the Joker in TX



Jack in Charm City hon...

LEX003 in purple tolex

it came up in conversation

How many people can be offended in 5 minutes?

too busy building these:


mission6 v2 ser no 001







Lexington ser no 001

while everyone else does their obit with a "nice Les image"....

Seriously - I don't have to copy someone else obit this time.
Les Paul was one of the few great ones that could get under the hood and make shit that didn't exist yet. IMHO he's the father of the circuit bender, gear modder, the home project studio producer and he could write a tight little song or two (ahem... 36 gold records).

Leo Fender's strat was inducted into the RnR hall of fame, but Les Paul's is 30 minutes down the road in the Inventors Hall of Fame. Despite being a Fender man for over 25 years - who would sooner sit to pee than touch a Gibson - I'm more impressed with the latter. Especially considering that Gibson initially thought his ideas were "not so good".

Fuck 'em indeed Les - you did it your way

[r]

heard earlier this week in the movie: waltz with Bashir

Sneak Peek from 'Totally Wired' - Ken Macbeth from niamhahern on Vimeo.

because he is AND because we can...

"The Lexington may look quite expensive initially, but at 600HP, it works out at a per-HP cost at $1.66. The only other eurorack case with a ratio near it, is the wooden low cost doepfer. Comparing the two cases, the Lexington is a hundred times better looking."

"The racks are also really appealing. With a per-HP cost of $1.48, they will be the best value available right now for eurorack cases."

thanks Dave!

via analoghaven's flikr

"I'm so glad someone is taking it upon themselves to offer alternatives from the portable Doepfer cases and not just any alternative but an intelligent and customizable alternative."

thanks Surachai!

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price: $15 (includes shipping)
what you get: 100% cotton black t with "LIBERTY!" emblazoned across the chest in korean
what I get: a revenue stream to support charities of my choice

(repeat: "what do I know? I just bought a cool looking shirt")

Liberty NK Tee

Small $15.00 Medium $15.00 Large $15.00 X Large $15.00

GUARANTEE: you will look a lot better wearing this shirt than the model pictured above

FULL DISCLOSURE:

Purchase pays for the following:
shipping
material costs
administrative costs (primarily time)
shares distributed to charity

Distributions to charitable organizations are made anonymously by cash or money order.

I chose donating anonymously over starting a 501c for the following reasons:

1. there are already 501c's supporting this cause and believe it would be better to add to their strength
2. charitable organizations can suddenly become fronts for criminal activity simply because governing bodies decide they are.
The financial trail ends with me.
You are simply buying a T Shirt.

(I could drag this out longer, but it's just a friggin T shirt and you've already decided whether or not you want to buy it)

BACKGROUND:

Earlier this year I saw a documentary called "Seoul Train". Long story short, I experienced the moment of epiphany that any other activist, for any other cause, experiences before taking steps to make a difference (size and impact irrelevant).

It effectively reminded me that there are options in this world far worse than being dead.

Imagine an ARP Odyssey controlled by a guitar instead of keyboard....

The guy who played the Avatar on this record would later be part of EBN OZN ("aeiou sometimes y")



I was going to make a video of this, but it looks like someone else already did.

Bottom line: Ableton is only being used for sending notes (sequencing). 100% of the audio is coming from the Blofeld.

via Ian Body Waveforms:

"Drumalogue is the third title in Ian Boddy's Waveforms series of sample libraries.

This is a library of 1,000 analogue drum, percussion and one-shot hits.

However these are not taken from vintage drum machines (of which there is already plenty of content available elsewhere) but rather all the sounds are hand crafted by Boddy on vintage analogue synths and modular systems. They run the full gamut from thunderous bass drums, crisp snares & hats through to abstract synth hits & FX and even weird glitchy & industrial sounds. The sounds are a mixture of mono and stereo samples and some have genuine analogue effects printed on them from spring reverbs, bucket brigade delays and phaser/flangers. This all adds up to a cornucopia of drum and percussion sounds that can be used in virtually any style of production.

The sounds are also mapped out in Kontakt 2 programs with a basic envelope and low-pass filter provided. The modulation wheel is set to turn the cut-off of the filter down as it is raised. These programs are presented in three different ways.

The Audition programs present all the sounds per category with one sound per key starting at C1. The 18 Kit patches follow as closely as possible the General MIDI Percussion Key Map from B0 (Key35) to B2 (Key59) and provide a convenient way of playing some of the sounds as "drum kits". Finally there is a range of sounds key-mapped out in Patches. No other programming is included as the sounds themselves are "finished" and it is intended to give the customer the flexibility of adding their own effects and modulations if desired.

Technical data

1000 samples at 44.1Khz, 24 bit in WAV format .
Mixture of stereo & mono samples.

Raw audio recorded from the following analogue synthesisers:
• Roland System 100-M
• Analogue Systems
• Doepfer A-100
• Analogue Solutions
• Livewire AFG
• VCS3
• Minimoog
• Metasonix TM-2 tube BP filter

Recorded directly into Apple Mac using RME Fireface 400 audio interface.
Samples edited in Bias Peak Pro 5.
Native Instruments Kontakt 2 support provided.

Recorded & produced by Ian Boddy December 2008 - March 2009.

Demo loops by Ian Boddy, Dean De Benedictis, Nigel Mullaney, Pat Mastelotto and
Bernhard Wöstheinrich."

it's not stereo, but it makes field recording really easy to do around people.
no one suspects that an iphone is doing anything other than waiting to ring