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I've got a black cat that came with the house. He came wandering up after we moved in. It took months to transition him to the indoors. He was king of the backyard, doing battle with anything that moved. He would kill it and drop it on the back patio. After three years, we don't let him out at all. We do let him out in the screen porch. He likes lap sitting, but quite often extends his claws when he's purring and getting a rub. so affectionate and blood letting go hand in hand around here.

Hell of a sale on these at thomann.de right now, @Dusty Chalk Edit, shipping to Canada is kinda pricey, so maybe it's not a great deal. But still. Purple.

Agreed, even the half batch that I did last year was on the side of too much.

^in my case i realized i hadn't touched the brandy or rum leftover from last year's batch. i need to make more of a dent. should really just do the 14-egg recipe exactly as Matt documented but it is an insane amount of NOG for two people.

Same - if nothing else it's a good excuse to stock the liquor cabinet for winter.

Lately the left channel humming has increased to become even more bloody annoying. But… today I cured it (pure luck - trial and error approach). I have two umbilicals between psu and amplifier. Both carrying 580V bias and then joining at the stax connector. So, I removed left 580V bias wire in amplifier and the hum disappeared. To my ears the amplifier is now dead silent.

According the the Edifier youtube clip. The Stax Japanese team will release the Omega successor when they are ready. When are they ready: When they are ready When will it be release: When they are ready Edifier calls Stax japanese team, "What time frame you need for the new Omegas": We will let you know when we are ready

This will tide me over until Cyberpunk! Orchestral cover of crazy train does get one in the mood!

I’m already a week behind but plan on making this year’s 8-egg batch this coming weekend.

And another series of big thank yous to Andrew, DOTU Al and Ken. As Nate said NFLO!

Thanks for that, as always, just a wealth of information. but no, what I would prefer is to be able to apply filters or amplitude to each individual note, so for example, I could play ABCDE, and then reduce the pressure on B and D , and then increase it, to make the chord “breathe” alternately between dissonance and consonance.

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As a respite from the chaos ... and for @VPI/ @Dusty Chalk / etc ...

I've had the 49 key Seaboard Rise for a couple of years now and in some ways, I'm finally getting some use from it. I was hoping that MPE support in synths and sampler engines would improve more than it has but when it comes right down to it, I've been the main bottleneck. There are a couple of Kontakt Libraries that I have that are made for it along with a couple of soft synths (Cypher 2, Strobe 2 and Equator). They're tons of fun and it would be difficult to create these sounds/expressions any other way (of course, anything can be done if you're determined). More to the point of your inquiry, it isn't that difficult to adapt many instruments to take advantage of a few MPE gestures. For example, Glide is applied to Pitch Bend as a default so doing vibrato/slide on an upright bass is pretty easy. The difference between using a Pitch Bend wheel and the Roli is you can bend just one note out of a chord without having to create separate "pitch bend" and a static tracks. Same thing goes for Slide. Slide is moving your finger "Up" the key on the Seaboard. You can assign any modulation/cc to slide so if you can assign a high pass/distortion noise level, whatever to Slide, than you can increase/decrease that parameter for any note of a chord. There are plenty of YT videos to teach you how to do these things but it isn't easy. It's like learning a new instrument to do these things in real time. I find myself going back in a midi editor and adjusting/erasing/redoing these things so I don't spend much time trying to learn how to do it "live".

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Koss ESP/95X are on sale for $390 https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-x-koss-esp-95x-electrostatic-system

The stunning Mae West. Born 1893 and died forty years ago today

The 009BK was always the TOTL unit so they might just be moving to that direction. For me they were always the best 009's by a mile too

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Go Wonder Woman and Boy Wonder, Go!

After getting all the frame and horizontal pieces chopped up, I decided the circular saw was not the right tool for this job when I need fancy cuts for the back, so I got a cheap other wood cutty thing.

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I am not sure it sounds any better, but it is a keeper for me because it runs cooler with the external PSU.

It's just a matter of time. I have no doubt that in a month or so, 80% of the apps that are currently non-compatible or in testing will be in the yes column. For the one's that don't, it's very bad press but it seems like very well established apps just don't seem to mind it.

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There is no gate at the moment. Going to have the 1x1 cedar posts horizontal with narrow slits on the frame made by the 1x4 frame I think. Just trying to figure out how to frame it out for the cleanest look. Will be replacing the baby gate to keep my dogs from eating the neighbors.

These two just turned two! They’re the best.

I think I have over two bottles in the back of the beer fridge. Should test them and make a new batch,

After almost three and a half months, the KGST is finally in operation, and is sounding great. Thanks to all who have responded to my questions and given guidance. I am really surprised at how good the 40 year old headphone sounds with this amp. Special thanks also to Bigir and Dr. Gilmore for such wonder contributions to the community.