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Matt Zerella posted:
I'm definitely intrigued, and based on how much fun the DT and DN are, and how this would seem to fit well along side those two boxes, would have trouble resisting the appeal of this one.
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Virtual analog and fm engines in there?
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Apr 20, 2022 17:40
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so it seems like it’s a drum focused synth with 8 digital voices and 4 analog ones. seems like a new version of the machine drum i’ve wanted for so long. might have to sell my model cycles for this if this is all real
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Apr 20, 2022 17:57
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Reject modernity Embrace tradition 
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Apr 20, 2022 18:03
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Is it alright if I show off something I just released? It's a mixture of synthwave, ambient, and who knows what else. https://spanishlessons.bandcamp.com/album/lp2 For anyone interested, the hardware synths used here were the JU-06A, Volca Keys, Casio SK-1, and Faemi Mini. I also used virtual instruments like the Cherry Polymode, Logic's built-in Mellotron, and samples from the VP-330 and PPG Wave 2.
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Apr 20, 2022 20:09
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"Routing" on the panel and "Metropolis" make me think this will have MnM machines inside...  net work error posted:Reject modernity 
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xzzy posted:I was playing around with this in VCV a bit ago trying to solve a completely unrelated problem and found that feeding audio rate stuff into it is mega fun. All the self patching you can do on it makes some really insane waves too. Honestly, Rampage is my new favorite distortion module in addition to its slew/envelope/LFO functions. The manual even suggests multiple ways to use it as one, in addition to all the other fun things it can do! I've found that my favorite distortion modules are the ones that aren't dedicated to distortion: In addition to the Rampage, MI Kinks is a utility that can also mangle audio in multiple ways (logic gates for ring modulation, rectifiers for weirdness, sample&hold for bitcrushing), and I use my Instruo athru much more as a distortion than as a wavefolder. And the mixer I use, the SSF Vortices, has a nice warm saturation on all its inputs above about 60%, and it makes everything sound so drat good. I can even put eurorack-level signals through my Erica Pico Input and distort the holy gently caress out of them, since it's designed to step line level to eurorack level. I still kinda want the Viol Ruina and 100 Grit eventually, but as it is I already have so much distortion potential in my rig that it seems redundant.
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creamcorn posted:metallic objects generally contain tons of inharmonic overtones, that's where a lot of the sound we associate with like gongs/bells/etc comes from. your dog is probably hearing some of those in an unpleasantly high part of the frequency spectrum, due to dog hearing. https://youtu.be/h6HqVzdBqpE 
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Apr 20, 2022 23:02
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SousaphoneColossus posted:Is it alright if I show off something I just released? It's a mixture of synthwave, ambient, and who knows what else. Heck yeah. Thanks for sharing.
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Pollyanna posted:I haven’t done any synth stuff recently. Kind of a combination of new job, other interests, and not really having a reason. It was fun to mess around with some physical modules but at some point I was like…why?, and went off to play video games or something. Hey Polly, good to see you, yeah, find or make time and just do a deep dive, when you have the time. I just purchased another sequencer, thinking of my old beatstep as I did.
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Apr 21, 2022 01:43
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A MIRACLE posted:There’s a gamelan in my Yamaha XG Yeah, and hook up a good arpeggiator, boom, instant gamelon
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it’s pretty fun to play
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Here's a little drumming I did in vcv rack. https://soundcloud.com/beer-chiller/20aprNeeds some donk, but I don't know how. Can yah help a goon out watho?
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Only had a couple of days with the MI blades so far but it's loving great and really has one of those feature sets that makes you appreciate modular and patch programming. Not only is it a set of amazing independent/series/parallel variable filters, because they can both self oscillate and have wavefolding you can patch up a pretty fully featured complex oscillator or 2 regular oscillators, or any combination of all of the above. I loving love eurorack, fellow goons.
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field balm posted:I loving love eurorack, fellow goons. Yeah, me too. 
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SousaphoneColossus posted:Is it alright if I show off something I just released? It's a mixture of synthwave, ambient, and who knows what else. I'm really liking this, played it through a couple of times today while working. Thank you for sharing! I got around to setting all of my gear up today after adjusting the desk height. Connected power, then MIDI, then audio, the RK-006 is such a great little box and I'm only using it in it's default preset #1; MIDI channels 1-10 send to the Sample, 11 to the Nubass, 12 to the Keys, and 13 to the MicroFreak. The MicroFreak, Keystep, and Beatstep are doing both MIDI and power over USB, the Volcas connect MIDI to the RK-006 with TRS-A cables. I have a daisy chain power cable shipping in soon for the Volcas but for now I only have two so the Keys is unpowered at this moment. I also have two little USB hubs daisy chained with the RK-006 to provide connectivity to everything.  The monitors are on a different power outlet and there is a toooooooon of noise coming out of them and the headphones, I need to look into ground loop issues now and the first step is moving the monitors to the same power strip as everything else, I think. I've heard ground loop isolators can help coming off the Volcas but I'm not sure what I should look for when buying some, I don't want to block any audible frequencies and this is the first time I'm dealing with this issue. Any tips? Also the Model 12 is kind of finnicky, I've had to power it off and back on to get some of the input audio channels to start working when connecting/disconnecting cables. Did a factory reset then rebooted and it seems OK now. Tape delay on a stock NTS-1 is stupid fun, I really need to look more into the possibilities of this thing.
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SousaphoneColossus posted:Is it alright if I show off something I just released? It's a mixture of synthwave, ambient, and who knows what else. Whoa buddy, this is the SYNTH thread, we don’t make ‘music here’  Kidding aside thanks for sharing that was fun!
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I think this used the NTS-1. Been too busy to do much with synths over the past couple of days, now I'm too exhausted to do anything but here's more sweeps and swoops just to show off what this gadget can do again. Just noise, but I think a number of those beats generated could be sequenced into something easily. Which anybody is welcome to do freely. https://soundcloud.com/tangible_animal_6/01-220420-2143a
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Lots of hiss and buzz is kinda par for the course for home studios ime. Just gain stage right none of that will come thru in the final product
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A MIRACLE posted:Lots of hiss and buzz is kinda par for the course for home studios ime. Just gain stage right none of that will come thru in the final product 
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Coolnezzz posted:I'm really liking this, played it through a couple of times today while working. Thank you for sharing! wow. Only point I can think of that might be an issue, I vaguely recall from one of a million vids on the microfreak, it can have problems sometimes running just off usb power. possibly just the touchplate, possibly changed in a subsequent update, but if you're getting gremlins around it, try plugging it in to the same grounded strip as the rest of the setup.
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Yeah, once again remembering that the Boss MD-500 has a filter sequencer.
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A MIRACLE posted:Lots of hiss and buzz is kinda par for the course for home studios ime. Just gain stage right none of that will come thru in the final product I feel like hiss and buzz are kinda great and add character. Just use a vst if you want clean! They should teach gain staging in school though, the amount of times I've had to explain to people when they for example have their phone plugged into their aux in the car with the phone volume on 1 and then their speakers cranked all the way up and can't figure out why it sounds like poo poo.
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field balm posted:I feel like hiss and buzz are kinda great and add character. Just use a vst if you want clean! 100% I’ve just learned to embrace it. You can gain your headphones way beyond the noise threshold of a recorded track
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Think I have a gamelan jam hiding in my SoundCloud but not sure how to get at it I’ll try
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Tape noise and managing it covered a lot of sins. I'm too dumb to change from using gates and suggest it. Get comfy with them, rack units might as well be free these days but software ones are better than anything old you're going to buy.
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B33rChiller posted:Here's a little drumming I did in vcv rack. https://soundcloud.com/beer-chiller/20aprNeeds some donk, but I don't know how. my main method of making a donk is pretty simple, it just requires finesse to make it fit whatever you’re making. i usually do this in the box with an FM synth or phase plant but i’ll try to keep it generic enough to work in a modular environment as well i start with a sine wave playing low notes and then FM that sine wave with another sine wave with a ratio of about 2:1 or 4:1 (but please do experiment here, this is how you control the brunt of the timbre of the sound, if you get to like 8:1 you’ll start getting some 2011 dubstep sounds tho). you want that second sine wave to have a pretty snappy envelope, this is what makes the donk donk. i like to add a third sine wave that modulates the modulator, again one or two octaves above the oscillator (or operator) it’s modulating, but just tiny hint for some extra harmonic content. finally i’ll run it through a pretty wide band pass filter sweeping down. this just cleans everything up and helps it sit better in a mix i find but it will by definition weaken the sub bass. here’s an example i cooked up just now right after bed https://soundcloud.com/all-caps-rin/donk-example/s-VVyF2AQUROi?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing and here’s a track i made a bit back that prominently features a donk https://soundcloud.com/all-caps-rin/bozo-chaos-axiom/s-HClnC75sCc8?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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watho posted:here’s an example i cooked up just now right after bed Watho are you playing after bedtime?
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petit choux posted:Watho are you playing after bedtime? oh no that was after getting out of bed before getting ready to head out lol
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Yay! Thank you for the clear instructions. petit choux posted:Watho are you playing after bedtime?
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Syntakt website is up "12 Track Drum Computer & Synthesizer Enter a sonic metropolis with Syntakt. Analog and Digital synthesis. Drum and melody. In full fusion. All your sound crafting, sequencing, and performance needs are fulfilled, in an all-round music mega box that fits in your lap. Syntakt is a drum specialist, full of percussive possibilities, but its four analog and eight digital tracks can be used for melody, harmony, and bass sounds too. Experience epic sounds from the past, pulling others into existence from the future. The streets of Syntakt are never-ending, the neon lights are never-dimming, its underground is fathomless. Discover worlds within worlds. Adore now. Explore forever." $999. Looks interesting, but I dunno for $1K. Guess I was expecting something closer to what the DT/DN cost me. Maybe that's not realistic in the supply chain hell of the present day.
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does anyone wanna buy a kidney or know of paid music gigs. okay maybe the kidney is more realistic
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Here I go buying a drum machine again
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Also TE dropped a mini mixer/audio interface with a built in synth and a bunch of other stuff... for 1000$ US. Woof. It's not that bad considering its 12mono/6stereo but woof that price tag.
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Matt Zerella posted:Also TE dropped a mini mixer/audio interface with a built in synth and a bunch of other stuff... for 1000$ US. $1200
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Hey were you talking about me with the buzzing and humming? Anyway, Imma get this stuff up and running sometime soon here. I've had some other stuff to attend to over the past few days. I got a SQ-1 to control these signal generators I've been playing around with, have very high expectations with this. Even if it can't make the waveform generator use human scales it should still be plenty of fun. Where I come from a donk is a Cutlass S on truck wheels, IIRC. ED: https://soundcloud.com/tangible_animal_6/01-220421-1108a?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing petit choux fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Apr 21, 2022 |
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McCoy Pauley posted:Syntakt website is up @ 1k this seems like a worse version of AR unless the algorithms are particularly good? more underwhelmed than I expected to be
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12 voices in that form factor doesn’t seem bad at all for $1k to me Doesn’t help that I’ve wanted a machine drum for a really long time
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Looks like the Syntakt YouTube videos are up, all the usual suspects (Bo, loopop, etc). I figure once I have the Digitakt down I can pick one of these up secondhand for a bit of a discount.
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Think I might trade in my circuit rhythm for the sp404 and mayyyybe my analog four for the syntakt
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