My label mate Nundale just got one and sounds extremely happy with it! I'll have to start saving.. 😂

Partially because the Hapax has more generative stuff, but also the more expansive layout looks like it'll be even faster to work with

This week I've been focused on mixing my next EP. Will probably spend next week doing the same 😁

Welcome! Nice setup! I see you also have the incredible Pyramid Squarp 😊 I love it. In fact even considering upgrading to their newer sequencer.

I print and bind the manual for any hardware I buy. Whilst undoubtedly I can discover a lot of the functionality just from experience, there's usually some stuff that you discover from the manual that just isn't the sort of thing you find out by chance 😊

Never tried the MPC stuff though (beyond a day with the Force before it had disk streaming), so can't give any specific recommendations..

Cool. Also if you need funds towards hosting costs, I can manage a small monthly contribution.

I noticed the main Irish mastodon instance uses this - looks very interesting (perhaps longer term)

https://opencollective.com/

Let me know if you ever need help with server admin stuff. I'm not an expert, but did web dev for 15 years and still comfortable enough on the old Linux CLI.

At the moment I'm leaning towards the Maschine+

I have to sell my 1010music Blackbox first though..

Of course, you can, in theory, also sign up to an instance and then move to another instance. I know there are guides for this portability when it comes to Mastodon, but not sure how it works for things like Lemmy and BookWyrm.

I guess the only true way to be certain of things in the federated world is to run your own instance and connect to other instances. Ultimately I do plan to do this with a few things, primarily moving myself off Mastodon.social and onto my own self-install on my own domain, the goal being that I'd have no other users beyond accounts for each of my music monikers and a 'personal' one. I'd love to have a books.mydomain.com instance of BookWyrm too if I can muster the enthusiasm to set it up.

One thing I always found about reddit was that I never really absorbed who I was talking to or who was posting what. The user/OP takes a back-seat to the content, compared to the twitter/mastodon approach, where I always felt like I had a better idea who I was talking to - I guess because I'd chosen to follow those people.

Ah cool, yeah the wireless thing probably wouldn't be so important as it would probably sit in the same spot all the time 😁

https://waveform.social/c/autechre 🎉

Guess we should go ahead and start an Autechre community here so 😁

Hehe, that was me 😁

I can definitely see the appeal. Perhaps when I have some cash to spare I'll look at it again 😊👍

Whilst I did learn piano for a few years, I've been so used to programming/sequencing/generating notes that keys feel like too much of a space sacrifice 😁 There are some times I do wish to have a two or three octaves mini keyboard for sketching out ideas, but that desire is so infrequent I never get around to buying something 😂

Elektron Analog Four/Digitone/Digitakt Soma Pulsar 23 Nord Drum 3p 1010music Lemondrop ASM Hydrasynth Desktop Squarp Pyramid Fx: Bastl Thyme / Hologram Microcosm / Mooer Ocean Machine

https://www.tourboxtech.com/en/TourBoxElite-product.html

This?

Oh cool. I had heard about Ghost years back. Completely forgot about it 😁

I'll check it out thanks 🙏

What about artist specific communities? My most visited subreddit was always the Autechre one. You happy to see that sort of thing pop up here too?

I've been impressed to see the amount of development they've put into the Force. I bought one and returned it way back in 2019 when I realised it didn't do disk streaming, but I see they've added that and a lot more since. They definitely seem committed to expanding its functionality at least.