Gear lust

[paradigm_x]

Also, where does one spam vinyl releases on here these days? Google lahj cccraw ...

Lahjin up de area.

Sick record man [/quote]

Many thanks

[knobgoblin]

Colorado is a great place to live, especially if you are into outdoors stuff. I lived there for 6 years and have family that I visit often. California is also great! Check out the Bay Area if you are thinking of making a move, I much prefer it to LA.

[nowaysj]

Major agree re LA. Don't even consider it. Downside of the bay - second most expense place in the US to live. Rent is very high. Home ownership is mostly limited to investors, people who rode and played the first bubble, and tech couples who pull in $300k+ a year. There are outlying communities/thug communities where you can get a condo for like $400k. I've got some friends that found a condo they could afford, 400, 500 something like that, they offered to put 20% down and they lost the place to an all cash buyer. As I understand it, these cash buyers are just shutting everyone else out. That is southbay/san jose and surrounding communities.

Was just reading about a UN rep suggesting relocating people out of California because of the inability to sustain the current population with available water (there are sections of the central valley that have dropped 20feet from the collapse of underground aquifers).

Personally, I'd find a place in the southern hemisphere if I were relocating.

[knobgoblin]

Hells yeah! My missing parts just arrived. Gonna grab some lunch, then come back and install and should be able to post some examples tonight!

[knobgoblin]

unfortunately I F'ed up one of the modules power somehow...only positive voltage coming in and out.

On the plus side, the other one works and sounds bad ass! Gonna finish up the mechanical assempbly stuff and then do a quick demo for you guys, in mono tho

[knobgoblin]

Ok, here's a quick run thru of what I did. The audio is a short snippet of a surf-ish track I am recording for a band. Drums, ukelele, and guitar. Made it mono and then ran it thru each of the three colors, in order of subtlest to most extreme. I did three different saturation amounts per color. At the start is the mono-ized version of the instrumental mixdown. I also put to dry version at the start of each color demo, so the format is: dry, color 1 setting 1, color 1 setting 2, color 1 setting 3, dry, color 2 setting 1, etc.

Its pretty impossible to absolutely match levels with a processor like this, but I did make them fairly close in terms of perceptual loudness (other than the extreme settings where they are both much louder but also much smaller waveforms )

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zjcmcw06di8hc ... t_Demo.wav

Keep in mind this is on an entire mix down. Im sure it will be able to do all sorts of crazy things on individual tracks. Maybe tomorrow I'll post individual elements like kick, bass, snare, etc. Send me something if you want to hear what it can do on your material

Edit, forgot to say, color 1 is the cinemag transformer, color 2 is the 15ips tape sim, color three is the TM79 double transformer module

[wub]

Just found this site;

http://www.matrixsynth.com/

suitably nerdy with some of the videos they have, for example;



Kit List

4 ms Peg, QCD² / Exp², QPLFO, RCD²,VCA Matrix
Analogue Systems RS 100²,RS110²²,RS 360²,RS 500e²
Arp Odyssey 2821 white noise
Bananalogue Serge VCS
Doepfer A 114²,A118, A134²²,A141, A143-1/2,A148,A149-1
A151²²,A152, A160/161/162, A175²²,A185-2'³, A 138a²²b²²c²²²
Flame Chord Machine²,FX16
flight of harmony choices
Grendel Formant Filter²
Intellijel designs µ mod
Make Noise Brains,Pressure Points², Maths²,Moddemix²²
Optomix,QMMG,René, Wogglebug²
Malekko Anti ²² ,Uncle³,Jag
Moog Taurus 2,Freqbox ²²,MP201
Oberheim Sem
Roland System 104 Sequencer
SSL Modulation Orgy
Tip Top Audio Z8000 manual voltage source
Toppobrillo,Quantimator², Sportmodulator,TWF²
Logic masterclock to Kenton Pro 2000²
FX :Alesis 3630, Aphex Model 104,Boss VF1,BSS DPR 402,
Lexicon MX 400,Line6 Echopro, MXR Phase 100,TC M3000
mackie the mixer³
morse key :TSM² Vocoder / switch and trigger


Sweet. Baby. Jesus.

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^How much does anyone think just the cabling cost there massive setup!

[wub]

[nowaysj]

^How much does anyone think just the cabling cost there massive setup!

Get your dry cleaning, get your electrical tape...

[paradigm_x]

Ok, here's a quick run thru of what I did. The audio is a short snippet of a surf-ish track I am recording for a band. Drums, ukelele, and guitar. Made it mono and then ran it thru each of the three colors, in order of subtlest to most extreme. I did three different saturation amounts per color. At the start is the mono-ized version of the instrumental mixdown. I also put to dry version at the start of each color demo, so the format is: dry, color 1 setting 1, color 1 setting 2, color 1 setting 3, dry, color 2 setting 1, etc.

Its pretty impossible to absolutely match levels with a processor like this, but I did make them fairly close in terms of perceptual loudness (other than the extreme settings where they are both much louder but also much smaller waveforms )

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zjcmcw06di8hc ... t_Demo.wav

Keep in mind this is on an entire mix down. Im sure it will be able to do all sorts of crazy things on individual tracks. Maybe tomorrow I'll post individual elements like kick, bass, snare, etc. Send me something if you want to hear what it can do on your material

Edit, forgot to say, color 1 is the cinemag transformer, color 2 is the 15ips tape sim, color three is the TM79 double transformer module

Nice one man. Those colour kits are pretty reasonably priced, and some of the simpler ones could easily be built on stripboard. Ill have a listen and a look into them later. Theres a colour 1176ln!!!

Nice juan.

Cheers
Ben

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Korg just announced a boat load of new products for 2015. http://www.korg.com/us/news/2014/090302/ Including...

Two new Electribes and a Volca Sampler!

Word on the street at the moment is the Electribes will come in around 4-500. They include FX from the King Korg and Kaosspad series. Basically all the awesome shit Korg has come up with recently will be included on the Electribes. MIDI and 1/8th inch Sync. The Electribe sampler looks deep! I think I'll be having one of those : )

[wub]

Hopefully this means the market in earlier model Electribes will drop out a bit

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Hopefully this means the market in earlier model Electribes will drop out a bit

I can only imagine it would. I wouldn't even pay 300 for an SD ESX if I could have a new, supported (hopefully less noisy) sampling Electribe for 500. I wouldn't even pay 300 for a NOS SD ESX at that point. I mean shit, the new sampler even has a proper synth engine in it!

I'm a bit disappointed by the lack of extra outs on the sampling Electribe, the ESX had two stereo pairs you could fake into 4 mono outs.

[nowaysj]

In this day and age all samplers should at least have two stereo outs. I'd beg for Roland to put two on the 404, one set for music, and one for drums.

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In this day and age all samplers should at least have two stereo outs. I'd beg for Roland to put two on the 404, one set for music, and one for drums.

Yea its like Korg wants us to buy both Electribes so we can have the option to post process synths and drums differently... But yea. It seems a bit ridiculous to me. From the looks of the design though, especially with the 1/8th inch Sync...Korg are selling this sampler as a piece of the puzzle, not the end of the signal chain. 16 parts and one stereo output seems like an imbalance ;p

[wub]

Part of its upcoming autumn line of products, Korg has revealed two new versions of its well-regarded Electribe series of hardware production stations. The forthcoming electribe and the electribe sampler (yes, these new versions officially use the lower-case "e") feature new sound engines as well as 16 velocity-sensitive pads, amongst a host of other updated capabilities.

The electribe focuses on sound generation and live performance, and features updated synth engines which boasts 409 oscillator waveforms covering both analog modeling and PCM (the PCM engine is said to provide "mainly rhythm sounds, but also covers multisamples for keyboard"). Furthermore, the sounds can be generously manipulated using the unit's switchable filters and modulation parameters, and can be further honed using per-part effects and groove templates. The updated version of the electribe also takes a big step into the computer age, being able to internally save and export patterns in Ableton Live format.

The electribe sampler appears to be a very similar unit, still featuring the analog modeling engine, but dropping the PCM engine in exchange for space to store up to 999 preset and user samples, with a maximum of 270 seconds of sampling time for each mono file, or half that amount of time for stereo files.

Full details for the electribe can be found here while full details for the electribe sampler can be found here. In addition, Create Digital Music has put together a detialed breakdown of the two forthcoming units which can be read here. A brief teaser for the electribe can be watched below; at this time the pricing and availability for either unit has not been shared.

[cyclopian]

this new volca box looks quite fun, will prob add it to the arsenal when it drops

http://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/volca_sample/

[nowaysj]

Looks OP-1 ish mixed with electrib ish.

Street price?

If only I had the capacity to do evil, I'd drop a few k on all these, on just a big old table top of these little analog toys.

Fucking wub, what is the deal with the Micro Granny? Ever come in?

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Apparently you can only load samples on that volca w an iOS device....btw.... (that is a huge stupid fail imo)