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Wow, thank you so much!

Ha! Was playing around with a SID chip emulator the other day, so you never know ;-)

Hi there. Thanks, glad you like the video. The output is mono only, but you should still get signal out of both sides of a mini TRS jack like from headphones for example as the same mono signal is sent to both sides. Might be something like a dodgy solder joint or connection within the socket, so have a look if you are up for that sort of thing. If not, you should be able to use a splitter cable/adapter/mixer to split the 'good' side into two signals again. Hope this helps!

Thanks for listening

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Ha! I'm making a note about future video ideas! 😉

Thank you very much, love Boards Of Canada!

Awesome! Hope you managed to get some good stuff out of it.

Thanks Sean. You'll never guess what I just found on eBay :-)

@@StephenCaulfield ohhhhh buddy ur gonna have fun

Thanks! 😄

Hey there - thanks so much, that's so nice of you to say! I have a VSS-200 as well and I really like playing with that too. It has a read-out, which is handy for programming specific values, but I end up using the VSS-30 more because I actually found it more fun to just use my ears when making adjustments. One thing I really do like about the VSS-200 though that the VSS-30 can't do is resample the on-board sounds through the sampler. Great tips about sampling loops and playing them an octave down and I have to say (sorry to add salt to the wound) that this is one of my favourite things about the S950. There's something so distinct about the way it varies the clock speed to change the pitch of the sample that doesn't sound like most others samplers, and it sounds particularly good on samples that are pitched down.

Hey there! It has a minijack output (I guess for headphones primarily), so I used a minijack cable that split it into left and right 1/4 TS jacks. I tested the output and it is dual mono, so I just used one of the jacks into the pedals. I just left the other one unplugged. You have to be a bit careful with level of the output as it is line level, so could be too hot for pedals, so just bring down the output volume if you are getting unwanted distortion.

Hi there. Thanks for watching. Yes indeed, I took the output from the minijack and used a cable to convert to standard 1/4 TS jack. It has a stereo output, but I tested and it is just dual mono, so I just used one of the channels.

Thank you!

Thank you!

The NTS1! That’s a brilliant idea! Really glad you enjoyed the video, it was lots of fun to do. I’ve not heard of the microgranny, I’ll have to check it out.

Thanks!

Thanks Ollie, that’s really nice of you to say! Ha! I remember the PSS-170! We had a load of them at school and used to use them in our music lessons. I fell like I can still hear the music the demo button plays!

@@StephenCaulfield Haha yes I can still hear the demo too!

Lots of fun! Great little keyboard.

Great idea! I’ll see what I can come up with for a Pianobook library.

Thanks, I managed to grab some nice ones over the years. eBay should come with a warning 😋

@@StephenCaulfield ahaha, yeah, not only ebay.. man, I love the pianobook community

Thanks Steven! That Dimension C is great. One of those effects that as soon as I turned it on and played something through it I went - Oh that’s where that sounds comes from on all those records!

@@StephenCaulfield Does the C stand for Chorus? and if so, what does the D stand for in Dimension D? :D I never knew of this Boss Pedal. Might investigate as a poor-mand Dim-D

Thanks so much! I had a couple of the boutiques, but I kept getting annoyed by the 4 note limit so after a lot of searching managed to grab the real thing for a good price. I like having the Juno and the JX3P, as they both offer something different. The JX3P has a more options; the 2nd oscillator means you can do cross mod/sync and I love that you can do sample and hold from the LFO, and the overall sound is bright and very 80s in a pre-DX7 kind of a way. However the Juno really hits the sweet spot sound-wise for me. It just sounds incredible, even when just playing a simple pad sound. It’s also so simple that it’s very quick to use and tweak to get what you want.

Thanks Kevin. Really appreciate that!

Thanks! I’d forgotten what fun that sampler is.

Ah yes! Could be that one, or maybe the Casio one? Super fun!

@@StephenCaulfield Could have been the Casio I reckon. Very dinky and lofi but super fun.

Oh yes indeed. Over the past few years I have got very interested in more minimal compositions and production and I really enjoy the evolution of the sounds, particularly during the decay and tail, just as you said! Seems to suit my mood at the moment. I love Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm. I was lucky enough to get to see Ólafur at the Royals Albert Hall a few years back and it was a really wonderful and moving evening.

@@StephenCaulfield I personally know David Klavins who made these many beautiful pianos - Una Corda, The Giant - M370 and now M470 is standing at Ventspils music hall in Latvia. I met him in Hania Rani's concert in Ventspils, she was playing that big "monster" :) So this movement of deep feeling of strings and their sound - the birth of sound, growing and tailing... It always inspires, every note, every sequence :)

Thanks, really appreciate you saying so.

Thanks Stephen - much appreciated! I'm going to have a fiddle around and see if I can turn these samples into a Pianobook submission using the Monolith template.

Thanks Jim! Anything you'd be interested in seeing in future? I was thinking about doing a video on one of my other favourite toy instruments - the Onmichord. Possibly another one on the Akai S950 too.

@@StephenCaulfield The Akai sounds interesting. In truth all old synths are to me as I'm a guitarist really and missed them the first time round

Thanks so much, really glad you like it!

Thanks Laura!

Thank you, that's very nice of you to say.