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[lanserdj]

@vytis How do you like the Harmonic Oscillator?

[vytis]

@lanserdj

Oh I love it. I’d say it’s become the centre of my system and big part of my sound. I run its outputs through the Erica Synths tube mixer and that gives a lot of flexibility for shaping the sound. However, it’s absolutely great for pseudo-polyphonic percussive patches with 4 x low pass gates, in my case the Sputnik Quad VCF/VCA. Send 4 of its harmonic outputs to separate lpgs and ping them using triggers from multiple clock sources. Lots of flexibility. It can be used in many scenarios. In fact, I’ve just finished a rock’n’roll inspired album (including vocals, no drums) where the main and often only sound source is the very Verbos Harmonic Oscillator you see in this photo. The record is at the mastering engineer at the moment. So yeah, HO is here to stay.

[Cementimental]

Fixed up a gameboy today: added a backlight which I bought in 2012 and never got round to… GB back lighting technology has moved on a lot, I had to look up ancient instructions on archived sites and messed it up a bit but finally got it working. Tried to bivert it (a mod which inverts then uninverts to improve the contrast) but that didn’t work so for now it’s just inverted which looks cool anyway. Had already done the prosound mod years ago but now changed some capacitors for supposedly better bass frequency range, and added a power filtering cap which doesn’t seem to do much. Oh and new pink screen cover

Now to properly (re)learn Nanoloop!

Edit: just fixed a second one, no mods or backlight, just fixed vertical lines on the screen and cleaned the corroded battery contacts. Has no speaker for some reason? And didn’t bother with the pro-sound mod since it sounds OK and I feel I should have the option of authentic original gameboy sound with a bit of hiss.

Bricolage-fixing gameboys is very calming and satisfying to me

[Rodrigo]

How high are my Vicoustic panels off my desk? About a walnut monome’s height.

(had a couple panels slide down and fall off the wall before the glue cured and didn’t want to take any more chances)

You may be asking yourself, how is the panel on the left being held up? An arc 2 of course…

[andrew]

and they said the old monomes weren’t still useful today - clearly wrong

[Clashley1]

Have been wondering if you still used these. Good to see people are coming up with new applications for these devices

[instantjuggler]

Any chance you can port this to norns??

[wormhole]

not having much success with ipad —> es fh-1, but i’d like to

[ruaridhTVO]

Someone may find interesting: here’s an interface I’ve been working on with a friend, using arduino and ROLI lightblocks. It reads RFID tagged tarot cards to trigger audio and video in Max, and also controls how the audio interacts (video too, but still WIP) between the three cards using x/y finger position

You can see it in use here:
44 Live

And here’s a bit about the Hows and Whys:
44 - A Tarot For Sietse Van Erve

[caelmore]

Just heard about this on @darwingrosse’s podcast the other day. Welcome to lines!

[ThanosF]

Great system! Can you share the album you made with it or any live shows? I’m curious. I always have the feeling that my system is not enough for long shows.

[Rodrigo]

Sadly I don’t have enough monome gear for the far-side wall, so I had to come up with a solution that is both more low tech and more high tech.

Plus my funky guitar wall.

[Random]

Just as long as you are totally on the level with this solution. But it looks like you are.

[Rodrigo]

Yeah, I would periodically check with a level (seen peeking in on the left) and adjust if necessary. Also did a bunch of drawings and some math to figure out the spacing and where to draw lines on the wall (so @Angela can peek behind with a flashlight and line up the foam with the appropriate spacing lines).

Without something like a laser level (more expensive than one would think!), this has been quite time consuming. I’m on day 3, of likely 6-7 putting these things up.

[Random]

My only concern, levelling with you, is that you may have used digital math, not analog math.

If the spacing is analog, then what is it analogous to?

But seriously, I love it and it would be cool to directly parse it into tones as an alternative expression of musical notation…

My back wall in my studio has swords on it and I’m not about to run a contact mic up and down that.

[shortsleeves]

First steps with my new minimal setup.

[fahmi_m]

[thopa]

Time to start joining cases

[mrsoundboyking]

hello, Very cool. Can you tell more about the Circular Instrument in the lower left?

[thopa]

Its called the Polaron,
Its a diy drum machine teensy based, reminds me a lot of the patterning app.
Easy to build, sounds good!
The maker is a nice fella too
More info here:

zueblin/Polaron