KVR Audio

liquidsound · Post by **liquidsound** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 3:23 am

DiscoDSP Corona (what an amazing low profile synth!)
Acon Digital EQ and Reverb.

Lush 101(such a pleasant sounding instrument)

JerGoertz · Post by **JerGoertz** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 4:15 am

Yes, this is definitely cool. Are you gents completely electric-independent?

Scotty wrote:That is a big install. I have 10.5 killowatt install comprised of 42 Sharp panels. You must have a lot of south facing roof space. Cool to see this on a KVR post!

werp wrote:actually my best purchase was 15 kilowatts of solar panels on the roof. I more or less make horrible noises for free....

Ridan · Post by **Ridan** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 5:01 am

A snow blower (music related)

JoeCat · Post by **JoeCat** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 5:25 am

V0RT3X wrote: ...I load up my DAW and just start making noises or sounds with my 10+ years of self-taught knowledge and have fun. It's that unexplainable contentment that keeps me wanting to learn more. I guess you're doing the same thing but with a bigger budget

I often make crappy sounding stuff, but i keep coming back only to find new tricks and new ways to make stuff that interests me. Yes sometimes it is frustrating, and i've lost count on how many times i said i wanted to give this expensive hobby up....

Pretty much my goals and workflow defined! That's one nice thing about getting older - if I were younger I'd probably be working towards gigs in Ibiza and DJ'ing weddings instead; now I'm just having fun and give no f*cks.

Best thang (tied:)
Bazille (finally!) - just today but I've been making some patches with the demo for a while and loving it.
Redux - Trackers are like melted cheese to a lot of people (including me sometimes): love them but they can't be the only food on the plate. Renoie VST == brilliant solution.

Honorable Mention 1: Obscurium - the internal synth ain't the bomb but it's loads of fun and I can wait to generate loops and slice them in Redux.
Honorable Mention 2: DC8C / SDRR (and I'm sure MJUC is coming soon). Definitely best value.

keyman_sam · Post by **keyman_sam** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 5:37 am

Bought RME HDSP 9652 PCI - Best soundcard I've owned, ever. 100+ tracks@128 samples. Babyface acts as the "front-end" providing the mains/headphones, mic inputs and midi I/O.

Sold pretty much all my hardware gear on eBay, so I'm 95% ITB.

werp · Post by **werp** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:18 am

Scotty wrote:That is a big install. I have 10.5 killowatt install comprised of 42 Sharp panels. You must have a lot of south facing roof space. Cool to see this on a KVR post!

werp wrote:actually my best purchase was 15 kilowatts of solar panels on the roof. I more or less make horrible noises for free....

60 micro-inverter panels (240v AC output) facing Nth East in Australia

werp · Post by **werp** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:21 am

JerGoertz wrote:Yes, this is definitely cool. Are you gents completely electric-independent?

Scotty wrote:That is a big install. I have 10.5 killowatt install comprised of 42 Sharp panels. You must have a lot of south facing roof space. Cool to see this on a KVR post!

werp wrote:actually my best purchase was 15 kilowatts of solar panels on the roof. I more or less make horrible noises for free....

Unfortunately no. My family just uses a lot of power...Batteries will be considered in several years when the costing drops to a reasonable level...tesla power walls are too expensive currently.

lolilol1975 · Post by **lolilol1975** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:33 am

REAPER

trimph1 · Post by **trimph1** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 11:27 am

JerGoertz wrote:Yes, this is definitely cool. Are you gents completely electric-independent?

Scotty wrote:That is a big install. I have 10.5 killowatt install comprised of 42 Sharp panels. You must have a lot of south facing roof space. Cool to see this on a KVR post!

werp wrote:actually my best purchase was 15 kilowatts of solar panels on the roof. I more or less make horrible noises for free....

We are going to be getting there ourselves. I did, however, start generating more power than we use...hence Hydro One pays us for our surplus energy.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:01 pm

JerGoertz wrote:Yes, this is definitely cool. Are you gents completely electric-independent?

Scotty wrote:That is a big install. I have 10.5 killowatt install comprised of 42 Sharp panels. You must have a lot of south facing roof space. Cool to see this on a KVR post!

werp wrote:actually my best purchase was 15 kilowatts of solar panels on the roof. I more or less make horrible noises for free....

It's pretty easy to answer that question yourself. Does the sun shine in the night (or rather when it's dark)? (Hint: The solar panels produce nothing at all then) Also, when the weather is cloudy, solar panels only produce about 1/10 to 1/20 of their nominal capacity. And only in absolute optimal conditions (sun shining vertically on the panels), they get NEARLY their nominal capacity, for half an hour a day or so. There are many small cities which claim they're independent here in germany because of solar and wind power. My suggestion would be to cut them from the net, and see if they're really independent, of course noone would do that, because then everyone would see how extremely inefficient and unreliable the facilities are. And how much they cost, and how much (fossile) energy ressources were spent to manufacture them in proportion to what they deliver.

werp · Post by **werp** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 1:19 pm

chk071 wrote:
JerGoertz wrote:Yes, this is definitely cool. Are you gents completely electric-independent?

Scotty wrote:That is a big install. I have 10.5 killowatt install comprised of 42 Sharp panels. You must have a lot of south facing roof space. Cool to see this on a KVR post!

werp wrote:actually my best purchase was 15 kilowatts of solar panels on the roof. I more or less make horrible noises for free....
It's pretty easy to answer that question yourself. Does the sun shine in the night (or rather when it's dark)? (Hint: The solar panels produce nothing at all then) Also, when the weather is cloudy, solar panels only produce about 1/10 to 1/20 of their nominal capacity. And only in absolute optimal conditions (sun shining vertically on the panels), they get NEARLY their nominal capacity, for half an hour a day or so. There are many small cities which claim they're independent here in germany because of solar and wind power. My suggestion would be to cut them from the net, and see if they're really independent, of course noone would do that, because then everyone would see how extremely inefficient and unreliable the facilities are. And how much they cost, and how much (fossile) energy ressources were spent to manufacture them in proportion to what they deliver.

The micro inverter panels that I had installed are set up in parallel rather than in series. Parallel installations don't suffer the same losses due to shade that series installations do...the inverters also convert DC current to AC therefore avoiding any possible overheating of wiring passing through roof spaces etc. On the day of installation, the system generated 76 kilowatts of power..Bear in mind that the installation of 60 panels plus connection to the house circuitry took most of the day...

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 1:25 pm

lolilol1975 wrote:REAPER

I guess someone had to

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 1:40 pm

werp wrote:
chk071 wrote:
JerGoertz wrote:Yes, this is definitely cool. Are you gents completely electric-independent?

Scotty wrote:That is a big install. I have 10.5 killowatt install comprised of 42 Sharp panels. You must have a lot of south facing roof space. Cool to see this on a KVR post!

werp wrote:actually my best purchase was 15 kilowatts of solar panels on the roof. I more or less make horrible noises for free....
It's pretty easy to answer that question yourself. Does the sun shine in the night (or rather when it's dark)? (Hint: The solar panels produce nothing at all then) Also, when the weather is cloudy, solar panels only produce about 1/10 to 1/20 of their nominal capacity. And only in absolute optimal conditions (sun shining vertically on the panels), they get NEARLY their nominal capacity, for half an hour a day or so. There are many small cities which claim they're independent here in germany because of solar and wind power. My suggestion would be to cut them from the net, and see if they're really independent, of course noone would do that, because then everyone would see how extremely inefficient and unreliable the facilities are. And how much they cost, and how much (fossile) energy ressources were spent to manufacture them in proportion to what they deliver.
The micro inverter panels that I had installed are set up in parallel rather than in series. Parallel installations don't suffer the same losses due to shade that series installations do...the inverters also convert DC current to AC therefore avoiding any possible overheating of wiring passing through roof spaces etc. On the day of installation, the system generated 76 kilowatts of power..Bear in mind that the installation of 60 panels plus connection to the house circuitry took most of the day...

76 killowatts doesn't make sense, if then, it should be 76 killowatt hours. And excuse me, but that figure seems pretty utopic. You should have gauges (if that's the correct word) to measure not only the amount of killowatt hours you import into the electricity net, and also a display about what the installment produces atm.

Our neighbour has an installment of 7 killowatt on his roof, amidttedly a bit older than yours. the maximum amount of power, at optimal conditions is about 5-6 killowatt, IF the sun shines, there's no clouds or anything, and it shines vertically on the panels. If it's cloudy, it produces about 1/10 of that, which would be enough to power one or two desktop computers. At other times than at peak times, in the summer, when the sun shines vertically on the panels, there's already a lot of loss too. And when it's dark, there is nothing, nada. Considering that's a 20.000 € installment (of course, 50% of that subsidized), and there's also the need of other installments, like a converter, which cost a couple of thousands too afaik, the installment, without being susidized will surely not be cost efficient in its lifespan (and of course took a lot of fossile energies to manufacture). Apart from that, like with all of the subsidized, and hyped renewable energies (not talking about water power here, which actually is efficient), it takes a lot of compensaion power plants, to do the basic requirements of electrical energy, which in my case in germany comes from coal and gas plants, which are neither climate neutral, nor very clean by default. Wind and solar can only do peaks, they can't do the basic requirements, because they're completely unreliable.

Btw, the farmer i often pass by to buy something also has a sonar panel installment. Most of the times, the energy produced is about 1/10 of its nominal capacity. Which would be in your case about 1,5 killowatt, which would be almost enough to run a washing machine.

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 1:49 pm

chk071 wrote:
werp wrote:
chk071 wrote:
JerGoertz wrote:Yes, this is definitely cool. Are you gents completely electric-independent?

Scotty wrote:That is a big install. I have 10.5 killowatt install comprised of 42 Sharp panels. You must have a lot of south facing roof space. Cool to see this on a KVR post!

werp wrote:actually my best purchase was 15 kilowatts of solar panels on the roof. I more or less make horrible noises for free....
It's pretty easy to answer that question yourself. Does the sun shine in the night (or rather when it's dark)? (Hint: The solar panels produce nothing at all then) Also, when the weather is cloudy, solar panels only produce about 1/10 to 1/20 of their nominal capacity. And only in absolute optimal conditions (sun shining vertically on the panels), they get NEARLY their nominal capacity, for half an hour a day or so. There are many small cities which claim they're independent here in germany because of solar and wind power. My suggestion would be to cut them from the net, and see if they're really independent, of course noone would do that, because then everyone would see how extremely inefficient and unreliable the facilities are. And how much they cost, and how much (fossile) energy ressources were spent to manufacture them in proportion to what they deliver.
The micro inverter panels that I had installed are set up in parallel rather than in series. Parallel installations don't suffer the same losses due to shade that series installations do...the inverters also convert DC current to AC therefore avoiding any possible overheating of wiring passing through roof spaces etc. On the day of installation, the system generated 76 kilowatts of power..Bear in mind that the installation of 60 panels plus connection to the house circuitry took most of the day...
76 killowatts doesn't make sense, if then, it should be 76 killowatt hours. And excuse me, but that figure seems pretty utopic. You should have gauges (if that's the correct word) to measure not only the amount of killowatt hours you import into the electricity net, and also a display about what the installment produces atm.

Our neighbour has an installment of 7 killowatt on his roof, amidttedly a bit older than yours. the maximum amount of power, at optimal conditions is about 5-6 killowatt, IF the sun shines, there's no clouds or anything, and it shines vertically on the panels. If it's cloudy, it produces about 1/10 of that, which would be enough to power one or two desktop computers. At other times than at peak times, in the summer, when the sun shines vertically on the panels, there's already a lot of loss too. And when it's dark, there is nothing, nada. Considering that's a 20.000 € installment (of course, 50% of that subsidized), and there's also the need of other installments, like a converter, which cost a couple of thousands too afaik, the installment, without being susidized will surely not be cost efficient in its lifespan (and of course took a lot of fossile energies to manufacture). Apart from that, like with all of the subsidized, and hyped renewable energies (not talking about water power here, which actually is efficient), it takes a lot of compensaion power plants, to do the basic requirements of electrical energy, which in my case in germany comes from coal and gas plants, which are neither climate neutral, nor very clean by default. Wind and solar can only do peaks, they can't do the basic requirements, because they're completely unreliable.

I thought about 7% of Germany's electricity is solar produced, that's pretty amazing.
And a huge amount is produced by other renewable

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 2:16 pm

I think we have about 40 gigawatts of photovoltaics installed. Considering we need an average of 60-70 gigawatts permanently throughout the day, you can calculate the efficiency. Be careful with those 7% too though, there are a lot of other things to take into account, and renewable energy advocates also like to make more out of it than it is.

Here are a couple of graphics btw, about the general electrical energy production and sources in germany from yesterday, and also a graphic about the solar energy production throughout the day:

Electrical energy production and sources yesterday for germany: http://www.eex-transparency.com/startse ... mw-grafik- (Dunno about that one actually, looks like they changed something about the display there, and it doesn't show the usual 60-70 gigawatts which is usually needed too... so don't take that graphics for granted, there's something weird about it, the usual amount of wind power isn't as small as displayed there usually too)

And the expected solar energy production from yesterday: http://www.eex-transparency.com/startse ... ion-solar-

Note especially the long periods of nothing for the photovoltaics installments. Of course, feel free to check on a summer day (or another day than yesterday), which will give you other results at peak times, but of course, it's the same for the times where it's dark/night.

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