modey

Ha, Ehsan's a fkn genius. He's also in a super great space prog band: Serious chops. A real keys player, and it really shows, even in his sequenced stuff.

You only really need the lightning to USB dongle, but yeah I'm not sure if I can be bothered connecting an audio interface to my phone yet. Maybe if some friends of mine join. It'd be great to record acoustic instruments into it though.

Kneel Young

Yeah it was in beta for years. I never got an invite, I guess because I never got anyone else to sign up ? Anyway, I downloaded this last night, it's pretty fun. The public jams are a cacophony as expected, but private jams can be created and shared. I'm keen to get some friends involved and work on some loopy stuff together. Shame it's iOS only at the moment; I'm on iOS but a lot of my friends aren't.

Lesston Domotnick

I think it's 3-voice paraphonic.

Seriously, Nord Lead 1 or 2 (or their rack equivalents) are amazing VA synths, can get nice and warm sounding with the right reverb, and also into weirder territory with the FM (and ringmod on the NL2). Plus there's the hidden Pelle's mode if you want to get really weird. edit: not sure why people are facepalming my original post. I bought a Nord Lead a few years back for $400 in useless Australian money, that's probably like £100 or something.

Nord Lead for sure.

Get it ? It's definitely a fun and quick way to get into making stuff again.

Also known as Piggy Tracker.. I should have mentioned! https://www.littlegptracker.com/

I think Trash80's one looks promising, as it's based on lsdj to an extent. He invented the "prosound" mod for gameboy, and the arduinoboy + associated lsdj code mods for midi control, so he knows his shit.

More precision, or at least precision is at the forefront. And depending on who you talk to, more focus on maximising sequences; have a look at early 90s Amiga modules and there are a lot of tricks used to make it sound like there are more channels than the four that were available. Elektron sequencers were basically inspired by trackers, which have had the equivalent of parameter locks since the beginning. oof, you best not be dissing my boy richie* (* I don't know him personally, but I admire his sound design work, and he's just an all round wholesome guy)

Yeah the reason why a tracker workflow works for me is that it's very fast with a keyboard. Then again, people love using LSDJ/LGPT etc on game consoles..

Trash80 is working on a hardware tracker as well, but in a smaller format. Sounds fkn great though.. looks like it has mechanical keyboard buttons on it too! https://www.instagram.com/p/B9isKjUnL2b/?igshid=l0gjagmkl3rl

I'm keen to see what they've done in terms of performance features, as most trackers are pretty lacking in that department. Renoise has a few things, but is still a bit rigid. I did get some interesting performances out of Buzz though, as the pattern format itself was quite modular, I'm wondering if Polyend will do something similar.

circuit bend it

I have an OP-1 again, couldn't resist. I sold the last one just before the voltage engine and arp were added; they're so good!

oh so edgy

I hate watmm

Yeah, I think this is what I came to realise after I made that metal album. My instrumental production skills are way higher than my singing ability / vocal production skills. Sadly though, the only way to get past that mismatch is to make music with mediocre vocals for a while until I get better at it.

3 hours of pattern building that I streamed a few hours ago.. I knew this thing was versatile but damn, I really discovered tons of tricks today.

I've used my vocals in the past (my last Pselodux album had me attempting metal vocals, which may have been a bit of a mistake; the vocoder parts turned out well though). I'd love to get better at singing though, as all of the good vocalists I know are good producers already, so i don't know what I'd bring to the table in a collaboration. I really want to write a shameless 80s synthpop album, as that's where my vocal range naturally falls—that lower register new romantic/goth style ?

I go through phases. I actually kinda want to have a go at proper composition again soon, as I've learned a lot about chord to progressions since the last prog album I made. I don't do piano rolls though, I've always felt more at home with a tracker.

I'm biased, but I think the M:C would fit right in to a setup like that. Proudly digital synthesis among analog is pretty braindance, right?

thx m8 ?I haven't watched any demos yet, but there's a video that runs through all of the preset patterns (they used 4 of mine!! I'm so happy), and it's really interesting to see how versatile it is depending on who's using it. I'm gonna try to get weird with it. That said though, my next video will probably be using it with the Monomachine—I paired them the other night and made some super deep space electro stuff. It also gets pretty dirty and distorted once you start pushing the levels up; I need to exploit that. I haven't tried external sequencing yet, but I'm sure it's just mono, as the "chord" setting is just a parameter, and controls a cluster of oscillators, like the chord mode on Plaits.