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by squigg 6mo ago
Always the square for classic acid house - the saw is better for more modern (and worse ;-) distorted acid techno
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by squigg 6mo ago
TB-303 owner here. If my TB-303 sounded this bad I'd set fire to it ;-) Really this is just an implementation of a basic oscillator, filter and envelope. No harm in that all and it's more than I could manage - it's fun and ni
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by squigg 6mo ago
Owner of all (ALL!!) the classic Roland x0x boxes here, which are connected together using DIN Sync - the sync was not badly implemented at all - they sync together perfectly. The sequencers in each of the machines have a bit of nuance, whi
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by squigg 8mo ago
The Isle of Man is not part of the United Kingdom
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by squigg 1y ago
EMU samplers used Soundfonts as well - I occassionally use them to load samples onto my ESI2000 sampler over ZuluSCSI ... so the format lives on! EXMP is the outstanding editor for all things Soundfont and EMU
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by squigg 1y ago
Yes! We lived in a penthouse apartment in Surry Hills (the old hat factory) for 2 years from 2010 and the first time the choppers came in and dropped troops off on the rooftop opposite I was terrified! Became a regular source of entertainme
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by squigg 1y ago
I never thought to check the Japanese auction houses - I have a workmate there who can purchase locally as well. There is one for sale, but it's a bit expensive - I'll keep my eyes open thanks
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by squigg 1y ago
I have an old Roland S760 sampler from the early 90s. One of the innovations Roland made in this (lower cost) space was to add the ability to hook up a monitor and a mouse, to make chopping samples and programming patches much easier than p
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by squigg 2y ago
> For the old SunRay thin clients one could disable the USB ports .... >The same is possible in Windows 10 and 11, but the users will revolt, if a >sysadmin were to enforce such (the same users who insist on using Windows instead &
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by squigg 2y ago
As someone else who grew up seeing these across the UK, it was never clear to me why they disappeared - this explains it perfectly, thank you
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by squigg 2y ago
Yes! It bases itself at Oban for part of the year and serves those routes, so your memory is correct
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by squigg 2y ago
In a salient lesson to everyone on complex software projects, one yards latest attempt to build an innovative new car ferry has been a financial and political disaster - move fast and break things doesn't work very well with ship desig
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by squigg 2y ago
It is simply heart-breaking when you journey to somewhere like South Korea, where there are miles and miles of huge shipyards churning out tankers, as its a grim reminder of what we once had here on the Clyde and the skills and jobs we have
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by squigg 2y ago
I live on the Firth of Clyde and the Waverley passes my house twice a day during the summer, plus it sales round the local lochs so when you are out and about you always catch glimpses of it. Part of it's charm and allure is that not o
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by squigg 3y ago
I did not know that - thank you, my son watched Andor - I'll get him to show me!
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by squigg 3y ago
SSE are also hoping to build Coiri Glas in Scotland, which is 30GWh https://www.sse.com/news-and-views/2023/03/britain-s-largest... Cruachan 2 will take total site capacity to 1GWh https://www.drax
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by squigg 3y ago
If you are ever up in Scotland, you can still visit Cruachan - the sister power station at Loch Awe with a very similar design. I took my children there two months ago. They were as amazed as I hoped they would be! Visiting hours here: htt
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by squigg 3y ago
If the Panoptigon playing Kraftwerk "Uranium" does not send a shiver up the spine of anyone in tech, then you my friend should have a good hard look in the mirror. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6uvpd38msA
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by squigg 4y ago
Ah good point. Hadn't considered mods as a distro mechanism. I still have all the mods I made in the late 80s/90s - rendered them and uploaded to Soundcloud for the world to enjoy / laugh at ... a very resilient format!
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by squigg 4y ago
Fair point - not 10x, just normally about 2-3x!
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by squigg 4y ago
Happens in the SCSI emulator market as well - there is a company massively marking up SCSI emulators and praying on naive musicians. Which is fair enough given they set them up before sending them out, but it still irks my sense of fairness
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by squigg 4y ago
If they are releasing on floppy, then the quality can't be up to much - that's going to be a pretty low bitrate MP3 to fit in that space!
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by squigg 4y ago
My Akai S1000 sampler from the late 80s still has it's floppy drive, which I occasionally still use even though it has a modern SD-card based emulated SCSI hard disk as well. I could change the floppy to a Gotek USB drive, but I'm
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by squigg 4y ago
Loved that thanks - my dad worked there for a year as a pipe fitter. Brings a lot of it to life!
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by squigg 4y ago
It's Hunterston in case anyone wants to read-up - just down the road from me and sadly the AGR is now being de-fuelled as it heads for the big pile in the sky .... such a feature on the local coastline https://en.wikipedia.o
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by squigg 4y ago
Exactly - there is no default blocking of adult material in the UK, it's scaremongering based on proposed legislation that will probably never make it to the statute books. Some ISPs and telcos have implemented their own systems to pro
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by squigg 4y ago
And yet they work on some of the most complex, hostile environments and typically operate safely.
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by squigg 4y ago
I was consulting at BP back in 2002 - even back then the health and safety environment inside their offices (I was all over the world with them) was the same as their oil rigs ... no trip hazards go unreported, always hold the handrails, al
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by squigg 5y ago
There were lots of I, Robot cabinets in the UK. I loved it - was mindblowing! Was also ported to various home computers
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by squigg 5y ago
Chris! So lovely to see you here - I love not only your plugins, but your attitude and videos. Thank you!

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