#aaaargh

[funshine-1082]

WHAT IS WITH THE INFLUX OF BOTS!!!!????!!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!

[gummyrie]

i want sushiiiii

[pervertedandrotten]

wanna numb myself into death

[mysynthfetish]

Sometimes life gets in the way...

I can't remember when the last time I posted something on here was. In the interim, I sunk into a deep abyss of depression and isolation, alone in my own household, alienated from my family, ostracized by the mother of my two wackoloon daughters who are now both in uni. I have dreaded going to work for the past few years, ached to find a way out of the education (edutainment) industry, even though I am not an Engrish teacher (I work at a private elementary school with an international program where we teach almost everything in English). Being in the classroom surrounded by my goofy students was the only respite, because I love them very much, they're so silly and unpredictable. But outside the classroom, the desk work and bullshit was killing me. Fast forward to last year, I discovered the J gov has a window through which they hire locals to work on US Military bases, but it's also open to US Citizens who are permanent residents. I applied then budgets evaporated (thanks, repugnicunts). Fast forward to February, when outta the blue I get a call from the head of a certain office at Yokosuka who asked "Hey we were wondering, would you like to do an interview?" Long story short, I got the job, am leaving teaching this month, and start at Yokosuka the 16th of next month as an interpreter. Fuck Yeah. I hope this turns my headspace around.

But two weeks ago this happened.

Found on yahoo auction for about ¥22,500 (ridiculously cheap in USD). Listed as-is, many buttons and sliders not working, screen has visibility issues, no guarantees. Had the original box though. I bought it. Bought replacement tact switches and soft tact switches for under the 'keyboard' and 5mm yellow LEDs to put where the TR-style 'running LEDs' go just for the fuck of it off Jamazon. It arrived, I turned it on, the screen was not nearly as bad as I expected, it was legible. All the sliders worked. One normal tact switch was dead, all of the 'keyboard' soft tact switches were sketchy. Desoldered everything that needed to go, put the new stuff and LEDs in, fired it up, and everything works like new. AND it had a Roland memory card stuck in the slot! Fuck yeah!

New soft tact switches and LEDs. See if you can spot the normal tact switch that was replaced (it has a black button). I was a bit shocked at how absolutely filthy the thing was, so I cleaned the shit out of it. Then came some machine love BDSM.

Busted out the 14mm OD 11mm ID 3mm thickness silicon hose from Jamazon and slapped the shit outta.. um.. no actually that was something else, ahem. You see, what happened was..

The knobs get super wobbly on these, so if you cut a 6mm give or take piece of hose and push it down in like you see in the above photo, the pot gets secured to the chassis and the knobs don't wobble anymore. I saw this on a YouTube video, and the shit works!

This is the second MC-505 I've had. I thought "when was the last time I had fun doing music?" and the MC-505 popped into my head. I had a look on the auctions and they were selling for between 500 and 700 JP bucks (¥50,000 - ¥70,000) waaaaay outta my budget. So seeing/finding this one and being able to resurrect it for like 20 JP bucks was really fucking awesome. I love the synth engine, which is basically a JD-1080 with a ridiculously stripped down waveform selection, which is a shame. When I had the thing apart, I found an empty solder pad section for a receiving slot for an SR-JV expansion card!!!? ROLAND SHAME ON YOU!!!!! If they would've gone through with that, this would have been so much more powerful of a machine. What a wasted opportunity. In any case, I have the lifetime license for the JV-1080 soft synth, and have been looking at how my favorite sounds from that are made, and have been fairly successful at re-creating them on the MC. Same fucking parameters!!! Some sounds are impossible, especially ones that rely on the rhythmical looping oddball waveforms like frogs and crickets or weirdo shit like that that makes great soft background filler for dreamy pads, aaaargh. But otherwise, I'm glad to be noodling around again.

Hope y'all out there are doing as best you can. Next post will be from Yokosuka!

[emilialikescars]

the magic pitstop guys fail when it matters the most. obviously.

[pulchrasilva]

AND THEN TODAY. ONE OF THEM TELLS ME I SHOULD RECOMMEND MORE FILMS FOR US TO WATCH AS A GROUP?? HONEY IM NOT RECOMMENDING YOU A SINGLE SONG LYRIC LET ALONE A WHOLE FILM

[gummyrie]

currently laying on the floor on account of not beinf able to sleep

[polyporpoising]

"eureka! i've finally got it figured out," she says, 5 seconds before her theory falls apart in front of her eyes.