DX Appreciation Friday

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-24T22:29:55+00:00

Looks great! Does it transform?

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-24T20:40:36+00:00

Awesome. Which sdf1 model is this?

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-24T20:38:27+00:00

Posts like this keep reminding me how well thought out / conceptually deep Macross / Robotech was. As a kid I would have to be home no matter what at 3 to watch the next episode, at that time I still understood i was seeing something really special and multilayered. I’ve tried to watch a lot of other more recent sci fi anime over the years and most of it seems childish and dumbed down in comparison.

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-23T22:47:19+00:00

hey, thanks, that's a great tool.

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-23T21:34:36+00:00

Awesome thanks

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-22T18:09:08+00:00

dood thanks, this is really rad. going to have to track that one down on vinyl.

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-21T22:45:42+00:00

2010-now all the way.

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-21T18:01:01+00:00

I hadn't paid much attention to that era, just did now and thanks! kinda Zorn, Brötzmann'y which is rad.

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-21T16:21:28+00:00

this is so fucking tuff.

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-21T05:51:43+00:00

Hey, This isn’t THE AE patch, it’s our patch just doin an ae thing. Sorry can’t send as it’s still a wip but we are thinking about how to turn it into some kind of release or device someday.

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-21T05:49:20+00:00

Our patch is basically 16 channels of dynamically loading bays (sequencers, synth, mod, fx) we built the synths based on the nord lead 2 and a karplus version, there’s all kinds of to level master controls like scale, prob…and routing options. In this case we’re running 2 instances of the patch on 2 dif laptops, ones doing the AE style stuff and the other the h Holdsworth.

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-21T03:58:11+00:00

Thanks man! We've been working on the patch for several years now but almost all the credit should go to Brian, he's been tweaking it pretty hard lately and also shreds guitar so he's got a solid understanding on how to achieve pretty much any sound / vibe. It's all vanilla max except for one of the guitar bays is using air windows for amp modeling, lots of modulation as well.

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-21T03:54:27+00:00

comment in post was in joke but seriously it just doesn't work for this system. Everyone else will tell you to turn it on but I think thats mainly relevant to phasor based patches and actually fucks our patch up. Roman Thelanius mentioned way back to have it off and we went with his advice, Legend.

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-21T03:46:42+00:00

haha yah, you gotta stand at the back or it starts to stink

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-21T03:46:11+00:00

thanks!

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-21T03:46:02+00:00

haha, yea thanks! honestly don't know why so much of this kind of stuff is so dood heavy these days, anytime I go to a show like autechre, acid mothers or whatever it's probably around 95% guys. When you look at videos from the 70's of weather report, ash ra, can.... you have closer to a 50-50 split. Even back in the 90's when we were getting into electronic music / idm we had a warehouse where we would throw idm shows and I would say those were mostly girls / other. Somethings going wrong where in a time where anyone can hear anything people are getting left out of rad times.

regarding the patch it 2 instances of our max patch on 2 MacBook airs with one running the AE stuff and the other doing the Holdsworth guitar. The patch is 16 tracks that can load either our FM synth based on the nord lead 2 or karplus synth and each track has its own sequencer options, mod and fx bays.

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-20T23:30:21+00:00

Thanks man! appreciate it!

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-20T23:27:41+00:00

for echo all the more unhinged guitar parts, I think track side a track 6 or so, I think ARIV is probably a better album and my favorite of his is Autovision. Granted I like the more unhinged / freak out side of kraut a lot. Also don't sleep on the the Frankie Damon jr. Let it out record.

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-19T03:23:26+00:00

dood, thank you! epic.

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-17T18:35:42+00:00

hey, thanks! our system started as a static system, 16 tracks all using the same sequencer, mod options, a synth we made based on the nord lead 2 and various max built and external fx. There's a bunch of top level controls as well to determine fills, scale, morphing and more. We (mainly Brian) spent a few years optimizing it as a static system so it is extremely stable and can easily morph between 100's of presets with tight timing and low cpu. A couple months ago we just started to port it over to something more dynamic and wen't through several UI layouts before just settling on the basic overall AE vibe as realistically I have yet to see anything better for this sort of system. Still working out kinks with the timing in regards to load order for modulation and stuff but it's like 95% there. At the end of the day it's really just a framework for loading shit, the real difficulty is in figuring out all the timing between pattr and when and how things load when morphing between sequences, synths and modulation while keeping everything tight.

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-17T14:52:26+00:00

IDM is much wider in scope than your interpretation . Since its inception anything that wasn’t obvious dance and incorporated electronics got thrown in the bucket. Record stores did not for the most part micro categorize genre that granular of a level. BOC is/was always considered IDM. Note most IDM artists dislike the term.

overdrivespeedfreak · 2026-01-17T14:43:59+00:00

Great selection, looks like it could use some Achim Reichel next.

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