We’ve been to two (or three?) of his gigs, you never know what’s going to happen, I really recommend it
I’m so happy that dude gets to do what he loves doing cos he’s a legit wizard. He has been such a wealth of knowledge in my modular synth journey (addiction)
I always feel like he’s right on the verge of simultaneously getting crushed by his modular synths falling over, burned alive by the flame shooting module he forgot to leave out, and crashing out because he improved too hard … yet somehow he always survives to play another day.
Hah I didn’t think of that but now I’m surprised myself. Just all the little accidents I have had with making modules myself scares me enough to never really mess with high voltage, I know I’d end up zapping my heart if I started messing with tubes or something. It’s such an unforgiving hobby to negligence, the fire shooting stuff he does would cause me to burn my house down within the week. It sure is fun watching what he always comes up with though, the fire and the furby organ were mind melting
Love a bit of Sam
I need to get down south to visit his museum at some point
The MIDI’d organ alone has me checking the cost of getting to Ramsgate from the US.
Sam who? I would love to find more as I start my journey with an MPC one plus.
Sam “Look Mum No Computer” Battle. Check out his YouTube channel. I’m pretty sure he has a video that explains his whole modular setup.
His channel is fun
Just here to say this guy rules. He brings that diy/punk ethos to electronic music, makes a bunch of cool projects, and runs a museum of cool gadgets and curiosities. Seems pretty chill too!
*looks inside, sees computer. 😐
Where is the computer? All his stuff is analog circuits. While under certain definitions that is a computer, by most it is not.
He has a whole YouTube channel all about this and it’s well worth a watch.
I find it amazing he did not only perform the song live, but absolutely impromptu. They had to look up the lyrics for him and yet the song was awesome.
Of course he doesn’t have an actual PC running Windows, masOS or Linux but he absolutely has some digital circuitry in his rig, and some of it probably fit the normal definition of a computer (a cpu with some ram running a program saved in memory).
That LCD for example… analog lcd drivers just don’t exist.
I think you’re missing the point a bit.
In modern audio production, there’s nearly always a laptop or something involved. The alternative approach is known as a “no computer”/“DAW-less” approach, where you replace everything a computer would be doing, with outboard hardware.
Also worth highlighting It’s not necessarily about being 100% analog. For example, at the end of the day a eurorack trigger signal is obviously digital by nature, but it’s also nothing to do with a computer. You only need a couple of transistors, resistors and a capacitor to make a square wave oscillator after all
The screen you’re pointing out is part of an Arturia BeatStep Pro which is a MIDI controller. It is also probably the only thing in his rig pictured that comes close to that. Most of the modules in the rig have build videos on his channel, and you can see they are not dressed up raspberry pis or anything like that, and basically all analog components.
Now sure you could fence out a minimum viable computer definition that allows you to call anything with a microcontroller a computer, but you’d be including things like TV remote controls, car keys and microwave ovens.
Please note that I’m not the guy who snarkily posted that he « sees computer inside ». Also note that I expressed no opinion on the choice of name, which is in my opinion is very appropriate.
I was just replying to the guy who stated that LMNC used « only analog circuits » which is completely false.
When we’re talking electronic circuits, analog/digital does not mean computer-less/computer, you seem to be reasonably clear on this. And when it comes to the audio world, it’s the same. I can have a DAW-less 100% digital production rig : digital synths into a digital mixer, tracked to digital tape (or whatever other digital medium), using digital outboard fx.
Now yes, you are right, in laymen terms, LMNC does not use a computer (well he probably does to edit his videos but whatever XD), I think I was quite clear about this in my comment. But claiming that LMNC does use computers is not false per say either - although definitely snarky or pedantic.
Ah, apologies for the misunderstanding, I didn’t check usernames and did think you were the same person!
I think we’re more or less on the same page given the extra context
No worries 😉
Calling Analog synths and MIDI cables ‘a computer’ is like referring to sending an email as ‘sending a letter’.
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