The Studio Log - What Did You Do In The Studio

[vurt]

I spent a few hours yesterday pulling my hair out trying to fix a corrupted Cosmos database.

Managed to arrange things so I can lay on the sofa and have Minilogue XD, Analog Four and Digitakt usable. May never get up again.

I can imagine the piles of empty soda bottles, discarded potato chips,…errrr crisps,… bags, and pizza boxes strewn about the room.

Well you’d be wrong because I haven’t even made it into the kitchen since I set it up about four hours ago.

shit, what I thought was 4 hours is actually more like 6. I have to make tea.

hold on! youve lay there for six hours straight???
you wearing a nappy?
using a milk bottle? (my own method)
part camel?

[WatchTheGuitar]

I guess as I haven’t drunk owt there’s been nowt to pass.

[vurt]

i wish that worked for me!

[WatchTheGuitar]

I'd happily swap that ability for not having to go to work on Tuesday.

But, only that.

[whyterabbyt]

Dug through a couple of boxes and tested some stuff. A couple of minor toy things misbehaving, fixed a couple of things, one of which (Stylophone Beatbox) just developed a different issue. Recorded an hour or two from a Kastle as sample fodder, then spent an hour or two more reminding myself how the f**k to fly a BitRanger.

then after fixing the switch on a Moffenzeef MSG, I looked into updating firmware on it, as it runs an atmel attiny85...

... which resulted in several hours spent on trying to work out how the f**k I used to build on 8-pin attinys; the supposed all-in-one attiny programmer board I had just emitted smoke, I couldnt get ArduinoISP to work with the stripboards pseudo-shield I built specifically for programming attinys, I couldnt get my USBTiny programmer to work with the Arduino IDE but it would seem to be working from AVRDude.... gah.

so that wound up in me 'designing' a whole new version of that pseudo-shield because I was convinced I'd done summat wrong. had taken no notes, couldnt remember where I'd sourced the info and did i say no notes, so had to basically re-research it all over again, dummy it up in fritzing, compare to the one I'd built and and and..

...and that was sunday mostly gone. sigh.

[DMG68]

Bounced some BFD drums to audio. Messed around with my bass and Moogerfooger filter to set up for upcoming tracking.

[Constructed Identity]

Haven't been on here in awhile because I moved. Now that I am unpacked and have had a shot of whisky I can post.
Got lots more storage now:

Six closets is more than I have stuff for ... so I can buy more equipment - YAY!
Ordered something new off Reverb already, in customs now.

[elxsound]

I think I narrowed down my workflow with Digitakt, Syntakt, SQ64 and the modular rack.

Syntakt will be my clock, Digitakt to send 2 channels of midi to the rack, and SQ64 for additional gate sequencing. The modulation is weird on SQ64, so thankfully 0-Coast will save the day.

I explored euclidian rhythms on PNW (pain in the ass) and have been trying the same thing on Running Order with good enough results.

I explored Plaits more, especially Plaits' mini Rings modes which makes me want Rings even more, but in time. No rush.

I need to try out the logic stuff on PNW, and then I can move on to the last two modules to deep dive... Morphagene and CVilization.

Sadly, I see the need for more utilities, but again, I can get by for now. Once it becomes painfully obvious I'll start exploring more options.

[WatchTheGuitar]

The best module I have for Euclidean rhythms by a mile is vpme Euclidean Circles as it’s so hands on with instant visual feedback, but I don’t want to use euclidean stuff enough to keep it in my main rack and I’ve other ways of getting the same if I do need it (O_c hemispheres, modes in both Noise Engineering repetitor modules etc.)

[elxsound]

Ive definitely considered it, but I also won’t use Euclidean rhythms enough to justify having a dedicated module. I would rather program something quickly, but I did want to give it a try.

It is easy on Running Order, but I don’t know that I’m keeping it in the rack.

[WatchTheGuitar]

Like me you have an SQ-64 and there's always the possibility they'll add euclidean to the percussion track on that via a firmware update at some point. Talking of drum things, just got a text to say my Kraken has arrived. I long to unleash it...



...and the Kraken.

[elxsound]

Like me you have an SQ-64 and there's always the possibility they'll add euclidean to the percussion track on that via a firmware update at some point. Talking of drum things, just got a text to say my Kraken has arrived. I long to unleash it...



...and the Kraken.

Do you use the CV modulation out from SQ64? I haven’t found a useful way to use it.

The way I understand how it works is that you can only reduce the percentage of a 5v step and can change the curve, but in practice all 16 steps (when length is set to 16) outputs a signal change.

[WatchTheGuitar]

Do you use the CV modulation out from SQ64? I haven’t found a useful way to use it.

The way I understand how it works is that you can only reduce the percentage of a 5v step and can change the curve, but in practice all 16 steps (when length is set to 16) outputs a signal change.

I’ve never tried using it for cv modulation, main use is sequencing my MS20 Mini with Hz/V and occasionally some modular stuff, but I don’t use it as much as I’d like to as it’s way easier to sequence everything via my DAW.

[WatchTheGuitar]

Got the WMD Kraken in the setup and it’s perfect, displaced an ADDAC 106 noise/cymbal module I wasn’t using much. Crazy amount of snare variations on this thing, between it and the Crucible I was using about a dozen CV modulation sources, some tempo synced, and then the things really come alive. I’m at that slightly annoying stage in retrospect I move away from playing with the stuff for hours without actually recording a thing.

[vurt]

building some morphagene reels.