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Re: Pioneer DJ and Dave Smith are about to do something

redvoid — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 09:09:27 -0000

Going off Dave Smith Eurorack modules, in that space he was willing to hand users the isolated Curtis Filter and the Character module for multi effects found in the Pro2 and Prophet-8. DSI is not going to want to license the core of their products, and risk cutting into their own sales, so they'll most likely hand off something easy, hence my Eurorack example. They're already dominating uncontested in the CDJ space, so I doubt that's it. So knowing that Pioneer DJ has always used these digital effects onboard their DJM series mixers, and that many DJs prefer the true analog filters of an Allen & Heath Xone:92, thus cutting into their mixer market share, I have a guess.

My guess is its a new Pioneer DJM Mixer that integrates 2 Curtis Filters, and 2 Character modules to beef up the analog cred for the Pioneer mixer line, in order to yank back some market share from A&H.

Re: Let’s make a SOAP request from command line(curl)?

redvoid — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 18:35:25 -0000

exactly what I needed with no fluff. very clear. I was able to automate SOAP calls from Jenkins with this in minutes after struggling prior. Thanks!

Re: Why new laws could miss America's bigger gun problem

redvoid — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:20:33 -0000

" Anderson Cooper looks at both sides of the debate in "Guns Under Fire:" <- LOL

"both sides" meaning there are only two acceptable opinions that of the Democratic Party or GOP Party. Last time I checked there were 300 MILLION sides of the debate, one for every American, who all deserve a voice. Your forced narrative is showing.

Re: Way Too Many Moogerfoogers: 18 Moog Pedals Become a “Modular,” Shout Out4 in the Studio

redvoid — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:52:35 -0000

I'm guesstimating the cost of this rig is around the $7000 mark based on 3-CP modules at roughly $400 each for $1200, the MidiMurf & ClusterFlux coming in around $1000 together, and 16 modules at a rough average of $300 each for $4800 combining to create the $7k "synth". I've had this thought myself to combine a bunch of moogerfooger modules, but the cost was an immediate stop sign since almost any conceivable super synth could be acquired for less, with much more straightforward functionality. I could load up 2 6U Eurorack cases, & snag a used VCS-3 for the same money.

Of course pragmatism was most definitely NOT the goal here, and I fully support the effort to do the crazy and obscene, and quite enjoyed the videos. :)

Re: Tools and Music Production, as Explained Unwittingly by Chefs

redvoid — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:24:47 -0000

love this post & video. being both a fairly serious home cook, and a lifetime musician, I have seen and too often resembled the person with a kitchen full of high tech gadgets who goes out to eat more often than cooking up something original. this is why a classical pianist is busy working on their musical chops, musical interpretation, and subtlety of performance while electronic musicians are out selling off last year's gear to buy this year's gear to once again make a few crummy demos that nobody ever listens to. its actually kind of unusual to hear chefs talking about tools since they're usually talking about demi glace, stock, sofrito and mirepoix. They ARE engaged with the music, not with the piano.

I am currently in the process of selling off a room full of gear that I've collected since the mid 80s having transitioned from 512k Macs with dual floppies and no hard drive running MOTU Performer 1.0 sequencing a Mirage & DX7 to Ableton/Reason a pile of virtual instruments and plugins, control surfaces and custom extensions, to trying to get back to something more connected. For me, the luster of gear has waned, and I really want to focus more on making new sounds, and new music and get the tools out of the way. As I sell off gear, I buy a new module for my Eurorack since that is my current knife/piano and the next full length release will be exclusively that and no other instruments. Consolidating the many into the one focuses the mind and the connection between the human and the instrument comes alive again. This singularity of focus has made me feel more inspired, and less like a studio technician troubleshooting midi channel overlap issues or cabling. Its far too easy these days to get caught up in the tools and forget what they're supposed to be for. Now I'd rather write new music, than buy yet another bit of kit.

overall Peter nice analogy!

Re: Serato Projection Mapping on Turntables and Mixer

redvoid — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:56:31 -0000

kinda wish they would say how they're accomplishing it. custom Max4Live programming? what? @facebook-588757951 mentioned what a pain it would be to setup live, and I agree, but for a nightclub permanent installation, the whole booth could be designed around that from the get go and it could actually work. Anyway, the waveforms in a circle projected onto the spinning white timecode vinyl presumably at the correct place in the rotation was an awesome application for this kind of idea though. nice work.

Re: DOJ to America: we won't reveal the circumstances under which you can be assassinated by us

redvoid — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:06:59 -0000

National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 will make this legal post-facto just as the Bush Administration made torture legal after the fact with the Military Comissions Act, and also how they made warrantless wiretaps legal after the fact with the Patriot act. Also the rampant lobbyist bribery that Tom Delay and Jack Abramoff were engaged in was made legal by the Supreme Court's "Citizen United vs FEC" decision. Our Government is a commit crimes now, make them legal later institution.

Re: The next small thing: How neighborhood-level sustainability efforts could reshape cities

redvoid — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:22:50 -0000

seems to me that initial $600,000 from the DoE should have been enough to install a serious energy co-op for a city block if it had been used properly. I could be reading it wrong, and maybe the DoE thing was more of a specific service that was valued at that figure, but with solar prices where they are now, it costs far less than that (25%) to power an entire typical suburban strip mall. People who want to promote sustainability should be less wasteful when resources are there, and they wouldn't be as beholden to bank loans to make things happen. This is where transforming their thinking more holistically (seeing bank loans as being just as unsustainable as fossil fuels) is the path to transforming our world for the better. Of course the guardians of the old economy aren't going to finance the disruptive tech that assures their demise. I think we need to get past feel good half ass efforts, that don't really accomplish much, and start projects that have immediate and real impacts now, paid for in cash, that are not subject to political winds knocking them down or off track.

Re: Your Kid Can Still Dream of Being an Astronaut!

redvoid — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:55:16 -0000

read it. meh! How many of them are operational now? ZERO! Also am I now
supposed to look to Richard Branson to do the collective good some
favors? hmmmmm not holding my breath for that to happen...

I
personally feel there is a ton of value in pure science. zero-G playtime
in space for billionaires hardly replaces a space program in my book.
neither does moon mining. Its like telling the NSF to stop doing all
their research, and just open a Sandals and a Coal mine. "pure science"
tries to cure lung cancer while "applied science" is a
labcoated Phillip Morris PhD testifying in court under oath that smoking
isn't bad for you. NASA defunding is just part of larger effort to
cripple JWST, NOAA, NIST & NSF. Basically all "pure science" has to
go...

bit.ly/pQ50ep

That's kinda what is happening now. Pure Science is being defunded,
and "applied science" aka corporate profits are being pursued. Yet again
a public trust built of taxpayer money is getting rifled out the back
door, to crony capitalists to embezzle from the treasury just like they
already have under the other pseudonyms "bailouts" "privatized prison
system" "military contracts" "security contractors"
and you know the rest. Either way its taxpayer money paid in by
mechanics, plumbers, white collar professionals, and retired grand
parents getting spent by CEOs & Boards of Directors of private
companies like Goldman Sachs, AIG, Carlysle Group & Blackwater for their individualistic private profit driven goals,
instead of providing the public benefit those dollars were intended for,
that used to be earmarked for: roads, state parks, police, fire,
rescue, libraries, universities etc... now instead we are eliminating
pensions for government employees, closing state parks or turning them
into golf courses, jacking up rates at colleges, lowering admission, and
stripping tenure from professors, and of course eliminating almost all
funding for pure science. With no pure science, greedy corporations that
want to screw over public health concerns, or global warming concerns,
or air or water pollution concerns will have no research to back them up
in court against companies who can hire anyone with any credential for
the right sum, and get them to roll over on their dedication to their
field of study like when doctors recommend formula instead of breast
milk in order to get a kickback from a formula company they are
violating the hippocratic oath, kinda thing. Same goes for psychologists
who work for ad firms rather than help people in clinical therapy, or
scientists who testify for Monsanto or Phillip Morris. They're all
sellouts, but what is their option if publicly funded real science is
going down the tubes?

For many such as yourself, privatization is the solution for everything, but for me it is what has ruined this country, and continuing down this path will ruin us further, and I shudder to think where that will land us. Not on Mars, most likely what Detroit looks like now, is a preview of how the rest of the US will look and function in less than 10 years. So I take it you have a $200k advance ticket for Virgin Space? Let's hope its not a ponzi scheme, but of course with privatized corporations there's no guarantee of that, now is there? Ken Lay & Jeffrey Skilling were so very careful with their employees pensions, the state of CA regulations, SEC Filings, and their investor's money that that is the model we're going to throw billions of dollars of taxpayer money at now. Now let's let those same criminals get ahold of the US treasury in the form of no-bid contracts. Sure why not?

Re: Your Kid Can Still Dream of Being an Astronaut!

redvoid — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:31:19 -0000

read it. meh! How many of them are operational now? ZERO! Also am I now
supposed to look to Richard Branson to do the collective good some
favors? hmmmmm not holding my breath for that to happen...

http://blogs.discovermagazi...

That's kinda what is happening now. Pure Science is being defunded,
and "applied science" aka corporate profits are being pursued. Yet again
a public trust built of taxpayer money is getting rifled out the back
door, to crony capitalists to embezzle from the treasury just like they
already have under the other pseudonyms "bailouts" "privatized prison
system" "military contracts" "security contractors" and "PACs" "NGOs"
and you know the rest. Either way its taxpayer money paid in by
mechanics, plumbers, white collar professionals, and retired grand
parents getting spent by CEOs & Boards of Directors of private
companies like Goldman Sachs, AIG, Carlysle Group & Blackwater
instead of providing the public benefit those dollars were intended for,
that used to be earmarked for: roads, state parks, police, fire,
rescue, libraries, universities etc... now instead we are eliminating
pensions for government employees, closing state parks or turning them
into golf courses, jacking up rates at colleges, lowering admission, and
stripping tenure from professors, and of course eliminating almost all
funding for pure science. With no pure science, greedy corporations that
want to screw over public health concerns, or global warming concerns,
or air or water pollution concerns will have no research to back them up
in court against companies who can hire anyone with any credential for
the right sum, and get them to roll over on their dedication to their
field of study like when doctors recommend formula instead of breast
milk in order to get a kickback from a formula company they are
violating the hippocratic oath, kinda thing. Same goes for psychologists
who work for ad firms rather than help people in clinical therapy, or
scientists who testify for Monsanto or Phillip Morris. They're all
sellouts, but what is their option if publicly funded real science is
going down the tubes?

Re: YouTube Has Shaped Controllerism – For the Better?

redvoid — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:12:34 -0000

I do controllerist performances in large night clubs, but have definitely found that I have to do what you said: "Develop standards for expression that can truly be mastered and understood by performer and observer alike" and obviously do what everyone here is saying "do less" so combined for me that translates into using a very small number of effects, that work well individually or in pairs (since I have 2 hands) and be very judicious in their use, after spending tons of time honing them to be part of my hands muscle memory, and part of my mind's ability to pre-visualize sonically what I am going to get when I turn which knob or slider to what degree. I also spend a lot of time learning my material because just because you know exactly how to build up a great effects blast, does not mean that you know where to phrase it musically, and this comes from knowing the material deeply. I think if we consider how incredibly dull spinning 2 CDs, with what is still industry standard CDJ-1000mk3 effects, every once in a blue moon provides, we will realize quickly that even the most restrained controllerist will still be more entertaining than a highly experienced cd jock. The key is mastery and restraint. :D

Re: Giving Away Jo Totes Camera Bags for the Ladies

redvoid — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:59:33 -0000

Nikon Normal AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D Autofocus Lens

Re: Giving Away Jo Totes Camera Bags for the Ladies

redvoid — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:49:08 -0000

Nikon Normal AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D Autofocus Lens ^_^

Re: Should Ferrari Have to Build Hybrids?

redvoid — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:44:37 -0000

Of course Ferrari should not be forced to build hybrids. Hybrids are not the solution, and neither is ethanol. Electric cars on the other hand ARE, and electricity is getting more green all the time. As has already been mentioned, EV vehicles like the Tesla Roadster are already faster than Porsche 911s, so their performance critique is not overblown, its just plain incorrect. Sounds like their CEO is really just whining that they have to do some work again, since they are clearly just resting on their laurels with gas combustion engines they designed long ago. If they do decide to keep doing things how they are doing them though, they will only hurt themselves. Witness the already knowable present of car fleets with the worst overall gas mileage (like GM & Ford) are getting left in the dust sales wise, by the car makers with the overall best gas mileage (Toyota & Honda). Anyone with half a clue about global peak oil, knows that oil will not be affordable for the masses for much longer. Ferrari has more time than most car makers to change, since their car owners are wealthier and will be able to afford gasoline longer than the average person, but even that will dry up, and leave them in a situation where their company becomes the dinosaur that they tied their engine technology to, fossil fuel, an extinct relic of the past...

Re: Versions

redvoid — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:32:43 -0000

I think in the not too distant past, which media format you purchased things in, mattered a lot more than it does now. When you have industry giants like Bill Gates calling the Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD battle "the last of the format wars" it is because media formats themselves are dead or dying now, so digital formats are all quickly becoming the product itself from start to finish and no physical product needs to exist. The home recording act clearly upheld individual rights to make backup copies of purchased media like ripping a CD to your hard drive, and that was based on the political wars that go back to VHS/Beta and TV and Cassette tapes and radio. Had the industry had its way, all media would be copy protected, and copy protection has a long history of always hurting the legitimate paying customer, and proving to be of little to no matter for the pirate. The RIAA/MPAA have had no conscience when it comes to prosecuting their own customers via the DMCA for in Jammie Thomas-Rasset's case $1.92M for pirating what probably amounted to $1000 worth of pirated music, and they've done this tens of thousands of times. When I bought Blade Runner for the 3rd time in Blu-Ray format to go with my DVD and VHS copies, I didn't feel like I was doing it for the $0.10 bit of plastic it was stamped on, but rather because I no longer have a DVD player or VHS deck, and if there was a more concise format for purchasing digital medialess movies I would have bought that too, but not felt all that great about it.

I was kinda wishing that if the RIAA/MPAA want to keep such close tabs on who paid for what, why don't they just build a single big database that has every piece of media anyone has ever purchased in it, and if the end user has a hard drive crash (which will occur to every non SSD hard drive sooner or later in an era where the digital copy often is the only copy) then they could always just re-download it and not have to re-purchase the same thing yet again. The more all media becomes digital, the more critical some form of licensing standard needs to exist. In my Blade Runner example I do recognize that 1080p is superior to 480p or 480i, and I also recognize that I am not the intellectual property rights holder of the film that Ridley Scott made, so maybe an upgrade price is in order. This is why I think that a software licensing model makes more sense than what the music & film industries and now books have done. My last purchase of Ableton Live 8 was digital download only, but if I lost my hard drive, my registration key is still on file with them, and I could re-download the media and still apply my already purchased key without having to re-purchase the software. If this standard were applied to books/eBooks this entire legal malaise would be no issue at all.

Re: The pros and cons of various modular formats. An opinionated guide.

redvoid — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:36:34 -0000

Cool. I'll keep an eye on AH for the stackabes.

Issue for me & Volta is I am still using a 2 output Mbox2 audio interface from an old PTLE purchase I don't really use much anymore & Volta would force me to buy a new multioutput i/f in order to route anything meaningful enough to justify the s/w buy.

As for the Z2040, I just scratched the Doepfer Curtis filter module off my future purchase list & replaced it with this one. I had glanced at it before, but did not notice the strategic VCA inclusion.

Re: Calibrate your expectations

redvoid — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:02:52 -0000

add the Plan-B Model Zero Eurorack Case which got inestimable tons of free publicity by giving a prototype to Alessandro Cortini for the NIN tour, which echoed through countless music blogs & got lots of people postponing case purchases so they could have this high profile bit of vaporware kit.

and the Plan-B Ringer Eurorack case, just a minimalist slab of rackmountable metal & power supply to try to fill the ultra low cost Eurorack case niche. Its pictured in AnalogueHaven's flickr stream but they've never received any for sale.

both announced at NAMM'09 and still nonexistent

I am hoping the Serato Scratch Live timecoded vinyl bridge to Ableton Live clips comes with a real release this year. It was first announced at NAMM'08, then we got a sketchy video clip of Jazzy Jeff supposedly using a prototype of it (you never get to see the screen in the video) in 2009, and a "big unveiling" poised for this year's NAMM. It had to be vaporware in '08 since they couldn't have had a functional version then, and just be debugging two years later without a release date even.

Re: The pros and cons of various modular formats. An opinionated guide.

redvoid — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:21:33 -0000

just go for it. I started a eurorack system recently & was surprised at what just a handful of modules can do. with the ever increasing cost of vintage analog, by the time you get 2 or 3 you could have a more functional modular with more options. you already seem to have creative ideas to trot out.

Re: The pros and cons of various modular formats. An opinionated guide.

redvoid — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:16:57 -0000

great article. You're definitely filling in the gaps for me. If I were doing this breakdown I wouldn't have listed Mattson or Modcan out of lack of awareness. Do you know where to get stackable 3.5mm plugs for a Eurorack modular to emulate the banana plug flexibility and workflow? I know there are a handful of banana plug eurorack modules but that seems like it would break the interop within the system much less between systems. Also what modules would you have to have in order to do velocity sensitivity? or polyphony?

Re: Analog sequencing

redvoid — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:25:00 -0000

Thanks for the informative response to my analog sequencing question. It really helps me understand how it all folds together better. The A-155 sounds like a nice module to have on hand for loop sequences, triggering and arpeggiation tasks.

Re: Error Correction

redvoid — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:27:31 -0000

fantastic work. I have been out actively seeking good modular synthesis work that is current, and there isn't nearly enough of it, and what is available is often too simplistic. I came across your work from the July article in SynthGear, and the more I hear, the more I like. I am in the process of planning out a modular purchase for myself, and what most confuses me, is not the VCO, ADSR, LFO, VCF, VCA stuff, but more the trigger, gate, clock divider, multiplier stuff. Are you doing your sequencing on the modular, or with a computer? and if it is with the modular, what is your approach to putting together analog sequences?