#792

Sorry for the delay, life is crazy right now, but here’s a couple videos of the Vortices in action. Wrote up some notes and thoughts in case that helps anyone as well! I’m in love with this thing.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJG-elIDF3Z/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJG_Ne1Bpao/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://www.alexandertebeleff.com/post/ssf-vortices-mixer-feedback-make-noise-rene-2-sequencing-and-mixing-with-saturation

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#793

Wow that’s spicy. Lovely patches and the way it seems to distort is really nice. There’s a lot of low end but it doesn’t seem farty which it feels like a lot of clipping of that sort seems to turn into in my experience. Well done!

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#794

Ughhhhhhhhh. I already have a Soundforce DCO which I’m a huge fan of, but this is making me feel like I need the C+P too. I’m just a sucker for the Juno sound.

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#795

Get the Castor and Pollux and you are one step closer to a poly eurorack 106!

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#796

Even better, 2 Castor and Pollux, plus a Harmonaig, and I have chords + a lead voice! And no room in my case. Haha.

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#797

My friend @crystal_dolls made a walkthrough to show some of the many features
of the upcoming Oxi One :slight_smile:

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#798

I’m sure it’s out of my price range and I don’t speak Chinese so I don’t actually know too much about it, but the refresh rate on this 23" e-ink monitor gets me excited for whenever prices come down for e-ink displays. Though that might be a while because of patents.

Dasung has another 13" display that seems like the refresh rate might be fast enough to run a tracker but I’m not going to drop a grand to find out. That plus a Raspberry Pi 4 and a mechanical keyboard would be a fun way to have tracker style sequencing without burning my eyes out after a day of coding for work.

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#799

I’m so glad e-ink keeps getting some love and innovation, to my eyes it always felt much more like “the future” than going 4k, 8k and whatever and always having bigger screens. I remember when I first had an e-reader in my hands, I immediately wanted all my screens to be just like that but with the responsiveness of usual touchscreen / computer monitors.

Sadly since they’re not competing with all the HDR / crazy refresh rates and stupid fps battles of videogames, they seem to be kind of the odd duck of tech innovation. So this is super promising and encouraging to me!

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#800

I love the idea of a task computer with an e-ink screen. If the refresh rate can just keep up with reasonably quick typing and a few other things, I think it would preferable in a lot of ways.

edit - looking at the price of their 13" e-ink screen, I can already see that this 25" screen probably won’t be in my near future. hope this catches on and gets a little more accessible.

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#801

e-ink and e-readers are an underrated technology. I have a very nice Kobo reader, but getting books has not been real easy. What logic is there to the ePub version of a book being listed at a much higher price than the paper printed one?

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#802

there is no logic. It’s a very conservative market that is not particularly interested of electronic publishing.

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#803

One would think that ePub would be the perfect medium for small run academic publications. I was referred to an interesting sound art publication lately that lists for $153.00 for the hardcover book. The ePub version is $122.40.

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#804

My ideal computer would be something like Alan Kay’s vision for the Dynabook running a fully open-source OS, with a fast-refresh e-ink or Sharp Memory display - and definitely a physical keyboard.

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#805

What was the publication?

#806

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies

#807

It’s the profit strategy of some academic publishers, aiming mainly for selling to academic libraries. A closed capitalist circuit for the distribution of knowledge.

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#808

We’ve been working really hard on a new set of VCV modules for the next Magus Instrumentalis release. The idea was to take some of the emulations of hardware components from David Dunn’s chaotic synthesizer that our engineer David Kant has been working on for the past several years and translate them into usable modules. Along the way we developed a really nice analog LPG emulation.

Today I discovered it can do a convincing TB-303 Squelch and a passable 909 Kick. I decided to make a goofy acid house patch in VCV when I found that out. I’m really excited about the sounds we’re getting out of this new set:

All sounds are either standard VCV stuff (the oscillators are built in OSCs from VCV for example) or they are made from our modules. Choatic LFOs, Vactrol Emulations, LPGs (with a lot of control of resonance, drive and saturation), etc. Extremely light delay and reverb from Valhalla at the end, otherwise untouched.

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#809

By any chance is this the same David Dunn?

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#810

Yeah, we’ve been working/studying with him for years (I think DK and DD have been working together for close to a decade). He’s helping out on this set and has been a big part of what we’re doing. We’re going to host a sort of interview/chat with him soon. We’re going to put patches together for performing some of his scores and release them with our next set.

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#811

Wow, that’s really awesome!

Any chance of turning his ideas into physical eurorack modules???

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