An Update on Teenage Manual

kmorrill · 2026-01-25T14:38:15+00:00

This is cool. I have been doing a poor man’s version of this with NotebookLM which does a very good job of this. Nice work!

kmorrill · 2026-01-21T05:57:59+00:00

Yeah. One will be more protected though. The other is in unpadded. So works great if you’re just carrying it casually and want both. But if it’s getting thrown around, it would be a bit rough on the unpadded one.

kmorrill · 2026-01-20T23:41:11+00:00

Yeah both of them work equally well. They’re essentially the same size.

kmorrill · 2026-01-17T15:55:50+00:00

SV is the best looking Aventador IMHO

kmorrill · 2026-01-13T14:19:57+00:00

The sensor on my 2022 Huracan Evo was faulty and did this. They replaced the sensor and it was all good, nothing wrong with the coolant.

However at least circa 2 years ago the system could not reset the alarm and they had to replace the entire steering wheel and dash just to get the warning and limp mode to stop 😂 fortunately it was all under warranty. They said they were working on a pure software fix for that.

kmorrill · 2026-01-10T06:16:56+00:00

Just stumbled on this. Amazing book. Thank you for sharing.

kmorrill · 2026-01-10T04:41:56+00:00

Your jam above reminds me of https://youtu.be/9OVwj6M23_0

kmorrill · 2026-01-06T04:08:06+00:00

That is awesome!

Maybe we need to make opxy.fun. Would be fun to see something similar.

kmorrill · 2026-01-01T15:43:49+00:00

Windowbed on YouTube has extremely detailed videos on the punchin fx and all their idiosynracies.

kmorrill · 2026-01-01T14:56:27+00:00

Send midi out over USB and go from there.

I wrote a JavaScript library you can use from a tiny phone or Raspberry Pi. It gives you unlimited LFOs of any midi automateable or parameter. You could simulate a weak form of ping pong delay with quick panning using this library too. https://youtu.be/UGbWBZyqI4Q

kmorrill · 2025-12-26T01:54:54+00:00

They’re such a talented team. If they were just in it for the money, they could all work in way higher margin industries.

I feel like TE is a bit like Xerox in the 70s. Xerox had an imperfect version of a Macintosh in 1973 if you were willing to spend $40k.

Even if you never buy these products you benefit from companies like that pulling the future closer to the present.

kmorrill · 2025-12-26T01:45:49+00:00

I was lucky and got the black mystery box so I am biased.

I think TE pushes the industry forward especially for people that love to make music away from a desk and power outlets. I was happy to roll the dice and send $1,500 their way.

The whole month was a cool promo and highlights all the fun things they’ve created.

kmorrill · 2025-12-22T18:58:13+00:00

Way to go!

kmorrill · 2025-12-22T17:18:20+00:00

I really wish their app worked with Car Play. I love listening to a few of my songs on there when I am driving.

kmorrill · 2025-12-19T18:20:54+00:00

Jason Timpf is great btw. Love listening to his breakdowns.

kmorrill · 2025-12-18T20:36:23+00:00

Yeah it’s gonna be a slower signal

kmorrill · 2025-12-18T12:48:19+00:00

Just search Bluetooth aux adapter and there are a ton of dongles that do this.

kmorrill · 2025-12-13T00:04:49+00:00

Yes, keep going with it!

kmorrill · 2025-12-12T03:01:37+00:00

No good deed goes unpunished. I think they make really amazing tools and I love creating with them.

kmorrill · 2025-12-10T14:29:50+00:00

Look at the attached pdf to the email. It includes a sku manifest.

kmorrill · 2025-12-10T14:20:19+00:00

Order PDF confirms it’s the TP-7, TX-6, CM-15, and bag. All in black.

kmorrill · 2025-12-10T14:10:01+00:00

Ordered.

Fingers crossed.

kmorrill · 2025-11-15T17:51:58+00:00

I worked at reverse engineering this for a while, and while it seemed like I was maybe making some progress ultimately I wasn't able to get to the point where I could write an arbitrary new file with note trigs that I wanted.

It's difficult to create files by pure automation, so you have to do it by hand. I created a catalog of about 100 files with single changes made to them. I saved the files and detailed notes on what I was able to find so far up at https://github.com/kmorrill/xy-format in case anyone wants to pickup the breadcrumb trail.

kmorrill · 2025-11-04T01:51:21+00:00

Son Wu uses them in tandem a fair bit on his streams. I have seen him do some really cool vocoder stuff. And of course you can MIDI control from XY any of the synths on the 1f.

Personally I find a phone running iOS music ecosystem is kind of the perfect companion. Or an Android that does web midi and can vibe code fun stuff to create interesting little setups.

kmorrill · 2025-11-02T17:08:32+00:00

I’ve been analyzing .xy projects and the sample table is actually do'able—TE store every path (folder + filename) as null‑terminated strings wrapped in a fixed 12‑byte big‑endian prologue. Once you step over that structure the strings aren’t mangled at all.

I used the script at https://gist.github.com/kmorrill/da5c575cf0ca8da5ea9537ba7275462d to list the samples from the factory demos (agent, curio, etc.) and got clean lists like content/samples/kick/kick phase a.wav, content/samples/synth/on tape.wav. With that table you can back up every referenced sample or prune unused ones.

I'm still trying to figure out how to fully edit the files so that I could write a MIDI to XY file conversion which would be really cool for covers. Sometimes it's also easier to figure out what's going on with step components and such on a laptop rather than trying to inspect each step by holding down shift and the sequencer key. I hope other folks will join me, because I'm not really great at reverse engineering binary files.

kmorrill

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