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I think you all should read the official guide on how to make IDM music https://www.wikihow.com/Make-IDM-Music
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so, sweepstakes, modey, whoever. tell me about it. i'm dumb. like it? is it difficult? how's ORCA on it? how's other shit for it, can a doofus like me load stuff on it and modify scripts to my own liking?
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Years back, I used a cracked version of Live for a lot of my music, and while I'm mostly comfortable with Reaper and VSTs now, the one effect I really miss is Ableton's Resonator, particularly applied to field recordings to give them rich tonality and a dub-techno feel. So... can anyone recommend any VSTs that do the same thing? Don't really want to spend £350 on Ableton just for one effect (nor can I afford to), but I'm happy to splash out for a single VST at a sensible price. Or free, y'know. Free is always good. Any recs?
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Potentially nub question. I tend to just browse to buy on bandcamp, and spend more time on other platforms for streaming. Tho curious about other people's habits.
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https://www.arturia.com/store From Engadget:
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Executive summary: a weird shady company - that is kind of connected with Spotify - is putting music on Spotify with artists that don't really exist - those artists have millions of streams and show up on official playlists. End result is that "real" artists end up getting less payout from Spotify because of how the $$$ per one stream is calculated.
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Am I the only one with a brow to the ceiling over this?
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So I'll try to keep this succint. I have a early 2000s era PC with Windows XP I inherited and want to make music with it. Since I'll be mostly be doing plunderphonics oriented loop and beat scene stuff, mostly using old tape decks and players, so I don't need anything fancy. I had a copy of Ableton I got second hand but never did much with it. I had garage band and Rebirth in the past but using those is not an option. I want to try to minimize my setup and stick with familiarity which includes using my Tascam TL-122S So I'm looking for the following immediately: - An equivalent to this as an audio interface: Tascam Us-122l USB 2.0 Audio/MIDI Computer Interface…
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https://freesound.org/people/pitx/sounds/16671/ I have been wanting to make this thread a long time, today I finally found the perfect sound.
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super easy to do. just DL and make a folder in your plug ins folder w/the correct name. empty the contents of the DL into that folder. much more pleasing dark scheme is nnnniiiiiice
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Hey all is anyone using it? I want to know how to cut up breaks in it. Apparently it's like Pro Tracker on the Amiga. There's only a very simple manual online. Thanks in advance!
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Korg Reissues Classic miniKORG 700 Synthesizer – Synthtopia New Korg modWave Wavetable Synthesizer ‘A Synthesis Powerhouse’ – Synthtopia
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During the past year I have found it really useful to have a bunch of tricks to generate a melody out of some random numbers generated by my friendly computer. It's nice for kickstarting inspiration and also for just discovering new melodies and rhythms that you otherwise would not have figured out. Here's a plugin I made this week out of Live built in MIDI stuff. https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7329u4qhugs7et/Mondo Generator.adg?dl=0 And here's the track I made with it:
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Do you ever feel that girls get more attention when they make music than us guys? I'm not hating but I just feel its unfair and kinda shallow. My view is if you're talented you deserve the proper attention / respect and if you're not then I guess you don't. What do you lot of think? I just got cheesed off because a girl put up a track on Facebook page that I'm part of and it garnered tonnes of attention / listens where as when I put something up about an hour later no one listened to it. Seems kinda unfair. Anyways that's just my 2 cents. Hope you all have a great new year. Blessings from The Bro.
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So, I'm curious about how people organize their work. I've been organizing all my files by month. Every month gest a new folder. Do you organize by style? until you hit a track limit? A theme? How does one deside that a certain collection gets published? I'm curious.
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Anyone have any ideas? I know he was using roland r8 with "dance" card....but its a weird sound i've never heard before. Sounds like cymbals, maybe 808 ride.....but also like a guiro? i'm stumped
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I find that stress is generally my default mood, especially when trying to get myself into the studio. Once I'm in the groove, I usually start to have a good time and hours will fly by (especially if I don't immediately hate what I'm working on Lately I try to tell myself to have no expectations and just have fun in order to get in the right mind frame before starting on the work. This has been helping, but it's definitely a case of talking myself out of my "normal" mode - which is stress and a fear of failure. This isn't how it used to be when I started making music 20-some-odd years ago. I want to somehow get back to that natural feeling of excitement and wond…
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Hi all, @Nil‘s post in the GAS thread got me wondering: which reverb plugins / hardware are guys using? Both for weirdness and for bread and butter? (there’s once again some money in my music making fund and maybe an upgrade to Ableton’s built in reverb is in order, hence the question) For me it’s a spring tank for the lolz and Ableton reverb for bread and butter (and the free TAL plug-ins for when I’m using Renoise). I also have some Lexington impulse responses but I’m too lazy to use them. Surely there’s something better. Thoughts?
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edit: it's back for 2018! I remember a few people here joined in on the WB fun back in 2014, so I thought I'd post about it again since it's back again for 2016. Who's in? I'm hoping to use it as a way to get more familiar with the new hardware I've acquired over the past year or so, and to build up some good patterns on my monomachine for live gigs. http://weeklybeats.com/
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Just bought a Roland JV1080 :O 1 2
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Just bought a Roland JV 1080. Just start playing a few of the presets and this thing sounds very nice. Lots of editing ability so this will make a welcome addition to my set up! Any users out there?
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Possibly the most current image we have (from 2011 sonar promotion article) this is a pretty old picture. I see a 2 keyboards one looks like an MS-20, some very large speakers and something that looks like atari? What else? What era is that from? SAW period? later? earlier? This is where I took it from: This shines more light on the blurry image (thx ZoeB): This is also pretty well known:
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Honestly never tried. I have a feeling that a fast bpm catchy track is just as hard to write as a more experimental cerebral track... It takes more than 4/4 beat, it has to maintain that energy hmmmm Anyone have experience writing dance stuff or more poppy electronic? It's worth a shot I guess, I usually just write stuff without any particular influence and it usually turns into ambient techno. So yeah just wondering if you guys ever take breaks from writing weird shit and do other stuff?
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Any users here on the forum? Has some very nice pads. I had a decent play with it yesterday. Its a big old synth well biggest synth I've ever owned!! Anyways check out some videos of me playing it badly ha ha. One thing I noticed is that nothing seemed to change when using the joystick or am I missing something??? :0 https://www.instagram.com/p/BzVK6pBl66X/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/BzVfPijF0Y1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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I admit I am not much of a manual reading person, and it is probably described somewhere inside, but I don't even know what section to look at. I need to rant about this, tomorrow I will Google (unless it is down again). Basically my issue today is that I am messing with my project, and I have some loops going, I may have touched some CCs on my external MIDI controllers but there is no arrangement automation or no clips on the track that I am about to record a loop on. So I arm the track and grab the drumsticks, ready to record this really sick beat I have on the Yamaha DTX12M. Before I start recording the clip in session view, I rehearse a bit and the sound and…
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Okay so I'm feeling a bit dumb right now. I've got a pair of monitors that can take balanced audio via TRS or XLR. I would like to connect two interfaces to them and A/B between the two (there is no real need to mix). One interface does balanced out via a pair of TRS outputs exclusively, the other only does balanced over two XLR outs. What I've been trying to search for is either a switch that could take both the 2xTRS and 2xXLR inputs directly, or two pairs of the same type (I'm assuming I can always use adapter cables for one of the interfaces). And then it should have a pair of TRS or XLR outputs to connect my monitors. I feel like a simple passive …
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