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  1. Himelstein
    Damn, this is fucking awesome, it seems too good to be true
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    https://www.ebay.com/itm/274356251187 This is triggering my GAS bad. I feel bloated and am having cramps.
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    That is all well said. I guess my point was something of a personal disappointment with that woke culture suddenly hitting too close to home. It’s one thing to slam the show “angry boys” or “strangers with candy”. It’s expected. I understand, and even tho I would still watch them personally, I’m definitely not going to go online and rant about ending cancel culture. Those shows will offend people, just like South Park, friends and every other predictable offensive or perceived offensive thing. I want to celebrate errors, and probably even limitations in equipment- almost in a “coil worship the glitch” way. That’s what I was getting at. I always thought this concept was welcoming, not appropriating.
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    They relocated temporarily to Haifa. I have family there, too, and in Tel Aviv. I wish I could show you guys the video they sent me, it’s pretty scary.
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    Here’s a picture my cousins took of the rockets. They live in Ashkalon.
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    Yeah, exactly, nobody was trying to dominate anything when they developed these things. If anything they catered to people who weren’t trying to “learn” as much. Not forcing them to learn a pigeonholed view of music. It’s like “opportunistic aggression” or something.
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    But, I still feel like this is what the electric guitar was kinda made for. I suppose it was a bad example. It was mainly me just thinking of a random instrument and style, I meant, that naturally kinda evolved. I don’t think anyone originally working on the NES thought “maybe someone will want to develop a midi interface for this someday and play it like a synth.” All that being said, I still don’t really like the music in that video, or any blues guitar that I’ve ever heard. In jazz when it gets close to that area, I start disliking it. Idk why. I get that it’s innovative and I do respect it, but it’s not for me.
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    That’s also just one of my favorite parts of equipment in general. Using things kinda as they weren’t originally intended to be. 303 as a replacement for a bass player turns into acid. Exploitation of video game equipment for chiptune. In some ways all electronic music evolved from that mentality. It’s what I like about it so much more than “blues guitar”. Really this whole topic is just drenched in irony, and somehow a nexus of artistic realities folding in on each other. I suppose tho- when it comes down to it, you see a lot of things that are getting spun into this concept. It’s really important, I think, for people to understand intentions. I’m not trying to say that “my dad should be allowed to wear Hawaiian shirts” or anything like that. But almost everything I like about creativity stems from some type of fusion, or even accident. At what point does Mr. Bungle become privileged tyrannical colonizers that exploit cultures to create something new, and not fascinating minds influenced by different cultures, evolving into something that might be better than the sum of its parts? I guess it’s pretty much already been said in some ways on this thread. But I guess maybe I’m celebrating the fallout from errors? This lady’s concept spins all that out of whack, and makes me feel almost like a villain.
  9. Himelstein
    I was mainly joking about the rules in a meta sorta way. Patton doesn’t, or at least didn’t know theory for a long time. I read an interview with Trevor Dunn where he mentioned being jealous of the fact. That was around 2013 or so. So he definitely didn’t know theory when he wrote his best stuff!
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    That organ seems like it would be a cool thing to watch people play. While looking at the whole theory vs playing by ear topic, I can’t help but think that it’s almost like she wants to break certain rules, by creating new ones. I think that’s a dangerous concept. There are no rules and shouldn’t be. Like so many people have said before on here- theory is a way of communicating. Danny Elfman doesn’t know theory, but his fluegelhorn player probably does. Somehow I feel like she is trying to create a new type of conflict in that paradigm or something. It’s hard to articulate. There are no rules, and nobody’s right or wrong...... but she’s wrong.
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    What I meant by “I couldn’t write music without the piano roll” was mainly to say I couldn’t live without it. I hand play almost everything and quantize (grid) it later or whatever, and in this case I edited the pitch like that too. When I got into modular and learned about what they meant by quantizing with scales and modes, it all clicked and made sense for me. But honestly I still wouldn’t have been able to make the last half of that song work without “micro editing” the pitch in cubase. I was at the mercy of whatever foreign tuning that was. How dare they make me jump through hoops like that.
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    I once sampled this Asian record for dining. Like some old vinyl they would have played at an Asian buffet in the 70s. At the time I was using mostly dco keyboards. I couldn’t get them to be in key no matter how I tuned them because- in my mind at the time I was looking at this as calibration being off. Like there was a thirteenth note or something. So, in cubase I just went into the key editor and adjusted the notes in the pitch bend editor. I couldn’t write music without a piano roll like the og cubase key editor. In the 90s I pretty much thought that with computers it was either piano roll style or tracker (which seems stupid and outdated to me at the time). Anyways, I got the desired key I was looking for and the whole thing seems like it’s in some type of tuning close to a440 or whatever you wanna call western. I don’t know what it is because it was a pitch shifted sample, and pitch shifted midi. I wrote it with @Braintree about 15 years ago. So, I guess I don’t really understand who is having problems with this shit these days. I feel kinda like music is such a strong thing that transcends “colonization” and getting stuff to work together has always kinda been a tricky part of electronic music, right? Also, fuck pitchfork. https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/3SVZ8MUqDVBxu5v79
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    We are seen as A440, 12 note, controlling imperialists. Wait.....wrong thread.
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    Paul Simon definitely pulls some awesome techniques and chooses good musicians to experiment with. I was watching an interview with Adrian Belew one time and he was saying that when he played guitar for him in “you can call me al” the beginning brass sound is actually a guitar synth!? I would not have guessed that. It’s synthetic for sure, but damn. Fuckin Chevy Chase.
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    Nice! The bass is cool, and I love in vocal samples when people go “uhh” when they are thinking. It’s totally something I seek out to sample. Good work!
  16. Himelstein
    There's some good info and entertaining/inspiring shit about this topic in Arcana II, the part that Trey Spruance writes.
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    3:12 the bass coming back in with the naked evil disco. 3:14 (funny this must be a good time to hit me with a good part!) This is one of the best songs ever anyways, so the best part I had to single out. There’s a lot of these with Autechre. Honestly, I am pretty disappointed in any Autechre that doesn’t have one.
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    I love the music in all the old horror movies. Especially by the band Goblin. Also the soundtrack to Troll is great- and it’s got Elaine and her real life husband in it, hahah. But yeah.... Mike Oldfield.
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    https://www.ebay.com/itm/233983681308 I’m thinking of getting this. I’m just not sure if I’ll have enough space for a pulp logic spring reverb afterwards. I’ve always planned on doing it, but they seem to always either be out of the tanks with mounting (to the zissou case) or out of the “tiles”. This talk of eurorack reverb has definitely got me interested again. The peaks thing is basically just something that seems cool and will fit. My buddy uses the actual mutable one and said they were cool. Do you guys know anything about the peaks with “dead man’s catch”?
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    Yeah, the pomegranate one and the Gingerade ones are probably the best. The greens one is different, for sure.
  21. Himelstein
    Haha, do it!
  22. Himelstein
    Right, I was just wondering if maybe they reprinted them like demos and put them in press kits with additional info about being signed, maybe trying to get signed to bigger label? Or something like that since it seems so real
  23. Himelstein
    I just trigger the envelope as it is, like for a mostly accurate cloning I’d do metropolis gate out to 303vcf env trigger in. It seems really accurate, compared to other clones. I had an analogue solutions tbx that sounded really similar filter wise. I haven’t messed with the accent yet on it tho
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    Yeah, it’s just an awesome oscillator in general. I’m surprised about your vcf303, I really like mine, but I don’t use it for anything other than the osc303. But the osc I use for all types of shit. Also got the pro1 and love it, it’s the best clone I’ve heard - as far as being identical to the original. (Sorry to break the eurorack purity topic for a sec). You got the blue one too! The 303 clone stuff is so cool because it’s awesome exploiting that tone.
  25. Himelstein
    Weird, so do you guys think they were still sending out press kits after “music has the right to children” was released?
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