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Version 1.22 of the Blofeld OS and version 1.4 of the keyboard firmware for the Blofeld Keys are officially out. Seems poo poo's running great now, according to the few people who've bothered to post on the Waldorf Blofeld FB group. http://www.waldorf-music.info/downloads-blofeld-kb/blofeld-firmware-en
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Scoping out reverb units, ideally trying to avoid grainy digital artifacts for nice plate and ambient swells. Budget being aprox ~$500;
There's probably some worthwhile 19" rack units out there, but they tend to be ridiculously expensive. Suggestions?? 
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Jun 28, 2014 00:38
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Panda Time posted:Scoping out reverb units, ideally trying to avoid grainy digital artifacts for nice plate and ambient swells. Kurzweil Rumor. Still has some of the best AD/DA converters around, lots of easily modable flange, reverb, delay, and chorus effects taken from their DKFX stuff, and if you're lucky can can get one for $300. I have it's sibling the Mangler and the few shared effects that I have from that unit are fantastic, like Lazerverb!
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Jun 28, 2014 01:01
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I've got an Eventide Space and I'm quite fond of it. Sound quality is extremely lush and even on a mild setting I feel like it adds a lot of character to my sounds. Lots of spacy high-powered algorithms inside as well as solid standards like room, hall, plate, spring, etc. It's also nice to have the MIDI in/outs so I can easily MIDI sync some of the modulation instead of having to tap tempo. I haven't tried any of the other reverbs you've listed so I can't really compare it to anything (except Youtube demos) but I decided to go with the Space over the Big Sky since I felt the Big Sky sounded a little more digital than I prefer. Maybe I'll record some demos tonight of the Space cause I'm bored and it's way too humid outside.
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Jun 28, 2014 01:22
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Hardwire Supernatural Ambient Verb. I just got one recently myself and it makes beautiful, lush ambient sounds. I guess I still want the Eventide Space but I don't care if I get it nearly as much now that I own this thing. It's the best reverb I've ever owned, and I've owned like 5 or 6 reverb pedals over the years. The Shimmer setting is just the bee's knees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vqTRylaSyc
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Jun 28, 2014 02:01
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Panda Time posted:Scoping out reverb units, ideally trying to avoid grainy digital artifacts for nice plate and ambient swells. Pick up an old Pioneer unit off of ebay, they have pretty lights. Or get a reverb tank or two, build your own amp circuit and roll your own. Basically, get a real spring reverb. It'll probably be noisy, will only have one reverb mode, but you can shake it for the coolest noises.
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Jun 28, 2014 05:43
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Panda Time posted:There's probably some worthwhile 19" rack units out there, but they tend to be ridiculously expensive. http://www.tcelectronic.com/m-one-xl/ This is what I use as my main outboard 'verb. It's one of the nicest reverb units out there for under a grand, they usually run about $400-450 online.
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Jun 28, 2014 10:19
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Re: verb, I'll always recommend the Zoom MS-70CDR. It's a guitar pedal, but handles line level inputs pretty well (stereo inputs, too) and is about $100, and it's got a bunch of reverbs ripped off various more expensive units. The poor man's reverb/delay solution.
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Jun 28, 2014 18:02
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I'm guessing you want hardware only, but for the money, the ValhallaDSP plugins (especially ValhallaVintageVerb) are just about perfect.
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I keep trying to convince myself into / out of buying Komplete 9 Ultimate  I already own FM8, Reaktor and Diva but it's hard to pass up on all that other stuff. I have been waffling on this decision since it started. I keep telling myself it's worth it for the Reaktor plugins and the other effects but I still can't decide. Maybe I can remain indecisive until the deal's over and not push back my root canal until next payday?
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Jun 29, 2014 17:09
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WorldWarWonderful posted:I keep trying to convince myself into / out of buying Komplete 9 Ultimate C'mon, do it. Don't be the only kid on the block without it.
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Software dudes: any resources you check out to learn new stuff about synths you own? Been getting into Massive lately and everything I find is basically just "10 things you'd know if you flipped through the manual."
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BKPR posted:Software dudes: any resources you check out to learn new stuff about synths you own? Been getting into Massive lately and everything I find is basically just "10 things you'd know if you flipped through the manual." For Massive in particular consider doing a ton of the youtube "HOW TO SOUND LIKE __________" tutorials, especially ones where someone actually explains pretty clearly what they're doing and not one of the silent ones where someone is just turning knobs until they get the sound they want. Honestly I've learned more about synthesis from a combination of that and a stupidly dense textbook/class on synthesis combined than I probably could have any other way. Also as long as tehschulman is plugging stuff he's selling, I'm still trying to sell the Moog and would be willing to look into lowballs at this point if you really want a stupidly cheap Moog.
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BKPR posted:Software dudes: any resources you check out to learn new stuff about synths you own? Been getting into Massive lately and everything I find is basically just "10 things you'd know if you flipped through the manual." I don't know if they include stuff that's not in the manual. I read manuals all the time, but with me things don't "stick" until I do something myself, so I always have the video on one computer and my DAW on another and I work through whatever they're doing in the videos to truly learn how things work. Gonna watch Groove3's MachFive 3 videos next. There's an example of a product that seems on the surface to have an all right user guide (paper manual only, there are no PDFs), but I've read that thing cover to cover (twice) and still have no loving idea how to use that sampler. My hope is that by watching someone actually accomplish something in it I'll be able to figure out whatever it is the manual's not telling me.
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Radiapathy posted:I use MacProVideo and Groove3. (MacProVideo's Reaktor videos aren't good, but everything else I've used there is solid.) To be fair, I've been looking for about the past year and no one has good video lessons when it comes to Reaktor beyond the basics, which aren't that difficult to figure out.
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Saw this poking around for more info on the blofeld update. Seems like a pretty good deal, 177EU for a Rocket, plus it comes with a free license for the Waldorf Edition VSTs.
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Startyde posted:Saw this poking around for more info on the blofeld update. Seems like a pretty good deal, 177EU for a Rocket, plus it comes with a free license for the Waldorf Edition VSTs. Now I'm curious whether these plugins ever got updated to 64 bit. Could be a bit of an empty gesture to some otherwise.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Now I'm curious whether these plugins ever got updated to 64 bit. Could be a bit of an empty gesture to some otherwise. I've never worked with the filter or PPG plugin, but Attack is pretty cool and useful once you understand its many many quirks.
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WorldWarWonderful posted:I keep trying to convince myself into / out of buying Komplete 9 Ultimate I just bought it. You must buy it. Everybody must do the same thing. Now. Time is running out to do the same thing as me.
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You don't need it. You've managed so far without it. You won't use most of it.
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ynohtna posted:You don't need it. You've managed so far without it. You won't use most of it. See how well software is able to emulate hardware these days?
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Komplete saved me from having to buy FOUR grand pianos. That's a savings of fifty thousand dollars!
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Radiapathy posted:The Edition plugins are all 64-bit. (At least the Windows versions are.) From what I remember from my piracy days, the filter is pretty wicked.
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BKPR posted:Komplete saved me from having to buy FOUR grand pianos. That's a savings of fifty thousand dollars! I finally stopped having to hire a full orchestra and African percussion ensemble every couple of weeks. Paid for itself a hundred times over.
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Trig Discipline posted:I finally stopped having to hire a full orchestra and African percussion ensemble every couple of weeks. Paid for itself a hundred times over. Stop hiring from the more developed parts of the continent imo
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WAFFLEHOUND posted:Stop hiring from the more developed parts of the continent imo Man that used to be true, but Congotronics has the whole dang continent thinking they deserve more than fifteen cents a day.
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WAFFLEHOUND posted:Stop hiring from the more developed parts of the continent imo I pay some guy in China to write & play all my music for me. 
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A Winner is Jew posted:I pay some guy in China to write & play all my music for me. You know, it's sad but you actually probably could do this.
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I use TaskRabbit and I'm paying a fortune for lovely modular noodling
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Anyone here have:
If so, would you be willing to beta test something in about a week?
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Roland just posted the greatest synth pic ever on Facebook. Livin' the dream. Radiapathy fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Jul 1, 2014 |
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Startyde posted:Saw this poking around for more info on the blofeld update. Seems like a pretty good deal, 177EU for a Rocket, plus it comes with a free license for the Waldorf Edition VSTs. I saw your link (not sure how I'd never stumbled upon the Rocket before) but didn't have chance to look up what it did until my housemate was home. Within a few seconds we were both staring at the screen itching to get one. I'm broke as all hell but more than happy to persuade him to pull the trigger! It looks a pretty sweet bit of hardware for a 'first synth' kind of thing, and not much more expensive than the Volca series either, and seems pretty damned versatile. I saw some videos of it doing lots of really fat basslines before switching out to trance leads. Any big negatives on this thing? It just seems to scream PLAY WITH ME AND MAKE SOME MASSIVE SOUNDS IN JUST A FEW DIAL TWEAKS which, when I think about my 20 pages of Automap bindings in a VSTi, sounds so inviting...
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I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Any big negatives on this thing? My buddy had he's die after a few months of light use, Thomann did sent him another one so all is well. Nice filter, ok build quality for the price.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I saw your link (not sure how I'd never stumbled upon the Rocket before) but didn't have chance to look up what it did until my housemate was home. Within a few seconds we were both staring at the screen itching to get one. I'm broke as all hell but more than happy to persuade him to pull the trigger! Rocket observations:
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Thanks for that guys, it really seems a fun bit if kit. I shall be encouraging purchase!
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Look ma, no computers! It's the year 2014 and I'm making MIDI files and saving them on floppy disks. The QY is a total beast for entering sheet music. Even my wife, who wouldn't normally touch anything but a Real Piano, sat down with 10 minutes of tutoring and banged out a few pieces in an evening.
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Found a replacement floppy drive for my S1000HD, and it was able to read the disk that originally it came with (just had some programs and samples). I could have found a drive and configured it, but jumper pins are uncommon, and then you need to find the layout of the pins, etc. This one was reasonably priced, and listed as tested. I have been able to format low density, but it doesn't seem to want to format high density at all. Anyone with experience with the old Akai machines know if there is some trick? I've asked the seller, but thought I'd ask here as well.
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No trick, you just hit high instead of low.
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Yup, and that just ends with an error. Low density works fine as long as the space on the disk is covered to indicate DD, if not it gives the same error at the end. Just surprising that one works and the other doesn't. "Disk Unusable - Bad Sector Area" I'm going to try formatting with OmniFlop, and figured it might be a valuable resource for others, too: http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm Fors Yard fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Jul 3, 2014 |
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