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Always the square for classic acid house - the saw is better for more modern (and worse ;-) distorted acid techno

TB-303 owner here. If my TB-303 sounded this bad I'd set fire to it ;-) Really this is just an implementation of a basic oscillator, filter and envelope. No harm in that all and it…

Owner of all (ALL!!) the classic Roland x0x boxes here, which are connected together using DIN Sync - the sync was not badly implemented at all - they sync together perfectly. The …

The Isle of Man is not part of the United Kingdom

EMU samplers used Soundfonts as well - I occassionally use them to load samples onto my ESI2000 sampler over ZuluSCSI ... so the format lives on! EXMP is the outstanding editor for…

Yes! We lived in a penthouse apartment in Surry Hills (the old hat factory) for 2 years from 2010 and the first time the choppers came in and dropped troops off on the rooftop oppo…

I never thought to check the Japanese auction houses - I have a workmate there who can purchase locally as well. There is one for sale, but it's a bit expensive - I'll keep my eyes…

I have an old Roland S760 sampler from the early 90s. One of the innovations Roland made in this (lower cost) space was to add the ability to hook up a monitor and a mouse, to make…

> For the old SunRay thin clients one could disable the USB ports .... >The same is possible in Windows 10 and 11, but the users will revolt, if a >sysadmin were to enforce such (t…

As someone else who grew up seeing these across the UK, it was never clear to me why they disappeared - this explains it perfectly, thank you

Yes! It bases itself at Oban for part of the year and serves those routes, so your memory is correct

In a salient lesson to everyone on complex software projects, one yards latest attempt to build an innovative new car ferry has been a financial and political disaster - move fast …

It is simply heart-breaking when you journey to somewhere like South Korea, where there are miles and miles of huge shipyards churning out tankers, as its a grim reminder of what w…

I live on the Firth of Clyde and the Waverley passes my house twice a day during the summer, plus it sales round the local lochs so when you are out and about you always catch glim…

I did not know that - thank you, my son watched Andor - I'll get him to show me!

SSE are also hoping to build Coiri Glas in Scotland, which is 30GWh https://www.sse.com/news-and-views/2023/03/britain-s-largest... Cruachan 2 will take total site capacity to 1GWh…

If you are ever up in Scotland, you can still visit Cruachan - the sister power station at Loch Awe with a very similar design. I took my children there two months ago. They were a…

If the Panoptigon playing Kraftwerk "Uranium" does not send a shiver up the spine of anyone in tech, then you my friend should have a good hard look in the mirror. https://www.yout…

Ah good point. Hadn't considered mods as a distro mechanism. I still have all the mods I made in the late 80s/90s - rendered them and uploaded to Soundcloud for the world to enjoy …

Fair point - not 10x, just normally about 2-3x!

Happens in the SCSI emulator market as well - there is a company massively marking up SCSI emulators and praying on naive musicians. Which is fair enough given they set them up bef…

If they are releasing on floppy, then the quality can't be up to much - that's going to be a pretty low bitrate MP3 to fit in that space!

My Akai S1000 sampler from the late 80s still has it's floppy drive, which I occasionally still use even though it has a modern SD-card based emulated SCSI hard disk as well. I cou…

Loved that thanks - my dad worked there for a year as a pipe fitter. Brings a lot of it to life!