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Startyde posted:Just go modular and patch your money into a giant bottomless hole
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wayfinder posted:Well all that poo poo has been possible in Plogue Bidule and Buzz for going on 15 years, but they've never been mainstream or user friendly enough for it to matter. I think Plogue Bidule's biggest hurdle is that it's called loving Plogue Bidule.
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Apr 8, 2015 15:28
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So Aira modules are going to be a thing I guess. Whatever. http://www.roland.com/aira/ 
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Apr 8, 2015 16:21
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The only thing I want out of that line is a cheap, mass produced case.
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net work error posted:So Aira modules are going to be a thing I guess. Whatever. My System 100m is my favorite thing that I own. Nothing else sounds like it and it has the best workflow and interface of any modular ever. I really want to believe that they're going to do something cool, but I'm 100% certain that they've already found a way to louse this up. It would be neat to see them actually make a filter module that would let you load many of their classic filters up - System 700, 100, 100m, etc.
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Apr 8, 2015 17:09
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Transistor Rhythm posted:My System 100m is my favorite thing that I own. Nothing else sounds like it and it has the best workflow and interface of any modular ever. I really want to believe that they're going to do something cool, but I'm 100% certain that they've already found a way to louse this up. It'll likely just be the AIRA guts with patchable parameters. If it's cheap enough and had midi in for easy polyphony and sequencing I could see it being fun, especially if they make it as a standalone box; no way I'd want to take up that much rack space for it right now. That's also assuming it costs less than the regular AIRA keyboard, which is a stretch. The Eurorack pool is getting really crowded and we're not even close to Peak Module yet. Still waiting for the Timbre Wolf module.
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Apr 8, 2015 17:38
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ARIA Module predictions: 1) An oscillator featuring some kind of Plug Out mode so you can change what sound is inside 2) Envelope Gen/Gate/Trigger module cause nothing screams ARIA like ripping off the SH101 3) A Filter 4) Someone already made this for April Fools, but you can expect a Scatter module or something equally as laughable Also offering a System-1 in Eurorack format, I can't figure out if that's completely genius or asinine.
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Apr 8, 2015 20:05
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Welp, my wife's most annoying synth award has been handed to the Grendel Drone Commander. Wait until she hears what I do to the SK1.
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Apr 8, 2015 20:12
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wayfinder posted:Well all that poo poo has been possible in Plogue Bidule and Buzz for going on 15 years, but they've never been mainstream or user friendly enough for it to matter. Yeah I dunno poo poo about Renoise but I am intimately familiar with FL. Comparing it to Bitwig is like comparing apples to being kicked in the dickhole.
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Apr 8, 2015 22:01
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Doepfer posted:Because of the strong US$ compared to the Euro we have to increase our prices in April 2015 (about 5-10% according to the product). The reason is that many electronic parts are charged in US$ (e.g. potentiometers, switches, rotary knobs, integrated circuits, sockets, cables) and we are no longer able to compensate the exchange loss. Thanks for the weak Euro heads-up, Goon. I think I owe you a drink of your choice.
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Apr 9, 2015 06:58
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I took my Shared System & a tape recorder away to the country for the bank holiday and did a few things but this was the most coherent bit of the weekend: https://soundcloud.com/scatterfold/fynderne-cascade Sitting outside in the evening with some whisky, eurocrack and a tape recorder is serious  territory imho
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Apr 9, 2015 13:35
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Got a patchblock to mess around with. The crosstalk is a bit ridiculous, but it's a great little platform for experimentation. Now to see if I can find the limits of the CPU.
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Apr 9, 2015 16:44
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Doublepostin' for babby's most ridiculous flanger.
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Apr 9, 2015 17:31
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Anybody have an opinion on the Dreadbox Erebus? It was recommended to me by a friend who barely used one. I'm liking the demos, but I've never heard of the company before. On a related note, the reason he recommended the Erebus is because he was trying to talk me out of getting into Eurorack, which I'm okay with. The reason I wanted Eurorack, though, was I wanted something with tons of routing and modulation options, a physical interface that didn't require me to stare at a screen all the time, and very immediate programming. Is there anything else that kind of ticks those boxes? If it makes a difference, I'll be using it more for creating sound effects for video games or just killing time than I will ever be using it for something resembling music.
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Apr 9, 2015 21:01
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Can anyone explain why my ES-4 won't play notes below C2? Should I just be tuning up an extra 2 octaves?
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Apr 10, 2015 16:11
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Approx what frequency is it putting out at C2? is it, like, 16hz? Or is it 65hz?
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Apr 10, 2015 16:39
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So the potential specs on the JD-Xa just got leaked. Looks like 4 analogue voices have been confirmed, 64 digital voices but it's the full supernatural engine and not just the PCM sounds on the Xi and unlike the Xi you can put the digital stuff through the analogue filters. The price looks to be about $1800 so now I get to have fun choosing this or the Pro 2.
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Apr 10, 2015 17:48
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MockingQuantum posted:Anybody have an opinion on the Dreadbox Erebus? It was recommended to me by a friend who barely used one. I'm liking the demos, but I've never heard of the company before. I'm really just getting started with all this nonsense, but I played around with an Erebus the other week, and was really impressed. The build quality is solid, the paraphony seems like a neat trick, and the echo especially gives you some really cool sounds. I ended up buying a Microbrute instead, since I don't even have a MIDI controller yet, so I'm probably not quite there yet, but the Erebus was really tempting. That said, what about the Microbrute? It has a similar degree of patchability and is very knobby.
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Need some opinions here. I'm looking to create some late 70's/early 80's style soundtrack work. I've found an ESQ-1 creates some of the best mid-80's sound. However, I'm looking for something even a little earlier. I'm kinda debating between something Moog or grabbing something from their early Yamaha CS line. I'm thinking of a Moog Sub 37 because (from what I've heard) it can sound both modern and retro and seems like an all around useful synth. However I know with going straight up vintage, although harder to work with it, it will probably do exactly what I want.
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Apr 10, 2015 19:04
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We gotta start putting quotes around the work "leak" any time it has anything to do with synthesizers. Anyway, if that JD-XA ends up meeting its current promises at release, it might be the one piece of gear that I'll actually buy new furniture and re-arrange my setup for. I don't have a place to put a keyboard without rearranging so I've been strictly on desktop and rack synths. But that thing...
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Radiapathy posted:We gotta start putting quotes around the work "leak" any time it has anything to do with synthesizers. I've already made room for either the XA or Pro2, and the official release next weekend along with user reviews when they're up is now the deciding factor since to me if those specs are real it's an even 50/50 split between the two.
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Apr 10, 2015 21:22
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The Cleaner posted:Need some opinions here. I'm looking to create some late 70's/early 80's style soundtrack work. I'll do this without going TLDR, but that era of synth film soundtrack is actually the culmination of not just the gear but recording onto analog tape, then that tape going through multiple generations as part of film editing, and then finally ending up as the optical track along the film. So that's how you end up with something as digital as Brad Fiedels' Terminator score sounding so analog and gritty and weird even though it was coming out of a Synclavier. But maybe post some examples of what you're going for and we can help? The Moog Sub 37 does sound great.
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Apr 10, 2015 22:09
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magiccarpet posted:Can anyone explain why my ES-4 won't play notes below C2? Should I just be tuning up an extra 2 octaves? All of my gear reacts different to MIDI under C-2. Some goes to 1, some to zero. The MIDI to CV on my modular loops back around after C-2, and starts playing down from C-8 the lower you go.
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toadee posted:All of my gear reacts different to MIDI under C-2. Some goes to 1, some to zero. The MIDI to CV on my modular loops back around after C-2, and starts playing down from C-8 the lower you go. Yeah thats what happens when I set the Min/Max to 0/127. Standard its 48/127 I believe.
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Transistor Rhythm posted:I'll do this without going TLDR, but that era of synth film soundtrack is actually the culmination of not just the gear but recording onto analog tape, then that tape going through multiple generations as part of film editing, and then finally ending up as the optical track along the film. So that's how you end up with something as digital as Brad Fiedels' Terminator score sounding so analog and gritty and weird even though it was coming out of a Synclavier. Yes I'm aware of the tape (both 2-Inch and also VCR) degradation effects. I've got some Wow & Flutter plug-in effects, along a Zvex Lowfi-Junkie pedal (which can make an Access Virus sound like you bought it at a flea market covered in dust) spliced with some fake tape hiss. This is the last thing I recorded in that style, using mostly modular gear with some DSI synths and SQ-8l. I posted it here last year and got pretty good response so I think I've got the 80's degraded soundtrack style down.... http://studiobythecemetery.bandcamp.com/ ...I'm also aware that most late 70's soundtracks were not just synths but + organs + Mellotron. However when I listen to stuff like Goblin I can really hear what I've been told is a Minimoog at times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpAAQrJ93w8 ...and then I see gear demos like this CS-10 and am shocked at how retro it sounds, especially compared to like say a Minibrute: https://youtu.be/1qjhrAjnhcM ...I also really dug the Beyond The Black Rainbow soundtrack and was told a Moog was used for alot of the bass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLCqXbPOroU So I'm left here either trying to get my modern synths and plugins to sound like retro old ones (which gets like 70% of the way but usually sounds too perfect) or buy a Sub 37 and see how close it can go... also I just found some guy selling a CS-10 in my city which doesn't help.
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Apr 11, 2015 06:36
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If you have Kontakt, Monark is a cheap way to establish a nice Moog sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVl9EW5uN3A I love that ZVex pedal. I run an MS-2000 through it for some really interesting pads.
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magiccarpet posted:If you have Kontakt, Monark is a cheap way to establish a nice Moog sound. You mean Reaktor, right?
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Trig Discipline posted:You mean Reaktor, right? Right right. NI makes a lot of poo poo.
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Apr 11, 2015 14:10
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Reaktor's not a cheap or nice way to get any sounds.
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Apr 11, 2015 14:51
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Sizone posted:Reaktor's not a cheap or nice way to get any sounds. I disagree. For the price you get a metric fuckton of synths and effects from the user library.
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Oldstench posted:I disagree. For the price you get a metric fuckton of synths and effects from the user library. Yeah, even if you never have any intention of messing around with creating your own synth or effects the amount of user made ones covers so much poo poo it's still worth the price, especially if you can pick it up on a 1/2 off sale.
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Apr 11, 2015 20:44
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What's a good drive pedal to pair with synths?
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Apr 11, 2015 22:54
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What ever one you build yourself. You can make a cd4049 distortion for, like, less than 10$ in parts.
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Apr 12, 2015 00:45
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My friend's Boomstar was finally delivered after 4 months while we were working on new music so you can imagine how awesome that was. Except it wouldn't turn on 
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Speaking of descents into madness, someone in EU buy this so I don't decide to start looking at freight pricing. Also FLX is going to messe but we're not cool enough social media to be let in on it, harass him for booth video requests.
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The Cleaner posted:Yes I'm aware of the tape (both 2-Inch and also VCR) degradation effects. I've got some Wow & Flutter plug-in effects, along a Zvex Lowfi-Junkie pedal (which can make an Access Virus sound like you bought it at a flea market covered in dust) spliced with some fake tape hiss. Oh, gotcha! It sounds like you already know all of that stuff that gives "film synth" such a different vibe. But yeah, if you're looking for that "seventies" sound, DSI stuff and the Minibrute are not really going to do it. They're very clean, modern, precise-sounding synths, and you want something that's way less precise and clean across the board. All Yamaha CS-series will get you there for sure, any Roland prior to '83 or so (check out the SH-09 or SH-2, they're still affordable and have that "brown sound" in spades). The Arp Odyssey reissue. Older Moog stuff (even the Rogue or Prodigy). The Sub 37 sounds amazing - it's probably the best synth on the market right now. It may be what you're looking for.
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I don't have a problem I don't have a problem I don't have a problem I don't have a problem I don't have a problem 
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Apr 14, 2015 22:38
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Yeah but you will real soon unless you got renters insurance 
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