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    Untilted

    in Autechre

    Posted

    What! The Draft 7.30 artwork is a masterpiece. The post-Exai tDR stuff pales in comparison imo (and I'm a tDR fanboy).

    Also, the Untilted typography works for me, the cap height of the smaller type matches the x height of the larger type. 

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    TidalCycles

    in EKT General Discussion

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    I attended an Algorave workshop (which used TidalCycles) at a video game music composers' convention last weekend, and it got me motivated enough to finally actually install it and give it a go. I think a few people in Melbourne are going to start a live coding club as well, which should be nice ?

    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    Great points, thanks everyone. I think perhaps I'm letting it get to me a bit too much; I ended up creating something today that I'm very happy with (little snippit here), which probably could be stripped down a bit more, but actually reflects what @Nil said above re: empty spaces / incomplete melodies. Keeping my Digitone tracks a bit more sparse, rather than feeling like I need to balance each page of the sequencer with the others. I think it's a bit more difficult with the Digitone as it's practically begging to be used for lush melodies. Having said that, I've had some luck with "unwinding" a busy melody by setting trig conditions to various parts of it, ensuring it never gets a chance to play in full. 

    I am also working on collabs, actually had a very Terminator 2 meets Metroid Prime soundtrack jam with a friend the other day ? should be editing that down soon. And have been talking to another friend about starting a 2x nord modular (or nord + octatrack) project, which will be interesting!

    Anyway, a bit off topic for the GAS thread (I'm sure there was a thread about what I'm talking about here a while ago?).. but to bring it back home, I'm getting kinda tempted to pick up one of the Intellijel Palette cases, and strip my eurorack setup right back to a few modules—maybe have more than will fit in the case, but switch things out for various minimal setups—tbh I got more out of eurorack when I was trying to push a small amount of modules to their limits. May be a phase, but selling a few things could help me get to superbooth next year (a vague fantasy!).

    I think the OP-Z is gonna go too. I like it but the double triggering is doing my head in. That said, they seem to be hard to sell, there's been one on facebook marketplace for weeks, at about 70% of the new price. 

    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by modey

    On 9/8/2019 at 7:44 AM, Stickfigger said:

    Modey , most things from you I've loved so unless you have drastically changed what you're doing your melodic crisis is just unnecessary second guessing .

    Ahh, thanks m8. I think my problem is that I have peers and influences who have styles which seem "cooler" than mine, like they have an ear for minimalism and seem to naturally be able to make music that's really stripped down yet still very engaging. I always gravitate towards spacey, dramatic chord progressions, and find I have to force myself to be more minimal, if that makes sense? Maybe I need to just make things as I usually do, but then try to minimise them as much as possible, haha. I'm never 100% happy with my own style, I always have an underlying sense of my music being a bit cheesy, even when I don't intend for it to be.

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    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by modey

    Just watched Cuckoo's Chipsynth MD video, sounds great!

    There's also Deflemask for those who are into trackers, which has the added bonus of being able to export a ROM for the MD to play natively. It also supports a bunch of other consoles, and is free!

    Also, not really getting the Digitone hate, every time I turn mine on I'm inspired to make some unique sounds. I'm not always productive in a musical sense with it (I'm having an unrelated melodic crisis at the moment where I feel like all of my melodies/progressions sound too cheesy, and the Digitone kinda pushes me to make melodic music), but for me it's an amazing sound design tool. Then again, I'm a bit of an Elektron fanboy so it's probably not a surprise lol

    nanoloop megathread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    Yeah I'm not concerned at all. I'm fine with him taking some time to get things right, I'm eagerly awaiting it but if waiting a bit longer means we'll eventually get a device that looks and feels good, it'll be worth it. I remember nanoloop mono taking quite some time to get from prototypes to final product. 

    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    10 hours ago, xox said:

    which one...  white or black?

    The black one.. I would have rather got the white version, but I can't be bothered waiting lol

    9 hours ago, Stickfigger said:

    Single handedly pulling Aus retail out of recession , thank you good man 

    haha! I pretty much only order from Australian retailers, apart from a few Eurorack kits I've put together recently. When you start adding GST and ridiculous postage costs, it really doesn't make sense to order from overseas anymore. I used to order from the ms_tokyo ebay store quite often but their prices aren't that great anymore, especially when combined with postage.

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    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    10 hours ago, spptrl alt del said:

    I'm sure the MD has been discussed to death, just wondering if anybody would mind sharing their thoughts / opinions, etc..?

    I only had one for a short amount of time before selling it to get an Octatrack, but the sound of it is great. The kicks can get really huge / heavy / deep, but it's also capable of getting pretty lo-fi and dirty if that's your thing. I'd say a downside of it is that the sequencer is pretty basic compared to later Elektron gear, with no microtiming, conditional trigs or individual track lengths. However, since you've got a Eurorack setup, you can actually assign the inputs as trigger inputs for two tracks, which helps get away from the otherwise rigid sequencing. From what I remember, it can trigger pretty quickly as well, so you can get into weird territory easily.

    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    9 hours ago, flacid said:

    What are your favourite/best sounding modular oscillators 

    I like STO. Pretty basic but it sounds nice. I'm also considering swapping my Elements for a Plaits or Braids (or maybe just Rings for the pseudo-polyphony).

    5 hours ago, user said:

    Just installed a μO_C in my rack. Wasn't really planning on it but turns out there's someone in my area building them and was selling for a good price, great build too. It's even deeper than I anticipated, on the other hand it's easy to get something started after cursory manual reading. It's amazing how many avenues it opens up and how many cables and attenuverters it eats up ?

    Oh nice! I'm always tempted by O_C when it comes up in sale groups, but I think two menu-divey modules are enough for my small setup.

    Metal Appreciation Thread!

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    On 5/28/2019 at 11:44 AM, Stickfigger said:

    the vox verge on Patton worship at times

    I've noticed this in DEP ever since Miss Machine tbh; it's clear that Puciato is a fan. Not a bad thing of course!

    On 5/28/2019 at 11:25 PM, QQQ said:

    Azusa

    holy fuck that logo is giving me a design boner

    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    2 hours ago, user said:

    Ended up with a pico quant, very happy.. The glide and tolerance knobs are a nice touch plus it has the ability to have scales (including microtonal scales) uploaded via its clock in. Also added a pico rnd, right now I'm mostly using its s&h output to feed to the quant, mostly.

    Nice! I'm somewhat tempted to get a couple of those pico modules, just because they seem to be a decent price for what you get. But.. I'm determined to build some stuff of my own.

    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    6 hours ago, user said:

    Have you used any of the quantizer algs on the disting? How would you compare it to the 2hp tune?

    I haven't tried the quant yet actually! I'm mostly using the disting for wavetable/sample playback at the moment. The 2hp tune is alright, but pretty limited. I haven't noticed any weirdness with it yet.

    The disting is great though. I could imagine having two in my rack at some point. Multipurpose modules are great imo. It'd be interesting making a mini 42hp rack with 3x warps (w/parasite firmware) and 3x disting lol.

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    The Big Ol' Renoise Thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    On 5/22/2019 at 12:20 PM, Entorwellian said:

    I don't know of a single person who has used Redux, let alone purchased it.

    I bought it but I've never even tried it. I thought I'd use it for my next prog album, so I bought it and a Kontakt drumkit at around the same time, but ended up getting way too much into live stuff using hardware to even think about making any more prog. One of these days..

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