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Critter & Guitari’s 5 Moons is a wonderfully wooden multitrack recorder
Critter & Guitari has made a name for itself by releasing quirky and highly musical gadgets, like this video-based synthesizer, and now the company is back with a multitrack recorder that prioritizes simplicity and ease of use. The 5 Moons also continues the company’s pristine record of making visually distinct devices, due to its attractive wood enclosure made entirely out of pine.
Underneath the hood you’ll find a powerful 48KHz 16-bit sampler and enough storage for around 20 hours of samples and compositions, via an 8GB microSD card. As the name suggests, this is a five track device, but don’t let that dissuade you from making complex compositions with dozens of instruments, as you can easily bounce everything down over and over again.
This musical block of wood does not include a screen of any kind, so everything is handled via the sliders and accompanying buttons, but the interface seems easy to use, with dedicated buttons for most tasks like bouncing, looping and perusing sounds. The company says the 5 Moons is great for making simple enclosed loops and for composing long-form pieces. Looping is no great mystery, but creating longer works does require a certain level of expertise regarding various button and slider combinations.
To that end, you can easily send projects to the DAW of your choice via a USB-C connection for finishing touches, and this connection also powers the device. Transfers go both ways, as you can send projects from your computer to the 5 Moons for additional processing, looping and creative tomfoolery. Critter & Guitari says this feature is a great way to start a unique new track or to “re-envision and remix” prior tracks.
You can run external instruments directly into 5 Moons, like the company’s own Organelle S, thanks to a ⅛-inch monophonic input. The rear also includes a ⅛-inch monophonic output if you want to send the signal out for external processing or to speakers when playing live. Playing live with this thing should be a blast, as it weighs only five ounces, though it does not feature a built-in battery.
Critter & Guitari’s 5 Moons multitrack recorder is available now for $325.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/critter–guitaris-5-moons-is-a-wonderfully-wooden-multitrack-recorder-193616586.html?src=rss
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New HomePod Can Still Stain Some Wooden Surfaces
In a side-by-side test, he showed that the white second-generation HomePod left a white ring on the wooden surface that he placed the speaker on, although the stain was fainter and took longer to appear than the one under the original HomePod.
In a support document first published in 2018, Apple acknowledged that speakers with vibration-damping silicone bases can leave mild marks on some wooden surfaces as a result of oils diffusing between the silicone base and the table surface:
It is not unusual for any speaker with a vibration-damping silicone base to leave mild marks when placed on some wooden surfaces. The marks can be caused by oils diffusing between the silicone base and the table surface, and will often go away after several days when the speaker is removed from the wooden surface. If not, wiping the surface gently with a soft damp or dry cloth may remove the marks. If marks persist, clean the surface with the furniture manufacturer’s recommended cleaning process. If you’re concerned about this, we recommend placing your HomePod on a different surface.
Apple has yet to update the support document to mention the second-generation HomePod. The issue does not affect the HomePod mini.
Check out our HomePod review roundup for additional impressions of the speaker ahead of its launch on Friday. Most reviews said the new HomePod sounds very similar or virtually equal to the original model, and noted that many of Siri’s shortcomings when the HomePod first launched in 2018 have since been resolved. Nevertheless, Siri still lags behind competitors like Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant in some areas.
This article, “New HomePod Can Still Stain Some Wooden Surfaces” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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This wooden gaming PC is half the size of an Nvidia RTX 4090
A gaming PC enthusiast has made a dinky custom rig out of wood, featuring just enough space for the hardware inside it. As impressively compact as the build is, you can imagine it would look even more wee when put next to an Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics card.
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Bishop Wooden Slams Beyonce & Twinkie Clark Over ‘Church Girl’: It’s ‘Demonic,’ ‘Trash,’ & ‘Sacrilege’
Beyonce‘s ‘Renaissance’ song ‘Church Girl’ may proclaim ‘no one can judge me but me,’ but Bishop Patrick Wooden, Sr., President and CEO of the Upper Room COGIC, begs to differ.
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