The Studio Log - What Did You Do In The Studio

[vurt]

Finished an entry for another sound design challenge. First time finishing something DaVinci Resolve, so lots of tutorials along the way for a quick take.

All sounds created from a printer printing paper, and the directive was to get a robot to the dance floor, make them dance, and then malfunction.

thats great! you hit all 3 points for sure
i dont know if theres a prize or ratings even, but good luck!

[vurt]

3) Yes. That's part of why I want to do full reels. So I plan on doing just shy of 3-minutes for each compilation ('MOD' of mine), and posting that on soundcloud, and a copy of that as a reel on that free place (freesound?). I think I may stick 'markers' at the transition points between 'samples' used in the making of the reel, also, just to make it easier for users to skip through it.

i am always happy to receive new reels!!
not even just for use in my own stuff, but just playing the reel, with some ever changing modulations, for sitting around and chilling my own private remix party

[Shabdahbriah]

3) Yes. That's part of why I want to do full reels. So I plan on doing just shy of 3-minutes for each compilation ('MOD' of mine), and posting that on soundcloud, and a copy of that as a reel on that free place (freesound?). I think I may stick 'markers' at the transition points between 'samples' used in the making of the reel, also, just to make it easier for users to skip through it.

i am always happy to receive new reels!!
not even just for use in my own stuff, but just playing the reel, with some ever changing modulations, for sitting around and chilling my own private remix party

Exactly. Here's QU-Bits page, with some freebie libs made for Nebulae:

https://www.qubitelectronix.com/samplelibraries

[Bombadil]

Just set up these.
My original Dynaudio BM5As worked fine for 19 years. Then, a woofer blew. It is most likely fixable, but I don't know anyone to do it dependably. So, I ordered another pair. I'm used to the sound of these. They are excellent.

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[seafire]

Broke down the modular and replaced the sliding nuts with a threaded bars. Rearranged the modules, good as new.

Sampled the Kobol too.

[foosnark]

Broke down the modular and replaced the sliding nuts with a threaded bars.

Congratulations on your escape from hell. I hate sliding nuts with a passion

[justin3am]

Oh geez yeah good riddance to sliding nuts! I have had some modules which don't sit very nicely next to each other when using threaded strips but still much easier to work with than sliding nuts. How many times have I cursed when replacing the final screw and it's nut shifts under the module.

[vurt]

ive gotten used to them, with knurlies.

iterations, recording to get some of the sounds, then some editing...
should be done tonight, check tomorrow then send off

"through first week of september" means till friday?

[Shabdahbriah]

Just set up these.
My original Dynaudio BM5As worked fine for 19 years. Then, a woofer blew. It is most likely fixable, but I don't know anyone to do it dependably. So, I ordered another pair. I'm used to the sound of these. They are excellent.

I always liked the sound of the Dynaudio BM5As, but at that time, went with Alesis Monitor One Mk2s. Still going strong.

ive gotten used to them, with knurlies.

Me too.

"through first week of september" means till friday?

Cheers for the reminder...

[foosnark]

I bought my first Eurorack module 8 years, 10 months and 7 days ago, and today I fried my first Eurorack module... not the same one, different first

Doepfer A-150-1. I made the mistake of pulling off the power ribbon because I wanted the shortest possible cables in my Pod60 while I rearranged things... and not making a note of which way the cable was oriented.

There is no marking on the PCB telling you which way the stripe goes, nor any hint in the online documentation. I had a 50/50 chance (and some hope of reverse power protection, but I should have known better with Doepfer) and I blew it, literally. Audible sizzle, puff of smoke, horrible stink, visible damage on one of the chips.

I'm pretty sure it's just the one chip, and it's in a socket, so it's easy to replace. It's unfortunately obsolete and discontinued... but I found a seller on eBay who still has them for $3.50 each.

[justin3am]

Oh brutal! The magic smoke has escaped!
Yeah, Dopefer with their single sided PCBs, no -12 marking, no reverse power protection. If I remember right, you can tell which lead goes to -12 by the orientation of the electrolytic caps but it's been so long I don't even know if that is still the case. Glad it'll be an easy fix.
I've blown up a lot of things but luckily only 1 euro module. It was an MFB Dual ADSR. That may have been my first eurorack repair too. Keyed/shrowded headers were so uncommon at that time, I'd always connect and power on modules one at a time after rearranging. It didn't help that some companies weren't using the red-stripe= -12 convention at the time (I think Cwejman was one of those).

[foosnark]

Someone mentioned that Thomann has 360 degree views of all the modules they sell, with the cable attached. But also if I'd bothered to do an image search there are a couple of shots that show the cable orientation... live and learn.

[Constructed Identity]

All started with me testing the new interface:
Had to make sure that the ADAT INs were working so I connected the MIDI out of Pro 3 to the Kobol Expander and that into the Expert Sleepers ES-10. I had to re-patch cables so I began messing around. Right now I've got a stackable into the Kobol's out with one part going directly into a channel of ES-10, the other is going into my Synthesis Technology Ladder VCF. I patched the LFO out1 into the VCF frequency of Kobol and LFO out2 into the 2/3 OCT in of E490 which is sent to the next ES-10 channel. Then I panned the two channels hard right and hard left to get a stereo with two different filters. The two filters are synced, but they have a different shape and it sounds wonderful.
Next, I can run sequences with the Pro 3 and that's mixed, with different filter/LFO shapes a lot of cool stuff is being made. This is how I get ideas.

[ghettosynth]

Oh brutal! The magic smoke has escaped!
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Keyed/shrowded headers were so uncommon at that time, I'd always connect and power on modules one at a time after rearranging.

I still give Doepfer a pass on this because their modules are cheap, but, Make Noise should know better, same goes for any other premium brand. It's a red flag for me.

I've yet to smoke one, but, I've smoked more than my fair share of things with reverse power connections. So I'm very careful to make sure that I know before I plug it in. If I had an unmarked module I would use a meter to check continuity to appropriate places before plugging it in. I fried multiple chips more than once on my first computer as a teenager because the 22/44 pin header could be reversed and that was bad news.

A nice guy in the computer club always told me to bring it to him and he'd fix it for me. I didn't have the skill or the tools at 16. Of course I always thanked him, but, I didn't realize till a bit later in life that those repairs were not all that cheap and certainly took considerable time.

[foosnark]

I still give Doepfer a pass on this because their modules are cheap, but, Make Noise should know better, same goes for any other premium brand. It's a red flag for me.

Shrouded headers should be the absolute minimum. Reverse power protection should also be standard... in most cases a 20-cent diode is enough, but there are other options as well. Some modules, even relatively cheap ones, have completely reversible power that works either way.

Some Make Noise modules have reverse power protection... and some don't, so you can't rely on it. But every one of their modules that I've seen has PCB markings indicating which way the cable goes, and also all of their manuals have a chapter about it.

Doepfer: no stripe on the PCB. No mention in the documentation. There's no excuse for that.

If you go searching their website, you can eventually find a mention that on all their modules, the red stripe is down. (I have heard anecdotally that this isn't true for some of them!) They also include dire warnings about not using other manufacturer's power supplies with shrouded headers in case they somehow managed to reverse them. I think a shrouded header must have bitten Dieter when he was a child.