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Hi there! What's been on your mind? What have you done this week? Any fun plans next week?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just got an Elektron Model:Cycles and it’s as fun as I was hoping for! Excited to actually complete a track with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That looks quite fun! Much more affordable than some of their other stuff too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last week I finally decided to bite the bullet and upgrade from my mixer/zoom interface setup to an Apollo x6. Also ordered the JU-06a so it will be an exciting week.

Over the weekend, the husband and I traded synths (he now has the Prophet Rev2 and I have the Behringer Deepmind 6). Makes me realize how much I hate the workflow of the Deepmind even though it sounds good and also made my husband want a prophet lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Deepmind was the first synth I returned to the store for a refund - did not care for that workflow at all. At the time it was a compelling feature set for the price, but there are so many more options now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Arturia is doing a sale on their software synths. I'm resisting the temptation to add to my collection, but I figure someone here might be interested.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve been eying pigments. They might just win me over now. I’m a huge fan of their V Collection.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After using analog lab and being disappointed in it, I find it hard to be interested in their stand-alone synths. I find the analog lab sounds flat and fake. I have heard good things from others online about the stand-alones, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hear a lot of good things about Pigments, but it's a tough sell when Vital does most of the same things for free.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pigments is pretty nice even alongside vital. Haven't used it much but the additive stuff and granular was fun. Filter and effect section is nice too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started building a new eurorack module, and I'm finding my SMD soldering skills are pretty rusty. Between work and spending time with my family, I don't get much time to practice, and when I do I'm either sleepy or a bit jittery from caffeine. Still, I think I enjoy building and playing my rack enough to keep going with it, even if I mostly just plonk out a scale or twist a couple knobs when I get the chance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh that’s cool! Are there any particular modules you are building currently? I’m building an entire rack of my own with a Thomas Henry 555 vco, soviet waveshaper, kassutronics ladder filter, meebilt ADSR and a VCA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last year I basically dove straight in and built two nonlinearcircuits modules, an oscillator and a PLL/divider thing, and I've got kits for a filter and a phaser. Right now I'm building an MMI Attenumults. It's not very complicated, but I wanted to get the hang of sourcing my own parts. Are yours all thru-hole kits? That seems like the way to go. I got drawn in by NLC's designs and ended up having to buy an oscilloscope to troubleshoot my wonky SMD oscillator build.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My boards (I’m not buying kits, just ordering PCB’s from JLCPCB) are a mix of smd and through hole. I do not mind SMD that much, but I like it since storing spare parts is way easier as they take up less space. And for tools I just go to my local hackerspace, since there are some other eurorack diy enthusiasts over there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got a Roland JP8000 off of Reverb this week. It's been 15 years since I lost my first one, so I have a bit of refamiliarising to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That sounds like loads of fun. Roland makes such great synths. I have thought about buying one of the synths I used to have (Alesis Micron) but then keep stopping myself because I remember how much menu diving it had.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I worked on my dnb ep. All made from scratch including live instruments band ana synths no loops or patches etc.

First two seem worthwile listening. Have to think a little about arrangements as I find the buildups a bit annoying these days. Heard a dj set recently where they just put one buildup and drop right to the one of the next song. So its a constant break and drop :D This is shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been working on some live visualisations to make my time in the studio even more fun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you looking for something like the eyesy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was, but it's really not available anywhere. I also tried building my own using RaspberryPi but gave up because the software is pretty outdated, so getting it to run was more of a challenge than I was ready for at that point.

Right now I am learning to use Resolume. I am working with Resolume Avenue right now but considering switching to Resolume Wire to get a bit more flexibility.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am curious what you come up with. Keep us posted!