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Thanks, thats reassuring. I do have a far too complicated sound setup using sound control for different speakers and for different meeting systemsand for <ahem> Battlefield 4 </ahem>. Now I know it works, I'll make more of an effort. Rob

It's not working for me either, Firefox/Chrome/Safari on Mac M1 Mini. Will look further, and might even power up a Windows laptop as a last resourt I am getting different errors and wonder if my firewall is getting in the way. I'll look over the day. Rob

True. We’ll split the profits 50/50

Saw that at BT Martlesham Heath in the 1980s', they took the C Pre-Processor and wrote a lot of macros so it resembled Basic but was really in C. Debugging that garbage was painful. In the end, I taught them how to use C to save my own sanity.

Just perusing the MOD github and I'm guessing that this is all Linux on a small PC board (RockChip PX30) with a tiny bootstrap (U-Boot) to load it in on power on. I've also found https://github.com/moddevices/mod-organizational-kernel/blob/master/organizational-kernel.md which is difficult to read, especially when it talks about "heroic acts" and similar. I think I need to rotate my brain by 90 degrees to understand it I can see an awful lot of forked Linux kernel stuff (which is fine), also some Arduino stuff (not sure how that fits in), but can't (yet) find a component model or something that shows how it all links together. I could imagine this is a custom Linux kernel with a load of real time optimisations. I can't see all the repositories so there may be something thats lower level still but it looks a lot like a custom Linux build. The secret sauce may be something like Apple does with Mac OS X, its actually Darwin under the covers and that is freely published code, the secret sauce is OS X on top of it. I did find the release folder (https://wiki.mod.audio/wiki/Releases) and downloaded the latest mod_dwarf release. It is GPG signed so not sure if thats to guarantee that its not been tampered with OR it can only be loaded by the mod_dwarf hardware. I'm a bit hazy on GPG and signing.

Very dangerous day is pay day .... Thats normally the day when I get a tax refund from HMRC. Decisions, decisions, decisions, personally speaking I'd go Mod Dwarf as it looks so much fun. if they do go under, it wouldn't be that difficult to get either that plugin store or another one setup relatively quickly. There's enough of a ground swell on them that somebody would pick this up. The only thing that I can think of that would throw a spanner in the works would be if they digitally sign their plugins, similar to how Apple signs the IOS upgrades. I didn't see that when I looked at how to write a plugin for professional curiosity, however I didn't look too hard in that area. I will look agin though Rob

We? Who’s this we? 😀

His description is wonderful: “A new neck and almost new body, but my tools slipped a couple of times so there are some scratches. A full pro set up by me in progress but I spoiled the new high G string so that one is different. New musicman bridge and a musicman humbucker... plus Marshall Amp knobs.” I honestly think that the guy is a genius and this is all performance art. He's playing a part and playing it very well indeed. One day we'll find out this is all part of the Turner Prize award.

I've a load of ShadowFoam left over from a project. I used it for toolboxes and it makes a great place to put 3d printers on to muffle the noise. Each sheet costs me about £10, I reckon I could get 200 out of a sheet at £8 each (undercut the opposition), therefore that makes it £1,590 profit for a £10 investment. Beats working for a living. Rob

For the first time in quite a long time, I am lost for words. Just why?

Andy, I keep saying I will learn the skills necessary to handle sharp objects, but never get around to it. I do take your point about having a solid work surface and one day when I eventually clear out the garage of the assorted things in there that should be in the tip, I will build myself a decent workbeanch that is solid and safe to use. In the meantime, I am more than happy to watch other people do these clever things. Now if you want the firmware of your local router rewritten or you happen to need a new compiler, reach out.... 😃 All the best and don't slow down for me Rob

>> Then use chisels and carpenters mallet to accurately cut the outline to around 10 mm deep: Thats where I've been going wrong, I use the chisels and carpenters mallet to inaccurately cut out something thats fairly close to the outline and at variable depth between 5mm and 15mm. Basically the dog could have chewed the hole with more accuracy than me and hand tools... In all seriousness I love watching craftsmen work and explaining how they do it. I will never approach this level of ability, so I can appreciate this all the more. Following this thread with great interest. Rob

After a lot of to and fro with their customer support (who were very good), and downloading loads of different tones, playing through a Fender Jazz and an El Cheapo Precision Bass Clone I never managed to get it sounding like I'd like it to. I did try it with a Westone 6-string electric and the Spark Go sounded very good indeed and if I was just after a little practise amp for lead and rhytmn practise, I'd keep the Spark Go, no questions at all. Also playing songs through Bluetooth from my iPhone was very good. Not quite as good as my Bose Soundlink but not bad at all. I'm kinda tempted to keep it and give it to my daughter who is learning to play guitar but I have a little Marshall practise amp thats probably better suited to her. We also have a NUX Mighty Plug which is even simpler to use than the Spark Go, the NUX is headphones only but thats the tradeoff for such a small size. I think the Spark Go is a great little amp for just everybody apart from bass players, so it'll have to go back, which is sad, because it's got so many things going for it, just not for me Rob

No, no, must resist, must resist.....

This is why I shouldn't read Basschat when tidying my home office. I get distracted and start thinking stupid thoughts like "Mmm fancy a decent active p bass". Must resist and keep on tidying, must not look on guitarbuild.co.uk. .

Some people have said that I play the bass as I use a chainsaw, badly, dangerously and with little regard for anybody around me. Actually now I think about, just everybody says that.... I can state though, that up until now, I haven't lost any fingers playing bass, however I still have time. I did lose the end of my little finger in a non-music related accident, but I still don't play like Tommi Iommi though

Given the price of fuel (and wood pellets in particular) these days, I'd actually say it's quite cheap ....

Spark support have come back to help, likely to be the weekend before I get chance to pull a video together to demonstrate the issue. I would have thought other people on here would have a Spark Go and couldcomment. Rob

@Greg Edwards69 Thanks for the update, its on my list to try it out, My Ampeg has a line in, just time to actually do things seems difficult to find Do you simply take the stereo output and plug it in to the amp, or do you use an adaptor to combine them into mono or some other way of doing this. All information welcomed. Rob

Wow.... Hold on, I've got a bridge for sale somewhere

Just to blow your mind, apparently there is an Object Orientated Fortran. that’s way beyond my skill level as I’ve never used Fortran at all. Happy about that and will keep it that way. just downloaded FreeRTOS and will see if the pick simulator will handle it

Downloaded a fair few bass setups and the Spark Go is not much better, I have it on my desk and its not much louder than them. Music played through the iPhone is actually really good and loud enough. Playing through the bass is tinny and not good. headphones are better but I already have a NUX Mighty Plug. I really, really want to like this, but the bass guitar volume output is so low and so tinny, it's not usable in my view. The speaker is so small, I can't see how it can even pump out the bass. If anybody else has one on a bass guitar, let me know your views, otherwise it's not good enough and is going back. If it was £50-£60 I'd keep it for the iPhone, but at over £100, there are better bluetooth speakers. Rob

I still remember downloading Yyradsil (?) Linux via UUCP in the early 90's. It's come on along way since then. I have some verison of BSD on our FreeNAS server, no idea what it is as it just works and has never gone wrong. It sounds like you're now using n threads in the RTOS kernel to handle n buttons so letting the kernel handle the threads (and hence the buttons), so once you get one button thread right, the kernel will manage all the rest of the buttons on your behalf. Rather than solve a difficult problem, solve two simpler ones. Let the kernel do what it does best and you manage the details of the buttons. It sounds like you're then putting the output all those nice isolated threads into a single threaded queue, I was thinking why are you doing that? I was thinking "If the MIDI is ready then just send it". Does MIDI require headers and footers, so you need to know the packet contents before you send it, perhaps the number of midi commands or length, or does it have a start and end limiters, so you have to know what the start and end is? Therefore you have to have it all ready to package it up and then send it? Clearly you know what you're doing, so I'm assuming that you can't just send MIDi as-is directly, you need to know a bit more about it and prepare what needs to be sent, hence the thread safe queue. I'll read up on this. Thanks Rob

thanks. Will do so.