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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · 12d

"My manager says I need to spice up my act. Fucking cocksucker!"

Democrats race to embrace swearing and angry comebacks – but will it work?

Democrats are abandoning their careful messaging in favor of gut-level rhetoric that’s unapologetically more profane as the party faces an authenticity problem

www.theguardian.com

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · 13d

Soliciting advice on transducers for light materials, low volume-type stuff. Easy to amplify. The less soldering I have to do, the more skin I'll likely have a month from now. And, do people make these for noise folks, like contact mics, maybe with 1/4" connectors? Need to get going kinda fast 😅

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · 16d

The rapture so far has come for my bathroom fan and perhaps my dryer. Not what I was hoping for.

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · 16d

As usual, N+1 goes deeper. Stupidology www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Stupidology | William Davies

The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · 17d

Xynthii users, I've added some significant features.
Oscs:
1. You can now switch between frequency modulation and phase modulation. Alt/option click the fm text box to switch. It is quite a different sound.
2. All oscs can use all three waveforms now.

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · 17d

I'm glad for this post and glad I took it seriously, because Red Rooms is the shit and I probably would have missed it otherwise. In the midst of so much "creative" horror that is mostly design decorating basic themes (it's fine, I like it), this is some real cinema. Like seeing Taxi Driver in 1976

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Sep 6

I watched Red Rooms last night and it is one of the most masterful and unsettling movies I've seen in a while. On the short list of films that have convincingly captured the experience of Becoming Progressively More Insane Online aka the human condition circa now.

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · 17d

That one is definitely a meh then huh kinda read. Gravity's Rainbow is more of a holy shit / fuck off kinda read. Mason & Dixon is a this guy's good / I'm tired kinda read. Inherent Vice is a not another sucky one / actually I like it kinda read. Etc.

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · 17d

There was a will, there is now a way.

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · 17d

In case you missed it, you can get xynthii here github.com/mphonic/xynt...

And there are baby steps installation instructions here youtu.be/9RdC2rJTiT4

GitHub - mphonic/xynthii: A wicked modular synth with a matrix patchbay inspired by but not emulating the EMS Synthi A. Runs in Supercollider. The successor to 2006's Xynthi.

A wicked modular synth with a matrix patchbay inspired by but not emulating the EMS Synthi A. Runs in Supercollider. The successor to 2006's Xynthi. - GitHub - mphonic/xynthii: A wicked modula...

github.com

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · 17d

* If you use git and have conflicts with presets, move your personal presets to the presets/user folder, which is ignored by git.

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · 17d

Git users can update by pulling the latest changes*. Non-git users can just download the code again. No need to redo any init / plugin installation. Just make sure not to overwrite any presets you have stored.

And, uh, remember that donations are REALLY appreciated!!! 🤑🤑🤑

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · 17d

E1 k in the mod pod is now bipolar (this was a bug - it was always supposed to be bipolar). If you have any presets that use this (again, just in the mod pod), then you may want to tweak the levels a little bit.

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · 17d

Latch module added. No new knobs in the gui, just i/o. One signal (LAT mod) is used to S/H another (LAT car). Does wild things when fed back into the fm/pm of one or both of those signals (see squeesh pre). Also available in the mod pod.

Neither of these updates affects existing presets.

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · 17d

Xynthii users, I've added some significant features.
Oscs:
1. You can now switch between frequency modulation and phase modulation. Alt/option click the fm text box to switch. It is quite a different sound.
2. All oscs can use all three waveforms now.

1/4

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Jules Rawlinson @julesrawlinson.bsky.social · Sep 10

If you like long walks listening to squelchy and squealing, occasionally grating, squiggly wiggly, somes steady state, always active textured electronics you might like From Null Lands Led, Starrily by @mphonic.bsky.social
bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/from-n...

From Null Lands Led, Starrily, by Bhob Rainey

3 track album

bhobrainey.bandcamp.com

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks!

Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · Sep 8

Brad Inglesby can throw in as many references to scrapple as he wants, run every script through ChatGPT to maximize occurrences of the long "o", I don't care. But the way that British actor Emilia Jones says, "Are you serious right now?" has earned her a friend for life.

Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · Sep 6

Nice to see nudge getting some love. I find it super useful.

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · Sep 6

Since it runs in Supercollider, there are many, many possibilities for controlling it. I figured that I would add a spectral tracker (pitch, amplitude, centroid, and "flatness") to highlight what can be done.

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · Sep 5

You can get xynthii here, and you can also, you know, donate :) github.com/mphonic/xynt...

GitHub - mphonic/xynthii: A wicked modular synth with a matrix patchbay inspired by but not emulating the EMS Synthi A. Runs in Supercollider. The successor to 2006's Xynthi.

A wicked modular synth with a matrix patchbay inspired by but not emulating the EMS Synthi A. Runs in Supercollider. The successor to 2006's Xynthi. - GitHub - mphonic/xynthii: A wicked modula...

github.com

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is super cool. @cranksatori.bsky.social has released the first xynthii album (to my knowledge), using a pipsqueak with spectral-tracking to control and blend with xynthii. A different approach from many of the things I've done with it, as well as much of what I've heard from other people.

a question of maps, by J.Soliday

3 track album

cranksatori.bandcamp.com

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Its Own Infinite Flower @ioiflower.bsky.social · Sep 4

Kevin Drumm showed me Xynthi about 10 years ago. I was able to get it running on a very old MacBook but this is very cool if it can now run on a modern OS

kyrsive @kyrsive.bsky.social · Sep 3

this might be one of my favorite synthesizers i've ever used

xynthi was a supercollider patch inspired by the ems synthi that was used by computer legends like kevin drumm and peter rehberg

unfortunately the software became outdated till now !!

here's me messing with it:
youtu.be/an4f3IChdVM

xynthii squiggles

YouTube video by kyrsive viesel

youtu.be

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · Sep 3

BTW, if you want the labels on the matrix to fit better, you can change the font with the appropriate line in play-xynthii.scd. If you find a font / size you like, you can just put that line in the block of code that starts xynthii, so it's set right away.

Font.default = Font("Arial", 10);

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kyrsive @kyrsive.bsky.social · Sep 3

this might be one of my favorite synthesizers i've ever used

xynthi was a supercollider patch inspired by the ems synthi that was used by computer legends like kevin drumm and peter rehberg

unfortunately the software became outdated till now !!

here's me messing with it:
youtu.be/an4f3IChdVM

xynthii squiggles

YouTube video by kyrsive viesel

youtu.be

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Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social · Sep 3

🤘🔥