Apr13

April 2013 Freezing Rain Storm Video

by admin on April 13, 2013 at 12:02 am
Posted In: Media, Videos

Time lapse photography capture of the ice/freezing rain storm that blew through Kitchener, Ontario, Canada April 11-12th, 2013. Video and music by Rob Adlers. This video was as much an experiment as it was a spontaneous thing to do. I wind up watching the little things that happen in the view as time moves forward. Oddly you don’t see the rain coming down, and it did pretty hard at some points. It’s a cheap camera, it is what it is…

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Feb24

S-video output for my Commodore 64 Computer

by admin on February 24, 2013 at 5:17 am
Posted In: Commodore 64 S-Video Adapter, Making

I still find it cool that 30 year old Computer equipment actually had S-Video output capability, but without the S-Video connector.

Commodore 64′s have Chroma/Luma and Audio outputs from the video port. They’re in RCA connector format, so I had to come up with an adapter. I looked up on the internet about the cables being sold, etc and found out that you needed a 300 ohm resistor inline to get clarity in the signal, because the Commodore 64′s output is a bit ‘hot’.

Well, I got a resistor and tried it and found I wasn’t getting any color. Tried a smaller ohm resistor and it began to show promise. I decided that a variable resistor would be a better solution in case each machine I connected to had different output levels. I spent some time and built my adapter case at Kwartzlab.

Voila! Observe the photo graphs!

The adapter:

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Output without resistance applied:

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Output with resistance applied:

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My Commodore 64 on a 52″ LCD TV in the living room:

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Feb23

Ohhh… This is new!

by admin on February 23, 2013 at 3:20 pm
Posted In: General
Performing at Hamilton Place, opening for The Watch - 2012

Performing at Hamilton Place, opening for The Watch – 2012

Greetings everyone and noone!

I’ve finally launched my new website to capture the various things I get myself into and like to share with folks.

I’m moving over a lot of older non-Auralplane content over to this site from www.auralplane.com, as really, this is my ‘Everything Rob’ website. Moving forward, Auralplane.com will be my electronic music website only.

More to come…

Rob

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Dec09

The Watch 2012 Concert Photos

by admin on December 9, 2012 at 9:11 pm
Posted In: Media, Photos

I had the awesome pleasure and opportunity to open for The Watch with Steve Cochrane, Ken Baird, and Aimee Matuszczak on November, 18, 2012. Fun evening, very awesome crowd. The Watch, as always, put on an incredible performance of their originals and older Genesis tunes.

Photos by Annette Roche.

Please select the 2012-11-18 – Opening for The Watch page to locate the concert photo gallery.

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Nov27

Yamaha BP-1 and BP-2 Pedal differences

by admin on November 27, 2012 at 11:31 am
Posted In: The Keyboard Shop

I’ve had a few questions recently around whether Yamaha BP-1 pedals can be used with an SK50-D keyboard.
From the surface, BP-1 and BP-2 pedals look identical. For the most part, they probably are.

However, there is a wiring difference between the two which makes the BP-1 pedals incompatible with the Yamaha SK50D.

Hunt down the user manuals for Yamaha YC45D organ and Yamaha SK50D keyboard.
If you look at a Yamaha YC organ series (25D, 45D for example), look for the pin outs for the BP-1 pedals on the back of the keyboard. Then look at the pin outs for the SK50D BP-2 pedal pin out.

They do not match in configuration or pin count. These connectors aren’t exact common place anymore, so trying to locate a replacement connector to convert the BP-1 pedals would be a hunt in its own right.

Because the pin outs are different, you’d have to reverse engineer the BP-1 and BP-2 pedal wiring to understand how a BP-1 pedal would have to be re-wired to work in a BP-2 configuration, if even possible.

So after the above blurb, are the BP-1 and BP-2 pedals interchangeable between keyboards? No. Please refer to the user manuals to see which pedals are recommended for the keyboard you have.

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