Synths and Synthesis MkII: All gear is shit, Hail Satan

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toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Sjoewe posted:

Did someone call for slow acid?
https://soundcloud.com/sjoewe/tr707/s-qjK1t

No faster!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zcuh1dh81gwthpw/challenge-tweaked.mp3

# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 03:48

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 05:21

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Flipperwaldt posted:

As someone who for about three years on average put three hours a day in Impulse Tracker, this is mighty interesting and I hope you keep posting whenever an update on it comes out.

Same here! I think there were at least two years of high school where I did nothing but IT and play Wipeout XL.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2014 13:27

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Wafflehound, I have solved your kickdrum problem.

Crank the loving gain on the mixer input from your 606's kick drum until it clips.

Now do the same on the gain from your 303.

Seriously though, get any ideas of 'cheating' out of your head. This is not a competition, it's artwork. You don't get a scorecard, there is no right and wrong.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 13:48

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Radiapathy posted:

Speaking of Vengeance, they just released a new plugin called Glitch Bitch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS5db_Lx5D0

Glitch Bitch.

Jesus christ

So they gave dbBlue's Glitch a shittier user interface and released it what, 9 years later?

# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 19:44

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

If you're this obsessed with the mixing and layering of parts etc maybe you should be a mixing engineer/production type dude rather than make music? Especially acid. God, if there's any kind of music that shouldn't be overproduced it's acid.

I mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM8tUBFruZQ&t=532s

# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 21:39

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

While I think the comment was out of line, I can see the frustration with the seemingly endless array of posts about trading/buying/selling to achieve this/that/the other thing. Wafflehound, the answer to your problems will almost literally never be buying more gear. It will always be spending more time with what you have and learning how best to apply it. Literally not buying new poo poo will get you so much more at this point in terms of production values/etc. If you want to just buy/sell constantly and thats fun for you then ok great, but accept that the results you get from constantly rotating gear will never be satisfying because you haven't spent years getting used to your instruments. It's not a content, there is no perfect formula, there isn't a set, static formulaic value to each thing that can be increased and tweaked with just acquiring more.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2014 17:57

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

The best acid possible is hooking a 303's CV directly into the MS-20. gently caress tuning.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2014 20:04

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

This is very tangentially synth related but holy gently caress am I proud that my president knows who the gently caress Frankie Knuckles is http://gawker.com/barack-and-michelle-obama-salute-frankie-knuckles-in-le-1566229769

# ¿ Apr 22, 2014 22:21

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

I love how as soon as they get to the demo of CV out controlling a modular they're like "OK boys, time for robot farts".

# ¿ Jun 19, 2014 19:27

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

I don't suppose anyone saved that Rhythm Wolf demo? It seems to already be gone

# ¿ Jul 22, 2014 15:55

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

I have no tutorials but I have to say Cylob's custom music system has always made me want to take the plunge into Super Collider http://durftal.com/cms/cylobmusicsystem.html

# ¿ Jul 24, 2014 12:39

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

I am a Perl and Python programmer by trade and Im really excited for a rejuvenated computer music with code thread, because I've dabbled with both PD and Supercollider but never really got any result out of them I was looking for.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 15:10

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

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

Look I'll have you know I started 3 compositions this week and by sometime next year ONE of them will be finished _{if I don't start something else/decide to finish up one of the 40 other unfinished pieces I have}

# ¿ Aug 1, 2014 12:54

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Scatterfold posted:

Seasick House? Seahouse? New genre. you heard it here first on the something awful dot com forums

Probably beaten by the guys on this:

Although you could bring it back from the dead! I don't think Acid on Sea has happened since 2007

# ¿ Aug 1, 2014 16:52

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Theres lots of ways to figure it out (Im not even saying I have really). One way is to just take a song you like and try to recreate it. Like break down all the sequences you'd need and make them, and see how they fit together. Then use that as a mental template to make your own song. Then experiment with the template. Then buy a robot fart-tron death machine and make 20 minute long blorps.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2014 17:52

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Guys I love Moby especially early stuff like demons/horses and Heaven. Where can I too randomly bump into him?

# ¿ Aug 4, 2014 02:00

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

WAFFLEHOUND posted:

I really really hate everyone who bids against me on eBay when I'm resigned to buying something. gently caress those people.

If you aren't using esnipe you're not really ebaying.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2014 13:49

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Not everyone needs a 303, but when they do, NOTHING else works

# ¿ Aug 24, 2014 15:37

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Sizone posted:

Issuing a challenge to you goons. Either take your Rm1x, or your iPad and a copy of the free and totally excellent Yamaha Mobile Sequencer and make a loving song. You have until, gently caress, let's say Columbus Day.
I will be posting a series of short, quasi-informative articles about understanding the ins, outs, nooks and crannies of Rm1x usage during the next few weeks to assist you (conversion to battery power not included).

Gonna grab this and have fun, will make some tracks on the train over the next couple of weeks, thanks for the heads up about the app!

# ¿ Aug 28, 2014 18:47

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

WAFFLEHOUND posted:

Day one purchase, especially if it's priced like their other ugly green things.

If this site is accurate them ummmm, nope

http://www.interstatemusic.com/958831-Roland-SBX-1-Sync-Box-Multi-format-Sync-for-Computers-and-Electronic-Instruments.aspx

# ¿ Sep 2, 2014 16:40

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Startyde posted:

Man that has GOT to be a placeholder price or roland out they gotdamn mind.

There's another site that has it up for ~300 Euros (~$400 USD), so yeah hopefully it's just people guessing, but I've never seen a really cheap MIDI <-> CV box, let alone one that also does DIN Sync 24 & 48, plus all the other bells & whistles.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2014 17:59

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Sjoewe posted:

The look at all these pictures OF MAH JUPITER 8 and oh yeah hear my terribly uninspired but perfectly engineered music crowd.

A long time ago, on another forum, I started a wildly popular thread titled "The Worst Music from the Best Equipment". A bit mean spirited sure, but, what else can you say about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM3XAO8xzzU

There are so many awful, awful loving demos of amazing equipment out there. It's the gift that keeps on giving.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2014 21:00

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Startyde posted:

Don't kinkshame

Speaking of, how's everybody doing on the one box jam for ~synthtember~?

Struggling through using YMS on my phone. Also probably not the best environment to try to make minimal acid. I like that you can play a 14 measure phrase vs a 5 measure phrase though.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2014 22:54

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Startyde posted:

Don't kinkshame

Speaking of, how's everybody doing on the one box jam for ~synthtember~?

Would making a track entirely within a single patch in a Nord Micro Modular count btw?

# ¿ Sep 4, 2014 02:50

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Sizone posted:

Dunno, what are the sequencing options like? If you mean a one note ambient drone, no. If you mean, like, a patch being driven by a celluar automata sequencer then I would hesitantly say yes. If it's a normal linear sequencer, but you can only play one voice at a time then, sure, why the gently caress not. I could hardly call, like, a Chopin piano piece not a song.

Oh, there are plenty, two types of stepped control sequencers and an event sequencer, I was more worried it would be too expansive of an environment to count as a challenge hah

# ¿ Sep 4, 2014 14:43

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Sizone posted:

Ehnn, sequencer's probably on par or a little less feature-full than an Rm1x. Synth engine's a lot more capable, but that's basically just extra rope for you to hang yourself with.

Rope you say?

# ¿ Sep 5, 2014 16:59

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Turn the volume on the channels down and the volume on the master up.

Play music you know is mixed well through the same system set to the same volume and take a cue off of it.

I am terrible at mixing because I'm like 'eh fuckit' and I just want to make pretty patterns, so don't listen to anything I say, actually.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2014 20:09

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Write acid. Plug CV out from 303 into MS-20. Give no fucks about tuning. Crank resonance. Destroy ears. Smile.

e:
Better still, plug audio out from 303 into MS-20 ESP. Twiddle knobs until frequency is total freakout.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2014 17:47

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Oldstench posted:

Syro is so loving good.

Let's pool together ML's resources and timeshare a PS-3300 (WH would sell it in a fit of GAS)

# ¿ Sep 24, 2014 23:38

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Synthember, minus the synth's (all sounds produced by the mouth and lungs of my wife and I):
https://soundcloud.com/david-gates-2/in-a-bunker-with-you

Bonus:
https://soundcloud.com/david-gates-2/lennemi-deux
https://soundcloud.com/david-gates-2/toward-the-ceiling

Unless posted:

Synthtember Entry: http://soundcloud.com/nickprince/acid-house-test-20140922

303 via D16's Phoscyon, MIDI sequencing in Ableton, Konkrete drum kit, all via a Push ACT NOW AND SAVE

Keep going!

Also flipped around some of the rest of your page, it is a goddamn crime to not mix Cylob's 'Acid Inseminoid' into to the tail of "In the Heat of the Night", I think he wrote it just to DJ it with that track.

toadee fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Sep 25, 2014

# ¿ Sep 25, 2014 23:24

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Flipperwaldt posted:

This is nothing short of amazing. Love it, love it, love it.

_{You clearly need to give me all your synths 'cause you don't need them. I'll even pay for shipping, isn't that ever so nice of me.}

Thanks!

I'm worried now though that nobody else is going to be able to get to it, because soundcloud is being strange. If I click that link it takes me to an error page. But if I go to my main soundcloud page and then play the track or click on the name, I get to it ok. I checked and the permissions are all OK. strange.

e: So yah, if anyone else has the issue go here https://soundcloud.com/david-gates-2 and just click on the last one. Or not the last one, I don't care.

toadee fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Sep 26, 2014

# ¿ Sep 26, 2014 00:22

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Scatterfold posted:

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

this is really lovely; good work!

Thanks dude! Yours is quite legit as well, love the timbre of that tape.

# ¿ Sep 29, 2014 16:24

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Another Synthember bonus that I pooped out in about an hour after work. I bet the levels are all lovely because I can't mix for poo poo and I didn't care and also there's a Bleep Labs Thingamagoop solo so track is automatically dope.

https://soundcloud.com/david-gates-2/jfk-bass

# ¿ Oct 1, 2014 01:57

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

sliderule posted:

Never thought I'd be thanking Microsoft for anything synth-related, but they've handed me all the envelope math I'll ever need. I'm bad at math and my envelope code was always super kludgey.

Now I have n-segment envelopes with 4 curve profile options in under 100 lines of code. Thanks Microsoft!

Combined with Synthtember (Synthtober now?) and this post, it seems an appropriate moment to post this:

http://sidehack.gweep.net/~toad/music/mine/floatingbells.mp3

All sounds product by Microsoft Excel, sequenced in Renoise.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2014 19:03

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Thanks guys

Here's uhh, two more (if this is bothering anyone let me know).

I'm uhh, addicted to setting my MS-20's HP filter to '2.5' and turning the resonance all the way up.

PS you need a subwoofer to enjoy that, at least seismically.

I still can't mix sorry in advance

https://soundcloud.com/david-gates-2/graffiti
https://soundcloud.com/david-gates-2/a-dog-ate-my-cutoff-knob

# ¿ Oct 2, 2014 23:15

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

I knew a dude who made awesome BOC-esque music using nothign but a Microkorg sampled and "Sequenced" using copy & paste in Cool Edit Pro. There are no excuses, just make tracks.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2014 02:27

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

I actually would suggest going to a home improvement store and getting some plywood cut to whatever dimensions you want your case to be, and spend 15 minutes with a hammer and some wood glue, but that's just me. This is not advanced carpentry, you're literally building a rectangle.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2014 17:38

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

A Winner is Jew posted:

Look man, some of us like our knobs and will pay good money for them.

http://www.tunadjgear.com/product/four-tuna-knobs-travel-case/

# ¿ Oct 22, 2014 01:23

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

waneb posted:

I bought this thing a few weeks ago:

http://www.vintagesynth.com/misc/synergy.php

All I knew initially was that it was very rare and cheap (at least I think it was cheap, there isn't a ton of info about other sales of these). In spite of living in an attic for the past 15 years, it is still completely functional, with the exception of a few sticky keys that I think I can clean up. Best of all, it is the DK Synergy II+ model, so it has MIDI and an RS-232 port for programming patches. I know its a long shot since there were so few of these things in the first place, but has anyone programmed one before? I've got a USB-to-RS-232 adapter on the way to me, and the old CP/M software for it running in an emulator, but it is not at all friendly from the looks of it.

I have never heard of this before but please let me know if you ever want to sell it :swoon:

# ¿ Oct 23, 2014 16:00

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 05:21

toadee: Aug 16, 2003; North American Turtle Boy Love Association

Would be there but I'm at a fencing tourney (the most IDM of sports)

# ¿ Oct 25, 2014 18:35

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