Boody posted:Polyend Tracker Firmware 1.7 was recently released - https://polyend.com/whats-up/polyend-tracker-1-7-firmware-update/?catid=98 quote:Snap to Zero function for easier sample looping ohhhhh baby
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Reaganomicon posted:okay, so just to confirm, I don't need any more hardware other than the midi controller, USB cable and DAW software to produce beatz?? That and a splice subscription and you have what makes up like half the EDM/dubstep space
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Sep 1, 2023 17:21
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Arms_Akimbo posted:If you need something to produce sound, I suggest Vital synth. It's free and then run it through Valhalla Supermassive, since it's also free!
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Sep 1, 2023 17:30
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Arms_Akimbo posted:That and a splice subscription and you have what makes up like half the EDM/dubstep space I was talking about this on a non-music forum with someone who is a full time musician who makes a substantial portion of their scratch from monetized Youtube content, and it was just a funny conversation to me because they thought all my gear etc was super cool, but also their stance was "I'm grindset and I just need to put out absolutely as much good quality content as I can, so even if I could afford a ton of analog or modular gear, I just don't see that being as effective for me as being able to go Make Thing In DAW, Add Effects Layers In DAW, jam publish and move on to the next thing". Gee, that sounds like a job! I like my job okay, it pays better than I'd ever expect music to even if I had 10x the talent and hours because Art Is Hard* and I don't want to make my hobbies my job. But I love the amount of people who do, because there's so much cool music out there now. * "Math is hard" lol what a bullshit trope. Some people will have easier or harder times with different kinds of thinking; in my case I was able to get a Compsci degree after flailing HARD trying to get an art degree. It was much easier for me. But, education aside, "making money with math" seems to me to look a lot easier than "making money with music". Even in the most literal sense, ignoring engineering jobs etc, I know 3 people who went to school to become math teachers, they are all math teachers who like their jobs, and they all made more money year 1 out of school than my artisan dad made in the best year of his 30 years of making pottery.
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Sep 1, 2023 17:36
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The Rhythm Roulette series on YouTube is a great window into what gear professional producers actually use. Seeing guys who make six figures still using QWERTY in FL studio as their keys, it's wild. I saw a video with Four Tet once where one of his pieces of stage gear was an old laptop running old shareware audio recording software that had long expired and had the nag screen still. He uses it because he can tap the track pad and get like a 0.1ms latent return on a sample, faster than anything else he'd come across
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Sep 1, 2023 17:45
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Arms_Akimbo posted:I saw a video with Four Tet once where one of his pieces of stage gear was an old laptop running old shareware audio recording software that had long expired and had the nag screen still. He uses it because he can tap the track pad and get like a 0.1ms latent return on a sample, faster than anything else he'd come across As a licensed winrar owner I am curious why he didn't simply buy it
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Sep 1, 2023 20:35
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Cabbages and Kings posted:As a licensed winrar owner I am curious why he didn't simply buy it Guessing it’s because it’s old enough that you can’t anymore
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Sep 1, 2023 23:01
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paying for software like that is looking a gift horse in the mouth and shoving your wallet in
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Sep 1, 2023 23:33
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https://soundcloud.com/suboptimal-synthesis/23-09-02-vocoding-spectraphon all this talk of software made me wonder what would happen if I sent spectraphon through a vocoder also I now have everything set up with 2 stereo channels in to tascam 4x4, so can send drums through compressor/etc and other stuff through a different VST/DSP chain if I want. This is cool, and now I want the $500 Presonus 8-channel mixer (I am a studio one user, not that it matters much) and, uh, a Bunch Of Rack Things To Make That Work since up until now I've just been L+R out of everything.
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Sep 2, 2023 22:02
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A few sales today worth mentioning: TT-303 for $259 https://www.perfectcircuit.com/cyclone-analogic-tt-303-mk2.html Black box for $565 https://www.perfectcircuit.com/1010-music-blackbox.html?utm_source=pepperjam&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=300308&clickId=4489077116 Software: Native Instruments FM8 for $10 https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-Instruments/4-Synth/8001-FM8?a_aid=6384ad7e501ec Moog ring modulator for $10 https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MF102S--moog-mf-102s-ring-modulator-plug-in
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Sep 3, 2023 13:34
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https://www.uvi.net/en/vintage-synth/synth-anthology-4.html Synth Anthology 4 is 89 euros for the next week or so.
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Sep 4, 2023 07:00
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That's an on-screen monitor for lyrics, isn't it. That really didn't catch on. I have an old Casio with that somewhere.
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Sep 4, 2023 12:36
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you push some buttons, the upper manual lifts up. there's a radio, an antenna, a morse code keyer, an ashtray and a little note pad full of soviet frequencies and decoding/encoding keys from 1974
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Sep 4, 2023 18:11
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I just updated Hyperion with the new (final) 1.3 firmware. Spectral delay seems cool, I have to mess with the other new stuff. I also noticed that Hyperion seems to be gone; it seemed like an extreme buy when ST said they were shutting down, but I got a floor model from PC for $740. The last one that sold on reverb was 1050 and there's just none now. I wonder what his total production was. There's still some e370s around including at least one new one at PC (though only on their reverb site); it's still $1200, and that's a tough sell. That's hydrasynth money; I love my e352 but it's no Hydrasynth. E: it does have 100% more cat pictures on the menu, than Hydra.
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Sep 5, 2023 00:38
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Yeah sometimes they jump up pretty good, I think the oscillographic block went cwejman on me. 6something to $goodluck. Natural gates holy lol. 
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Sep 5, 2023 04:22
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Got a tracker mini and spent a few hours on the couch w/ it and a travel guitar. Fun!!!
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I got the original Tracker at the firesale Polyend were selling it for, and have been wrapping my head around it the past weekend. Pattern creation is really gelling with me, though I'm still figuring out how to finish a song on it in a way that works for me. I'm sure I'll get there though with some time.
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Sep 6, 2023 00:47
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Super noob question of the night: I can plug my Moog Theremini into my PC via USB cable but I have no idea how to get the sound to go from there to here. I just downloaded Audacity, that's the noob level I'm on.
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Sep 6, 2023 02:05
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I'm guessing it's appearing to the computer as a MIDI controller. MIDI controllers don't make sound, they send note information and control change information to a computer that decideds how to make that into sound. If you would like to record your Theremin's sounds into the computer you want an audio cable from it into the computer, maybe an audio interface in between if your computer doesn't take line in.
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Animal-Mother posted:Super noob question of the night: I can plug my Moog Theremini into my PC via USB cable but I have no idea how to get the sound to go from there to here. I just downloaded Audacity, that's the noob level I'm on. You may need to use their editor: https://moogmusicsupport.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009223274-How-do-I-download-the-Software-Editor-Librarian-for-my-synthesizer-
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Arms_Akimbo posted:You may need to use their editor: I don’t know about this one specifically but generally speaking I think synth editors are for adjusting synth parameters and settings and for preset management. A line in or possibly mic jack are your best bets but in the long run an audio interface (fancy word for external sound card aimed towards audio work) may be more convenient and perform better when working with audio.
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come on UPS more like polyEndOfTheDayTrackedByUPS
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Grinds my gears that they took the radio out of the tracker mini. That was the coolest freaking featue! Why would you do that…
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Animal-Mother posted:Super noob question of the night: I can plug my Moog Theremini into my PC via USB cable but I have no idea how to get the sound to go from there to here. I just downloaded Audacity, that's the noob level I'm on.  Papa Was A Video Toaster is correct, MIDI only.
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Poppers posted:Grinds my gears that they took the radio out of the tracker mini. That was the coolest freaking featue! Why would you do that… A microphone is like a radio
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Does the Tracker / Tracker Mini work nice as a midi instrument? I like the way sample editing/chopping looks on the tracker but already have ways of sequencing that I like. Does it trigger nice from external gear?
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Poppers posted:Grinds my gears that they took the radio out of the tracker mini. That was the coolest freaking featue! Why would you do that… mic is less cool but more useful. tracker mini + soma ether is a real fun combo tylertfb posted:Does the Tracker / Tracker Mini work nice as a midi instrument? I like the way sample editing/chopping looks on the tracker but already have ways of sequencing that I like. Does it trigger nice from external gear? I think the latest update added a bunch of support for external midi control. it’s got a big menu of all the CCs and whatnot to page through now if you’re into that. Personally I like to have my samplers sequence themselves so I’ve never touched it, but it is there
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tylertfb posted:Does the Tracker / Tracker Mini work nice as a midi instrument? I like the way sample editing/chopping looks on the tracker but already have ways of sequencing that I like. Does it trigger nice from external gear? I've only played with PolyEnd for a few minutes but if what you want is good sample editing/chopping that can be triggered from something else, why buy a tracker, when you don't need a tracker? I'd probably get a Blackbox, maybe? https://1010music.com/product/blackbox I'm just assuming the current blackbox's MIDI implementation is the same as the current eurorack version (bitbox mk2 / bitbox micro). Has true multisampling, probably other stuff Polyend lacks. Cabbages and VHS fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Sep 8, 2023 |
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yeah, the tracker can be sequenced by other gear however i have to agree that it is a pretty good sampler with a fantastic sequencer and you can probably get a whole lot more sampler for the money if you just want that functionality
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look the polyend tracker plays Mario Brothers the NES rom, and now I'm never recording another sound. what a weird feature
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Tracker is hamstrung for being the center of a MIDI studio (unless they updated it?) Stuff like only having 8 sequencing channels and needing one per midi channel. Compare to a MPC1000/2500 which is 16/64 channels of MIDI out and infinite in-box tracks There's a couple other things that are super in-the-weeds (stuff like midi polyphony, ccs, program change messages) that are a pain in the rear end to make gel if everything else is set up looking for that stuff. I mean like using PC channels to select sequences, e.g. When I thought I was going primary-tracker I grabbed a Roland midi sequencer box from the 80s, the plan being send MMC and sequence samples from the tracker and the rest of my synths on the Roland, which felt to me like the path of least resistance YMMV and if you're a fiend for tracking maybe all these are in the pros column, definitely adequate to sequence for resampling and then arrange everything ITB (in this case the box is the tracker)
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Definitely agree, any MPC (except fake imposter MPC500) would probably serve better as a master workstation, unless you’re married to the whole tracker paradigm.
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if you are married to trackers and insist on dedicated hardware, consider an amiga. only sort of joking
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MSPain posted:if you are married to trackers and insist on dedicated hardware, consider an amiga. only sort of joking I have considered dedicating a tablet computer to a tracker program and trying that as my main sequencer. Back when I was playing around with them, there wasn't MIDI IIRC.
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OpenMPT has solid features but looks like rear end. Renoise is the unbeatable ideal tracker-as-a-DAW and will run on your crusty eeepc.MSPain posted:if you are married to trackers and insist on dedicated hardware, consider an amiga. only sort of joking Let’s not forget the venerable Atari ST, undisputed king of dead-on MIDI timing. snorch fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Sep 8, 2023 |
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Lsdj and a buncha gameboys
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Here's a related (maybe) question - what's everyone filling their Trackers with these days? When I started it used to be so much easier to get like EveryBreakEver.zip from Dogs On Acid, now, several sequencers and hard drives later, I'm seeing paid bandcamp and splice packs as the norm? Yucko I'm glad to see https://samples.kb6.de/ is still up Goldbaby stuff I assume is as easy to :files: as ever Legowelt is going strong Archive.org stepping up: https://archive.org/details/old-school-sample-cds-collection-01 Actually I might have solved my problems here - I couldn't find the Drum Machine Archive the other day and assumed it was gone but that's enough to fill a couple cards at least
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snorch posted:OpenMPT has solid features but looks like rear end. Renoise is the unbeatable ideal tracker-as-a-DAW and will run on your crusty eeepc. Renoise: So I hear, and I bet it will do fine on my repurposed POS machine.
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MSPain posted:if you are married to trackers and insist on dedicated hardware, consider an amiga. only sort of joking snorch posted:OpenMPT has solid features but looks like rear end. Renoise is the unbeatable ideal tracker-as-a-DAW and will run on your crusty eeepc. Grassy Knowles posted:Lsdj and a buncha gameboys All of this is possible with a MisterFPGA and this https://www.legacypixels.com/mister/midi.html Any you can play some games on there too.
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