same monitors, a 6U modular and i’m getting the AR MK2 as soon as it releases. Are these shape 50’s ? I love my pair.

Also, if you can give more hindsight and examples to your modular setup i’m interested, I really want to get something like elements or rings myself and the plonk looks like a good alternative.

[sellanraa]

I just got the Plonk and I’m really enjoying it, but I’ve never touched any Mutable module for whatever reason so wouldn’t feel comfortable comparing.

With my modular, I’m always trying to find that impossible setup that allows me to do almost anything with minimal quick patching changes. Hard to be too concrete because I’m always taking it apart and putting it back together. I had been working within MAX for a bit more elasticity in my timing (using the ES-8 in the little case next to my modular), but I had some ideas that had me return to the Octatrack. Plus, the ease of effects that would’ve required more time and CPU in MAX. I put a lot into the MAX patch though and definitely want to return to it in time.

Anyway, Soundcloud has a few live sets and a CD release on West Main Development is snippets from other live sets too. I haven’t put out as much stuff lately because I’m not so productive at finishing things, and I think I feel less spark to finish and/or release with the insane amount of stuff people are releasing these days. Maybe I just feel like I’m adding to the noise sometimes.

https://soundcloud.com/shedding