Mididings and Zynthian - stage assistant

[wyleu]

I used zs3 on the Pi4 cajon (see posts passim)

The zyncajon, lending credibility to various @riban electronic ramblings . .

And here is what it did a couple of days before a performance that got cancelled…

Here’s a rather more detailed discription but it’s in my normal whimsical style, for which I should apologise, but wont.

We may just be ok (zyncajon)

Obviously we open on a dark grey blasted nowhere with a castle in it . . . Wind effects are mostly sound effects played in but an undercurrent of generative stuff just to spice up the cast list. A purposeful dull grey raven flaps by, pausing only it’s wing beat but not it’s speed to aimlessly snap at a passing beige fly disturbed by some idle dully brown cows mouching in a field… The sandy coloured tumbleweed determinedly refuse to move even under the filtered noise of a decently intermittent…

with the different setups selected by a 6 pedal foot switch box and a footpedal input with different chains on the zynth for different effects echo, reverb, compression and a android tablet over vnc to show what was actually being done.

In truth I haven’t used it in over a year, the pedal has a BluePill in it but I would probably use a Pi Pico nowadays. I also have a encoder box that generated Qwerty Keyboard commands again via a blue pill and I used this for control but the move to version 5 made this incompatible ( race conditions on the select encoder, confirmed but not considered canonical) so that has also been pushed onto the heap of projects to re-examine at some point.

I simply don’t do drumming circles at this time but perhaps the opportunity might arise again, and the focus will then return along with rebuilds using Pi Picos, and a strong emphasis on ctrldev implementation.

I also use a zynthian as a piano during rehearsals ( another activity not being indulged at the moment) with a Roland A88 Master keyboard. This has been attempted with other sounds (strings mostly) but the person who plays it only really wants piano and uses one of the CC controls to adjust volume. Once again observed using the Android Tablet and VNC.