Let's see your KEYS/SYNTHS!

[$harkToootth]

The Boss RV-3? I am very happy for you if you found a pedal that covers all your reverb needs. Especially one where (if you are patient) you can grab for next to nothing (seen them for as little as $50). The magic combination of Your Less Than Immediate Need + People eager to flip.

[fcknoise]

RV-3 works wonders on synths imo.

[$harkToootth]

RV-3 works wonders on synths imo.

Good to know. I always have my eye out on Reverbs (and well...everything). Boss has never let me down and they're cheap (comparatively speaking).

[psychic vampire.]

Never tried an RV-3, but will endlessly plug the Digiverb. I'm going to try to pick one up from the mom & pop soon, depending on the estimate for my truck repair. Its reverse mode is really amazing. The Digitech Supernatural sits on all my pad duties and does them lovingly, even if i only use a handful of its modes (Spring, Plate, Plate Mod, Shimmer). Good to hear there are good reviews of the RV-3. Going back a few pages, i wish there were somewhere that still sold the Shruthi Polivoks and Digital fx filter boards.

[Dark Barn]

My set up:



Not shown; midi interface, audio interface, boring old laptop.

[spacelordmother]

My set up:



Not shown; midi interface, audio interface, boring old laptop.

[MrNovember]

What is that grid thing?

Edit: googled Linnstrument and it came right up. How do you like it? Looks like it might be a good pair my my modular system

[Dark Barn]

What is that grid thing?

Edit: googled Linnstrument and it came right up. How do you like it? Looks like it might be a good pair my my modular system

I like it a lot! To make the very utmost of it you need a multi-timbral set up, although it works in any sort of set-up to varying degrees. It has three basic modes: Channel per Note, Channel per Row, and One Channel. Channel per Note gives you the most "expression", but broadcasts to 8 midi channels round robin style. Each new note goes to a new channel, so the expression from x/y/z axis is unique to that note. One Channel on the other hand still creates midi polyphony, but expression in x/y/z affects all notes. This can still be good if you want that effect, or if you don't, still good for single note melody/bass lines etc. There are people I've seen on Muffs that have integrated it into their modular systems, with success, it's cheaper than a Continuum, more money than a small Roli.

I use it sparingly on my podcast, you notice it the most on the little synth "flute" solo outro at the end of this song. You hear a little pitch bend, and vibrato modulations just controlled by the axis and pressure of my finger.

https://theweakinreview.bandcamp.com/tr ... us-poverty

I also use it constantly instead of keys just for testing out ideas, and it's on 2-3 other songs if you poke around the bandcamp page, but not always with that hallmark expressiveness.

[D.o.S.]

That is awesome.

I should take a family photo once I relocate.

[oscillateur]

We moved to a new apartment to get a bigger space for lower rent (though obviously not as right in the center of everything as before) in preparation for an upcoming baby and as a bonus I got a (really) small room for my music stuff/PC/various things that are not in the living room anymore now. So I'll finally be able to have the modular, a keyboard and their dedicated effect pedals always ready and plugged in, in a convenient place. I still have to cable everything but I'll post a picture once it's done...

[fcknoise]

Can someone please explain midi-syncing to me as if I was a baby? I just don't understand it. What I have to work with is my computer (logic as a DAW), an ipad, OP-1, microgranny, PO-12 and some old ass zoom drum machine. I feel like I'm done tryna sync stuff by hand. So far I have no MIDI-cables so I'm sure I have to buy that. But what else?? I'm certain it's really simple because googling this leads me like, nowhere

[lordgalvar]

I don't remember if the op-1 has one of those midi serial to 3.5mm ports or it is just USB...but basically, you set up one of those devices as a master/global and the other ones to receive the global clock.

You'll probably have to get some kind of midi interface (well, since you are using your computer, your DAW will be the master clock and, for the most part you will send via midi-over-usb and you will have to get the midi interface for the zoom and microgranny I think (assuming no USB)).

After that, it is about finding the menu in each device to set it to slave or to receive the clock.

Things would have been much more complicated without the computer.

Things like cc and program changes might require a splitter if there are no thru ports.

The pocket op is going to be the tricky one...it syncs via a trigger signal I think. Something cheap like a beatstep would fix that, I believe.

[fcknoise]

I don't remember if the op-1 has one of those midi serial to 3.5mm ports or it is just USB...but basically, you set up one of those devices as a master/global and the other ones to receive the global clock.

You'll probably have to get some kind of midi interface (well, since you are using your computer, your DAW will be the master clock and, for the most part you will send via midi-over-usb and you will have to get the midi interface for the zoom and microgranny I think (assuming no USB)).

After that, it is about finding the menu in each device to set it to slave or to receive the clock.

Things would have been much more complicated without the computer.

Things like cc and program changes might require a splitter if there are no thru ports.

The pocket op is going to be the tricky one...it syncs via a trigger signal I think. Something cheap like a beatstep would fix that, I believe.

Thanks man!! I don't need to use all of it, in fact, I rarely use all of it at the same time! I just want to sync some things, mostly the microgranny to a drum machine! I'd be happy using just a microgranny, PO-12 and OP-1 tbh

[lordgalvar]

If you are just using the microgranny and drum machine (assuming the drum machine has a midi out jack), just get a midi cable and use the drum machine as master and set the microgranny as slave (probably is by default).

Beatstep would actually make it possible to sync everything with some thinking haha (easy if the drum machine has a through or out, I would think
...midi can be spotty sometimes though).

iPad (I know very little about iPads so don't get pissed if I am wrong haha) and op-1 would just be midi over USB (as would beatstep) and the beatstep cv sync would go to pocket op and it's midi would go to micro granny and the drum machine. Beatstep would be the master clock.

[fcknoise]

If you are just using the microgranny and drum machine (assuming the drum machine has a midi out jack), just get a midi cable and use the drum machine as master and set the microgranny as slave (probably is by default).

Beatstep would actually make it possible to sync everything with some thinking haha (easy if the drum machine has a through or out, I would think
...midi can be spotty sometimes though).

iPad (I know very little about iPads so don't get pissed if I am wrong haha) and op-1 would just be midi over USB (as would beatstep) and the beatstep cv sync would go to pocket op and it's midi would go to micro granny and the drum machine. Beatstep would be the master clock.

Thanks a bunch! Looks like I should look into the beatstep then! Would the korg sq-1 do the same thing? Just in case I find that one used before the beatstep.

EDIT: also, the drum machine doesn't have midi out, just a midi in thing. So I assume it can't be used as a master clock. (same goes for microgranny )