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[disquiet]

Five minutes outta the box, two quick proofs of concept — first as a VCA via the ADDAC mixer on my Eurorack (via an offset, the WMD S.P.O.), and then put to various uses on VCV Rack. Many thanks to @okyeron for the build.

Now I need to upgrade my ER-301, and hook up my TXb.

[Starthief]

At first glance I thought the faderbank was built into your laptop’s hand rest area

[disquiet]

Space bars are so 2018.

[Starthief]

If Apple can get rid of eject buttons on floppy drives, second mouse buttons, headphone jacks, USB ports than aren’t C, etc. then why not the spacebar too?

[XiXora]

Some would argue they are phasing out the space bar by making a laptop keyboard that commonly has a space bar that doesn’t work.

[P1505]

I can’t use non Apple keyboards. Anything else feels like tapping a steam powered piece of iron ore.

They aren’t what they used to be, but I’d not use anything else.

[xenus_dad]

Oh them’s fighting words but not for this thread.

[AlessandroBonino]

My minimal (and only) setup this month.

[boboter]

In order to really get to know the A4, I threw together this project setup. Had to swap out the Fostex due to some playback issues. But I really dig where this combo leads me.

A4 provides all the sounds while Coco and Fostex are re-sampling/looping them. Then they are rooted back into the A4 for fx.

[b_w]

Can you walk us through that VCA patch? Very curious.

[infovore]

it’s literally: one fader mapped to V/Oct of an oscillator, one mapped to CV of the VCA, oscillator into VCA, VCA into output.

Or, more simply: one fader controls pitch, the other volume. That’s it.

[disquiet]

I may be doing something wrong, but when using the 16n with my Eurorack I need to employ an offset. Otherwise the zero on the 16n doesn’t correlate with actual silence on my VCA. So,it’s fader -> offset -> VCA.

[infovore]

does it correlate with, like, “almost silence”? (There is a thing about how 16n scales that might mean this is the case.)

[disquiet]

I’m not sure I’d call it “almost silence,” but I mostly listen to ambient music, so my definition of silence may differ from others’. It gets very quiet, but I couldn’t without an offset use the fader to turn off one of the mixer’s five channels.

[Jonny]

Did you order or build yours? I recall Michigan Synthworks had some issues with log vs linear faders.

[disquiet]

I ordered. Are other folks finding that zero on the 16n fader can zero out a VCA? If anyone happens to have an ADDAC802 and a 16n and can test, I’d appreciate it. Thanks.

[P1505]

Here’s my baby setup. The £5 speakers add colour! The Arturia stand will gradually fill up with Eurorack gear, still not sure what. For now though this stuff plus the Norns (ordered) will keep me busy.

[Puscha]

My 16n just arrived from @MichiganSynthWorks, it really is a beautiful piece of minimalist design

Jacob Richards

[coreyr]

I give you the cheap-o-cello!

While looking through Tony Conrad images, I came across his LSD(Long String Drone) instrument and decided that I should just make one for myself. The original (from what I can find) had all three strings tuned to the same note, had a flat bridge and wa played with a guitar slide.

I had this setup that way for a bit, it makes great lap steel tones, but only has 3 strings, it’s weird to fret, and I wanted to give bowing a try. I have tried several heights, shapes, pickup positions, curved top nuts, flat ones, no nut, and my current favorite: the zip tie nut! I can switch between the guitar pickup and a contact mic that is wedged in there.

Having a lot of fun integrating it with voice and modular, building up textural loops with w/ filtered and fedback with 3 sis. Just waiting on an a-177-2 to show so I can set the w/ loop feedback levels/punch in while playing!

[caelmore]

Your post made me look up Conrad’s original LSD instrument, which led me to this wonderful essay from an exhibition at the Walker Art Center:

http://walkerart.org/collections/publications/art-expanded/moment-enlightenment-sound-tony-conrad-long-string-drone/