Thread by @Foone, has anyone looked into building a modular synth that uses cooked spaghetti [...]

has anyone looked into building a modular synth that uses cooked spaghetti as patch cables or do I have to do everything myself

remember, like technology connections said: insulators are a lie.

everything is conductive
the only question is: how much?

getting mad at the internet again for FAILING ME

https://twitter.com/baljemmett/status/1385872388471074816

https://twitter.com/baljemmett/status/1385872388471074816

I've heard DSL is just using the copper as a waveguide and what is pasta but a starchy waveguide?

here's the real question

you may say ravioli but that is because you are a fool with no vision

I was looking at pictures of types of pasta and there was fisarmoniche which looked like it might be good so I google image searched it and, well, at least there are keyboards?

fisarmonische is italian for accordion, apparently.
and the english name for fisarmonische is just accordion pasta.
although personally due to strongly held religious beliefs I prefer discordian pasta

anyway next time I can go to the store I think I'm going to buy a bunch of pasta so I can make a keyboard where instead of keycaps it has vertically mounted rigatoni

("vertically mounted rigatoni" was also my nickname in college)

also I want to build an accordion keyboard.

not like a musical keyboard, a computer keyboard. and not doing any lazy thing like mapping the musical keys to letters, but just mounting a full on QWERTY on there

my bad idea to make it work like an accordion:
no batteries, wireless

but instead of pumping it to make sound, the bellows push air through a generator, allowing it to have enough power to send keypresses over wireless

I love the complete lack of understanding of context that google images shows.
like, if you search "accordion bellows" like I did to confirm they are actually called that, you get pictures like this and this and this

and this?
HOW BIG IS THIS ACCORDION?

"do I need them?"
NO I DON'T THINK YOU DO
(UNLESS YOU ARE BUILDING AN ACCORDION)

this vectorman has large legs and no understanding of the complexities of playing the accordion

even I, a rank amateur at the sport, knows that your hands need to be on the instrument to play it

this video tutorial can tell you some advanced techniques to improve your game

I didn't know until today but there are electronic keyboards which emulate accordions and their control layout absolutely slays me. it's so cursed.

it's like that weird Creative keyboard that was a computer and musical keyboard at the same time

they made a couple of those and they always came with a little keyguard for the musical keys but I choose to believe no one used those and the keyboards were always active as a pipe organ synth

playing CSGO and the computer is just playing a continuous C# note the entire fucking time

the internet is full of scaremongering
asian accordions are coming to steal your data! yeah sure

QWERTY? Dvorak? Colemak?
Overrated.
The only keyboard layout I trust is the Chromatic Button B system.

give me that C♯EGA♯C♯EGA♯C♯EG layout, baby.

fancy colored keycaps on this CRUMAR CORDATRON
see this is why musicians are universally considered to be cooler than computer geeks.
has anyone ever made a computer with a name that cool? NO.

I don't know what those little electric organ tilt-switches are called but I want to find out and get a bunch of them.

ooh, or those longer ones which I suspect are almost ironically called "piano keys"

warning: this picture from ebay is so low quality and cursed that you may die in 7 days.

I had a great-aunt (I think? she may have been a regular aunt, but once removed) who had one of those in her house which was from the 70s and beautiful and the switches were amazing and I was like 7 and being told not to play with it

which was terrible because OH GOD THE LOVELY SWITCHES

they probably told me to stop playing with it because it was Making Noises which is understandable.

"oh hey that's a neat picture, can I see it bigger than 240 pixels wide so I can learn more about it?"
image source: pinterest
"no then, great, understandable have a nice day."

that is a good electric organ. it has like 4 different types of buttons on it and possibly a floppy drive

fact #1: do not let a kid play with this organ. they will make a terrible sound and then explode

this one has tilty switches and light up circles and two keyboards and two sets of pedals and it's midi and woodgrain and has a floppy drive and I AM GOING TO EXPLODE WITH EXCITEMENT

it's also 10,000$ and it works with Hauptwerk which I think is a german dance many people find disrespectful to do in church

I like how electric organs clearly have a razor-blade style arms race going on with how many keyboards they have

organs are cool. you just need one keyboard though, right?

pfft, foolishness. You can play twice as many notes if you have two keyboards

you think you can get buy with only two keyboards? foolishness. three keyboards is the way to go.

I'm sorry I can't hear you over the sound of my FOUR KEYBOARDS

I want my next computer to look exactly like this

FUCK EVERYTHING WE'RE DOING FIVE KEYBOARDS

YOU ELECTRIC PEASANTS THINK YOU'RE COOL?
SIX. COUNT 'EM.
LARGEST OPERATIONAL PIPE ORGAN IN THE WORLD, BABY!

it's possibly the largest operational musical instrument in the whole world

and it's located inside a Macy's mall in Philadelphia

absolutely love the era when electric organ makers were like "hey we should make these things look modern! that would be a timeless, futuristic design!"

TIMLESS, I SAY!

WALMART I HAVE SEVERAL QUESTIONS

you can't fool me
this is just star trek

ahh, is that how they build multi-keyboard electric organs? I never would have guessed

farfisa had some cool design

more computers need to have woodcut panels like this built into them. enough with the RGB lighting and vinyl cut-outs.
WOODCUT PANELS.
MAKE YOUR COMPUTER LOOK LIKE IT BELONGS IN A CHURCH

too many people are building "sleepers" to have a modern computer with that 80s styling.
good start, but not far enough.
don't make it look like it's from the 1980s
make it look like it's from the 1880s

"ooh but I want RGB"
CAN DO

DIGITAL HAUPTWERK
instead of the little mechanical pull-out valve things that I used to know the name of, it's got... two Windows Vista tablets?

MINIMALISM ORGAN

I used to play bass for the Thumb Pistons

look, there's only three indicators you need.
1. Signal
2. Wind
3. Tutti

I love the organs that are using the Hauptwerk software
because it's all "this thing was hand-made by master woodcrafters in the 1920s and THIS is a 14" Dell LCD we have running the MIDI software

apparently those switches are called "rocker tabs" or "rocker stops"

ACCOMP TRANS
CALLI-
OPE TUNING

PIANO TO RINKIE TINK, COME IN RINKIE TINK, THIS IS PIANO, CAN YOU READ ME?

Tom Bass was my stage name in the Thumb Pistons, btw.
Phan- Tom Bass.

what the fuck is perspective

Bow Down, Rocker Switches!

hey foone how would you rate electric organ rocker tabs, on a spectrum of how good they are?

rocker tabs fit into a stop rail.
maybe I'd have better luck looking into Stop Rails

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the secret heart of any electric organ: a set of multimedia speakers from a 1998 Compaq Presario

our big hit with the Thumb Pistons was SAMPLE ROCKER, SAMPLE ROCKER, I'M JUST A SAMPLE ROCKER, BRO!

wax on, wax off

yeah I don't really know either

interesting. Syndyne, who still makes this stuff, has some rocker tabs and it turns out they mount on Stop Action Magnets, which are reed switches with solenoid control