Thursday, July 31, 2025

Gorumfular Mathematics

Behringer Neutron reset procedure:

Factory reset procedure:
Wile pressing the "OSC SYNC", "PARAPHONIC" & "KEY TRK" buttons, power on the Neutron. The LFO LEDs should display a pulsating pattern.

Pot calibration:
While the LFO LEDs are pulsating, turn the OSC1 Shape pot fully counter-clockwise and the OSC2 Shape, LFO Shape, LFO Rate & Porta pots fully clockwise. When the pots have been correctly positioned, press VCF "MODE" and LFO "KEY SYNC" simultaneously.


The image shows a close-up of a hand holding a four-leaf clover by the stem between the thumb and forefinger. The clover is bright green, with four distinct, rounded leaves. The background is slightly blurred, showing a lush, grassy area with hints of sunlight, suggesting an outdoor setting. There is a dark object partially visible at the bottom right, possibly a shoe.
The first four-leaf clover I'd ever found. (Oddly, I found another one a couple weeks later. Ain't seen another since.)

Arbitrary symbolism is a linguistic doctrine that predicts an orthogonal relationship between word forms and their corresponding meanings. Recent corpora analyses have demonstrated violations of arbitrary symbolism with respect to concreteness, a variable characterizing the sensorimotor salience of a word.


Monday, July 28, 2025

Sixty Now

Visiting pigs for my 60th birthday.

I'm kinda interested in these shelf EQ's by Neumann. There are numerous versions out there. Link Audio Design makes the W92X which is a 500-series module. As far as I can tell, the circuit is fairly simple and straightforward (although uses a lot of parts because rather than infinitely-variable potentiometers it uses switches.) They're just under 400 Euros assembled.

The Link Audio W92X 500-series module.

New Systems Instruments makes a number of interesting-looking Eurorack modules. Here is a quad M/S encoder/decoder. An oddity with Eurorack is that the input and output voltage standards are different from both prosumer and professional audio. 



Output Swing−10V–+10V peak
Input Range−10V–+10V peak
Input Impedance94kΩ
Output Impedance150Ω
Output Drive600Ω (min), 2kΩ+ (ideal)