Now you can’t honestly believe I live by the rules I set you lot, do you…? I’m in the UK so this kind of hypocracy is becoming second nature…
Just remember there is a virtual world of battlements and rooks out there. We haven’t had a good battlements flinging in a while, and the ‘assistants’ are getting rather tired of chucking bags of rice in practise…
Just for the records how do Italians scream in flight…?
In truth, I’ve been doing more solar panel purchasing, MRI lying and zynthian branch testing than music making recently…
AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I think like the English and the whole world!
The music and the exclamations are universal… apart from Naples, everything is different and more beautiful there…
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…or does the famous “English self-control” require you to shout softly?
I think you would have a lot of fun with this VST… Contains the best synths in history… from MiniMoog to DX7… a dream. Obviously “real” instruments are another story, but believe me this VST is very, very beautiful…
Better!!! So you geniuses, busting your brains to make VSTs work on Raspberry… That would be wonderful! You could invent an OS that exclusively reads VST3 and remove all the nonsense that is in modern PCs or Macs… Facebook, and various nonsense… but the new OS doesn’t have to work with sequencers…
P.S.
I’m about to insert a new piece of music on the post “Latest musical effort”…
@wileu I take advantage of your musical knowledge to insert an Intro (also by Pino Daniele) that I decided to record as the intro of the CD dedicated to him… I’ll publish it within 5 minutes…
I actually seem to recall that one of the big brands released a midi controller that actually did run VSTs, but I might have been wishfully reading the marketing. But I do recall such a device existing…
Hello! I have been using Zynthian for a week now - having paid only £8 for a new microsd card and gaining a wonderful synth made otherwise completely out of bits and bobs I had about the place (and quite a lot of elastic bands! :-)))
I love this synth and look forward to my discussions with you here on this form.
Please excuse the amount of dust. I’m no stickler for house work - and now I have Zynthian in my life - far, far less is going to get done…
Also, note the setup is engineered for in bed and laptop use - completely wonderful for ease and accessibillity.
Welcome to the gang, @benjammin. I’m glad you have built something that will occupy your time. If you make music then that time is not wasted. Do document your setup. We love to hear what people have used to build their custom Zynths and it can help others to know what works. Also, we would love to hear something you create with it.
Its a very basic headless setup - controlled via VNC. I’m using my phone as a screen with Microsoft bluetooth mouse and microsoft bluetooth keyboard (It took me a while to work out to connect the mouse and the keyboard to the phone and not the pi!). I’m using a raspberry pi 4b with 4Gbytes RAM that had been driving an LED setup (that’s why it’s on a layered setup. the led cards are on the other layers and I haven’t removed them yet). My main keyboard is an MPK mini plus but I’ve also got an LPK25 which I might use because it’s so small and a Yamaha A50 which I might plug in occasionally because its got some nice arpeggios. I’ll have a look to see if I can find the video I made of me using Zynthian within an hour or two of setting it up. The fact that I’m recording the audio on a dictaphone probably suggests my profound noobiness :-)))
Excellent!
a genuine sense of acheivement isn’t it ?
The Zynth is a very good tool for grabbing audio recordings. It’s worth allocating some switches to this function if you have some way of providing such hardware. Your MPK has record switches so this would allow an interesting workflow on the device and easy records that can be located with the capture menu of the webconf.
Thanks for your reply. Sadly, now I come to think of it, my sound card is the Phat Dac, which, I think, has no audio input. I’d be interested to learn how I could make better use of the MPKs transport controls in general. I’ve had a go at using them with Ardour and didn’t get very far.
I’m so impressed with Zynthian I’ve bought my pi a new case - with a lovely new touch screen. I’m having a lovely day noodling around with sequences. I can’t wait to get going with Arranger but every time I try and move a sequence it either vanishes or is replaced by the first sequence in the block
Since this post I have made more of an effort to read the manual. I am making leaps and bound with Arranger! I have seen how to set the pattern number in the menu so no more disappearing and unwanted repeated sequences for me… This synth was great from the moment I loaded it onto my old Pi4b and it just gets better and better every day :-))
Hmm. This does look good. Does the MPK get the setup over the wire from Zynthian somehow? - or is there a setup file for the MPK? What needs to happen in Zynthian for it to see this setup? From what I have seen I don’t think the settings would work for the MPK Mini Plus. I think there are some fundamental differences between the Mini and the Mini Plus - besides, I think that it’s almost inconceivable that Akai would make the device setup files compatible (if that is what is needed).
I am already getting a nice amount of control via a little USB QWERTY keyboard I use but sadly there don’t seem to be keybindings for transport or midi-record in ‘Pattern’ mode which would be really sweet. I am very impressed with what is available though - and look forward to more discussions about what is available and what might become available.
Morningstar MC6+two expression pedals on the floor to control the Octatrack
Gutar setup (homemade/original design guiiar, homemade Fender Deluxe clone with some mods (miced and split through the JHS Clolourbox into the Octatrack for looping and a separate interface input/FOH mixer for direct sound), homemade pedalboard with a mix of commercial, kit-built and original design pedals
The Octatrack’s cue outputs are routed to the Zynthian so I can use one chain as an aux send, tested as a simple reverb so far and works well. The rest will be instruments controlled by the Octatrack’s sequencer, but that will be built up slowly at practices). Output is returned to track 7 of the Octatrack so I can sample it live if I want, or feed it back into itself, and so that it runs through the Octatrack’s master buss (a master compressor and a lowpass filter controlled by one of the expression pedals) along with everything else.
MIDI thru is passing clock from the Octatrack to a homemade splitter so other people in the band can sync up if they need to.
