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Bouncing off a sidechain (haha) conversation from YLC, starting a thread about all things Renoise. Know there are some folks here who are using Renoise (chronical, milkyheart, Consul, JTPE, etc.) and a wide range of level of experience (from noob all the way to Guru MF'in Masters). The point of this thread is to have a centralized place to put Renoise tips, thoughts, questions, recommendations, themes, etc. Hopefully a place where more experienced Renoisers (that are also WATMM'rs) can share their wisdom. Maybe it'll inspire some folks to pick up the software and discover the wonders of tracking. Some caveats: Yes, we ALL KNOW that there is a dedicated Renoise forum…
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What is your reaction to that? I would be pretty pissed but someone will love it maybe... But why you want to sound exactly like them? Peace
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Any software/plugin where you can give it say.... a folder of 3 minute drum playing, audio, and it will automatically determine where drums are and cut them to turn into One-Shots? Only way I really know how is just to input one thing at a time. But if there is a much faster way to do it, and have it export one-shots into a folder or something, that would be great.
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Through the use of Ambee’s + NASA’s APIs and TouchDesigner, I’ve managed to capture air quality and near-earth space object [asteroids and fireballs] data in real-time, and used it to trigger MIDI signals in Ableton Live. Said signals are feeding two stock samplers and an instance of SketchCassette. Samplers are loaded one with Thom Yorke’s vocal stems from Nude and Reckoning, and the other one with the song that single-handedly introduced me to guitar-playing. Without further ado:
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I've been really struggling writing melodies recently. I used to write all of my melodies on my guitar, no problem, they would write themselves. Now I'm trying to depart from that and write on the keyboard or write by arranging samples, and it's really tough. Anyone got a nifty trick they use to get kick-started on a good melody? For example, would you start with a simple bassline and then start building on that? Or a simple keyboard lick first? It's weird how shitty my keyboard melodies sound, whereas on the guitar they always sounded pretty good to me. Maybe it has something to do with the layout.
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https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/
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They're calling it Spark. I was very interested in this right until I saw it was subscription based.
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Hey, everyone! Just came to share my newest video-teaching on a technique which I think a good amount of you will find of interest. In the following video, you’re going to learn how to control both analog and digital instruments through movement with the help of TouchDesigner, Ableton Live and a Kinect camera. Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHtUXvb6XMM
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yeah yeah i know, i created a thread about harmony recently but this is different. my intention with this thread is to create a place where people can share random tips for chords, progressions, or even melodies. no theory here, no analysis. so no need to be a jazz jedi. no talk about tuning systems here, or psychoacoustics, or music production. only practical tips for harmony/melody. just a bunch of random suggestions. of course we can discuss the theory behind this or that a little bit on the side but that's not my purpose here. and yes, this thread was inspired by @LimpyLoo's defunct tip du jour threads - which i never read btw, i didn't know the first thing abou…
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Hey all, I'm considering upgrading to Windows 11 on my dusty (but quite recent) music-making laptop, anyone in here who have taken the plunge? Run into any compability issues or latency nonsense? Please advise.
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I only know of three of these vsts. The one from 20 years ago Aphex used for the above track. Izotope Iris 2. And to an extent Harmor. HOWEVER I have forgotten the name of the Formula one, but I remember it was for Mac's Only so I never got it. Izotope Iris 2 is really a combination of a typical synth with the additive synth stuff, however the workflow for it isn't as 'free' as what AFX used for "Formula" so Iris 2 is out. It feels restricted. I do own it btw but always disappointed when I try to use it purely for drawing the sound. And for Harmor, only way to draw waveforms would be to do it outside of harmor. So again the workflow for doing something like…
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Alright! I've been thinking of getting into generative music composition, but I'm not quite at the level of learning Max/MSP yet. Is there anything out there that will let me get into it without requiring coding knowledge? I've been playing around with a Reaktor ensemble called Super Random Machine but it's a bit limiting. Ideally I'd like to be able to plug a VSTi or three into a generative sequencer and adjust parameters until it's creating melodies and chord progressions the way I like. Or even something with it's own synthesis engine. Numerology comes close but it doesn't seem to work the way I want it to. I'm on a mac if it helps.
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Even though my music often has an ambient/softer type sound, I still worked towards maximizing the volume with a limiter on the master. I think I could do this more without worrying about sacrificing the dynamics too much. I just don't know what to do to make it sound thicker and "on fire". Another thing about my situation, is that these tracks are pretty much a stereo output of a synth I've been making, minus some added reverbs. It's not the end of the world, but if anyone can suggest something vital I'm missing on the mixing stage would be a lot of help. I even provided the source wav if you'd like to play around with it. Thanks!
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here's my little setup
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I've been finding awesome music production tools online recently. I really hadn't looked since like 2015 and it was lackluster then. But now with Ai suddenly a lot of awesome online tools are cropping up like the infinite drum machine: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ai/drum-machine/view/ Which is not THAT new anymore, but still. I am wanting to find more. What is interesting about online tools are ones that can only be used online. For example ai based ones that wouldn't be able to run on your computer, but remotely you gain access to it. Question: I may be remembering this wrong, but I remember reading that there were websites starting to pop up where you c…
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For me it's really difficult to keep up the music making, while at the same time I have to juggle my full time job. The deadlines, the cerebral work, takes up a lot of mind space and kills all creativity. I think i need a level of boredom and to feel relaxed, which i often don't anymore. Work work work. Any tips how to sort of achieve that flow again? Thx
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Hey, everyone. I think that some of you might be interested in my latest experiment: Through the use of NASA’s API and TouchDesigner, I’ve managed to capture near-earth space objects data [asteroids and fireballs], and used it to trigger MIDI signals in Ableton Live. Said signals are feeding a stock sampler, which happens to be loaded with a couple of one of my favorite artist’s vocal takes. To give it a little more musicality to the experiment, I decided to iterate through the data of the last six objects that passed close to Earth between the selected dates.
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Hey all! Hope you're well. So I've recently bought my strat and love it and ive been very close to buying a boss katana MK2 amp and a foot controller which is like 400£ or maybe a tad bit more. I've got an old fender champion 110 but the spring reverb is really noisy which is kind of annoying. But I've sort of decided to delay this until I can get a proper amp used and save my cash. I've been considering the lyra 8 but I think it's out of budget. I've also been considering getting a techno expansion card for my jv 1080 which I adore now I've got the midi editor working and purchased some extra presets. The Don solaris pack. The expansion card is £100 on ebay. Or ba…
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I'm a bit lost when it come to EQing separate elements of a track, what are the good practices of EQ ?
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This lad is decent
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Might as well give them their own thread right? ->The Behringer Wasp Deluxe:
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After doing some pretty simple/shit composition for a few years now i've become very interested in how rhythm in music actually functions, ie why things sound the way they do, create the emotion they do, just from the structure of the rhythm. I have found very little information on this online, almost nothing beyond notation and some very simple stuff that isn't really explanatory. Seems like almost everyone can come up with some decent sounding rhythms by following their intuition for what feels right, but I suspect most of this is similar to what GPT3 does, and you are just extending the track by predicting what should come next, and that prediction comes from all …
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Anyone have a good recommendation or two? I’m talking about stuff like Phil Spector and the wall of sound https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound if it’s more avant-garde/electronic, that’s good too (maybe preferred) we really live in a cultural void right now, and I’m having trouble finding the kind of thing i’m looking for. im sure there’s a good one about Eno, but I’m more interested in specific techniques than necessarily a producer themselves
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In the "Programming" thread I mentioned that I was playing around with spectral editing in Python. Shifting the frequencies and what not and then writing it into a sound file. I decided to make a simple GUI with Kivy for one of the processes and I put it in GitHub in case anyone else might be interested. Basically the app shifts frequencies linearly instead of proportionally which breaks the harmonic frequencies making melodies and chords sound out of tune and making harmonic sounds sound alien or artificial. Here's a simple example with Für Elise on piano: You can basically use it to turn any melodic piece into microtonal weirdness. Also additional we…
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this might have already been touched on but it looks like vst 3 is more efficient in many ways. is it ever not good to use vst 3?
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