I’ve met some musically inclined peoples at the space and while my own skills are moderate at best I would love to collaborate with fellow SLMS members.
I see this as an offline + online group where by we can meet at the space sometimes and see where that takes us, along with an online space to exchange work files and stuff.
Personally, I have no desire to merge into any external non-slms groups. So would love to form our own group.
I own bought copies of FL Studio, Logic, Ableton 9, Renoise, and some nice audio packs like superior drummer and omnisphere 2, along with a subscription to splice for samples library. I have a couple of decent studio mics and some small midi keyboard/drumpad devices and a desire to make some synthesizers in the future.
I’m probably up for that but concerned a few others may see it as taking over the space 
sorry couldn’t resist
Not at all - so long as there is a clear consensus for this happening, we are much in favour.
This would be great!
In depressing reality I will be spending quite a lot of time trying to get my own musical projects finished for a live performance/album release at the moment and for the next few months so will be a bit limited in how much time I have until the autumn, but this is pretty central to what I wanted to use SLMS for.
Not much of a live player, but definitely up for building synths, offering up tracks for remix, or remixing things, or collaborating on a track, or making tracks with synths the group built, or bringing down a bunch of MIDI controlled gameboys… Or anything to do with electronic music pretty much, especially lofi/DIY.
Actually got shared some schematics for building a simple cv controlled analog synth with a filter from basic components from a friend the other day…
If there’s interest maybe we could get the group together to do a group build of something like that in the future… (that’s just an idea, interested whatever form this takes really!)
tempted to register a domain,such as:
southlondonmusicsubspace /com/org/net/whatever
I have an unfinished modular synth project which I started about 4 years ago. I think that will be coming back on to the table when I’ve finished my current project.
I have so far built 2 and a half modules from yusynth.net, but did a lot of excel work to figure out a BOM from selecting a number of his modules.
A friend once had a Korg M1 with a joystick which had pitch on one axis and modulation(?) on the other. You could make some eerie sounds.
Am I right in thinking that MIDI enables the assignment of any sample as an electronic ‘instrument’? So ‘notes’(keys) on a keyboard or other device would change the pitch of the instrument?
Also, just had a thought that the 3D printer and/or other devices in the space might have musical applications. Either from the sound they actually make or by translating the code/motion into a sound or light display
MIDI is basically a communication protocol that transmits “events” (in a very general sense). But basically, if you can hook two things together with MIDI, and you can program the things in some way, you can do more or less anything.
there’s quite a lot of mileage in using one of these:
to record the electromagnetic signatures of things (the 3D printer for example). You get some pretty otherworldy and industrial noises.
Pretty sure such a thing is relatively simple to make as well (I was just lazy and bought one)
on the MIDI front, basically what Callum said - you can in theory translate anything - x/y co-oridnates, temperature, light levels into a MIDI value from 0-127 and then use that value to control anything else with a bit of work.
for example:
as suspected not all that tricky!
I’ve got one somewhere
sample EVERYTHING!
here’s one project I got up and working recently between home and SLMS…
MIDI-via-Teensy controlled YM2149 chip (as used in the Atari ST). It’s now in a box too, but I don’t have a video of that!
Fun fact: it’s permitted to use MIDI to control pyrotechnics. But not DMX.
@tomnewsom - any progress on your robot drummer ? 
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this seems like the right place to post this - finished the first project I started in SLMS - modifying a super famicom so that it becomes a MIDI controlled gameboy with clean audio outs and a nicer screen/video cap:
i love that so much
Count me in, I’m a musician. I’m setting up a small project studio in Lee and tend to do maker-related stuff at the space, but do music proactise elsewhere, maybe we could hire a rehearsal space once we made something