Nick Lewis

Web Dev / Synth Nerd / Photographer - Based near Reading in the UK / Novice Node Runner

Podcaster and creator of Modulations

https://fountain.fm/show/GT5qIkp33spJGwEJJDkE

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2025-04-07 08:03:40

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Brilliant! Thanks for the sats, all working

2025-03-09 17:26:37

More coffee and cake this morning. Why not? This was at the Canteen in old Portsmouth which is in an old cellar. Very good. I recommend it highly!
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/dfc7c7853f6b71b6b3c6b527767a0b98dece231ba4a5aabbeecb2e034c3c6174/78ee37092b2a3a587da609d3a509104432d501aac45ce329cb2d4228c3c02c55.webp
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/dfc7c7853f6b71b6b3c6b527767a0b98dece231ba4a5aabbeecb2e034c3c6174/ccd9a265b7b077ad98b0cc352f0a52b986d8b6e3fbca2de10531eb24718ad3f2.webp

2025-03-09 09:41:34

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I love these. They’re stunning!

2025-03-06 08:00:28

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EIAIO starting to sound like Old MacDonald!! Joking aside. What if web pages cease to be a thing? Or become less important? I think things will change so much that the internet will be unrecognisable in two years time, let alone ten.

2025-02-20 23:06:40

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Oh man this is good! Nice work on this track. What gear do you use for the most part?

2025-02-20 17:29:16

For those who may have had trouble playing my new track earlier, I’ve uploaded it to Wavlake.
https://wavlake.com/album/d0977b4f-546b-45b0-8e65-57297876a7a4

2025-02-20 17:24:54

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Hey that’s not good, it’s on RSS Blue for the moment, try this link.
https://feeds.rssblue.com/gr2

2025-02-20 08:59:51

I’ve released a new track and you can find it here. It’s an audio recording from the last video that I shared, kind of, just a bit more arranged!
https://fountain.fm/track/0Uce9ByAqfOgesHNvt3P

2025-02-19 22:53:47

https://youtu.be/BeYeHYnP3BY?si=dyZTrbWL9tltnt2H
A piece of music I’ve been working on tonight, taking shape nicely.

2025-02-16 23:13:00

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Same in Yakihonne too I’m afraid.

2025-02-16 22:38:08

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Azzamo.net/premiun is one I’ve seen recently, they zapped me, a couple of times. I’ve not checked it out though, tend not to for things like this.

2025-02-15 07:35:23

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GM!

2025-02-13 21:48:10

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I use ours a lot and I use the little jog wheel thingy to slow or increase speed when a corner comes up. England is a very bendy place and roundabouts are a bit mental where cruise is concerned as it generally goes into kill mode.

2025-02-13 19:58:14

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That would be the icing on the cake!

2025-02-13 15:02:55

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That’s manic at play.

2025-02-12 19:09:30

This is cool and lots of people have been well supported. It’s a big step forwards. #naddr1qq…6eq0

2025-02-12 17:37:30

I’m planning to share some interesting sound design concepts for Bitwig Studio in the future and this is a great place to do just that. Watch this space.

2025-02-03 13:24:11

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Back in the seventies. I’m on the left, my brother next to me and my two cousins on the end. Lots of days out in the car. Lots of forests. Plenty of picnics with our grandparents, whilst the parents had a day off!!! https://image.nostr.build/66b431e5c6e6f47b1de99943483f6b4bbc3d50877f5bd12734a1614ce186d276.jpg

2025-02-03 13:11:31

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Purdie! He’s played with many incredible bands and I’ve seen him in real life playing with Steely Dan at one of maybe more of their London appearances. Think I’ve seen them three times?
I think he appears on Babylon Sisters and Home at last for the studio recordings.

2025-01-31 14:24:59

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That’s interesting, as I’m building my own site again to feature RSS especially. I’ve got a free account with Buttondown - possibly moving away from Substack in the longer term.

2025-01-31 12:57:51

The Internet, at least the regular Internet is in a death spiral right now. #naddr1qq…dyjs

2025-01-31 12:55:39

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I had no idea at all and one of my colleagues (a contractor) is a swede working from his office in central Sweden. The rest of us are in the UK. He’s never mentioned it. Very troubling that people are having to deal with this craziness.

2025-01-31 07:58:28

My last Jamuary for the year folks. This was a fun one I recorded all in one go last night, exploring the presets of three plugins - StepPolyArp, Buzz Zone and Betts testing DynaBit which is a bit reduction and filter combined. https://youtu.be/uQPHZFM20dk?si=_aOF4lnwLVgTyn7P

2025-01-24 12:27:19

Good afternoon. What are you working on today?

2025-01-23 19:44:56

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Yes noted!

2025-01-23 19:44:28

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Thanks!

2025-01-23 07:32:19

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Last year I was in Mexico for a couple of weeks and went to a show of dance and music about the history of the country. There are some similarities.

2025-01-20 12:26:51

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I love this sketch, can remember it!

2025-01-20 12:21:08

Alby is working again now. I needed to update my hub and reconnect my walllet. So issues my end ahem! I’m able to zap folks again yay!

2025-01-19 10:38:36

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No, it’s a fairly vanilla setup to be honest. I’ve tried adding a serving Alby Go connection and that didn’t work either. I’ll keep playing around.

2025-01-19 07:57:09

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I’m still having trouble with it but haven’t had a chance to dig deeper, will report back when I do. Thanks. My hub is running fine and it’s received zaps over the past two days.
I’ve just captured the error I see. https://image.nostr.build/06b23760f6511fe9cb8521328a8d318c71bebe4ac7c2f905b21d57f99f050e9f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d07a7bb30a679527080bc2c987501d0236785d7f782f3bb975f4a60380324032.jpg

2025-01-18 09:07:58

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Good morning to you!

2025-01-18 00:06:00

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I think I need to reconnect the mobile app

2025-01-17 23:59:10

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Yes and, I think I did yes - will check that in the morning. Will let you know then.

2025-01-16 08:35:59

I’m having problems with Alby Go and had emails from them notifying net that my hub was locked. I’ve resolved that but Go is still not displaying my balance and I’m unable to zap people.
Has anybody else had difficulties over the past week??

2025-01-16 08:27:53

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I think it started to shake a little while ago but now it’s becoming more challenging to lay down even the first two layers of Jenga blocks than ever before. Now’s the time to fix that troublesome table somehow, that’s got to be the next step, otherwise our troubles will become utterly overwhelming.

2025-01-15 14:15:48

A great listen as ever, quiet ambience, restful for my jumpy brain today.
https://fountain.fm/episode/E23NBJoURnA49FdMCXIo
#nevent1q…sh87

2025-01-10 21:12:41

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Absolutely amazing! I love being a remote worker.

2025-01-08 18:39:38

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Check out https://nick-lewis.npub.pro

2025-01-05 19:30:45

Having figured out curation here, I’m going to get deeply involved in this. Here is one of the projects I’m running this year. #naddr1qq…mdal

2025-01-05 18:43:34

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That’s fantastic! I’ll have a play around with it. Question answered!

2025-01-05 18:42:18

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Hmm plenty of food for thought. I need to invest time and a few more funds in my alby hub account. RSS integration, I didn’t know that.

2025-01-05 12:02:21

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Check out Faircamp. It’s not Wordpress but Rust based. I’m going to test it out and see if I can fork it to add v4v features?? A possibility perhaps.

2025-01-05 10:38:11

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The Doors, absolutely an amazing band. In fact your avatar looks like Jim a little bit. Patina is a great word, the effects of time on things.

2025-01-05 10:25:52

How do curations work in Yakihonne or Nostr? In interested to know because I enjoy the curation process.

2025-01-05 10:23:56

Love old doors #note10t5…n7yp

2025-01-05 10:20:41

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I’m thinking - how many drones made this fella up?

2025-01-05 10:17:33

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We’re all real!!

2025-01-05 10:16:19

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That is worth trying, whenever I’ve used mine, a whole day is just not possible. Morning standing works well for me!

2025-01-05 10:14:35

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That’s a very human response lol!

2025-01-05 10:14:00

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It’s so slick and takes inspiration from Substack I think, which makes sense as that’s the kind of audience we’re need on here. I love the font too.
I half got a zap stream going just before Christmas with OBS and started to set up some stuff in Ableton to demonstrate.
Then I ran out of time!

2025-01-05 10:03:10

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This if my kind of still life!!

2025-01-05 10:01:18

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It’s funny you say that because I’m feeling the same. Though down here in Berkshire, it’s probably very different; we had quite a bit of snow last night but it’s warmed up and thawed away by the time we all woke up.

2025-01-05 09:41:41

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Yes and they are good. I’ve had one for a number of years and if I’m honest; I don’t use it enough, I’ve got lazy. So they require a better mindset than mine!!! So shall start using it properly

2025-01-05 09:38:53

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That’s something I’ve been thinking of doing!

2025-01-05 09:38:02

I’m guessing an AI bot will bloody answer this one because over the past couple of days that’s the only interaction I’ve been getting on Nostr!

2025-01-05 09:36:18

Hey! What’s occurring?
Testing out Yakihonne a little bit on my iPhone and it’s looking pretty lush, truth be told.

2025-01-05 09:33:33

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That cheeky @jack fella hey!! It was a great dish and I want to cook it up again, fairly soon.

2025-01-05 08:30:43

A fantastic collection of books, some I’ve read and others not. #naddr1qq…00ca

2025-01-05 08:25:04

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This is fascinating and lots of parallels can be drawn with the world.
Currently you’ve received 42 zaps which is very Douglas Adams!

2025-01-04 21:17:53

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Is it Pride and Prejudice?? We had a lovely slow cooked casserole today, 6 hours on low and it was really good.

2025-01-04 21:13:31

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Interested to know your theory! This one reminded me of burning newspaper, how the edges singe but doesn’t burn as rapidly as you expect.

2025-01-04 21:10:22

https://samply.app/p/plXCi8vkkGhqeLZDLnsX

2025-01-04 21:04:35

Playing with Samply in order to share with you my sounds design experimentation.
Last night I started building a patch in the Grud which is Bitwig’s modular synth environment. This instrument has three oscillators, a chorus mode, delay and just sounds fat and analogue.
https://samply.app/p/3G2TnrqQiAugiTaMpoXw

2025-01-03 20:07:54

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How weird this same video came up on my feed somewhere earlier today and sounds like an interesting twist on psychology.

2025-01-02 10:00:01

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It’s incredible to learn they’re flightless, considering how it looks.

2025-01-02 09:56:50

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There will at some point be a part two - I’ll keep my eyes open for the surfing post. I never knew that but I’m not surprised that she was into surfing either.

2025-01-02 09:55:26

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How big are they? Aren’t they the biggest insect in nature?

2025-01-02 05:58:22

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The following image didn’t publish, so here it is. https://image.nostr.build/ecffcbe38556d4b84806f6e182971260a638bd40ccfbddc20b9b9753c10f96de.jpg

2025-01-02 05:51:23

Feeling rejuvenated after a break - Happy New Year Frens

2024-12-27 00:09:30

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This has given me ideas for our garden, though Tina’s (Mrs L) birthday is not until August! Happy Christmas and happy birthdays!
My nephews 16th birthday on New Year’s Eve!

2024-12-26 21:02:07

The other day I took a classical piece of music MIDI and created something really lush in AUM on the iPad using an instrument from Klevgrand called Speldosa and routed it through Revolv, an amazing convolution reverb. This is the result:
https://wavlake.com/album/cbda5616-935a-40ac-9cd4-ab5bf218ad26

2024-12-26 19:48:44

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I’m going to add mine to my bio https://nick-lewis.npub.pro/ and might update the name as not keen on the hyphen!

2024-12-26 19:42:22

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This has given me an idea; a great way to entertain our children at some point!

2024-12-25 10:28:21

https://youtu.be/mzPFZTQhj1A?si=16xhPMKfAY15yJsS

2024-12-25 07:36:08

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Such a stunning building, beautiful city, itching to go back.

2024-12-24 22:48:04

Merry Christmas everyone! Have a great time. Taking a break from my devices until January… lol, maybe not but just in case I do… have a great time!

2024-12-23 13:39:51

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It’s all about the people really, we’ve got family coming over, friends and so on. Will get some countryside walks in and might even get down to the coast at some point.
Looking forward to it!

2024-12-23 11:31:00

GM Nostrians! What have you been up to of late? Any plans for the festive season?

2024-12-22 14:07:26

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That would be amazing. I know they run such a thing in Ibiza because of the scene there, lots of producers etc are on site there as you can imagine!

2024-12-21 23:33:28

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Lisbon is a great city and it’s fascinating how travel experiences and music shape your own ideas.

2024-12-18 09:27:39

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Truth is, I’ve just costed up my ideal Eurorack synth and it weighs in at £2054 which I think equates to that many sats!

2024-12-18 09:26:18

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It’s interesting how easy it is to mistype wired as weird when people say that I’m wired differently!!
I’ve a lot to learn on this modular topic and thankfully much of it can be replicated on the computer before spending too much money.

2024-12-18 09:23:30

I want to raise 2.5million sats!!! I wonder how long that would take?

2024-12-17 23:05:03

More modular synth shenanigans this evening and this patch turned out to be a lot of fun. The Oxi Coral is effectively 8 voices in one, feed this into the Mimeophon which is a tape machine crossed with a reverb, it mangles the sounds beautifully. I’ve got two LFOs running through the Oxi One sequencer in matriceal mode.
I’ll upload the tracks to Wavlake from these sessions. https://image.nostr.build/1cf7b839183234b1567cdd9d8bbdf61190a9caf853ff600680accfd865244121.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2bc47f75c0506c3d341f9961086c36895c2a1b1dd522c3f7dfbce0a7c4602c9f.jpg

2024-12-17 21:50:15

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Absolute genius!

2024-12-17 21:27:40

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Regret selling mine. Will get the new one next year at some point.

2024-12-17 21:24:13

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Thanks for the zap

2024-12-17 21:22:15

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It might have been. I sold it though but still have my Syntakt. I often connect these both to my Oxi One and add an SP-404 to the equation too!!!
It does start to get a bit confusing but in a good way.

2024-12-17 21:09:00

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Predictive text, arrgghhh that’s meant to say “planning to stack mine” not straining etc.

2024-12-17 21:06:42

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This is the new box I started to build. To be honest the case has a lot of space going spare and I’m taking it slow filling it up. https://image.nostr.build/bbb55a1967d454e3455c7be32cb50b4f579074cb32f5cfbe409cc44aa640a517.jpg

2024-12-17 20:52:06

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I recognise the Mall, having had a look at their webpage and must have seen it on a YouTube video I stumbled upon in the past.

2024-12-17 20:47:33

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It counts, if you’ve got some content on Wavlake or similar, let me know.

2024-12-17 20:46:47

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Don’t worry about that, I’m definitely number 2

2024-12-17 20:46:09

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Oh sure thanks!

2024-12-17 20:45:42

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That’s a great plan! I’m straining to save mine to expand mine.

2024-12-17 20:42:32

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Thanks Mike, well let’s see if we can onboard him!! I’m based in the UK and part of a collective called ModCaf https://modcaf.org.uk
I’ll check out the links that you’ve shared.

2024-12-17 19:55:22

Are any of you modular synth artists? I’m looking to connect with people who are into electronic music of this kind to feature on my podcast modulations. #synthstr #musicstr #eurorack

2024-12-16 18:43:08

Any tidal cycles users here at all or anyone into live coding, music performances etc?

2024-12-16 18:24:00

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There are quite a lot of us Brits here you know. We are just as much into this as anyone else. Relays I’m using four to be honest!