thawkins
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Boy I am sure glad not to have the attention span to watch 40 minutes of gear review.
Might do it over the lunch break though..
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Edited the intro of last week's jam session with fellow WATMM poster Tubular Corporation.
Yeah I should edit this a bunch more, I had a moderate headache while mixing this and I just wanted to get over it really.
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For some reason I think I would pick the Axoloti Core actually. It really depends whether I want quick hands on results or I want something where sky is the limit.
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If you want to make it a longer track, then you could also expand the last section and then add a final one which combines some parts from the 1st with the last section?
Anyway I like the sounds and the production seems nice and neat to me too.
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Feeling happy about this. Maybe I even managed to make an interesting bassline.
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On 2/10/2021 at 1:01 AM, sTeh B L said:
I checked out 2021.02.02 and thought it was pretty soothing. Though, I would have liked some variation on the bass/chord progression.
Thanks. Yeah, working on that variation part. I get stuck in my loops hard and then I don't ever want anything to change, so the end result is 20 minutes of the same riff and I am the only person in the world who likes to listen to this.
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Just now, QQQ said:
i'm not able to update without buying a new copy of logic, and £200 is a bit much for a bug fix that might not actually work. it definitelty sounds like he's had the same issue though.
the size issue is definitely real rather than a false representation (like people have mentioned in those threads), my mac keeps running out of storage space and chugging until i sort these files.
cheers for everyone's suggestions so far.
You can try out the trial version of the new Logic to see if it fixes your issue, no?
1 minute ago, mcbpete said:Well that's why I'm thinking it's probably the same bug - For some reason Logic is writing to the FAT (or whatever the equivalent is on a MAC) that each media item is the maximum file size that this file-type can be rather than the *actual* file size
Yeah this sounds logical.
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I would not focus too much on 4.26GB because that is also eerily close to maximum WAV file size (4 GiB - 4.29GB).
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Some ideas I found here:
https://www.gearslutz.com/board/apple-logic-pro/1218190-logic-pro-project-file-size.html
From the first discussion the posted updated their Logic version and this fixed the issue. Maybe you have something similar or at least get some inspiration.
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What is this thread's opinion on class compliant interfaces (both audio and MIDI)?
Asking because the transition to M1 Macs and incompatible driver hell is looming for many macOS fans and I have had some questionable experiences recently with drivers and all.
Is having class compliant stuff an answer to that? Are there class compliant interfaces that let you chain other interfaces through optical link?
How about MIDI and gear like this? https://www.thomann.de/intl/miditech_midiface_8x8.htm
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2 hours ago, psn said:
Yeah, harder to fall into a consumerist trap with Max.
Those Macbooks and Monomes are not going to buy themselves, though. Also it is mandatory that you paint all your walls white, get untreated wood furniture and hire Ableton Certified Studio Interior Decorators to help get your audio-hovel together.
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1 hour ago, auxien said:
Right, so if I want to find music that sounds like Aphex Twin (I assume the art is from him), I am not going to find it by googling "disklavier music". Frank Zappa played a Gibson SG, but if I search for "tracks featuring Gibson SG" I have to wade through an immense amount of music that is not Frank Zappa to get to him.
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There is probably more teaching material out there for Max than Pure Data, but aside from that you should be able to achieve the same things in both.
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In my experience Max and Pure Data both - when used standalone - are mostly meant for interactive sound installations and really experimental stuff. Sometimes it is new and exciting, but often times it is boring and sounds like a refrigerator compressor engine having a shroom trip. I.e. I am an asshole but I will say I wish people making "experimental" stuff with Max/PD would set the bar a lot higher sometimes.
That said, I wish I got a job doing those installations though..
Time to go refresh IRCAM jobs pages again I guess.
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1 hour ago, cern said:
Good someone know what they talking about.
Looking forward to see all your max creations here
IMO looking for "music made with $THING" (where $THING is modular, tube amps, pure data, max, dawless whatever), is going to be always disappointing, because then you are selecting for music that otherwise sucks so fucking bad that the author or whoever has to specifically mention that "hey I made this with $THING!!!".
It's technically interesting to see the results yes, but in the end I am looking for engaging music, and I don't care if the guy used a retro mellotron loaded with microtonal farts sampled off Benny Hill or "just sampled" another guy who used a retro mellotron loaded with microtonal farts sampled off Benny Hill.
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I didn't know Bandcamp did loudness normalization, but I guess this makes sense.
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7 hours ago, cern said:
But if you have Ableton and M4L you can not run max as standalone or what?
And if you have max as standalone you can not use it as a M4L device or what?
Seems pretty bad..I don't want to run Max standalone.
Here's the thing - I have spent 2-3 years pairing Pure Data to Ableton Live and yes it works, and you can do a lot of things. I have had a lot of fun and made some cool tracks with this combo.
The problem for me is that I started to have a lot of projects and I wanted to have an organization where I have everything in the Live project, so I when I want to finish an idea from 3 years ago, I can just boot it up and I don't have to figure out what Pure Data patch I had somewhere that did an important thing. By moving those things into M4L devices I can sort of achieve that.
Yeah I know I could use Git version control to store my Pure Data history and come back to it when I need to, but fuck I do this all day at work and music stuff is not the place I want to deal with this.
That's just my workflow - I want to use Pure Data/M4L to generate MIDI and use Live (or another DAW) to record that and turn it into sound using VSTs or external hardware.
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5 minutes ago, Nil said:
@thawkins Tidal can also output 14bit MIDI CC, which is vastly more precise but might overload any virtual MIDI bus (used to pipe out MIDI from Tidal / SuperCollider to Live). Now, Live (and M4L) uses built-in automation protocol, which is super smooth with an amazing resolution. Of course it's not mandatory in all situation, but it can make a world of difference for sound design (and mixing).
I guess this depends on how much CC are you going to push per second. Ideally this is limited by how much Live can handle, because your CPU should be able to take gigabytes of communication traffic between applications without breaking a sweat. It also matters a little bit if you really want to use all 14 bits of accuracy (16384) or whether 4000 is enough (11bits).
I guess what I am saying is that this sounds like an interesting programming thing to work on. I only wish I had the time and energy to do that aside from my day job...
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Incredibly happy to share with you all, a collection of relaxing ambient-krautrock tracks that are the result of a spontaneous collaboration with Berlin-based UFO Hawaii.
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5 minutes ago, xox said:
Pure data is so ugly that I couldn’t connect two objects before losing my sight!
So is it true that when you go blind, you start making better mixes?
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9 hours ago, QQQ said:
i switched over from múm to listen to 21.01.21, 21.02.22, and 21.01.14 while having a morning cigarette on my balcony and watching snow fall. they carried the vibe nicely, enjoyed them a lot.
Thanks, really happy to hear you enjoyed it. Probably some of those tracks have been made when snow is falling outside, even though it does not stick around so much here in Paris. I have to say a lot of the tracks I make recently are a kind of tranquilizer - calm and meditative stuff to settle nerves on edge. At least it has that effect on me.
By the way, I came here to post about a new EP release featuring some tracks from a collaboration last year.
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3 minutes ago, Nil said:
Exactly, just for modulations / automations though. Believe me, I've tried !
Yet I haven't found something reliable / consistent enough. Tidal is fantastic for steppy CC automation, or cycle-long mod patterns, and super fun. For long automations, or smooth fades etc... it's a whole different story.
For this case I have found that it is a great starting point just to write in Tidal something that you wished that would work, and then figure out how to align the technological stars so that it actually does.
I.e. if you want a smooth long fade in, then could you combine a "steppy CC automation" that is just a looot of small steps in a long pattern. After all if it is MIDI, it's only 127 discrete values and if you only send a message if it changes, it is not really spamming the engine or anything like that.
Sorry, this stuff is suddenly very interesting for me, because it's a technical programming problem and all that.
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5 minutes ago, Nil said:
Max seamless integration to Live makes it much interesting to me.
Yeah I tried this thing called Camomile to use Pure Data with Live and it was much more painful to do than use M4L. That said, I like Pure Data slightly more, just because it is raw and fun to build things from scratch with. I haven't really used it in the recent months though..
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if you had to pick just ONE budget synth?
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I feel like the MicroKorg is a really neat little package that has a lot of cool features and I have had many cool jams along with some friends just playing the thing. It's probably one of the most versatile and accessible entry synths so yeah no surprise many people who don't know jack shit and want to get a first synth end up getting it.
If you want to toss a piece of gear just because a bunch of pretentious wanks took a pic of it and posted it online, let me know when I can come and pick up your modulars, Moogs and Prophets.