Hawkeye

cause the gurl said "hawkeye, no drums today (i got pms)" (still waiting for nils to throw me off the forums for repeated junk music spamming)

Mhm, sorry to hear that, but I guess that guy thought it was the equivalent of quick money... we told you that it was too cheap (i know that doesn´t help now)...

Yes... and I searched for hours, not only samsung, but noritake, matrix orbital... also out-of-production ones.... imho there is no 4x20 VFD with a 4 or 8-bit parallel connectivity, which would fit into the MB6582... either the vacuum tube is in the way, or the high voltage coils... so don´t worry for me... non-availability is a cure for all addictions - a LCD it must be therefore ;-). And we need something to be really looking forward to, e.g. the OLED in the MBSid V3 ;-)

Hey man, thanks for reporting back! Due to Antichambres amazing picz in the gallery from the samsung VFD in his Sammiches, I will just look around if I can find any Samsung 4x20ies. But thanks a lot, the Zyscoms or the Crystalfontz displays are a good fallback position :-) - but i would so love a VFD ;-) Bye and greetz to Italy, Peter

Holy cow! Great! :frantics: If you need any help, e.g. regarding user interface graphics on the new graphical display, please tell me, for example for a nice startup animation or so :-)

Thx & thx for the critics - it is really helpful to hear other opinions, because after you have done something and listened to it a few times, you won´t notice anything ;-) Unfortunately, I am out of midi gear now for the "mbseq vs" series, so the midibox fm is next on the build list (due to echopraxia, especially this very nice recording: ) - and still the seq control surface needs to be boxed :-) Thanks for watching and have a great time, Peter

Thanks for watching - ended up a little bit trancy, but it is green, FTW ;-) (All played live, no editing)

Nice - is the intro of the third one (up to second 25 or so) pure MBFM? Makes me want to have one, too! :)

That is indeed very nice then! Thanks a lot for the feedback, it is now clear what brand my next laptop will be :-)

It would be nice to have the comp on 24/7, but da gurl says "darn, hawkeye, keep da frickin' energy bill down" :)

Very nice outboard equipment (second recording) - is it this filter? http://www.cgs.synth.net/modules/cgs49_twf.html

A question of pure interest - does Mac OS allow hibernating from within e.g. Ableton, with a full reconnect of audio-drivers when waking up? Like switching on the laptop and being able to press "record" directly afterwards without the necessity to restart the DAW? This then would be indeed a very nice upgrade path. (In my windows 7 environment, the crappy m-audio drivers very often refuse to work after "suspend from disk", a reboot is necessary).

you start to question ´em when you have something nice in mind and it takes 5 minutes until the os is booted, the daw software is started, the default project is loaded, the vsts have fired up and then in the middle of the (then already unsuccessful because of annoyance) recording session windows says, it wants to reboot now because of an important driver update :-) (i know, you can suspend that). I love hardware :laugh:

you´re right, most of the old digital mixers are 24bit already... so no problem on that front... it all depends whether you think that 96khz are necessary or not - the yamaha 1v96 version 1 may also be interesting, if you are looking into "affordable" old digital decks. otoh some people in the fully digital domain now employ analog summers to circumvent the (in my opinion not audible) degradation in sound quality, when many channels are digitally mixed together, e.g. sampled @ 44khz/24bit and are then being downcalculated to a single channel @ 44khz/24bit. At some point it all drifts off into mythic "high-end" discussions, e.g. of the audability of the difference of using 1m of standard copper audio wire vs. using 1m of high-end-oxygen-free audio-cable of the same diameter. Entire wars have been fought over that matter :).

+1 for the statement regarding computer-free playing - you need a nice desk :) would love to do an "a-b listen-comparison test", a without the mixer and b with the mixer in the analog chain :-) argh, nebula, thats how many busses on that soundcraft? dammn ;-) by the way, some mixers (like some allen & heaths) have options to reduce the analog audio path from your line signals: a) preamp bypass (preamps are only necessary for mic-level inputs, not for "strong" synth line inputs) b) eq section bypass finally, there often is a "direct out" feature, which allows you to grab your most important channels and capture them unmodified using your audio interface. regarding old digital mixers - be careful, they may be your weakest element in the processing chain, e.g. if they offer only 44khz/16bit sampling rate per channel.

heheh, yes, it can be driving one mad... :) - a high-end solution (which i did not have the money for) would be a digital mixing deck with an integrated audio interface for every channel... but it is costly (ca 2k for yamaha 1v96v2). Offers nifty features... - a lower-end solution would be to upgrade to a many-channel audio interface, there are relatively cheap ones with up to 16 channels 96khz/24bit, but you have to do everything on your pc/mac then. - i did not see too many problems with adding another bit of analog audio path to reduce the number of channels to a recordable quantity... but an audio purist will avoid that, ofc :)

Hm, you could keep the interface and invest in a mixer with dedicated sub-busses, which you can record and to which you can switch your instruments by the push of a few buttons. I did long research and for me it was a good solution ;-) :rolleyes:

It is "only" an 8-operator fm chipset (16+16 voices) and a lot of nice fx. Probably one of the best FM synths available, but unusable from a user interface perspective (there are good software editors though). Great to hear about the preview option for your album - i think it is always nice to offer this to people, it attracts more people and a lot of people are willing to pay for it. Keep up the good work! Bye, Peter