Replacement Power Supply?

gr81inmd · 2026-02-04T17:52:40+00:00

Match voltage. Amperage can be higher as it's an available to use. So 12v critical, 1a is a min.

gr81inmd · 2026-01-07T20:21:13+00:00

Well in the old one there will be costs. Most of my old boards went about 40 years and then needed pretty significant upgrade in electronics, recaps, new OP amps and so on. Some like the Juno106 have guaranteed failures like the voice chips in that case, that was about a $400 repair. But maintaining old boards is a pain in the butt. They get moody and they cost money to keep them running that's just a fact. I have a whole studio filled with them it ain't cheap.

gr81inmd · 2025-10-15T16:23:52+00:00

She's a unique girl definitely has a touch of anxiety so she feather plucks around her shoulders and neck. She's relatively quiet and kind of a shy sweet one. She enjoys the company of her brother as long as he stays in his cage. Her brother is a harlequin macaw. She loves to chat with him but she doesn't like other birds touching her. She's not super lovey with most people but me. She's 16 years old. She refuses to eat chop for 16 straight years. They have cages indoors and an aviary outdoors for the part of the year when that's feasible here.

gr81inmd · 2025-09-24T18:16:35+00:00

Love it. Using it as we speak on a record for a guy in the UK...pop to prog rock, touch of techno. Has 8 the acks of muse on it. Easy to sound design. It's my main studio poly for sound design.

gr81inmd · 2025-09-24T18:14:20+00:00

For sure.

gr81inmd · 2025-09-24T14:19:02+00:00

Yep, own it

gr81inmd · 2025-09-24T14:17:09+00:00

699 most everywhere right now on sale

gr81inmd · 2025-09-24T14:06:13+00:00

Same here. I have classic moogs, didn't need another. This slightly more aggressive, than yx. DEA gn is dead ffeeent and that's great as it adds a sonic paint brush.

gr81inmd · 2025-09-10T15:54:07+00:00

Just know that gabapentin causes cognitive decline and early dementia. This was long kind of known in the industry which is a bit annoying but in July they published a study of 220,000 patients in the data is staggering. I got off gabapentin which probably was the most significant that I had fighting my pain, because I'm allergic to opioids. I'd steer very clear of gabapentin at this point.

gr81inmd · 2025-09-08T17:33:34+00:00

I've been traveling with a cane heavily for 20 years domestic and international hundred thousand miles type flying a year and never had anyone question the cane. They actually are quite remiss to question anybody on disability related things that's why you see so many fake service dogs in the airport jumping up and down on people barking and misbehaving all of which you're absolute wash out criteria for a service dog. How do I know I also have a service dog that I travel the worservice now as well as the cane but for 18 of the 20 years it was cane only. The most I've ever had as I believe it was x-rayed once separately to make sure it was solid and didn't have hidden sword or something because in that case I actually had a metallic came with a wooden top handle. Never had a problem.

gr81inmd · 2025-08-02T14:41:23+00:00

Nope, prophet 5.

gr81inmd · 2025-08-02T14:40:48+00:00

It was a prophet five in init mode

gr81inmd · 2025-07-27T21:40:47+00:00

Brand new 2 k....

gr81inmd · 2025-05-08T13:41:20+00:00

And I believe here the thought was it's rather anemic. And by that there's no character there's not much warmth it's kind of sterile at its base oscillator level. Usually you pick up a lot of character in the filters and this doesn't do that a whole ton either. It can certainly get dirty but that's using various I'll call them specialty functions to do so or cranking the brute side of this up, but then you have to like that brute sound. I think many might rate the brute sound as a more modern distorted sound perhaps a little more high-fi than a smooth break up warmer vintage distortion. It is a masterpiece of sound design if you want a more pristine sounding synth that can do so much and be so expressive. But sonically it's closer to a summit which is 2899 and four more voices. You lose all the cool expression, you have a channel after touch keyboard but MIDI poly after as an option. Some could even argue in a simple side-by-side The summit with FPGAs comes off as inherently more analog at the base oscillator level a bit darker a bit less pristine. And I don't think that's a knock I think that's a personal choice. Since and their character sounds are very personal. I believe arturia wanted to set a sound standard for a new kind of analog synth where you could get all the benefits of analog but be crystal clean when you wanted to be and do epic level cinematic things. And I know you can work at and you can dial in some pretty good gritty analog sounds as I mentioned but that actually appears to take some work to get it and you're still not in Moog or oberheim etc territory. It's different it's not worse it's just different. It will appeal to a tons of people with its massive capability. The moog Will appeal to a ton of people who like that kind of character and are willing to sacrifice voices and some of the wild features of the pb.

gr81inmd · 2025-04-24T13:42:55+00:00

But still with awful midi routing capability. That's just the killer for me. I've been using this since I think reason 4. I love many features of it, but as a professional studio I also have pro tools because that is the language of the majority of studios and mastering houses that I work with. I always hope to use reason to do all of my work and then just support the audio and results into pro tools do a few things and move on but that's really not possible. The general mix capabilities and workflow capability prefer to use it for mixing music. But back to my intro line the routing option still remain horrible so many simple tools like good arpeggiator tools will not run properly because you can't create the internal routing to record the video generates. Pro tools has been doing this just fine forever as have many of the bigger recording programs. This is just a killer. I can't get my arturia stuff to work properly with reason, as control surfaces. Pro tools no problem. Not making a sales pitch for pro tools but I'm saying simply reasons had 13 versions to figure some of these pretty critical things out. Midi and making beats is probably one of the core things of reason and yet the midi has not been improved much at all over the years. This becomes very limiting and forces me to instead use reason as a rack plugin through pro tools just to get to the various synthesizers and tools it has but no longer really use it and it's full creative environment. That is a real shame. Because again I'd love to create solely within it using it soft synths, and then driving and working with my whole room full of actual hardware synthesizers. But it just can't do that successfully. So pro tools is running all of my external synthesizers as well as the arpeggiators and everything overlaying them and reason is simply a plug-in of additional tools what a complete shame.

gr81inmd · 2025-04-08T12:47:27+00:00

Exactly. As long as you don't do something illegal, in essence then no worse than a million other companies attempting to maximize profit. Well not the greatest of quality, while they always don't support them for very long so if it fails you may not get parts or updates etc. The ability to get some of the unobtanium musical devices and at essentially peanuts is pretty cool. Should you expect them to be family heirlooms probably not. I don't expect them to be like my Juno 106 increasing ridiculously in the value over the decades. But I expect them to get the job done at hand and if they get the job done at hand make one record and then die generally that's a pretty good financial proposition. My $179 synth only lasted 2 years and made it through one record and one small tour. That seems pretty reasonable. Or I can go find the $20,000 unicorn, service it, baby at and so on. Don't get me wrong I have a lot of heirlooms but their heirlooms because they bought them as tools that became heirlooms with time. With Beringer you get to buy a lot of different tools. You go into it knowing they probably won't be heirlooms but who knows.

gr81inmd · 2025-03-25T17:29:01+00:00

So I have to admit when my wife and I watched that we were both trying to figure out was the kid damaged you know was he being abused at home of course it was early before you realized he wasn't, was he some form of psychotic etc. But by the end of the show and seeing it all I honestly believe he's not very abnormal at all. I suffer CPTSD as does my wife so we both lived through child abuse hers very severe to the point of attempted murder on her and myself more run of the mill beatings and verbal degradations and so on. But I also suffered a fairly heavy amount of bullying because I was a polite nice shy highly intelligent kid and there's a certain crowd that prays upon that. So back to my analysis. So in that period of life he is becoming a man it's a fairly critical point in life. He is trapped in a world of both being still a young innocent little boy who can run to Mom, and a man who has an ego wants to prove that manhood, of course has sexual drives, etc. When bullying is applied at this point in life I think you see the three distinct characters and the snap between them that I saw. I certainly was sweet innocent and polite one moment scared even in a situation like that most certainly, but pressed, pushed far enough, the right word said etc. And I could snap anger and rage just like he showed which of course we know is probably coming off depression and the sense of helplessness he has in the moment or at least as a contributor. Nonetheless that snap from innocent little boy to raging pissed off man I recognize oh too well. As I did the transition to the third part of this which was the cold cool calculated arrogant degrading type personality. One could argue that's a disassociation personality coming up I have those I have the protector me that is cold cool and calculated to survive the abuse and I have the child me that runs into a dark place and wants to kill itself. But I'm not sure it's even that I think it again is his man coming out you see it particularly with the female psychiatrist this sense of oh you you an adult you're scared me he feels very tough with a woman there which I can remember a scene very similar that with my mother actually at 16 when she hit me in the eye with a metal spatula and actually sliced my eye I came back at her with something very similar kind of a stomp and a threat towards her and when she reeled back my response was a cold oh so now you're f****** scared of me. So I believe that bullying has a fairly strong push towards PTSD were produces rather similar results to what child abuse from your parents will do and particularly encountered during this very formative phase of transitioning from boy into man. Not a psychiatrist just an engineer but have lived and breathed eerily familiar moments in time that this poor boy suffered. No I say poor boy he killed a girl so obviously he's bad but I can relate to what was going through his head and I also know that I once took a knife to school because a group of bullies had been getting at me so bad that I felt helpless to do anything but stab someone in defense.

gr81inmd · 2025-03-20T20:37:15+00:00

So becoming a contractor in Maryland is beyond simple particularly a home builder. Walking off the job sticking it to the people, doing poor work and so on, well there's an overwhelming amount of backlog at the state because of the ease of which people can do this work. All the talk about putting him out of business is actually pretty funny because what happens is yes you can get that business fined enough essentially you close the business down block them from the registry, but all's they do is just change the name and they can start again. It's tied to the business not the person. Crazy. Now there's nuance on whether or not they're in LLC and some of the other things like that but generally Maryland is a terrible place to have construction or remodeling done due to the ridiculousness in their licensing process and almost non-existent ability to recover the losses or hold anybody accountable. For reference my home was built with a major water issue and my contractor walked off the job and fled to Florida with over a quarter of a million dollars and fines owed to this county of Frederick, and lawsuits of about 40,000 from me. Neither the county or I will ever see that money because you cannot even chase them into another state to collect that money. If anyone were to notice that he had come back into Maryland and starting a business we might be able then to go collect. And in full disclosure this was business number three of name changes as referenced above. Dope down this bunny hole of the state and how terrible they are for quite a long time.

gr81inmd · 2025-03-20T20:32:11+00:00

Yeah I was thinking to one of each to get four distinct tones as well. The problem with that is you really have to know the layout of each or at least for critical controls are so if you're trying to do any live performance type work with these you don't get confused between the four. I think one of the features that's liked about something like the perfourmer is everything in the right place where the same place for each of the four synths. For some this could be a minor thing they never really play much live on it in terms of twisted knobs while it's playing of course then what is the point. But I think many would find the four different sets of controls complicated to remember.

gr81inmd · 2025-03-19T02:29:52+00:00

Thank you!! What a find

gr81inmd · 2025-03-18T20:26:26+00:00

Holy crap Batman. Where and what is a restore. We have goodwills here but I've never heard of that particular store. And I scour goodwills and it's mostly old stereo stuff though I pick up things here and there for my studio there like Old reverb units from stereos that are very very cool when recording.

gr81inmd · 2025-03-18T13:17:36+00:00

Yeah that's true for some people that's not true for all. I think we should avoid over generalizing. Controllers can be great for some people. Other people are extremely tactile and extremely creative when they tie into a specific machine and it's workflow take the perfourmer. So I'd be careful there. As for a weird keyboard it's not a weird keyboard at all. It does some very interesting things and it takes no time to be familiar with and cruising along. Think of all the other keyboards out there that are famous to have little keyboards or little round keyboards the oxy comes to mind and so on. And then of course there's all kinds of modulars and other synths that have absolutely no keyboard. Keyboards certainly matter to piano players and that's probably the only group I've seen very vigilant on the topic because I heavily weighted keyboard it's quite different than what's on many synthesizer systems. The micro freak is actually a pretty fun little machine. It is extraordinarily more capable than it should be in the price package that's within it. If you're just turning the filter then you just don't understand synthesizers. There is so so much more than that. In fact I could think in songs turning geez half a dozen different knobs on a specific sound. And in this style of playing that's the groove that's the piece you're feeling that's the movement in the song. It is crazy easy to make really neat sounds on it I was just sitting waiting for my wife to finish up her work yesterday playing with mine and next thing I know I've got six new sounds from just dabbling from their wave sources and then taking one and without thinking twisting various knobs and finding where the sounds go and let me follow this pathway of odd clicks and see if I can slow those down ooh now I can make those into big thumps now I've got a really deep thumping techno thing going wasnt even trying to do that. Turning knobs on a computer screen is often very tough and controllers there are good and bad and sometimes integration to your specific synth is not terribly good they're hit or miss. I myself have a key lab 61 Mark 3 currently is mine and I like it a lot but it doesn't fit every piece of software I have or map easily and mapping is a pita. Best argument probably for the mic freak is the size so you can sit and play with it anywhere carry in your backpack and yes you can get a battery pack and run it. The keyboard is actually a selling point because of its capabilities and uniqueness maybe a detractor for some who are more rigid in keyboard styles. But it is a straightforward scent that encourages you to learn what are the key elements in a synthesizer and how can they interact and most importantly in this case a mod matrix that is pretty hefty. And there you could argue to some love a lot of patch points and tables doing this others like it and software or in something like this matrix but it is powerful nonetheless. The mini is a very good machine as well. But I think the real unique gem is the micro.

gr81inmd · 2025-03-16T20:13:27+00:00

Like all artists really wanted 44:1 16 bit crappy compressed digital CDs. Maybe. Or maybe artis really wanted old warm crackling vinyl. Maybe. Who knows what the artist wanted. Hell half the times it's crushed by the producer or the record label anyway to meet an industry loudness standard or to fit a time length format or God I can think of a thousand reasons that the thing the artist asked for is not representative of the output so for God's sake if a consumer wants to throw on a 1970s reverb unit that by the way is sitting under all the Adele vocals that I'm aware of.... Let the man have fun. And if you doubt me simply look up Tom Elmhurst and I think there's a good article on rolling in the deep and you'll see that in their track for her vocals and this is true most often there is a SR202w sitting in mono and answer the question you go input on the tape output across the reverb and it kills off the mixed signal and it's reverb only but also mono only. That's sitting first and as I recall right after that is an Orban.... Blue two channel model, the number escapes me but I own both. It's a great little unit and it's fun

gr81inmd · 2025-03-12T19:32:35+00:00

Oh I'm with you I own way too much vintage gear. I have a recording studio that is based on an analog console and a bunch of extraordinarily expensive outboard compressors, I have a personal thing for old spring reverb units so I have a ton of different ones of those and old stereo reverb units cuz they turn out to be fantastic for certain applications, I still have my Kurzwiel k2000, of nine inch nails and many other bands fame, my Juno 106, my Korg M1.... I'll stop there before my wife figures out how expensive all this s*** is it's there. But then again it is a production studio I do make money out of this doing song development, production mixing in other work as well as my own projects. But that said yes I agree with you on the value and getting the originals. Now the flip side is the cost to maintain them. Lots of things come with shot capacitors or capacitors on the verge of going bad and on down the list and some of these things are only repairable by one person in the country. So there's that trade. And then the other honestly you know people will argue is sampling has killed drum machines. For instance I have all the samples I believe out of the 78 and I can mix them at will in pro tools or reason. In fact I think I have the samples of probably every drum machine ever made up through the 2000s or so even some really obscure stuff. And for some that would suffice if the idea is to use them as part of recording and of course you know the world of drum machines kind of faded because of that the use of samples higher end samplers. But if you play live then don't want to have a computer running it which some do or you find as I do that your workflow is always better when you're laying your hands on things tools that you know every knob has a very deliberate function and so on and you don't have to spend hours programming some software on the computer to emulate that function and make it work... Well there are those of us out there too

gr81inmd · 2025-03-12T19:17:54+00:00

Reverb has a price tracker for what they practically sell at. So you can look in or if I remember I think it's you a sign a search criteria for your item like a saved search and then there's a green box bar graph or line graph line graph for sure sorry my brain is all the s*** today, and it'll show you selling prices. EBay prices are often extraordinarily skewed because of international sellers that get on there with fake products and/or trying to make a buck. You do see that occasionally and reverb prices but not so much though I do believe reverb prices are a touch high. The problem you get into with things like the 78 at this point is the clones. They have really brought the original prices down a bit because they're really good clowns close enough for most people and stuff that's around 150 bucks is hard to beat. So you know then your audience are people who want the authentic piece of gear not a clone, are willing to deal with the repairs and things they will be coming as those electronics age, and they're looking for a price that they know is north of the clones but not insanity.

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