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People are more than welcome to brainstorm ideas and feature requests - however, there is no current time line to implement any feature requests.
I think this is totally reasonable. Solid manufacturing and distribution logistics and dealing with the initial onslaught of support questions seem like very good primary goals.
I can only tell you what my unit does. I don't know if it will be the same as the final production run.
- Does it offer patch storage or any onboard presets?
No onboard patch storage everything is midi cc. There are 16 fairly standard 4op FM presets.
- Are the midi channels fixed per channel or are they freely assignable?
Fixed, 1-5 FM, 6 FM or DAC or Custom Wav, 7-9 PSG square, 10 PSG noise
- Does it allow you to play or load your own sample based instruments?
No, im assuming you can hack then reflash the rom but there isnt a simple was to do it that I am aware of unless seb is keeping secrets.
After the rather excellent workshop by Dr Seb at blip AU there are now a handful of these beauties in the wild. I struggled through a first track this morning. I managed to get sound out of all the primary channels of both chips which was awesome. I only did some VERY basic fm synthesis are I find FM with midi cc pretty hard to visualise as you need to manage 4, 5 stage envelopes and their volumes. I havent messed with the custom wave form at all yet but and the psg noise channel seems very odd but fuck me it is fun!
Is anyone else using theirs? Any thoughts? Comments? What software you are using?
Totally get the ms2000. It sounds great, very knob heavy, not to expensive. The rackmount is fairly compact. The keyboard version is xbox huge though. There is a version of the rack mount called ms2000b? Which has extra bells and whistles.
Edit sorry - rack mount version is ms2000br
Keff get the shruthi to be one with your #hexawe brothers!
Also, seeing as mixers are likely to be a fairly constant, central part of your studio, I would save up a bit and get a decent one! Allen and Heath also make very good ones.
I absolutely love my Mackie 1202 vlz
Bahaha, you are freakishly tall like me!
Only 6'2 but I think it made me spend more time hunching over to look at my screen. I might invest in a little collapsible lappy shelf.
Lazerbeat wrote:Im kinda amazed how education playing live was. I learned a who slew of useful things.
I read this three times before I realised you weren't talking about the SONG "Education"
Yah, that was my last garbled thought for the night.... BUT! I learned a shit load :
- Crowd likes being interacted with
- I am not a little teapot and shouldn't stand with one hand on hip like one.
- I am freakishly tall
- I need a backlit keyboard / low light friendly midi controller cause I couldnt see anything on stage.
- Position mic before playing to avoid falling over monitors
- Get a faster pc to reduce gaps in set.
- People REALLY like fun covers.
so helpful!
Im kinda amazed how education playing live was. I learned a who slew of useful things.
Lazerbeat wrote:- Black on Black blip shirt.
Note to self, if we do another one, black on black shirts should be standard and not a slightly jokey but mostly awesome gift.
Plus one
Some random awesome memories in no special order
- Meeting g-zom and derris-kharlan for the first time after knowing them for years.
- Dancing with above to Trash80
- Meeting Wilba, one of my all time heros, of midibox fame.
- Wilba flipping out about meeting trash80.
- Amazing greek food
- Awesomely chilled and relaxing peptalk from Hunz back stage before I went on.
- Monodeer being the sweetest guy in the world AND the most awesome hadcore rock star bad ass on stage.
- Meeting Batsly Adams both pre and post beard.
- ILKKE's visuals and general all around awesomeness.
- Amazingly dancable sets from Hally and Saitone, both at the absolute top of their game.
- Little-scale's MD midi interface workshop.
- HALLY SELLING CDS!!!!
- Chatting with Abrasive in person finally.
- Having a bit of leisure time with 3 of my favorite people in the world, tim, kristy and eugene.
- Getting singled out for a beating by 10k then buying him a beer.
- Black on Black blip shirt.
- Mike Rosenthal grilling like a champ.
- Seeing tons and tons of tattoos everywhere which is a real novelty for me.
- Australian sweets and candy being almost identical to english sweets and candy.
- My set going really really well, managing to pull of vocals and loads of hugs and handshakes for the following couple of days.
- Impromptu cheapshot shout out.
- Finding out my chess muscle hasn't completely atrophied.
Probably more to come!
Are you here in March by any chance? Cheapshot and I are doing something on march 20th
Dont forget songs. Write some songs.
I would like to add, make sure the songs are good, make sure you have at least one back up gameboy and cart and PRACTICE before you play.
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