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I'm used to that. I was raised on worse, like general midi TGs and Yamahas

sick. are the boutique touch pads better than wheels

I tend to assume anything with fewer moving parts is an improvement, but knobs are def better than touch. Wheels vs touch is probably a wash. I'll take the cheaper littler version in a heartbeat.

startrekman to thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VggsB5eZ0oM

That's good stuff. 19-year-old me would want to set Eric Persing on fire.

Like the cardinal opposite of Atsushi Hoshiai, the dude who played the cymbals on the 909

This new Roland looks pretty nice: https://www.roland.com/global/products/v-combo_vr-730/

Maybe a much lower-cost alternative to a Nord Stage?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhKD7fFHgnY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4gSlYfMsmo

That sounds pretty awesome.

None of those sounds in the demo are super inspiring to me but I love the interface and idea. Their effects processor looks really cool.

yeah I'm kinda just meh on that but this thing

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2017/10/04/bastl-instruments-thyme-effects-processor-now-available-to-pre-order/

Has anyone fucked with the Yamaha CS-80 reissue? Part of the ‘reface’ series iirc. I like to fantasize that I’ll be able to buy one <$500 synth and that one’s my desideratum rn

it's on my list, there are hella youtubes of people doing the most boring possible shit with it

That’s a shame bc I will do NEW BLADE RUNNAR w it

CS-80? You mean like the CS01? The reface CS is pretty basic. Some dude's making an expensive rack CS-80 clone but it's not a yamaha reface.

The Arturia CS-80 clone soft-synth is pretty good, though obvs i have not played an actual CS-80 to compare.

So I got my LYRA-8 today. Absolutely worth waiting 13 months for it.

sounds like this:

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

yeah I'm kinda just meh on that but this thing
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2017/10/04/bastl-instruments-thyme-effects-processor-now-available-to-pre-order/
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, October 4, 2017 1:48 PM

think i like the morphagene better in that regard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvRTkJ7Qx2o

gawd bless tom erbe

It's like Carl Stone in a box.

am0n, I'm always surprised at your preferences, but sincerely, I do not know what I do not know; we'll see; we'eell;;;;l see;sesss; sseeee;weeelselllsseeelllssll;e

the LYRA-8 sounds like lameness distilled, never buy noise, the whole point of noise is to find it, noise is personal, I definitely want to yell at the guy who made that youtube

i prob need to hear a better demo of thyme but bastl def wins in the interface design

bastl livestream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O52o2wyqY0

It's alive!

Got my Nord Stage 3 Compact this week! So stoked. It sounds so nice...

I really want that Make Noise 0-coast, wish it was cheaper.

Also I downloaded Dexed and realized I have NO idea how to deal with FM synthesis. Also realized it's responsible for a lot of the sounds I like and haven't been able to achieve, and I want to learn, but it seems very mysterious right now (even modifying presets!).

Does anyone understand fm? Change values and algorithms until it feels good.

I find it very hard because there's much less of a 1:1 relationship between parameters and the resultant sound compared to analogue synthesis.

I understand FM a little bit because I think of it like having a few 4+ with separate ASDRs and usually that helps - but yeah, tons of twiddling

4+ oscs, I meant

the messiness of that sentence is probably a good example of how I think about FM. no grammar, but a syntax I can guess at and sometimes get right

this is probably a good place to start?

http://www.burnkit2600.com/manuals/fm_theory_and_applications.pdf

The thing that most freaked me out about Dexed was not seeing any ADSR, but apparently they're just unmarked (kvraudio forum to the rescue):

am i too stupid? i cannot find the ADSR knobs? :/

They are not there as such.. they are called 1234 each with its own level and time(rate:1=slow 99=fast) to reach set level :scared:
Just call 1 attack, 2 decay, 3 sustain, and 4 release.

i spent last night plugging these into the fm manually. i don't know that i recommend it or even understand any more about fm than previously but i can now get around the edit menu faster

http://s3.amazonaws.com/factmag-images/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/brian-eno-dx7-patches.jpg

Oh cool, I will give that a shot. What synth are you using?

volca

For some reason I always thought that Volca FM was 3-op, but I looked it up again and it's actually 6-op but 3-voice. Is it possible to poly-chain two of them together?

I'm still torn on the D05 as i suspect it'll be a real pain to programme. Given that the VST is already available, it seems a shame not to have done what they managed with the boutique JX3P and include a bunch of the PG1000 controls on the front panel.

naus you could chain multiple if you use this - https://www.retrokits.com/shop/rk002/

oh that site is just full of "your terrible ideas" fodder

https://www.retrokits.com/rk-004/

Ports can be defined as sync-only You can change the MIDI connector into sending out sync signals. With the use of a MIDI to Mini-jack converter (as provided with e.g. the Arturia Beatstep) in reverse to the RK-002, this enables you to use the MIDI-connectors as sync output. This way you can also use the RK-004 to drive a bunch of (example given) Pocket Operators.

Tempo manipulation Every port can be set to run relative to the midi or sync master clock (or discard the master clock alltogether). This way you can creatively use sequencer machines to run in different tempo’s with each other.

I mean that in a good way obviously, but I could easily see myself breaking out scratch paper and designing an unworkable $12,000 one-man-noise-wall around just that contraption

the tempo thing is pretty cool

D.T.M.C.A. (discard the master clock altogether) would make a decent band name

Has anyone tried the Digitakt? The fact that Elektron haven't gotten around to releasing the DAW linking software about eight months after the hardware unit is a bit of a concern but it looks pretty cool as a drum machine / sampler.

i recently got one and i like it, still getting used to it, but it seems fairly straightforward and fun to use. has a better feel to it than some similar machine's i've had in the past and it sounds great. i don't care about the DAW linking software, though, so i didn't know it still wasn't available.

similar machines like? mpc? i've been mulling over digitakt/octatrack recently as the only thing i have close to it is the rudimentary sp404. kinda want volca sample also

tbh part of the reason I have been looking at the Digitakt is that the Volca Sample is kind of a pain to use.

I might wait and see if there any upgrades to the sampling functions in Ableton 10, though.

i used the mc-909 for quite a while and i'm enjoying the digitakt more, the workflow is just more intuitive and feels more flexible. i've also used an sp404, a volca sample, an electribe 2... and on my first impressions i find the digitakt more immediately appealing than all of those.