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11The Keystep I have delivers some of the most pleasure per dollar of anything I own
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12It's super useful. Bought mine from (former?) FM Eliya and it does everything. My setups tend to be a little odd, and I desperately need to post a couple YT videos instead of describe them but here goes:TylerDeadPine wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 2:35 pm The Keystep I have delivers some of the most pleasure per dollar of anything I own
1) I have a 1 octave set of tuned bells (about the size of office bells) that work like a little carillon: servos pull little hammers to strike them and it's controlled by an arduino that listens to MIDI. The Keystep is a mice little controller for that if I'm not using a sequencer instead.
2) Mentioned this earlier, but I modified a typewriter to be motor-driven with adjustable speed. The platen itself is studded with screws and there's a strat pickup hovering over it, so when the platen spins the pickup creates a signal. This is vaguely inspired by tonewheel organs. Anyway that thing is an oscillator and then goes into the Behringer Neutron's VCF. The filter sweep and overall volume envelope are the Neutron's ADSRs, triggered by a piezo disc, which can be struck by typewriter keys to gate the envelopes.
Really enjoy using bits and pieces of tech to interact with mechanical stuff.
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13oh I like that a lot - well done. The electro-mechanical space still owes us plenty of interesting sounds. Have you heard of Author&Punisher? If not check out some of his designs https://tristanshone.com/twelvepoint wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 3:21 pmIt's super useful. Bought mine from (former?) FM Eliya and it does everything. My setups tend to be a little odd, and I desperately need to post a couple YT videos instead of describe them but here goes:TylerDeadPine wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 2:35 pm The Keystep I have delivers some of the most pleasure per dollar of anything I own
1) I have a 1 octave set of tuned bells (about the size of office bells) that work like a little carillon: servos pull little hammers to strike them and it's controlled by an arduino that listens to MIDI. The Keystep is a mice little controller for that if I'm not using a sequencer instead.
2) Mentioned this earlier, but I modified a typewriter to be motor-driven with adjustable speed. The platen itself is studded with screws and there's a strat pickup hovering over it, so when the platen spins the pickup creates a signal. This is vaguely inspired by tonewheel organs. Anyway that thing is an oscillator and then goes into the Behringer Neutron's VCF. The filter sweep and overall volume envelope are the Neutron's ADSRs, triggered by a piezo disc, which can be struck by typewriter keys to gate the envelopes.
Really enjoy using bits and pieces of tech to interact with mechanical stuff.
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14TylerDeadPine wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 4:18 pm
oh I like that a lot - well done. The electro-mechanical space still owes us plenty of interesting sounds. Have you heard of Author&Punisher? If not check out some of his designs https://tristanshone.com/
Yeah, Author & Punisher is super cool. Love all the custom machined mechanical movement stuff he has going on, and that it becomes a physical extension. Hopefully I can catch him live, preferably headlining a smaller venue.
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15Yeah! I talked to him a bit about that and was fun to learn he uses all the same stuff I do at work. Very lucky to share some kind of local music space with him - friend ours just opened up his show at the Casbah here, it's about 200 capacity, fantastic sound - just prefect place to catch anyone, but him especially.twelvepoint wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 4:45 pmTylerDeadPine wrote: Mon Jun 13, 2022 4:18 pm
oh I like that a lot - well done. The electro-mechanical space still owes us plenty of interesting sounds. Have you heard of Author&Punisher? If not check out some of his designs https://tristanshone.com/
Yeah, Author & Punisher is super cool. Love all the custom machined mechanical movement stuff he has going on, and that it becomes a physical extension. Hopefully I can catch him live, preferably headlining a smaller venue.
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16My big musical accomplishment today was connecting my SQ-1 sequencer to my Roland HS-60 (this is a Juno 106 with speakers) and playing the synth part to Rush's "Vital Signs" kinda like this
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17100% would watchtwelvepoint wrote: ... I desperately need to post a couple YT videos instead of describe them but here goes:
1) I have a 1 octave set of tuned bells (about the size of office bells) that work like a little carillon: servos pull little hammers to strike them and it's controlled by an arduino that listens to MIDI.
2) Mentioned this earlier, but I modified a typewriter to be motor-driven with adjustable speed.
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18On the way! I started a video for #1 but I say "umm" way too much and am going to redo the narration!Teacher's Pet wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 4:42 pm100% would watchtwelvepoint wrote: ... I desperately need to post a couple YT videos instead of describe them but here goes:
1) I have a 1 octave set of tuned bells (about the size of office bells) that work like a little carillon: servos pull little hammers to strike them and it's controlled by an arduino that listens to MIDI.
2) Mentioned this earlier, but I modified a typewriter to be motor-driven with adjustable speed.
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19I got a Make Noise Shared System right before the lockdown and so yeah now I have an embarrassing amount of gear. I used to post a lot of bullshit on instagram but I haven’t lately. If you know me you are probably already bored by it. I have started playing a little under the moniker HOMO/NYMS with the idea of doing something different every time. Here is what I am probably bringing to the BBQ (Sunday 7/10 1PM)
Umm I guess it’s synth adjacent? It’s a noise box I got off Etsy going into the Meris Ottobit Jr. for some glitch then being granularity processed and layered through the SOMA Cosmos and I’m using the OTOmachines BOUM at the end to fill things out.
Umm I guess it’s synth adjacent? It’s a noise box I got off Etsy going into the Meris Ottobit Jr. for some glitch then being granularity processed and layered through the SOMA Cosmos and I’m using the OTOmachines BOUM at the end to fill things out.
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20That setup looks fun, turnbullac! I have plans to make a contact mic / thumb piano out of typewriter key bars at some point to use with an envelope filter.