By the way, I need more training for outside Synthing. I spend about 1 and half hour cross legged on the grass and my legs still hurt…
Stay in your wheelchair.
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fuck. I kinda want one, and apparently hard af to get… it kind of looks like a nightmare though. The kits are inexpensive at Thonk but don’t expect to get one until the end of this year.
https://www.thonk.co.uk/shop/plinky/
People keep telling me that’s a not a great way to sit anyway. But just walking a lot in general limbers the inner leg muscles up, and also just stretching them when you sit that way, ie move the knees downward. When I started going outside again and sitting that way, my legs hurt, too, from disuse of those muscles.
I tend to use either a portable camping chair that takes less than a minute to set up or tear down, or just my yoga mat.
lol savage…
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My last act will be banning your IPs.
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I just realised why the light was so odd, partial solar eclipse was going on behind those clouds.
Did you just get one? I saw you were asking about them on a forum whos name will not be named
I started asking as I was getting one cheap. Quickly realised I won’t step sequence. But I have other things for that. I wanted something battery powered, I can use away from my desk as I’m struck with the space at the moment. Synth sounds are really good, drums not so much but again, I have samplers for that.
Yeah i remember enjoying mine. I used to connect the usb out to my iPad. That was a cool portable combo
Really trying to figure out how Stereoping sells “dedicated” MIDI controllers for $550 and programmers for twice that. I think I could do this with an Arduino or one of my Axolotls. Granted they are stand-alone, specialized, ‘boutique’ etc and transmit over MIDI DIN.
I just found this:
so I think I can use that to work out Reaktor ensembles to use with my Maschine+ in standalone; I’ll have to try it and see. Programming an E-Mu Morpheus from the front panel is a major pita 
Liven XFM sounds really juicy in the demos, do I risk pre-ordering while I’m about to move house?
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I watched the Plinky video and was tempted to get a DIY version, but my sensible head kicked in and told me theres that much going on with that plinky it will just end up being another ornament.
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Lost my afternoon to watching Plinky videos. Lovely sound, might need to join the hype train mailing list.
well I slept all afternoon, that was unfortunate. Back to arranging this song I’ve been working on with fresh ears I guess? lol…
Using the 18i20 SPDIF is kind of a pita, I have to switch its timing from internal to SPDIF and the Proteus 2000 has to be on for sound to work at all in this configuration. I don’t remember having to do this with another interface, but it’s not a tragedy. Definitely not leaving a two decade old module on all the time my computer is lol. I don’t want to have a display change forced onto me
I figured out what I’m doing with some of the other pieces of gear that don’t fit on the desk. My old IKEA Expedit (KALLAX is the modern equivalent) 4x4 is serving as a bookshelf and gear display. I have an IKEA Norden table that lives in that area, it’s basically my “do everything” table since it can be folded away into a smallish package. Projects, crafts, legos, coloring, and with a small mixer like the Bluebox, just pull a few pieces off and connect them up for a quick jam. Or more likely, put them away to do other things on it XD
The RD-6 and TD-3 occupy a shelf just about perfectly together 
edit second-guessing myself and none of that matters much anyway…
In more pertinent news, how do companies manage to sell “presets” for analog monosynths with no patch memory? do they send you pictures of the panel? lol…
I’ll be off to Ikea in the next 2/3 weeks, new house will need lots of stuff and this might be the chance to upgrade our sofa as well!
You can’t have a studio or a workspace without Ikea.
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Honestly I looked at plinky and my thoughts were “its like a less easy to use version of shoom” (iPad app) , but then if you have an iPad you need to be spending your time on Drambo and Koala anyway
I really can’t figure out what this means, other than what seems obvious:
“3.5 mm / 1/8” TRS dual-mono output”
Meanwhile the SKULPT has a stereo headphone out. I know when I try to sample or record the SKULPT, no matter what cable I use it only has one output. TRS, TS, TRS to TS splitter… it seems to mean “it has a mono output, and you can use whatever cable you want. Mono output”
Meanwhile my MFB 522 needs a special cable with a resistor in it to take the stereo output and then combine it into a mono signal.
You’re gonna come back to a sea of purple everything 
lol have fun with house!
I use these for the NTS, not that brand, but looks exactly the same, generic I think.
https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-Splitter-Compatible-Computer-Multimedia/dp/B00ZKM3SHK
After a quick look, it seems the SKULPT is very much like the Volca FM, while it is polyphonic it only outputs a mono signal, so what you here in your headphones is a duel mono signal (same signal to both ears), so the cable above in the headphone jack of the SKULPT should do the same as your headphones. On the Volva FM I usually have a 1/8 to 1/4 mono cable as I use it mainly for bass, but If I use the 1/8 to duel mono, I can send the signal to left and right. This can give you greater control over the placing of the signal in the mix than with balance, or you can send each signal to a different FX (in my case pedals usually) and position each in the mix at different places and volumes.
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I think this relates to my previous issue of splitter cables because using one I only ever got one signal out of the jack on the SKULPT. I did find a cable like that one to try next time, though, at least.
It does state in the specs it has a duel mono output, so it should work through the line out.
I have 2 of these type cables, one 5ft and one 3ft. No problems with the signal and handy should you find yourself short of a cable to make a pair. just plug it in the headphone socket. Also if your left or right line output starts playing up. The thing I like most about these cables is they’re braided.