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Call me Synthnerd

@nerdysynthdude.bsky.social

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Self-taught electronics boffin, synthesizer wrangler at Skald Modular, ex-writer, ex-medievalist, sometime photographer. When I'm not making things go boop in the night, I'm trying to be some moss on a tree or mulch or something. & Neurospicy.

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Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · 2d

Pottering along with some old 486 repairs. New RTC and some trace fixes this time. I'm not too familiar with computer repair so this is an education.

A new RTC soldered on to an old 486 motherboard. My soldering is terrible, mostly. Cross your fingers it works.

Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · 3d

14 years of excellent service but now beyond economic repair, not least because Firewire is about 85 years out of date. Time for a change. Which annoyingly means finding a shit load of money. Sigh.

My trusty old Zed R16 is now more kaput than i can really be arsed with. Goodbye old friend.

Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · 4d

Ah thank you, I shall look those up.

Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · 4d

Any #mycology fans here? I'm new to this and haven't been able to ID these two. The first two pics are a #mushroom found in a deciduous woodland clearing, the third is a little cluster half eaten by beasties in my garden (both northern UK).

#fungi

A cluster of thimble sized mushrooms in grass, yellow stalked, conical tops, with a dusty brown texture. They've been nibbled by beasties.

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Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · 4d

Of course the GOAT of music gear sites from back in the day was/is machines.hyperreal.org

The art of drawing schematics in ASCII is practised too little now I fear.

music machines

machines.hyperreal.org

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Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · 5d

YES

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Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · 10d

"I already recapped it"

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 10d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 10d

"The chancellor approved it"

Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · 12d

Check Discord 😉

Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · 12d

Future Music, issue 21, July 1994, page 50 😎

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Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · 12d

Ooh. Now an ancient classic. Lots of DX7 on this one. I remember a couple of decent interviews about the recording of it back on the day, probably on muzines now.

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Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · 17d

More shrooms.

Ok so this looks just like a potato. But it's a mushroom.

A cluster of what i think are Heath Waxcap. The only ones i think I've identified.

Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · 17d

Having all these different mushrooms on my garden makes me way more excited than literally anything else in my life rn tbh.

I have no idea what this mushroom is. But it's palm sized, and looks like a good place to live.

These are two tiny parasol shaped mushrooms. Spindle and smol. I have no idea what they are.

More trying spindle ones but canary yellow!

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Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · 17d

Dotted pages are the one true... pages.

Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · 19d

Extra elastic for Riker...

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SyReN @synthresearch.bsky.social · 26d

Registration reminder:
SYNTHposium
Saturday 11 October 2025
LEEDS, UK
09:00 - 22:00 (UK)
Food and refreshments will be provided for ticket holders
Bar open from 5pm

Registration:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-xm...

Full details:
synthresearch.org/symposium

www.ticketsource.co.uk

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SyReN @synthresearch.bsky.social · Sep 5

Registration is now open for the Synthesizer Research Network "SYNTHposium", to be held in the School of MUSIC, University of LEEDS, UK on Saturday 11th October 2025.

Registration is FREE, but compulsory:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-xm...

Further information:
synthresearch.org/symposium

www.ticketsource.co.uk

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Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · Sep 10

Ah this is news to me, and very local! I did my MA on that street 😃

Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · Sep 6

It's not perfect but it seems ok. I've spent the last couple of weeks looking at options for editing text from the command line rather than a gui, on both the pi and a recently resurrected old Mac running Ubuntu.

Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · Sep 6

I've set up a Pi with touchscreen and Wordgrinder so I can be a terrible hipster in the café and tippytap on a 60% mech keyboard like I know what I'm doing.

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Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · Sep 2

Good to know. I'm starting to dabble with ms and grabbed sublime but haven't used it in anger yet.

Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · Sep 2

Is vim good for markdown? Have you tried neovim?

Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · Aug 29

A film where the edits make a surprising difference. I like the work print, but the SA scene always feels wrong. And of course none of them resemble the book.

The main problem with BR is that every other synth demo on YouTube is some geezer playing *that* line on a microkorg recorded on a potato.

Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · Aug 29

Christ on a bike 🤬

Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · Aug 16

Some of it's not bad.

Call me Synthnerd @nerdysynthdude.bsky.social · Aug 15

After wasting an entire evening I have come to the conclusion that Linux is for terrible people only.