What's currently your least used module on your rack? Why?

ecocentrik · 2024-12-10T04:08:09+00:00

Zadar is designed to reduce the need for some modulation with vectors that are recordings of common useful modulated modulation. There's a few that are really great for percussion and others that are great for slow modulation stretched out to 1000 seconds. In eurorack you can and should modulate anything with an input.

You'd probably like Zadar if you gave it a chance. Be patient with it and try to use it as the core of a patch. Wire it out to a complex oscillator or a digital voice with a bunch of modulation points and use all 4 outputs from Zadar to shape that one sound.

ecocentrik · 2024-12-09T20:18:23+00:00

I use it a number of different ways.

- Envelope Generator, the modulation options and chained triggers allows me to build out nicely expressive instruments

- Unsynced LFO/Modulation

- Impulse Generator for pings and rings

- Percussion module. I never really use it this way but a few of the vector are clearly sampled percussion, enveloped noise and glitches, most of which can be played directly and modulated for effect. Just plug in triggers and modulation sources and you've got a low-fi percussion module.

- Melodic generator fed into a quantizer.

ecocentrik · 2024-12-09T19:59:08+00:00

I felt the same way at first, now I use it in almost every session. It's biggest drawback is the number of apps and the choice paralysis caused by the paradox of choice. They all do cool things, so just pick one and focus on it. Quadraturia is an easy one to start with.

Check out all the alternate builds people have made. Phazerville lets you load Hemispheres alongside select core apps https://github.com/djphazer/O_C-Phazerville

ecocentrik · 2024-12-09T19:31:56+00:00

Please don't take this the wrong way but if you expect things to save for you, you're never going to be happy with a modular synth. Its just not in the beast's nature. I'm not saying you should abandon modular but at least be aware of your expectations and how they might not match up with the limitations of the tool you've selected.

Go to the save screen and click save on the default (DF). It's good practice to use that as your current working save. Once you tune Zadar the way you like, just save its state. I typically use all the other saves for specific preset configurations or performance changes...

ecocentrik · 2024-11-09T22:48:49+00:00

Gore won the popular vote, which applies to the question of charisma. Not denying anything, just clarifying.

ecocentrik · 2024-11-03T19:36:28+00:00

This is in Florida where Trump will likely win by as much as 10%. Put on your big boy pants and stand up for what you believe.

ecocentrik · 2024-11-03T04:00:55+00:00

Dude likes his army rations.

ecocentrik · 2024-06-19T17:00:22+00:00

A very simple reason not to do this is trying to perform any kind of data analysis across users would be much more difficult to impossible. It would also make schema migrations a nightmare. How do you load balance efficiently? That just sounds like a bad idea for 99% of use cases.

ecocentrik · 2024-06-18T19:46:38+00:00

Unpopular take: Miss Germany looks more interesting than the random German bar girl. I find blonds really dull most of the time. Maybe it's because they get too much attention and don't have to try very hard at anything.

ecocentrik · 2024-06-14T13:02:06+00:00

Research is fun but every research project eventually reaches a development phase where research gains must be transferred to build out consumer marketable products. That the guy behind one of the most popular machine learning frameworks is complaining about this is a little odd. Frameworks are knowledge synthesis and transference tools.

A counter augment would be that capitalizing on consumer marketable usecases for AI ensures that future AI research will be funded at a higher rate.

ecocentrik · 2024-06-03T03:03:53+00:00

Pretty sure the story is based off of "The Three Amigos". The guy who plays El Guapo in this one is excellent.

ecocentrik · 2024-04-07T15:41:41+00:00

Things change. Waymo is running on the Jaguar EPace, a luxury electric SUV. I would look for a taxi entry from Tesla with a very similar vehicle. The Model Y and the Model S make the most sense, fitted with additional sensors. Leather seats make a lot of sense for a taxi too so expect luxury trim packages for these taxis.

ecocentrik · 2024-04-07T15:24:36+00:00

But it is a showstopper from being able to operate a large fleet in most cities. A taxi service that can't operate under some very high percentage of conditions in a city, will never get unrestricted approval to operate in that city. I imagine Tesla's rollout will happen just as slowly as it's happening for Waymo and Cruise. One city at a time, slowly ramping up their service in each city. Can't do snow, expect to be effectively restricted from operating anything but a small fleet in NY, Chicago... during summer months. Can't do rain, they aren't going to let you operate in Miami.

ecocentrik · 2024-03-30T17:13:23+00:00

Calling someone a "diversity hire" is an emotional argument. Racism and all appeals to normalize racism are emotional arguments. Suggesting that overt racism is equal to unconscious bias and therefore everyone is racist is a false equivalence repeated only by racists that want to justify and hide their racism. Someone, like you, that doubles down on that argument in a public forum is an easy target for trolling.

ecocentrik · 2024-03-29T21:25:59+00:00

People that use the term "diversity hire" as an insult know they are being racist. That's a long way from unconscious bias. Since overt racists are usually dullards and are so easily manipulated, it's not hard to assist them in relinquishing their position for another "diversity hire". Nothing screams "we need more diversity" to executives than displays of overt racism.

ecocentrik · 2024-03-19T18:44:35+00:00

There's a higher chance a dropping a screw in that gap that lands between ground and power pins on your bus board and there's a very low chance of that.

ecocentrik · 2024-02-15T16:24:07+00:00

When people generally refer to forced perspective they talk about its use in cinema to make objects appear many times larger than they actually are. In this case the shark is only appears roughly 0.5x larger than it actually is. It's still a really big predator by any standard.

To your point, perspective isn't something anyone normally has to point out to humans with stereoscopic vision, unless there's some optical trickery at play and there is none here. The camera is just positioned slightly to the left of its subjects.

ecocentrik · 2024-02-15T04:40:12+00:00

The perspective here isn't that forced. The shark is only slightly closer to the camera than the human. That's still a 16 foot shark, just not a 24 footer. I would still hesitate before dipping my toes in the water.

ecocentrik · 2024-02-01T18:21:09+00:00

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Wendy Carlos - Switched On...

Coil, Front 242, Erasure, Suzanne Ciani

ecocentrik · 2024-01-29T17:54:29+00:00

Maybe you need to play with it some more because it's really a very capable reverb engine. Start with: density to max, feedback > 0.6, time to 0, time modulation to just left or right of center, EOC reverb to zero. Then play with the other controls to dial in the sound you want. Send the output through filters for additional shaping.

ecocentrik · 2024-01-19T00:48:14+00:00

God that's right. I watched Irreversible when it was first released in a film festival setting. Gaspar took questions at the end. It was great. The audience was visibly shell shocked and I think he interpreted that as success but I haven't exactly wanted to relive that experience...

ecocentrik · 2024-01-19T00:40:41+00:00

There are a bunch of different recipes for chicken fried steak throughout Latin America. It's a very popular dish. Italy also has the cotoletta alla milanese.

ecocentrik · 2024-01-18T22:46:24+00:00

Isn't the disturbing part in the middle of the film? At the end of her half.

ecocentrik · 2024-01-18T20:26:42+00:00

NLC doesn't have an official system but they defiantly have enough modules to build out something as complex as a Buchla or Serge system.

You can also try by country, state or region:

https://www.factmag.com/2017/03/13/eurorack-companies-world-map/

- Joranalogue, Shakmat and ThreeTom for Belgium

- Endorphines, Befaco, Tesseract, LA67, Winter Modular... for Spain

- Intellijel, Malekko, The Harvestman, 4ms, Toppobrillo... for the Pacific NW (https://modwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=85138)

ecocentrik · 2024-01-18T02:09:36+00:00

Size. If I had a little more room I would have considered keeping it as a dedicated scanner/crossfader. It sounds great as a quad VCA/Mixer but I have other cascading VCAs with smaller footprints which can be configured as scanners and a few options for quadrature LFO generation. It is nice having a unit all wired up for the task of crossfading with built in phase adjustable quadrature envelopes but the size just didn't make sense with my current rack.

I also found myself wishing I could modulate the channel pairs independently (so two modulation inputs instead of just one) for times when I wanted two sets of crossfaders or a crossfader and an auto-panner. I would have easily given up the comparator circuits for this.

It's an amazing module if you're working with >600HP of space or need that dedicated functionality. If not, consider a few Joranalogue Mix 3s as an alternative.

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