The NACA Music, Art & General Creativity Thread
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Mr Celine
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Drum machine still in a state of flux?
winjim
Welcome yourself into the new modern crisis
Right, I've soldered on a new battery clip.
Now at this point you might be forgiven for thinking you could just whack in a 9V battery and off you go, which is how it was when I got it. Actually it runs on 6V and takes one of these cartridges, which I've never come across but are fortunately easy enough to get hold of, which was a nice surprise.
It's a bit of a snug fit and I need to MacGyver some sort of battery cover and rubber foot replacement, mainly to keep the dust out.
Had a brief play with it and it's working, managed to record and play back a pattern so it doesn't seem like the memory has been damaged. Main problem is that the tone pot is hella crackly so the next job is to take it apart again and see if I can get some switch cleaner in there.
Now at this point you might be forgiven for thinking you could just whack in a 9V battery and off you go, which is how it was when I got it. Actually it runs on 6V and takes one of these cartridges, which I've never come across but are fortunately easy enough to get hold of, which was a nice surprise.
It's a bit of a snug fit and I need to MacGyver some sort of battery cover and rubber foot replacement, mainly to keep the dust out.
Had a brief play with it and it's working, managed to record and play back a pattern so it doesn't seem like the memory has been damaged. Main problem is that the tone pot is hella crackly so the next job is to take it apart again and see if I can get some switch cleaner in there.
Beebo
Veteran
AndyRM
Elder Goth
Very, very nice.
winjim
Welcome yourself into the new modern crisis
OK, I couldn't get into the pot without desoldering the mount and I'm not about to do that so I settled for spraying a healthy dose of switch cleaner into that little hole and giving it a good twiddle.
That seems to have done the trick, it's still got a bit of a crackle when I adjust it but before I only had to lightly touch it and the whole thing went bananas. So here it is.
It pre-dates the 16 step chase type drum sequencers which are pretty standard so you have to tap in notes and rests for the whole pattern. Programmable bass drum, snare, rim shot and accent, with hi hats either off, every 8th note or every 16th. Six 4/4 patterns and two 3/4 with A/ B variation. Not much you can do in the way of mixing but you can sort of adjust it via accent and tone (except for the crackle). You need to back the tone off cos the hi hats are really shrill and hissy.
I've seen people grumble about the sequencer but the best bit about it is that there's no cue, it switches patterns immediately so you can actually jam on it and make some quite complex rhythms and fills in real time. Here's me dicking about with it last night.
https://on.soundcloud.com/U3Pdd
Now I need to see if I can use it with some of my newer toys. Should sync OK with 5V pulses into my semi modulars.
theclaud
Reading around the chip
I daresay Yvette Cooper is on it.
multitool
Guest
Fûck me, times have changed in the 20 years since I last went 
View: https://x.com/PoliceAtGlasto/status/1806273553827872915
The only running I ever did there, was away from the security teams after climbing the fence
View: https://x.com/PoliceAtGlasto/status/1806273553827872915
The only running I ever did there, was away from the security teams after climbing the fence
Beebo
Veteran
OP
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Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
If I'm posting on this thread, then I've probably got another song to plug.
Well, yes. Yes I do.
View: https://youtu.be/aWCPnWQVzew?feature=shared
So if I can have a minute of your time - well, eleven minutes, actually - stick this on a big screen & big speakers/headphones, and indulge me. I'm very, very proud of this - possibly the most challenging & involved composition I've been involved in and one of the only ones I can listen back to & not think I could do better.
I fücking love this, & hope you will too. And you know how it goes - if you do, tell your frends, if you don't, tell your enemies.
Well, yes. Yes I do.
View: https://youtu.be/aWCPnWQVzew?feature=shared
So if I can have a minute of your time - well, eleven minutes, actually - stick this on a big screen & big speakers/headphones, and indulge me. I'm very, very proud of this - possibly the most challenging & involved composition I've been involved in and one of the only ones I can listen back to & not think I could do better.
I fücking love this, & hope you will too. And you know how it goes - if you do, tell your frends, if you don't, tell your enemies.
