With a mere 11 hours difference in time between attendees, our latest club meeting was a fun-filled event. Casual observers may have mentioned the minimal Zynthian themed content but what do they know?
The Casio DG-20 Digital Guitar isnāt really a guitar but that means you can do fun stuff like put bright colourful strings on it
Look Mum No Computer is doing a couple of gigs in London but wonāt be starting with a tone generator and building his rig live - just some of his tunes
There was an intimate moot last night. Bells were rung. Condolences were exchanged. Sequencer was played with. Someone wants to watch kids swinging wireless controllers and hear them trigger sounds. It sounds like magic to me.
Letās do it properly with more that 10s notice. How about Thursday?
What a wonderful bunch of people we are. Gathered on a cold winter (or cool summer) day to exchange tales of our life experiences and new discoveries. Almost nothing was recorded of this delightful night so what follows is a list that may be woefully apocryphal.
Campanology got its persistant mention even in the absence of our resident Quasimodo
There are more useful things to 3D print than owls
The Mortrix footpedal looks very sexy but will anyone justify its cost?
Who fancies building a split pickup for MIDI output into their guitar. I wonder how much effort and extra cost is required beyond th Ā£107 for the kit?
After raising over $1m in a Kickstarter campaig, Artiphon not only sell the Instrument 1 but also the ORBA 2 which are tempting toys
Plans for a physical moot were curtailed after barely being discussed when we found that SĆ³nar 2023 is sold out - it may turn into an assault on Sandbach
Could the Wii remote be a MIDI controller you can shake a stick at and can you get it to make a sound through its speaker?
What is the nobbly bit on a USB3 Type B connector? (Apparently extra data channel.)
New features and improvements to the sequencer were demonstrated and discussed with useful suggestions for further improvement, especially around workflow
We need to undo things done in error but that isnāt always easy
Lovejoy is better known as the antagonist in dark drama to non-UK residents (of a certain age)
The Psion 3 was marketed as the āMost powerful handheld computer in the worldā. My boxed model may fail to attain such lofty acclaim in 2023.
Roland are releasing their SH-4d that they call, āFuture retroā which some have compared to a Zynthian (although those people may be biased)
Whilst Behringer continue to imitate without inovation with a rather lame looking, partial Jupiter 8 clone with its single voiced JT-2 teaser - another future drawer filler?
This is what happens when you rely on an ageing manās memory - vast swathes of content are lost or at least not shared as widely as could be! Until next time you gorgeous peepsā¦
Please DM me for details of how to join. You can say as much or little as you want (or can fit in between the more chatty members of the group). It is very informal. Imagine a night at your local pub / cafe where some people meet and talk a lot of rot, interspersed with the occasional snippet of interest or accuracy.
