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    Cool and Frank - Sick of Symbols

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    I'm psyched to share my new EP coming out on Cabaret Recordings. It's techno that's IDMy. Cabaret is an awesome label and I'm so happy be among its many great artists. Previews below and presale links below. It's vinyl only.

    PRESALE links below and probably other places too
    JUNO https://www.juno.co.uk/products/cool-frank-sick-of-symbols-ep/882497-01/

    DEEJAY https://www.deejay.de/Cool_and_Frank_Sick_of_Symbols_EP_CABARET030_Vinyl__999495

    dead hard drive data retreival

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    Anyone have any experience with those services that get your data off a dead external hard drive? I gather the pricing can vary by the issue with the hard drive, but I just want to know if anyone can recommend a particular company / service. My friend's HD is not responding to his computer and HD has like 20+ years of music. I told him someone on this board might be able to point him in the right direction.

    the watmm GAS thread

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    20 hours ago, Thaddeus Bach said:

    Had a friend also in the same boat just before the holidays and advised they go for it. Not actually heard if they like it yet but will find out when get back to work this week. ? It’s a beast sound and build wise. Built like a tank. It’s well designed and intuitive enough to to explore without getting lost. The home button helps. I have one myself and compared it recently with the novation peak, mainly for spacey pad and string sound design duties and I prefer the hydra. It’s a wavetable synth, it has fm modes and cross modulations. Therefor It can sound very harsh very easily. It has lovely filters to subtract the edges and the filter controls are on the front panel. 

    The only minor issue I can foresee with my colleague (and possibly your friend), without several moons of synthesis techniques under their belts, it could be more alluring to preset surf which is understandable and no bad thing, but could become the way one looks at it and uses it. Again, no bad thing but it could be intimidating flicking through the sheer number of sounds if the intention is to make own stuff and control what’s going on. 

    Preset wise, They are a very mixed bag. The “init” button is always right there for instant dismissal of the shockingly bad ones. Thankfully it’s pretty easy to reverse engineer nicer patches, the ringed encoders help a bunch in finding out what going on and figuring out what is roughly where, Click on the envelope section for instance and all the encoders jump to only env params with mostly 1 or 2 pages of relevant tweaks. it’s really a musically sensible interface once you get used to it. The LFOS buttons even glow at the rate they are modulating at ? as well as the envelopes leds increasing and fading with rise and fall times etc. It’s neat and pleasing and helps digest what’s going on. 

    for the cash monies it’s a cracker in my book. The sound quality is excellent and it’s got a absolute tonne of features. Its an investment synth methinks. A good teaching tool for synthesis to begin with and a silly amount of modulation and depth  if and or when you choose to go there.  
     

    Hope some of that waffle is useful...
     

    Ps I’m not a rep for ASM ?

     

     

    22 hours ago, xox said:

    Tell yo friend to buy it; he won’t regret it! It’s a fun beast! 

    Very helpful, thank you so much for the info. i think he's more into the sound design vs. gnarly basslines so this makes a lot of sense. A lot of this stuff you can get with software for much less money. I think the allure of hardware is real tho, yeah maybe you can get the same sounds with the abelton plugins but since doing that is less fun, you're less inclined to really get into it

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    the watmm GAS thread

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    Anyone ever messed with a Hydrasynth desktop? Looks pretty complicated. A friend with little experience wants to jump up a level but i'm kind thinking this might be pretty frustrating if you were new to the game. Also, it's not a synth I've heard about a lot, so not sure if it's good quality piece of gear. looks beefy and fun but maybe a lot of manual reading before really getting into music-making part.

    https://www.ashunsoundmachines.com/hydrasynth-desk

    Dune

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    Posted · Edited by cooliofranco

    I thought the book was pretty good but man oh man this movie looooookkkssss wiccckkkeddd gooooooooodddddd.

    The battles in the book didn't seem epic; hand to hand combat is cool and all but those scenes always struck me as odd since it's all supposed to be like an INTERGALACTIC WAR. But from the clips it looks like they are capturing the cool elements of the book fights and scaling it up for bigtime movie ship blowups.

    Cool and Frank - OK Plato

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    I put up another digital EP of reverb-heavy, bassline-driven dancefloor-friendly IDMish Detroity techno on bandcamp. The default track above is very techno but I think folks around here will like the opener, "Night Gardening" better- came out very Analord / Cheetah EP. Can't seem to link to that track so you're gotta go the link above and get it from there ?

     

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    Monitors.

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    20 hours ago, diatoms said:

                                                                          I've been using two KRK RPG 2  8" monitors and KRK 10s 10" sub since 2009

    ah this is a good tip- these are in my price range and seem like they are in a tier with hs8s. thanks!

    Monitors.

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    Looking for monitors on Craigslist. Yamaha HS8 are in the right price range and sound like they are generally well reviewed. But I haven't seen any come up locally in a while (Boston area). What are the other comparable options in that price range and aren't finicky? I'm probably getting anything second hand so I don't want something super fragile.

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    the watmm GAS thread

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    2 hours ago, chim said:

     

    Why would you need patch memory on a 303 clone? "Ah yes, there's my old square sound with cutoff at 20 degrees and resonance at 75!"

     

    It's a great 303 rip if you don't mind the archaic programming. I need to open up and trim mine because the attack is kinda clicky. There's a recap mod that makes it a lot bouncier like OG's as well. 

    yeah ok i guess you're right. the programming won't be much of a problem because i'm probably going to be sending midi mostly.

    Cool and Frank - New England Science Center

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    New England Science Center

    This release of mostly analog techno jammers is pay what you want and what I get from this album I will be sending to the Ecotarium, a local science museum here in Worcester MA USA, which is closed now, and scuffling in these Covid19 times.

    For me, this makes sense. With all the shittiness in the world, this may seem like an odd choice. I'll just say this place means a lot to me and I don't want to see it diminished by the most recent urgent shittiness. I grew up going to this museum with my family and friends. I had birthday parties there. I got my first real job there in high school. Now, I bring my kids there. One of the recent arrivals, an orphaned puma, has the same name as my youngest daughter (not planned, just cosmic). I have family members that got married there.

    For you, they have a little train that you can ride that goes through a tunnel and everyone yells. They sell astronaut ice cream.

    Made with Roland TR-8S, Korg Minilogue, Arturia DrumBrute, Korg Volca Bass, Reason and Abelton.

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    Electro / techno / IDM on threads* radio

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    60MIN ACID TECHNO IDM
     

    Christina Chatfield - Ascent (@_noncompliant_ mix @aylisf), The Carry Nation - Prism (@laurenflax mix @WOStreetTrack), @Benpest - Flavor the Dave, Cool and Frank - They Won't Let You Move to the Beach, Cool and Frank - Young and High in the Beforetimes, Generation Next - October Oasis, Cool and Frank - What Broke Symmetry, Omar S - Chama Piru's, Cool and Frank - Sunscreen All Day Bugspray All Night, @E_L_L_E_S - Gotchu

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