Well, that’s one step closer than me. Nowhere for miced activities yet. 
I’m going to be abusing my preamps until such time as we build the studio. So a few years out.
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Not sure it really counts, but it’s an addition that I hope will have legs. I downloaded and installed Cardinal, which although free, has a lot of potential in my setup.
I hope to use it to build a series of virtual modular racks for specific purposes all in my Live template that I use as a starting point for all my projects, all of them deactivated by default but all with a specific purpose. One granular based rack linked to a library of clips from my older projects and drones for texture work, an FX rack or two, a few techno racks, etc etc.
I plan to incorporate my Circuit Tracks back in to my setup as a control surface.
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Caldigit TS4 to replace my TS3 (non-plus).
I have 3 USB hubs, and USB dongles after dongles on the back of my M2 Pro Mac Mini and coming off the TS3 because of its lack of ports. So, this will consolidate most of that mess.
One thing I wanna try is use the 20w power delivery USB C port on the front of it to power my SP404 mk2 and get audio over USB with a single cable.
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Put a fan blowing on it at all times.
They semi-die heat-death after a while, or at least the three near me did (mine and two co-workers).
I say ‘semi-die’ because all of ours ended up just randomly dropping ALL USB-C connections after a few months (3-6, depending). And since you specifically want USB-C, you’ll definitely want a fan.
IF that’s what indeed caused the failure (could just be correlation to when we noticed we could cook on them and disconnects started happening).
Another possibility is that they died from hooking powered devices TO the USB-C ports, and the power unit for those gave out.
Either way, mines in a bin now since I needed the USB-C ports, and just disconnecting an audio interface or project drive is less-than-ideal.
Good luck! Hope yours is better.
Worked PERFECTLY for a few months though. So I guess that’s a plus.
Meanwhile my TS-4 on my macbook pro m2max has been perfectly fine since I got it 10 months ago (knock on wood, perhaps the kinks were out be then).
In addition to the laptop, I’m powering my Motu-M4 with it. I run basic usb power for charging, lighting, and a fan thru a powered hub plugged into it.
Yeah, this was right after release and worth noting that we all had nearly all ports used simultaneously.
Back to the original broadcasting… sorry
I’ll keep the cooling in mind for it. Looking around at my setup, I’m not powering a lot of devices off USB, I’m just looking for the connectivity. Which I think should be fine. I live in Australia, so for summer I might look at a USB powered fan to zip tie to the side of it. We’ll see.
Looks like a good size to me. Any bigger would be too much I think.
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Bought the Akai Force. Im mad at myself why i didnt bought it earlier. What a beast and i like the workflow. I couldnt jinx with the mpc OS, but the ableton like producing style of the Force OS fits perfectly. Also going to use my Deluge to record into the Force to do proper mixing.
Bought the Miyoo A30. Nice and cheap retro handheld. Great after a session of jamming.
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Yah, starting to think it’s the drapes making things unbalanced. Although there is still a fair bit of wooden floor from where I’m standing so an extra half a metre length would’ve worked too
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Well if no one else is going to say it. Dude…it really ties the room together.
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Been waiting for that…
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I’m clearly the only one who had no clue what this was.
In case you’re as horrendously uninformed as me…
“The [Neon Egg] Planetarium is a stereo reverb and/or chorus, running into a delay with stereo modulation, running into a compressor with an external sidechain input”.
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Yea sorry, should have mentioned! TBH though, it feels more like a synth than the described reverb/delay/comp.
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expect a visit lebowski
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I have one of these and it has worked well in most respects. I found that I had to switch things around a bit in seemingly random ways to get what I wanted out of it (e.g. hard drives would drop out for no reason on some ports but not on others, etc.). Once I optimized that part of things, it seemed to work well. I use it with my MacBook Pro (2021), which is pretty powerful, but also has its own limitations. I have considered getting a Mac Studio, or a higher end Mac mini to stabilize all of my connections. I really like it when my studio is as close to “once and done” as it can get.
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Please don’t pee on my rug.
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