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tylertfb posted:Is there a good site(s) for current synth/hardware/software news? Are any other forums worth checking out? Elektronauts is pretty good in addition to what's been mentioned above. There is understandably a focus on Elektron gear, but I find folks there are often talking about other hardware and software as well.
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xzzy posted:Only problem with NES era game music is when you grow up with it kinda bakes into your blood. Whenever I'm fussing about with a synth I end up making melodies that could have been game music from 1990. Which would be fine if that were the stuff I wanted to make but it's turned into a sand trap. if it's a trap then you must run jump and shoot your way out. go be fortitude xzzy! justice! fight must prevail! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJRoRt155mA
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Rolo posted:That’s the one I’m on right now. The title kicks in and it’s just jam after jam. Just wait until you get to Dr Wily's castle edit: ...or just look one post up
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Mar 29, 2022 00:14
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Look at my happy synthesizer lads just living it up
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People keep saying that my stuff sounds like nostalgic game music and I do not feel trapped I feel finally free
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Its a golden age of bleepy video game style music, dont listen to the haters.
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we are entering an era where the nostalgia focus is more on the psx/n64/dreamcast era so the chiptune stuff is way less in the zeitgeist but it will never not own
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Are we or did vaporwave finally escape back into city music lifted ROMpler partials and literal redbook audio pop music are the hallmarks of the era 
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watho posted:we are entering an era where the nostalgia focus is more on the psx/n64/dreamcast era so the chiptune stuff is way less in the zeitgeist but it will never not own 10 years old but given the reuptake in late 90s/early 2000s style FPSs this feels pretty relevant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgvcKVpQTuU&t=69s
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A LOVELY LAD posted:10 years old but given the reuptake in late 90s/early 2000s style FPSs this feels pretty relevant. That was a really weird record after their previous stuff that ruled. Definetly wasn’t ready for loving 303 and idm back then.
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havelock posted:Just wait until you get to Dr Wily's castle Yep, beat it last night. I’m running through these games with a friend who happens to be deep into FM and a Digitakt so we just go “Oooh!” a lot when we stumble into good tracks. This is what we played previously on a whim and it blew us away, both in co-op gameplay and music: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0CwVT8Xgtl8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2gu1LFjGDg8 My friend even has the MegaFM, which somehow has two YM2612 chips, the same ones used in the Genesis/Megadrive. It sounds… good. 
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VCV 1 had modules for all the classic sound chips.. NES, gameboy, YM2612. Unfortunately almost all of them got memory holed with the switch to 2.0 because people never updated them. But it was as fun as one might imagine, having CV for all those old chips.
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Would you recommend VCV 2 for someone who wants to play with rack stuff for the first time without spending thousands to decide if they like it that much yet? Are there decent tutorials?
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Not official tutorials, but youtubers have filled the gap. Jeremy Blake did the best tutorial series' I've seen about a month ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTcP3DofZLY And yes, if you are aware of the risk that it will give you serious GAS for real eurorack, it's an excellent way to try it out. If you want to go down that road my only advice is to not install a million modules at once, learning a dozen modules really well is way more fruitful than using 100 of them for a couple minutes.
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Cool! I’ll throw it on my MacBook Air and do some tinkering. Maybe it’s time I got a keystep 
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Midi controllers are very helpful. I use a nanokontrol2 with vcv. Anything with knobs and / or faders will open up manual control of more than one parameter at a time (a big drawback of the mouse interface.)
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It’s not the most efficient setup but I already own the stuff involved so this is what’s currently working: Monologue for Midi control, MacBook for the program and in case I so choose, OP-1 for sampling and tape recording:  Midi out from the OP-1 also works well but that limits my ability to sample and record until I get some kind of DAW plugin on the Mac working. It’s a start to at least see if I’m interested in learning more rack stuff. So far I’ve made some beeps by throwing stuff at the wall but it’s time to dig into YouTube to learn how the basic modules actually work. Hypothetical, but now that I have a proper MacBook and Koala on an iPad, the OP-1 may become something else in the next year, who knows. Rolo fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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tylertfb posted:Is there a good site(s) for current synth/hardware/software news? Are any other forums worth checking out? Sonic State posts press release-type info about all new plugins and traditional hardware synths (occasionally modular stuff): https://sonicstate.com/ They have a podcast that I actually love, but simply don't have enough podcast listening time for these days now that I'm no longer commuting to work or walking 10 minutes to the nearest bathroom or cafeteria: https://sonicstate.com/sonictalk Just a bunch of dudes with industry experience who fuckin' love synths.
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Something I've been meaning to ask for a while: Is the "tape recording" on the OP-1 actually onto a physical magnetic tape, or is it just a cute way of saying 'digitally recorded'?
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tylertfb posted:Something I've been meaning to ask for a while: Is the "tape recording" on the OP-1 actually onto a physical magnetic tape, or is it just a cute way of saying 'digitally recorded'? It’s just a digital 4 track tiny DAW with a convenient tape-like interface. I wouldn’t use it on my desktop but for a portable all-in-one it makes for a neat workflow.
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Its digital, it has a pretty nice interface for it.
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I haven't kept up with Sonic State since they got pushback for platforming an NFT true believer and in reaction gave him a full hour episode to, idk, explain it better.
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Flipperwaldt posted:I haven't kept up with Sonic State since they got pushback for platforming an NFT true believer and in reaction gave him a full hour episode to, idk, explain it better. lol, i missed that saga! gotta look that up.
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This guy's channel is pretty good for vcv stuff https://youtu.be/VJ3xZBnxwzk
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I smell a supergroup.
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xzzy posted:Not official tutorials, but youtubers have filled the gap. Jeremy Blake did the best tutorial series' I've seen about a month ago: Trip report: Oh my god it’s like building a pc mixed with Sim City.
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You can't cut back on VCAs! You will regret this!
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child just burst into the bedroom, volca in hand, sequence running. "dad does this sound like mario?" it did indeed sound like mario
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Ok consider me curious level 2 about rack stuff. VCV is a ton of fun and I'm finding myself a little more outside my own box every few minutes. Lots of "oh dude I can use this to control this wow" moments followed usually by "that sounds bad" but I'm loving the exploration. Every time I clear the board I branch out a little differently each time. At this point I just want a bank of MIDI knobs for VCA's so I can throw a whole row in and branch them all to different modules and chains of modules. I'm going to be doing this all day, coolest thing is I'm getting to a point where I can answer some of my own questions by throwing it on there and seeing how it reacts. So like, ugh. Let's say I definitely don't want to purchase anything right now because it's been literally one day since I started playing with fake modules but I want to start learning about real life hardware, where people talk about them, where they sell them and where to look/listen to people's racks. Where do I start? Is there a general cool place to window shop modules and custom racks?
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Rolo posted:Ok consider me curious level 2 about rack stuff. VCV is a ton of fun and I'm finding myself a little more outside my own box every few minutes. Lots of "oh dude I can use this to control this wow" moments followed usually by "that sounds bad" but I'm loving the exploration. Every time I clear the board I branch out a little differently each time. At this point I just want a bank of MIDI knobs for VCA's so I can throw a whole row in and branch them all to different modules and chains of modules. Depending on your city there might be modular meetup groups or other synth nerds that get together. E: you could also browse modulargrid.net and see what cases people are designing and making for themselves. Also YouTube for sure.
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Here are some good discord communities relevant to modular, though not entirely: Earth Modular Society: https://discord.gg/mnw5BW9r Big rear end Relatively Inactive Chat with Channels for Every loving Module: https://discord.gg/EFTMzkKU Ex-Reddit Modular Server: https://discord.gg/SQPv8dRV Modular Clubhouse: https://discord.gg/6XSr5Cen New York Modular Society: https://discord.gg/7JJNd2sh EZBOT (Patchwerks' server): https://discord.gg/6hyd3qjP Be warned, the communities will help mitigate GAS as much as they enable it. Most of these have trade/buy/sell boards where you can find some great deals on things. Beaucoup Cuckoo fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Mar 30, 2022 |
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Thanks! Now if I'm looking for a super simple keyboard + knobs controller, how's the Arturia MiniLab MkII Mini Hybrid? It has 2 octaves and 16 knobs on sale for 99$, seems perfect for VCV on a laptop, no?
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Everyone loves Arturia, can't really go wrong. I can't remember which ones have CV outs, but you should probably go for one that does so you don't have to get a midi to CV module out of the gate. If you're smart about what you buy, you'll always make back 80% of what you shelled out. There are a small handful of manufacturers with bad names and poo poo that is known to have terrible build quality. I think the key thing is probably just reading the manual and doing a bit if research before you buy something and having a somewhat clear idea of what you'd hope to use it for. It's not too different from having a guitar pedal collection. When you buy a case, buy something a little larger than what you feel you need if you can afford it - but not WAY larger.
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Simone Poodoin posted:This guy's channel is pretty good for vcv stuff I love Omri's channel, he's so low key enthused about it all and explains stuff in a really clear, methodical way without being dry. I especially like some of his "pre built" challengey things, where he'll put together a bunch of, say, Befaco and Insruo modules and encourage people to see whay they can do within those parameters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7VTThLkom0
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The only thing that bugs me about Omri is his module demonstrations, his demos are usually monster patches with 20 other modules so the one thing he's trying to focus on gets lost in the mix.
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Beaucoup Cuckoo posted:Everyone loves Arturia, can't really go wrong. I can't remember which ones have CV outs, but you should probably go for one that does so you don't have to get a midi to CV module out of the gate. I think eventually I'll get a small case and just a few rack units but I'm too busy with other stuff RN. But some of those are really sexy.
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Rolo posted:Thanks! Get the key step 37. It has 4 banks of knobs and is very flexible and can do CV alongside usb midi and regular midi.
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Might also want to ease into it with a seminodular synth first just to see if it's something you like before going all in on a case, etc.
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I'm not into rack synths particularly, I just want some of the units I've seen and that's the only way of having them.
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Does anyone have a Roland TB-3 that can compare it to a Behringer TD-3? I picked up the behringer a while ago, but.. man... I'm just not meshing with the workflow at all. Is the Roland any easier to program and jam on? I know that's a SUPER subjective question. I guess I could answer my own question by just watching some TB-3 tutorials on youtube. I'm not sure how much I want to "jam" on one anyway, but even programming simple patterns on this thing kind of sucks. I can hook it up to the computer and use Behringer's sequencer software but.. like at that point why don't I just get a TB clone VST. I typically hate touchscreens but I think the Roland TB-3 might actually have a good fit for entering slides and things with your finger. I'm genuinely curious about the roland, like the IDEA of a TB clone, and I'm not attached to the behringer at ALL at this point. I'm probably going to throw it up on reverb or sa-mart and take the L. If I've learned anything, it's that if I don't like a piece of gear I'm just flat out not going to use it, so no sense in trying to convert myself. I have a lot of other gear to put my time into.
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