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I am really looking forward to the new Shruthi1 from Mutable Instruments. Its a revision of the Shruthi1 (note subtle spelling variation) with a few kinks ironed out and a slightly more complete kit, various filter boards and looks generally bad ass.
Lots of lovely sound samples on Soundcloud
I also build a sammich SID which I still need to devote time to learning how to use but building it was one of the most rewatding things I have done.
If you guys need famicom stuff for testing drop me a pm
I would really describe you as an impressionable Mario-tune-loving scene girl, but im curious if an NTRQ solo will get me to second base?
Are you also divergent, friend?
12 monkeys?
And if you don't mind taking a peek at european stuff, keep an eye out for anything drawn by Moebius (aka Jean Giraud) or written by Alejandro Jodorowsky. The Incal series is very good.
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This is a very overlooked series of comics. Also recommend Metabarons although im not sure the English run was completed?
For bargain awesomeness Bone the one volume edition is hard to beat.
Aaaaaaand the post party is up!
Invaders!!!!!
The pre party was not organised by the Blip organisers or Cheapy and I it was the work of I believe, mainly the work of some of the Lobit crew who are dear awesome friends of ours and total bad asses, please remember to say something nice to them!
Pre party information announced. Post party info coming soon, rumors of a surprise guest circulating....
I would also re iterate not getting discouraged as subson mentioned. If you play a gig and only 10 people show up, analyse the fuck out of it, do your best to find out why it failed. Its a learning opportunity.
Questions to ask after a gig didn't attract many people.
Was my line up good?
Did we organize the event for the same night as a footballmatch/before an exam/big movie release?
Did we promote it well enough?
Are there flyers and posters all over town?
Was it too expensive?
Was it in a poor venue?
Was the venue in a poor location?
Was the venue so expensive we couldn't afford promotion?
Im sure other people could add lots to this.
One thing which really seems to cement things where I live. There a monthly new music presentation night. A bunch of musicians (chip and other electronic genres) get together in a cafe with a sound system, listen to a tune an artist is working on, make a few comments, listen to another tune, make a few more comments. People play tunes off their mp3 players rather than bringing a live rig. Really nice night.
Start playing music at events which aren't chip music events. If there are raves, parties, open mics, whatevers in your city, go play them.
Save money, cash always seems to be a major factor in getting regular nights started. Also don't expect them to succeed right away, scenes build slowly. Also, it could be used to fly in an international from aus/japan/west coast us/indonesia.
Start a podcast, showcase new NZ chip music, make a bunch of noise about what you are doing.
Buy extra gear, get a nice backlit DMG or 3 with flashcarts with LSDJ or nanoloop, lend them out to people who might be curious so they can fuck about WHEN they are curious not after 5 weeks fucking about looking for hardware and loosing interest.
Train a VJ or learn to do it yourself, VJs can be hard to find.
Get on local/college radio, tell them you have a night.
Bug your local newspaper to publicise what you are doing.
I am thinking about buying myself out of my iphone contract and switching over to an Android device. I know next to nothing about them though, wondered if anyone had any impressions they would be kind enough to share, models to avoid, ones to look for etc. The HTC Desire is the only major one available here that I am aware of.
Will soon! Waiting for people to get back to us, we want to get it all up and once....
This chip looks like an absolute beast.
From http://www.x68000.de/soundchips/scsp-ymf292/
Technical Specifications
Channels: 32
Channels 1-32: PCM / ADPCM Waveform playback with a sample rate of up to 44.1 kHz.
Channels 1-32: FM Synthesis, Channels can be hooked together to have more Operators. Inside Games, they usually used 4 Operators, which results in 8 Channels of FM Audio while a maximum of 32 Channels would be possible.
Stereo: Yes
Used to play FM, Sequenced and Streamed Audio
Runs at 22.6 MHz
512 KB Sample RAM
The FH-1 DSP provides 16 build-in effects: Reverb, Early Reflection, Delay, Pitch Shift, Chorus, Flanger, Symphonic, Surround, Voice Canceler, Auto Pan, Phaser, Distortion, Filter (HP, LP, BP), Dynamic Filter, Parametric EQ and Mixer.
According to wikipedia
The SCSP is MIDI compliant, and can be hooked up to external equipment (such as keyboards).
Anyone know of any sound tracks which really put the FM (8 channels of 4op FM??!!) aspect of the chip through its paces? Any interesting projects using it?
A little discussion on soundshock didn't go very far.
Awesome! Thanks yerz!
Dot.AY? That dude plays?
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