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Live Online #145: Polar

I’ve finished my Shruthi-1 4-Pole Mission build, and in a personal victory also managed to flash the chip by myself. Damn, building these little boxes is highly addictive! It’s sounding great and I’m working on a demo track to show it off. Coming soon!

Enjoy Live Online #144: Hearts
Playlist: (1)Etch (2)Fresco (3)Diptych (4)Gouache (5)Halftone (6)Cubism (7)Impasto (8)Jugendstil
All tracks written, produced and performed by MoShang.
This recording was made at Ce Soir (Second Life) on August 3rd, 2012.

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Building a Shruthi-1, 4-Pole Mission

I’m enjoying the little Shruthi-1 synth so much, that I’ve decided to build a second unit. The new one has the 4-Pole Mission filter board and I’m looking forward to hearing how it differs from my current Shruthi-1. This time I opted to buy just the pcb’s (sexy in white!) and to source the components myself online – actually I had quite a bit of help, since I could grab the BOMs here. I’m just about finished with the build, but I’m waiting for this (PDF) to arrive so that I can program the chip. Fun times, if you’re into this kind of geekery. If you want a Shruthi-1, but don’t want to build one yourself, drop me a line – I’m sure we can work something out ;^) I’ll do a demo with the 4PM Shruthi-1 once I have it up and running. In the meantime, here are some pics from the build…

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Live Online #144: Hearts

This week’s set opens with Village By The River, a track I last performed before I started recording these podcasts, and which I don’t recall having released before. You’ll also continue to hear the voice of the Shruthi-1 throughout the set. I’ve managed to change the Shruthi-1’s software to work a little better with a wind controller – all thanks to the (intended) hackability of this little box. I know I’m going on about the Shruthi-1, but it’s such a change to work with an instrument I assembled myself and to have direct access its creator along with a network of engaged enthusiasts. Speaking of Mutable Instruments, the Ambika and Anushri synths have just been announced – yummy stuff!

Enjoy Live Online #144: Hearts
Playlist: (1)Village By The River (2)Cubism (3)Zaire (4)Vanuatu (5)Venezuela (6)Yemen (7)Brush (8)Abstract
All tracks written, produced and performed by MoShang.
This recording was made at Starport Omega (Second Life) on July 5th, 2012.

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Live Online #143: Torn

I had an unpleasant experience doing a real-world performance some months ago where Windows 7 decided to do an update right as I was about to start my set. Somehow the Novation Nio’s midi driver got borked in the process and I ended up having to do the 4 hour set with no wind controller 8^/ Although it wasn’t Reason’s fault, I’ve been looking at my existing hardware to replace it as tone generator with the WX-5 wind controller. So, after scratching my head for months for a way to get my Shruthi-1 to respond to breath control, I thought I’d just plug the WX in and see what it does. It turns out that although I could find no mention of the fact in the documentation, the Shruthi-1 responds to breath control (MIDI cc2) out of the box. Bonus! Breath appears to be hardwired to filter cutoff. I’m still experimenting, but you can hear my playing the Shruthi-1 via the WX-5 all over this set. Enjoy!

Enjoy Live Online #143: Torn
Playlist: (1)Oman (2)Peru (3)Qatar (4)Suriname (5)Taiwan (6)Romania (7)Uruguay (8)Venda
All tracks written, produced and performed by MoShang.
This recording was made at Starport Omega (Second Life) on June 7th, 2012.

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Live Online #142: Reboot

A brand new set this week for your chillaxing pleasure, a happy result of the new monthly release schedule for this podcast. With more time between releases, I have more time to create material for the podcast. I don’t think it influences the quality of the show, but rather it’s a change in favor of variety over quantity.

We’re ringing more changes the week – membership is now officially something of the past. It seemed like a good idea in theory, but the practice didn’t bear it out. I may bring it back at a later stage, but we’re not there yet. There’s also a new HQ download options. When buying a high quality download, you now have the option of choosing between a 256kbps MP3 or a much larger, but better lossless FLAC file.

*** UPDATE ***

YouTube user kitchendon has added visuals to the complete set – hypnotic!

Enjoy Live Online #142: Reboot
Playlist: (1)Kiribati (2)Luxembourg (3)Mauritius (4)Nauru (5)Japan (6)Indonesia (7)Guinea (8)Honduras
All tracks written, produced and performed by MoShang.
This recording was made at Starport Omega (Second Life) on May 9th, 2012.

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