Post your set up and your sexy cat...

evanb · Post by **evanb** » Tue May 27, 2008 5:54 pm

Vika Amon from Ikea...

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Tue May 27, 2008 8:08 pm

DJ VAKIS wrote:This is my new desk!

Nice desk. Has a subtle retro-futuristic quality. Very handsome, indeed.

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Tue May 27, 2008 8:18 pm

koneko wrote:my messy shoe-box studio . .

Ah, the venerable Doepfer Pocket Dial. I own a pair of these little wonders.

I notice that you only have one MIDI cable attached to it. You'd get a lot more out of it if you used both MIDI ports -only using one kinda defeats the Pocket Dial's functionality: endless encoders. Do you choose not use that feature?

Also, do you use an Editor program to program the Pocket Dial? If so, which one do you use? Thanks.

koneko · Post by **koneko** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:02 pm

hey oblique thanks for looking at it closely

im on mac, so eventhough i did manage to run the editor on a windows emulator (i dont know of a one for mac, do you?) .. i didnt quite work for me. not sure why, but honestly, i work with banks 111-114 , mostly for instant mapping, and pretty happy

i do use the endless encoders, "AccelTwoCompliment" .. why do i actually need midi out for? please, enlighten me !

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:27 pm

koneko wrote:hey oblique thanks for looking at it closely

im on mac, so eventhough i did manage to run the editor on a windows emulator (i dont know of a one for mac, do you?) .. i didnt quite work for me. not sure why, but honestly, i work with banks 111-114 , mostly for instant mapping, and pretty happy

i do use the endless encoders, "AccelTwoCompliment" .. why do i actually need midi out for? please, enlighten me !

Hi Koneko

I'm also on a Mac, but I have a PC as well. A while back I was attempting to edit both my Doepfer Pocket Dials & Drehbanks so that they would work together & not step on each other's toes by having the same MIDI settings. But I have had a lot of difficulty getting any editor to work at all.

The problem is that I did this work a while ago, gave up, & am now trying to do it again. But I did not make detailed notes, so I'm kind of back to square one, trying some of the same programs again.

Changing the MIDI channels on the Pocket Dial is easy enough, but changing anything else on it requires the editor.

The only Editors I have found for Mac are:
MidiQuest -which recently didn't work.
Sound Diver -which requires OS 9 -but so far hasn't worked in Classic mode -I'm on a G4 PowerBook -but not for long

For PC I tried:
The Editor from Doepfer -it only runs on Windows 98 or ME, & I'm on Windows 2000.

Since nothing is currently working, I'm thinking of finding someone with an older PC & using the Doepfer editor.

As for using 2 MIDI cables:
-Out to send info to your music applications.
-In to receive info from your music applications.

Through this two-way communication, the knobs will always be in sync with whatever you have mapped them to in the software. So if you change the settings in your music app with a mouse/trackball, the knobs will be updated with the changes & be in the same position as the software. Make sense?

Maybe you are already achieving this in some other way (I am not familiar with "AccelTwoCompliment"), but I can't see how if you're not using both MIDI ports.

koneko · Post by **koneko** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:44 pm

oblique , i dont want to shift the thread, i PM you !

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Tue May 27, 2008 9:45 pm

koneko wrote:oblique , i dont want to shift the thread, i PM you !

cool, I'll check it now

gaijin1717 · Post by **gaijin1717** » Wed May 28, 2008 1:52 am

While I refuse to spend my stimulus check like the government intended (that shit goes straight to the bank) I am not opposed to spending the overtime I earned at the conference I just attended. Hence, upgrade:

kaffein · Post by **kaffein** » Wed May 28, 2008 2:05 am

gaijin1717 wrote:While I refuse to spend my stimulus check like the government intended (that shit goes straight to the bank) I am not opposed to spending the overtime I earned at the conference I just attended. Hence, upgrade:

I almost bought one of those chairs over the weekend, but then I saw they don't recommend them for people over 5'5", I'm 6'1".

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Wed May 28, 2008 4:27 pm

evanb wrote:Vika Amon from Ikea...

Did you buy two or three of them and line 'em up?

stutter · Post by **stutter** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:04 pm

since people are posting outdoor studios:

spent many days last summer trying to decide between computer music and sunshine. Not such a problem now. Of course, some people might wonder why I didn't just get a guitar or a harmonica or something. All runs off the battery, though not for very long, but there're plugs a convenient distance in the workshop.

koneko · Post by **koneko** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:29 pm

stutter wrote:since people are posting outdoor studios:
spent many days last summer trying to decide between computer music and sunshine. Not such a problem now. Of course, some people might wonder why I didn't just get a guitar or a harmonica or something. All runs off the battery, though not for very long, but there're plugs a convenient distance in the workshop.

i have this vision of jamming with my laptop in the park, on a little amplifier or even ghetto-blaster on batteries. its pity that we are so electric energy dependent. also, street performances, spontaneous mini-rave in my neighborhood instead of this annoying saxophonist . i'll do it one day...

sparklepuff · Post by **sparklepuff** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:31 pm

I'd love to move this shit outside for the summer, sucks being stuck in a dark, windowless box while all the ladies prance around in shorty shorts.

SHORTY SHORTS FTW

koneko · Post by **koneko** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:36 pm

sparklepuff wrote:I'd love to move this shit outside for the summer, sucks being stuck in a dark, windowless box while all the ladies prance around in shorty shorts.

SHORTY SHORTS FTW

feel free to move it over to here for the summer. you have there my top 3 most desirable pieces of gear.

stutter · Post by **stutter** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:45 pm

Koneko - someone showed me photos of their rig for parades and protests - nice big system, run of a load of car batteries, no genny to sputter and smoke and break down, all on a trailer with decent suspension - instant rave. Another friend used to make portable ghetto bkasters out of car amp and speaker cones and a battery, those were good for he park.

sparklepuff, you'll get no sympathy here. Anyway, it's raining at the minute.