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Weird device surfaces
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:21 pm
by Peter Drake
While I appreciate the fine work that third party developers do for scope, there are quite a few, um, idiosyncratic, surface designs. For fun, I'm posting this blast from the past that burns my eyes. Presenting the ARS Resonar Sonoquid:
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Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:23 pm
by Peter Drake
Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 6:06 pm
by dawman
Mary Jane Delay was also pretty something or other...
Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 11:27 pm
by dante
u mean this
- Ganja Dub Delay
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Some plugs these days feature THD - but this Ganja Dub Delay features a previous generation version called THC
Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 12:40 am
by Peter Drake
Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 12:45 am
by Peter Drake
Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 12:47 am
by at0m
Also the devices released by John Cooper, original host of these forums at
https://www.planetz.com, were quite original designs!
This reminds me, I no longer have these in my Devices folder, might dig them up again
[edit: here's one screenshot thanks to
archive.org planetz capture, more via the archive url]
Great original idea for a thread
Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 2:29 am
by Spielraum
oh yeah! i can still remember the device "millenium bug"
these were free radicals
+ dp open modules → check maryjane
+ photo-projectwindow-modules were possible (cw)
++ daily new material
+++ wonderfully adventurous
+/- today many max4live fumble (very cool, but native...)
Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 3:00 am
by astroman
They developed multitouch designs more than a decade before tablets appeared...
Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 4:37 am
by at0m
A round of applause for OP. Grab the opportunity to load up Wavelength ClapLab!
WL Mutant - personally I prefer more usable control surface but what a lovely design!
and WL Microkit,
looks small but sounds big!
Mostly dynamics effects. d-comp and Final Liza probably amongst my favs. d-comp, neve style simple controls - but who needs more when there's auto-makeup!
De`vice Infinilooperererererrrrr
For reference, a modular1 patch. Over 20yo, and still works!! Go try and run your other software from back in the day now. Hah!!
Paul Tanti, worldfamous on planetz as EarlyFirst, was best known for his reverbs. Here, 2 of them. The biggest, and the smallest:
Then there was a couple of devices that had such a mad design, they play in their own league. Panels opening panels opening nested panels, that kinda stuff. Beautiful nonetheless:
Another from WL, here's Tubeflute. Toggle switches on the tiny central panel open the adjacent panels.
Here's spacef's Moonlight. Not your every day delay! Smoke only when no urgent matters are foreseen the coming time, cos once you're out there there's no quick coming back!
This one is the light version, in a synth. What you can do with "just one subosc"! If you ask me, that's not just a subosc you're looking at:
Synchrotron. Main panel has the device name, and opens many other panels. Some of which, like the Pattern panel, open other panels yet again:
(images hosted on imgur,
https://imgur.com/a/nqjaIka has the full page)
Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 7:11 am
by yayajohn
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Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 12:24 pm
by dante
Slightly OT as not Scope but Waves - but it looks cool
- Butch Vig Vocals
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Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 6:01 pm
by Bud Weiser
dante wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 12:24 pm
- but it looks cool
butch-vig-vocals.png
Yes ... this too ...
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... and I recognized there´s a "plugin" somewhere ...
Bud
Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 8:01 pm
by Peter Drake
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Looks fairly normal until you try to read some of those controls. Might be in Klingon, but to be honest I'm afraid to ask.
Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 6:32 am
by yayajohn
The flames animate when you click on it
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Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 6:57 am
by yayajohn
Who's Mo?
Mo Zart?
- Mo's Tempo Delay.JPG (30.51 KiB) Viewed 9070 times
Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:17 pm
by yayajohn
derknott had a great collection of unique designs. Rather than posting all of them, here is a PDF with some listed with descriptions.
Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 3:22 pm
by Spielraum
Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:38 pm
by Peter Drake
yayajohn wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:17 pm
derknott had a great collection of unique designs. Rather than posting all of them, here is a PDF with some listed with descriptions.
Some of that derknott stuff loaded the graphics really weirdly on my system, like with the meters floating off in space apart from the rest of the device, and the button to close the surface way off someplace else. Alas, I cannot post an image because the offending devices are long gone. I've never seen that .pdf though, I'll add that to my manuals for future moments of confusion
Re: Weird device surfaces
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 3:46 am
by spacef
It is Klingon indeed
Peter Drake wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 8:01 pm
SpaceF Filter Racks.JPG
Looks fairly normal until you try to read some of those controls. Might be in Klingon, but to be honest I'm afraid to ask.
That's such a cool thread.