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No, Gemini lol
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That’s a beautiful rig 
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That’s where those filthy wires belong tbh.
Sadly I’m always spaghettied out and rearrange my gear so often that I gave up on cable management lmao
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Love it, and love the fact that you were able to make such a clean setup with the pedal!
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To be honest I am jealous of your setup , I normally have plenty of wires going around stuff. I culled a lot of stuff to streamline things but I’m always a bit envious of the DAWLESS route. I remember having a casino sk1, a couple of rocktek pedals and
little maplin mixer when I first started as a kid. I sampled a hairdryer and put some fx on it and spent about an hour getting lost in weirdness.
So I always laugh to my self when I see your experiments as it takes me back.
One of these days I’m going to plug in all my pedals at once - 56 at last count and get the hairdryer out again!
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I have the Softstep, but have not put it to use yet. I was initially put off by what I recall as a not very user friendly PC program to set it up, but I may have to look into that again. Any recources you can point me to is appreciated.
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Please record it in video and share it with us!! Please please!
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None of this was easy to say the least. I’m new to Midi and CV not to mention the Soft Step as well.
This guy has two tutorials on mapping the Soft Step to Ableton which was helpful for sure. It’s definitely worth the effort. KMI SoftStep 2 tutorial - Part 1 - YouTube
I may have also had help from a friend. 
I’d say the most challenging thing about the soft step besides the not user friendly editor, is the lack of tactile feedback you get from a traditional button. Otherwise, this is an impressive piece of hardware and combined with the Dwarf I’m basically at the mercy of the CPU.
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This is my current setup at home. Guitars are in the corner on the other side.
My goal was to have something ultra portable without compromising on features, flexibility and sound - on a as low as possible budget. The iPad and touchMini most often are not part of the setup.
In the midst of the pandemic I “redesigned” my home office - got rid of a lot of stuff. As soon as I got the DWARF I set up a dedicated creative space. Everything is always set up and ready.
And when I head out to practice or to my studio I can just pack up everything into a backpack and get on my bike. Guitars and Monitors are at the other spaces too.
I’m still figuring out a lot of stuff and scenarios eg. the switch to Ableton, getting familiar with the LaunchPad and have a full band setup with e-drums, guitars and vocals only through the dwarf.
But this setup got really back into making music and not opting for the couch because of the time to set everything up.
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It lucks pretty slick @spunktsch! But with the work that you already showed us it really works! Well done! 
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I have currently torn apart the majority of my set up and will be buckling down on some of my gear.
I got my OXI One in last week, and boy, oh boy, has this thing changed my entire approach to my Strega.
I have a gimbal arriving today for my phone, and I’ll be recording some stuff showing how to use the strega and euclidean gate sequencing…
Turns out the Strega’s are just ugly ducklings. There is a lot of beauty in these synths with the proper patience and creative thinking. In fact, I found that I can generally make a 3 note chord with a single strega.
As always, MDX is a staple when using the strega’s. Having the ability to use custom envelopes is amazing.
Currently debating on effects chains today. Yesterday was getting everything arranged and learning more about the OXI. Edit: I’m now considering pulling out my CV controllable dreadbox filter pedal to gate sequence it 
The midi footswitch next to my mixer is the Bridge 6 by PirateMidi. I Kickstart and back a decent amount of music stuff, this company is still new and waiting for the actual app to launch so I can edit it lmao
Edit: got the gimbal, realized it wasn’t a perfect match for my needs. Snagged a tripod and that put me in business.
This will be how I present stuff in the future.
Currently working on patches, and using the Oxi to drive the strega. I can 100% make percussion with a strega.
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That is seriously cool and looks lots of fun. Need more cowbells though ; )
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I wish my fever could be solved by more cowbell.
I’ll tell you that I don’t need a cowbell to wear a tight fitting shirt and explore the space.
I’m gonna edit this post with some context lmao
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I can’t tell you all how much I am loving this rig. The desk is L shaped and powered. I have a memory setting for standing at the piano. The keyboard is just a Casio, but it has 88 fully weighted keys and seamlessly USBs to the iPad (usually) or the Dwarf (often) or the Mac (occasionally). The Dwarf is sitting on the keyboard in case you couldn’t spot it. Very easy to change both audio and MIDI plugs.
I’m just loving having the browser window always showing the Dwarf, and the Steinberg mixer on screen, and my choice of DAW on the main screen.
I spark up the fender amp less these days, but it’s a nice option. The Marshall is an all valve job, and often all I want is to plug the Les Paul straight into that and let rip
Such a killer tone that I really haven’t been able to recreate with anything else.
The floorboard with the expression pedal is a Roland GK-55 (not 33 as I said in another post). It needs a guitar with a GK pickup to plug in - but it then outputs a stereo signal from its synths and guitar modeler, plus the direct guitar signal, pass-through style.
The studio monitors are Presonus units. Lovely sound.
I use Garageband on the iPad and the Mac as well as Adobe Audition on the Mac. I’m still totally noob to the world of DAW stuff.
I watch endless Youtube vids about every aspect of this stuff. I’ve had a guitar for years, but all the rest of this stuff is very new.
Incredibly enjoyable just sitting down at this and learning/playing/creating.
When my pets leave me alone, that is.
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Lovely corner
I’m curious about how it sounds (with and without pets 
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“Tone is in the pet hair”
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Man I would love to have a sit stand desk. How does it go with all the cables?
I have the same ones (eris 8?), they are really impressive for the price. Much better than yamaha’s and KRK’s in the same price range IMHO
I’m an Ableton Live user myself but I do also use Adobe Audition. I feel like it’s a hidden gem not many people talk about but it’s really good for batch processing audio files and stuff. It also has some pretty decent noise removal and other processes for repairing audio
What’s the bass guitar? it looks nice
Also nice printer! haha
Gotta love the furry studio friends too, very jealous
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