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I don't care so much for the sampling aspect and the internal sounds capabilities (even they seem insanely powerful honestly), but now I started thinking about using it just as a standalone MIDI sequencer. And that because I have seen some people swear by the tracker interface being the fastest way to sequence things.
Does polyend support sending MIDI CC and PC to hardware gear? Is there anything like a MIDI arpeggiator or something like that?
I should probably just install a Renoise trial and use it to sequence - send MIDI to Live to see how it works out.
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Considering that making the VST required one of these machines for real, then I think it could cost something like $10k as well.
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I want to get rid of my Akai MPK MINI, Livid Code v2 and the Zoom b2.1 bass multi effect pedal. All of that is pretty much low end junk though, so I am not sure what is a good way to do it.
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For $600-700 I would get HS8 along with some room correction software like IK ARC 2 or the Sonarworks reference. Also get some bumpers from https://www.isolateit.com/ for acoustic decoupling.
I used HS8/HS8M for a long time before getting my current monitors (Neumann KH120A), and I like them, but I never bothered enough with room calibration and placement (equilateral triangle). Now that I have done that, everything is just so much better.
One thing to think about with the HS8 is that since the bass ports are on the back, it may be more difficult to do placement correctly - if there is a good alternative with front facing bass ports, I would consider those too.
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I took the intro from our last stream with Tubular Corporation and added some drums and a solo:
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Overdub makes no sense because this CC reset happens a long time into the project where there should be no pre-existing automation on the track. Also it's literally resetting the CC value when I have just tweaked it to a nice value and want to record a clip that's only notes.
It might be something I am missing with the different modes of arrangement automation.
Thanks for thinking along btw.
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Yeah it only usually happens when I am recording on a track for the 2nd time.
I find it absolutely ridiculous that I can have the track running and armed when I noodle around (and arrangement record is on), so I actually have tweaked the CC in question to a nice value, and the moment I hit record, it "helpfully" resets.
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Yeah the thing looks like it is some 1st year design student's project, built to order in a factory somewhere.
Might be OK if all you have is a lot of low power devices, but this really looks sketchy.
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12 minutes ago, Cryptowen said:
be careful about writing trax at 120bpm tho. it syncs up too well with clocktime, you might get too deep, have a dissociative episode, lose the ability to tell the difference between scheduling your day & making a track. next thing you know you'll be talking in polyrhythm & making emotional decisions based around how lush the pads are (never as lush as they were that first summer, unfortunately)
Yeah well joke's on you, I switched my clocks to Swatch Internet Time. Been cranking out those 120bpm-ers a long time now.
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Yeah it's super weird, I get almost no results on Google when searching for this. I wonder if discovered something unmentionable and I get disappeared soon or something.
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Sorry to hear that. It's a shame how regular people have it hard while the powers that be just focus on some mythical 'economy', while letting companies just cut people loose at their time of need.
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I admit I am not much of a manual reading person, and it is probably described somewhere inside, but I don't even know what section to look at. I need to rant about this, tomorrow I will Google (unless it is down again).
Basically my issue today is that I am messing with my project, and I have some loops going, I may have touched some CCs on my external MIDI controllers but there is no arrangement automation or no clips on the track that I am about to record a loop on.
So I arm the track and grab the drumsticks, ready to record this really sick beat I have on the Yamaha DTX12M. Before I start recording the clip in session view, I rehearse a bit and the sound and everything is nicely in place.
Then I hit the clip record button, using my trusty Boss FS-5u and it triggers nicely the clip record in Live, BUT FOR SOME REASON, Live has sent a MIDI CC setting the filter cutoff to 0 so I suddenly can't hear my sick beat as I am playing it. What is going on?!?!
This happens also sometimes when I have messed with the physical CC72 release knob on some gear and I guess Live stores this knowledge somewhere in order to reset the value to the most useless value ever - the 0.
I guess it has to do something with the automation system and how Live records the things I do.
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I feel like starting out like "yeah today I will make a dance track" is just setting myself up to fail hard.
What seems to work is starting to noodle on some melodies, and then try to drunkenly stumble on to something that might be called a dance music. I have got many unfinished tracks that I could say I would play for people to dance to. I am missing the will and skill to finish them up as dance tracks.
Also I feel there is kind of a chicken and egg problem: if I could test my tracks out on a crowd - even though this is a gross violation of the Geneva convention - I could get a better hang on how they "work" in a dance setting and also whether the crowd likes it.
On the other hand, I sort of believe a competent DJ can make a "dance track" out of something that the author never intended to be dance music. Probably E2 E4 is a good example of this. So if I was an edgy contrarian person, I could say that it's not the track's fault that people can't dance to it.
I agree with @Cryptowen in that I guess you have got to be in a dance mood in order to make dance track. It's true for all my tracks that I think are "dance" I would end up getting in the mood myself.
Probably a good trick would be to cut up and sample your tracks and then try and rebuild them in a live set context where you focus more on tension building and breakdowns. Which brings me to this video:
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Tried to apply the pomodoro method of working 25 minutes, then taking a break, in order to finish this one quickly. I guess it sort of worked even though I forgot to start the timer a couple of times.
Heavily based off the outro part of our jam session with Tubular Corporation last Tuesday (see links in my sig to find the full version).
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2 hours ago, willochill said:
Man, that epiano is magical...
Thanks. That's actually a guitar preset off Roland XV-5080. There is an epiano-wurlitzer preset doing chords in the background though.
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It looks like it would hurt like a lego if it was on the floor and you stepped on it. It would probably break too, because it is plastic.
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I feel in your situation I would just use a simple mixer (passive if possible - just to reduce cable clutter). Something like in this list https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Analog-Utility-Mixers/ci/8182/N/3992462105
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It looks like you want to have two interfaces hooked up to your computer simultaneously (or two separate computers) and you want to A/B test them.
It also looks like your monitors have matching inputs so that you can connect interface A using TRS, and connect interface B using XLR.
So I may be dumb, it seems like you can just create an aggregate audio device (natively possible in macOS, ASIO4ALL in Windows, Linux has JACK), and then set up a DAW project so that you have the same test track that is sent to both interfaces, and you toggle between muting the out that goes to interface A and B.
The only snag might be that your monitors somehow do not let you to send audio from both inputs at the same time, or that there is some gain setting that does not match (i.e. TRS always sounds more quiet than XLR or vice versa).
I think that the logical headache is that usually A/B switches are meant to switch one input around different outputs, but what you want is switching different inputs for the same output.
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Continuing these experiments with Yamah DTX12M and other stuff I have set up on my table.
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Could someone rename this thread to "Waldorf TheBrofeld"?
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Sorry, I didn't want to be a party pooper, just listened to too many podcasts about billg in the last few days.
In the end we'd use LFOs powered by blood emeralds anyway (and likely do - check out 'coltan' on wikipedia!), and by and large it is out of our hands as invididual consumption choices matter fuck all in the grand scheme of things.
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4 hours ago, sweepstakes said:
I actually like the Microsoft of the last 5 years or so. Still a megacorp that swallows smaller companies but way less creepy than Google or Amazon. Maybe even Apple.
Well yeah now that they have market dominance and lock in, they no longer have to be outright shitty - even if they are, their PR department is there to handle the problems and nobody judges the winners, right? All those multibillion companies are actively working against paying any money at all in taxes, and will help any fucked up military or authoritarian government oppress their citizens if the price is right.
So can't really like them, but got to put up with them I guess.
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Thanks for the interest and glad you liked my track(s).
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1 hour ago, snack master said:
i'm curious how you got the kinda floaty, pulsing, ethereal quality in the first part of this track. is it through the use of LFO and a delay?
really like this one, great vibes. i like the use of jazzy drums alongside synths.
For sat 26 sep, I checked my Live set and it's 3 tracks of the same instrument, 2nd pitched +19st and 3rd +31st (12+19). Each track has a Chord trigger arppegiator and a NoteModulator M4L device. On the first two tracks the notemodulator is just setting velocity of every second note to 0 - but since the arpeggiator is in chord mode (and chords are all two notes) it sometimes drops the low and sometimes the high note. Why it pulsates like that may actually be a kind of happy accident, because the midi is not 100% on the grid and every other run of the loop switches the dropped notes. Also, all those tracks are 'faded in' by Velocity modulation and the Random is set to 19 on the velocity effect.
Ah screw it I am just uploading the screenshot. Project tempo is 120bpm at 4/4.
tl;dr No LFOs, some Velocity modulation and Randomness.
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Monitors.
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