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snorch posted:I wonder if anyone really uses the gooseneck mic + vocoder combo. Miniak, MicroKorg, Mininova and JD-XI all have it, but they all seem like such a crappy gimmick and are mostly not very good to begin with... The Everyday Film uses a Microkorg as one of his synths - I'm pretty sure he's using its vocoder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4AXWev6ov8
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I wish I could smoek a weed and do the synths, but I work on computers and printers up in the tar sands, and they occasionally require drug tests to access the sites, so I can't.  I just pre-ordered an IK Multimedia Uno synth. I think it looks pretty cool - sort of like a Volca keys, but with some neat extra features. Hopefully, I'll actually make some music with it!!
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Has anyone had a chance to play with IK Multimedia's Uno synth? I impulse-pre-ordered one back in May, and I got it yesterday. It has a few quirks, but it seems fun to play with. I'm still pretty inexperienced with synths, and this is only my third hardware synth (the other ones being a Volca Bass and a Microkorg), so I'm curious as to what the more serious synth nerds think of it.
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Flipperwaldt posted:I think it was Sonar that got bought out and can now be downloaded and used for free. Yep - Cakewalk's assets were bought by Bandlab, and they give away Sonar for free now, although they call it Cakewalk by Bandlab. https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk
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My newest piece of gear is a Volca FM. Watching Cuckoo's tutorial right now. My oldest piece of gear is a Samick 5 string bass I bought back in 1995, but didn't actually start playing until late 2010, after I got into the devil's lettuce. I think I can come up with something.
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And here's mine.. I called it Deboning Dinner. The video is my blue tongued skink eating live worms and berries. If a lizard eating live worms would bother you, you might not want to watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCh5aSkjFm4 Audio is at https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/deboning-dinner I can't seem to get the hang of recording with actual equipment, so I used my oldest and newest VSTs. The oldest is Z3ta+ 2, which I got back in 2013, and my newest is Toxic Biohazard, which I impulse bought while on a business trip in Montreal last month. im_sorry fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Mar 30, 2019 |
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So Math posted:And that's a wrap! Thanks everyone for submitting tracks to Bonerjamz! I plan to have this up on Bandcamp in about a week or so.
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I probably wouldn't participate, but I'd be interested in the results, as I know nothing about the art of sampling beyond one time making a .sfz file of my parrots being angry for the annual goon Christmas album.
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a mysterious cloak posted:edit: I've been doing a lot of reading/listening in learning synth stuff, and I think I wandered too far afield. Just listen to the first track a minute or two. I only have three of their albums, but I like Gnaw Their Tongues. I think they worked with The Body on one of their albums. The label Crucial Blast specializes in this sort of thing. On a completely unrelated note, I fell victim to GAS today.... I was in a local music store a few days ago to buy a keyboard stand, and they had an Arturia Minibrute 2 used for $500.. so I went in today and bought it. Does anyone else have one of these things, and if so, do you have any advice? I've been playing with it a bit, and I think it's pretty cool so far. Ideally, I'd like to use it to make a track for Bonerjams 3, but I'm still pretty clueless on how to actually make songs with hardware synths. im_sorry fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Aug 30, 2019 |
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minidracula posted:If this is your first tussle and rustle with an Arturia analog synth, I recommend focusing on the Brute Factor control. Not because that's the only thing the MiniBrute 2 can do, but because it's a fun starting point. Also, make sure to make use of the patchbay (you do have cables, don't you? If not, get some cables). Did you get the manual of dope sheets (I think it's called the Arturia MiniBrute 2 Cookbook) with your synth? I got 8 patch cables with the unit, as well as the cookbook - I suspect that it was purchased for a recent folk festival here to replace a broken or lost Minibrute 2 and then returned to the store after the festival (they had a bunch of keyboard stands for, like, $10 for this reason). I still need to actually read the manual, but I've already made some cool Gnaw Their Tongues type sounds with it. I'm finding it much easier to use than my Microkorg, as with the Microkorg, you had to go through all these menu settings to edit patches, whereas with the Minibrute 2, it has a knob for most settings. I really need to figure out a workflow for using hardware synths... usually, when I'm making music, I just edit the notes directly in the DAW, and abuse the hell out of copy/paste, but this doesn't work so well with a 4 track recorder and hardware synths.
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Submission for Bonerjams 3: https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/egg-in-one-hand-milkshake-in-the-other I was planning on using my new Minibrute 2, but my kitty has taken to using it as a bed, and I didn't want to disturb her.
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Mr. Dick posted:Mr. Dick wants a cave, but he wants it to be close enough to a house that his wife can still bring him food. A basement works well for this. It has most of the advantages of a cave, plus you walk up the stairs, and voila! House!
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MMD3 posted:I bought a Minibrute 2 over black friday weekend. Loving it so far but definitely on the lookout for more resources for patches and learning my way around the thing. I bought a used one recently... that thing is awesome! But, lately, I've been feeling really unmotivated, so it's been used more as a cat bed.  I also just bought Pigments 2.. since I already had a bunch of Arturia stuff, it was $69  .
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Is anyone doing the February Album Writing Month challenge at fawm.org? I've been meaning to participate for years, but I actually signed up this time. I'm at https://fawm.org/fawmers/spacehoers420/ - I'm hosting my music on Alonetone, since I don't have enough space left on Soundcloud. I'll upload it to Bandcamp once it's done, along with a proper album cover. I have five tracks so far. I wonder how long I can keep this up. I'll give them titles once I have all 14, and can think about it some more. im_sorry fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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I watched a cheezy 80s horror movie called Brain Damage recently, and ended up working on this over the last couple days. It actually includes my Minibrute 2. https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/my-buddy-aylmer
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We should do this for the cover, but have it where if you have a pet, you can upload a picture of it with your track to be one of the faces. Also, did Robot Farts Against Fascism ever come out? I don't remember seeing it.
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Philthy posted:If you're into trackers this looks like a pretty cool device. I have a friend who has been doing trackers and renoise since the 80s - curious to see his thoughts on it. I imagine it costs a fair amount... what's the advantage of using this over an okay laptop running Renoise? Can it even use VSTs?
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Is there a good way to import a graph (say, the last 24 hours of the stock market or whatever), into something you could use for source material in a wavetable synthesizer? I think this could be useful for the current Bonerjams compilation.
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So Math posted:Also this sounds awesome, I'd be happy to do this for you if you can get me the data. Thanks! Sometimes people post graphs to the Doomsday Economics thread in Cspam, and some of them look like they'd make good waveforms for wavetable synthesis. Things like  ,  , and numerous similar graphs. However, unless your brain has already crackpinged, I don't recommend reading the thread yourself.
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Mr. Dick posted:BE GAY COVER FOLK SONGS! I just found out about this song about the Estevan Massacre. Too bad I can't sing, as I really should cover this... I was born there, and my family almost all originates from the area. https://unionsong.com/u108.html And now the place is infested with chuds(https://www.pipelinenews.ca/news/local-news/yellow-vest-protests-come-to-estevan-1.23539886)... including several of my cousins and uncles. 
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I did this recently... I'm not particularly proud of it. https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/eating-shredded-cheese-out-of-the-bag
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Welp... after watching a recent BoBeats video on setting up synthesizers DAWlessly, and learning how a MIDI splitter box actually works from said video, I've decided to finally pull the trigger on an order for a Beatstep Pro and a MIDI splitter box to control the synths I've wasted sooo much money on without actually using much. I figure I can use the Beatstep Pro to control the little guys (Volca Bass, Volca FM, Uno, and SR-16) and jam along with the Microkorg S and Minibrute 2. I have no idea if I could write actual songs with this setup, but it sounds like it would be fun as hell to jam with.
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I recently got a Beatstep Pro, and it's totally changed pointless hour long synth jams for me. I've recorded a few of them, and I plan on uploading one to Youtube at some point, but how can a person write actual songs with this setup? I also have a Tascam DP-006 that I've never learned to use.
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excellent bird guy posted:Can you elaborate? How has the beatstep pro, which is pretty cool, change pointless hour long synth jams. What else do you connect it to? I use it to control my SR-16 and some smaller synths (Volca Bass, Volca FM, and an Uno), and I use its MIDI clock to synchronize my Minibrute 2 and Microkorg. Before, I had a lot of issues getting everything to sync together, although that may be more because of my lack of experience, but since getting the Beatstep Pro, I've learned a lot about how MIDI works. Now that I have everything set up and synchronized, I can actually do pointless hour long synth jams without getting frustrated. (Also, I love your avatar... it looks a lot like my jenday/nanday conure cross)
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excellent bird guy posted:Whoah I wish I could do that. The synth world is really broad isn't it. There are all these little areas of specialization that one could spend a lot of time, and then get bored of it and move on to the next area. As long as you are happy with the results I think it's all that matters. I'm tying to get into the habit of recording something everyday thus I made my dumb thread for me to post in. If i get real obsessive I can spend all night trying to polish a turd. I'm thinking just churn out a lot of music everyday, good, weird, bad, or ugly, doesn't matter. And in time I'll have lots of trippy recordings to listen to. I had a lot of cassette tapes and dead hard drives, and dead myspace pages thus most of my work is lost to time, unfortunately. Oh well I make a fair amount of music (especially when I'm stressing out), but mostly by programming notes directly into the DAW. Since I got the Beatstep Pro, I've started making loops with it on the computer and working on it from there. I'm currently (lazily) trying to figure out how to do something like this without using a computer, but I'm so used to how you edit stuff in a DAW that I'll just go back to the computer. My older brother used to record songs on a 4 track in the 90s, so I should probably talk to him about this.
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I actually used my hardware to make this: https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/short-synth-jam You're hearing a Beatstep Pro controlling a Volca Bass and an Uno, and I'm playing the Microkorg S and Minibrute 2 by hand.
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I recorded a short jam with some hardware and a Beatstep Pro. And a macaw. https://alonetone.com/spacehoers/tracks/birb-jam
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A MIRACLE posted:https://soundcloud.com/natively/one-bar-many-times recorded a jam for once. this is the kind of music I make for myself after work, usually with some weed and a beer lol. just zone out and play techno songs I do this, too... it's a fun way to destress after work. I generally name the resulting tracks after whatever I'm doing or thinking about while I'm working on them. Since for me, "after work" is usually around 10pm, this means that I have to keep things quiet, so I mostly work with softsynths in Reaper. I got a Beatstep Pro a while ago, and I've been using it to make sequences and drum patterns. The result is stuff like https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/wanna-pet-that-dog im_sorry fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Dec 14, 2020 |
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frogbs posted:How are you recording stuff, into a DAW or do you have a Zoom or something? Have a recording device handy, and if you notice you're noodling, and it sounds good, hit Record. I've uploaded the results to my Soundcloud a couple times, but I still need get into the habit of this.. yesterday, I had the hardware synths going, and I would play one and Lola (cat) would walk on the keyboards following my hand, and it actually sounded pretty cool... but I didn't have the recorder ready to go. Generally, though, I do software synths in the DAW. I'll load up a software synth, mess around with a MIDI keyboard while watching stupid Youtube videos or something (Goontube is great for this), and if I can find some notes that go together, I'll open the MIDI editor and write them in. Lately, I've been working more with the Beatstep Pro - I'll throw together a drum pattern, come up with a pattern of synth hits that sound good, and adjust the notes of those steps until I get something I like.
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Pillow Face posted:upon this, reminded me of an earlier post A synth duet with your kitty is truly one of the finer things in life.
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 I have... problems... when I try to use the hardware synths. One of these days I need to record the resulting duet that sometimes happens.
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A MIRACLE posted:Ok I lied I’m making dungeon synth Good. The world needs more dungeon synth by non-fashy people. As you can tell by all the edits, I loving love dungeon synth. I first got into it when the special order of my copy of Vond's "Slipp sorgen Los" came in, and I first listened to it, on the day I met my wife. I've tried my hand at dungeon synth a few times, but the results are always like https://alonetone.com/spacehoers/tracks/count-chocvla,-wampyric-lord-of-saturday-morning-brvakfast I just can't be serious enough for dungeon synth. But, I have a cassette by "Cavern of Moss", so maybe I don't have to be.  Also, I caught this on Twitch a few months back. It was awesome!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNW0jq5I3c Francis Roberts has some really good videos on dungeon synth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6z_PkBj_nk im_sorry fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Apr 5, 2021 |
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We should do another bonerjams collection, but make it all dungeon synth.
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A MIRACLE posted:this is really cool, like a soundtrack to a long lost made for tv Conan movie Thanks! It was done with the Korg's official M1 VST. I thought it sounded off, so I ended up turning it into one of my regular beep boop tracks. I did a few more including these two, which I thought turned out well: https://alonetone.com/spacehoers/tracks/dungeon-synth-1 https://alonetone.com/spacehoers/tracks/dungeon-synth-2 I used a plugin called Liquid Music on them, where you set a scale and chord progression, and then draw in how you want the melody to go, but that felt like I was cheating, so I stopped using it.
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stillvisions posted:For every scrappy 16-20something soldering together their own power supply you've got two approaching-middle-aged IT-employed guys trying to buy their way into creativity with more modules. Not totally true.... I'm a middle aged IT employed guy, and I've been trying to buy my way into creativity with more VSTs, since they go on sale a lot more often than modules do.
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a mysterious cloak posted:
I really need to get into tweaking Pigments. I love how it sounds, but I'm still mostly preset surfing, especially after the sale on all those presets when it went to Pigments 3. I generally make a sequence with simple beep boops, and then tweak the synthesizers until it sounds cool, and that usually involves picking a preset that works good enough and messing with it or not, but I'd like to dig more into how to make the better beep boops with Pigments. When I try to make a music, it generally sounds something like this: https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/laughing-at-cryptocurrencies
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watho posted:i’ll be eating instant ramen for the rest of the month but well worth it It looks cool as gently caress, but what's the advantage of using a device like this over a laptop running Renoise?
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I often think that modular synthesis is the "smoking crack" or "owning a horse" of potentially expensive nerd hobbies... I've deliberately avoided it, but those ports on the Minibrute 2 that are made for the Rackbrute still taunt me. I did get Softube Modular and some modules, though... how does this compare to the real thing? I bought Modular like 3 years ago, but only recently got a computer that can actually run it properly. I have little idea how any of it works, but I can make it go "Beeeeeeeeep" in various ways.
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I just broke down and ordered a Volca Modular... is there anything I should know about this? It looks fun to play with, but the lack of a MIDI jack concerns me a bit. I guess I'll have to learn the sequencer on it instead of going to the trusty ol' Beatstep Pro...
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