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Uhh, I would recommend just going through some random 80's synthpop on youtube until you find something that has the same pace. Things like bronski beat, art of noise, modern talking all bring mucho cheese to the game. I actually used 'Human League - Don't you want me' for my own track.  The choir is straight out of a Korg M1, so yeah that should be pretty recognisable indeed. E: Synth related. Just sold my Yamaha DX200 and went straight ahead to buy a Volca Keys Also does anyone here own a Clavia Nord Sjoewe fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Dec 11, 2014 |
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Sjoewe posted:The choir is straight out of a Korg M1, so yeah that should be pretty recognisable indeed. Well I'm an idiot then, because I've used the M1 plenty  Thanks for the suggestions!
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Dec 11, 2014 15:48
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Your Computer posted:
Continue to make <2 min long tracks because it's way loving worse for music to be boring than short. If it's good, you can always queue it up twice.
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Dec 11, 2014 16:05
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So I made a couple of changes and it's now <3min instead of <2min which suits me fine. I made the snare a lot more prominent, which I feel ups the cheese-factor. https://soundcloud.com/yourcomputer/cheesy31 It really sounds like an instrumental version of a track that's supposed to have lyrics though, anyone got tips on that part? I feel like a lot of the stuff I make ends up like this, which is frustrating since I'm not much of a songwriter and I really only wish to make instrumental stuff 
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Dec 11, 2014 20:41
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College has built a healthy following making 80s songs that should have vocals but don't (track on the Drive soundtrack notwithstanding).
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Dec 11, 2014 20:45
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Your Computer posted:https://soundcloud.com/yourcomputer/cheesy31 drop some samples of a dog woofing with autotune and sweeten it up with some chorus and you're good
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Dec 11, 2014 21:06
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Panda Time posted:drop some samples of a dog woofing with autotune and sweeten it up with some chorus and you're good I.. uh.. what  Did another small thing today; started it and had no idea where to take it so it sorta turned into this... extended outro of sorts.. iunno: https://soundcloud.com/yourcomputer/iunno
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Dec 11, 2014 23:46
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Your Computer posted:I.. uh.. what If you're looking to fill a track with something other than a singer, use a lead instrument or something vocal sounding like a thermin, or sample a let's play video and run it through a vocoder then put a lil chorus on it to sweeten it up.
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Dec 11, 2014 23:56
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Except for things that aren't vocals make a really loving poor substitute for vocals.
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Your Computer posted:
cut out the fade out fade in fade out down to just the first fade out, the extra tail doesn't add anything to the track. Quit getting hung up on song length, dudes with huge bonerz don't need to compensate with long songs or corvettes.
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Panda Time posted:drop some samples of a dog woofing with autotune and sweeten it up with some chorus and you're good Like this? http://youtu.be/0359hSerDeE
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Dec 12, 2014 01:33
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Yo: Fading in or out is a bad idea.
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a_big_dog posted:Yo: Fading in or out is a bad idea. If you're gonna get your song on radio or an album or something, sure, but it does no harm when you're just posting noodles on the internet  Personally I use fade in/outs when a track is unfinished (lacking an intro or outro), since it's unpleasant to listen to an abrupt start or end. (The double fade out was silly though, which is why I did it. Felt like a funny thing at the time)
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Roland just announced a TR-707/727 expansion for the TR-8. It's not simply a sample set (there is circuit modeling involved), and it also includes new TR-909/808 instruments. If the TR-8 had more analog outs, or if their USB implementation worked more like Virus TI or Elektron's alleged Overbridge, I'd be ditching work for a trip to Guitar Center right now. http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2014/12/12/roland-expand-aira-tr-8-with-707727-voices-set/
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It's nice to see Roland following through and actually producing updates for the Aira line, something I think a few of us thought wouldn't happen very often. Interested to see what their next System-1 update is going to be.
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Its like $75 bucks though, kind of lame And yeah, who the hell makes a drum machine with only 2 assignable outs?
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toadee posted:Its like $75 bucks though, kind of lame 75 euro which is almost $100 USD  then again, 707's are stupidly priced around $400+ so maybe it's not *such* a terrible deal. TR-8 is definitely attractive just as a drum machine with a lot of surface control (a lot more attractive than the piece of poo poo TB-3), though the hardware leaves a lot to be desired.
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I'm buying it for the whistle sound alone. edit also i like the TB-3 i think im getting that too
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net work error posted:It's nice to see Roland following through and actually producing updates for the Aira line, something I think a few of us thought wouldn't happen very often. Interested to see what their next System-1 update is going to be. Count me as one of those. With them actually releasing something, now I'm doubly sore the System1 didn't have even a cheap 16x1 or 2 character LCD, they could've stuffed the D-50 in there. Work's already done pulling the PCM, etc.  RE: cost, imagine if it weren't digitally delivered. It'd be a ROM card and $200 for the same content. !And probably a limited run
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The TB-3 owns I feel the need to white knight some green and black plastic.
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I assume that this isn't "acid" since I didn't use an actual 303 and an actual 707/909. https://soundcloud.com/helpimintexas/acid-wip
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Your Computer posted:So I made a couple of changes and it's now <3min instead of <2min which suits me fine. I made the snare a lot more prominent, which I feel ups the cheese-factor. I slowed this down to about 84bpm (no pitch correction) and holy poo poo it's my jam right now
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FM4 synth is out for IPad, and it's 99 cents intro price right now. Having spent a whole 10 minutes with it, I like the presets, and the devs may have cracked making fm programming reasonable - there's lots of sliders. A++ would robot fart again. The expansion to the TR-8 seems cool, I did notice in the demo video that you still cannot mix sounds from different drum machines in the same loop, though you can flip machines on the fly. That's a minor quibble, it's a good unit imho.
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Schindler's Fist posted:FM4 synth is out for IPad, and it's 99 cents intro price right now. Having spent a whole 10 minutes with it, I like the presets, and the devs may have cracked making fm programming reasonable - there's lots of sliders. A++ would robot fart again. Thanks for the tip, downloading this thang now!
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Dec 13, 2014 09:08
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It's loving time for cubasis to go on sale.
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Schindler's Fist posted:FM4 synth is out for IPad, I don't know why emulations never have the obvious upgrade of pitch control of all the individual operators, which was part of Chowning's original patent. That was left out of the DX7 because of cost and could easily be brought back. The DX200 can do it, but only by detuning the rows in an algorithm. One iPad app that does it is 'Stria' - which makes those nice Stockhausen metallic explosion noises. Same guy as the iVCS3.
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Fors Yard posted:I slowed this down to about 84bpm (no pitch correction) and holy poo poo it's my jam right now I'm intrigued, by no pitch correction do you mean it's only slowed while retaining it's pitch or that it's lower pitched?
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I wish I knew why Roland feels it so necessary to have all these classic acid house artists promote the ARIA line. A Guy Called Gerald loves to do promotional videos with them, I think Egyptian Lover did a few as well? I'm seeing some from DJ Pierre today. I don't think hearing DJ Pierre telling me "these are cool products" would convince me to buy a product. Sure maybe if he used them 20 years ago and I wanted to get his exact sound it would be a different story, but he's never used this stuff on an album. I'm more likely to pick something up if a person I know recommends it to me, not if some big name star plugs it.
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Well at least DJ Pierre and Spank Spank have been using them in their latest Phuture gigs alongside their 303's so there's that? I dunno, twiddle knobs make acid (unless it's a TB3 and there's no env knob welp).
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Your Computer posted:I'm intrigued, by no pitch correction do you mean it's only slowed while retaining it's pitch or that it's lower pitched? Yeah, lower pitch. http://picosong.com/4GwK Also reminded me of this demo tune that also owns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-_YmUmAMwU Fors Yard fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Dec 14, 2014 |
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Dotcom Jillionaire posted:I wish I knew why Roland feels it so necessary to have all these classic acid house artists promote the ARIA line. Target audience. The people who have been doing the whole "Roland didn't do anything right after the 80s" and who want a $1000 Jupiter 8 rerelease are not going to be swayed by modern artists.
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Fors Yard posted:Yeah, lower pitch. That actually works surprisingly well 
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iOS people, thumbjam is on sale. Get it.
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Ended up at guitar center and after a customer played me a Sufjan Stevens song on his phone I got a volca bass. Having some fun with it, though it does seem really noisy. I've only been using it through earbuds though. Maybe when you can turn the volume dial more than halfway it's not an issue.
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So I tried lowering the tempo and pitch a little bit, with some small additions and changes.. https://soundcloud.com/yourcomputer/cheesy32 I really wish there was a way to listen to your track from a new perspective, I've been working on this one long enough that it just sounds like rear end to me no matter what I do. It's so much easier with drawings, when you can flip them horizontally and suddenly you spot all the little errors and stuff Might just call this one finished, I think. Still haven't come up with a name though, I kinda suck at that too. Any suggestions? 
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Your Computer posted:So I tried lowering the tempo and pitch a little bit, with some small additions and changes.. Currently I'm a bit stuck with my track. Need to get some bounce in the bassline, because at the moment it's more sentimental than sexy.
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So I've started working on some Bonerjamz-related stuff. Currently, I wouldn't mind some feedback on this piece of unfinished work: http://tindeck.com/listen/zfnk Basically, is this kind of style fit for Bonerjamz? Should I speed it down and/or make it less aggressive? I'm fairly certain that my next track will be way calmer, but I'm curious if I should keep working on this as a Bonerjamz-track.
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Monotron delay/duo as gifts to kids, yes or no? Thinking about it for some family. 
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net work error posted:Monotron delay/duo as gifts to kids, yes or no? Thinking about it for some family. I did it last year, the kids still love them. Parents not so much. 
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Flipperwaldt posted:I love it and I wish they would have cloned Marvin Gaye to sing some poo poo over it. The only thing I keep wanting for is those stabby Rhodes chords that start at 0:22 to come back for a finale somewhere after 3:00-3:10. Only needs to be a taste. A small recap to round it out. Doesn't need to make the track any longer, even. Excellent suggestion!  I settled on a suggestive but not in-your-face title too, so I think I'm done with this track. Yay! https://soundcloud.com/yourcomputer/im-on-my-way e: net work error posted:Monotron delay/duo as gifts to kids, yes or no? Thinking about it for some family.
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