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WAFFLEHOUND posted:I missed out on the setup posting on the first page, so I figured I can try to catch up here: Oh but you're trying to consolidate before you move, huh?  (Those KRKs are hot. Much hotter than my M-Audio monitors.)
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That's what I need: a synth wall. Although how do you comfortably play the one at the top?  Or is the answer simply "you don't."?
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I'm seriously considering going to Guitar Center tomorrow and walking out with a Volca Beats and syncing it to my Microbrute and making analog synth fart jams. Is this a good idea? Y/N I keep forgetting I have the Microbrute because I don't have any desk space so I have the thing in a laptop case in my closet, and I feel like I need to get some good use out of it to justify that purchase. Plus I've never owned a drum machine before, only a MIDI drum pad controller, and I feel like I need one to play around with. I watched a bunch of videos on the Volca Beats and it looks like a fun toy. I was looking at the TR-8 too but that's $500 and I'm not sure I have that kind of money to spend on something like that now. Would it make a better first hardware drum machine though? If so I guess I could save my money and get one of those eventually.
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HotCanadianChick posted:You should get neither, and buy a Rhythm Wolf instead. $50 more for a more fully featured box that also has a bass synth? Yes. Please. When are those coming out? I guess I can hold out for that 
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Mar 30, 2014 05:52
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Sjoewe posted:So I tried to make some music, and then this happened.
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Apr 2, 2014 23:19
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SineRider posted:EQing is second biggest obstacle stopping people from making music, next to buying synths.
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Apr 11, 2014 05:49
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ynohtna posted:EQing problems tend to go hand in hand with tired ears/mind and unfamiliar monitoring conditions. Take a break. Pet an animal. Maybe I need more synths. But I just loving bought a Microbrute a few months ago. Although I'm still convinced I need a Rhythm Wolf when they come out. Perhaps having my first hardware drum machine will re-invigorate me.
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Sizone posted:You could, you know, always get someone else to do your mix for you. I use Reason primarily and have since I first started producing years ago, and no one else I know uses it. But I've got Ableton too and I mess around in there every so often.
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Apr 11, 2014 06:35
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Sizone posted: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. Unless all that info gets exported as well... (I'm assuming it doesn't but I don't know because I've never tried it before)
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Apr 11, 2014 06:44
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ynohtna posted:You'd have to flail through a mile of ego to get within spitting distance of Eric's brain, Laserjet!  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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SineRider posted:Have you considered rewiring Reason into Live? I used to do that all the time when I primarily used Reason
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Apr 11, 2014 22:58
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A MIRACLE posted:Well I emailed Akai and the sales / support lady says the Rhythm Wolf will be out in June
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I was loving around with my MicroBrute yesterday and realized I don't like this thing as much as I thought I would. I've had this thing since right after Christmas and haven't felt the drive to mess with it all that much, and when I have, I haven't exactly been blown away. So I put it up on Craigslist and I was looking for new synths to buy, but everything I saw was either way too expensive or right in my price range but didn't thrill me. Any suggestions? After I sell this thing, the only hardsynth I'll have is my SH-201 that I've had for like 5 years and still love. I definitely want to get the Rhythm Wolf whenever that thing comes out, but besides that? I definitely don't want/can't afford a workstation, which I saw a lot of earlier. e: I should probably also add that pads are my favorite and I've got a few pedals I'd be using to mess with the sound of whatever I got. Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Apr 24, 2014 |
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Interesting suggestions. The only one of those I was really looking at earlier was the Ultranova. I'll have to check out demos of these on YouTube/SoundCloud and see how they sound. Thanks A buddy of mine had a Virus Ti and he loved it. Hell, maybe he still has it. It was a huge part of his productions years ago, but maybe it still is. I'll have to ask. What's the difference between the C and the Ti? e: Daaaaaamn, the Mininova looks like a ton of fun to play around with  e2: Yeah, watching more videos on the Mininova and it looks like the one for me. Looks like a MicroKorg but with more interesting sounds and a lot more fun to twiddle. Those animate pads look like they offer a ton of possibilities. And it's right in my price range too! I think this is the one I'll get, but I'll check out those other suggestions too! Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Apr 24, 2014 |
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The same buddy that I said owned the Virus Ti also used to own a Micron and I played around with his a few years ago. It was fun and had a bunch of cool sounds! But the drummer/synth player in one of my favorite local bands plays an Ion and that thing is just the bees knees. I will definitely have to check those out in addition to the Mininova. But I stayed up til like 5AM last night watching Mininova videos on YouTube and was literally giddy while watching them, so that's probably a good sign
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I traded pedals with a guy on Craigslist last night and got a Wattson EFY-6 out of it, which is my first ever fuzz pedal. Here's a quick demo I made of it used on my SH-201 in case y'all wanna hear what it sounds like. (Even the bass has been fuzzed out!) Also I'm planning on buying a Mininova within the next few days and I've been watching more YouTube videos on it and getting even more hyped about it. I can't wait to test out all the sounds and then test them out again WITH FUZZ 
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May 3, 2014 10:23
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I was at Guitar Center the other day and there was a TR-08 out, but it wasn't plugged in so I didn't get to hear it. The step buttons are real loving clicky, though.
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Well I got the Mininova today. It's so much loving fun so far. The vocoder is especially fun because I've never had one before. I haven't stopped playing with it since I got it, but I am right now to tell y'all that it has a screaming-type patch called "CowFrog" and it basically sounds like if those 2 animals tried to gently caress each other and the mic that was recording the sound was chained through a distortion pedal. Okay, back to beeping and booping now.
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May 5, 2014 22:38
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net work error posted:Please record cowfrog, this sounds like something that would be awesome.
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May 6, 2014 00:46
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Question: How do I get the tempo synced up between my Mininova and Ableton? Like, if I could control Ableton's tempo setting with the tempo knob on my Mininova, that would be perfect. Can I even do that? I've got the Mininova plugged in through USB right now and Ableton's got it listed under its MIDI devices, but I can't figure out how to control Ableton stuff with the Mininova. Say I record an arp patch into Ableton through my Mbox. That's fine, I can do that. But I can't seem to get the tempos to match up, so like if I record a bass track, the timing will be off.
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Startyde posted:In config on the input, turn sync on, type MIDI clock. There's an EXT button in the main UI somewhere up top that turns on MIDI machine control listening, light that up. Then tempo and transport will be controlled by the mininova.  The play and record buttons appear to be on when I press them but they do nothing.Also changing the tempo in Ableton doesn't seem to be affecting what I'm playing on the Mininova at all yet, but maybe it's just not hooked up correctly. e: Wait, I turned EXT off and now it works? Haha this is all too confusing but whatever, at least it seems to be working now. Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 01:23 on May 7, 2014 |
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Sizone posted:One of you better buy this Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 09:10 on May 10, 2014 |
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net work error posted:Synth thread would you eat a synth?
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Bolange posted:Any of you guys have experience with the Novation Ultranova? Assuming it would work as a decent midi controller it's only ~$300 more than the pure controllers I was looking at for a ton more functionality and the ability to play around without being tethered to a computer.
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May 21, 2014 22:46
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Dotcom Jillionaire posted:STOP HOLDING ME ACCOUNTABLE FOR THINGS I SAY AND DO!
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A Winner is Jew posted:Slight update on the rhythm wolf if anyone's been following it, looks like it's been delayed anywhere from 3 months to 6 months since the release date is now "fall 2014" instead of June of 2014 like when it was originally announced.  Oh well, I probably couldn't afford it in June anyway.
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May 30, 2014 03:13
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VoodooXT posted:IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!!
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WAFFLEHOUND posted:Reminder that a dirt cheapass computer is far more fun for drums and midi than a thousand dollar dedicated sequencer. 
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magiccarpet posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMXEvNUjgCg
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Sizone posted:always sounds angry and slightly dangerous.
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Jun 22, 2014 00:22
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Hardwire Supernatural Ambient Verb. I just got one recently myself and it makes beautiful, lush ambient sounds. I guess I still want the Eventide Space but I don't care if I get it nearly as much now that I own this thing. It's the best reverb I've ever owned, and I've owned like 5 or 6 reverb pedals over the years. The Shimmer setting is just the bee's knees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vqTRylaSyc
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Radiapathy posted:The first allegedly real Rhythm Wolf demo is up on SoundCloud. The guy who posted it is an Akai employee.
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Yeah the snare rules in that video and the bass has a nice growl to it but I'm still not sure I'm sold on it. I'm sure I could do worse for my first hardware drum machine, but after watching that video/listening to the SoundCloud demo, I'm not inspired to plop down a few hundred bucks on one.
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I don't have a single degree. Technically I probably shouldn't even be able to operate a synth.
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Oh my god, if I saw somebody using that at a gig I would not be able to control my laughter. That owns 
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Doesn't Disclosure exclusively use Gaias on stage? Or maybe not exclusively, but when I was watching their set on the Coachella webcast, they were definitely using Gaias.
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The Axiom 49 was my first MIDI controller ever in 2007. That one broke after like a year or 2, and I replaced it with another Axiom 49 because I think I'd bought some kind of warranty on it at Guitar Center. That one lasted for another like...2 years? Then it broke and I've had an Oxygen 49 ever since which is still alive and kicking after a few years of owning it. I was never even that hard on the Axioms and they still managed to break anyway. The pads on the Axiom loving sucked though. I bought a padKontrol so I could have something separate with better pads and I don't regret that at all. The padKontrol rules.
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BKPR posted:got a bunch of cables from Monoprice today (two days to deliver, good lord), finally plugged in my monotron for the first time in ages. turns out, when you can route it through a shitload of VSTs in real time it sounds great!!! But nah, that thing was a bitch to use.
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net work error posted:Monotron delay/duo as gifts to kids, yes or no? Thinking about it for some family. Hell, you might convert some of your family members into synth nerds that way.
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