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Entorwellian posted:After like a 5 year hiatus, 25 years of being a gear hoarder and having a home studio, I've sold nearly all of my gear and I'm left with nothing except my Korg MS-20, the accompanying SQ-10, and an audio interface. Software-wise, I've deleted everything except Cool Edit Pro, Max/MSP/Jitter and Reaper (with pre-alpha version of Max for Reaper) It's been the most liberating thing I've done musically and I'm enjoying programming songs again for the first time in many years. I highly recommend dumping the majority of your crap if you're having motivational difficulties. 1) Commit yourself to tidying up. 2) Imagine your ideal synth 3) Finish discarding first. Before getting rid of synths, sincerely thank each item for serving its purpose. 4) Tidy by synth category, not size 5) Follow the right sub harmonic oscillator 6) Ask yourself if it sparks joy
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Rutibex posted:1) Commit yourself to tidying up. Great rules to live by 
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Rifter17 posted:From a little back, but I have a system and I really like it. It scratches my modular itch. The biggest problem I have found is that it's a bit noisy. But it's very affordable, fun, and I think the community around it is very open and welcoming. I found myself wantimg to be able to use the function generators on my volca modular as mod sources for other things, which lead me to discovering their volca modular interface module, and that started a spiral of dreaming about big racks of modules with tiny wires. What you're saying doesn't discourage that at all!
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Sep 19, 2021 15:07
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AE modular is also very DIY friendly because all of the signals are 0 to 5v. There was an announcement with new modules from superbooth as well. I'm a happy owner so I'll have a positive take on it.
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Finished my Hex Mix VCA today. Really started getting in my head towards the end of the build. this was the most expensive single module I've built since starting this in July. Got super nervous when I plugged it in, started having flashbacks to when I destroyed a $50 Diode Chaos module. Luckily everything worked right off the bat, and calibration went off without a hitch. Now I have 8 VCAs instead of 2, and I'm thinking about that Zlob Vnlcursal VCA.  You really can never have too many VCAs.Here's a more aggressive, noisey example with a lot of the different types of noise from the Entropy and its Expander. Pitch changes are coming from the Entropy S&H, which is changing based on the random triggers from the Diode Chaos. The random gates from the Entropy Expander trigger the Befaco VC ADSR, and the State Gates on that are controlling the volume for three other sound sources. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTh8LEr6nE Here's a slightly less aggressive, less noisey example of the above. The dual VCOs from the Paia really shine through here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSo8gQ_XxBE I don't know why the video is so dark, I'm not sitting in the dark IRL.  The Korg MS2000R is sold, and the Maths is on its way.
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Sep 20, 2021 02:16
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omg my husband got me the greatest birthday gift ever  I completely forgot how to use it since I owned it last but its kind of sentimental because I had to sell it for rent money when I was going through a rough time right before I met him.
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Sep 20, 2021 05:59
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inferis posted:omg my husband got me the greatest birthday gift ever  Enjoy it! You deserve it. Hit us with some bleep bloops from it sometime yeah?
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inferis posted:omg my husband got me the greatest birthday gift ever …does he have a sister? What a pro tier husband move 🥺 that rules
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Rod Hoofhearted posted:Here's a more aggressive, noisey example with a lot of the different types of noise from the Entropy and its Expander. Pitch changes are coming from the Entropy S&H, which is changing based on the random triggers from the Diode Chaos. The random gates from the Entropy Expander trigger the Befaco VC ADSR, and the State Gates on that are controlling the volume for three other sound sources. slap some reverb on that and presto, you’ve scored a 90s sci-fi horror film!
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Sep 20, 2021 08:59
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I am pleased because not much here gives me a sense of "drat, now I need the new one". gently caress that is an annoying video though. The guy showing off the keyboards is bogus.
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Sep 20, 2021 12:15
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inferis posted:omg my husband got me the greatest birthday gift ever  I know how it feels to sell an instrument you love to make life work, it sucks a whole lot. Glad you got one back! Looks like you figured out how to get the cow out, the rest isn’t really that important.
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Ornament and Crime assembled and working!!!
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dexefiend posted:Ornament and Crime assembled and working!!!
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Wish those plum audio through hole OCPs would come back in stock
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Is it weird that I want to trade my MPC One for an MPC1k? I feel like I want something with LESS features, not MORE. I find myself just constantly fiddling with the plugins or other things instead of just making music. 1Ks aren't super cheap but maybe this is one of those things where I get one, spend a month with it and keep the one I feel more comfortable with. I feel like maybe down the road I'd regret selling the One because I do love its portability and it's basically as close to a portable DAW as you'll get without being tied to a laptop or iPad. And I do like the MPC workflow. some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Sep 21, 2021 |
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Sep 21, 2021 17:50
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I miss my 1000 sometimes. it was a tank
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Sep 21, 2021 17:53
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Why are 1ks more than 2500s rn?
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Martytoof posted:I find myself just constantly fiddling with the plugins or other things instead of just making music. That said, the MPC1K has one of the most fun sequencers I've ever used.
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Martytoof posted:I find myself just constantly fiddling with the plugins or other things instead of just making music. I fiddle and play around with new toys until one day something snaps in my brain and now I'm obsessed and must create something using all thing things i have been playing with. I think my brain is doing some kind of work in the background but gently caress if i know how that works
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Totally respect that it’s better in the long run to learn to avoid distractions, but somehow I feel like by the time I learn this lesson I’ll be 80 and riddled with too much arthritis to hit any pads. I meant to also say I’m very very very much not a fan of the One’s touch UI. If I could somehow have a few more buttons to just move around the screen then I’d probably be satisfied, but SOMETHING about jamming my finger onto the interface just feels unpleasant. Like it somehow takes me out of it. Feels very imprecise and while I can do a lot of things with qlinks I just feel very ehh about the whole experience. I had a little spare cash sitting in my fun-toys savings account this month so I just grabbed a 1K on Reverb. I’ll use both for a month or so but if I like the 1K I don’t really feel bad about selling the One or trading it for some kind of mobile synth. It’s current hardware so if I really really want one I can source one no problem, and I doubt they’ll stop iterating on the platform so it’ll only get “better”, so to speak.
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Well, if you end up with too many synths, I have what used to be a NR CX-4, but is now totally useless, which I'd be happy to trade for any synth, provided there was a way to do that.
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B33rChiller posted:Well, if you end up with too many synths, I have what used to be a NR CX-4, but is now totally useless, which I'd be happy to trade for any synth, provided there was a way to do that. the car, the gun, or the ultra sound machine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeVW65Q46go
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haha. It's a 9mm.
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B33rChiller posted:haha. It's a 9mm. Seems like you could come up with more effective ways of getting more gear out of it. Teach a man to fish and all that.
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Martytoof posted:Is it weird that I want to trade my MPC One for an MPC1k? I feel like I want something with LESS features, not MORE. I find myself just constantly fiddling with the plugins or other things instead of just making music. 1Ks aren't super cheap but maybe this is one of those things where I get one, spend a month with it and keep the one I feel more comfortable with. I have a MPC 1K with JJOS set up as the brain of my studio and its great for coming up with new ideas. Since the features are much more limited than the One it forces you to focus on the beats or the melodies themselves instead of adjusting EQ and compressor settings for 15 minutes. I spend so much time staring at a monitor or touchscreen that it's also nice to NOT stare at one when making music. I like coming up with rough versions of a song on the MPC, then sending all the midi and audio to ableton to finish everything up there. That being said, I really wish it could live loop audio or had a few internal synth sounds. I'm thinking of picking up an akai force or an MPC one to complement the 1K. Editing Midi is also a real pain, but that just means I should get better at playing.
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watho posted:slap some reverb on that and presto, you’ve scored a 90s sci-fi horror film! I did another one with a little bit of reverb added in Logic afterwards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2sctFnqDCU I didn't realize the yellow cable going into the Bad Comrade wasn't plugged into anything until I was editing.
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Stabbing Spork posted:I have a MPC 1K with JJOS set up as the brain of my studio and its great for coming up with new ideas. Since the features are much more limited than the One it forces you to focus on the beats or the melodies themselves instead of adjusting EQ and compressor settings for 15 minutes. I spend so much time staring at a monitor or touchscreen that it's also nice to NOT stare at one when making music. I like coming up with rough versions of a song on the MPC, then sending all the midi and audio to ableton to finish everything up there. Yeah I think that's my take on it too. It would be pretty cool if I could import the JJOS projects from 1K into the One to continue developing the project on a more robust platform, but I guess at that point I would be done with the "ideation" phase and likely a computer based DAW might be just as usable. Still really waffling on the One but I'm not going to make any rash decisions. If it has a place in the workflow I've already spent the money and might keep it, but if it makes sense to trade it up for a different music maker and leave the advanced project editing to Ableton or Mac-based MPC Software then that's probably fine too. I have surprisingly little to show for my time with the One or Tracker, but I have gotten much more ideation done on the Polyend just because it's intuitive workflow and limited featureset just make me do a music and nothing more. I'm not really enough of a whiz at this stuff to figure out mastering and all that so my projects mostly just live on the SD card and die in obscurity once I move onto something else, but it's fun as hell to just mess around and make music, even if only for myself 
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Because I am insane unobservant, I have just noticed after having my Maschine Mikro for 18 months that I can map the modwheel to sample start position. This is a game changer
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Plug-in Boutique is selling something called the Komplete Classics collection right now. It’s FM8, Absynth, Massive, and Replika for 100 bucks. https://www.pluginboutique.com/deals/show?sale_id=8521 Trig Discipline fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Sep 22, 2021 |
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Sep 22, 2021 22:30
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omg! fm8 is imredible
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Can aftertouch messages go down to 0? I'm adjusting the aftertouch sensor I bumped while fixing some keys in the dx7 
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That seems like it should be a note off event but idk
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Think I got it set close enough, lowest it'll consistently go is 2 and it'll go up to 127 without too much force in most areas.
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echinopsis posted:omg! fm8 is imredible 
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My kingdom for a portable hardware device for something I can load Kontakt libraries into and trigger over MIDI. Something not called a laptop, I mean. e: I guess Pipes theoretically exists? some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Sep 23, 2021 |
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Martytoof posted:My kingdom for a portable hardware device for something I can load Kontakt libraries into and trigger over MIDI. There's also stuff like this: https://moddevices.com/products/mod-duo-x/ But it won't run Kontakt. It does have fluidsynth for sf2 if you're OK with dated stuff like that. Or you can get something like an Intel NUC plus a touchscreen plus a USB sound+MIDI device and roll your own. That would get you something running Windows, and Kontakt or whatever software you like, for much less than a MacBook.
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That is pretty awesome. My only real want for NKI support is because the only good Taiko drum libraries seem to be in Kontakt form :[ All the free one-shots I find have stuff like stage reverb already applied, boo.
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Maschine+ can (unofficially) run a bunch of Kontakt and Reaktor stuff, but seems pretty hit and miss.
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Yeah honestly my best bet would be to just buy the Kontakt patch and sample in what I need. Not sure whether it would work since I want to keep the free kontakt player but the demo mode limitations are probably fine for 5 minutes of sampling.
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Looks like TipTop's making licensed Buchla eurorack modules the way Behringer made Arp 2500 eurorack modules. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avhIc0p4zeM It's neat, but those modules look a bit chonky.
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