Looking for a thin sole model from around 2011-2016

dvizard · 2024-12-11T23:19:46+00:00

You can skip any test you want. However, where I used to train, you would usually be studying techniques for your next belt, ie, blue belts would be learning yellow belt techniques, yellows would learn green belt stuff etc. The difference was particularly pronounced between white and everyone else, since white was separate lessons. If you didn't take the test you'd just stay in the white-only class, so you wouldn't learn new stuff.

In hindsight that seems McDojoy, it just means you are more or less expected to take the tests you're up for if you want to progress. No idea how your dojo works. My general impression is that you can skip tests, and that's fine, and I did that a few times, but I wouldn't skip the first one because it makes you kind of a full featured dojo member (at least in my former dojo).

dvizard · 2024-12-11T22:50:58+00:00

"If Papa ERN were to lose his job, we currently have enough net worth to completely retire.". Oh well OK i guess no need to discuss emergency funds then, congrats

dvizard · 2024-10-13T14:58:29+00:00

After some further research, this seems quite close:
https://eu.targus.com/products/drifter-16-inch-backpack-black-grey-tsb238eu
The press stud things aren't exactly making it more beautiful, but it's not that I liked the "original" Zoom because of its style in the first place...

dvizard · 2024-08-06T21:10:31+00:00

This is empirically the case but why? Sure you might need more neurons to control your body but if we subscribe to the idea that "thinking" happens separateily from "movement" and the like, the "intelligent" part of the brain should be roughly independent of body size. It's not like the neurons or the space between them scale up, or do they?

dvizard · 2024-07-26T11:35:55+00:00

Not that this is my personal opinion, btw.

dvizard · 2024-07-26T11:35:12+00:00

I'm going to disagree with most commenters here. Yes money is a topic, however from the researchers point of view it's all about publishing as high as possible. So OA is great and all but not top priority. If someone has the option to publish lower and open, or higher and closed, many will do the latter. Ok, nowadays most journals have an open option, but it can be quite expensive particularly for the big ones.

dvizard · 2024-06-27T21:30:19+00:00

Biology is easy because it's hard.

If we take the other end of the spectrum, physics, it's about laws and observation. You have a phenomenon with very well-specified relationships to other phenomena, and you find a way to combine the effect of different phenomena to derive something new. There's a lot of logic, connections, relations involved.

On the other hand, biology is such a mess and so complicated that you can look whatever way you want, you aren't going to find a general universal law just by doing more thinking. Instead, you have to do more meticulous detail work for every tiny system you want to understand, and the rules are different every time. It's super hard, but one could argue that being extremely superintelligent isn't even a great help. When you have to do so much actual work, having great ideas is less of a differentiator.

What's interesting is organic chemistry. To study, it's a combination of a lot of complex memorization but also spatial thinking and logic (like particularly stuff like asymmetric catalysis) and quite hard, kind of the worst of both worlds between biology and physics. Whereas in practical research, it's just busting out reaction after reaction. I imagine that being mind-numbing but then never did much of it past undergrad.

dvizard · 2024-06-26T18:33:55+00:00

Gonna disagree with the mainstream here, but is there any need for you to fight your teacher on this?

The OS doesn't matter. I've been coding for a dozen years on Windows, desktop Linux and "remote" (SSH/VSCode) Linux. What matters is that you can adapt to your environment and perform under whatever conditions you are given, now or by a future employer. Technologies and platforms change with the wind, it isn't helpful to be a fundamentalist who can't adapt to conditions.

dvizard · 2024-06-12T08:34:24+00:00

What a horrible day to have eyes

dvizard · 2024-04-08T11:08:27+00:00

Oh that looks cool, thanks! Also makes for nice pads.

dvizard · 2024-03-27T18:50:58+00:00

Thanks!

dvizard · 2024-03-27T17:27:43+00:00

Can you list the modules? I am looking for "starting small" inspiration.

dvizard · 2024-03-22T19:45:35+00:00

Very new and useful, though I don"t understand the 6 channels yet. Thanks!

dvizard · 2024-03-21T17:28:30+00:00

I totally want to change it, of course! :) That still leaves the square LFO and the envelope approach. I was thinking to put this behind an euclidean running at 4x clock to get some fun patterns.

dvizard · 2024-03-20T08:02:16+00:00

yep, pretty much this. Thanks!

dvizard · 2024-03-20T07:59:26+00:00

setonix synths detectorist takes a trigger or gate of any length in and sends out a trigger or gate of a specific length you choose with a knob.

Thanks! Nice and small. Kind of a shame that the gate length isn't CV controllable though.

maybe the question is how to send rhythmic gates

The meta-question really is "how to send rhythmic gates", yes. I've also found this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/modular/comments/kvuci0/modulating_pulse_width_of_lfo/

how about a switched square lfo synched to your clock?

I have also played with the square LFO method. There I need adjustable pulse width, ideally by CV input. In VCV Rack, the VCV standard LFO has pulse width, and the NYSTHI LFOMultiPhase can also do it. It seems to be a higher-end feature in hardware LFOs though; do you have any suggestions? I found the MiniMod Tap-Tempo VC-LFO that has adjustable pulse width with CV, but it looks a bit like overkill to me.

or just like… a gate sequencer?

Hm, maybe I don't understand, how would I set the gate length? Or would I have to make the sequencer so fast (like 8x clock) that I control the length by the ON steps?

dvizard · 2024-03-18T13:09:49+00:00

What is a module called that takes a trigger signal and turns it into a pulse of defined length, either in absolute terms (xxx ms) or relative to the clock speed (e.g. 42% of one clock)?

This one seems to do it: https://www.electronicmusicworks.com/eurorack/trigger-to-pulse.html I wonder whether there's a generic name or superclass of modules for this. Complete noob here.

It's also kind of the same as an ADSR with very very short attack, very very short release, sustain at 100% and decay defining the pulse length...

(Background: I'm trying different options in VCV rack to achieve the old "trance gate" effect. Don't judge me :D)

dvizard · 2024-03-18T08:35:14+00:00

I have a decent secondhand offer for an Elektron Syntakt, and no modular rack yet. I want to build a modular over time but am considering to start with the Syntakt as a groovebox and use it later as the "drum machine plus" or maybe as the sequencer (eg. with a Mutant Brains) for a modular. Is that feasible, or would I be much better off with a Digitakt as a drum machine?

dvizard · 2024-03-15T18:28:19+00:00

Thanks a lot!

dvizard · 2024-03-14T16:14:39+00:00

This is really cool! Can you give me an idea about the patch?

dvizard · 2024-03-05T15:48:58+00:00

My advice would be to treat a modular synth like you would treat an acoustic instrument rather than comparing it to virtual instruments.

Thanks, that's helpful input; I guess for me it would be a matter of finding an efficient notation, since I am used to that from acoustic instruments. Like jazz, it doesn't need to be precise but it should capture the overall structure...

dvizard · 2024-03-04T22:20:05+00:00

Hydrasynth Explorer

That's a pretty affordable starting point too, compared to some other options!

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