nice , wish I had excess to trees like that . looks like some good heat there.
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Just spent four days on house projects. Completely emptied the garage (every single thing) and thoroughly cleaned it. Moved everything inside and went through it all resulting in a huge donate pile. Then I built a snowboard rack (and some other clever storage things) with a new table saw. After that, we went through all the old paint and stain from the previous owner. Finally, we put everything back on shelves. The good news is the garage is now pretty ideal for these projects.
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I made some sketches first but improvised a lot while building. Just like when you make a song. You start with an idea, then you find some things donāt work out well and you change them while other things fall into place.
Dimensions are 4,35m x 7m (golden ratio) and itās 3,8m high in the middle.
The arc should symbolize the water wheel that was once installed there.
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Water wheel? Is this a converted mill? I mean this location looks absolutely beautiful. Is it your home? Iād love to see more pics of it but Iād understand if this wasnāt the place you wanted to show them-do you have other links to more images of it?
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Yes, It was a mill and some parts are more than 300 years old. Iād love to live in it, but it was used as a horse stable and in very bad shape when we bought the property. One larger room is finished. I have my synths and electronic workshop in there now.
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Got up early today and worked on my TR808 high hats. Itās 808 day after all, but Iām only getting clicking sounds, and not sure what to check. Giving up for now.
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yeah thats the bummer about that stuff looks cool but it grows into the surface of what ever its on and blocks sun light so the surface never drys properly . donāt envy you that job looks like a lot of work .
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After about a googol attempts over a few weeks, I finally managed to pull off a perfect score in a no-moving (but panning and zooming allowed) game of Geoguessr, Urban World map:
Which means I now have one less excuse to not get back to soldering.
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Itās 91Ā°F 93Ā°F at my electronics workbench.
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I call that strategic procrastination.
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Procrastination would have made me cook the pies tomorrow too 
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Big upheaval here as I move Kosmogenesis and Kosmodrome from the upstairs room to the basement. The basement gets cold in the winter (though at least it stays dry), but say what you like about how Eurorack is too compactified and cramped, thereās no denying Kosmo gets big fast, and there just isnāt enough room upstairs to add more rows. Which I need to do, because Iām out of case, again. As it is, Kosmodrome is blocking most of the only window in the room, and maneuvering around it and the Gray Meanie and the workbench and the keyboard is getting ridiculous.
I think the Gray Meanie will stay upstairs, though. The electronics workbench definitely will, canāt solder while shivering. And maybe Iāll come up with a mini Kosmo setup for auditioning new modules before āgraduatingā them to the basement.
Of course room had to be found in the basement, but thatās just a matter of deciding what crap to throw out and shoving furniture around.
And then thereās the matter of getting a recording setup going in the basement. The computer down there is a 2010-ish iMac. Iām looking into putting Linux on it.
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Personally, I run a 2011 hp elitebook with Ubuntu and Reaper to record, works like an absolute charm.
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Itās glorious.
I use Mint/Ubuntu for nearly everything.
Only reason I run Windows is for some pricey DAW software I bought that doesnāt drink.
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Iām quite happy with the fairly simple setup I have, which is an old Compaq CQ71 with Ubuntu Studio 20.04 (with the lighter weight Xfce desktop). I found Reaper a lot easier than Ardour to get working how I wanted, so forked out for the relatively cheap license.
Itās hooked up to my multichannel mixer/audio interface and does sequencing duties via an inexpensive dual midi out usb cable thing.
So far so good, it can handle the midi, multi-track recording and a few fx on a couple of channels without melting down.
Cheers
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