John Topley

February 23, 2023

AI will kill the Web as we know it

Like many people I have been playing with ChatGPT lately. Like most programmers I am inherently lazy. I needed to create a user and a group in Linux and add the user to the group. This is a very simple task I only need to do once in a blue moon. If I needed to do it regularly I would go to the trouble of automating it. There are countl...
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August 1, 2022

Moog Mother-32 Notes: Blending Pulse and Saw Waves

Using the patchbay it’s possible to use both the pulse and saw waves from the VCO and blend between them. Procedure 1. Ensure the VCO Wave is set to Pulse 2. Patch the VCO SAW output to the EXT. AUDIO input 3. Adjust the MIX knob to taste
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August 1, 2022

Moog Mother-32 Notes: External MIDI Sequencing

By default sending MIDI data to the Mother-32 will play the internal sequencer pattern. In order to sequence the Mother-32 externally using MIDI I had to turn off the option to follow MIDI Start Stop. Procedure 1. Enter Setup mode by pressing (SHIFT) + RESET + SET END + STEP 8 2. Use the (STEP) arrow to select page 8 3. Press STEP 2 to...
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