xtal = crystal

According to Mike P at the opening to his new show with his wife featuring their xcellent remix of this xcellent track!

You remember you're a geek when something like this is big news :D

Yes.  Xtal, pulsewidth, and Schottky (not Schottkey) are electronics terms.  He was studying electronics at uni.  Of course, pulsewidth's also a synthesiser term, synthesisers traditionally being made of electronics before their software counterparts, but Pulsewidth doesn't seem to have any PWM in it, so these are all probably just semi-random electronics terms he named tracks after.

The different coloured powders (calxes) seem more intriguing to me...  I think he just liked naming tracks in sets, like the biological ones, the powder ones, the electronic ones, the anagrams, and the computer viruses.  Maybe they were originally meant to be released on different albums.  Who knows?

  On 12/9/2016 at 3:04 PM, ZoeB said:

Yes.  Xtal, pulsewidth, and Schottky (not Schottkey) are electronics terms.  He was studying electronics at uni.  Of course, pulsewidth's also a synthesiser term, synthesisers traditionally being made of electronics before their software counterparts, but Pulsewidth doesn't seem to have any PWM in it, so these are all probably just semi-random electronics terms he named tracks after.

 

The different coloured powders (calxes) seem more intriguing to me...  I think he just liked naming tracks in sets, like the biological ones, the powder ones, the electronic ones, the anagrams, and the computer viruses.  Maybe they were originally meant to be released on different albums.  Who knows?

Isn't XTAL straight off the circuit board of an old piece of Roland gear? I remember someone uploading a schematic of it around here somewhere.

  On 12/9/2016 at 3:09 PM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

Isn't XTAL straight off the circuit board of an old piece of Roland gear? I remember someone uploading a schematic of it around here somewhere.

I believe it's pretty standard shorthand, so probably written on a lot of circuit boards, for synths and millions of other things.

  On 12/9/2016 at 12:15 PM, phudoshin said:

According to Mike P at the opening to his new show with his wife featuring their cryscellent remix of this cryscellent track!

  On 12/9/2016 at 3:09 PM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

 

  On 12/9/2016 at 3:04 PM, ZoeB said:

Yes.  Xtal, pulsewidth, and Schottky (not Schottkey) are electronics terms.  He was studying electronics at uni.  Of course, pulsewidth's also a synthesiser term, synthesisers traditionally being made of electronics before their software counterparts, but Pulsewidth doesn't seem to have any PWM in it, so these are all probably just semi-random electronics terms he named tracks after.

 

The different coloured powders (calxes) seem more intriguing to me...  I think he just liked naming tracks in sets, like the biological ones, the powder ones, the electronic ones, the anagrams, and the computer viruses.  Maybe they were originally meant to be released on different albums.  Who knows?

 

Isn't XTAL straight off the circuit board of an old piece of Roland gear? I remember someone uploading a schematic of it around here somewhere.

 

me and probably a 303 schematic... or sh-101? dunno

also thank you, i thought i was crazy for not hearing any PWM sounds in pulsewidth

and guessing from afx soundcloud this would be the college he went to? lol

XMAS_EVET10 = CHRISTMAS_EVET10

  On 12/9/2016 at 6:00 PM, DavieAddison said:

XMAS_EVET10 = CHRISTMAS_EVET10

Mind blown

  On 12/9/2016 at 6:00 PM, DavieAddison said:

XMAS_EVET10 = CHRISTMAS_EVET10

holy shit

  On 12/9/2016 at 6:00 PM, DavieAddison said:

XMAS_EVET10 = CHRISTMAS_EVET10

T̶h̶a̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶c̶u̶l̶t̶u̶r̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶i̶n̶s̶e̶n̶s̶i̶t̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶t̶b̶h̶

lovely remix, btw

great werk, rixxxxxx! ;D

Also a shorthand in igneous petrology and probably other fields of geology, but I doubt he was reading up on rocks. xlz'n = crystallization

  On 12/9/2016 at 9:32 PM, Vilwx said:

Also a shorthand in igneous petrology and probably other fields of geology, but I doubt he was reading up on rocks. xlz'n = crystallization

Might have done, plenty of cool rox in Cornwall

  On 12/9/2016 at 11:22 PM, Tricone RC said:

 

  On 12/9/2016 at 9:32 PM, Vilwx said:

Also a shorthand in igneous petrology and probably other fields of geology, but I doubt he was reading up on rocks. xlz'n = crystallization

Might have done, plenty of cool rox in Cornwall

 

moon rox oh wow

Lol, what were the people that didn't know it was crystal calling it all this time?

  On 12/10/2016 at 10:56 AM, Amen Warrior said:

Lol, what were the people that didn't know it was crystal calling it all this time?

Xtal

Crosstal

  On 12/10/2016 at 10:56 AM, Amen Warrior said:

Lol, what were the people that didn't know it was crystal calling it all this time?

ecks-tal

mental

LaTex

Christal would be xal

A lot of synths (even digital ones) have a (quartz) crystal oscillator as the master clock - you use subdivisions of this to do yer noises.