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[cmcavoy]

Now I just have to wait for my Grid 128 to arrive from the US…A little painful

Don’t forget - you can connect a USB MIDI device to Ansible, as it acts as a USB host…to get you through these dark weeks

As an aside - MMG has been on my list as “the filter I’d most likely get when I decide to get a filter”. I just heard they’re out of production. Still available from a few places, but - soon to be a collectible!

[slopstream]

A stack of tapes waiting to be dubbed:

[steveoath]

Cool, have they any stock left. I looked online the other day and they were out.

[Plym]

Looks like they’re out now, but I spoke with Ulf at EFN a couple of days prior and he said he believed to have two/three in stock at that moment. This was a week ago! So you could try emailing him : - )

[Plym]

Yeah, I’ll try that out for sure! : - )

I wanted something more than the traditional filter in terms of subtractive synthesis, and the MMG was actually one of the first modules I got as it could replace the use of a VCA (as LPG) before I got the ModDemix. I’m not that experienced yet so I can’t compare the MMG to other filters, but I really like the sound and bite of it. I heard that it is going out of production because of some sort of component that will soon be banned, or something like that? Anyways, I thought it would be a cool module to hold as they run out. I’m sure Make Noise will follow up with something in the near future. Hoping for a wavefolder maybe, like the one in the 0-coast, which sounds really good IMO!

[AlessandroBonino]

Vactrols, because of cadmium in the photoresistance, will be banned in the EU (because of RoHs) in 2019. So Excelitas decided to halt production. That’s what I remember.

[cmcavoy]

From what I understand, vactrols have been banned in the EU, so most manufacturers are phasing them out of their products.

Edit: jinx @AlessandroBonino

[rumorazzi]

Love at first sight…

[Rodrigo]

A further update from the 3d printed drum brackets I posted earlier.

I finally test fitted them on my snares, and the combination of a “little” top and regular bottom gives me the most flexibility across snare sizes and types. And hair ties appear to be the material of choice for attaching the thing to a snare.

I’ve ordered some shorter adjustment bolts and wingnuts to make the whole thing more compact and easily adjustable.

[SYS2064]

[jwudel]

Haven’t had much bandwidth for music over the last few months, pulled out the '11 MacBook that’s my music machine a few weeks ago and discovered the battery had reached the end of its life. Ordered an Amazon replacement, and got around to putting it in a couple days ago, and discovered some significant battery swell. It was a nervous-making half hour or so.

[boboter]

'Tis the season to put hats on cassettes.

[kbk]

[laborcamp]

Just came across this picture from last summer (first iteration of my Manta case).

[standard_grey]

New year’s resolution: tighten up my cable maintenance game.

[kali_yuga]

Beautiful!! Mine just arrived too

[infovore]

Happy holidays, gang, from the UK (and the new grid node library)

[midst]

[laborcamp]

studio corner

[kin.sventa]

I bumped into some “portabilism” videos a few weeks ago and was so excited at the idea of getting into scratching on a portable turntable. It’s a relatively inexpensive ( $60 fader, already had the portable turntable) barrier to entry and a lot of fun. Been scratching over Volca fm jams