Old man analogue numpty moments

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Old man analogue numpty moments 2022-05-03T09:46:18+00:00 So...was finally getting to have a full blown twiddle around with my MonoPoly today. Making some great noises - especially the arp cycling-oscillator thing - which is one of the main reasons I bought it. Always loved that, especially when you start bringing in the sync and cross mod. Even got to wiring up my old rack FX (Lexicon and an Alesis SR24 thingy just so I can slap on some trippy FX as I twiddle away my happiness), so there goes another hour of fartarseing around at the back of the desk in a dark studio trying to find 12 ins/outs and patch them all up to the patchbay for ease of use - did I say ease? No, I meant aggravation, and tripping over at least 2 keyboard stands to get to the back of the desk and the racks. Old men don't bend anywhere near as well as young men, let me tell you. (Around the back of desks, you filthy minded pervert) Then I think I'll get it in a nice dubby track I'm working on, with a shitload of delay all over the arp (as you do). Only of course...being analogue I can't for the life of me sync the arp clock to the DAW. Was thinking as it has midi already that it would automatically sync up to midi clock via the DAW, but no. So I check the back panel cos I know it's got all kinds of CV inputs etc. Yeah - it has a trig in and a separate arp trig too. I have an old Kenton fancy 4 channel thing with all kinds of CV/aux controls/trigs/clocks etc that I've had for years - still use for my MS20, though fuctifino how to set it up properly nowadays as I set it up yrs ago when I was stoned. Spent another 30 mins finding the fucking manual then reading the gobbledygook. So...try to set up a clock trig. No way that worked on the arp though common sense says it should, but I figure maybe that's actually what the arp clock input is for you eejit! :dog: . So I fiddle about for another 30 mins trying to figure out how the hell I get an arp clock from the Kenton into the MonoPoly. No can do. Finally think just maybe it's an idea to read the Behringer manual - which is about 2 pages long. I mean fucking hell...it says very clearly that I go to Behringer and d/l some app to change the settings in the MonoPoly and it tells me to get Synthtool to change all kinds of settings in not only the MonoPoly but every other Behringer synth I have. That would have been nice to know. If only they had suggested that maybe the manual is there for a really good reason - oh yeah, they did. Twats! So I spend another 30 mins trying to find Synthtool going round and around but can only find SynthTribe which seems to be pretty pictures of their synths so I dl it then delete it. It did nothing useful. Spend another 30 mins surfing their forum that tells me actually Synthtool has been renamed SynthTribe and dl that, connect your analogue synths via USB and all will be revealed. I mean, I'm an old man and I don't expect USB to actually do anything on an all-analogue synth. So I redownload SynthTool-that-has-been-renamed SnythTribe and lo and behold! In one easy click I reset the MonoPoly to receive arp clock via midi and Bingo! it works. I also in several easy clicks update the OS on 4 different Behringer analogue synths. I'll repeat that - update the OS via USB on all-analogue synths...WTF! It amazes me how I can be such a fucking numpty sometimes. Have I turned into vurt or something? I haven't touched drugs for years...Times like these, I realise how the world has sped on past my slowing-down awareness. It was dark by the time I got my fucking arp playing - and very nice it was too. :hihi: kritikon https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2850

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Post by vurt » Fri May 06, 2022 6:09 pm

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cheeky fecker!

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Post by kritikon » Fri May 06, 2022 9:08 pm

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Amiright though?...is it not exactly the sort of thing you might do?

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Post by vurt » Fri May 06, 2022 10:38 pm

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no, i rarely get lost in the studio.
it helps having no clue what you are doing, then you can't do it wrong.
go in with no clue, every result is a plus!

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Post by vurt » Fri May 06, 2022 10:39 pm

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tonight's session of cluelessness

http://www.viablehybrid.com/vurt/testtube/fibo%2002.mp3

some tasty analogue moments

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