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[simondemeule]

nyckelharpa

Thanks for making me aware this instrument exists! It sounds beautiful! It must be really fun playing a bowed string instrument without the struggle of intonation — it really opens up a lot of possibilities for chords and fast playing.

[zuliani]

I went back to the other coast for an extended, month-long holiday break, and didn’t feel up to bringing my synth through airport security. We’ve been catching up.

[zuliani]

Also thanks to @stripes for the inspiration for the square wooden case!!

[barnaby]

Hmmm not really, especially as it wouldn’t end up costing much less (maybe even slightly more) than official arcs, for what is an objectively worse product (hand soldered vs machine soldered.) I might consider making sets of wooden arc knobs for people, but even that would be surprisingly expensive because they’re a pain and I don’t really like making them, hence the “no more wooden knobs” rule

[marcus_fischer]

Norns / ER-301 micro system
16n is controlling both the 301 and MLR

marcus fischer

[coreyr]

This picture makes me so excited for my 16n!

[Rodrigo]

A friend who has moved out of Porto (and is an amazing sculptor/smith) has left some of his instruments with me for the time being.

The big stainless gong in particular is epic sounding.

The octopus looking one is meant to mount onto a tree stump so you get the resonance of the tree as well.

It’s crazy how different they all sound too. (If I’m not mistaken there’s stainless steel, B20, B8, and nickel silver in this picture)

[kburwash]

First time I’ve remembered to take a photo of my set up at a show in… forever…

[Cementimental]

DIY box operational not the greatest piece of carpentry but whatever

[Bxentric]

Do you find it handy having the cold mac next to maths? U assume you’re sending cv from maths to coldmac to control audio also fed into mac?

[alanza]

I actually didn’t consider that when putting my modules in the case! I knew I did not want to have an order that implied a signal flow (e.g. Mangrove is as far away as possible from my sequencers), and I wanted to break up my largest modules, Teletype, Maths and Just Friends, with smaller ones.

The patch I’ve been slowly developing this month so far uses Maths as an offset, an attenuverter and a very slow, subtle LFO. the LFO is sent to Cold Mac’s survey.

[Bxentric]

That’s a cool way to provide creative thinking for sure, thanks for your reply. That certainly gives me food for thought on how to look at patching, I have to admit I fell in the trap of thinking/looking at a modular case plan as the same flow as when I to used a synth keyboard.

[Cementimental]

Klingon war gong on the right there?

[Rodrigo]

Hehe, yeah he makes some funky gongs and such:

http://www.stevehubback.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Aegishjalmur-low-res.jpg

http://www.stevehubback.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16864113_1388943951178254_3446921035936675496_n.jpg

Sounds great too. It’s supposed to be amazing bowed, though my bows are elsewhere at the moment.

[b_w]

I was at a press conference for work earlier and saw this. Found it to be particularly sexy…

[abalone]

lunar new year studio re-configurations…

[Cementimental]

Even shoddier 2nd rack because I had some spare rails

[alanza]

goodbye mixer, hello MOTU (behind the Korg)

[ParanormalPatroler]

Would that be skolanpiano then? I’d be interested to find one of these in Skåne. We got cheated out of a pristine Yamaha piano a few months back (long story), and I’ve been meaning to buy one as a gift for my lady. This seems perfect and easy to accommodate in an apartment.

[bjarlstedt]

Or skolpiano. I thought the correct name for these were kantorpiano, but I don’t know…