Crazy Cat Gentleman

I don't mess with knobs too much when I play guitar, but I looooove it with synths. not necessarily while I'm playing on a keyboard, but if I'm messing with a longer sequenced part, then yeah, totally. it depends on the synth. this Subharmonicon I'm messing with can quantize frequencies, and, well, I don't have a ton of hardware experience, but I think most polyphonic synths and stuff with keyboards and/or digital readouts can. the Mother-32 I had last month doesn't, so unless you have perfect pitch, you're breaking out your tuner. as for tone parameters, that depends even more on the synth. something relatively simple like the Moogs I've borrowed doesn't have much, just a simple envelope or two and the standard cutoff and resonance knobs for the filter. can't even select low-pass/high-pass/band-pass/24dB/12dB on those (except HP/LP on the Mother-32). but a complex modular system... you better document your patches or you might not get them back. at least if you're a sub-amateur like me. here's me twisting knobs while the Subharmonicon's sequencers do their things:

nope, closed for the holiday.

you know, like the guitar thread, but for people who play other stuff. Portland has this cool synthesizer "library" that I've been taking advantage of this year. first I got a Moog Mother-32. decently cool, and the first Moog I'd gotten my hands on. my next checkout was a Novation Bass Station II, and I'm gonna have to buy one of those. just waiting for the local synth shop to have one of their 10%-off sales so I can get it for under $400. and right now, I have a Moog subharmonicon. kind of a squirrely little sucker, but I'm getting the hang of it. I think some people call it the "happy accident" synth, and I have to agree, since I mostly make it sound like crap until I get the sequencers' rhythm knobs lined up just right and it starts playing the greatest thing ever. last night I had just such an experience, and then I decided around midnight that it needed a beat, so I just had to dig out my drum machine. I was screwing around with all that till like 5 or 5:30 AM, and I was so jacked up by it that I didn't fall asleep till probably almost 8. ugh. what other sorts of music makers do we have around here?

he'd have the ratings he desperately craves, that's for sure.

Like Biff, I also hate to get up from under cats. Especially when he's snoozing on my arm like this on the couch. I may someday have to get his paw print tattooed on my neck where his paw always rests.

🤣

silly guy

This is my buddy, Jungle Jack. He's definitely getting on in years—best guess is 18-19—but he's still doing fine for his age. Chronic kidney failure, chronic asthma, and not really anything else wrong with him. He's the sweetest, cuddliest, snuggliest, friendliest cat I've ever met. I don't know what I'll do when he's gone, but it seems at present that it'll be a while (a year or so?) before I have to worry about that.

oh, man, I'm so sorry. not much sucks like suddenly/unexpectedly losing a special pet.

I think I drive more since the pandemic started. I'm lazy, so I drive half a mile to food trucks for lunch instead of making something at home or walking, and I work at home, so I can no longer stop off at the grocery store while taking the bus/train home from the office (never took my car to the office, always transit).

no spray tan on his face or carrot paint in his hair. good to see he's drinking with a straw now. fewer spills that way.

so the reverse jinx worked? sweet!

why, I oughtta...

shouldn't this be the 2022 death thread? anyway, damn:

only MWG can fix it.

Stan Papi 101

what's her position on the constitutionality of Legendary Lloyd coming back to manage the Hens?

Dan Fogelberg

sued?

I thought it was DrMaleficent.

I'm glad you're not having a worse time of it. take care.

I can't believe there wasn't a question about cargo shorts.

it seemed like he was gone or at least already committed to/in the process of leaving before Jan 6 came up. so yeah, like everything with TFG, it was just a big disappointment.

he did, but I wish he'd stuck to his whole "you'll never hear from me again" schtick. now that would have been worthy of accolades.