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Oldstench posted:~turns Scatter knob violently~ Ouch. That hurt.  On another note: my TR606 is getting very crackly/loose-connectiony on its main out. Bearing in mind I've used a solder iron only once (but successfully) and that I've never opened up an analogue synth before, how easy would it be to clean that kind of thing up? Are there any materials or techniques I should be aware of, or do I need to simply open the thing up and blast some compressed air around...?
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Finally pulling the plug and buying a Machinedrum UW+ today  gettin ready to devote my life to the gods of param locks
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net work error posted:Do iiiiiiit as long as you're financially capable Got it! Last one in stock. Also grabbed Reaktor on sale after years and years of using an old version. Going to spend today in the garden using one to sequence the other and vice versa, or maybe in a loop, or who knows what  Also I knew the sequencer was tight but holy crap
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A heads up for those of you who bought Reaktor on sale recently from NI and paid through Paypal: I was doing some admin with my bank account and noticed that the £89 payment had been set up, inexplicably, as a monthly direct debit. If I hadn't noticed, NI/Paypal would have started taking £89 out of my account each month indefinitely!. I'm not sure who's fault or responsibility it is, so I'm not gonna point fingers at either company, but a word of warning to you all...
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VoodooXT posted:Bad news about the new Blofeld firmware: looks like there's still problems with arpeggiator syncing. lmao jesus christ Waldorf sort it out
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Radiapathy posted:Sorry, they're too busy breaking 64-bit Largo.  because there's no :earpop:
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Thought it was about time I actually uploaded something to the thread, rather than just poo poo on Waldorf... https://soundcloud.com/scatterfold/davoren-arc Synthporn details: Machinedrum UW, TR-606, MC-202, FLX's old Blofeld wot he sold me, Wavestation and a lot of hot tape. Bonus question: what do folks reckon to the Bassbot TT-303?
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am i the only person here with an actual music degree?
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a_big_dog posted:Ooh I've got one of those! noice  i did mostly composition & analysis for mine; i think its why i can finish tracks please don't kill me threadVoodooXT posted:I believe this is what you meant. 
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CAT rear end now!!! posted:Whatever, it's not like anyone's gonna talk about the finished pieces of music they recently made in this thread anyway haha I've said that I did so I'm gonna show the goods: https://soundcloud.com/scatterfold/sets/davoren-arc. Three tracks I've done in the last few weeks, all with the same kit. Very Opal Tapes-y I think; so minimal, warm house if that's your thing. Machinedrum UW+; Blofeld; Wavestation; MC-202; TR-606 and Reaktor. Lots (too much? no) sidechain compression and a lot of tape compression too. It's a bit of a departure in terms of my style, but the one thing I've always used are found sounds and recordings of things irl so they're here too. And radio static. And porn. Scatterfold fucked around with this message at 10:42 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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Flipperwaldt posted:It's making me seasick. Like literally. yess yesss thanks both 
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SineRider posted:The sidechaining sounds great on the first two tracks, but seems a bit too extreme on the third one, at least for my taste! It's the least favourite of mine right now fwiw; it was also blasted out in the space of one evening. It definitely needs a revisit; some little 'things' to break it up a bit and maybe toning the seasick compression down a bit. Seasick House? Seahouse? New genre. you heard it here first on the something awful dot com forums
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toadee posted:Probably beaten by the guys on this: I actually went on one of those! Was happily chatting to Ed DMX until the cheap lager and boat-rocking got to me and I promptly and suavely vomited it all out over the side 
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A MIRACLE posted:just use hardware synths and bounce to cassette tapes this! this!!
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gonna return the listen-favours  this is cool & different; i know this'll seem obvious coming from me but have you tried bouncing this to tape? the wall of sound aesthetic would work really well if there was something homogeneous tying everything together (& also soften the high end). was it hand sequenced or is there something generative going on? its like bitonal... polytonal or something(?). rad. doesn't remind me of anything else, which is a good thing imho. there's a nice BoC-y bit in the middle too; probably not intentional but that's the whole pulsing pad loop ownership they have i think.
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a_big_dog i think i'd like to do a remix of your 'parmenides' track if you're cool with that?
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The Cleaner posted:Please check out my Robot Fart Box demo video. It is my crowning achievement.. and not a total rip off of Jexus. i want all of those things
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ozmunkeh posted:Bob's Knobs hehehe
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Sizone posted:You have until, gently caress, let's say Columbus Day. Am i right in thinking (as an unamerican) that this is October 12th?
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Sep 4, 2014 10:10
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i really want a t-shirt with NEW YORK SCHOOL OF SYNTHESIS on it
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Sep 16, 2014 10:56
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Hahaha i didn't realise it was an actual purchasable thing; now I don't want it so much *dons flat cap, rides off on fixie bike; etc...
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a little thing for Synthtember: https://soundcloud.com/scatterfold/new-plastic Korg Wavestation and M1 (for *that* organ sound) and Machinedrum; all to lovely tape  toadee posted:Synthember, minus the synth's (all sounds produced by the mouth and lungs of my wife and I): this is really lovely; good work!
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Dotcom Jillionaire posted:I think we should put our own synthy themed thing together. Everyone gets to submit one track that they'll compose for the project. Let's say the deadline is December 1st? Yes to this x a lot over a christmas album; esp. if we do charge for it on bandcamp and the profits go to a charity. Count me in.
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Dotcom Jillionaire posted:OFFICIAL SYNTHGOON XMAS TOP SECRET ALBUM PROJECT POST I'm gonna hold off from saying I can help for this one b/c I have a v distinctive sound (tape! it's tape!) and that won't work for everyone. However if the goon consensus is that you really want this to sound like a C90 you found in your loft then let me know & i will help. Dotcom Jillionaire posted:6) So we're raising money with this thing? I really like the idea of this being for charity, and it's good that it's going to something non-political. One thought though (and this isn't based on any experience fundraising, it's just something to think about): A christmas album will have a limited-time appeal. People are prob going to stop buying it in January. However it might get a lot of attention/purchases real fast. A non-Christmas album would work outside of the festive period and could raise money over a longer period of time... but the total value might be less. Anybody have any thoughts/experience with that?
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sounds good to me; have been working on track/s and will definitely have at least one ( if not two ) things for you by december 1st 
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CAT rear end now!!! posted:Cool idea, will look into it! Maybe some wintery chilling wind samples would do the trick. I'm a big advocate of having quiet noise as a texture; you'll find wind samples sound pretty naff and are almost too distracting. Things/places to look for good stuff: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ is an online shortwave radio tool from some clever dutch uni peeps; tune it into somewhere between channels and use upperband or lowerband or w/e to en-pinken or en-brownen (so to speak) the noise. Or alternatively just have some weird mongolian shortwave station in the background. Also useful for sleeping. http://macaulaylibrary.org/ - animal noises; good for field recordings. Freesound, of course. This person - http://www.freesound.org/people/inchadney/ - has a lot of good field recordings, many of which are quiet, nighttime ambiences. 
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I'm on it too
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dotcom milbilionnaire here's my charity track (#1 & might sub another); autumn/winter nights wandering around the london suburbs listening to music that seemed cool back then (circa 1998) on minidisc (also seemed cool back then). https://soundcloud.com/scatterfold/uk-garage-anamnesis-1998 [will send a non-EQed/limited version to you in .wav form later this week.]
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Dotcom Jillionaire posted:What was the name of the download you sent me? Could you resend? no problem; wetransfer is on the case now 
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a_big_dog posted:Exactly. I'm very into fart probability.
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+1 more vote for MSF Liner notes pls: https://scatterfold.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/scatterfold https://twitter.com/Scatterfold Thanks for doing all this Dotcom
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sick. bought it, posted about it, now waiting for the tshirt
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SineRider posted:...I'm digging both of Scatterfold's tracks hard. you're v kind  if you want both & two other tracks as a separate ep they're free hereout of interest dotcom, did you apply some serious noise reduction to my 2 tracks? Scatterfold fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Dec 4, 2014 |
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What are people's opinions on Reaper? I spend 3 hours a day commuting so something that works cross-platform for my studio PC at home (currently running Cubase) and my MacBook Air would be great; i.e. record & put into a project at home; mix and edit on the train. Seems a good deal for £40-odd. My two pennies on the compilation/mastering issue: personally I would have liked at least a couple of days and a chance to review any mastered versions to give my input *but* I realise it was a) a first time effort, b) a total volunteer job using up Dotcom's time and c) time was running out before xmas. Ultimately it's a lesson learnt for next time & I'm totally up for the sex tape so, hopefully on the next comp everyone will be happy & get a chance to review.
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Thanks for the advise. I'm not averse to change & learning curves so that's all good. On a slightly different note, are different DAWs better/worse at MIDI tightness, or is that down to your computer? It's something I spend a lot of time on (shifting channels +/- 1ms) and christ would I love a DAW as tight as an old Atari or even running clock from my Machinedrum...
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...speaking of 303 fetishisation... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE5kOjMEQqc
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Dotcom just sent me a nice message about the Xmas tracks and asked about my studio set up. I don't think I've posted my kit before and seeing as I did a long-rear end explanation for him I thought I might as well chuck it here as well in case anybody was interested. Shout if you've any questions... ----------------- Equipment wise, it was mostly hardware for the sounds, software for the mixing. But even with the mixing I imagined in my head a "set" studio and used the same plugins in the same chain in the same places partially to make mixing easier (i like limitations) and partly to keep things 'holistic'. All four tracks on that EP basically worked like this: Sounds TR-606 MC-202 TT-303 Machinedrum UW++xl or whatever. The big 'un. Waldorf Blofeld Moog Little Phatty Korg Wavestation (VST) Korg M1 (VST) Field recording samples (radio, private recordings, etc.) Effects Reaktor TDR Feedback Compressor TDR Proximity Variety of Sound ThrillseekerLA (LA Compressor) Variety of Sound Baxter EQ (Buss EQ) Variety of Sound NastyVCS (Console Strip) Variety of Sound ThrillseekerXTC (Exciter? Kinda I guess.) Vladg/Sound Limiter No.6 Routing TR-606 and 202 or 303 go into one channel each of the Aphex. The 606 kick drum is fattened up from its usual weak-sauce plop into a tight 808-like bass. The 202 or 303 have w/e they need. All beats and bass went into Buss A after indiv. EQ & TDR compression. Buss A has NastyVCS, Baxter EQ and Proximity in that order. The whole thing has a High Cut filter at about 5-6k depending with a tiny hint of resonance. All melody, pads, ambience etc go into Buss B. Buss B has Reaktor (running a self-made detuner/wow/flutter ensemble mashed together from other ensembles) into a compressor side-chained from wherever the kick drum is. That goes into another incidence of Proximity. Master Buss has Thrillseeker LA and XTC. The whole lot is bounced to tape. Then through Limiter No.6. Your versions simply missed off that last stage. So nothing particularly complicated. And all free software apart from Reaktor. I've just picked up Absynth as well on sale so that'll be getting used a lot soon.
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