Not necessarily, Richard Devine is primarily a sound designer not an artist and some of his sound design is amazing, the guy has provided sound design for some very big clients and is one of the top guys in his particular field
Senior Content Producer - Audio/Music Applications at Apple
he has done film score work for Touchstone Pictures (with John Hues & Kyle Cooper). He has also collaborated with BT (Brian Transeau on movie “Surveillance” Directed by Adam Rifkin, Odopod, Elias Arts, Wieden & Kennedy, AKQA Inc., and has worked on commercials for the Nike Shoe Company and worked with various companies doing sound design for Audi, BMW, Ford, Scion, Coke, LandRover, Peugeot, Dodge, HBO, Nestle, Nike Japan & USA, McDonald’s, Sprite, Spike Television network
In 2017 He created UI Sound Design and Ambisonic Environmental Audio for Google’s DayDream VR Platform/Google Earth VR.
I do think RDs dwarfs RDJs [you have to keep the synths out of it as its huge in its own right] RDs faking house has room after room floor to ceiling shit. people keep throwing at him to make sound banks for.
Here’s my newest desk I’ve been building on and off for the last few months. Its almost done, just need to clean up the end pieces of the top shelf from the dye that bled into the dovetails.
Wow awesome man. So if I see it correctly you’ve made a ton of power supply feeds or something in the wood?? Just a brick with a bunch of standard pedal power feeds behind it or something? Looks like that will look super slick
Actually, I’m also building a box (with a door) that attaches to the underside of the desk where I place whatever power supply for the unit I’m working with.
In the box there will be similar dc power jacks which route to those on top of the desk. I plug the power brick or wall wart (that came with my music device) in, inside the box . That routes the power to the jack on top and I use a short cable like the picture. It’s really just to clean up cables running all over.
The audio jacks route to the patchbay which routes to another central location for patching anything everywhere in the room.
I also have MIDI jacks up there which route to a central location as well as USB jacks.
I haven’t done the in-desk jack bit (which, slick, btw!) but I do have a USB patchbay set up so I can move stuff between the Bomebox/hub for normal routing and my laptop for firmware updates and such. They’re just normal telco keystone patchbays with USB keystone modules in them. Works great so far.
Psst, don’t say that too loud - just accept that you’re not smart enough to appreciate 20 minutes to one-hour “songs” that consist mostly of reverb tails and technically impressive but ultimately directionless beats.
Seriously, I absolutely adore every single Autechre release and I think exai is the best electronic album of all time but from elseq on they lost me (I’m sure they have a lot of sleepless nights over this ).
Autechre used to be so good at creating these fascinatingly complex, yet memorable beats and melodies in constantly changing song structures.
The new stuff is cool and all, but most of it doesn’t feel like a fully formed arrangement but like a bunch of ideas that weren’t finalized. I know that’s kind of the point of elseq and NTS but I hope there’ll be an album of more thought-out songs in the future.
I still like some of it a lot though - acdwn2, 7th Slip, M4 Lema,…but compared to the sheer brilliance of exai or oversteps/move of ten?
Changed up my Gorilla case last night and came up with this. At first I thought the orientation would make it a bit of a reach but with the back propped up it actually works well and feels fine.
I need to find a neat power solution, one psu for all three Elektron boxes would be preferable then an IEC splitter so just the one mains cable. Maybe fit an IEC socket on to the outside of the case along with Output jack sockets.
man, why couldn’t Clavia have put a nice display on that Nord instead of silk-screening a full manual page on the face plate, to tell you what all the abbreviations mean? would’ve looked so much cleaner. probably could’ve been a full rack unit smaller too.
you’re right, they have been doing it forever. it’s more un-wieldy with this generation versus the originals. it’s also more feasible to put in an actual display now than it was in 1995 (or whenever the first gen came out). but yeah… it is part of their aesthetic. and regardless, I still love 'em!
Here is a pic of my Amazon Echo studio and keychron k4 with sampling addon attached. It’s a basic setup but it’s great for alarms and turning my lights on and off.
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