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BonoMan posted:I've been out for a long time... what are these NTS units? Little DIY Pocket Operators on steroids? They look fun as hell The POs are a bit more unique and focused whereas the NTS-1 is a DSP synth and effects device. Its "DIY" in that you screw the case together but there isn't any soldering or anything like that. The synths and effects sound surprisingly good for something this cheap but the current version has a sarcastically lovely keyboard and no sequencer so its pretty much unplayable without a controller. Apparently a lot of people just use it as an effects box? There are user-made DSPs but not actually that many and most of them cost money for some reason. Also you can get a eurorack faceplate conversion kit that costs more than the actual synth lmao. It is a cool little bleep box though and its extremely cheap and def pretty fun to goof around with. The MKII looks like they fixed the biggest issues, so that's pretty cool. I'd probably wait to get that one or get the old one used for super cheap.
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I think the NTS-1 was originally intended as a dev kit aimed at people who wanted to get into the logue SDK, but it gained a reputation as one of the cheapest nice reverbs/multi FX and the demands on it have risen; the mkII seems to addressing that. Kaoss NTS definitely looks neat, makes me want to MIDIfy my wacom. Meanwhile Yamaha makes a screenless electribe 2.
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I'm excited for a new kaosspad. If it can send midi, and use it as a track pad XY controller, that would be almost exactly what I've been looking for. I've used the kaosspad emulation in ds-10 on a 3DS, and it can be a lot of fun.
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I thought that thing was way overpriced, but it looks like it is actually an fx box, not just a controller, which makes it a bit more reasonable.
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Can someone summarize what the exclusively new things are on the mkII models of the wavestate/opsix/modwave? My limited understanding at the moment is that wavestate mkII has double the voices compared to the first one (now 128, IIRC), and the same sort of upgrade for the opsix mkII (from 32 to 64 voices), which leads me to think it's a platform-wide upgrade that everything built on that platform will share (in some per-product appropriate form). What else is there that's new & exclusive to the mkII models?
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HerzogZwo posted:Sonicstate put up a demo vid with this, pretty sweet box. Saw that video earlier and it made it sound a lot more interesting than I expected. Still need to see if the build quality is higher than the average stylophone product. Price wise it's more expensive that something like the decadebridge albers which I'm currently awaiting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QzZjG5n0OE
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the LZX theme for the week/whatever was "Diamonds" i figure, if you can't do really awesome video, may as well duct tape some questionable audio to it, and also dad-joke level humor?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubkhuBdtaT8
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https://synthanatomy.com/2024/01/gamechanger-audio-mod-series-pedals-cross-guitar-effects-with-modular-synthesis.html Envisioning people tripping over patch cables
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I've been patching noisy mangled drones and just zoning out for fun lately. One thing that struck me during the process is that the disting is good for prompting me to learn about different kinds of modules. Lots of the algorithms make me wonder what I would use it for, and get me curious about different functions, leading me to seek out resources elsewhere, and experiment with functionality I wouldn't have otherwise. Ie, why would I want a rectifier or delayed trigger generator? Hmmm... let's tinker. I had a bit of that perusing the doepfer catalog too. Wtf is a phase locked loop? Ooooh. Now that's affordable, AND weird!
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https://www.korg.co.uk/blogs/updates/ps-3300 The only rumor I've seen says $13,000, although that seems a bit low.
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Gonna look amazing filling in the background scenery of youtube gear reviewers.
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Found some seller on reverb who is ALSO trying to feed adsrs into mainbow, and built a bunch of lzx cadet scaler modules and is reselling the extras for $95 shipped Yoink Using 2hp trim sorta works but it's glitchy edit: trying to sell my Taiga for 625 shipped; 650 with a m32 decksaver that basically fits. I can make an SA mart thread but it's barely worth it unless someone here wants it. I just don't use it, I no longer have desk space for all these semis, and I want more LZX stuff that will fit in rack. Lowest I saw on reverb was 695 shipped. Cabbages and VHS fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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Here's a little self playing patch. Messing with an after later clone of warps, and a Rampage clone Trying a bit of cobble together a complex oscillator, too much drive on every part of the signal chain (thanks for clipping indicators on my delay). https://vocaroo.com/1bl7EHY3WoZO I swear the patches start out clean. I just always seem to get seduced by noise and feedback, and distortion as I build.
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toadee posted:https://www.korg.co.uk/blogs/updates/ps-3300 PISS-3300
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Yeah that beast has to clock in above $25000, holy poo poo it looks cool. Anyone have experience with Modal's gear? I want to eventually add like a Cobalt 61 key synth to my rig.-
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That's Colossus money, which I'd rather any day of the week 
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Startyde posted:That's Colossus money, which I'd rather any day of the week Well, it is a 49 voice synth whereas Colossus is really just kind of one big rear end voice
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Pigments V5 is out - free upgrade to existing customers. Discount on their new sound pack too ($20 down from $90 I think) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1BbqY4tIxU
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toadee posted:Well, it is a 49 voice synth whereas Colossus is really just kind of one big rear end voice solar 42 is only $1800! MICROTONAL BRO BonoMan posted:Pigments V5 is out - free upgrade to existing customers. Discount on their new sound pack too ($20 down from $90 I think) and pigments is on sale for $99! tempting but I need that LZX TBC2 at 10x the cost more 
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Cabbages and Kings posted:solar 42 is only $1800! MICROTONAL BRO The 3300 is also Microtonal, it has a tuning knob for each oscillator in each voice section (the way it gets 147 oscillators is divide down, so each section has 12 oscillators for a total of 36, which are then divide down’d to cover the other notes. Because of that though, every note in the scale has 3 dedicated oscillators no matter which octave you play it in, so you can fine tune every note easily. And also I’m sure in the 1970s you had to retune it every time you turned it on. Or off. Or touched it. Or looked at it. While you’re at it tune it again ok?)
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NO RETUNE! ONLY DRIFT! YOU WANT PERFECT? USE COMPUTER
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Cabbages and Kings posted:solar 42 is only $1800! MICROTONAL BRO If you're a new subscriber and have to get it at $99 (which is still a steal) they thrown in the new expansion pack for free.
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Pigments is probs my fave synth I think. All the actual Arturia vintage emulations etc are cool, as are alternatives such as massive or serum, but something about pigments clicks for me. I think an early Sound In Sound review (around 2.0 era?) referred to it as a "big synth" in terms of covering so many bases and I can't disagree. Does it do everything? No, but its easy to use and sounds good, for £50 it's a no brainer. It's found it's niche for me as either my bread and butter synth for sketching ideas or my absolute weird poo poo playground, and the new ability to process audio through looks fun.
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I would suggest anyone curious about really slick, well put together, soft synths to check out what they've been doing with Surge in VCV. It's been split up into a collection of modules that all have added functionality to work well together. They've been doing a lot of updates over the past year. $free too
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I think the main drawback of VCV is how relatively pricey it is for the VST/DAW friendly version- the recorder is handy but a bit faff, however for me it's not worth £150 to bypass that for the VST. I remember there being some intricate workarounds/mods/alt versions, if these have simplified though that'd be cool. There's been some dodgy stuff leaked about the lead dev previously (mostly from the Audible Instruments creator) which has sorta put me off giving VCV money a bit too
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The VCV dev is absolutely a jerk but I don't know of anything truly horrific, google around and read the stories and see if it scares you off. The alternatives are Cardinal Rack for desktops, and if you got a macbook or ipad there's MiRack. Neither are as fleshed out as VCV but they are forks of older versions of VCV so they should feel pretty familiar. Biggest downside is the module libraries are going to be much smaller.
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inferis posted:There’s also softube modular or even reason Or for more esoteric options there's sunvox and bespoke. Or Audulus.
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BonoMan posted:Pigments V5 is out - free upgrade to existing customers. Discount on their new sound pack too ($20 down from $90 I think) Honestly as someone who does generative stuff my favorite bit of this is just the ability to have the sequencer re-randomize every X beats/bars. I wish every software sequencer and arpeggiator had this or at least some sort of MIDI-cc-able control that would let you automate it in a DAW.
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BonoMan posted:Pigments V5 is out - free upgrade to existing customers. Discount on their new sound pack too ($20 down from $90 I think) Hella cool. I love Arturia. I hope they aren't secret synth hilters.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Hella cool. I love Arturia. I hope they aren't secret synth hilters. I think they're French? Which doesn't stop them from becoming obnoxious, it's just a different kind of.
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NonzeroCircle posted:I think the main drawback of VCV is how relatively pricey it is for the VST/DAW friendly version- the recorder is handy but a bit faff, however for me it's not worth £150 to bypass that for the VST. once you're modular brained enough you just start thinking of things as percentages of a Metron. Oh, the VCV VST cost me $150? That's hardly anything, it's like 1/5th of a Metron, or 3 days worth of groceries here, somehow  I barely even use it as a VST but I feel good supporting the thing.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Hella cool. I love Arturia. I hope they aren't secret synth hilters. I have a microfreak, their hardware is great too!
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Arturia make nice stuff, and I don't think there is any evidence that they are secret synth hitlers (yet).
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I have regressed selling my Microbrute since the moment I did it. Arturia is, as far as I know, great.
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Arms_Akimbo posted:I have a microfreak, their hardware is great too! Oh I know, I have a keystep, keylab pro, and a minifreak. They're all really good and cool. No. 1 Callie Fan posted:I think they're French? Concerning
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Since this seems to be where we talk about analog video gear I thought I’d share that I got a Mismatcher Delux today and it is cool. Highly recommend, but the pack of 6 patch cables is not quite enough IMO. I also got the Wiper expansion. Between this thing and my Waaave Pool I think I’ve got a pretty solid analog look. Might even try to downsize or circuit bend the V4. https://youtu.be/0vTwt8RSszk?si=T868LhqwMXE62h-V Papa Was A Video Toaster fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Jan 26, 2024 |
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