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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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I am so sorry to have to break this bad news. This is a pretty monumental loss, in a year where we've already lost some excellent synthesists (Mira Calix, Klaus Schulze, and Vangelis)... dang, I don't have much else to say Sequential posted this:
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Hey everyone, I used to pop in here a lot, mostly to talk about cassette tapes and stuff like that but also share any tidbits I gleaned from incessant but ultimately unused research I'd do myself. Embarrassingly I sort of overthought and waffled on ever actually making music. Years and years have gone by and now I'm in a position where I have a strong itch to do it but no idea where to start. I do have basic and focused ideas on what I want to do and use thankfully, so my questions are more about hardware and software recs. I'll list my basic questions: A good affordable audio interface. I have Tascam US-122L but it's in use with my tape d…
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Hello everyone! I'd like to share with you a few excerpts of me playing my new chaotic pointcloud system, in which the particles are being audioreactive to the incoming audio signal. You can find these and quite a few more project files in my Patreon page: https://linktr.ee/uisato
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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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I'll start lol!!! Aaron Baird - YouTube
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https://learningsynths.ableton.com/en/get-started
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I searched and couldn’t find anything, but I know we’ve talked about this before and it’s probably a thread: Reading the harmony thread and several others on here about “rules” and all those pesky little standards we all have regarding them got me curious. What are all your opinions of sampling other artists work- rules, etiquette, what should or shouldn’t be, etc. Not trying to open the whole “is a dj a musician” debate at all- I’m only specifically talking about making a “non-remix” track, or whatever. Your original work- how do u go about deciding what’s off limits or not. No judgement at all, just curious about everyone’s process. Personally, I draw th…
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Anyone into do it yourself kits and stuff here? Ive had an SSL G4000 built for me and im getting a pultec next, thought as ive got some free time im going to try something myself not really bothered about modular at the moment, its outboard i want so im going to attempt a few 1176 compressors from Hairball Audio http://www.hairballaudio.com/catalog/fet-rackand keep one and sell another and try and build up from there. aim is to end up being able to build kit usually out of my price range & make a bit of money on the side while im at it, bringing joy to friends who want cheaper clones I can solder, but dont even own a multimeter yet. yes im sca…
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Hi guys, my brain doesn't handle it or lack creativity. I'm wondering about a general approach. DAW is Reaper or Studio One. I want to generally be able to make a measurement at one point/track. Let's say, the simplest, some current average volume level. Depending on the current measurement I want to control parameters, at best ANY, whichever I like. Let's say some feedback parameter of some VST plugin. What is the approach here? Some extra plugin which measures - and permanently spits out control messages? MIDI CC? Aww I did not yet or use Midi cc. Or is there something I do not see? Thx for your input
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Argeïphontes Lyre
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Okay here we go: Akira Rabelais has released several albums in the time of glitch and microsound and developed a great freeware software with a truly enigmatic interface. You can get it here: http://akirarabelais...e/software.html Scanner and Terre Thaemlitz also used it a lot in their own music. It's hard to describe what you can do with the App but it can create a very uncommon bunch of sound with some simple rules. Has somebody also worked with the Argeïphontes Lyre software and can tell me what I can use for parameters to get good results? I have used the software a lot but I would like to share experience with other users too.
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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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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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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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