The Hardware Megathread

The Studio
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I’m pretty proud of how this turned out:

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I took the Synthworx Virus B samples from that download pile and made a Decent Sampler preset mostly to learn how to do it. I should probably focus my efforts onto Maschine and Kontakt libraries/presets, even if they are heinous to make work in standalone mode on a Maschine+. I grow weary of “failed to find sample” because it’s too fucking stupid to use recursive sample loading (which Decent excels at…)

Yes, that’s a Coronavirus :joy:

Regarding my MS-100BT, yeah, I use it as an all or nothing effect in a place where that would make sense. For an ambient preset, or I’m thinking of freeing up the Trinity reverb and replacing it with the Zoom set to a delay into a reverb setting to get a little more out of my single effect send.

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Yeah get Ableton CV tools to tune your oscillator and your good to go.

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Was at work browsing around the web and noticed the Behringer 960 sequencer was £115, I stated thinking about tangerine dream sequences and couldn’t resist.

After I purchased I got home and noticed I already have 7 sequencers in my eurorack :lol:
Amazing how they can knock these out for £115, if I was building one myself from scratch the faceplate alone wouldnt be far off £100.

Some guy on another forum mentioned the 960’s are better run in pairs, so I’ll hold that thought and probably get another one if I like it.

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I think I’m just going to run the Proteus 2K directly into the 18i20. S/PDIF is just so. Damned. Quiet. And I can’t figure out or find a reason why it is so. I don’t remember it being so quiet with the MOTU Ultralite mk3 using S/PDIF… Not like I need to run it SPIDF anyway. It’s actually kind of a pita with the Focusrite, again compared to the MOTU. The MOTU didn’t care, the 18i20 if I want to use it I have to change timing from internal to SPIDF or I get absolutely no sound from the system. So it’ll just be easier to run it from outputs to inputs vs leaving it digital the whole way.

Fucking computers… :unamused:

NI needs an autosampler for Maschine already, or I’m getting an MPC One or something. Because trying to trigger an external sound module to autosample is also cancer… I’ve been fighting with MPC Beats, Bitwig, and Studio One trying to get this to work and just getting nowhere. I can play the Proteus or Morpheus all night long, but trying to route all the MIDI and audio needed to get autosampler to work, all the time I’ve frittered away, I could have just manually made a MIDI file to do it :joy:

I’ll approach it again tomorrow…

Edit Or I can nail it in one. It’s weird how things immediately work if I fuss about it. I didn’t hear sound, but I saw the Proteus being triggered via MIDI, and it definitely has waveforms on the recorded samples…

Let’s sample some 90s to early 00s pianos…

Edit 2 …I am playing sound from the Proteus over SPDIF and the 18i20 is set to internal sync. So I’ve just been just stupid this whole time, apparently :woman_facepalming:t2:

It’s louder in Studio One for whatever reason :woman_shrugging:t2: Nothing a little SPL Iron compression won’t handle up on… :fire:

Edit 3 Life giveth, and life taketh away. I get crackles if internal sync, no crackles if sync to SPIDF. Well fuck me I guess. My CPU is fine, it isn’t that. I can run buckets of plugins at 256 and not have a problem, playing my bass or a guitar in real-time. Well, back to SPDIF sync, then :unamused:

Edit 4 My poor Morpheus is ailing… the outputs are a little uneven, and the volume while not scratchy or crackly is definitely not working right. Guess it may need some cleaning, it’s nearly 30 years old.

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I have an hx stomp and it’s amazing IMO. The screen and layout are much more straightforward than you would think. No issues tweaking straight from the box, both amps or as a multi effect!

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That’s cool. I remember loving the Zoom CDR but just not being able to put up with the interface anymore.

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Free sample time:

https://www.waverley-instruments.com/downloads

No idea what all is in there. The person makes Kontakt libraries and decided to release a bunch of the raw samples for “budding samplists” to download and practice with.

Source:
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/forums/topic/free-samples-for-budding-samplists-and-a-small-shameless-plug/

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Someone is selling 2 Alesis Microverb IIs and a Micro Limiter in a 1U case for what seems a cheap deal. The Jam Station :tm: doesn’t not need it. Missing 1 power supply which is 9V AC - joy…

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Someone selling an SH-101 for $600 and I don’t have the cash, and my car is in the shop still :unamused:

Edit Oh, 19 days ago. I am sure that is gone by now :joy:

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Sampling the local police department off the radio tonight :eyes: (obviously no PPI…)

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That’s something I wouldn’t mind…
(Wink wink nudge nudge)

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Build quality is amazing for £115

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I’m committed to not buying any gear at the least until I properly release something if not all year, but I’m sincerely interested in what 1010 Music have planned next. Great form factor in their gear so far and the Bluebox is plenty easy to use. I’ve seen people suggest they should be called the Ketchup and Mustard boxes.

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What’s the HP?

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Baxter?

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Somewhere in Germany writing banging techno tunes I guess, his latest track wasn’t even too bad, containing classic lines like ‘first we save the rave, then we save the world’…

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56, she’s a biggie

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This thread has some class to it today.

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Well everyone should stop that shit. #KeepTheHardWareMegaThreadTrashy

Behringer Pro-1 is an absolute delight. Haven’t hauled the laptop up to the studio to compare it to the U-he software yet but I’m 100% getting the same joy out of it subjectively. The filter seems pretty close, I feel like the Bro-1 loses low-end much more quickly than U-he Repro, but the resonance sounds about the same. I think I like the envelopes better on the Pro-1. The Pro-1 also seems to get nasty/wild much easier.

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Pro 1 and Pro 2 have always had a great low end so if the U-He simulation doesn’t do it very well it means the softy they made kinda sucks. That said I’d be surprised if they got it wrong, they don’t tend to.

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