modey

New Torche is always welcome

coming up to the seven year anniversary of this thread

singulærity

The more I think about building my own, but the more I realize I know absolutely nothing about mechanical engineering. The beaters are basically little pistons though. If you can figure out how to get a low power piston working with MIDI, that may be an adequate solution. Let's take this opportunity to reverse engineer this thing. Yeah I think the value in it is that it's super fast and strong; I think there was a video of it triggering at audio rate, which apparently isn't easy/possible with regular solenoids? Much like you, I don't know anything about the mechanics behind it! Over the next few weeks I'm going to try to put some effort into making some kind of arduino based MIDI -> voltage trigger device so I can possibly connect solenoids/stepper motors/etc., hopefully at least make a start on it.

I actually think they're working towards a way to generate music forever tbh

I played the GR-1 in Berlin last month and it sounded lush as fuck, but I couldn't figure out how to load any other samples so I didn't get a good grasp on the capabilities. Build quality seemed pretty good to me. .. I was ultimately distracted by the LYRA-8 though, which I will have to pick up at some point, for sure.

Damn that sucks. It seems like a great idea though. I wonder how much it'd cost to build one myself. I'm very interested in something like that, but not "$500 each" interested.. edit: if anyone has any good DIY solutions for MIDI-controlled mechanical percussion please post here!

SNDrea bocelli collab pls or SNDrea BOCelli

I'm getting a small bonus at work, and obviously I'm looking at music gear to buy with it rather than putting it into savings etc. I keep thinking of an MPC1000, even though I really don't know if I'd get along with the workflow.. can anyone vouch for it? I can't seem to find many non-hiphop videos of it..

yeah this, huge inspiration for my 0F stuff even when it isn't obvious. Atavism single handedly made me pay more attention to sound design in general. I really admire SND/Fell's discipline/dedication to a very specific sound. I find it impressive that they can focus so much, it's such pure minimalism. Even to the point where I almost can't tell the difference between their first albums; they're like "planes" (or plains?) of ambience and micro percussion that kinda blend into each other. That sounds like criticism, but it really isn't. Perhaps though, I just haven't listened to them as much as I should (preferring Atavism most of the time).. also lol, just tried looking them up on spotify:

Yeah there was a lot of really mediocre pop music in the late 90s.. but then again that's true of every era. The difference is that (seemingly) a lot of us lived through it.. but still, the fact that I even got to see Metallica and Prodigy clips on mainstream TV was pretty amazing. Just those two alone informed a lot of my future musical tastes.

Yeah that's my most played album of theirs. I also quite like Magma, but really need to give the other albums more time as well. They're so good!

Gah, yeah I need more recent metal. I've been stuck in a rut of listening to mostly Metallica over the past few weeks because I'm going through some work related issues and have been feeling too shitty to listen to much else for some reason. That Mithras album kicked me into gear a bit though! Also I need to keep listening to Gojira, so fkn good.

This is really doing it for me, I love how dynamic it is. So well mixed/engineered!

Soulfly's later stuff got kinda thrashy, worth a listen if you've skipped it. But yeah I agree, CC is amazing. I think I even like it more than Max era Sepultura..

lol I loved both of those albums as a teenager. Both bands ended up releasing much better music later on though! (and in Machine Head's case, before that album as well).

I kinda like Sevendust, but ever since the Lost In Vegas guys pointed out that they sound a bit watered down/mainstream compared to other metal bands, I'm now very wary of that and can't hear them any other way lol

Yeah I think so.. I think the stage makeup was a major reason why they were lumped in with nu-metal tbh.. at least it's a reason why a lot of my friends don't take them seriously.

Yeah, some of the tracks on LD50 bordered on prog-metal. Lots of different sections, tempo changes, odd time signatures etc.. and then there's the almost fusion-style bass playing.. Their second album was pretty good too imo.. that riff at 3:27 is

finally someone agrees

I've made my first sample pack for the OP-Z, consisting of some noisy textural stuff from a 0-Coast; raw textures for shaping with the filter/envelope/effects. It's $5 but there's a link to a free, cut-down pack as well. https://gumroad.com/l/eqxDw

lol nice try but New Zealand ≠ Australia

fkn cool I wish something like this would happen in Australia. Australian indigenous dreamtime stories would be awesome subject matter for metal.

if someone can crowdfund a nord g2 and mpc1000 for me I'll try to do a faithful recreation

I'm getting some nice weird sounds out of this. It's almost a complete cacophony at the moment though, because I'm trying to exploit all of the automation, and also figuring out what I *can't* do with it, such as automate the arpeggio speed, and a few other parameters. I did end up settling into a nice industrial tech beat today though, which may turn into something interesting. I love how certain tracks can be excluded from the tape track and master track, and that the tape track can be further sent to the effects tracks. I'm sure that'd have to open it up to the possibility of some interesting feedback happening.. At first, almost every time I play with it, my tracks just sound like early 00s Nautilis or something.. which is not by any means a bad thing, but it's just funny how I fall into that pretty much every time. It gets weird quickly though when applying odd-length tape / performance / master chord tracks though. I've also encountered some bugs that are difficult to replicate. The most annoying one is that sometimes the buttons will double trigger, which means sometimes when trying to copy a trig, it instead just turns it off and on again super quickly, as well as some other things. It's often hard to tell what's happening because I don't see the LED under my finger.