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[infovore]

More to show in about four weeks’ time. But suffice to say: a thing I’ve been working on. (Yes, it has MIDI out. It can play in all manner of scales. It has another interesting trick up its sleeve.)

[knecht]

@infovore - that looks intriguing!

@myecholalia - i echo ezra’s comments on the eastwood warren ellis tenor - some of the best money i’ve spent they are really versatile guitars and lend themselves to all manor of interesting tunings - i have a couple, the twin pick-up in black and cream and a single blade pick-up in cherry - both look stunning and are pictured below with my recently acquired hologram dream sequence.

i was inspired to get the tenors because the late lamented jason molina played them and also because idaho exclusively play them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ZksR3hrTI

[Heath]

What’s the white box in the top left corner? Big fan of your work btw!

[dan_derks]

been jamming around Chicago with a bud before he leaves for Seattle in the summer. improvised soundscapes and ambient made from processing his microKORG and my Pocket Piano through Block Party. such a fun way to work, thank you @Rodrigo!!

[sellanraa]

It looks like some weird controller that my friend Robert/Three Legged Race used back in the day. If it is, I can’t recall the brand/model, but it was SUPER cool and useful.

[marcus_fischer]

thanks! it’s a doepfer pocket fader. it’s just a box with 16 faders. i’ve had it forever and love it.

[kza]

Haha what a nice coincidence. I just started another thread about mininalist and compact 16 fader boxes like the pocket fader

[kisielk]

Shot from a show I played this past Friday. I’m in the middle manipulating the Eurorack…

It was a jam format show. 20-something performers in 3s or 4s, with one performer swapping out for another every 30 minutes. It didn’t go as well as my other show a couple of weeks ago. I wasn’t very prepared due to my apartment building being broken into the weekend prior and me dealing with the fallout of that the whole weekend instead of practicing… and also a series of technical difficulties and poor monitoring during the show itself. Coupled with the fact that I’d never played with any of the performers before, it was a bit of a mess. I still had fun, I guess…

[michael_matos]

[glia]

how you liking the VC?

[michael_matos]

I’m enjoying lzx’s new approach to module design. Having multiple functions in one unit simplifies patching and allows one to get into the process quicker. This case is a sidecar to my main lzx rig. But I love the fact that I can get interesting results straight from this case, then mix it with the main case to add complex visual layering. Really looking forward to the lzx releases this year.

[ioflow]

now that most of the issues are out of the way, i made this first modular song with this:

joshua saddler

[koerby]

Saturday Jam Session

[rbxbx]

Lovely little setup and track! Didn’t realize ebows worked with acoustic instruments as well. Hm.

[ioflow]

thank you! the ebow works on pretty much anything with metal strings. note: since the tension of these harp strings is much greater than that of guitar strings, the ebow won’t work well, or at all, on notes higher than the middle string. the ebow is very quiet and takes awhile to fade in at that point, since it’s designed to excite comparatively looser guitar strings.

[sgnhh]

trying out mobile upload …

[glia]

fellow ND user, nice!

also the reality of isms is absurd…please record for us bystanders

[dan_derks]

featured: tacos, beer, periscope.

[sgnhh]

yeah I need to get my recording setup going. now that everything is back together that shouldn’t be too hard to do.

[infovore]

if it’s got metal strings, it’s a goer.