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(63 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

This baby finally arrived!  It's been a lot of fun twisting knobs and discovering what it's capable of.  The oscillator mixer is awesome.  You can add as much or as little of each type of wave.  You've got a sawtooth, square, triangle, a sub-oscillator, noise, and an audio in fader.  Each of these have their own parameters that can be changed.  The sub oscillator really beefs up the mix.  You can choose whether it is a square or sine wave and whether it plays a note 1 or 2 octaves less than the octave you have the keyboard set to.

It doesn't have a sine wave available in the oscillator mixer, but I suppose you could play a sine from something else into the audio in fader and mix that in.  There are a lot of other parameters that can be changed.  You also get an LFO, and an arpeggiator.  Together with the filter, there are an incredible amount of sounds you can create.  I should add, it comes with preset cards that fit over the knobs and faders.  They give you 10 of their own preset sounds and there are 5 blank cards which you can write on with dry erase marker and recall your own presets.  It's a great synth. 

I don't know what else to add without going on and on, so maybe if anyone has any questions I can answer those specifically rather than try to recreate the manual on here.  If your question is, "should I get one?"  I would say yes, you should.

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(21 replies, posted in Trading Post)

SAMWAVE wrote:

I've got the case/shell of a white DMG (Gutted it ages ago).

However it has yellowed on the outside of the case (Inside of the case is snow white).

I'll be up for selling it if the price is right as it just sits in my draw.

Arfink's method for removing yellowing didn't work?

99

(7 replies, posted in Trading Post)

You're from ND?  Me too!

100

(31 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

That looks really sweet!  I might try that type of paint myself!

I was going to get a pro sound PCB mount version 2 but held back, and now they're sold out.  Are you going to restock these, or have I missed my chance?

Shoot.  Well, if these sell out at that price, I may have to wait several months sad  Keep us posted though.  I am all ready to pay the previously mentioned price if any remain in batch 1.

I like digital copies unless I'm a really big fan of the music, in which case I will buy a vinyl copy, if available.  I hardly ever use CDs other than to rip them onto my computer and set them aside.  If the music is really good, and there is no vinyl available, I'd rather have the CD to be able to rip a higher quality audio file.  If the music is good but doesn't rank in the higher bracket, I don't mind having .mp3s rather than higher quality files.

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(37 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Agreed with those above me.  Leads down, and redraw the waves.  Also, he probably adds bass frequencies using EQ while he mixes.

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(90 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

If I had to guess, the top knobs would change instruments' parameters if you are playing the arduinoboy with a keyboard.  The bottom would then change the tempo and groove, I would imagine.  I am not involved in this project, so don't take my word as law.

As for the timed breaks, I know exactly what they are talking about.  Nex has a project on his site called the Super Sync Boy that better shows what this means.

http://nex.gg8.se/modblog/2010/06/super-sync-boy/

justinthursday wrote:

Desolder the battery holder and resolder a standard battery. Cut the USB hole. Done.

A standard battery?  Just any smaller 3v battery?

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(45 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Any chance of making something like this for Android in the future?  I love this idea, but don't have an iPhone sad

The sad thing is that you actually spend your time on this stuff, believing the whole while that you're funny.

These programs can only be used with Ableton Live?

abrasive wrote:

The boards are coming out of the factory soon, and the shells will be coming in not long after.

Woo!

abrasive wrote:

I spent every last dollar of my liquid funds to get this batch fabricated, and have been squeezing hard to make the rent for the last couple of weeks.

You're my hero, Dr. Professor abrasive.  May your fro grow to unfathomable size.

You mean like samples and synth patches?  Is there anything that sounds chip-like in Reason?  I've not heard anything.

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(21 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Zelda:  Link's Awakening.
for NES try Zombie Nation.  It's pretty hilarious.  I would buy it, but it's impossible to find.