That's great you're manufacturing them. Highly Liquid made the UMR2 open source, which is super cool and hopefully keeps it going for some time to come. It's a great bit of kit.

New issue discovered.

When the synth was plugged in for a while the transformer began to smoke. Is this a PSU issue?

The synth wasn't powered on, only plugged in (it had been powered on previously).

OK, I checked the volume pedal input. There's strange behaviour there. I plugged in a Roland EV-5 foot pedal and at first it altered the volume of the respective sections (String or Mixed). Then it ceased affecting the volume. There was a smell of solder/component burn coming from the synth. There w...

Thanks. Is this on the JK board? I did think about that, actually. But I can't see why it would cause the signal from one section to bleed into the other. Why might this be? Just to be clear as to what is happening (I realise a text description is not ideal!), the bleed occurs only on the Polysynth ...

It seems that that trim pot only adjusts the Strings signal level into the Mixed output. Adjusting it makes no difference to the bleed unfortunately. Any other ideas?

Yeah. I'm not a comics dude so I don't have an opinion. But the tracks are cool

Excellent track, just wish it was longer! I watched some of the other videos, some great stuff there. Phase Shift is cool too.

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Thanks. Yeah, it's only audible with the polysynth on.

Highly Liquid doesn't seem to exist anymore and the UMR2 was a great universal MIDI retrofit for matrix-based keyboards. Which is a shame. It seems like Arduino would be ideal to DIY a MIDI retrofit though. There's loads of stuff showing how to turn matrix-based keyboards into MIDI controllers but n...

Hi, My SK20 has this issue where the Strings signal is audible in the Polysynth mixer output. To explain a little better, there is a mixer section for Organ, Strings, and Polysynth before the Master Volume and main output. When the String section fader is set to its minimum it can still be heard thr...

Howdy.

New single out. Hope you all like it. Or some of you at least!



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I wrote a research paper for my degree on this (loosely). Look up elektronische musik on Proquest (you should have access through your university library to a lot of online papers and journals in case you didn't know). Synthesizers were initially located only in research institutions and large, expe...

No probs. Actually, the cited works contain a bunch of good stuff that is far better written than mine (lots are available online) and some deals directly with the creative position of the DJ. This one in particular is a short (9 pages) but good read: “Rethinking Live Electronic Music: A DJ Perspect...

If anyone is interested, I did a deep enough analysis in my thesis and I stuck it up online for anyone's perusal. Sections II and III are really where it deals with this sort of stuff. As a whole it's by no means exhaustive as there was a 10,000 word limit so I had to edit like crazy and leave a bun...

I wrote my thesis about this very topic. DJs are performers, but depending on what tools they use they can be seen as real time composers too. When it was just mixing one song into the other what could be done was severely limited. But now with stuff like looping, etc. it's possible for a DJ to deco...