Well, all of the projects are on ice at the moment….. i don´t have the money for this things right now (fucking winter, need new clothes and boots) and time is very short to do something …. this is a state i´ve mentioned in another post before. The sequencer-project has to wait till christmas when i will get my christmas allowance …. this will make more sense buying all electronics together and not separated saving transport-costs. My last material-exploration let me think so…. it can be highly frustrating when you discover that some parts have to be ordered from different suppliers (mouser, digikey, etc.) which let explodes shipping-cost.
So let´s see what the future brings
i know, this blog lacks from ongoing information…. i would also like to compile a whole documentation on the sequencer-project with pictures and links so that everyone who is interested in, is capable to built one… this should be no competition to ucapps.de (the guy behind that is Thorsten Klose – the inventor), more a walk-through
I also promised to put on more waveforms for the Blofeld …. well, not many people checked the boxes on the poll-table although the post with the poll has quite a lot visitors …. but as always …. people have to be nailed down fo a while on some posts, if they do not see something with significance, the flow away … maybe i should post a nice picture with a fine booty below the poll-table
It´s all about money, to this conclusion i came recently. Since i don´t have much money spending on things i´d like to have, i always try to keep a balance between things which are essential for living (food, clothes, rental fee) and things regarding my spare-time (social activities, synthesizers, pc, books, films, traveling, sports etc.). It often happens that i catch myself in a state in which i dreaming about a new synthesizer or better a gear of my desire, clothes i´d like to have, social activities i´d like to share with my friends (and not all of them are free of spending money), countries i´d like to visit and so on….. coming down from this sphere can be not directly described as a crash but more as state of frustration. This process is ongoing since years and i think it will last hardly two years from now till the moment i finished my diploma and finished the education as a clinical psychologist which usually follows after diploma.
This was a decision not easily made, but during my experiments with the A4000 side by side with the simple sampler-plugins from my FruityLoops-DAW it came through mind that the work-flow is second to non on my DAW. Sure, a sampler may have his own charm and i know that from lurking throughout the web and witnessed the people who take care of there sampler (AKAI, Yamaha, EMU etc.) but whatever, i have to move on and i also do not have the place for it. Seeing what today’s Software-Sampler are capable in terms of modulation, filter etc. – i would say the time of the pure HW-Sampler is almost of . This, and the work flow and etc….
In sum the following reasons for selling are essential:
The complicate work-flow
Beyond experimenting with it, nothing essential was achieved
I put in a lot of money, getting this peace of equipment running (SCSI-Adpater, SCSI-CD/RW, SCSI-CABLES, SCSI-HD, RAM and not forget mention all the transport-fees) –> see point 2.
The typical problem of missing space in my very small sweet-home
I want to go a step further since my DAW is pleasing me very well in terms of sampling, and i want to use the money for buying a HW-Synth
Some Pics:
The Space-Problem! As you can see i would also need another Rack for mounting this very deep constructed sampler. This would cost more space in my very very small room in which i life, sleep, eat, work and so on....
A4000 front with SCSI-CDR-Drive from Yamaha
Sideview of the A4000
The discs! Disc 2 is missing, Disc 1 with the tools will be burned. I´ve only got two of five A4000 Demo-Floppy-Discs
On word to the encoders: As i bought the sampler, the guy from which i get this engine, didn´t tell me about the condition of the encoders. Parameterjumping was common. After i applied Deoxit D5M the problem was solved to some degree but jumpings still (eg. from value 75 to 90 etc.) appear on the encoders two and three when moving them fast (seen from left to the right).
See here the video for some impressions how the encoder are now working (sorry for the blurred video which has been recorded with my samsung mobile):
Multible answers are possible, you can check only one box or all - for fine adjustment rather check the three things you´d like most.
If you still missing something make some suggestions. But keep in mind i am not a professional ….. the things you get by me maybe not the things you get from a professional studio, but they are free
After a long time of “musical” absence i finished a new track! I can´t tell you which style it is and i wasn´t able to find the right name for it….. as i was thinking about the name i´ve chosen simply “Hmmm”. The Track itself was made with the MicroQ and the RackAttack (my only synths at the moment). The used plugins are all freeware (EQ´s, compressor, chorus, delay, reverb). I also used the Behringer V-Verb as outboard for reverberation and audiostreaming unit on some percussions. If you like it leave a comment or otherwise tell me what i have made wrong (melodyline, theme, drums etc.). As i mentioned a few posts before i am not a mastering-specialist and i think it sounds like that , but what the heck …. i tried to make it as balanced as possible always kept in mind to make it not loud so that your ears wouldn´t suffer.
So here we go:
The file is about 9 to 10 MB´s and was rendered at 192 kbit/s!
Here are the links to some pics and/or concept-arts to the forthcoming movie Tron 2.0 . I remember when i was a young boy i was fascinated from the first movie with its visuals ( a LSD-trip for a 7 years old boy!!!)…. now, more then 20 years later a successor is in pre-production!
Today i received the result from the most important test i´ve completed two weeks ago at my university. In Austria the evaluation for a test has a range from 1 (which is best) to 5 (which is worst), in my case i achieved a 2. This have been two heavy-emotional weeks for me, i tell ya!
Here is a rar-file with sampled waveforms for the Blofeld respective the Spectre – Software. I made 21 different waveforms – so use it with the Blofeld.
Some specs about the waveforms:
16bit, 44100, mono, forward-looped, C4 as root-key, size is 1kb
Use it at your own risk!!!
If it works with the blofeld sample-engine please leave a note, it would be quite interesting and post a link so that i can hear how it sounds.
