nikisoko

the good news is that there's no more semesters

It is pretty dope but can be a resource hog. Some of the ui is not intuitive and I feel like the modular amount sliders are a little to extreme, it takes some work to add subtle modulations in there. That being said, I think it's leagues ahead of Kontakt, which is pretty long in the tooth these days. one thing I really like about it is how you can assign (most) effects to a selection keygroups but then edit the parameters on each keygroup individually. This can get computationally expensive though, and I think its probably preferred to add effects/filters etc to a layer, which is a group of key groups. I find myself maxing out my relatively well equipped machine a lot from doing keygroup specific effects chains on 100+ samples. Its also really nice to have standard sampling along with pretty good granular sampling and the ircam stretch processing in there. The stretch processing is also a resource hog and I find myself bouncing out samples a lot of I'm using really slow speeds.weird that there is no demo though yeah

im all for sampling and samplers but between uvi falcon, kontakt and max/msp, i would never need a hardware sampler except for live use.

mod pls

meanwhile on my computer i can take the same sample and turn the frequency spectrum completely upside down, rearrange the entire sample an infinitely number of ways and turn it into a 20 minute ambient track if I want. But lets obsess over the hi frequency rolloff and subtle bitcrush of those old akais.

also the suggested videos at the end pretty much sums up my life right now-

anyone got any idea what album/track he was talking about being mind blowing? apparently it's not "song of the children"

absynth

i already got the box set but noticed today that the vinyl reissues are up individually on blargh - https://bleep.com/release/194796-pole-1 https://bleep.com/release/194797-pole-2 https://bleep.com/release/194798-pole-3 nice way to spend your last euros

im liking it but i feel like the drums are too prominent in the mix. i have to crank it quite a bit to hear all the lush pads and whatnot and then theres just this snare in my face. that being said i've always found drexciya's drums a bit grating as well so maybe it was on purpose or just me.

it does sound like a lot of these are standard, classic breaks with some eq/compression on them. i could be wrong and cant be bothered to go find matches

i drooled a bit

some tracks can now take up to 3 days to do.

will they be relevant in 2021 tho