Mo @mo@nitech.online

@flockofnazguls@mastodon.flockofnazguls.com of course, if I worked for gearnews and kept losing auctions for vintage gear, I’d write an article like this to put off the competition 😉

@flockofnazguls@mastodon.flockofnazguls.com that looks just like the 106 I bought recently…. oh

@nivrig Me and my wife talking about our cat this morning:

@stuart Fleischwolf sounds way more cool than grinder. Also could be a good alternative name for Grindr.

@schwa we get this a lot on the north coast of Northern Ireland. There is line of sight to masts in the northern part of the Republic and the signal is stronger to there than the local masts in Northern Ireland. Thankfully roaming between the two countries doesn’t cost anything for us.

@nivrig 4 batteries, supposedly 5kWh each. We’d initially wanted them in the garage but apparently the guidance is not to do so anymore. Something about risk of driving cars into them when parking in the garage. Of course ours are at the side of the house and easier to hit at speed!

@nivrig

@nivrig we’ve got the EV. Also on the Economy 7 style tariff to fill the batteries at night (more during winter) and use the cheaper power during the day. If the panels fill the batteries during the summer the plan is to use the excess to generate hot water. These myenergi libbi batteries look real nice.

@nivrig we just got 10 panels put on the roof today. Getting batteries, etc installed soon.

@stuart I wonder if a lot of commentators are going to be bemoaning the lack of non-silicone options if 3rd-party case manufactures struggle to accommodate the Camera Control.

Apple’s Fine Woven cases seemed to go down very badly with the commentators, but I’m very much missing my Fine Woven case after 3 days with a silicone case.

@marramgrass I like that the Metropolix has the immediacy of sliders and switches, but also feels like complex jiggery pokery because you can apply mod lanes to the 2 tracks and even output the mod lanes independently. I love this explainer video from one of my favourite synthy people: https://youtu.be/FHr6AlI1KOE?si=-xbA7b5AX04ShTi9

@marramgrass I like the idea of a Digitakt but I think it gets me too far from the intimacy of the modular system.

@marramgrass I only ever used BooTracker on my Amstrad. I’ve been using a Metropolix Eurorack sequencer later. You can see it on this (bottom left): https://youtu.be/LAACwr2lVOU

@marramgrass any particular rabbits that you’re following in said rabbit hole?

@marramgrass well, I followed a link while browsing for bargain Roland Juno-106s.

Yes. I bought a Roland Juno-106. And I’d do it again, dammit!

@marramgrass only 2.5k! Bargain!

I accidentally looked at Roland Jupiter 8s and now I get 20k synths recommended.

@joshua @acf both perspectives can be true. If they built heavily on this ecosystem then it’s world-ending FOR THEM, but it doesn’t mean the rest of us have to grab a brown paper bag to regulate our breathing because we didn’t invest so much in that ecosystem.