This is kinda silly but I just spent an hour or so pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my Minifreak was crashing.

What was happening was that when I had either the "Glitter Pop" or "Distant Blink" presets loaded, eventually the device would partially hang and emit a loud whine out of the audio outputs. The lights and interface would appear functional, but the sound would completely stop working.

I found that the faster and more notes that I entered, (either via MIDI or the keybed) the quicker the crash would occur and it would happen EVERY time. If I didn't enter any keys, the crash would still eventually happen after over a minute, but only if one of a handful of presets are being used.

I reset the settings, but the behaviour remained. I tried reverting from firmware 4.0.1 (the current latest) to 4.0.0, but Minifreak V would just hang. I was able to revert to 3.0.0 and then go back up to 4.0.0, but the issue was still present.

Then I thought to just do a basic sanity check and assure that I was using the correct power supply.

It turns out I was using an 18v PSU while the device is designed for a 12v one.

What happened was, I moved the Synth from one table to another in my studio, and I incorrectly assumed the power supply plugged into it at that time was the correct one. The Freak was sitting on an idle table in a corner of my room, turned on with the WRONG ADAPTER.

I have no clue of what point the switch between the two PSUs happened, but I was using the synth running off 18 volts for MONTHS and I never realized because MOST (nearly all) of the presets operated perfectly.

The two adapters were sitting right next to each other.

I seriously can't figure out WHY I had a 18-volt power supply in the room in the first place. Everything I use runs on 9-volt center-negative (guitar pedals, SP-404, etc) or 12 volts center-positive.

So, yeah. Be careful folks. Luckily standard practices mean that the device is designed robustly enough to not take any permanent damage from this. Though, if I were to be snobby, I feel like there should be some some checks in the voltage regulation circuit to prevent this whole issue from happening.

I was seriously planning out how I would end up contacting Arturia support and mail it back to them for RMA before I even knew the adapter was wrong. Luckily, everything is good now.

"Time Skiffs" then "Reset" and "Isn't It Now" and now "A Question of When?"

Can someone ELI5?

November has Come was my introduction to the man. I assumed that MmFood was the first project to tackle. Years later, and having listened to Madvillainy and Vaudeville Villain many a time, I'm kinda glad I chose MmFood first. While the production on it is great, I don't think it holds a candle to the wonky Madvillainy or afrofuturistic Vaudeville Villain. They are on another level of experimental that I find makes them stand out in the industry far more than MmFood. TMTYL has a bit more character, but production-wise, I don't think anything compares to those 2 albums.

NOTE: Lyricism is a different beast. I find the lyricism fantastic and fun on all his work, but the difference in attitude of the production throughout his career is far more spread out and varied in my opinion.

What do you think? What order did you approach the albums in, and how do you think that shaped your opinions of them?

`For them, i only don joker once i go poker, they smile, i chuckle

Then they buckle, Cant relate, see calm fate then broche her

Paying subtle hate rebates as a "then n when"-type broker

Thinking he been worthy to create then reality's hype choked her

With confidentiality and suter of black tape, he stay armed

closest to causing new harm is a vibe of karma, provoker

If one is to approach her, beware of the beyond blonde toker

They stay med-led by sed, this moper's a pharma super soaker

How close is bros toes to overdose, hard to measure in confidence

in that, pleasure he grant from grosing snot toppings, condiments

In fact, I'll take double buffalo, leave the ranch, no, tripple it

Nah what i meant was "this is spam" dribble, wrong digits with it

Man, To them it's all a scam till the nill quick kill, know the vigile lit

The call's been sent, soon the men will stack, house tricklin it

It's them, quick duck rebut, quack n douse em in crack in a minute

Fucko been waiting for den to get tracked, in the pen, he just slack

At that point he's as good as gone, waiting in bed just to respawn

One second, he should be calm, waking in hood, the new dawn

Is it reincarnation? What in tarnation, he stacked spacey relations

Done be astral, so ghastful, phantom of the chakra, creation

about saint peter: when you meet her, dont forget who's teacher

comes to humans, dont be assuming what predates creature

Hark, who's to say what's written in scripture, the truth'll miss her

Till the preacher gets spark to the rods, quitter's the godsitter`

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The context/subject revolves around my life living with paranoid schizophrenia, PTSD, addiction, and a life of regrets. Critiques welcome.

I'm sorry, I'm having issues formatting it properly on mobile