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Moving to Hawaii? Need a midi controller? http://honolulu.craigslist.org/oah/msg/4339782371.html
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Just got a jx-3p and a pg200 for 50$. Both look like they've been through a war. Does the 3p suffer from the same voice chip problems as the 106? edit: never mind. cracking the thing open has revealed that the voices are -painfully- discreet. Gonna recap it, clean it and maybe get an oscilloscope and tune it. Sizone fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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The hell of hardware samplers: trip update. After going through 3 different cf disks (each of which offering a different error) I have yet to get the aztekmonster working with the asr-x pro. Gonna get a usb floppy drive and update the o.s. on it. On the bright side, I installed chickensystems asr-x tools onto my old, 32 bit o.s., laptop and now it actually works. So I'm at least able to edit patches on it. May be less than ideal if I can't get a compact flash drive working on it, but as what I mostly wanted it for was doing handrolled transwaves, and those will fit on a floppy, I'm now able to do the thing I bought it to be able to do.
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Mar 31, 2014 09:10
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I've been slipping through storage history. Got a 4 gig card, then a 2 gig card, then a 512 meg card.
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Mar 31, 2014 11:49
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Mister Speaker posted:Just went live with my TB3 and TR8 for about an hour; meant to post this but hit the post limit - oh well, the recording is saved at least. Woah, hold on a sec. Is that a Herbie Hancock Rockit beat coming in around 14.20? That's a crazy thing to have as a preset beat.
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Apr 3, 2014 07:48
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Apr 6, 2014 02:02
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WAFFLEHOUND posted:That's a very skewed good to bad synth ratio. I can only pick out an asr-10, a microkorg and an m1. What's the deal with no rack gear though? I've got, like, not counting some novelty casios, 2 keyboard synths and all the rest of my stuff is rack.
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Apr 6, 2014 02:13
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Dotcom Jillionaire posted:FYI I'm sampling out my RS 7000 and one of the pad patches is called Autism. Everyone should have an RS 7000 just so they can try out Autism Hey, I got one of those. Bank and patch number? I'm tired of trying to get it via vaccines.
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Apr 8, 2014 21:26
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net work error posted:Here I thought Snapchat was just for dick pics! Pretty sure someone got disappointed when they got a pic of a Yamaha LCD instead of a cock shot.
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Apr 8, 2014 22:56
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sliderule posted:So the E-mu Morpheus sounds interesting. Is it $150 interesting though? How many Wavestations is it worth? 50-100$ more than it's really worth. Try haggling.
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Dotcom Jillionaire posted:Proteustalk: I've always been intrigued by the Emu romplers. The demos I've heard make these boxes sound *really* cool. Very much a set of professional quality samples that have been used in a lot of big time tunes. I see the original Proteus peppered about in various studios but I think the 2k added way more features. I'm also pretty sure you can swap a lot of the ROM chips between units, I've been considering adding one of the sound banks to my E4XT but it will end up cutting down my available sampling memory (plus the listings I've found for the chips are expensive as gently caress). The Mo'Phatt I picked up last year was definitely 50$ well spent. The proteus 2000 range has some incredible modulation options, the Mo'Phatt, at least, has a -crazy- industrial/noise/weird poo poo sample set. I never actually use it though because it is hard to patch. Not in a "hurp de durp, microkorg is hardest to program" sort of way, but like, in a real, quadrasynth sort of way. Layering and cross fading is basically what patching comes down to for romplers, the only one I could really get my head around is the Ensoniq MR engine. WAFFLEHOUND posted:If Roland wanted to be taken seriously they wouldn't have spent 20 years catering to wedding bands. Roland -always- catered to wedding bands. It's just that the wedding band synths of yesteryear were Junos then D-50s.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Well I had this problem all throughout 2013 and I'm still having it to this day, so I guess I'm just in a slump. I have all these ideas up in the old noggin, but I feel like EQing will be the death of them. I've tried tweaking monitoring positions and I feel like that helps for some issues but not for others. Hopefully I can get out of this hole someday. You could, you know, always get someone else to do your mix for you.
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Apr 11, 2014 06:29
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Yeah, but the only friend of mine who has a legit studio uses FL, and fuuuuuuuuuck that. Maybe he's got Ableton too though. I haven't used that in a while but I would if it means he could tweak my mixes and make 'em pop. Nothing really preventing you from exporting each track as an individual audio file. Just 'cause you make your poo poo in reason doesn't mean it needs to stay in it.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:That's true. I sequence it all in Reason too, though, and have different effects in Reason getting enabled/disabled at different times for different tracks and such. I suppose I could export individual tracks, import 'em into a different DAW and find equivalent solutions in that DAW, but that would take a lot of time and may not turn out quite the way it did in Reason. Brute force method would be to just solo the tracks one at a time and record them. But I'm pretty sure there's an elegant and relatively simple way to export audio tracks and retain the applied effects. "Importing" the resultant audio is just a matter of opening daw of your choice and dragging them all onto empty tracks. Doesn't even need to be done in a daw, really. You could, theoretically, find someone, or some studio, with a mixer.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Yeah those are good ideas for sure. Thanks That's not really what they do. How you accomplish track sync, via brute force, is this: When you're sequencing, insert an empty first measure for every track, then put one one note on the first beat of that measure, again, for every track. Then you just have to make that first hit line up once you've recorded, solo, every track.
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What kind of hardware mixer would you suggest that would sync up with a DAW? Or do those not do that?
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The second answer is, as always, buy more gear.
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Apr 13, 2014 01:30
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Your Computer posted:
Allow me to pimp out my opus of SA threads http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3472948
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VoodooXT posted:So, an update regarding my Waldorf Microwave: the guy I bought it from doesn't accept returns and depending on how he responds, I may have to take this to arbitration with eBay. Besides the XT, that's one of the best synths. Raw, totally unique sound and plenty of modulation options. It's worth it to get it fixed. Also, it might be a weird software thing, like updating the o.s. may magically fix it. Don't be pissed, you got a piece of magic, just one that's going to cost more than you initially expected. It's still worth it though, and this gives you a chance to do some preventive stuff like get caps and batteries checked and replaced.
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Apr 19, 2014 07:06
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Thanks for changing your spite avatar so it isn't a turd log.
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HotCanadianChick posted:I didn't change it, which means someone(s) was mad enough at the Internet to buy Lowtax two $10 Thai ladyboy hookers. Think you could see it in your heart to love Lowtax enough to buy him half a ladyboy hooker so you can get rid of the red title?
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That is a question that should not be asked. If it makes noises electronically and it can be patched, then it is a synth. All synths have redeeming qualities. Interface: Case in point, Casio HT-700. At first glance, terrible. Single data encoder and a sort of cumbersome, menuless data structure presented on a, like, 4 character lcd. But, there's not a ton of depth to the synth (there's not really a ton of depth to a polysix or a minimoog either) so the setup is oddly adequate for navigating the parameters that it does have to edit. When it was made, it was probably as close to cost efficient as a design could be. So, it's still sort of an engineering feat. Quadrasynths are great, but they're practically uneditable, unless you plug them into a computer. You're really supposed to plug them into a computer, they come with serial ports. As, maybe, a better example: I doubt anyone called the RCA mark II easy to program. Bad Sound: Subjective. Build quality: This is legitimate. You could ask "what synth had the worst build quality" and come up with a sensible answer. The problem is, there is at least one otherwise fine synth that had build problems. Fizmo  . Also, build quality is, like interface design, cost restricted. You could build a synth like a tank, but it would be expensive and difficult to transport.Bad presets: The goddamn raison d'etre of synthesis is making your own sounds.
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The Cleaner posted:Fair enough... Make it a dx-100 and that would make me totally happy. You can either be two weeks belated or start prepping for next year. edit: waffle, your inability to patch a synth does not make that synth unpatchable. Sizone fucked around with this message at 05:45 on May 3, 2014 |
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Man, I know I got it for my baby daughter, but I'm developing a -serious- crush on this jx-3p/pg-200 combo. As long as you've got an arpegiator (or, I guess, a tiny sequencer) and a knobby subtractive, synth fun is never far off. Really should just get another ax-60/s612 so the child can have the Roland and I won't get jealous. So inspired that I cranked this thing out 
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Declan MacManus posted:What's the cheapest CD-based sampler I could get? I made the mistake of adding mellotron parts to a band demo and now my band wants me to play those parts live and I'd rather not take a computer around with me. Honesty dude, a cheapo laptop or a used ipad would be so much less trouble than a hardware sampler.
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May 10, 2014 05:44
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One of you better buy this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Yamaha-EX-2...=item258dea54f5
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AnnoyBot posted:
Does it have 6 stage looping envelopes?
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May 10, 2014 09:32
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KDW posted:I need to replace a key on my beloved Microkorg. How would I go about doing that? Two keys, actually. Look up Korg's service department, order your replacement keys, replace your broken keys with the replacement keys.
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May 12, 2014 02:25
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Finally managed to update the OS on the ASR-X. The ASR-X tools work if I use a 32 bit platform (though I'm still pissed that I got charged 10$ for shipping for a non-physical product). Still can't get the CFpoweraztecmonster scsi cf reader to work though.
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Neat. Finally got around to doing the battery mod on my Casio HT-700. Now that it stores patches without first needing to be filled with d-cells, I might actually get around to patching it. No, I said patching it, not playing it. TRUE TO THE SYNTH.
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http://honolulu.craigslist.org/oah/msg/4471094959.html it's waiting, waffle. waiting for you.
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May 16, 2014 05:51
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Startyde posted:Was hoping this was going to be a wavestation. http://honolulu.craigslist.org/oah/msd/4470861390.html done
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WAFFLEHOUND posted:
You can have my ZR-76, but you have to screw it back together (and replace the encoders)
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WAFFLEHOUND posted:
No nothing for another 2 weeks or so, teaching a logic course which, when added to regular job, means I'm working about 60 hours a week. Did get a chance to check out your Wavestation at Westside music. Looks good, think they want 250$ for it, also a pretty nice D-50 and a ASR-10 rack.
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May 25, 2014 05:49
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sliderule posted:KingKorg, preset 2: Synth 1984 It's an Oberheim patch!
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May 26, 2014 23:48
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Some day synth tastes will improve massively. The Yamaha cbx-k1 will be as widely cloned as the tb-303.
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HaB posted:Tried messing about with Yoozer's tutorials again - this time ON the Kronos. The Polysix doesn't let me select any waveform other than Saw or Pulse. Am I missing/misunderstanding something? If it is a variable duty cycle pulse and/or pulse width modulation then, no. Those are the waveforms most analog synths push out, that was it for waveform selection on the polysix, stands to reason that that's the extent of waveforms for an emulation of it.
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May 28, 2014 12:56
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VoodooXT posted:Just got word from my synth tech: my Waldorf Microwave is fixed! A Sizone approved post. Have fun with your magic German noise machine. Modulate EVERYTHING.
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He had some trouble with the circuit layout since the schematics I provided were for the rev. B version but managed to figure it out in almost 3 hours.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:You lose points for not calling this the "Microwave's Mom demo" but gain points back for this sounding like the music from a sci fi movie from a few decades ago. I guess Microwave's Mom would be the Wave. And, much like Microwave's Mom, I'd totally hit that. Wanna meet that synth.
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VoodooXT posted:Oh god don't tempt me. I can't afford another synth (or rather, I shouldn't buy one since I'm going back to school). What the gently caress do you think student loans are for?
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