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Waldorf Blofeld 1 2 3
by TheBro- 1 follower
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I know a lot of you have one. Am looking at getting one too when I get some extra dough so might have to wait a while ha. Anyways seems like a good bread and butter sound module. Thoughts?
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Anyone got one? Priced has dropped to £149. Looks well tasty!!! Thoughts?
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Picked up Syntorial a while back and there are free lessons packs for Serum, Sylenth and Massive amongst others. Not completely new to production/synthesis, but decided it’d be nice to learn in a nice cohesive linear fashion for once. Bread and butter up until now has been Operator and Elektrons. Going to pick one and get stuck in, any recommendations as to which synth to go for?
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I’m not a big plug in guy as you may know since I evangelize myself as such every chance I get. I’ve tried waves stuff and even have a cracked tape waves plug a friend sent me, but besides a few odds and ends (the big free ones, air windows, korg polysix), I’ve never really used a brand of plugins. I despise running authorizing software/keys etc. however, last year I saw a YouTube video by Jamie Lidell on the soundtoys little altar boy, and it was one of the best showcases of a plug-in I’ve ever seen. After seeing that, I downloaded the demo of the suite and made a bunch of tracks. It was the first time i ever felt that excited about third party plugins, and consider…
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Sorry if there's already a dedicated thread. What would you recommend ? (Online, books, subtractive, FM, everything)
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Music Computer 1 2
by xox- 39 replies
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for the last million of yrs i've been producing music on my lovely-deadly-dated desktop pc with an old intel q6600 cpu and with 4 gb of ddr2 667 mhz ram, which was great back then when those specs were the best offer but not any more, not with todays sw/plugins. i can't mix with more than just a few quality verbs or saturators... cant stand this hell any more! recently i changed the hdd to ssd but that changed only a global responsiveness of windows. soooo, im finally planing buy a new comp, also with very good specs. the thing is if you buy a comp with great specs it's gonna last for a long long time (the last one lasted arround ten yrs?). i already have some parts that…
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Black Friday Impulse Buys and the Dangerous Incomprehensibility of Electronic Currency 1 2
by T3551ER- 1 follower
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Ignore the fancy title. Mainly just thinking about how easy it is to drops loads of cash on VST's and software where, if you had to put it against a physical object, you might think twice. Question here is: Is there anything you're picking up for Black Friday that's a super steal (or that you already have, but you've noticed is a key piece of software other people should take advantage of)? I picked up NI Noire for their 50% discount sale - I had, ahem, tried it out beforehand and feel like it's my perfect piano VST - the feel of it is exactly what I want and the added bonus of the particles engine makes for some very excellent ambience. Highly recommended. …
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Got a Boss RC-505, it's awesome. However I keep running into a single thing that is driving me insane. Anyone know how to make the thing save the MIDI channel if you change it in settings? It defaults to 1 every time I turn it on (want it at 13). I change it, his write, save it to both the preset and userset. Next time I turn it on, it's back at channel 1.
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Anyone have any experience with using Logic Pro 9.1.8 on El Capitan? Checked elsewhere on the internet and heard conflicting reports, hoping someone on here has done this and whether they've experienced any issues. Currently on Yosemite so would just be upgrading as opposed to reinstalling everything.
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this is pretty crazy. All the server check ins caused mojave and catalina macs to go bananas. Yesterday my 2018 Macbook Pro on Mojave froze, glitched, stuttered. It became unusable. I did all the usual fixes and got fed up and eventually booted into safe mode and reinstalled Mojave. That fixed all the issues but WTF apple?? what as hit show. the backend verification notarization server check ins really dropped a deuce in the punchbowl. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/macos-big-sur-launch-appears-to-cause-temporary-slowdown-in-even-non-big-sur-macs/
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Hello amazing people. So I'm investing in a new interface and a new desktop PC which I'm hoping to put a thunderbolt card into to so I can use the latest interfaces with thunderbolt. I've narrowed down thunderbolt choices to these. I'm still looking at USB2/USB3 options too but I thought I'd look at these first as the ideal options. I suppose I don't know if it's totally worth the investment. 1 - Focusrite Clarett 8 Pre - 8 ins/10 outs. - £700 2 - Motu 828x thunderbolt and USB2 audio interface - 10ins/12 outs. - £688.80 3 - presonus quantum 2626 thunderbolt 3 audio interface. - 8ins/14 outs. - £462 Basically I'm intending to buy an inter…
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After a long deliberation I've decided to stay with ableton live and abandon my hopes of an all hardware setup. I have some extra money I'm thinking get a new cartridge for the extra turntable for sampling Also maybe a zoom recorder I have nice headphones and speakers already...
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Anybody using KOMPLETE? Is 13 worth getting?
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I'm surprised there is no mention of this on the forum at all.. Anyone got one? I'm pretty keen to get one after seeing this video: Seems like it could be set up in a way to sync my OP-1 with nanoloop, pocket operators etc. Plus, being able to load/edit PD patches on the device seems like it could be like a super version of a Nord Micro Modular or something..?
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Splice is giving away Ableton Live 10 Lite edition for free until the end of this year: https://splice.com/daws/38929163-live-10-lite-vst-by-ableton I think you may have to register with Splice to get it, not sure, but might be useful for someone who doesn't have Live already and wants to check out the basics.
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Have had this riff stuck in my head for a while now, and pretty sure it is something UK/Early 90s. Maybe Warp. Just lashed it out on Operator there but it's fairly close. Any clues hugely appreciated! Untitled.wav
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Howya lads, was thinking about pulling the trigger on a purchase of Reaktor 6 but have a few questions if you don't mind. For a start I have a few other NI plugins which may not be the most legitimate but I'm wondering would a purchase of another NI plugin have any effect on their functionality? Also, is it worth the $200 price tag or should I wait for a sale? If so, how often does the price come down? Thank you all!
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First of all, great mixer. Only 1 problem : When I change the time when the Flanger effect is open, it restarts its cycle. Very annoying. With the Pioneer EFX or the Ecler NUO5 effects the cycle continued while changing the length. Anybody knows maybe if you can customise it? Providing me with the correct technical methodology would also help me. Thanks.
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I have two things going around in my projects recently: The "Track 2" mystery. 2 identical MIDI tracks, with Arpeggiator, NoteModulator M4L device, then a MIDI rack with 6 Chord devices so I can run an arp and add some harmonic notes by fading up the rack knobs. The first track works as I expect it to: notes go in and go out to the hardware. There are no duplicate notes due to NoteModulator or any of the Chord instances. The 2nd track is outputting 6x noteon-noteoff for as it should (I assume one copy for each chord instance chain). In fact I notice that I have set up the MIDI rack in a stupid way so it actually does multiply the notes, but in this case why do…
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i think with this latest video this unit is worthy of it's own thread. an hour long preproduction demo of just the in board music/sequencing capabilities of the unit. it doesn't cover unity video, dmx light, or external gear sequencing. holy shit this thing is going to be a dick load of fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuzMG1Wt_pE
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https://fors.fm/Superberry this is badass. From Felisha Ledesma and Ess Mattisson (digitone, cycles).
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https://dubreq.com/product/stylophone-gen-x-1/
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On paper this is a great effect. It’s actually 2 effects, has 4 parameter for each one, and has chorus, tri chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo and vibrato. i found a used one and have been running the cycles through it, and it sounds great, but recently I noticed a hi pitched ring coming from the pedal. I noticed a lot more when I switched it from a master insert effect to a mono insert on one channel. It varies depending on the algorithm, but once you hear it it’s impossible to unhear. a few possibilities: 1. It’s a bad unit 2. there’s a problem with using it with line level signals (but I have other tc effects with no problems) and I need some kind of …
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https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2020/10/20/novation-aphex-twin-intro-limited-edition-afx-station/
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Yamaha Reface 1 2 3 4 12
by Audioblysk- 277 replies
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So yamaha is putting something out. It's either gonna be a fun new take on analog/digital or it's going to be a (sigh) answer to the roland system-1 with the controller/VST combo... My money is on a digital recreation of the CS-80. So basically something that everyone wants, in a format that nobody wants that lacks voltage. I do understand that analog synths are not cheap to produce, but that's the reason they sound so good, is because of all the work that went into making them and pushing technology to its limit in the physical realm. Either way, discuss. Hopefully it's interesting. If I can hear quantizing in a filter sweep from it I will personally shoot the mo…
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