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

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#1104

Sounds awesome but in talks with support as there is significant rattling first two top strings first 4-5 frets, they have been very responsive and working with me.

As for playability I haven’t picked up a bass in years so just using pick and fingers it sounds awesome (minus the rattle). Strings are wild at first to get used too as there like gigantic uke strings but def playable. Build quality for a $169 UBass is surprisingly good and looks great. Hope to get this sorted as I would love to add some bass without having a huge full size bass taking up room I don’t have.

Here’s a quick video I made for a friend recording the ubass via it’s electronics, ignore quality of both video and music. Just started learning the MPC so its just messing around. Posted here to give you an idea of sound.

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#1105

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Just made an impulse buy from Control Brooklyn. This image is actually from Noisebug. I always wanted this since the kick starter. Now it’s in my studio! I wanted it for its ghostly dissident sound scapes. I’m quite surprised how easy it is to dial in some funky techno rhythms!!! It’s time to get weird! :tongue:

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#1106

Just taking this for a spin

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#1107

I broke down and did it. I just walked in the door with a new Digitakt to pair with my Digitone.

I love the Elektron workflow on the Digitone and have been doing live shows with the DN plus a Novation Circuit Mono and an Arturia Keystep.

I haven’t been using my MPC Live at all because every time I think of using samples or doing more “drum machine” stuff, I have been avoiding the mental gear-shift I have to do in order to get work done.

So now I’m adding dedicated drum-machine/sampler material back into the mix, but using an almost identical workflow as the Digitone that I already love. I’ve already been digging in with the Digitakt and initially, I haven’t yet had to crack the manual because of my Digitone experience.

What I really like is how many sound options I have now, yet mostly within a single familiar way of doing things (excepting the Circuit Mono) that will keep me focused on the music, even with more tracks of sampler material.

Plus, the two just look so darned good together on my desktop. :smiley:

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#1108

How do you like your Lyra (Lyra-8 I guess) after the first weeks?

I just ordered a black one myself.

Digitone vs. Lyra - it was a hard decision. The Digitone got postponed for now. Actually I’m more in the mood of purely knob turning (instead of programming) and getting surprised what comes out.

Intentions: using it for some zen-like music meditations by routing it through an Empress Reverb somewhere below a shadowy bodhi tree …

(okay - the last part isn’t completely true: there are no Ficus religiosa in Austria, but I guess every large old tree will do)

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#1109

I haven’t contributed there for a while, but here’s where the other Lyra users have been posting

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#1110

Well, I haven’t received it yet as it’s either been lost by the usps or just taking a ridiculously long time…:frowning:
I guess it’ll either arrive this week, or I’ll have to request a refund and order it from somewhere else.

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#1111

Ah, I see. “Got one” meant “ordered one”. Yep, 3 weeks seems really quite long, because they aren’t in the ramp-up phase anymore. I wish you luck that your machine arrives soon/the next few days!

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#1112

Thanks I hope it’s here this week too or I’m gonna have to really start hounding the post office about it. I have just been giving them the benefit of the doubt but 3 weeks is a little strange.

#1113

I recently got an iRig cable and some FX apps (among others Eventide Blackhole) for my phone.

Intentions: Using my phone as an effect pedal.

The idea is to use it only for break downs/build ups or lofi sound. I suspect the quality of the ‘interface’ will be a bit too noisy for anything else. So far I had a lot of fun with it for a minimal investment.

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#1114

Got tix to see The Raconteurs this week, I’m soo jazzed to finally catch these guys live!

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#1115

My last purchase is a kordbot.
It hasn’t arrived right now.
I intend to use it to figure out chord progressions, and play and strum on it into the computer, and the digitone. I’m not that good at keyboarding, so I hope it helps me to get ideas, and helps me to learn thos chords on my keyboard afterwards.
At the moment I tend to play similar chords over and over again - it’s something like muscle memory loophole :wink: I hope that kordbot thingy changes this.

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#1116

Booked a quick trip to the beach for the fam, cost more then an OT but I gotta get the f**k out of here. Drown my feet with sandy water, live in flip flops while eating and drinking like a king is exactly what we need!

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#1118

Thanks!

#1119

octatrack - what else? :smiley:
If I would have known that it is so much fun using OT I would have bought instead of AR

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#1120

Dreadbox Nyx V1. Was holding out for the XD module but keep coming back to this demo and couldn’t help myself.

Also picked up a Radial Key Largo, Boss RV-5 (for “modulate”) and the Fraction double-Digi stand. My portable rig is finally coming together.

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#1121

For some reason I’ve always clicked best with Yamaha gear. My first synth was a DX-100 in 1986 and I used to love my AN-200, DX-200, RM1X -combo. Maybe I’ll need to join the Yamahanauts forum and leave you guys in peace.

Today I got a Yamaha SU-700 in the mail. It’s my third time with an SU-700. Maybe this time I’ll learn to love (and use) it. It was cheap at 150€ so I thought that at least I can use it as a multi-effect. I know there are people who hold the SU-700 very dear and compare it to Octatrack, Ableton Live and Sony Acid, but the floppy disk has always been the bottleneck. I’ll try to find my way around it somehow. Everything, including the infamous encoders, seems to work perfectly.

At least she’s a beauty next to her sister, the QY-700.

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#1122

Both of them are lovely.

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#1123

I really am trying to slow down the spending, but when I stepped on my VFE Klein Bottle stompswitch for Channel 1 (Zoia), I accidentally moved it on the floor - just a couple of mm, but enough to bump the One Spot, which abruptly cut off power to both the Klein Bottle and Zoia. Got band rehearsal coming up soon - last thing I need is accidental power loss in the middle of trying to show off my new toys to the band.

So now I’ve got an Eventide Powermax power supply on order. One of the selling points is each power output has a 9V/12V/18V switch so I can power the VFE with 18V if desired. And of course it can power the H9.

#1124

I bought the SOMA ETHER,. It arrived today … listening to my environment with this kit and making noise with it :slight_smile:

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