Just arrived this evening. Intention: To rectify a stupid mistake I made.
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That’s better. 
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Bloody marvelous! Love the DPs.
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Best Black Friday buy in a long time. Intention is to give layers some air with the right sort of compression 
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Latest purchase… Gigantic Mouser order. Some of my building stocks were getting low. Intention? Keep building things. 
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I also made the same mistake, which needs rectified too !
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Pirate Midi Bridge 6 foot controller from Australia. Took one week for the order fulfillment, one week for shipping to Europe, one week for customs processing and one week for final delivery. All in all about one month from purchase to my doorstep, really not too bad.
Setting it up for hands free pattern changes on the ST (switch 1) and live looping of drums (Nord 3P) on the Torso S4 (switch 2 toggles rec/stop and hold/release for overdub).
Purchased a midi event processor as well to split the 6 pads of the 3P (only sends all pads on the same channel) to different midi channels on the ST.
Switch 3 is reserved for bank/tape changes. Still leaves 3 switches on the B6 to be assigned to other functions, I’ll see what comes to mind.
Maybe I can even kind of simulate a hi-hat controller, which the 3P lacks an input for (choke groups only)…
The Pirate Midi web editor is super convenient and powerful.
Also: There’s a snake easteregg if one solves a little riddle on the device 
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Wow. Would love to hear one of these for real. Every drum break on YT sounds amazing through it
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Malcolm Toft Equate. 8 Channels of Trident 80B to track and mix with.
Great Black Friday find at Front End Audio
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Downsized from larger gear to this tiny lil Bastl trio.
I’ve been working on a live project with a buddy. He’s on drums, I’m on guitar, and I’ve been trying to figure out how to have the drums sync to a synth and/or sequencer.
Challenges:
-didn’t want simple tap tempo, which in itself would bring new issues to resolve
-didn’t want to force the drummer to keep a four-on-the-floor going.
-Wanted happy accidents and experimental… things
-want the option to take control away from the drummer when needed
After playing with this setup using some sample audio, it’s going to hit all of those challenges and then some, and will be super exploratory. I like the idea of having some song structure, but keep some improv elements.
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this looks super interesting.
I used to imagine nfc cards just like this as being a modern day ‘album’ format. I could have a wallet of these and they are basically movies or music, buy them over the counter. it’s funny when you watch any kind of cyberpunk media there’s always a ‘datacard’ or something, closest thing we have in the real world is basically security cards for opening doors. but it would be sweet to see music get back to a physical means, portable, swappable, tradable, shareable on the street
very cool
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It’s interesting how it works also. For at least this particular application, you write a local address to the card, it’s a lot more simple than I would have guessed so the thing that’s scary to me is that a lot of on-site jobs that I’ve had all used similar keycards. Hotels use similar keycards.
Is it literally just knowing the correct local address, having the correct kind of media card, and the ability to write the address to the card and all doors open?
I had no idea that it was this simple and I think I liked the technology better before I understood it 
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My understanding (after looking into that flipper zero device) is that some cards are just a random number you can read and duplicate, as you wrote.
But some NFC cards are smarter, where the chip will cryptographically derive a one-time unique number from a pre-shared secret, for each access. Those are harder to copy.
But because it’s more expensive/complicated to setup you can bet the random hotel will just have these static numbers … and with the right gear getting close enough to the cleanup/maintenance staff of a hotel could be enough to unlock all the rooms … maybe. Same goes for offices of low risk business.
I do hope that data centers and risky industrial or military places do the other thing where there is a new number for every access
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It’s not ‘breaking in’ if you open the lock. Also, it’s not stealing if people make payments to you. 
Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer.
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So how are you syncing? Are you using tap tempo on your guitar rig to MIDI? Or syncing to drum hits? What’s the magic happening?
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A Kalimba. Actually and mostly because it looks cool and was on sale for like 28€.
Gonna run it through the CBA Mood, OT and pitch it wwwaaaayyy low to find ghosts in in-between 
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28 Euro, this one looks pretty, good find and top price.
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Cool, nice design too. Is it electric?
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Certainly can’t speak for all datacenters, I’m sure there are tons of exceptions, especially for smaller facilities. It’s been my experience that it’s usually two factors in order to pass through doors. Typically, a combination of keycard and some form of biometric like fingerprint. In some cases, its keycard and a unique PIN.
Thing to remember with those facilities is that you can’t walk anywhere except into a restroom and not be covered by surveillance cameras. They’re everywhere and often multiple angles.
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I’m still experimenting, but I’ve played with sending the drum audio into the Sync input. Tested some sloppy drums with an Ableton Move, and was pleased with how the Softpop sequencer matched the slight changes in tempo.
From there, I’ll send the audio from the softpop into the FX Wizard sync and audio inputs so the effects are also tempo synced.
I posted this elsewhere, but here is my first little noodling experiment. Keep in mind that this audio is not just drums, so it’s influencing the sequencer a bit differently.
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