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2025 updates by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/31/2025, 2:36pm PDT
It is funny to read posts I made back in 2018, I have learned so much since then.

Up until this week, I have a system going where I was able to take a Korg minologue Xd and either use it by itself or use it as a MIDI controller for a Behringer Model D and create sound. I have some demos that I have passed around, they are fine for what I was trying to do. I use Ableton, and it's absolutely unbearable from a UX perspective. I have chatGPT in a browser window, and when I inevitably get to a spot where Ableton should be letting me do something, I bang against chatGPT until I can get it to work. Ableton has the worst UX of any program I have ever used in my life.

I have a friend on JC (Aardvark) who keeps telling me to use Mixcraft as a DAW.

I worked a second job at a startup in like 2017 and 2018. I didn't do it because I was part of the r/Overemployed movement. I did it because I wanted more money than the day job I left was giving me, and then the day job I took because the first day job would not give me a raise. I went to an office for the day jobs. It was truly a "I am going to work 9 hours at an office, come home and work 4 more" thing. Unlike the Overemployed thing, where I believe they are working two jobs simultaneously and remotely. I had a few thousand dollars from this startup socked away, and I finally dipped into the last of it and bought a used Deckard's Dream.

I'm happy with this exchange of money for services 8 years later. The DD was shipped with the cards out and zip-tied. The audio out port does not work. So I was in DIY mode from the get-go. I am trying to find a local electronics whiz to help me figure out the issue. The phones jack DOES work and I can hear beautiful music and I have recorded some with it, into a Behringer UMC22 audio interface. I have all the grown-up toys for this thing. I am hinting to my wife that I'd love piano lessons for Christmas, but if not, I will just get some anyway.

Seeing how things map to programming is fun. I had ideas for games in my head years ago, but I could not program. I learned how to program. I was able to make those games. Now, Hugo the IF programming language does not hold me back. It took a long time, but I can do whatever I want inside it. I have ideas for songs in my head, I have the equipment and now it's just the learning to play the instrument which is holding me back. But it's fun, this is all fun.


There are things I want to try.

I want to try the thing where you take a wire in a Model D and connect it to itself or an outside source. Someone made a MIDI Sniffer program for DOS and I have both a PICOGus and the gameport / MIDI in and out card thing going around:

I made a new MSDOS utility, the MIDI Sniffer:

* takes in MIDI in
* reroutes to: MIDI out, PC Speaker, or OPL2
* supports polyphony

1/2

— 1Bit Fever Dreams (@1bit.bsky.social) 2025-10-24T16:16:15.000Z



I should also be able to have the PCjr output sound into the Model D. (Well, I have done that, but it doesn't do anything with the PCjr sounds - yet).

All of this a lot of fun. None of it matters if the songs are bad, but getting the connections going and all this equipment speaking to itself is fun on its own.
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Any of you ever pay for a new musical work to be made? by Mysterio 11/05/2018, 8:02am PST NEW
    How many hours do you think it will take to make this song? NT by $200 for a days work ain't bad 11/06/2018, 6:36am PST NEW
    It depends. by Fullofkittens 11/07/2018, 8:42am PST NEW
        FoK, are you up on synthesizers at all? by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/06/2018, 12:20pm PST NEW
            I am retracting this question until I learn more. I just realized everything I d by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/07/2018, 10:25am PST NEW
                Arturia CS-80V (software) 150 bucks, free demo by Entropy Stew 12/07/2018, 11:43am PST NEW
                    Re: Arturia CS-80V (software) 150 bucks, free demo by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/07/2018, 12:40pm PST NEW
                        Is your intent to have physical synths? by Entropy Stew 12/07/2018, 1:20pm PST NEW
                            Also: dealing with outboard euipment is a lot more complicated and $$$ NT by Entropy Stew 12/07/2018, 1:22pm PST NEW
                            Re: Is your intent to have physical synths? by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/08/2018, 9:37am PST NEW
                                Pro Tools Free is out by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/08/2018, 1:32pm PST NEW
                                    Abelton Live 10 is in by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/08/2018, 4:00pm PST NEW
                                Pro Tools was always more about recording mic'd up instruments than anything by Entropy Stew 12/08/2018, 3:56pm PST NEW
                                    Fuck Pro Tools and anything owned by Avid. (DAW recommendations!) by Fullofkittens 12/09/2018, 9:35am PST NEW
                                        Oh and I forgot about Reason by Fullofkittens 12/09/2018, 10:21am PST NEW
                                        Re: Fuck Pro Tools and anything owned by Avid. (DAW recommendations!) by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/10/2018, 8:36am PST NEW
                                            Re: Fuck Pro Tools and anything owned by Avid. (DAW recommendations!) by Fullofkittens 12/10/2018, 12:55pm PST NEW
                                                P.S. maybe I should have read the upthread conversation NT by Fullofkittens 12/10/2018, 7:38pm PST NEW
                                                Re: Fuck Pro Tools and anything owned by Avid. (DAW recommendations!) by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/19/2018, 5:19am PST NEW
                                                    Status so far by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/19/2018, 6:33pm PST NEW
                                                        You have to click the "play" button on each track, below where you think you are by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/19/2018, 7:22pm PST NEW
                                                        Think of MIDI like a programmer. by Fullofkittens 12/19/2018, 8:19pm PST NEW
                                                    Re: Fuck Pro Tools and anything owned by Avid. (DAW recommendations!) by Fullofkittens 12/19/2018, 8:31pm PST NEW
                                Would u guys get a Behringer Nitro or Behringer Model D all things being equal? NT by Jack Bauer 12/09/2018, 10:08pm PST NEW
                                    I assume you mean Model D or Neutron? Probably Neutron. by Fullofkittens 12/10/2018, 2:33pm PST NEW
                                        I got a Model D! I have questions. by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/04/2019, 11:07pm PST NEW
                                            Gonna need more details by Fullofkittens 01/05/2019, 6:18am PST NEW
                                                First part: by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/05/2019, 9:17am PST NEW
                                                    Re: First part: by Fullofkittens 01/05/2019, 9:48am PST NEW
                                                        FoK: sko greatest poster in forum history? by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/05/2019, 11:41am PST NEW
                                                            My pleasure, I learned this stuff initially from forum people as well. by Fullofkittens 01/05/2019, 1:16pm PST NEW
                                        Fuck, now I want a Neutron by Entropy Stew 01/11/2019, 8:11pm PST NEW
                                            Fuck, I bought a Minilogue NT by Entropy Stew 01/12/2019, 3:38pm PST NEW
                                                That looks neat. I wish I could justify another synth. by Fullofkittens 01/12/2019, 7:25pm PST NEW
                                                    First patch by Entropy Stew 01/13/2019, 2:04pm PST NEW
                                                        rad, reminds me of Carpenter Brut (which is rad) NT by Fullofkittens 01/14/2019, 4:47am PST NEW
                                                            Found a Blade Runner cover on a minilogue by Entropy Stew 01/14/2019, 8:26am PST NEW
                                                                Outstanding purchase. Now sell me your guitar. NT by Motherhead 01/14/2019, 1:27pm PST NEW
                                                FUCK, THEY JUST CAME OUT WITH A BETTER ONE by Entropy Stew 01/16/2019, 5:10am PST NEW
                                                    Upon listening to the video, might be more of a side-grade than an upgrade by Entropy Stew 01/16/2019, 5:25am PST NEW
    Korg SP280BK ? by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/18/2019, 8:59pm PDT NEW
        USB == you can plug it straight into your computer w/o owning anything else. by Fullofkittens 05/20/2019, 5:13pm PDT NEW
            Thanks again! by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/21/2019, 10:55am PDT NEW
    2025 updates by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/31/2025, 2:36pm PDT NEW
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