Good to hear, hope to see you in the stream! When there is an update to any device i’ll post on here as well as instagram stories pinned to highlights. The device date in the update zone on smartphones.info will also change.

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I’m not aware of a stream? Did it happen already?

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Saturday 10/3! Going over a lot of stuff like composition and live performance. It’ll be at 4pm est and I’ll remind everyone closer to the date:)

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about a month ago, i had the very sincere honor of speaking with @rjonline00 at length about smartphones, his perspectives as an artist, and his patching process. dude is funny as fuck and really casually brilliant. our conversation was super motivating, so i wrote it up and made some patchers to adapt any m4l device for the smartphones network and am so so excited that jr’s leading today’s cycling '74 newsletter!

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YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

smartphone adapters!

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Remember when I accidentally deleted the audio recording and we had to do the first half over again?🤦:joy: Thank you so so much for this. I’m happy we got to share our ideas and pretty much agree on everything. Very very very inspiring. Thank you​:pray::fire::pray::fire::pray:

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Link? would love to see this!
investing into new devices today

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Haven’t seen this mentioned on lines yet – looking forward to the Smartphones lead m4l masterclass :innocent:

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Thanks for the link! Got some super cool stuff planned for this. Sooo excited!

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CCf7dIyhMjK/?igshid=1e2oh3a5mwlnd Here’s one! Monome crow and i2c connection with eurorack. Sounds insane. Hospital food is also a must have.

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@rjonline00 lil pup is such an intriguing random sequencer, ty!

curious how do i get started w dial? i can’t seem to figure out how to map specific params.

for example how would i use the triggers to cross modulate the delay times in echo? etc etc etc

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Thank you! So for smartphones to modulate a parameter like echo’s delay time, you want to first map that parameter to either [vol] or [env]. After that, match the text for one of dials pink sends to the receiver controlling the mapping. Then set the dial send trigger value to 1 and play a midi note thru the chain. You should then see some knobs moving!

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thanks i’ll give that a try!

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I bought these devices some time back but for whatever reason (probably laziness) I couldn’t figure out how to use them effectively… until this past week when everything clicked and oh my god it’s full of stars

The ability to wreak (semicontrollable) havok across multiple lanes and multiple devices is wonderful. This is so clever! (FUN THING TO DO: put the rotating rhythm generator from CV Tools in front of Dial & let shit go haywire)

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Yess! Glad you’re getting that hang of them. It’s really cool to hear about first reactions v when ā€œit clicksā€. Super inspiring:)

Love that CV tools idea. I also like to use dial as a clock divider for those generated sequences that aren’t necessarily 4/4

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Ah, that’s a great idea! I’ll try that.

Also, if I could be so bold as to submit a feature request: it would be neat to have the option to play note sequences into ring steps like you can for passcode.

Thanks so much for these devices – they’re opening up Live in a totally new way for me!

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EXCELENT idea :bulb: I’m on it:)

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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/algorithmic-sound-3-rj-clark-smartphones-tickets-126449536969 This is at 2 pm est today! There are still some spots available. Come learn about performance theory and how I use Ableton’s instrument rack to organize my patches. See you there!

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Love Smartphones but still pretty confused by it. Not free at stream time so don’t want to occupy a spot if it’s limited. Will this be recorded?

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These devices look so cool @rjonline00 ! I’m going to dig deeper into this to understand better how to use them. Did a little session with lilpup last week and it was very inspiring.
Watching @edison going wild with this on IG totally blows my mindā­ļø

Wasn’t able to cath the stream last night. Hope a recording will be available later!

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