Almost Viral with Simon The Magpie

We listen and talk to your Casio KX-101 submissions!

Simon The Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Dan Fingerman talk about his Aphex Twin pilgrimage, prestidigitation, Hardly Davidson, and other stuff.

Simon The Magpie, Analog Weapon, Andrea and DDC chat with Alessio of Noiz Hardware about all the amazing devices that Alessio makes, and much more! https://www.noizhardware.com/site/home.html https://www.youtube.com/@minijackaudio https://soundcloud.com/vv01dd

Simon The Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Bassmaster Andreas talk about broken noses, ear tricks, ligaments and tendons, how many arms are too many, brains and stuff, intercepting eye signals, minecraft, One Piece, Magpie Fest, lobotomies, and tons of other stuff.

We talk VR performances and other stuff with the Modular Monday crew. The Modular Monday group holds performances in VR space (on VRChat) every Monday evening (US) and will be streaming on Magpie Pirates as a lead up to Magpie Fest 7. Audio coming soon. Discord: https://t.co/XrakvokdhI YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ModularMonday VRChat Group: https://vrchat.com/home/group/grp_d611ff18-0a6e-4c60-9f4f-c51e82b80570 "X" (lol): https://twitter.com/modularmonday

Simon The Magpie and Analog Weapon chat with Stephen McLeod about names, not having a studio space, touring, making videos about stuff for fun, writing for Perfect Circuit, taking pictures of stuff, /r/synthesizercirclejerk, and much more! Patreon - https://patreon.com/allmyfriendsaresynths YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDNBYt_vJdxiTJJo7UoTJ4A Instagram - https://instagram.com/allmyfriendsaresynths Sample Packs - https://gumroad.com/allmyfriends

Just a casual hangout questioning everything and inviting some pirates for a bonanza! You can always join the pirates through here: https://magpiepirates.com/

Just a casual hangout questioning everything and inviting some pirates for a bonanza! You can always join the pirates through here: https://magpiepirates.com/

We chat with Bassmaster Andreas about his recent silent retreat and a bunch of other stuff.

Simon The Magpie and Analog Weapon chat with Anders Enger Jensen about synths (Shocking!), that Thomann Synth Reactor 2018, studio workflow with a ton of synths, makign music for Commodore 64 games (Planet x2) and IBM PC (Planet X3), vintage MIDI stuff, working with 8-Bit Guy, composing and recording music, future ideas for YouTube channel, and much more! A view at Anders' setup: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E8qHLjd0c5wsgzhCw7xBcF6zCyLAWp8h/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_OD7P2dEFyDMJHuJczYQx4TmLq50P19c/view?usp=sharing Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/AndersEngerJensen Bandcamp: https://eoxstudios.bandcamp.com SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/eox-studios

Simon The Magpie and Analog Weapon hang out with Bassmaster Andreas to give bad answers to questions and get stuck on tangents about things like cheese (and it's similarities to heroin...again), vacuum cleaners, pens, Fortnite (and competitive gaming), PS4 games, alternative post-apocalyptic / zombie scenarios, jazz, recording medias and fidelity, mixing bass, music hardware for kids, and more. Then we complete a personality test together to figure out what our combined average personality is?

Simon The Magpie and Analog Weapon talk with Marie Anne Hedonia about losing her race car job, pickleball and other sports, performance-enhancing body modifications, t-shirts & merch, odor psychology, dumb myths, charging for teaching, the limitations and trends of modular synths, and much more!

Simon the Magpie and Analog Weapon have a chat with Weaver Beats about roasting techniques, skating, making music, and a lot more! https://www.youtube.com/@Weaverbeats/ https://www.twitch.tv/weaverbeats

Simon, Analog, and Dakato do a Q&A from the Magpie Pirates community.

We listen to community-made music. this time, it's the Magpie Pedals demo sounds collab, where pirates used audio samples from Simon's demo videos for his pedals. You can (and should) listen to the album without our yapping, here: https://magpiepirates.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-magpie-pedals-demo-samples

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and playpm (Michael) talk about playing guitar, playing live, tuning systems, why people watch videos, doing pushups, the TE mic, Michael's planned finger drumming courses, playing harmonica, tone and who cares about it, Michaels' guitars, AnyAmpIR, and a bunch more. playpm on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@playpm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovppVko2B3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaY25EUrHQg We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Battery Operated chat about being brothers, tape loops, comedy, making music, taxes, editing, recording in a coal shed, making walls smooth, and much more! https://www.youtube.com/@BatteryOperated https://www.instagram.com/battery_operated_ https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BatteryOperated https://soundcloud.com/battery_operated https://www.reddit.com/user/Battery-Operated https://twitter.com/BattOperated https://instagram.com/krytenwolfgang

Simon and Analog update on what they're working on. And some other stuff.

Simon the Magpie and Analog Weapon chat with Andreij Rublev (Andrea) and Jem Sabre about making art, language, favorite colors and sounds, drone and its affect, what music is, the relation of communication to art, ghosts, no-input sound techniques, new area of work for Andrea, arranging songs on albums, composing with themes (or not), AI and its affect on art, AGI and exponential complexity, all lots of other topics! Andreij Rublev Patreon Andreij Rublev Bandcamp Andreij Rublev Twitch Andreij Rublev YouTube Jem Sabre Bandcamp

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and DDC, chat with Replicat about making and selling VST's, gestures, shame-based-discipline, JUCE, Max, and other ways to code/create audio stuff, wavetable (and not wavetable) synthesis, Vital synth, FM synthesis and its telecommunications origins, AI (of course), finding time to do stuff, marketing and communication, intellectual property (or lack thereof), some Magpie Pirates ideas that we're all working on, and a ton more things! GreenWave Synth LowFire plugin Dolos plugin Replicat Discord

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and DDC chat with Mortiz Klein about frame rates and animation, video speed on YouTube, wireless charging fantasies, weird lightbulb inventions, gesturing as part of communication, livestreaming and plans for more from both Moritz and Simon, showing video game visuals with unrelated content, breadboards and other electronics tools, a particular UPS guy in Germany, prototyping electronics projects, working with Erica Synths, Superbooth, Patreon, Spongbob, Breaking Bad, and bunch of other stuff! Moritz Klein YouTube Moritz Klein Patreon Moritz Klein Instagram

Simon with Analog talk about Magpie Pedals. How they're made, why they're made, what they're made of, who makes them, when they're made, etc. https://www.magpiepedals.com/ Video: https://youtu.be/Xdy9Fa6VlnI

Simon the Magpie and Analog Weapon chat with Emma Taylor about drumming, standing comfort, small-room efficiency, learning and teaching music, getting comfortable making stuff for the internet, editing, the landscape of social media, AI, what genres of music we like, and a bunch more! https://linktr.ee/emmataylordrums https://www.instagram.com/sounds_like_emma/ https://discord.com/invite/Zd3mWMzcKM https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnsD1DgD5emAi3VE69g6WNA

Simon the Magpie and Analog Weapon talk with YMNK and his lover/translator Kia about his name, playing music, live performances, Canadian vs French…French, performance rights organizations vs YouTube et al, trying to make money with music, making audio plugins and gear, and much more! https://www.ymnkmusic.com https://www.instagram.com/ymnkmusic/ https://ymnk.bandcamp.com

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Captain Credible talk with Koka Nikoladze about his creations, teaching Live Electronics at the Norwegian Academy of Music, creativity as a shelter, challenges of performing with electronics, use of computers in live music, expressing appreciation for others' work, AI in art, the challenges of creating electronic things, and a bunch more! https://www.koka.one https://www.instagram.com/kokanikoladze/ https://www.youtube.com/@nikoladze https://nmh.no/en/studies/continuing-studies/live-electronics

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, Marie Anne Hedonia, and Captain Credible talk about James Bond, Captain Credible's creations, Hitchhiker's Guide, synthesizers, approaches to recording, de- and re-essers, Polyend Tracker, Speed but slow instead of fast, Marie's F1 racing career, Capt. Credible's skiing career, horsepower?, tracker, the Osmose, novelty gear, playing vs making music, and a whooole bunch more! https://www.captaincredible.com https://www.youtube.com/@CptCredible/ https://captaincredible.bandcamp.com https://linktr.ee/Marieannhedonia https://www.instagram.com/marieannhedonia/ https://marieannhedonia.bandcamp.com We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

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Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, Dan Fingerman, Moritz Klein, Marie Anne Hedonia, Captain Credible, and very briefly Roey Tsemah talk about penpals, superstition & religion, objective vs subjective morality, alcohol, linkedin, lawyering, schooling, labor law, animation, making a compressor, programming, old internet, and waaaaay more! https://www.synthux.academy https://www.youtube.com/@MoritzKlein0 https://www.instagram.com/marieannhedonia/ https://captaincredible.bandcamp.com Captain Credible's cool, sfw VST plugins Fingerman's risque, nsfw VST's We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

Simon the Magpie and Analog Weapon have a chat with legendary Magpie Pirate and synth cable peddler, Bucket Lord. We talk about geomagnetism, how Bucket Lord came to Magpie Pirates, LED cables, why they sell cables, splitters, Brexit, retail, trade shows, sending out samples, working with dad, plans for the future, school and degrees, studio setup techniques, favorite cable, least-favorite cable, most common cable, least common cable, and more! (Various brilliant cable ideas including edible cables, scented cables, accessible cables, fluffy cables, solid cables with hinges, springy cables, human cables, retractable cables in a eurorack module, and wireless cables to name a few) https://synthcables.com We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

Simon the Magpie, Bass Master Andreas, and Jeffiot (Jefferson) talk about DM etiquette, AI, Jeffiot's recent Gävlebacken video, reality TV production, films, ARG's and interactive stories, social media functionality, Elon Musk, money and work, ghost stories and copypastas, and much more! (And Analog has a bunch of FOMO listening to it). Gävlebocken: A Measured Response (Full Documentary) Jeffiot's Patreon Andreas on Instagram

Simon the Magpie and Analog Weapon chat with Johan Ransby about engaging with people in comments, Ransby's creator sessions, strategies and struggles with writing lyrics and music, completing projects, getting outside the comfort zone when creating, algorithms, Spotify and all the better alternatives, and much more! https://ransby.biz https://www.youtube.com/ransbyjohan https://www.instagram.com/ransby.biz/ https://www.facebook.com/ransbymusic We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

Simon the Magpie and Analog Weapon chat with Martin Yam Møller chat about weaving, names, the Danish Desert, sports/competition/creativity, cassette 4-tracks, wood and plastic in design, when a project is complete, ways to start a project, kickstarters, electronics projects, how we got into music, and that's not even half of it! https://martinyammoller.com https://www.instagram.com/martinyammoller https://www.youtube.com/c/MartinYamMoller We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

Simon the Magpie, Dan Fingerman, and Analog Weapon chat with Juantito (aka Tin Can Synth Jam, aka Modular for the Masses) about building synths in tin cans, parasocial divorce, gamified listening stats, Advent synth kit, how a capacitor works, pipe organs vs synths, sound vs music, smells and fermented fish, expiration dates, solid core vs stranded wire, circuit bending, inspiration, bad sounds vs sounds of bad things, techno music, and a million more things. https://www.twitch.tv/tincansynthjam https://www.instructables.com/member/ozerik/ https://electronicjuanito.bandcamp.com/album/contact1 We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

The beginning of this episode is Simon and Analog talking a bit about slight format change for the podcast, a new idea to raise money for, and Decent Sampler instruments. If that sounds boring, jump to 23:06 for the beginning of our chat with Jeffiot! Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Jeffiot talk about ASMR, poorly read audio books, secret recordings, making video essays that are fun, Jeffiot's upcoming video about Gävlebocken, true crime content and the morality of it, cats and dogs, old people coping with not being able to be openly racist, tired jokes, young people getting old, TikTok criticism, popularity vs attention vs quality in online content, editing, “what would you do if you were the only human left?”, prostate exams, racial and gender prejudice in diagnoses, trying to remain remotely self-aware, capitalism, and other stuff. https://www.youtube.com/@jeffiot https://www.patreon.com/jeffiot Recommendations from the end of the chat: Steve Wallis: https://www.youtube.com/@campingwithsteve Action Button: https://www.youtube.com/@ActionButton Lost (TV show): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series) Northern Exposure (TV show): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Exposure We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and OK Housecat talk about fonts, circuit bending, all sorts of chips and numbers, our big idea, least favorite sound, remembering lyrics, making music, and then 5 more hours of other stuff. https://www.etsy.com/shop/okhousecat https://okhousecat.bandcamp.com https://www.youtube.com/c/OkHousecat http://www.okhousecat.com https://www.instagram.com/okhousecat/

Simon the Magpie, Dan Fingerman, Analog Weapon, and Bass Master Andreas hang out and chat about stuff like drugs, language, what makes travel interesting (or not), affect of places on things, documentaries, true crime, films, the Internet Archive, copyright and public domain stuff, Syd Barret and outsider art, virality, Andreas giving tours to a scammer, AI video generation, making money from art, drugs and mental health, and much more! https://www.cargofilm-releasing.com/films/cannon-arm-and-the-arcade-quest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCqY49c87O8 https://archive.org https://imagen.research.google We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

Simon the Magpie and Dakato talk about parental advisory warnings, Magpie Fest, the editing process, things to listen to while working, TLI (too little information), free speech laws, conspiracy theories, saying vulgar things alone for amusement, psychological states and conditions, drugs that work and drugs that don't, cancellation, sobriety, relationships and living alone, and other stuff. We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, Dan Fingerman, and Dakato hang out with Bass Master Andreas and Once upon a Synth and talk for a really long time. It doesn't go off the rails as much as it just starts off the rails and doesn't really try to find them.

We talk with Magpie Fest founder Dismist, and a bunch of past and upcoming performers. Magpie Fest 6 (Spookfest) is coming up October 29th and 30th! All money made by Magpie Pirates in October will be given to Spookfest performers. http://www.magpiepirates.com/magpiefest https://magpiepirates.bandcamp.com https://magpie-pirates-merch.creator-spring.com?

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Moritz Klein have a chat with Jasper Wijnands (shookmusic)! https://www.shookmusic.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdMgFYaIM499VQnD823iVgg https://shook.bandcamp.com https://www.instagram.com/shookmusic/?hl=en We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

Simont he Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Andreas chat with Once Upon a Synth! We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Via Mardot talk theremin, saw, tubular bells, doing art for work, pseudonyms, social media, lame DM's, comparison-based comments, video games, earliest memories, kicking every kid out of school, Leon Theremin, mic choices (or lack thereof), The Lollipop Guilt, incidental aesthetic, Marxophone, The Surferjettes, and much, much more! Via Mardot Instagram Via Mardot Shop Via Mardot Bandcamp We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and BoBeats talk about how words are taken, attention available for content based on length, the appeal (or lack thereof) for short content, the benefits (and challenge) of things that require attention, the speed of trends, how all of these affect critical thinking, why Bo started doing YouTube, synth YouTube is not the forefront of the internet, the ability to make money on YouTube, YouTube's ability to bring an audience, time spent vs reception, streaming music vs making videos, politics, going to bat for brands, those little Roland synths, Teenage Engineering and OP-1 Field, accusations of being a professional musician, remote cabin without running water and with fiber internet, and much more! Bobeats on YouTube Bobeats Bandcamp Bobeats Instagram Bobeats Twitter We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

Info will come soon we promise. But for now let's just say that it's EPIC!

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Marie Ann Hedonia (And sometimes Dakato) talk about synthtuber memes, stage names, beginnings, Instagram, modular synthesis, virtuosity and music theory, east vs west coast synthesis, battery-powered gear, recording techniques, big synths and gear weight, photo management and cat pictures, photography and AI art, Stalker (the film), finding what to do with free time, Likaon Instruments and Marie's LFO, sponsorships/promotions/advertising, and more! Marie Ann Hedonia's Instagram Marie Ann Hedonia on Bandcamp Void Stasis - Ruins (Collaboration with Kristof Bathory and Scott Denman) Operation Bingo - Absolute Zero EP (Collaboration with Paul M'Olive) We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Hainbach talk about language, “good to have you back” origin, sentimentality and throwing things away, comment vibes, self promotion, ASMR, playing live, magnetic card recorder video, reposting own content from other platforms, stats and metrics and how it relates to storytelling, Super Booth, chapters and and the time graph, slow buildups and starting in the middle (with videos and composing music), instrumentation, David Hilowitz and the Magical Music thing, enjoying chores, deadlines and preparing for Syn-Ket Studien, Simon's worst-things-first strategy, that one time Simon screwed something up and how Analog Weapon never has screwed anything up ever, and more! Hainbach's YouTube Hainbach's Bandcamp Hainbach's Patreon Hainbach's website We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and David Hilowitz talk about generations, writing and making music, music for YouTube vs music for albums, quality vs time invested, setting projects aside and returning to them, writing lyrics, following for content vs the person presenting, Decent Sampler, slinky violin, the YouTube game and the algorithm, thinking in terms of samples, ASMR, fake restoration videos, demographics, modular app idea, circuit bending website idea, and much more! David Hilowitz Youtube David Hilowitz Website David Hilowitz Patreon Decent Sampler

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Moritz Klein talk about creating electronics, a breadboard eurorack module, paint markers, creating schematics, simulating circuits, writing on the train, working at SoundCloud, creating a ladder filter, showing the face, video production and camera stuff, glorifying bad things from history, following and setting trends, microcontrollers and menu diving, designing products & UX, circuitbending and getting into electronics, and much more! Moritz Klein YouTube Moritz Klein Patreon Moritz Klein Instagram

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Benn Jordan talk about crypto/blockchain/NFT's, artificial intelligence, approaching things scientifically, social media and trends, New York Times / Dan Urbina, Dolby Atmos, Dyson mask/headphones, a new distributed form for releasing music, prepping, sounds that animals like, animal intelligence, religion, not getting fed by a friend's family in Sweden, Jantelagen, music piracy and release strategies, sponsorships, starting a business, YouTuber Survivor Island, Coywolf & Hot Pepsi, Ukrainian bonds, mean comments as a sign of success, and much more! Benn's YouTube Benn's Patreon The Flashbulb (Benn's music on Bandcamp) Benn's Instagram Benn's Website We appreciate your support via Patreon. You're also invited to join the Magpie Pirates discord community!

Crushing Depths, the host of Makin' Things on the Magpie Pirates podcast channel, takes over Almost Viral for a special episode! https://pod.co/magpie-pirates

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Jorb talk about attention to appearance in videos, Patreon, Florian (AudioPilz), methods for shooting and editing, repairing synths, streaming, beginnings, synthtuber union, LMNC's MS-10, April Fools ideas, Cook Like a Normal Person, old videos, pianos, recording at concerts, origin of Analog Weapon and Jorb monikers, weird promotion inquiries, video for the podcast, communities, selling out, marketing on YouTube and getting paid, brands and stores starting their own YouTube channels, making pedals, artistic tools for making art, the pernicious appeal of a high price, various synths and electric pianos, the people who made the gear we use, Superbooth & NAMM, midwest US small talk, functioning in the city, KnobCon, and more! Jorb's YouTube Jorb's Instagram Jorb's TikTok Jorb Merch!