Aeros
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Savannah, Georgia
thebitman wrote:

Everyone, PM me and I will get an email going addressing how I hope we can handle a physical medium as well as submissions. Aeros - perhaps we can work something out so that money will stay backseat to the spreading of knowledge (probably going for the non-profit/little profit route)?

I appreciate the enthusiasm, and honestly, I may have sat on this idea and grown tired of it if it wasn't for Aeros making this thread for his project. Please try and steer all questions/suggestions my way via PM, in retrospect I shouldn't have thrown my idea in this thread because it could sort of derail it.

you're saying that like i absolutely hate the idea altogether. i mean, i think it'd be GREAT for people who play a lot of chipshows, know friends in the chipscene, people who don't compose near a computer, etc., but for me and many others that'd be kind of useless.
derail the thread if you like, i'm already working hard on other things as it is so my patchbook may take a while or not happen at all, given how ucollective already has one fairly functioning already and how fast i can learn how to work PHP and MSQL.

Last edited by Aeros (Jun 15, 2012 2:19 am)

Vex
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Louisiana

I think both ideas are great. The extra blank pages in the book is also an awesome idea for writin in your own instrument builds and so on. And it sort of goes with the site idea of getting updated you can find the patches on the website that may not be in the book and add them yourself. I think Aeros and Bitman should collaborate and work on both of these projects together to make one epic group of projects. I personally prefer a hard copy I can carry with me. I have LSDJ patch boom on my iPhone but it doesn't update much and there's not a whole lot on it. And sometimes I just think a simple pen and paper feels more natural than typing on a phone screen. I actually made my own book little notebook I jott instrument builds and notes in for use for later but it's a little to big to fit in my pocket. A cartridge sized book would be amazing for the fact that I can just throw it in my gameboy carrying bag along side my LSDJ carts and have it right there. I think it might also be kind of cool to have little 1 1/2 inch long tiny pens made in the colors of the original gameboys to sell with them that some how clips to the cartridge case maybe. So you always have a pen...well until it dies lol.

Aeros
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Savannah, Georgia

agh you've gotta be kidding me, i've already hit a roadblock that's forcing me to pretty much re-code EVERYTHING. this could take a while.

meshwaves
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good luck aeros, you efforts will most definitely not be in vain big_smile

2xAA
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Plymouth, UK
Aeros wrote:

agh you've gotta be kidding me, i've already hit a roadblock that's forcing me to pretty much re-code EVERYTHING. this could take a while.

I'll happily donate my SQL table structures to save you a lot of time if you'd like smile
Just reply to my email if so.

dsv101
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Medina, Ohio
Aeros wrote:

agh you've gotta be kidding me, i've already hit a roadblock that's forcing me to pretty much re-code EVERYTHING. this could take a while.

Do you need help, if so I'd be happy to help smile My official resume so far is: http://dmgcontrol.com and http://rascalnation.net I know that the latter link is crappy looking, but the customer was satisfied... I have learned quite a bit about mySQL and PHP.

EDIT: dmgcontrol.com is underconstruction at http://dmgcontrol.com/site3

Last edited by dsv101 (Jun 18, 2012 7:12 pm)

xX 8 BIT CHAMPION Xx
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Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Aeros wrote:

agh you've gotta be kidding me, i've already hit a roadblock that's forcing me to pretty much re-code EVERYTHING. this could take a while.

I an a good porgrammer. I can help to. I know: javascript, Ruby.

Ihave very skilled on CSS style and HTML.

Last edited by xX 8 BIT CHAMPION Xx (Jun 18, 2012 7:24 pm)

Sycamore Drive
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East Kilbride, Scotland
Russellian wrote:

Though it would be a shit ton more work, developing a simple app for phones would be nice, but that's a whole other can of worms.

This already exists. Search for the app LSDJ Patch Book.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lsdj-pat … 65867?mt=8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Co5NEr6s6Q

2xAA
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Plymouth, UK
Sycamore Drive wrote:
Russellian wrote:

Though it would be a shit ton more work, developing a simple app for phones would be nice, but that's a whole other can of worms.

This already exists. Search for the app LSDJ Patch Book.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lsdj-pat … 65867?mt=8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Co5NEr6s6Q

Manual update though - this is nice because people can submit their own anytime and it's instantly updated.

Sycamore Drive
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East Kilbride, Scotland

I remembered that Turtle413 created a .doc file that was useful, but the server it was on is dead.

All that we really need is for someone to whip up a single-page template for patches (black ink only please, either 1 or 2 patches per page), then if you print them out double sided, you can either punch holes in them or stick them in poly-pockets in an A4 folder. You can then get some dividers to separate your patches into Pulse/Wave/Noise/Drums or whatever categories you use. That way, you'll never really run out of space.

That's what I used to do, anyway.

(Design wise, I think the box for the shape of the WAV should be like squared paper so you can accurately draw the WAV by hand onto the sheet of paper).

Grymmtymm
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KC

both ideas are great.

and even for those people who dont go to shows/know a lot of friends who also do chip music/etc.  the physical hardcopy is still useful because sometimes its easier to just grab a book and flip through it.

W4LKR
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I'd love to see this worked out!

nordloef
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sweden
2xAA wrote:

(also, pro tip: you might have an angry old man try to sue you for use of the word 'patchbook', so I'd try and find a new name ;P)

That dude is such a joke™.

xX 8 BIT CHAMPION Xx
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nordloef wrote:
2xAA wrote:

(also, pro tip: you might have an angry old man try to sue you for use of the word 'patchbook', so I'd try and find a new name ;P)

That dude is such a joke™.

Wait, who does that?