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Like to twiddle knobs (virtual or otherwise)? Talk about the music making experience here and share some tips and tricks you've picked up along the way.
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How many tracks have you got out there, and which one is your personal favourite? Tough ask maybe There's so many posters with so many BandClouds™ that it would take a long time to go through them all. A LONG time. I'm not gonna tell you mine as it makes the thread sound like "hey guys listen to me, listen to my tunes, liiiiiiiiiiiisten" but it's not that, I wanna know yours Sorry if this thread has been done afore
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You guys seen this? http://www.beepstreet.com/ios/drambo It’s a modular music studio for iOS that comes with more than a hundred modules including samplers and stuff and a sequencer that can be p-locked. Demos look interesting. Here’s a quick overview: But there’s more. I thought the “samplers” demo was pretty neat as well: All this for 22 bucks. Tempting.
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Could not find a dedicated topic for this fantastic (free!) program. It is very versatile, has lots of build in effects, can easily layer up loads of files. The envelope tools are really handy too. And it just had a new major upgrade to V3.0 https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-3-0-0-released/ Mainly this deals with upgrading their file save format .aup which was fine unless you moved files during the process as it just points to them then your saves don't work. They have updated the noise gate too, and fixed a bunch of bugs. Still my favourite audio editing program, most of my releases so far have been assembled with it as I record with hardwar…
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so i've recently gotten back into nanoloop in all it's variations. i had put it aside for many years after my original nanoloop 1.2 cart battery died and scrambled all my files. i starting a while back with the android version, then (after getting a new phone) the iphone version. more recently i purchased the nanoloop 1.7.x cart for classic gb and this week received a 2.7.x cart for gba. i'll also more than likely purchase the nanoloop mono when it releases next month. anyways i just thought maybe some of you guys could post some of your favorite tips for nl in all of it's forms. i was a honestly quite surprised at some strange differences in features betw…
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My very first tutorial, ever. Hope you guys enjoy it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhxB8eq4r88
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What would be the best bet for finding a hardware reverb unit for cheap, that doesn't sound like total ass. I don't like when reverb has too much noise associated with it. I just want it to be lush and warm sounding, thinking along the lines of the bass sound on the Aphex song Tha. Also where to look, and what to look for. I'm poor, so I have a cash converters (lol) a few minutes from my house where I see a lot of rack mount stuff so that's where I'd probably look first. Then I guess random mom and pop music shops/ebay/craigslist or something. I plan on using it with synths, and eventually one day with guitars so I can achieve my musical fantasy of making s…
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Hello Currently using a Critter & Guitari Eyesy, it's wonderful. Patch changing via-receiving MIDI Program Changes opens it up a lot. LFO's to control parameters opens it even further. Currently I'm using a Squarp Pyramid to achieve that and while its wonderful, its way too powerful for it and I'd rather use it elsewhere. So, I am looking for a hardware MIDI controller that matches as many of this list as possible: 1. Small (like a Shruthi) 2. Can create MIDI LFO's that control either CC's or PC's 3. Standalone. No Eurorack for this (want it to be more portable and the rest of the video setup isn't Eurorack either). 4. Hopefully cheap …
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I'll start. I had an Alesis Midiverb 2 and sold it for next to nothing to a mate and the Volca Keys was nice too and I sold that for not much but then they're dime and dozen. Also had a Yamaha RX-15 which I gave away for free when I should just got it fixed but I figured it was worth nothing. And a long long time ago I had a Roland TR606 but didn't keep it because I couldn't figure out how to incorporate it into my set up. Ha ha regretting getting rid everything!!!
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After messing around with VCV Rack for a couple years, I'm planning my first eurorack system. Surprised to not find a eurorack thread so figured this would be a good place to discuss. Here's a sampling system I am planning:
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Hi folks! Those of you that are signed to label - could you share your experience? How did you find a label that fits your style or were you found/discovered? 🙂 Were you introduced to each other via common networks? Tell us about your experience! I think most of us are eager to get their music heard more. We can utilize this thread to recommend labels that are looking for artists based on genre as well.
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https://przekroj.pl/en/culture/22-24 “Piotr: “Aphex recently told us that he loves trackers. It turned out we’d been watching the same old YouTube videos of trackers at the same time, including the one I had on floppy disk as a kid. We’re doing a project together in the autumn, for a premiere. I’m so excited.” But shh, don’t tell anyone!”
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I'm tending to prefer Youtube these days for uploading tunes. I know its a bit of a pain having to create a video even its basic but I'm finding the audience is bigger etc and there's no limit. I'm just not seeing a huge benefit in Soundcloud much anymore. Certainly not prepared to pay £7.50 when I already have a Youtube Premium account!!! Thoughts???
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Just purchased my first case and synth modules. I got the Polyend Poly 2 for expanding my modulation options but I hit a bit of a snag today when trying to get it up and running. For whatever reason, it doesn't appear to be receiving midi via the 3.5mm midi jack. I plugged the same midi into one of my synths and it worked fine, but not with the poly 2. After a couple of hours, I had the bright idea to try the USB connection, and it immidiately started working. I'm fairly new to modular and wasn't certain if I might be doing something incorrectly. Anyone have any insight?
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The best way to do this is obviously not to listen to your track for a week or a month (the longer the better) then take notes on ways it needs to be changed, because before long your ears will stop hearing the mistakes. Or at least my ears. Another way I've found to clean out the subjectivity gunk is to listen to it in another medium. Like if you're mixing in headphones, you can listen to it on stereo, or even mono on your phone. Both are good for spotting the 'mistakes' or parts that could be improved. By the way I am talking both composition and mixing mistakes. Perhaps different methods work better for different topics? Any other methods?
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I am sure you read this many times before. But here we go. I am planning to start a new vinyl label and taking submissions now. Feel free to send everything genre wise that you consider worth submitting. Make sure to submit at least 30 minutes of music. And please share it via wetransfer or similar and send the link via message. I am a former member of this forum when it was still called joyrex and ran a netlabel between 2004-2010 that some of you might remember.
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I could just google this but usually "electronic musician" means "EDM". So I'd rather get the opinions of people here where they found some book useful for their own music in some way... music composition/theory/creativity whatever, not just music theory. I am doubtful there are many, but i've been reading a lot of books in general lately and think I should at least try to look to see if I can find some good books on the topic.
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Via Endgadget.com:
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I've been dabbling around in various digital art styles lately and I've been having a lot of fun with it even though I'm very much an amateur. Anyway, if you have stuff you want to release and need cover art for it I'm happy to take a crack at it if you can give me some idea of what you're looking for. It's just for fun and I won't be offended if you don't like my ideas.
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Shoot!!!
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So I was browsing through a pawn shop around here the other day and noticed they got a Zoom H4N recorder sitting on the shelf and they're only asking $74 for it. If I remember right they usually go for about 200 more than that. I didn't have the money at the time but considering the area it's in I don't think anyone's gonna be swooping in for audio gear anytime soon. I'm thinking I may go pick it up with my next paycheck.... Anyways. anyone have any experience using these? How are they? Is it as much of a steal as it seems for $74? Also I've never really purchased gear from a pawn shop before should I be hesitant or go for it?
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Dunno if you guys have seen this? https://www.musicradar.com/news/dirtywaves-super-stylish-portable-tracker-could-be-your-new-best-m8
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Let's talk BPM 1 2 3
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Bpm isn't something I pay attention to. Most of the music I made in the past I didn't even change from default 120. I know that lots of hip hop is 90 bpm. What speed does dancier stuff start at ? I really don't know. What do you guys like to use ? And do you prefer making slower music or fast music ?
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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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