^ Damn. This is reminiscent of that scene in "It Might Get Loud" where The Edge has his DMM through an AC30 just blasting to the sea off of Ireland. Hopefully you brought out your Explorer for the occasion.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sat Jun 14, 2025 8:43 am Seems like a direct copy of a Memory Man to me, except its got a slam switch for self oscillation and a rate knob instead of a chorus/vibrato switch.

It is basically exactly that, from an operation perspective. 1) slam switch to momentarily dime the repeats knob, 2) replace the 2-speed modulation (chorus OR vibrato) with a variable rate to go everywhere in between. The 3) doesnt affect the sound, but the power supply is reconfigured to work off of 18VDC instead of 120VAC, so more pedalboard friendly.

That’s me! Except pointed out towards the brownest water in the Gulf of Mexico.

While not what they’re designed for, I’ve found that these can work a treat for rebalancing neck-heavy guitars:

Music Nomad Acousti-Loc

My local music shop installed one on my acoustic when I asked them whether anything could be done about its neck dive; this little gadget was almost a complete cure. I subsequently installed one on my Mustang bass, using a washer and a pan-head screw through the “jack”; not a complete cure, but a definite improvement.

And as a bonus, they’re designed to take Schaller strap locks.

I needed a smaller midi controller for my desk cause my only other one is 49 full size keys and too big for sitting on the desk so I bought a Arturia Keystep 37. 37 "mini" keys, but I'd describe them as Mid-sized compared to other mini key controllers and synths I've used. Not to hard to get used to. Good feeling velocity sensitive keys. 3 full octaves, has a cool built in sequencer and CV Gate Mod and Pitch out as well as analog sync in and out. It's a fantastic little controller. Feels REALLY well built. Not cheap and plasticy like my Novation. NO menu diving. just a shift key for alt actions. When I finally replace my Novation I'm going to get a Arturia full sized controller cause this little guy is perfect.

Kniferide wrote: Sun Jun 15, 2025 3:28 pm I needed a smaller midi controller for my desk cause my only other one is 49 full size keys and too big for sitting on the desk so I bought a Arturia Keystep 37. 37 "mini" keys, but I'd describe them as Mid-sized compared to other mini key controllers and synths I've used. Not to hard to get used to. Good feeling velocity sensitive keys. 3 full octaves, has a cool built in sequencer and CV Gate Mod and Pitch out as well as analog sync in and out. It's a fantastic little controller. Feels REALLY well built. Not cheap and plasticy like my Novation. NO menu diving. just a shift key for alt actions. When I finally replace my Novation I'm going to get a Arturia full sized controller cause this little guy is perfect.

Years back I got the most basic version of the keystep. Loved it. Feels solid, super easy to use. I can't play for shit so I don't mind mini keys, but these feel good nonetheless.

Yall are way ahead of me with keys, so fair warning:

I bought a big 88-key Arturia Keylab Essential for my Yamaha CP and Moog Subsequent and its pretty great, at least compared to the minikeys. I can’t play either, but the difference in playing those instruments with vs without is significant. I might only go without the big controller if I was taping down keys or traveling with space restrictions, though it does kinda hold up some real estate I need to find a decent place for.

The only thing to watch out for on thr Arthuria Keylab is that I thought I was getting a crazy deal used, not realizing there’s a difference between the Arturia Keylab and Arturia Keylab Essential. I think that the keys and action are the same, but the extra features are different. Not that I will use them - I only bought this as a hardware controller. So the deal I got was fine, not enough to fabricate a return or anything, but lesson learned.

Plus, used keyboards… kinda gross in a way that I haven’t found guitars to be? Maybe its the texture or just that I’m used to cleaning guitars.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sun Jun 15, 2025 7:55 pm Yall are way ahead of me with keys, so fair warning:

I bought a big 88-key Arturia Keylab Essential for my Yamaha CP and Moog Subsequent and its pretty great, at least compared to the minikeys. I can’t play either, but the difference in playing those instruments with vs without is significant.
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Plus, used keyboards… kinda gross in a way that I haven’t found guitars to be? Maybe its the texture or just that I’m used to cleaning guitars.

you're quite right on both. I thought I was fine with minikeys until I tried to play something my spouse wrote on a full sized board, and now for some things I've written I can't go back. When we were looking for a synth I thought I knew what felt fine and my spouse (an actual piano player) was picking up on all kinds of things in a music store I hadn't considered.
Since then we now have a Prophet Rev2 and a Pro3 and they keys/action are so smooth and nice.
That said I still really like how Arturia keys feel

I bought the Rev2 used, and yuck.

Yeah I think the essential are mostly just controllers without sequencing and cv control for connections to modular stuff. Just midi. It's actually exactly what I need for my main full sized controller I use to connect to reaper and drive vst. The keystep 37 is great because one of the things I do with it is sync all my little desktop synths so the analog sync out is handy. They all seem pretty great quality.