Posted a pic of the porta setup a while back but have a couple small additions and some new plans. So I added the NTS-1 and a second briefcase. The new idea is to house my laptop, power strip and interface in the new briefcase. I will cut a whole in the front so my Interface knobs and headphone connections are accessible and mount the interface with velcro tape. I will drill out hole in the sides and run cable extenders which will mount to those holes. My laptop will partially sit on top and the power strip will have the male three prong running out another hole. My laptop will mount partially on top. The plan in to eventually get it to connecting a couple of cables and popping open the two briefcases and being ready to get busy. No fussing about with setting everything up every time. Still have the Td-3 on order and have plans to buy one more small synth like a preenfm2. We will see if it works out.
Opps.
I bought a sub woofer.
YOLO bitches.
oops indeed.
Everyone will love my Sunday Funday BBQs. If we throw in some Lynard Skynard now and then I think our neighbors will approve…lmao
@chasedobson so you are saying come up with a better story for my partner than ops?
I’m in a second floor apartment. My 10" Polk sub is in storage. I really want it in there with me but the temptation to play old Techmaster PEB or Bass 305 stuff would be too great.
I had a sub in an apartment once. But the design of the place meant the walls of my living room were exterior, I had a demo apartment on the side where my bedroom was, and parking was beneath me. No one above. I could be as loud as I wanted and it was glorious >_>
from what i gather (feel free to kick the $hit out of me if you want) that sub-woofers are great for listening to music but not to good for producing music, i was just listening to a producer the other day saying he got rid of his sub-woofer because there was that much bass it encouraged him to turn the bass down but when he herd his music outside the studio on other systems the bass was too quiet.
then theres that space what I’ve talked about before where the sub and speaker frequencies meet it could possibly be hyped where they meet/merge, so again you’ll end up EQing this area when it doesn’t really require it.
Opps. This is for my PA that I use for a few dance music parties every year or lend out to friends for parties.
But solid advice! I cant use a sub in my studio w/o treatment. Five inch monitors are plenty + headphones.
Perfect then 
Or you could get really fancy and get Genelec point ones with matching bass unit. Or go for broke and do Kii Threes with their bass units.
Can you tell I was reading speaker reviews yesterday?
the idea keeps crossing my mind of not buying anymore gear and just save up for a Buchla music easel, after I’ve payed for the osmose of course 
Virus arrived! YAY!
Lithium battery needs replacing… and 3 of the pots are in BAD shape. 
It’ll set me back 30 dollars in parts and an hour of my time, so its not THAT big of a deal but… I payed too much for it, in the condition its in.
That’s kinda a bummer man. +1 for being able to do your own work. Hope you get it up and running soon.
it’s about balance and tuning but it’s really easy to fix it. If you check your mixes and you have too little bass, turn the volume down on the sub and keep going lower until your mixes sound right. I’ve had to do it in the past, but I used an RTA. Now I can do it pretty well by ear.
Pots being the knobs?
have ya’ll fuckin been keepin up with gamechanger audio? motor synth is releasing this year (hard synth with 8 actual servos serving as it’s oscs) and they’ve just unveiled their light reverb, which is a spring verb but also an optical verb. not even sure hw it works but it sounds dope af and looks beautiful to boot. also the rack mount plasma unit adds a shit ton of features, i think over the next few years you may end up seeing those become standard in any top pro level studio with a strong budget cuz it is such a unique flavor of distortion.
i may have to start robbing shit to afford a motor synth tbh because goddamn if that thing isn’t the most industrial looking and sounding synth i’ll eat the world and puke it out
also earthquaker is getting into eurorack lol, peep that afterneath module [eyes emoji eyes emoji sweat emoji 100 emoji eggplant peach you get the idea]
I have been paying attention to their pedals, and I do think they’re cool products and a cool company. I definitely keep an eye on what they’re doing, I just find that I don’t really use effects sends on my hardware like I thought I would so I don’t have a need for them yet.
How’s the Force treating you?
I’m slowly clicking with it and when you’re in the zone it’s great
I got external midi going on it last week, which has been fun to do as a proof of concept. Not plumbed into my audio interface yet (I take it off my rack and bring it to bed when I want to use it), so not done any recording or sampling yet, beyond what I imported.
I have a pretty good track going, was going to try and learn automation this weekend so I could have it be a bit more like a DAW track with filters opening and doing nice fades from section to section. I feel like they missed a trick, because what I tried this morning was making a CV track to see if I could route that to internal paramaters and then launch that CV clip whenever I want to adjust, say, all my filters or all my effects sends with one clip. No. It only goes to CV outs and can’t be routed internally. I can see how making it so that automation has to be tied to a clip makes sense, but it would still be a cool option and I wouldn’t have to copy/paste the same clip over and over at different lengths to get reasonable automation speeds on all the parameters (IE, I want my filter to open over 8 bars, so now my synth track has this one 8-bar clip when everything else in the project is 4 bars). Having separate automation would really help in those situations so I don’t forget and launch the next clip too soon. Plus, I’m not sure you can modulate effects parameters at all (at least there’s no obvious way to do it). I almost always use external filters for my filter sweeps so that I can run my synth through effects and the effects get filtered too.
Yep! 3 of them are super wobbly. Easy fix but annoying.