What's your latest purchase & what are your intentions with it? [pics ftw] (Part 1)


For the Dt and the Dn and their ergonomics.
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For glorify the pair of Genelec.

To support Canada, take advantage of a product WITHOUT an adapter
and incidentally parallelize the sync.

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After 8 years of looong wait… Still don’t know what to do with the OT, my head is full of different possible setup, would like to make some downtempo but even breakcore; I want to sample from field recording and layer a concrete collage; I want to process my modular rack. Probably it’s too much even for a few years😤

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which stand is this?

Perfect price, construction and quality too, heavy and stable,
protective foams with adhesive included everything is removable.
Very ā€œPremiumā€. Available as a bundle with a double level.

@Mark_Otto pointed out that the two-stage solution they offer is not compatible
with other Elektron machines in the lower stage.
with a Dn and a DT, it is necessary to remove the side edges,
therefore not the right stand for music in a boat.

Good subject here with lots of solutions.

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Hey this is beautiful! I need something for my OT and this seems perfect!
Thnx! :+1:

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Have you got any more info on this mod?

Yeah, so I guess people with the newer Lyras are able to get more percussive tones by being able to turn the and/or to the center ā€œoffā€ position on the updated models. Others said they were able to imitate it on the old ones by diming the two Hyper LFO pots and doing a specific combo of the two switches, but it wasn’t really working for me so I figured I’d just try swapping out the switches. I think it’s gonna be an easy swap because you’re just unsoldering and resoldering the same leads, the switch just has that extra position that does nothing.

I asked Soma about it and they confirmed and gave me the part number.

Here’s a muffwiggler thread page that got me going:

https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=163637&start=1325

There’s some videos and if you go backwards from the page I posted there is some earlier info.

Mouser part was: 1MS3T1B1M1QES

I’m still waiting for the switches to show up.

Edit: Also, Soma’s DIY Kit documentation had a bunch of useful info as far as looking at the boards and pics and stuff.

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It’s a Varmilo VA88Mac, I don’t think it’s hot swappable but it was the only one with mac uk keycaps I could find

Fantastic, many thanks mate

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Ordered one of these yesterday.

Intensions: sequence stuff while twisting knobs.

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Been spending a bit too much recently … but
been getting into my guitar as organic food for my OT :yum:

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I got myself a new smoke detector and it’s says MIDI… how dope! Not sure how I’ll use it in a studio/live setup but any suggestions are welcome! :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

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Fred Schneider plays one on ā€œRock Lobsterā€ by the B52s.

All I can think of is this: https://youtu.be/n6BNE62xGqE

Got this Fostex 280 tape multitracker for 30€. It needs a new belt at least (the deck doesn’t work, which I knew before buying) but meanwhile I’m happy to use it as a mixer to overdrive / warm-up / saturate the crap out of my VSTs. Also gonna use it for resampling with the Octatrack.

Even if I never get around to repairing the tape deck, this will be an awesome eq/fx unit!

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Awesome find! I’d like to get a 4-track mostly just for the pre-amps, less so for actual recording. If you ever want to sell that, I’d be interested.

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looks awesome, but how does it sound :thinking:

She’s beautiful for sure. I like the 70s look.
She sounds quite vibrant and hollow in a way, the shawbuckers are quite single coil sounding, which I like as I have a Gibson type guitar as well. Plays like butter as well

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Cheers, will keep that in mind! Although I have to disappoint you it’s not very likely I’ll let this one go… I’d been eyeing a 4-track for quite some time and was prepared to pay a fair amount, so I was really happy to have this come available locally. The pre-amps are where it’s at for me as well.

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Thanks. You’re right. It’s amazing. And in terms of setting it up with overbridge and ableton, was very quick and easy. Midi out per track is great. Sound is amazing. i just need an extra couple of hours a day now.