{"id":114,"date":"2007-04-15T00:39:03","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T05:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/?p=114"},"modified":"2007-04-15T00:39:03","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T05:39:03","slug":"burning-man-gear-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2007\/04\/burning-man-gear-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man Gear update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I have the sequencer\/drum box figured out &#8211; I scored a Boss DR-202 for relatively cheap on the &#8216;Bay, and I&#8217;m liking it so far. It runs on batteries(bonus!), seems relatively easy to program, and you can use the footswitch input for a drum trigger (sorta).<\/p>\n<p>Now onto the &#8220;synth&#8221;. I&#8217;ve whittled it down to a few zillion possibilities, and have some definite requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DC power source. I don&#8217;t want to have to heft around a big battery AND an inverter just to power a synth while walking around. This probably rules out all Alesis gear(what&#8217;s with the 9VAC wall warts, anyway?), and a good chunk of Roland\/Korg\/Yamaha rack-type gear.  Battery powered would win (Yamaha MU5, I&#8217;m looking in your direction), but I&#8217;m not finding much within my budget available&#8230;\n<\/li>\n<li>If I could set a patch that&#8217;s a &#8216;split&#8217; (different parts within the same channel), that would be \u00c3\u00bcber-bonus. Since the DR-202 can only do external sequencing on one channel, being able to &#8216;fake&#8217; multichannel via this would be awesome.\n<\/li>\n<li>Keeping cost to a minimum would be good too, or I would have just bought something new. And heat my house by setting $20 bills on fire ;-). I have a pretty strict budget for this, and I should be trying to stick to it.\n<\/li>\n<li>A front panel of some sort would probably be good. At least enough to select the current patch. The Korg AG-10 seems to have a good sound, but it looks impossible to do anything with without a computer around, unless you like Grand Piano (aka GM voice 1)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s <em>loosely<\/em> what I&#8217;m looking for. Any suggestions?<\/p>\n<p>With any luck, I&#8217;ll be able to try out the rig at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangefest.com\/\">Strangefest<\/a> (the weekend after Memorial day)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I have the sequencer\/drum box figured out &#8211; I scored a Boss DR-202 for relatively cheap on the &#8216;Bay, and I&#8217;m liking it so far. It runs on batteries(bonus!), seems relatively easy to program, and you can use the footswitch input for a drum trigger (sorta). Now onto&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2007\/04\/burning-man-gear-update\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burning-man","category-synthesizers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}