Upgraded the kit, walls and keys.
Something a little different. I built one of the new Befaco cases, which I picked up in the Thonk BF sale (along with some 1u kits). The case took a day (just short of 900 solder joints - the busboard connectors!), and everything worked the first time. It’s quite straightforward but hard to solder neatly (as Robin @ Molten Modular described in his video, too).
The bus delivers 5A (a bit of an upgrade from my 2A 9u Doepfer cases), so if you want lots of power, the new Befaco Trolley Bus is the mutt’s nuts.
New (to me) units in the physical rack :
From the bottom up:
- Lexicon MXP1 Multi Effects Processor(1996)
- Presonus DigiMax FS (2006)
- Presonus Studio 192 (2018)
I’m having a good time experimenting. A big thank you to all VCV Rack developers/artists/designers/educators/streamers/writers.
Slowly building up a new template supporting the new hardware.
Presonus Studio / Expert Sleepers ES-3
Note to other travelers: bypass the mixer in presonus Universal Control. If not disabled, your number of ADAT outputs are limited, and you have to use the Presonus DAW outputs from VCV and route them to ADAT if you want to go to the ES-3.
Limited to 44.1kHz when wanting to do spdif I/O with Lexicon MXP1.
the day I received my neutron (5 years ago) I promised myself that one day I would have bought a second one
today is the day
So much space! Lovely.
sooooooo nice and tidy!
I am a chaos master
I don’t think I have posted a pic of my “studio A”, bought 1.5 years ago. I made the enitre project by myself before buying “the walls” as we italians say…and then built the walls
always a mess, and will always be
Oh, I can be messy too. I just don;t phorgrapgh those occasions
Its on the 7thfloor with 270 degrees view of the sky. I filmed most of my film “Contrails” from there. It has its downfalls though. Super hot in summer and cold in winter as nothing above. we don’t have insulated buildings here, so aircon and heat during those seasons
Any consideration why need two neutron?
Indeed it seems like it would be more stable with one neutron and one proton.
I can have more fun, be more creative, I know it’s silly but a new piece of gear inspires me every time…but these have been rough years for me, and it’s just a small present to myself!
it’s cheap second hand and it can sound both nice and massive, it’s powerful…and gives me analog stereo filtering/delaying/overdriving
…and in the end 2 is better than 1
I do know I didn’t need it, it was a cheap promise I made to myself years ago, and I’m just having fun.
Life is a blink
I have wanted more Neutrons since I saw Giovanni Gramegna perform:
Loking forward to your compositions…
Current state of the man cave, six months on since I moved.
Recent studio additions are a Just Friends that I acquired (top left with white cables coming down from it) - wow, what can I say? A truly special module! - and a couple of builds from the Thonk Boxing Day sale, bottom right - an AtovProject fader bank and a Neutral Labs Elmyra 2 (demented drone noise machine that I can’t stop playing with).
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The next step is to get the whole lot out, redecorate and replace the 30-year-old massively stained and rotting carpet, adding underfloor heating - the room has two external walls and a third wall onto the garage, and it’s freezing in here
Anyway, I’ve got everything up on the walls now, including the old TV (I had to run an aerial cable down through two ceilings and drill through the wall from the garage. There used to be a striplight on the wall, so that had to come out (!), but the power was there, so I thought I might as well use it for something. The angles look weird in the photo, but everything is level!
I have a plan and think it will be very nice in a few months. A snail’s pace plan
Nice man cave! Is that an SWN you’ve got there Nik? How are you liking it?
I know I’ve mentioned it before. I don’t like it at all. I should sell it but I reckon I’d struggle to get half of the purchase price back, if anybody could be persuaded to buy it.
The voices are thin, it’s buzzy, and it does not morph through wavetables smoothly. The best use I have found for it is as a modulated moving drone feeding the Rossum Panharmonium which resynthesises its sound to something else entirely.
You may be able to try it here if 4MS port it.
What a beautiful setting! I like the strap to hold everything together I see you have a Wraps part of you patch, how do you usually use it? I bought mine for the symbiote firmware, which was very disappointing, I went back to parasites, and I am learning to like it, especially for vocoding things that are not meant to be vocoded! but I find very few examples that would be more than big digital sound crushing
I found this article to be great (the whole blog is a gem) did you know you can use the factory mode as a decent LPF!?