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JamesKPolk posted:Here's a related (maybe) question - what's everyone filling their Trackers with these days? Oh hey, thanks. I no doubt bought all these in some form at one time or another. You know, I have a massive vinyl collection all oriented toward sampling. I also did a haphazard effort at making a drum sample collection with the help of a jazz drummer buddy many years ago, I wish somebody would use it or remaster it. I'll find it and put it up.
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JamesKPolk posted:Here's a related (maybe) question - what's everyone filling their Trackers with these days? i got a 128 gig sd card for my polyend and basically put my entire sample library on it, a mix of stuff i've bought and found over the years, and things like all the breaks and old sample cds. there's a guy on reddit who took all the zero g datafile cds and took the tracks and edited down all the sounds into single files and then titled and organized them into folders. search zero g datafile cut, sorted & organized and you should be able to find them easily. i was gonna recommend someone who made some p decent free samples for trackers and the styles of music that trackers are often used for but when i looked for the link i saw that it was another lapfox alias yeah maybe don't. :/
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Okay well I didn't buy all these. This is a lot. Glad to see they have my Rhythm Ace. Miss that hideous thing.
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Samples confuse and frighten me, and every time I try to build a song around them I end up hating it. All my inspiration comes from twiddling knobs in a synth until something catches my ear and making a jam out of that. So what I'm getting at is the only good trackers are sunvox, lsdj, and m8.
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Cabbages and Kings posted:look the polyend tracker plays Mario Brothers the NES rom, and now I'm never recording another sound. Makes more sense when you take into consideration that the minis game boy form factor has been in development longer than the desktop version
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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. This dude knows what he's talking about
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xzzy posted:Samples confuse and frighten me, and every time I try to build a song around them I end up hating it. All my inspiration comes from twiddling knobs in a synth until something catches my ear and making a jam out of that. Old tracker trick: make a long sample of a synth you're turning a knob on to get filter sweep or whatever. Then play it back in the tracker with sample offsets, and a short envelope on the volume to jump around to different points in the sweep, sort of like turning the knob quickly while playing.
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how to work with samples: a comprehensive guide step 1: load an amen break sample step 2: have fun 
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Modular is dumb and fun at 3:45am. I managed to record a couple sax samples earlier before everyone was asleep, then go from bitbox to, variously, e520 resampled reverb and spectraphon. Spectraphon is being pitched by rene; pam's clocks everything (I should really sell tempi and get a second pams). The results are fun and I look forward to live looping and stuff tomorrow (playing the actual saxophone at 3:45 is prolly grounds for divorce?) https://soundcloud.com/suboptimal-synthesis/23-09-09-sax-bitbox-e520-spectra the path to get there. okay sure i could have better cable management but also this whole thing is kind of silly, right? I guess that's the point.  I ran it through VocalSynth and some of the Valhalla reverbs on the DAW side, too; super fun. An issue with real time stuff, and hearing the mix well: even with IEMs under cans, there's a problem of hearing it well over the sax and not blowing ears out in the process. Maybe I could solve that by pointing an amp into the hills behind my house, and then just standing like 20' from it and turning it up to where it mixes nicely (from my perspective, of course; resident wildlife will find it awful); that's another thing to test when it's not almost 4am. the more I figure out the more frustrating it is to not be able to touch acoustic instruments or monitors after ~8pm. maybe I need to build a studio instead of a sugarhouse  e: i'm patching from the mic +48 adapter into bArp preamp; bArp has so much utility @ ~$500 even if you ignore its high frequency oscillation entirely; it's not an efficient use of space per se but it's a cool chunk of metal and plastic. I'll get an input module eventually, not needing to now is nice. The inverted outs from the voltage block are nice. Sending external noise through the filter w/a clocked envelope is nice, etc. Mr. Sharps posted:Makes more sense when you take into consideration that the minis game boy form factor has been in development longer than the desktop version I didn't know this; interesting! Cabbages and VHS fucked around with this message at 09:05 on Sep 9, 2023 |
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Speaking of sampling synths, does anyone remember Autosampler? And more importantly, is there a working equivalent nowadays? It was an osx program that would automatically sample, trim, and package synth note by note (or every nth note) in multiple formats (for kontakt etc) and sadly it was buried by Apple and the old program stopped working as of Snow Leopard iirc
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There's an Autosampler in Logic.
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Ah, that would explain why Apple buried it
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First I was going to suggest Yamaha’s silent brass mute/pickup system, but then I realized they’re for trumpets only, because a sax emits sound from everywhere, and you’ve got to do this instead: 
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Rodney The Yam II posted:Speaking of sampling synths, does anyone remember Autosampler? And more importantly, is there a working equivalent nowadays? Yes, it’s called SampleRobot - https://samplerobot.com/
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snorch posted:First I was going to suggest Yamaha’s silent brass mute/pickup system, but then I realized they’re for trumpets only, because a sax emits sound from everywhere, and you’ve got to do this instead: Yeah lol these are hilarious and once I have a tenor I might look harder at them even though they're totally absurd Trumpet has one pleasure hole, sax has many 
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Cabbages and Kings posted:Yeah lol these are hilarious and once I have a tenor I might look harder at them even though they're totally absurd Just have to get used to playing with headphones on IMO.
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petit choux posted:Just have to get used to playing with headphones on IMO. I'm totally used to this, and used to playing with IEMs or plugs under headphones. Woodwinds are uniquely challenging because the sound is resonating inside my skull cavity, it's transferred by bone conduction, and the harmonics also tend to mix with my tinnitus to the degree that I can barely tell what is what over 8-10k anyway  the absurd case-cover thing isn't to protect me, it's so I could (in theory) play in a house other people live in at weird hours. I prefer monitors to cans for everything but I am able to use headphones late at night for some stuff, doesn't help with acoustic instruments. Building an office in a separate building gets more attractive by the day. Cabbages and VHS fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Sep 9, 2023 |
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Underground lair. Underground lair!
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B33rChiller posted:Underground lair. Underground lair! with all the rain we've had this year, a stilt house seems better, and this is at 1500' 
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snorch posted:First I was going to suggest Yamaha’s silent brass mute/pickup system, but then I realized they’re for trumpets only, because a sax emits sound from everywhere, and you’ve got to do this instead: I have to wonder what went through the model's head when she showed up for work that day to find out she had to pose with that thing strapped to her.
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So Math posted:Another fun patch tutorial: quoting so I look at it later
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Polyend Tracker is cool but it's not a synthesizer and I'm not sure it's a reasonable thing for me to have right now; this might be the first thing I actually return... since... ?? edit: i mean aside from technically being a subtractive synth, sampler, granular synth, wavetable synth and also having an FM radio. hmm. Cabbages and VHS fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Sep 10, 2023 |
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Laserjet 4P posted:Yes, it’s called SampleRobot - https://samplerobot.com/ Thanks! Definitely seems like the thing. drat pricey tho
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So Math posted:Another fun patch tutorial: They were talking on Mr Bill's podcast about YouTube channels that recreate sounds and the guest was like yeah one time I saw a video where a guy did a pretty rock solid recreation of one of my bass synths, almost nailed it, but in reality I searched YouTube for "bird sounds" and ran some through my convolution reverb
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Arms_Akimbo posted:They were talking on Mr Bill's podcast about YouTube channels that recreate sounds and the guest was like yeah one time I saw a video where a guy did a pretty rock solid recreation of one of my bass synths, almost nailed it, but in reality I searched YouTube for "bird sounds" and ran some through my convolution reverb it takes more time to make fake
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Bought drambo on iOS which seems awesome. Returned poly end as a thing I don't want to be distracted by right now. It's also worse than iOS apps when I'm in the car with my wife because physical key clicky is bad
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Drambo is really deep but the piano roll editor suuuucks. I love the modular synth parts of it though. The pattern play is super rad too.
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Arms_Akimbo posted:They were talking on Mr Bill's podcast about YouTube channels that recreate sounds and the guest was like yeah one time I saw a video where a guy did a pretty rock solid recreation of one of my bass synths, almost nailed it, but in reality I searched YouTube for "bird sounds" and ran some through my convolution reverb Reminds me of the "how burial sampled/produced x album" video where he finds a tutorial on how to make a sound in sylenth or something and just samples the tutorial
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I was watching a hot take video and a guy sent one in like "unless you're creating your own sounds you're not a producer" and the response was "all of burial's instruments were sampled from metal gear solid so no"
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Arms_Akimbo posted:I was watching a hot take video and a guy sent one in like "unless you're creating your own sounds you're not a producer" and the response was "all of burial's instruments were sampled from metal gear solid so no"  I'm a guy who likes to make my own sounds, but just  if you've never had the experience of scrolling through some synth presets or listening to a sample CD/bank and going "omg that's the basis of one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands/artists and they didn't even change it a little bit  "There are no rules except, like, copyright laws.
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Zero G Datafiles 1—3 as mentioned up-page, and AMG REMIX have you covered for so much. If you like 90s Prodigy or Rammstein, these got you covered, fam. Sehnsucht has Datafiles sounds all over it, whereas with AMG Remix you've got a majority of beats for Jilted Generation. Add Jungle Warfare 1-3 to get to Fat of the Land. (OK I'm a bit reductive here, but the moment you play The Roller off JW3 I guarantee you will know what song it is from) NonzeroCircle fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Sep 10, 2023 |
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NonzeroCircle posted:Zero G Datafiles 1—3 as mentioned up-page, and AMG REMIX have you covered for so much. https://archive.org/details/old-school-sample-cds-collection-01 here. This should be in the OP of every synth/electronic thread
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Absolutely! it's all mirrored on a site called Comfybox too (which is very web 1.0)- occasionally it vanishes from archive.org
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PSA for people with a polyend tracker who haven't upgraded to firmware 1.7. don't. it's not stable, there's a ton of weird issues and it hard crashed on me twice. a check on reddit shows that other people have problems as well and polyend is working on a fix
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Ok Comboomer posted:Grimes built her entire career on garage band loops garage band loops >> emerald mines watho posted:PSA for people with a polyend tracker who haven't upgraded to firmware 1.7. don't. it's not stable, there's a ton of weird issues and it hard crashed on me twice. a check on reddit shows that other people have problems as well and polyend is working on a fix conversely if you just bought a PT and are returning it, definitely go to 1.7 and mention audio clicks / pops in the "why???" box  (it doesn't actually matter, polyend official is 14 day worry free)
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B33rChiller posted:Hahaha! Yep, similar to hearing the presets on a volca FM and going "whoa, this little battery box can make the sounds of the future from my childhood!" It's what TV and movies sounded like when I was in elementary school. And nobody sane is making those patches from scratch. If you don't dial up That Bass Preset and play the opening notes of "Danger Zone" every time you turn on an FM synth, what are you even doing? Also, yo dawg, I heard you like Eurorack, so... https://synthanatomy.com/2023/09/4ms-meta-new-module-hosts-and-puts-vcv-rack-in-your-eurorack-system-knobcon-2023.html
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I am (finally) reading the Disting EX manual to see all the things it can do when I'm not using it as a sax pitch tracker and  now I understand all the "rack full of just distings" jokes  RocketMermaid posted:If you don't dial up That Bass Preset and play the opening notes of "Danger Zone" every time you turn on an FM synth, what are you even doing? This seems worse to me than a) the myriad of multi-function modules that exist b) a decent laptop/tablet running VCV connected to ES9 or similar but what do I know, other than "befaco, OLED, VCV, want"?
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