No it was a repeated upload of literal white noise images. Not even posts, just files uploaded.

Probably around 300 USD a month

With the new forum feature of discord this might not be a bad idea.

Let me know if you’ll follow through. I’d probably join.

Not really. I could host this in a more robust place but the costs would be prohibitive.

Of course, you could let everyone know where you’re going. I might follow too. There’s some talk in this post about a discord server.

I am aware that images aren’t loading properly right now. This is because the pictures engine crashed again and I wasn’t able to recover it this time.

I was, but it’s really not available anywhere. I also tried building my own using RaspberryPi but gave up because the software is pretty outdated, so getting it to run was more of a challenge than I was ready for at that point.

Right now I am learning to use Resolume. I am working with Resolume Avenue right now but considering switching to Resolume Wire to get a bit more flexibility.

I’ve been eying pigments. They might just win me over now. I’m a huge fan of their V Collection.

I’ve been working on some live visualisations to make my time in the studio even more fun.

Fun! Feel free to share things. Maybe we have some tips 😊

I feel you. I’ve spent more money on synths than would be healthy. I’ve bought and sold the same synth multiple times. The new and shiny thing is always so attractive…

I’ve yet to find a solution. What helped me temporarily is forcing myself to make music. I am ha hobbyist, not a professional. So I don’t put a value on my time making music. Me making music IS the value.

So what I did for a while (until I got too busy to pick them up) was make music for people who needed it and release that music into the public domain. Kinda like open source music. I got a few people who were making documentaries, videogames, video stories, and the like. It was good to have someone you’d disappoint if you didn’t make them a full track. I drove me to actually get the music done.

But when I got too busy, I shut down the website.

I have a very long powered usb-c extension chord, a ton of audio cables and power running to a setup behind my desk.

Audio: All the audio cables go into a (normalled) patch bay. My most common gear I have normalled to my audio interface but if I want to replace it with something else as the number of inputs on the audio interface are limited.

Power: For power I have a big power splitter with multiple sections that have their own power switch allowing me to fully disconnect things.

USB: For USB I have a usb hub at the end of the usb c extender. It’s a powered hub as well to support connecting more things.

Ableton: I made presets for most of my instruments using tracks and the external instrument device. My electron gear runs through Overbridge (to save on audio interface ports as well as being able to save and recall presets from Ableton).

I think that’s about it, did I miss anything? I will probably share some pictures in next week’s thread since I hope it will be done presentable then.

I bought a bunch of cabling which I am expecting to be delivered next week. So I hope to set up my gear in such a way I can walk around any play whatever I want to play. All connected to Ableton.

This week I felt pretty under the weather so no real activities there.

My current philosophy with this community is to let it live and self-regulate. I only want to poke at it when things (start to) feel off.

So if threads federates properly and people make use of this functionality then I see no problem with that. So far I haven’t blocked any federation. The only blocks in place are technical ones to figure off some spam bots.

This way of thinking won’t scale properly, but my goals aren’t to create the next big social media platform. The goal is as stated in the tagline of this instance: a home for musically minded people. Anything that harms that goal will be dealt with, anything that supports that goal will be welcomed with open arms.

So only if it becomes a problem and people complain about this problem will I enforce a technical limitation.