Look out any window (of your studio)

[Frantz]

This one is amazing

Do you have the surfing board on top of the roof ?

[Johannes]

Awesome! Had exactly the same question, where's the (other) board?? This way you could hit the North (ehh,Nord) Wave...

[juholaatu]

An apple tree and a brambling in the tree.

[trumelpuut]

Do you have the surfing board on top of the roof ?

Awesome! Had exactly the same question, where's the (other) board?? This way you could hit the North (ehh,Nord) Wave...

Nope, sorry to disapoint . Just a bed, my camera, my keyboard, and a computer that serves them both (and about to die, after 5 years of backpack treatment...).

Btw, I'd like to advertise a great product, 100% artisanal : do you see the little black and silverish box atop the NS2 (on the organ section ) ? It is an sd-card midifile player/recorder ! It's so simple, it takes less than one second to switch on and start recording... So I keep the technical hassle to an absolute minimum when improvising music (which is my trade). It has one power input, two midi connectors, one sd-slot and that's it. Direct rec, play, stop, file select and transpose buttons, and no menu ! It can even record for days at a time so I don't even have to think to press rec when I sit myself at the keyboard... Well, in theory, that is. I suppose that would work well in a conventional studio, but in the van, the fluctuating power makes it freeze eventually ... But not being able to record for more than a couple of hours in a row is the only complaint I have . And of course it is so simple that it records everything that comes through the midi input without discerning: all channels, absolutely all midi message and sysEx... So I didn't even need to look at my NS2 implementation chart or worry about anything of the sort. Then the midi file goes into the computer. A music software (Reaper) allows me to edit the midi, play it back to the NS2 and record the audio from the NS2 on a parallel track. Next step: still in the same project, mastering of that track, then reapers renders directly in FLAC format, and I can upload a perfect improvisation to Bandcamp within minutes... It's a great and quick workflow that, thanks to this little box, lets me turn on the computer and start worrying about Windows only after i'm done playing ! (Yes I run Windows on a Mac, because, er, I'm the rebel type. 8D)

Apparently the circuitry and firmware are a German open source project and the box and interface are an English piano freak's project. So they found each other on the internet, and then I found them. Here's the English website for the final product: http://www.sdmidicontroller.com/ . That man is very friendly, btw. Or Google for "SD MIDI CONTROLLER" and find the project at different stages of manufacture.

[Nordlicht]

Hi everybody,

before the fresh snowfall of today morning will be dewed tomorrow I have taken a photo out of my combined home-office and music "studio".

Merry Christmas to all of you