Tried out an ASM Hydrasynth on the weekend because it was on sale and available at a local store - I absolutely loved the sound creation options and the build quality was such that I went back home and dragged my spouse/Synth player out to try it as a replacement for our long suffering Ensoniq ESQ-1. The Hydrasynth interface was surprisingly influenced by the ESQ-1 so that was really cool, and we were able to get some similar sounds out of it - I thought it was a scam dunk buuuut I really didn’t consider that the ESQ-1 has large keys and a really nice keybed. The Hydrasynth keys felt great but were about and inch shorter and my partner struggled through some of our songs on it - likely a muscle memory thing buuut… there was an Access Virus beside it, tried out those keys and bam. I went down the rabbit hole on what synths have what keybeds that aren’t $4k..


Now I’m buying a used Prophet Rev2. Just ticks all the boxes for a live full guitar band synth with 8 voices, AND has a nice keybed.

The ESQ-1 really is a hell of a synth for the money

There's been some really great deals on plugins that ends this week. I picked up a really nice SSL channel strip for next to nothing, among other things. I gotta give a shoutout to the UAD native essentials bundle. I was looking for a Space Echo clone. I found a few for a decent price, but the UAD Essentials bundle sale price is nearly the same for most echo clones. It includes the space echo, but you get so much good classic shit with it. That LA-2A is probably the best one I've used, really impressed with it. Can't complain about getting the other 2 flavors, plus the Pultec suite and some other nice-to-haves.

I've been wanting badly for a physical transport for my recording desk and some easier way to access plugins and shortcuts. I ended up picking up an Icon Nano P1.

https://iconproaudio.com/product/p1-nano/

I’ve owned a few used old as shit Macs in my life, but I got my first brand new computer since the Commodore 64 I had as a kid. Hello, M2 Mac Studio! I’m
Ready to party. Guess I’m gonna learn Reaper now and ditch Pro Tools. Hope everyone is ready for stupid questions…

tommy wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:58 am I’ve owned a few used old as shit Macs in my life, but I got my first brand new computer since the Commodore 64 I had as a kid. Hello, M2 Mac Studio! I’m
Ready to party. Guess I’m gonna learn Reaper now and ditch Pro Tools. Hope everyone is ready for stupid questions…

Hell yeah
I used a Commodore64 monitor as a console screen well into the 2010s - there was something about the colors on it that were fantastically vibrant. It's still in my parent's basement, I turn it on every Christmas and it still works, I think they bought it in 86.

Is that Lode Runner?

Teacher's Pet wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:15 pm Is that Lode Runner?

LOAD "$",...YES!

comma eight comma one FTW

Teacher's Pet wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:37 pm comma eight comma one FTW

When I look at my horrible woodworking and see my co-workers beautiful stuff, I ask them how they do it and they say "I've been doing this since I was a kid".
I remember what I was doing...

...This makes it all worth it

tommy wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:58 am I’ve owned a few used old as shit Macs in my life, but I got my first brand new computer since the Commodore 64 I had as a kid. Hello, M2 Mac Studio! I’m
Ready to party. Guess I’m gonna learn Reaper now and ditch Pro Tools. Hope everyone is ready for stupid questions…

I just black-friday dealed myself a new PC. Ryzen 7900x3d came with 32GB free ram, got a Refurb Asus motherboard and a cpu cooler, recycled a power supply, case and ssd. Fired it up last night and I'm happy to say I didn't fuck anything up in the building process. Then I ordered a bunch of cables and shit for maximum connectivity. All in I spent about $800.

thecr4ne wrote: Fri Dec 01, 2023 11:59 am

tommy wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:58 am I’ve owned a few used old as shit Macs in my life, but I got my first brand new computer since the Commodore 64 I had as a kid. Hello, M2 Mac Studio! I’m
Ready to party. Guess I’m gonna learn Reaper now and ditch Pro Tools. Hope everyone is ready for stupid questions…

I just black-friday dealed myself a new PC. Ryzen 7900x3d came with 32GB free ram, got a Refurb Asus motherboard and a cpu cooler, recycled a power supply, case and ssd. Fired it up last night and I'm happy to say I didn't fuck anything up in the building process. Then I ordered a bunch of cables and shit for maximum connectivity. All in I spent about $800.

I am VERY happy with the Ryzen 7 cpu I have