Wibbles

Toot, toot

Shankar - Song For Everyone. Not the best recording, but fantastic nonetheless.

More here:

41 minutes ago, Notes_Norton said:

... you can't have too much music.

That sounds like a challenge. 

*This seems to be UK only*

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https://store.focusrite.com/en-gb/product/itrack-one-pre/MOIS0012~MOIS0012

I seem to have gone deaf. Or was the track mixed by John Cage?

1 hour ago, Johnbee58 said:

Just wondering-My Focusrite interface is a Scarlett 6i6.  It has an AC adapter and requires being plugged into an AC outlet.  Focusrite interfaces below the 6i6 (the 2i2, for instance) get their power strictly from the computer and do not require AC.  Why is this?

I'm guessing it might be down to the number of inputs/pre-amps.

https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/focusrite-scarlett-6i6-scarlett-studio

It's an Illuminati conspiracy. 

1 hour ago, Michael Vogel said:

Is Dolphin a euphemism for crocodile? Safety conscious swimmers want to  know. Yikes!

Er ... "smoking weed and swimming with dolphins".

4 hours ago, bitflipper said:

I hope you're all celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day properly by dropping some cash onto a roulette table.

No,  I was too busy being a pedant. 

14 hours ago, JoeGBradford said:

Wow it sounds great - I can see me using that in the piece I'm working on scoring a circuit of the TT!

You can get the full version for $25 at KVR Marketplace at the moment. 

1 hour ago, kennywtelejazz said:

 

Let us know what you think one you get it installed . Also thanks for the other synth recommendations .

 

Kenny

I completely forgot about that. Anyway, I've just installed it without any problems.

One issue for me is my laptop has a screen resolution of 1600 x 900, and this thing is just too big for it. Further, being shallow, there's something about the style of the graphics that doesn't sit with me. And I don't like plug-ins with a built in shop.

I've had a quick play with a few of the presets and nothing's made we go "Wow!" yet. And there're a few sounds that are downright unpleasant to my ears.

I suspect it's something that will soon be put to one side and forgotten about, but then most of my little ditties are 90% based on 303/808/909 emulations. 

4 minutes ago, InstrEd said:

@Wibbles  The Fathom Synth really looks interesting.

I must admit I've not had much of a play with it yet myself - I picked it up for $5 from KVR a while back. My nearly 7 year old laptop struggled with it a bit. But apparently there have been significant performance improvements and I really need to revisit it.  And pay for an update. Paying for updates isn't compulsory, but the developer hopes that his users will chuck $5 every so often if they do use it a fair bit. 

The developer, Everett, seems like a great guy and has a huge amount of interaction with his users and is constantly updating. This nearly 300 page thread at KVR is a testament to that: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=482501&start=4425. 

This is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time - I'm assuming it must be a satire. 

I was particular impressed by the ice hockey pucks mounted on sticks  made by Shun Mook that set up a "sonic room boundary". 

The Shun Mook product page makes for some particularly hilarious reading:

Apparently it works because " ... there are so many things that science still do not know and cannot explain."

It goes on to explain "With Shun Mook we channel away the bad sounding resonance energy because it cannot be destroyed.  Just as you cannot stop a flood with a wall you have to dig a cannel to divert it.   In this case we use our diamond tipped resonators.   The diamond crystal being the hardest material on Earth can release the vibration instantly while the ebony wood body acts like a reservoir for the musical energy to excite the resonance energy in its body. Hence this musical energy is feed back into the system while the diamond acts like a mechanical diode – pass the unwanted vibration out one way."

You can pick up a Shun Mook Ebony Dowsing Pendulum for $300 (or get the High Energy version for an extra $20). What this is for is anyone's guess. Perhaps you use them to find the best path to lay your $2000 per foot speaker cables to avoid any spots particularly affected by quantum distortions caused by intersecting ley lines.

They've got patents on some of this stuff. Can you really get a patent for snake oil in the US?

Evidence supplied by Rudy Giuliani.

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10 minutes ago, Notes_Norton said:

Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show - Neil Diamond

Always gotta love a bit of Neil Diamond. 

"Sentinel" by Judas Priest to "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show" by Neil Diamond? I'm confuddled.

Sorry for jumping back a song, but this seems appropriate (the opening sample at least):

Well, I think that must be the first time I've ever listened to Judas Priest on YouTube. I'm not feeling suicidal yet.

Oldfield versus The Orb - Sentinel (Nobel Prize Mix) ... Oldfield lost 

21 hours ago, SteveStrummerUK said:

Great band, and criminally under-rated especially when compared to Big Country.

And I had the privilege of seeing them live way back in 1978 😀

True. I did sort of like Big Country to begin with, but they were somewhat one-dimensional.

My gig going days didn't start until sometime in the eighties. 

On 7/17/2019 at 2:38 AM, Variorum said:

Big thumbs up for the Tyrell N6 from u-he... Great sound, quite a few free presets available, and it's skinnable. It's not quite as good  as Zeta+2, but it's really close (and free!)

It's a" must have" freebie.

If you find a sound that seems a bit flat, just turn on the Chorus at the bottom and instant epic fatness 😍

If you want the above skin it can be downloaded from here: https://u-he.com/PatchLib/skins/Hoverland-GrayTech_Tyrell.zip

Another modular VST to consider is Fathom Synth at the moment it's $25 at KVR Marketplace.  Although, it does take a rather different approach to its GUI. A free mono version is available here: https://www.fathomsynth.com/download.

On 10/12/2019 at 8:03 AM, kennywtelejazz said:

Last month Audio Deluxe was  giving  Voltage Module away  for free  (  The Basic)   .  Then Cherry Audio  added the Nucleus bundle for Voltage Module  to sweeten things for free   which I grabbed  ...

I grabbed that one too. It's still waiting to be installed. Maybe today's the day. 

There's a free mono version of Fathom Synth modular VST available here: https://www.fathomsynth.com/download.