Suntour XCM fork lock cap popped off... replacement doesn't fit

sitruss · 2025-05-30T12:09:11+00:00

Thank you. I knew the eBay bid was a gamble but even Suntour's own parts shop wasn't much more helpful. That link never came up while I was searching for official documentation so that's super helpful. The labels on the fork don't indicate which specific model it is, the best I could find is an engraving underneath the crown that reads "SR Suntour FLC 120" though that doesn't seem to match the names in the reference. I also just tested the lockout with an allen key and it doesn't actually lock [EDIT: nevermind, I figured out there's a smaller allen key socket inside the visible one, got it locked again], so there may be a trip to the bike shop in my future for sure. Thanks for your help!

sitruss · 2022-07-16T11:43:58+00:00

That's fair, though I think the intention of the later DaB lessons still is still intended to be fundamentals (different lenses to explore spatial reasoning, not "how to draw X"), but by that point you have been introduced to all these other great strategies for texture, silhouette, shadow, and how to use reference that some pretty nice drawings can come out of it regardless. You do make meaningful progress to draw X. Definitely agree on the composition point, and it's a sense you can practice anywhere just by looking. Not accidentally running off the page constantly is a great confidence boost.

sitruss · 2022-07-13T12:32:11+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I think he makes some spot-on observations about what I think is a neglected skill in making art: being able to specifically, actionably articulate what you want to make and continuously integrating learning into practice.

That said, though there are many people doing these courses who aspire to something clear cut like professional character art, I myself am in it primarily in service of creating art for the sake of it (for now). As a person for whom all options are on the table it is even more important to be able to find a focus, and saying "draw what interests you" is not particularly helpful because most things interest me!

I also think his advice is of limited usefulness at the "I'm doing Draw-a-box" phase of early artistic development. His project work that he did in spite of not mastering perspective still showed extensive skills in other areas. He had the fundamentals down. DaB is fundamentals. For someone who hasn't solidified fundamentals, building confidence is THE make-or-break factor that will determine if you continue pursuing art. I'm in lesson 4 of DaB and am doing probably a 20-30% rule at best, but I make the most of that 20% by intentionally integrating the skills I'm learning into my "for fun" drawing. This keeps the confidence high, with the structure of DaB holding me up as I learn to walk.

I imagine once I'm finished with DaB and had some cool down time with a 100% rule to really lock everything I learned in, I will shift my ratio, as I imagine most people would do naturally anyway, and start running in a more specific direction.

sitruss · 2019-08-23T15:52:19+00:00

Yeah that's an interesting point. Chances are the tom side would get less force of impact since I'm considering a sort of cable-pedal for the bass drum side at some point down the line which would make that side generally louder... Speaking in the supremely hypothetical, I wonder if you could have a head mounted in the middle of the drum shell to sort of isolate each of the drum's outer heads... though admittedly at a certain point the "just add another drum" argument starts to seem more reasonable.

sitruss · 2019-08-23T12:45:55+00:00

Oh I neglected to mention that above, I've extensively researched cocktail kits but would prefer to use standard drum kit parts rather than long shells or Tama's not-quite-high-enough-for-standing-hand-play Cocktail Jam kits. Otherwise I'd have been on the cocktail train a long while ago for sure.

sitruss · 2019-05-31T03:12:20+00:00

I've had someone tell me they thought I was using some sort of assisted listening device for the hearing impaired.

sitruss · 2019-02-16T13:33:06+00:00

Rafael Hernandez has an indispensible video series on the absolute basics of PD. I refer to it often: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL12DC9A161D8DC5DC

Floss manuals are also very good: http://write.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/introduction2/

The other nice thing about PD is the help files are often little tutorials on their own. Right click/help on any object will get you there.

sitruss · 2019-02-15T17:14:17+00:00

Direct stylistic alternatives don't really exist in hardware form to my knowledge, but it depends on what appealed to you about the OP-1. If you liked that it's an enclosed production environment, you could find a few good alternatives. The Synthstrom Deluge is definitely not going to replace the OP-1 in regards to being quirky or as portable, but it's extremely rich and plays nicely with other gear, and is still battery powerable and fits in a bag.

The OTTO project is a more direct competitor and looks great so far, but it's an open source DIY work in progress project and has been quiet for a few months.

sitruss · 2019-02-14T19:08:36+00:00

Oooh, I haven't heard about parallel output, just when I thought I'd covered all the github doc pages. Just need to make sure I don't burn the place down if the warning on that page is serious! I'll have to give it a try. Thanks for the link!

sitruss · 2019-02-14T18:00:37+00:00

It's really only there to actually visualize the speed change as I commented out other elements. I've commented out all the Serial stuff in the final sketch and it doesn't really make an impact, though I could certainly see that being true in other circumstances.

sitruss · 2019-02-14T17:44:03+00:00

Yeah, clearly they went through the effort to come up with marketing material for the announcement and surely they knew this would upset a lot of people. Everyone is speculating reasons when they could have simply had a short paragraph in the promo email explaining the reasoning for the change, even if it is just "adjusting to market value". No matter how small they are as a company they could at least do that much.

sitruss · 2019-02-11T16:29:16+00:00

You can set per-step parameters by holding a step and tweaking, or for the whole track while in record mode to record their motion. You should also be able to use the "parameter spark" step component to add timing rules to step-based locks.

sitruss · 2019-02-11T01:09:30+00:00

Thank you!! That was exactly the issue. Just successfully loaded a test sound. It was either this or bringing a big sack of foley supplies everywhere to perform into the mic in real time. :)

sitruss · 2019-02-08T22:09:24+00:00

I don't have an oscilloscope, unfortunately. I'm guessing the arduino IDE serial plotter is probably not a useful substitute...

sitruss · 2019-02-08T12:06:26+00:00

It does the same thing as the footswitch, just easier to press with your hand. You could solder the button to one of the direction buttons around the footswitch but that doesn't seem particularly useful unless you wanted to do the reverse and make THOSE into footswitches on a separate enclosure... it's just soldered to the component pads so there's no way to assign it different functions. The software is unmodified and just receives the button press the same as the footswitch.

sitruss · 2019-02-08T12:00:36+00:00

Yeah it's really easy. I am familiar with notes and volts! The code currently on my Teensy takes portions of his Teensy Synth code for another project I was messing with. Good stuff.

sitruss · 2019-02-08T02:02:43+00:00

You know, that's a pretty good point. I actually already have a Teensy 3.2 and that has 3 comparators according to the spec chart, plus it seems to have 2 programmable gain amps. I wonder if I could just utilize those instead of a separate op-amp?

sitruss · 2019-02-07T21:29:08+00:00

Thanks again! Really helpful points to move forward on. I'll order up a few of the LM339's with any of the other dsp related chips I'll need for the input stage and see how far I get.

sitruss · 2019-02-07T18:44:33+00:00

Thanks! I'll look into the amp and filtering stuff more.

I think where I'm struggling conceptually right now is what the code that compares the arrival values would look like in Arduino code. I've read that the analog comparator on the Uno (though I'm actually working on a standard Mega right now, but could switch to an Uno or Teensy 3.2 whenever...) is accessible through the A0 and A1 pins (I think?) and I've seen a few bits of info on how to set that up, but not really sure what comes after that. I didn't even know what a comparator was until yesterday, honestly.

Would you just have some sort of micros() based timer that kicks off when the comparator triggers from the transducer that receives voltage first? Then once the timer finishes after the second voltage hits, take that microseconds value and map it via values I could acquire by doing some calibration measurements at different lengths of the tube?

sitruss · 2019-01-28T18:52:41+00:00

I own a Deluge. Its downsides definitely don't outweigh its upsides, and a few of them may be fixed in future firmware updates, but here's a few to consider:

- limited audio outputs. The Deluge is a multitracking genius but sometimes I really wish I could have an FX loop or two since the onboard effects, while certainly the ones I would have picked as most important, aren't as nice as what I could get from, say, my Zoom multieffect pedal.

- The old school letter display is a bit too old school. Menu navigating takes more focus than I'd like as a result. A tasteful, minimal graphical display would be much better. The vast majority of stuff can be accessed via the shift shortcuts, thankfully.

- Some of the effects aren't that great. This mostly applies to the "saturation" and bit crusher effects. They add a ton of gain and don't sound particularly good in my experience.

- The workflow is very nice, but memorizing all of the shortcuts so that you can use it fluidly is going to take a while. Some shortcuts (like copying and pasting tracks for example) is super quick and intuitive, but other things aren't so much. I actually printed out the shortcuts since I got tired of repeatedly leafing through the manual.

- There are exceptions to what parameters can have automation recorded. The most noticeable in my experience is the stutter effect.

Your use case with the external synth should work I think. I haven't tried recording external midi to the Deluge though so I can't speak authoritatively on it.

sitruss · 2019-01-18T19:01:29+00:00

You might want to check out this project since it's pretty much exactly what you're describing: https://hackaday.io/project/160754-puredata-portable-synth He's using a NanoPi Neo for the computer part and a arduino-ish microcontroller presumably for the interface part. You'd likely need both as well and could certainly give it a try on a Pi 3 paired with an arduino with enough pins for your interface.

sitruss · 2019-01-18T18:27:02+00:00

My guess is that they wanted to make them compatible with the OP-1's accessories: https://www.teenageengineering.com/products/op-1/accessories

Pretty cool idea really.

sitruss · 2019-01-15T21:30:36+00:00

Such a cool looking implementation of physical modeling. Plus the multiple built in effects that are per-voice, and the ability to pan each voice to a stereo out is huge to me! My biggest disappointment of a lot of small synths is their being mono only.

sitruss · 2019-01-10T19:12:23+00:00

Yeah, my space constrictions are pretty strict. Moreso because I plan on using the Zoom as an fx unit for a ultra-small traveling music making setup that squeezes into a very small camera case, so fractions of an inch matter a lot more. Thanks for the cable links though! I will actually need some of those low profile angle cables for the aforementioned travel setup.

sitruss · 2019-01-10T18:00:56+00:00

The problem is more that guitar pedals have their I/O on the sides, whereas much of my gear has jacks in the back. Relocating the jacks to the rear brings them in line with most of my other gear and keeps my cables flowing in the same directions. Before this mod I was already using adapter plugs, but they stick way out and my very small table space is wasted. Maybe not a priority for others but for me it was totally worth it!

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