The creative exploits of a slightly deranged Scotsman with a short attention span and endless rabbit holes to fall down. Interested in weird and wonderful noisy devices and brightly coloured analogue signals. All about music production, photography, glitch art, and gear videos.
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Hihi, I bought a week before the S5000 with 192mb ram and 64 voices for €300. And I bought an external SCSI2 CD-ROM from Yamaha for €89 and a SCSI 2 cable for €33. I downloaded the Akai factory libraries for free and burnt them on CD-Roms. And now I am sound wonderland on cloud no. 7 😂 I am also no Fan from software samplers, instruments. The only VST Instruments which I use are East West Symphonic Instruments and the great VPS Avenger 2, and some effect Plug ins - thats it. The rest, or vize versa are real Hardware Instruments, Split on three Studios. VST Instruments are in my opinion good for poor kids, which can’t buy real instruments or people which can‘t play piano or cover band personal.
Honestly the worst video made and uploaded to youtube. Cringe retarded faaggottry of the highest order. This is what Glasgow University is producing these days....? Embarrassing.
While most musical instruments have standard and robust Din midi sockets, it can be quite irritating to have to connect certain gear via TRS adapters. The TRS sockets are relatively flimsy and have very thin cables and the socket or plug can easily be damaged if a cable is tugged or someone trips over the cable
Great video, can't wait to try this out! Have you tried using your MIDI fighter with the LPP at the same time? Would be great to have both pads and encoders for jamming live! :D
have u try bass paper test with this? put a sheet of paper between, is it shaking like TH900 or xb1000? i need that bass, im thinking of buying this, i need bass like monster bass sir, thank you
I love your channel - very unique plus helpful. Stranger things really revived the Arp things for many. I wouldn't be able to stay analogue without the midicake arp. Especially if you want to stay mobile, modular gets huge and expensive soon. Thanks for this awesome gear and your straight forward review 🙏🏻
I love your channel - very unique plus helpful. Stranger things really revived the Arp things for many. I wouldn't be able to stay analogue without the midicake arp. Especially if you want to stay mobile, modular gets huge and expensive soon. Thanks for this awesome gear and your straight forward review 🙏🏻
@@StephenMcLeod The mount is called L39 all along at least in the film era, Leica Screw mount or Leica thread mount LTM. M mount is bayonet mount, for later M range finder body. Although many L39 can mount add a mount adopter, call it M39 is confusing.
@@StephenMcLeodGood to discuss with you here. I did some search on the internet, there are really M screw mount using designation of M39, in this case M stands for metric, like that for M42. I have to admit I did misunstand M for Leica M, as M39 is much less popular than M42. Also there are different M39 mounts with slightly different pitches. But I own this lens since its first release in early 2000. It was marketed as L39 mount lens.
@@dw-et3gm Thanks. I ask because my understanding is that M39/L39 are generally considered interchangeable - particularly at this stage, with L39 a particular type of M39. It doesn't help that there are a few different M39 types (e.g. some rangefinder coupled, some not, some SLR... etc). I haven't been able to find much definitive though, outside of comments on photo forums which mention the metric thing. I'd be curious to find some more authoritative sources...
Beats an iPhone....with ease. Nice work. Somehow, I like those wild, empty and forboding landscapes mixed with a tough off jungle. BTW, my parents honeymooned in Scotland, Old Waverly, Taptoe at Edinburgh castle, Loch Ness, and all, but they never went back. Dumb asses.
That was a very enjoyable piece of artwork. I really like the music and the mood it sets with the film. There is something about those retro chords that hits the right spot.
I really enjoy your Super8 videos Mr McLeod. Keep'em coming! They're always really enjoyable and different than any of the other content/art i usually watch.
Good question. I can't think of a definitive way that it would work for sure without a MIDI filter/device in the middle. It might be worth asking in the Dirtywave M8 discord as they have the brainz.
@@StephenMcLeod I did, but no sigar so far ;), i've got an rk006 but cant seem to get the filters setup the right way... guess ill just start both m8's at the same time :P seems to work, sort off
It's expensive but it's been great for home movie style memories like this. I shot 6 cannisters across the Tokyo/Korea trip - though I'm not sure how good any of it is going to be.
You need to make sure the Launchpad is on the latest firmware. Do the lights on the Launchpad light up or change when you enable the connection? Do you have the MIDI IN and OUT cables connected correctly? Are they TRS?
@@StephenMcLeod ooh! Good! I get to turn someone on to new music. Check out Meat Beat Manifesto. Your jams were reminiscent of their mid/late 90s style. Total compliment btw.
Is the Iluminator able to light the LED strips in different brightness, in relation to the strenght of incomming CV? Would a unipolar, slow LFO light the LED strips from very dimmly lit to full lit while cycling? thank you very much.
@@StephenMcLeod thanks for overlooking that I somehow didn't type the "y" in "delivery". Since you're replying, do you know if there are any acoustic "real" drum tones available on this unit? The price is right, and programming seems simple enough. The music I play isn't electronic. I'm an old retired musician who's here to learn. With slow satellite wifi, decent drum plugins with the 5GB download don't load. Thanks.
I just received both of my C64Cs back from being repaired and upgraded with SIDFX. I now have both of the 8580s together in one machine and two ARMSID chips in the other. My initial expectation was that I would be able to play some classic Stereo SID tunes using SID-Player 10.3 without needing my SID Symphony cart for the 2nd SID - but so far, no matter which configuration I choose, I'm only getting the left half of the .MUS + .STR pair. "Axel F", for example, is missing a lot of its parts because of this. Am I trying to do something the SIDFX isn't capable of doing? Or am I just misconfiguring it? If anyone has been able to make this work, I would appreciate knowing the secret. Thanks!
The pitch is smooth because it's actually speed, like a record - the pitch and tempo change together. It's not trying to maintain the tempo as the pitch changes, so there's no glitching a la the 303 or 404sx etc.
@@StephenMcLeod The 303 and 404 have a pitch shift effect (changes pitch, maintains tempo) or they time stretch (changes tempo, maintains pitch). Both get glitchy. They don't have a means of changing sample speed (pitch and tempo moving together like a record slowing down/speeding up), achieved by altering the sample rate(s). Everyone always gets excited about the 'smooth' pitch on the 202 without realising it's something different entirely.
@@StephenMcLeod The VP9k is obvs excellent at all 3 iirc, lol. The SPs (- the 202) are collectively some of the only samplers that can't 'speed'. I've always had a love/hate relationship with the 303 as sample speed is fundamental to me. The 202 pitch is far from ideal tho. Like you said, it's global BUT it only affects playback, so samples still need to be in tune together if you're making a track on one. The Roland MS-1 that was the precusor to the SPs also has global pitch BUT you can further alter the sampling sample rate with the pitch settings beyond the sample grade settings, so you can tune your samples to the sample you're about to take, so then the global pitch will move everything in relation with eachother. The SP808 can also do this by altering the sample rate of the entire machine.
