Minor deity seeking employment

not the same as CBA, CBA does not have that minor-third major-third relation
it has a half-step whole-step for the other directions

anyway, not flashlight related, can continue in PM, like is there an in-production alternative?
you only need hex key layout and reassignable notes

there are computer accordions but they do not do notes in that arrangement
not sure you can conveniently remap them either
Roland makes several computer accordions

wle

This made me smile sooooo hard….
Thank you for that.

The closest I’ve seen is software. Like, for Android there’s Hexboard, Hexiano, and IsoKeys. But with only a touchscreen, it’s no good for actual use.

If you have a CBA device, you might be able to rotate it 90 degrees and remap it… but it’d still be a little different than intended.

I hope my Axis-49 lasts a long long time because I like it so much, but if it dies I may be okay with a Linnstrument or a Continuum Fingerboard or maybe even a Deluge synth. They’re all so pricey though!

I’m not sure if it’s still possible to get an Opal Chameleon, but it’s also very expensive.

BTW, here’s one interesting use of the hex layout:

Same guy doing piano improv on it:

Oh, there’s also the Hyve synth, but it doesn’t do midi and it’s flat and it only makes one sound so it’s kind of irrelevant as an input device. Neat, but severely limited.

Oh, you’d have to remap it. But if CBA is turned 90 degrees it’s at least a similar physical layout. Or if the Axis / Sonome / harmonic table layout is rotated 90 degrees, it could be remapped as CBA or the jammer layout or a few others.

It’s okay, this thread isn’t intended to be flashlight-related and doesn’t have a thousand people eagerly waiting for updates. :slight_smile:

Like it for some reaon made me think of Orbital:

… The Girl With The Sun In Her Head?

That’s ironic. :slight_smile:

:slight_smile:
I like to chime in on off topic topics once in a while :wink:

What’s that you say? Chimes?

I made this one a few years ago, “Accidental Mega Man”, and it “chimes in” too:

Heheh @ that dancing dude

I enjoyed yesterday’s beer-and-explosions holiday by making a different kind of loud noise.

… and although I had planned to stay in, I got restless and before I knew it I found myself juggling a lightsaber for a party of elementary school kids while half a dozen fireworks shows erupted all around us.

Aside from the unshakable feeling of dread that the world as we know it is doomed and there is absolutely nothing we can do to prevent its inevitable collapse, it was a good day. :slight_smile:

No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There’s always a boom tomorrow.
— Susan Ivanova

LOL, I’ve been meaning to watch that for ages… Somehow I still haven’t. I hear good things about it though, particularly how it actually has a coherent story from beginning to end which was written in advance instead of going season by season. That’s rare.

Maybe I should watch B5 sooner rather than later. The XO sounds like someone I’d get along with. :smiley:

Definitely, do. And the movies.

I was privy to the mailing-list “jms speaks”, and he went into the whole deal with the execs, and laid down the law, else no deal.

First, it’s to be a 5yr arc. Not 4yrs, not 6, not 2, not 10. 5.

Second, no one is to change anything in his scripts, not rewrite sections, not so much as move a comma.

He kept total control of the series, kept it coherent, kept it as close as possible to his “vision” which he had in the shower (I kid you not), and most importantly, kept the suits out of it.

And it paid off. Things in the background you see in S1 would figure prominently in S3 or later.

Details, details, details…

In contrast, look at “Andromeda”. EXCELLENT first season, then bobsledding downhill from there after Sorbocles got his mitts on it. S1 didn’t spoon-feed you anything. One ep you’d hear feral kids referring to the “one-stoff”, and you had to figure it out on your own they were talking about the First Officer (abbreviated “1stOff”!).

After Sorbocles got to it, it turned into “Hercules In Space”. Barfights, warlords, shoot-’em-ups, completely dumbed down and more “action” than anything remotely cerebral. <gag/>

ha that is a long time ago, hearing those notes :slight_smile:

That MIDI sounds! The exact same music styling as my old time favourite arcade game: Raiden III. I played that for hours on my Intel Pentium 233MX machine back in my college days. The sounds is relaxing, while being cool and playing god. Kill them all! fusion moves! I played 2P by myself (left hand = keyboard, right hand = joystick) just to get the extra killing projectiles

- Clemence

Andromeda definitely went downhill… especially in season 4. And then season 5 was a completely different show with the same characters. If one must watch, stop after season 3.

It seems now I need to find a Raiden III soundtrack. A quick look on youtube shows it has some nice sounds I might be able the dial in on the new toy, but I can’t hear much behind all the explosions. :slight_smile:

Anyway, those CV (analog control voltage) outputs I thought I’d never use on my Keystep? It turns out they do some neat stuff when I plug it into other analog equipment. I tried that this morning. Also, I need to find a better video editor; this was really awkward to edit.

Ow, ow, ow! My bat-like ears were really picking up those high-freq notes…

Yeah, probably the freqs were getting too high (Nyquist limit) and getting aliased down to lower freqs.