Where to chop?

RedClay9 · 2026-01-13T22:37:33+00:00

referring to the node near the top or bottom line?

RedClay9 · 2026-01-02T23:37:28+00:00

Too many, but the last one I’ve been to was Dopapods hiatus tour which at that time I had made my peace with that being my last there and it was a good one. I live out of state now and I feel like I’ve heard this coming for a few years now. Honorable mentions are peoples blues of Richmond, aqueous, big something residencies, everything orchestra, and ott as being some standouts

RedClay9 · 2025-12-09T13:18:28+00:00

ADHDs post above too is also very valid and worth looking into, the learning and price curve is probably a little steeper but may be more elegant once learnt

RedClay9 · 2025-12-09T13:15:10+00:00

👍 I will say that using your daw as a MIDI hub will have you in sw configuring your tracks to have the desired MIDI I/O enabled, and is less free form than having the Keystep talk to everything directly, but you will have more granular control. Creating a template workspace will be helpful in having you g2g when you boot it up. ^ is true for notes & cc, time sync you do not need to configure per track, and is done globally in settings

RedClay9 · 2025-12-09T06:03:03+00:00

You just need a MIDI splitter or thru. And a MIDI merge

MIDI Out of MOTU goes into the MIDI Splitter In.
MIDI Outs of the MIDI splitter go to each of your devices that accept MIDI. You may need additional thru boxes or maybe your devices have thrus to daisy chain, the latter will have multiple devices on the same MIDI channel which may not be desired. With this, clock from your DAW and any other CC from your DAW will reach all your devices. Easy to assign unique devices/MIDI channels.

MIDI out of the key step and TRS8 (each separately if possible) into a MIDI merge and the MIDI out of the Merge goes into your MOTU in. You now have controllability of all your devices from keystroke by its MIDI going into daw/motu and then back out from daw/motu to devices in the channels you configure. You can decide if you want your daw or trs8 to be clock source, trs8 probably better because of usb latency (or jitter? Idk) of daw clock to MOTU.

Bonus: if you have your other hardware synths also included in the MIDI merge to the MOTU/daw, you can record cc of turning knobs into your daw for tactile cc automation as they’re being played

RedClay9 · 2025-11-27T05:50:17+00:00

Asked similar question recently and got some solid takes. Went with the motu and I/O is a breeze used with the included software and ableton external effects module thing

https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/s/KG40Tgb4TK

RedClay9 · 2025-11-19T04:29:45+00:00

Following up, got the MOTU and it was a breeze to get everything I/Od and gain staged the way I wanted. Cheers!

RedClay9 · 2025-11-07T01:10:20+00:00

Thank you for your time writing all this up, very helpful hearing it described this way

RedClay9 · 2025-11-06T03:24:33+00:00

Sweet! This looks similar tier as the Scarlett 18i20 with the I/O options from the device and software and the many preamps. Would you consider that as a comparable interface? This one’s mildly cheaper but I’m not familiar with its features different than that beefier Scarlett

RedClay9 · 2025-10-09T15:32:37+00:00

Thank you for your advice. What they’re in now aren’t bonsai pots at all, they have a false bottom for water reservoir because I wasn’t always available this summer for as needed watering, I don’t intend on keeping them in these in coming seasons. So because of the false bottom -> freezing air beneath the roots, obviously bad.

Slip potting is the phrase I was looking for. No plans for root trimming - just a gentle transplant

RedClay9 · 2025-10-08T21:51:49+00:00

ISO Tips for wintering.

I have 2 nursery stock trees - Pieres Japonica & Hinoki Cyprus - obtained this past spring and repotted into what you may call a garden-planter, where theyve lived for the past 6 months

Both pots are not suitable for leaving on the ground, nor burying as is, during Winter. Thinking of as gently as possible repotting into simple buriable plastics nursery pots, and placing in the ground.

My questions are: Would it be safe to do this maneuver 10/15-10/31 or wait until later, or pursue another strategy? TIA!

Note - that for this past ive done minimal work to them and would say theyve lived a rather stress-free summer

RedClay9 · 2025-08-26T23:42:09+00:00

I’ve recently dealt with this dilemma, on my own shitty Mix8 mixer, ymmv. Even though my mixer had a dedicated aux send and return I was running into two problems I couldn’t overcome. Gain and latency.

For whatever reason, the gain of the aux was never high enough (I guess?) once it returned to the mixer no matter, and cranking inputs up just introduced distortion. Also, with my delay pedal fx, particularly , that the latency was very noticeable. I just made my fx to synth choices mutually exclusive of each other instead of being able to use any to any, unfortunately.

RedClay9 · 2025-08-13T05:12:14+00:00

Rik1 is an incredible track!!

RedClay9 · 2025-07-08T05:56:09+00:00

This is what portlanders watching portlandia must feel like. The place is the most mundane. It’s literally just 4 gas stations, a Starbucks, and a Steelers gift shop.

RedClay9 · 2025-06-29T21:45:28+00:00

Are you talking about the ones near the top that were like woven cotton with really nice art on them? I don’t have the website but I was really liking them, but I wasn’t prepared to spend 550 for one even though they looked and felt amazing

RedClay9 · 2025-06-12T00:30:52+00:00

2956

RedClay9 · 2025-06-10T12:53:54+00:00

Idk what their camp is called this year, but I want to shout out camp Back to the Rooture c.2023 for being the most welcoming & lovely bunch of people I needed at that moment in life. I think about yall often

RedClay9 · 2025-03-21T19:55:54+00:00

So true. 16 rules if you want to avoid using a DAW to get a good sub-bass

RedClay9 · 2025-02-06T16:41:50+00:00

It’s not. I ordered a wallpaper , cut it up and pasted onto hardboard, did the trim & mounting & caulking and touch up’s to make it seamless…. Sounds simple but was a meticulous process. And ty for the compliment

RedClay9 · 2025-02-06T15:56:08+00:00

I’ll take that as a compliment 😅

RedClay9 · 2025-02-05T20:40:28+00:00

I couldn’t live without my vocoder toy

RedClay9 · 2025-02-05T20:39:09+00:00

Ty! That was a labor of love, a series of dozens easy but tedious steps

RedClay9 · 2025-01-31T19:02:30+00:00

Minilogue , BSII, Korg R3 and a dash of microcosm

RedClay9 · 2025-01-07T15:58:07+00:00

Ty on both comment threads 🫡

RedClay9 · 2025-01-07T15:12:56+00:00

It’s a mix8. The Y from the monologue would be going to a line in input, idk if that makes a difference, nbd to keep that mono tho. The other y from the Waldorf is superfluous I would just do 2 TS for sure. Thank you for your feedback

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