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       Stardate: 20221107.2317
       Location: The Lab
       Input Device: Dell 7202
       Audio: H.R. - Singin' In The Heart
       Visual: Lab desk, X2GO session
       Emotional: m0ar awake than I should be.
       
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       This past Friday night, I busted my Synth Battle Royale [1] cherry 
       and joined fellow sdf members, abortretryfail, iiogama, ldbeth, and 
       smj in making synth sounds on aNONradio.  I thought I wasn't going to 
       make it since I tuned in late, but they still allowed me to join. :)
       
       My setup was not ideal and my mic did not work.  I also couldn't 
       really hear myself well since I had an earphone in one ear attached 
       to my cobbled mixer setup and the delayed aNONradio broadcast in the 
       other ear since I couldn't really tell if my audio levels were OK or 
       if I was transmitting or not.  I started hearing myself...a high 
       pitched tone, and so I proceeded to mess with the synths.
       
       I had the Werkstatt-01 and the PO-12 (rhythm) connected to the 
       KeyStep 37, with the audio going to a mixer and the output over to a 
       Raspberry Pi 4, like last time I was messing with this. [2]  Quite 
       frankly, I don't really know what I'm doing and just playing around 
       with the instruments.  I'll eventually learn how to use them in a more 
       intentional way, but for the time being, I'm just having fun making 
       noise and exploring the different functions without understanding too 
       much of how the sausage is being made.  That can come later.  Then 
       again, maybe that's why I still don't know much about music theory.
       
       If you are interested in hearing the battle, you can find it in the 
       aNONradio M E M O R E X [3].  My Round 1 trainwreck starts around 
       00:40:39 and my Round 2 is around 01:31:45.  Archives of past SBR 
       shows are available at the aNONradio.net site as well.
       
       If you would like to hear Synth Battle Royale live or even 
       participate, be sure to tune in on Saturdays at 0300 UTC during open
       mic!  Join in the chat in COM[mode] with the dambgudcyberchatterz 
       of the Internet's basement.  COM[mode] is available with your free 
       UNIX shell account at sdf.org.
       
       If synths are not your thing, there is open mic [4] where you can
       be the DJ, do spoken word, play a different instrument, read poetry, 
       sing karaoke, etc.  Be sure to check the programming schedule on
       the main aNONradio page for times.
       
 (HTM) [1] Synth Battle Royale
 (DIR) [2] 20221014_sbr
 (HTM) [3] SBR M E M O R E X 20221105
 (HTM) [4] Open Mic
       
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