Yea and tab swaps them. While shift tab swaps the bottoms so you see the midi info on Jen side and devices in the other. I’m a multiple monitor baby, can’t do anything with one.
― dan selzer, Friday, 28 February 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
Same set up as Dan. I make a bunch of clips in session view then jam them down into the bones of a track in arrangement. then add drops/whatever, melodic elements in arrange.
I can completely see getting stuck making the clips and just jamming, never pressing record- maybe the ominous presence of the arrange view in the second monitor encourage actually making something?
― Tib, Friday, 28 February 2020 02:29 (four years ago) link
set up a 2nd monitor for imminent telecommuting reasons but am excited to put these ideas into practice
octatrack is wonderful so far, far more approachable and intuitive than its reputation suggests
― adam, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
Social distancing means I've finally started to learn my way around VCV Rack. Please enjoy some noises:
https://soundcloud.com/found-river/dr000446
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Sunday, 15 March 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
Cherry Audio made their virtual rack thing free:https://cherryaudio.com/free
― DJI, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
Moog made their Minimoog iPad app free and Korg's Kaossilator app for iOS and Android
The Moog one sounds fantastic, was easily worth the $15-20 it normally costs
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 07:49 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the heads-up on that Cherry Audio, I'm excited to try something VCV Rack-esque that looks like it fully functions as a VST.
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 22 March 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY-5mqkpsUg
50-oscillator ambient drone synth from Russia now available to pre-order.
― ShariVari, Monday, 6 April 2020 07:56 (four years ago) link
That sounds cool! I dig the touchpad design. the tiny knobs look like they could be a pain but it's neat that they fit all those controls on such a relatively small box.
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Monday, 6 April 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
LOL @ 2 ppl playing it at once
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Monday, 6 April 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
Finally got a Korg NTS-1. This little guy rules. It has an "open" setting in the envelope generator which means drones for days
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Monday, 20 April 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
Speaking of which, hey drone demons, any fun tricks for creating drones out of audio apart from Paulstretch or infinite reverb? I don't generally venture into these waters but I have a use case.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link
check the gleetchlab x program i linked in the VST thread, i've been droning by layering tiny samples (bordering on "granular" i guess), looping them, and running them through some of the software's portfolio of wild effects and processors. it's a compiled max/msp patch so there are interface quirks but it is fun as hell.
https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net/softwares/
idk what the demo limitations are cause i bought it after about 5 minutes of playing with it
― adam, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
i know you are not an ableton guy but you could achieve drony results in a similar manner with the granulator ii m4l device modulated with a ton of lfo devices to give the drone a little movement
― adam, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link
Thanks! I've got some vsts I can use for LFOs, and maybe I'll try Hysteresis for some granular fx. Maybe just adding a bunch of different layers with different pitches and effects to add movement.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
I don't really know where to put this but I love the droney/ambient clips this guy is posting to twitter/youtube from his homemade softsynth:https://twitter.com/jeonghoparkyoutube
It takes visual input for both synth waveform and score data, kind of like Daphne Oram's "Oramics" system, except you no longer need to rig up an overhead projector with thousands of pounds worth of homewired electronics into something the size of your entire living room, you can have it on your laptop.
...I mean, I haven't got any particularly good noises out of it yet myself, but I have faith in ilx:github for source and Mac/Win installers
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
https://www.ebay.com/itm/233572384063
dang
― adam, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 12:56 (four years ago) link
this is off topic but being sold by the same dude, the item description is WELL WORTH YOUR TIME https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pyradyne-Owned-by-DR-FRED-BELL-DevaStar-Orb-Patrick-Flanagan-Marcel-Vogel/233557492440
― adam, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
i think it was Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith who was doing a (late junction?) session for the bbc and put polysynthi down as a required for the session because they had one and she'd never seen one.
oh, it's there in the pictureshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0422qwl/p0422qr9
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 13:18 (four years ago) link
that is very cool, i wonder if there's a way to hear that session. kas and greg fox is an interesting combo
― adam, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 13:39 (four years ago) link
the same google search turned up a mixcloud link but i couldn't load it (but then my 3g connection has been poor all week)
https://www.mixcloud.com/latejunctionsessions/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-and-greg-fox-in-session/ (might be dead)
(i thought the late junction sessions were always available because they are paid for by the bbc. the above does look like an official account, perhaps they do it via mixcloud and not sounds)
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 13:45 (four years ago) link
(nope, standard 30 days, and that expired on Sun, 21 August 2016 (at 12:48:00 GMT))
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link
alas. i appreciate your efforts. coming up empty on slsk too.
the polysynthi came up on my saved ebay search for "synton fenix," the first time anything has ever triggered that one ha ha.
― adam, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 14:26 (four years ago) link
Yum:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hWIbje5tu4
― DJI, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link
i am a satisfied owner of the wavestate as of a couple weeks ago. wave sequencing made me feel stupid for a while but i'm slowly coming to grips with it. being able to hold down one key to play an entire song lightens the relative load on my digitakt and other synths
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
adam you should sign up here!!!!!
http://xenomorph.technology
― 2 Markov Chainz (haitch), Friday, 8 May 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
The new Logic update seems great, I never used it because I couldn't even read EXS24 or half the older pre-Retina instruments but I'm downloading it again tomorrow.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 06:34 (four years ago) link
that fenix clone is amazing. someone is selling a real one on the Horribly Named Synth Site for 10k and has a lot of nonsense in the listing about only selling to synthesists "known to him," what a dork.
is logic good? i've never used it. i am just about done with ableton after it crashed three times in a row yesterday trying to load the arturia cs-80 so i could play happy birthday to my father in law with a vangelis patch. i have the 8-track version of bitwig and it seems pretty nice.
(i also use renoise but it's a different "workflow" as they say for sure)
― adam, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
I would use Logic if I was on mac.
I say this every single time, but after I finish this current album I'm working on, I'm going to give Bitwig and Studio One a real shot to see if I click with them and get off Cubase.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
The Arturia plugins are crazy buggy resource hogs. Other than those (which I still use since they sound great), Live has been solid for me. Not sure if AU/AAX/VST/VST3 makes a difference.
― DJI, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
Love the game of Russian roulette that happens when I accidentally load the wrong plugin. "Is this one of the ones that instantly crashes my DAW?"
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
have a look at bitwig, Jordan - has good VST sandboxing thing, only the plug-in crashes rather than the DAW too.
― 2 Markov Chainz (haitch), Friday, 12 June 2020 10:52 (three years ago) link
I've been avoiding my chaotic studio space and mucking about at home with a small army of volcæ - kick, modular and drum have been joined by bass, FM and sample via a 'producer pack' bundle (+ mixer and a case) I got a good deal on. surprised by the bass being my fave of the new ones! FM has some good sounds and some lame, the controls they've surfaced on it are good, wouldn't really want to do a patch from scratch though. sample is very greedy on the old MIDI channels and I've not used it a heap.
to get around the classic "it's just one bar loops!" volca criticism I've got them all under the control of a pyramid, which is a bit like if you made the MIDI sequencing parts of Ableton into their own hardware instrument. I've enjoyed putting some time into it properly, a great way to stay off the computer.
― 2 Markov Chainz (haitch), Friday, 12 June 2020 12:01 (three years ago) link
Cool! I keep thinking of doing something like that, but then Ableton is so flexible and powerful. Once I have a space to do it, I may try something like that with my Circuit (albeit with way less tracks).
― DJI, Friday, 12 June 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
Thanks haitch, I'm just wrapping up an album project so now is the time to try something new.
There's one track on the record that is primarily Volca FM & Keys and I'm really happy with the sound. Still love the FM although I keep coming back to like two patches ('Plucky' and one of the bass patches), lol. Keys I usually have to combine with a digital synth to add some attack and sheen, but the blend is soooo much better than either could do on their own.
I still don't do any real hardware workflows, just program midi with purposefully lame/neutral softsynth sounds and then do a couple 'live' takes sending it out and twisting knobs.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 12 June 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
i impulsively bought an electribe sampler from a sketchy guy on craigslist (his price was $100+ cheaper than on reverb, he showed me a photo of his storage space filled with boxed music gear, and tried to sell me a moog out of his car when he dropped it off). i don't know what i'm doing yet but it seems pretty intuitive. i don't really know what i want to make with it yet either. i don't have a spare SD card so i can't save my samples/patterns yet, but that's probably a good thing at this point. i spent my lunch break today sampling orchestral strings and then pitching them up and down and layering them to sound gross and seasick. pretty fun.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
I finally have a place at to play in my house! Here’s a little jam with my Circuit controlling some external synths:https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=dX8W7jADLwE
― DJI, Sunday, 12 July 2020 02:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX8W7jADLwE
― DJI, Sunday, 12 July 2020 02:52 (three years ago) link
awesome!
― clouds, Sunday, 12 July 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
want 2 put in a good word for the moog subsequent 37. recently got one and it was instantly the most fun synth i've ever touched
today ordered the new hotness from a new synth company called ASM, v excited to learn to program it: https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/asm-hydrasynth
― davey, Sunday, 2 August 2020 01:47 (three years ago) link
How are you getting on with the Hydrasynth, Davey?
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 27 August 2020 11:39 (three years ago) link
Happy 909 Day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU-UsvYbIV0
― DJI, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
The Wizard!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 10 September 2020 01:20 (three years ago) link
shoot, xps, sorry i missed this earlier sharivari. i didn’t end up ordering the hydrasynth after all. actually i thought i had, but didn’t quite complete the transaction on ebay. then i took a look at my credit card statements, and while i’m not in debt, i couldn’t justify the purchase :/i DID finally restore my DSI Prophet ‘08, though. it took a few operations. on the second to last, i tried to fix the two dead keys it had and, after much painstaking effort, when i pieced it all together found that something like half the keys were dead! i had to laugh. no idea where i went wrong. anyway, i got a new keybed for it and it everything works, finally. it’s a beautiful machine
― davey, Thursday, 10 September 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link
I made a little jungle-ish jam using a Circuit, Streichfett, Minilogue, Bass Station 2 synths and MD500, RE20 and BigSky pedals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKZUHgidf1E
― DJI, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
Arturia Polybrutehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on1gP5J0_NA
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
I've been making some dreadful noises with a Lyra-8. great stuff.
― 2 Markov Chainz (haitch), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
Is it easy to get started? It seems like it would be
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
The Lyra-8 is the best
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link
Tom I think so - I just tuned all the voices around the same pitch and started from there, good way to see how changing something effected everything else. once you grasp that you can just tune some intervals up by ear and make your own scales or whatever.
my sister's not quite 2-year-old was obsessed with it when they came to visit last week, and was delighted by endless delay feedback when I let her have a play! (her older brother was not impressed, what a normie)
― 2 Markov Chainz (haitch), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 09:07 (three years ago) link