Another heart has made the trade,
Forget it, forget it, forget it,
I donāt understand how a heart is a spade,
But somehow the vital connection is made.
Iāve edited the meeting countdown timer and added some features hoping it will help our good friend @wyleu in his quest to join the next meeting.
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Hello is that Acme?
Iām looking for a Mr Coyoteā¦
Retiredā¦?
How soā¦?
Industrial injuries,ā¦? Thatās sadā¦
Does that mean his equipment is available for hireā¦?
It is? Goodā¦
Youāll send the catalogueā¦?
My nameā¦?
Wyleu,
Mr Wyleuā¦
Zynthian towersā¦
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I think I may have figured out what @wyleu coyoteās connection issue isā¦ misplaced brand loyalty!!!
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Once more we gathered around our microphones, spread across four time zones (five if you include whatever twighlight zone @wyleu joined 
) and discussed a wide variety of subjects and - breaking news - that included Zynthian!!! In no particular order we:
- Invented a hardware keyboard split device consisting of a credit card or beer mat stuck between keys not dissimilar to how Keith Emerson wedged knives into his keyboards.
- Reminisced about old games consoles - and of course how to build a Zynthian into their defunct cases. (Apparently gaming jumped straight from Pong to Elite with nothing of merit in between.)
- Colourful buttons that you press to make sounds and how one is wending its way across the world to a north west province of the land down under. We all look forward to seeing and hearing what @pac_71 makes.
- Can @freeKey persuade @wyleu to design and build him a button panel to change patches in his classic organ style project and when will it look like this?
- Not all 3.5" touchscreens are the same. Some donāt (seem to) work on RPi4. (This one might.)
- Apparently not every project involving a Raspberry Pi makes music.
- Synthstrom make very pretty and apparently rather good (if a touch expensive) sequencers.
- Of course a night wouldnāt be complete without a brief soirĆ©e with zynseq and zynmixer updates - there isnāt really any - someone has been too busy renovating sash windows.
- @ronsum is waking at unearthly hours to check notifications on availability of TSynth (also discussed here. Beware - you donāt get all that you see but looks like a fun way to while away some hours.
- We have promises (or at least press-ganged offers) for a couple of show-and-tells next week including @ronsum building a new toy (I wish I had noted down what it is but all the more anticipation)
- We had a live hacking session where our youngest member was convinced to install malware on his Zynthian (only kidding @freeKey). We found bugs and work-arounds. We had live Zynthian configuration session. We understand sub-snapshots a lot better including their limitations (and bugs). It was fun to help each other fix issues and see someoneās first foray into the innards of their Zynthian.
- We found other bugs and workarounds (of a sort).
I donāt think we have had such a Zynthian-centric Zynth club meeting before. It was fun but did take us towards (or past) midnight. I am not sure how much fun @freeKeyās neighbours might have thought it as he demonstrated his success with sweeping organ renditions 
.
No vegetables were harmed in the making of this programme.
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Thanks again for all the help and effort. I might have had some rtfm moment now and then, but anyway it really helped looking after things together. My subsnapshots are now ready for tonightās little gig, yay!
Btw: What a lovely expression āsubsnapshotā is to test someoneās soberness.
And donāt worry about my neighbours 
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Good luck tonight. We will all be rooting for you.
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Ok, Ok, I was involved with work . . . 
Thanks for your words ā¦ i love to invent words in languages i donāt master and get native speakers to accept them! 
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Not that Iād be a native speaker, nor mastering myself
Well then, little off-topic for a moment:
First public gig appearance of my Zynthian done and went incredibly well. 
(please excuse the not-so-sharp picturesā¦)
Twas a small jam-session-like gig of a Funk collective in a pub. Audience was far from as small as we had thought it would be in corona times, great atmosphere as well.
The Zynthian was responsible for providing a solid Hammond organ, which it did perfectly. I mean, I have loved setBfree for almost ten years now, but almost never heard it that loudly. Often a sound heard way more loudly brings its minor flaws and insecurities more to detailed attention. Not for this organ, rather this is just powerful thrill.
I also had prepared for delivering some leadsynth soloing, but it didnāt quite fit anywhere on yesterdayās set. Next week, I suppose.
Yeah, you reading correctly: Same thing once again next tuesday nightā¦
There also happened some nice little things on the side:
- Some people asked about this little box, especially one guitarist seemed quite interested (having a rather large pedalboard of analog effects on the floor himself). Of course I didnāt contain myself spreading the word about Zynthian.
- The drummer and band leader had claimed the piano seat for himself before I arrived, so a pub chair had to do the job. But he bursted into laughter when I completely ignored the acoustic piano at the side of the stage and - rather than using it as an instrument - I placed a midi keyboard, the Zynthian and some quirky cable salad on top.
So, in case my appreciation hasnāt become clear to this point: This setup really proved itself nicely working and very well sounding. Will definitely do it again lots of times like this!
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@freeKey Now you have mastered the Zynthian, I look forward to the live streaming of your next gig :>
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Saw this, figured you could use it
@freeKey, you HAVE to contribute with a video playing hammond (setBfree) in one of this jamsā¦ this is a big:
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I think that we can forgive @freeKey this time for not recording at a first event after lockdown when he was still preparing snapshots and learning how to use subsnaphots into the early hours of the morning of the gig 
. He even managed to cope with bugs (since resolved) but next timeā¦ there will be no excuses accepted .
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@riban You are too generous 
And thx again for all your help with the preparations!
@jofemodo This honour 
Iād really like to, letās see what will be possible.
Btw: In the meantime we got booked for a proper gig at the end of september in the same location
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Hi @freekey!
What are you using for setBfree overdrive? The integrated overdrive is far from good and i would like to know if you tested some of the available overdrive plugins with setBfree ā¦
The problem of using an external overdrive is that it would be located after the rotary in the FX chain ā¦ but you can improve this by not using the integrated rotary and add it as a separated plugin, that is also available (same code!), after the overdrive.
Regards,
Nothing yet, I play it clean for now. But yes, I have on my list to try exactly what you describe, we also discussed it at one of the club meetings.