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a mysterious cloak posted:Quick question: what laptops are you guys using? My laptop just croaked so I'm in shopping mode. Looking for something in the $800ish range. Is there any substantial reason for you to not use a desktop? The price/performance ratio and ease of use (two big rear end monitors, an actual mouse instead of a trackpad) recommend it.
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P' sure I've got at least one steam game I picked up for $11 and have never, ever played. Get a deep enough queue and it can actually be very easy to get no use out of things you spend money on.
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Apr 11, 2020 00:07
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I use synths with patch storage and just push save
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Apr 12, 2020 01:30
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 One final week to get your tracks ready Submissions due by 4/17 If your tracks are done, render them to a .wav or a .flac or some sort of LOSSLESS format Zip them up with a text file, how you want to be credited, name of the song, any track notes or thank yous or whatever, them upload the zip to mediafire or dropbox or something. Post the link here, or, courtesy of EBBs benevolence, pm it to me. If you have problems figuring any of that out, ask. Tracks so far: https://soundcloud.com/philtho/rise https://soundcloud.com/rid_labs/get-this-loving-bread https://soundcloud.com/jocko-homomorphism/i-changed-my-name https://soundcloud.com/user-44349750/this-land https://soundcloud.com/fieldbalm/the-knifemakers-daughter/s-o3qX71bBc78 https://soundcloud.com/nateshap/capitalism-is-a-ok-yall I still need lossless copies and track info and stuff from everyone, including myself, except EBB. We still need someone to do some album art. The Voice of Labor fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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Apr 12, 2020 03:18
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I would LOVE for someone to master the tracks. My monitoring rig is trash and, while I can make things sound consistently loud and bassy, I'm not real sure I can make them sound consistently good while doing so. Also that would allow me more time to garden and make music. My child loves your song, especially the part where you talk to your cat. There's an almost Booji Boy level of sincerity to it. But do what you feel is right. There's also nothing stopping you from doing a 7'' and a 12'' mix, except time.
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Apr 12, 2020 23:11
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Guessing Coons is what comes in around the 1 minute mark? I would put in a break at the 1 minute mark and another at the 2 minute mark. Really jarring playing poo poo backwards and speeding it up and turning it into noise skinny puppy kinda break to punctuate the coonintro and something flowing towards the mellow soothing side for the scoda. Drive home, for the casual listener, that two different things are being presented and that one of them is good and that the other is not. I would also do more demonic vocal effects on the coons?voice. Chipmunk ridiculousness is a good start, but there's a whole broad palette for making speech sound more mechanical, sinister and soulless, basically republican, to explore.
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Apr 13, 2020 02:43
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You don't have to put anything in the comments if you don't want to. A lot of people like to put soundcloud/bandcamp/facebook/whatever links in, lyrics for songs that have them are always good, gear lists can be dope. So, yeah, you don't have to put anything in the comments and you totally shouldn't do a gear description or writeup that illustrates how little equipment a person actually needs to make music.
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Apr 16, 2020 01:46
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Mr. Dick asked me to post his boner jam. He said he'd be back after the DNC hands Sanders the nomination in disgrace and he then goes on to win the general. http://www.mediafire.com/file/g6khn4evb1yyq8u/mrdickgetthisbread.rar/file Still need finalized entries from a few of you.
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Apr 17, 2020 08:15
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snorch, you gonna come with a bonerjam a few days after the deadline?
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Apr 18, 2020 03:39
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Take a few extra days to work on your track. There's enough of a lead that a straggler or two can be accommodated. Don't let the man silence the voice of Delaware.
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Apr 18, 2020 05:58
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Getting the bandcamp page ready. We need a synthgoons header. 975 pixels wide, 40-180 pixels tall, .jpg, .gif or .png, 2mb max If anyone wants to make one. e: also an "artist photo" of undisclosed size and dimension restrictions. The Voice of Labor fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Apr 19, 2020 |
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Apr 19, 2020 05:35
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snorch posted:My song is in the fridge. Young man, you may stand outside the law, but you do not stand above it. quote:If your tracks are done,
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Apr 20, 2020 23:10
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Thank you one and all. Submissions for Boners for Labor are now officially officially closed. We still need cover art. The Voice of Labor fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Apr 22, 2020 |
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Apr 22, 2020 04:48
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Guys, look, I've tried being nice about this but if someone doesn't score some cover art quick, it's going to look like this
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Apr 22, 2020 05:15
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Super, super important question: How long, in minutes and seconds, is a moment? Like, if you were to have a moment of silence, how long should it actually be?
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Apr 23, 2020 05:07
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Nonsense. It can, and often is, quantified. "A brief moment of silence". Furthermore, the common full expression is "let us observe a moment of silence". Observe in the sense, quote:To maintain (silence or a period of silence), as out of respect for someone who has died. Who is doing doing philosophy of time nowadays? I seem to remember it being an up and coming thing in or around Oceania.
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Apr 23, 2020 05:57
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How much do you weigh?
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Apr 23, 2020 06:40
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A MIRACLE posted:should i get into eurorack no
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BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:is it too early to start the quarantine mixtape? i figured everyone elses is coming out sometime next month. lol, you just volunteered yourself to put it together.
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:Is there an easier way to do this? Would playing with the monitoring speakers ensure a result that would be similar enough to what people will hear on their system? I have a feeling there's no easy answer to this but maybe someone has a good advice? A second or third set of ears really helps. If feasible, try to incorporate a car stereo system in your listening and revision cycle as the average bass/loudness is going to be radically different. You can also try going straight for the lowest common denominator. Cellphone speakers have the least fidelity and are the most likely thing your music will be played on. DreadCthulhu posted:Is the typical workflow to give one track per hardware instrument and avoid that PITA instead of what I'm doing? Wrangling a bunch of different synths isn't really less of a PITA than multitracking one. Polytimbral synths lessen the pain, but have fallen out of vogue with the shift back towards analog synths. The Voice of Labor fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Apr 25, 2020 |
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Apr 25, 2020 21:12
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Quick, everyone tell So Math how much you like their music and what a beautiful person they are so that they have the confidence and energy to finish mastering the boner jams. #nojoeyesjocko
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https://synthgoons.bandcamp.com/album/boners-for-labor Go, spread the gospel
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Apr 27, 2020 03:47
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Wavetable synthesis is p good for texture. Modulate your modulators then modulate the gently caress out of the wave index.
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Apr 28, 2020 02:15
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Midibox has plans/boards up for an fm synth using scavenged opls. FM synthesis is, like, the most "it's just numbers" synthesis type there is. You're not going to be loosing an appreciable amount of "authenticity" by using software or newer hardware. plouge's chipsynthmd is really good and $30. preenfm is fantastic, fun to build, great to patch and super compact. Both handle microtuning well.
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Try lots of things so you know what feels the best. Also occasionally try and retry things that aren't the best in case your tastes have changed or you just want to do something different.
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a mysterious cloak posted:I think you are bound by a debt of honor to Keith Emerson to fill that thing up. 300 lbs of k2600r
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I wonder how many sh101 mods will work with the berhinger clone. tubbutec's https://tubbutec.de/sh-1oh1/ this: http://dl.lojinx.com/analoghell/RolandSH101-NovaMod.pdf
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Pillow Face posted:ooh, those would solve all my ms-1 issues, good to know for that day when i am adept with such things Opening poo poo up is the first step to understanding it.
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 P sure you could power a buffer comfortably off the midi power line.
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The next Kraftwerk album is just going to be called Ralf
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Pulled the Jasper out of storage after about a year and a half, child's old enough and literate enough to start doing some subtractive synthesis. Was getting ready to panic because it did not seem to be working. Relived as further testing revealed that only the internal speaker is not working. https://www.jaspersynth.co.uk/
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Remember that for modular, $2000 is a small to moderate system.
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frogbs posted:So I just got the cheapest, base level 7th gen iPad, and have been playing around in Garageband. I found out that the camera kit adapter I have will work with a usb midi keyboard, so have been looking at options. There are SO many, it's kind of overwhelming. You have so many options. I like my radium 49, which can be run off usb power or batteries. I love my yamaha cbxk1 which I've been using for close to 2 decades and which can run forever off of a few aa batteries. The radium was 30 or 40 bucks a year or two ago basically new in box. Figure out how many keys you want, how big you want them to be and go from there.
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frogbs posted:Thank you! I’m thinking I might as well get something with 48 or 49 keys. From what I’ve read I can’t really go wrong with the M-Audio Keystation 49 https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/KeyStatn3-49--m-audio-keystation-49-mk3-keyboard-controller check the used market before you get anything. If you're in a metro area, craigslist will be full of controllers. Ebay's o.k. too, shipping on, like, 49 key controllers isn't too bad. Controllers loose their value quickly and usually pretty severely.
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Be glad you're not me, because if you were, you'd be midway over the columbia by now: https://portland.craigslist.org/clk/msg/d/battle-ground-2-casio-keyboards/7114876944.html ebay came up with these for, like, the 3rd and 5th search results: https://www.ebay.com/itm/M-Audio-Ax...H0AAOSwHcxetV~p https://www.ebay.com/itm/M-Audio-Oxygen-61-USB-MIDI-Keyboard-Controller-Powers-ON/402256192097?hash=item5da8566261:g:U2YAAOSwVCJetV~O e: Cheapest option, local pickup, an octave more than you wanted, has usb, generic general midi and built in speakers so it's totally self contained, also has a sampling function which is probably fun as all hell. The only thing I'm not sure about is whether the keys are velocity sensitive. https://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/msg/d/portland-casio-keyboard/7117565629.html The Voice of Labor fucked around with this message at 22:19 on May 9, 2020 |
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Started out in the mid '90's with nothing but a lovely macintosh and a casio. after 25 years of synthing and synth procurement all the stuff I actually use comes down to a 7 year old mid tier PC and a thrift store midi controller. In hindsight, I spent 15 years waiting for computers to get better and 10 years willfully ignoring that they had gotten better. Building and circuit bending and stuff is and was still really valuable, but my "work"flow consists of doing now by choice what I started off doing by necessity. Also, an early privation in processing power is probably the main psychological trigger for thousands of dollars spent on synths I should be getting rid of. Which reminds me, who wants to buy my microwave xt? EBB posted:Any MIDI Thing users here? Have you ever had trouble with the drum trigger mode not firing all outs? never having owned, seen, touched, used or built one, I would first start by reseating the board interconnects. I would then check my ground connections on the jacks. The Voice of Labor fucked around with this message at 21:49 on May 13, 2020 |
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EBB posted:The interest for me lies mostly in the build and design. I've gotten back to breadboarding lately and that's where I lose hours of time. Figuring out stuff is good and cool and nothing feels better than finally getting a piece of circutry to behave the way you want it to.
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Origami Dali posted:CTK-601 shot in the dark, but you could try opening the case, seeing if there is an internal hard reset switch (probably not, but genuinely ancient casios usually had belly buttons you could prod with a paper clip), more likely, see if there's a coin cell or similar 3 volt battery. if there is, pop it out or desolder it for a few seconds to clear the ram. again, not huge hopes for that being the cure as I've never known casios to have amenities for having their firmware flashed.
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Philthy posted:Service manual here. https://elektrotanya.com/casio_ctk-601.pdf/download.html#dl Reset circuit description on page 6 and the power supply reference voltages one page previous.
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