I've just noticed there is a page up for this with a link for tickets, but the link invites you to buy ones for 2023

Martin Walker wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:31 pm Even he seemed to be mildly bemused by being honoured

I'm not surprises. I only saw him once at Glastonbury 2000, and he seems very quite unassuming.

About time!

Thanks for that

Not so sure about the 'dynamic' bit
I'll prolly be along between 9 and 10 - to avoid the rush hour traffic.

Thanks for the heads-up James
Great so see independent mention.

Very interesting drawings. Only a few specialist chips, the rest are pretty standard. I would hope it will be mostly a matter of copious switch cleaner and cap changes to get it tickety-boo.

Tony, can you print off a copy of that PDF? My printer seems to be having a bit of a 'sleep'

OK, I was playing a bit dumb, but for (I think) a good reason. I wanted to know what other people think of as an oscillator!

The reason for that is I see people online getting excited about having (say) a whole 4 oscillators. I'm used to seeing at least 16 (but mostly only using 4 or 5).

BJG145 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:43 pm Oscillators...

They're the source. The lifeblood.

Go read some Gordon Reid. All 63 parts. Then read them again.

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/whats-sound

Well I probably would if I could find them, but from what I've seen so far, I'm not expecting any surprises.

Not having much familiarity with {cough} conventional {cough} synths, I get quite confused when people talk about number of oscillators. For a start, what exactly do you call an oscillator? Is this something that operates per key? Or is it in some sort of matrix arrangement? I'm coming from a backgr...

Stickman0_3 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:21 pm Is there yet another bug in the system?

FTFY

OK, I'm a bit perplexed, and it's my first time using a Farfisa, there seems to be no output volume knob, but there is a volume pedal connected via a 3 pin DIN plug, this doesn’t seem to be working, just tested it. It sounds great through the internal speakers, if a bit noisy, hum. It also has an &...

If, as DM says, they can be retrofitted surely they can also be 'retroremoved' and whatever blanking mechanism fitted in their place? Yes they can be. You remove any sticky out bits, then get a thin strip of plastic trim and the adhesive from the likes of B&Q, cut it to fit the full width of th...

Arpangel wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:09 am

adrian_k wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:06 am I sometimes think I miss out on things in life worrying about practicalities like that.

Terrible isn’t it.
But I am trying not to look like a keyboard player.

Oi!
What wrong with looking like a keyboard player?
{mutter}{mutter}{mutter}

A 'bit' too far for me I'm afraid - especially at that time

I think part of the problem is that the MIDI spec doesn't define exactly what they mean by 'expression'. From time to time I've MIDI-learned it to perform a combination of filter cutoff, and reduced volume range on brass sounds.

I'm grateful for the discussion. I guess sometimes getting no solution from others really is the catalyst you need to learn more about a subject matter and create a solution for yourself. You were right to persist carefully, but you still got lucky. That voltage calculation I gave is correct, for a...

The default functions are fine. Any half decent softsynth should be able to re-assign them if it wants to, with nothing in the middle interfering. Also, zipper noise? These days, are there really synths that are so poorly designed, with processors so under-spec they can't handle interpolation? As th...

Interesting. I just dived into the Yoshimi code (here be dragons) and it seems we get it wrong-ish. The individual part insertion effects are applied before expression, but the system effects are applied afterwards. However... You can MIDI-learn the incoming expression value, route it wherever you l...

I just use Yoshimi's built in reverbs - good enough for me.