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[zengomi]

Doing this

[smbols]

Ahhhh, it’s finally real! I’ve been wanting to put this hands-on playable skiff together for months. It was supposed to be 104hp so it’s not quite what I was hoping for, but it’s a ton of fun to play! I’ve only had a few sessions with it so far and I’ve been using the lightplane to trigger notes and alter timbre depending on where I strike it, and the ribbon controller for pitch.

Gotta see if I can reduce my little 1u zoom switch down to 2hp so I can fit a Line In module in there because I really want to attach a contact mic to the Lightplane.

[coreyr]

Might I suggest moving the zoom switch in to the same panel as the ribbon strip? Maybe toggle left right instead of up down so that the body of the switch behind the panel still fits inside the rails?

[smbols]

Genius! I would have never thought of that. I’ll just have to find someone who can drill the hole for me.

[Starthief]

What do you think of the Lightplane? I have the Lightstrip but honestly mostly use it as a gate, and prefer physical sliders most of the time. Having pressure and two dimensions has a bit more appeal to me in theory though.

[smbols]

Well I’ve only had it a few days so I my opinion may change. So far I like it though. It’s very responsive and the “pressure” sensitivity is more usable than I expected it to be. It feels really good to control the synth with it, it makes for a very natural interaction.

I have two main complaints with it. First is that the surface area of the touch plate is quite small and I find myself wanting for a longer travel. Second is that it won’t output gates in the hold mode which I don’t understand at all. The gate output just does nothing in hold mode. You could probably send the Z output through a comparator as a workaround, but I haven’t tested that out yet.

[coreyr]

I’ve got one too, I think I’d prefer a joystick module at this point or for the hp, I would prefer 2 or 3 of the LS. There is some aliasing on the xy position. But you can’t beat the price for xyz control with voltage recording.

[sellanraa]

Working on some physical modeling zones for a set Saturday night, broke it down the next morning to get ready for a duo set with my friend playing baritone sax and clarinet. So I went with the Walk and Planar for a super gestural case. Loving the fiddling with small case approaches.

[gigasturtz]

Curious to know how you are using the planar these days. I find myself using it the same way (boring old filter cutoff modulation) almost always but know it’s capable of a lot more.

[sellanraa]

In this case, it’s pretty vanilla. X is pitch, which is sent to offset/attenuverter then uScale then slew on Noise Tools. Y is the FM input on Three Sisters. I want it to this case to be like a weird horn basically. Come out Thursday to Kaiju and hear what Jim and I try to pull off. Fall break = I am leaving the house some!

[gigasturtz]

I’ll try to make it out but work has been kicking my butt (and will continue to do so for the next couple of weeks)

[ParanormalPatroler]

I have my zoom switch ON the d0. There’s enough room for it and all it takes is one hole. This Mungo thread has a post about this!

Clever use of the Lightplane as a strike surface. Never thought of that before.
Even more so with the addition of a mic.

[Puscha]

This is looking and feeling amazing. Will take out the FxDf for crow (on its way), and eventually mount the Please Exist internally with the blind 1u panel as an interface running into two new jacks drilled into the rear (the other Intellijel ones are used as a stereo send/return) and will remove the ModBox to fit another Just Friends in the leftover space.

[smbols]

Yeah I love what you did with yours. It scares me to take the thing apart, given how fragile they seem to be, but that would really be the most convenient solution. What kind of drill did you use for the hole?

[ParanormalPatroler]

I used a standard drill for concrete. Mind you, I bought a replacement panel for the d0 from grayscale and drilled that. I followed the info from the Mungo channel and it worked. Just made sure that the hole would be in a place that doesn’t create a fuss.

I’m considering the LP1 now … I like the idea of being able to strike a different area to get a different result of the strike. And Z would be used as a “velocity” parameter. Nice!

[Irving]

I haven’t posted here in a while. Something about the only constant being change.

[kirklandish]

Is that an old Roland system? I’ve always wanted to try one of those

[Irving]

On the left is a System 100m and on the right is a System 100 model 101 and 102. They are my favorite things.

[mystasea]

Ive used a borrowed 100m extensively and pretty much learned my modular generative chops on it. It is one of my favourite synths I ever used and when I listen back to those recordings there is something truly special in that vintage tone. Used to chain square LFO’s into each other and into the 172 gate delay for rhythms and that was wild fun.

[infovore]

I’d love to hear some of your use of this with a piano - got any links?