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This one is amazing

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...

An apple tree and a brambling in the tree.

frantzkb wrote:Do you have the surfing board on top of the roof ?

Johannes wrote: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.

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