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Jon Diercks

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Plays strange music on strange instruments. Works in IT, tinkers with tech in general. Dabbles in ham radio (K6DRX). Supports Ranked Choice Voting as a good first step toward better elections. #NuRAD #windsynth #EWI #re.corder #HamRadio #RCV

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Look for IFW and TWV2000 from Masanao Takeushi. Both are in limited beta and have been in slow development for several years, but they sound great.

18.05.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
LIVE WINDSYNTH at Mantra
YouTube video by Jon Diercks LIVE WINDSYNTH at Mantra

Highlights from my recent #windsynth live set at Mantra Wines in Novato, CA

29.03.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Homepage - FairVote FairVote is a nonpartisan organization working for better elections for all. We research and advance voting reforms that make democracy more functional and representative for every American, with a fo...

Thursday 1/23 is Ranked Choice Voting Day! Why? Because RCV is as easy as 1-2-3!

RCV gives voters more choice and more voice.
Learn more and get involved.

fairvote.org
www.calrcv.org

23.01.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Proton Services Status Welcome to Proton Services's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

Shout-out to @proton.me for the stellar job they did today on handling a significant service outage caused by a combination of technical issues. EVERY service provider should be as timely, thorough, and transparent with customer communications as they are!

status.proton.me

10.01.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes @andrewludtke.bsky.social bring on the #NuEVI and show us what you got! I'm a #NuRAD player; not many of us #windsynth people here on bsky yet, it seems.

04.01.2025 04:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Little experiment…
#physicalmodeling #windsynth
youtu.be/LhVMWYeQTlo

26.12.2024 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The more full-featured windsynths tend to have wider note range (more octaves), more sensors to send expressive control like bite pressure, and dedicated thumb controls for things like pitchbend, glide, and program change messages.

20.12.2024 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Glad you like the video. To be clear, most of what's being demonstrated in that video is NOT built-in functionality. The re.corder only outputs MIDI notes, breath pressure, and accelerometer info. From there I did a lot of additional work to get those results.

20.12.2024 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
artinoise re.corder - SUPERCHARGED with the power of MOZAIC
YouTube video by Jon Diercks artinoise re.corder - SUPERCHARGED with the power of MOZAIC

The best portable (super-compact) windsynth / breath controller I’ve found is the re.corder by Artinoise. Definitely not as sophisticated or powerful as my NuRAD or EWI4000S, but for its size it can do some impressive things.

youtu.be/PUd01b40XIw

17.12.2024 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Christmas Keys Rig - Jon's blog Here's the view from the keyboard rig at my church for this Christmas season.

The view from my keyboard rig at church for this Christmas season...

#keyboardist #christmasmusic #worshiparts #worshipmusic #worshipmusicians

diercks.net/jon/blog/202...

01.12.2024 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Heh, I still have boxes of old cassettes that I keep meaning to rip to digital someday
...
someday

24.11.2024 06:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My one-of-a-kind windsynth

#EWI #NuRAD #windsynth #electronicmusic

diercks.net/jon/blog/202...

21.04.2024 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Found one way to address this: a custom feed made in SkyFeed.app

11.01.2024 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(I also included searching for the actual phrase "ranked choice voting")

11.01.2024 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I made a feed using SkyFeed.app, and with regex matching it *does* let me search for posts containing #RCV but not just RCV:
RCV

11.01.2024 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

LOL that’s awesome. So far my ham rig consists entirely of a cheap baofeng HT and a hand-me-down mobile antenna, the magnet-mount kind designed to go on the roof of a car, but instead I stuck it to the rain gutter above my garage. :-) I’m able to hit a nearby repeater with that.

11.01.2024 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think part of the value proposition is the convenience of using # as a shorthand to both visually set the tag apart from other text and to trigger the click-to-search behavior.

10.01.2024 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

wow, you also apparently can't search by #hashtag yet either ... that is, searching for "hashtag" might find posts containing either "hashtag" or "#hashtag", but searching for "#hashtag" finds nothing.

10.01.2024 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Today I Learned: "Novato" (the town where I live) also means "newbie" en espaΓ±ol ... this makes searching in a multi-lingual place like Bluesky challenging ... especially when a LOT of people are talking about what novatos they are. :-)

#bluesky needs a "lang:en" or similar filter for searches.

10.01.2024 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

LOL no I don't djembe but I love to jam with those who do :-)

09.01.2024 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi, I'm new.

about Jon: Plays strange music on strange instruments. Works in IT, tinkers with tech in general. Dabbles in ham radio. Supports Ranked Choice Voting as a good first step toward better elections.

#NuRAD #windsynth #EWI #re.corder #RCV

08.01.2024 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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