It is nice to make new friends and that is what happened last night at a club night that was mostly concentrated in the north west section of our globe (or the top right corner for the flat earthers) with a brief representation from our Antipodean correspondent.
We talked about more than just this…
- Zynthians in the world map
- Zynthian is getting a funky progress animations not like this one
- Can we rescue old zynthians that suffer low memory with NUMA emulation and/or zram? We have previously discounted these but now that we are trying to keep RPi3 running with more challenging OS, we may revisit this.
- Talking of RPi3, a lot of time was devoted to trying to fix a V3 showing seg faults - we failed!
- Piano accordians are as cool as fezes.
- Are Native Instruments being magnanimous or land grabbing with their (slight) opening of NKS?
- Some stories from NAMM include mention of Roland’s new V-Stage and Behringer’s BX1 - you may guess which was preferred by the ensemble.
- Nord seem to have cornered the professional performing keyboardist market.
- Musical instruments are often invented to reduce the size and cost or existing instruments, e.g. the Wurlitzer 200A was a classic tines piano and the Hammond B3 the tone wheel organ, both making far more affordable and portable versions of their respective forefathers.
- Replacing an upright piano, owned for 70 years with a modern digital may be emotionally challenging but can be worth the expense.
- Zynia (zynthian on RISC-V) has stalled slightly due to technical challenges, mostly relating to porting to Debian 13 (Trixie) which has better RISC-V support but zynthian needs attention to run on it. We expect some pull requests in the post…
- Do we keep our old musical equipment, even if we have seldom used it and unlikely to do so in the future? (Anyone want to buy a Behringer Composer? It is an audio compressor - oddly!)
- Finding out that you own (one of?) the first polyphonic synths is a joy.
- Plans for a Steamboat Willie watch were resurfaced with concern about legal challenges. This discussion may have been triggered by questions in the forum about copyright. (Beware of asking questions for which you don’t want to hear the answers.)
- Creating stubs from a mixed audio file were remembered… and forgotten. It can be / has been done on zynthian so maybe it might happen again…
- Auto accompaniment rhythms could be added. Who wants; bossanova, polka, tango, samba, merengue, beguine, latin & rock?
Long after we dropped to just two, there were lessons in pdb - The Python Debugger which led to the discovery that that afore mentioned V3 is seg-faulting when it tries to run Tk(). That is quite a problem, but not for zynthclub to fix.