Welcome to NeonAce's tilde.club Home!

About Me

Hey Everybody!

I'm Ben Terry, going by the moniker "NeonAce" here on tilde.club. I also have a personal site at Dreamcloud Academy where I play with web tech and keep my own personal "Cloud" and collaborate with friends, etc. I'm from Carson City, Michigan and I work in I.T. at a hospital for a living. For entertainment I play role-playing games and enjoy playing music, mostly on guitar. My plan for my web space here is to just relish having it be a personal web page where I post things related to my interests and experiment a bit with using HTML. Even though I work in I.T., I don't have a lot of web coding experience and I'm totally a "Look up examples and copy them" level operator on that front. I look forward to checking out what everyone is doing.

To Dos

- Make some MC-505 Patterns
- Move Analysis for Rising Forces
- Dishes
- Bedroom
- Study

September 17th, 2019: Layout & More.

So yesterday, after a many years wait, I finally got my account and logged into tilde.club around 9am. I've tossed up this and that so the place doesn't look too empty. I'm playing around doing layout with tables, which is the "no-no" way, but you can't stop me!

September 16th, 2019: New Site, New (Random) Content!

Here is a picture of me playing some rock'n'roll. I was in a band with my friends Chris and Joe. Still jam and play with Chris. Back in these times we were playing songs Chris had wrote under the name "Remote Viewing Society." It was a good time, and we need to get off our asses and making something fresh, because... you know. Why not?

Here is a picture of the cover of a fan RPG project I did. Here is a link where you can download the PDF, but this is a fan-created 20th Anniversary version of White Wolf's "Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game", a game I played the hell out of back from about 1994 to... I dunno, 2004 or so?

I also love "Groove Boxes", Samplers, & Drum Machines. Here are a few I have in my collection!

Roland MC-505

The successor to the MC-303, this thing came out in the late '90s. It was apparently used by both Peaches and M.I.A.

Roland TR-707

The TR-707 doesn't get the glory the 808 or 909 do, but I like it quite a bit anyways. This thing came out in 1985 I think, and it's really good for getting that "Synthwave" sound. A couple tracks people know from back in the day that it was used on include "Need You Tonight" by INXS and "Sweet Freedom" by Michael McDonald. I've also heard that it was used on "Midnight City" by M83.

Roland SP-555

This sampler is one of the less common ones in the line that includes the semi-famous SP-404, which continues to be a popular tool for low-fi hip hop production. The SP-404 was used by Madlib and a bit by J Dilla I hear. The SP-555 has a similar workflow, but the effects are a bit different, etc.

Korg EMX-1

I probably would have been served better by the ESX-1, but I do like some of the drum samples this one has. For example, it has solid LinnDrum sounds in there, so you can sound like Prince, or any of a million awesome LinnDrum grooves from the '80s. Also, while a sampler really is the way to go for this, I like some of the chopped Jungle/Drum & Bass hits they have in this thing. The way you can mute & unmute the parts makes it kinda performance friendly too.

Boss DR-5

I originally had this bad boy back when it came out around 1996. Probably considered a cheap piece of gear by most, I remember composing some silly tracks with this thing back then. I liked the customizability of the drum kits, and the guitar style layout on the face of it made it easy to lay down bass lines or chords to sketch things out. It had a drum track and 3 other tracks you could use for whatever. The instrument sounds are not great, but they were OK. No problem with the drums though, so I still consider it a legit drum machine at the very least.