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Dowi wrote:

friendship wrote: I have a couple other quibbles (would kill for a tuning knob on the snare, even a shared tuning knob for the two! and I wish the tom decay were longer--it goes from extremely short to very short) but all in all it's a really powerful machine, sounds great, and is fun to play! It feels like an instrument.

Tuning knob is a big missing element, agreed, as for the rest is really super fun to play with and along with.

For sure. Could always get a cheap pitch shifter too. Compressing the bejesus out of the toms helps a bit. I mean the short decay sounds cool but sometimes you wanna go ba-dooooink. It is simply the human condition.

Heraclitus Akimbo wrote:Got a last-minute offer to fill in at a pleasant little park gig today (with unseasonably warm shirtsleeve weather!) so I put together a very minimalist (by my standards) rig:

I love this. Are you using Zoia for a ton of things in this or...?

cosmicevan wrote:
I love this. Are you using Zoia for a ton of things in this or...?

Used Zoia for a few things... big reverb on the drones at the start, then a pitch-to-synth blip-bloop patch I made, and then some glitchy stuff at the end (Basement Show patch). But mostly in the middle when I was trying to be slow and swoopy I used the Loophole patch to stretch/smear the sounds coming from Pluto.

Dowi wrote:

friendship wrote:I got really bored yesterday and set up the Minibrute to run MIDI through the D-05 and to the Minitaur, and the audio outputs of all three are running into a submixer. 8 oscillators, 8 LFOs, 8 envelopes, pretty massive sound.

Minibrute+minitaur sounds like a huuuge amount of nasty bass

Update on this setup: it is entirely too easy to simply hold a single note and tweak settings on the three synths and the mixer in real time to make endlessly evolving drones, possibly while high. I forgot to mention the Moog runs through a stereo effects chain, and I make good use of the D-05's onboard stereo effects. The obvious next step is to run the Brute through my mono guitar chain which has reverb, delay, et al. Maybe I'll make some longform drones and then later play modal guitar stuff over it?

friendship wrote: Update on this setup: it is entirely too easy to simply hold a single note and tweak settings on the three synths and the mixer in real time to make endlessly evolving drones, possibly while high.

Is this even in doubt?

Finished product:




The Soul Bender is by itself on one OneSpot with an adapter for reverse polarity, and everything else is on the other. No hum, no need for a power brick. The tone Press and RC Booster are set to be always on, and the Soul Bender is in the fuzz "guest spot" to be swapped for other Fulltone fuzzes with reverse polarity. While this is not a setup I would use, it should be helpful for my friend whose brain breaks when he has too many wires to deal with.

Scientific board in full display!



Been living with this setup for about 3 weeks now and i am super happy, it has pretty much everything i need to write stuff or easy jamz on the fly.
Depending on what i want to do i occasionally change the order of the pedals without even moving them, i just plug longer cables for the rerouting.

W!O!W!

I'm taking a break from creating hundreds of albums and instead just sitting and playing guitar, so all my pedals are in their boxes and I'm messing around with one of these

Dowi wrote:Scientific board in full display!



Been living with this setup for about 3 weeks now and i am super happy, it has pretty much everything i need to write stuff or easy jamz on the fly.
Depending on what i want to do i occasionally change the order of the pedals without even moving them, i just plug longer cables for the rerouting.

now this is a danged board!

Rig for last night's set... making some synthy sounds and processing signals from my friend's amplified tap board (visible in the top left corner).

Heraclitus Akimbo wrote:Rig for last night's set... making some synthy sounds and processing signals from my friend's amplified tap board (visible in the top left corner).

Do you have any videos from your set? I'm always fascinated by this kind of setup being used live. Also a huge negativland fan so desktop setups are fun.

Confuzzled wrote: Do you have any videos from your set? I'm always fascinated by this kind of setup being used live. Also a huge negativland fan so desktop setups are fun.

Why, in fact:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ntbb2Y_I2Q

That was fantastic. Was this an impromptu live jam or did you have the tap dancer already in the project?

Confuzzled wrote:That was fantastic. Was this an impromptu live jam or did you have the tap dancer already in the project?

Pretty impromptu... but also playing into various backstories. I have a regular duo with Fuzzy (sitting on the floor), so we know each others' headspace pretty well. (Album coming soon!) And I've played with Mike, the dancer, before, though usually when he's on bass, his usual instrument. But we all know each other's vibes, so even if this was his first public tap performance, we had some notion of what to expect. We talked in advance about working with his contact mic output from the pedal board... if there'd been time for a practice I could have done more there, esp. with sending taps into my l'il synth — literal tap tempo!