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Bubba69

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  1. Tracks sound cool but they all sound like the same kind of formula on each snippet. Really tightly crafted DnB breaks (somewhat repetitive) with rubbery rodeo acid bassline (making up terms here, going with it). Aphex twin doesn't like making the same sounding kind of track over and over again so I don't think it's him.
  2. the multiple trig thing is a HUGE workflow improvement holy fuck. For some reason I assumed that could never happen. Figured it was a hardware thing. But now that I think about it, it makes sense that it's possible in software I'm just stupid. I use it all the time on the A4. Hold down like 4 trigs, change the sample length. Get the slices just right on like 3 trigs and then copy paste that. This is going to make beat-chopping stuff way more fun I used to have to copy paste individual hits and it made me sad. I'm still a couple years behind on updates, I don't have the other latest update with trig conditions because I didn't care about those. This will make break programming 10 times better, not just from the multi-trig thing, but also because you can use a midi keyboard to preview slices and input notes of those slices!!!! It used to be a hunt + peck thing, or a play live on machine thing, or just hope for something random that sounds good, or use insert slice grid and then mangle further. All of those workflows sucked ass, like really ass. This workflow will be amazing... Also the tempo thing seems sick. I never bothered with tempo changes because it was awkward and you had to use the arranger which I almost never used until the very end if I had a string together a lot of pattern changes that jump between banks a lot.
  3. wow, I loved watching this guys videos for a while. He has so much cool gear. Kind of surprised he's selling because he always seems to love every piece of gear for slightly different things and tends to use so many layers in his music that the variety seems to fit him. But also, probably more pragmatic to keep it simple. Even if he sold 75% of his stuff his collection would still be insanity
  4. DMX Krew - Ghost Bubbles OPN - Magic OPN I guess uncut gems soundtrack is 2019? Love that one for 2020 anyways Hoping the new Com Truise album (not out yet) autechre PLUS/SIGN squarepusher - buah hidden orchestra - Creaks carl finlow - apparatus Cylob - 54 minute mirage run the jewels 4 nathan fake - blizzards king krule - man alive rob clouth - zero point john beltran - the season series EDIT - oh shit how could I forgot Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans I dunno I listened to a lot of random shit this year and that's what happened to catch my fancy. Probably missed a lot of stuff though, I'm scoping out this thread as much I can
  5. came here to see if folks had seen the video about the soundtrack for cyberpunk 2077. They say it's direction is inspired by sounds from 90s rave/IDM/industrial and that made me really happy. Love that richard devine is involved
  6. I need more random IDM cd-rs made with care and handed out in limited quantities to friends in my life, can we do like a watmm secret santa DIY music exchange?
  7. I got a deal on one of these second hand (original). Anyone have recommendations on how to integrate it into your setup? How have you used it? There's a lot of cool effects things I've discovered, like tapey is cool, lots of cool granular stuff you can do. Such a vast user library. Haven't messed with ORAC yet but it seems cool. Not really my style of working but I wanted to add more organic, swelling, background fx to my hardware music, granular sputters crackling up in the background and whatnot, mouse on mars-esque. So that's the angle I'm taking right now but also just have no idea what I can ultimately do with this thing.
  8. I wasn't into it until one day I put it on a weekend afternoon and fell asleep listening to it. Was kind of magical. Still don't "get" it from an enjoyment listening perspective but if it was able to make me sleep in the middle of the day it holds a special spot for me.
  9. OMG i was on this server back in the day! I can't remember who it was, but I witnessed someone on there burn down another user's treehouse, it was fucking crazy. This guy was so nice the whole time and then got a wild hair up his ass and burned it all down and then told me not to tell anyone. statute of limitations and whatnot and now I can talk about it.
  10. No nightmares is like the scene in david lynch movies where the lady sings for a long time and it's boring and you just have to get through it and get on with the film but you accept it because it's david lynch
  11. I've been doing music pretty much exclusively with the octatrack as my central hub for the last few years. (Though admittedly I kind of don't have shit to show for it but I'm very slowly accumulating "album" material I will eventually master and whatnot). I feel like the following techniques/features have been the most useful in adapting a style that I like to use when programming songs on it. 1. midi sequencing polyphonic synths. I'm never going to use that many midi devices at once in a song, so I just use multiple tracks to allow more complex overlapping note structures. It ends up working fine for me, when I used to be really annoyed by the limitation, I've still yet to hit it in practice. If I feel like I hit a limitation, just bounce it down into a sample, and now I can do even more with it! 2. Bounce stuff down, use fx, spend time making your loops sound ok. Once you have something you like, it's very simple to resample it into a new perfect 64-step sample, which you can then chop up and do all kinds of crazy shit with. Run out of voices for some reason? Using each track as it's own drum sound? Great! bounce the main out down into a sample, change to part 2 or a different bank, and start fresh with your drum loop. I Always have an aux input coming from my mixer into the OT. Sometimes I use it as a master insert (seems stupid but it works). 3. Pair it with another elektron device. This sounds simple but the stuff syncs perfectly. I can add 4 more synth voices and sequence my ms-20 by using the analog-four, great companion. 4. Sample stuff in, little hits, sounds from other synths. Load up big libraries of hip hop drum kits or whatever from reddit and load them into static slots beforehand. The sample lock feature is so useful to add variety quickly and easily to your patterns. It's stupid but it sounds cool to have lots of different sounds. 5. Slide trigs can do wild shit with sequenced precision, it's like scenes but programmed into the pattern on a per-voice level. You can use to do tape-stop fx, or crazy slidey bouncing ball (ok now you know my secret techniques). 6. Use the editor. Chopping up amen breaks or ANY other break is super easy on the OT once you know the workflow, you can get the attack PERFECTLY adjusted by zooming in on the waveform and adjusting every start point and then make sure to save your sample settings in a new file and assign it to a free flex or static slot. Hold function key to make sure your start point aligns with zero crossings. Get the sample normalized, all nice, and save it. You might also want to make the slices end point longer than you normally would, so you can do the tape-stop effect I'm talking about more effectively on sliced samples. The OT is different than a tracker but shares a ton of the DNA so many of the same tricks apply. 7. You have lots of patterns, use them. You don't have to tweak everything "live" you can work linearly and copy paste your pattern, build on top of it, edit it, change it and make quite long and evolving pieces. 8. If you want more than the 64 step loop I finally took the time to learn pattern chaining (dead simple, hold down the pattern button and press the patterns you want to chain.). Just think of 1+2 as one pattern, 3+4 as another. It's slightly more tedious to copy+paste correctly but you can still basically loop everything as you're working on it and get those longer phrases perfect. It's not as annoying or tedious as I thought, did a whole song that way and it worked out I think. 9. When working with midi tracks, make sure you have your patches figured out before you start programming the program-change and bank number into a midi track, nothing is more frustrating than when you forget to save a patch on a synth and your patch changes. 10. Don't overuse scenes, comb filter, or retrigs or any of the stuff that screams "this is obviously an octatrack". The octatrack doesn't have to sound like an octatrack. Limit yourself and hold yourself back on certain features that are convenient and sound cool. Those kinds of sounds are sometimes more interesting when they come as a surprise and more dialed in. These are just the things I've internalized while using it. Really not trying to preach that it's best or anything, just the tenants I go by. There's still a ton of stuff I don't know how to do with it. I never use scenes anymore because I suck at using them and it requires a steady hand. I'm not great with the live sampling stuff but I think I understand how it works, I just don't trust it, too confusing. I just record stuff in so I know exactly how it sounds. It's just one way of working and probably still not that efficient, but I figured out how to make it work to fit my style and then let me really push it into places that I feel are interesting and let me get into creative territory that I never really reached when working on a PC.
  12. I loved the crap out of mine for a few months until I somehow just suddenly got bored of it and stopped using it completely. It is cool though, I like the stuff I made on it. Might sell it now... Feel like my mind is in a totally other realm musically now.
  13. I'm glad I could introduce it to you. I was trying to channel this guy in my rant https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tommy-needy-drinky
  14. TM1 Open is a Bradly Strider remix
  15. what the fuck kind of drugs are you guys on? Everything that's been teased so far has been fantastic, better than Age Of, possible for this to be my favorite work of his. The noisy interludes are amazingly nostalgic and chewy sound-design, makes me feel like I'm listening to BOC old tunes simultaneously perfectly mixed with modern digital effects, the tracks themselves have some of the best melodies, structure and overall songwriting of anything he's ever done, carrying on from his strong work on Uncut Gems. Every track varies in really creative ways. Yeah it's not harsh digital chumpfuckery of garden of delete or the juno arpeggiator synth-smudges of his early career albums but it's also representative of where he's growing as an artist and I find it extremely impressive and quaffable but also incredibly layered and full of interesting detail on repeat listens, it doesn't feel like selling out to me at all. The sound design and tones chosen across these tracks have created a diverse yet cohesive array of some of the best designs of daniel's so far and we've only heard half the album. I also think the weeknd track was extremely comforting and warm and not nearly as boring as like, Black Smoke or Love In The Time Of Lexapro, which were the "singles" from the last album era. Maybe I just have shit taste but I just don't get the hate train here, I've been loving this shit, I merged them into one playlist and I'm ready for the last 9 tracks.
  16. I like si00 on first listen but I kind of hate it now. F7 might be my favorite track though. th red a is pretty cool too. Does anyone know if autechre have gotten into eurorack? I feel like we're living in the golden age of eurorack when it comes to experimental sequencing and interesting oscillators and all that shit. In some universe this album was a eurorack album and they gave up max
  17. According to the richard, regarding the promo track. Full release of the promo track isn't ready yet, still working on it.
  18. I traded my BSII for an MS20 mini a few years ago. For fast switching patches w/ a monosynth I use my analog 4. I admit that the BS2 sounds much nicer than the A4. It would be kinda cool to have an afx branded synth but I don't have a good spot for it in my setup, I like the MS-20 too much
  19. Even if you think the afx branded synth stuff is lame, if it seems like selling out or whatever, remember that he's been trying to get his design ideas into various pieces of gear for years and it's more than likely that this isn't about money as much as it is about doing something he feels passionate about. Can't blame him for finally going after this stuff full force now that companies are listening to him. Getting the tuning support into the sequential stuff, features in the cirklon, the monologue design, novation updates and whatever this is. Maybe this is an EP sort of like the elektron EP w/ plaid, or the korg ep on the aphex store.
  20. People keep calling this clip "a great track". Is there a full track somewhere?
  21. This album is less a sequel to oversteps and more a sequel to quaristice. I don't know why, it just feels that way to me. I have no objective reasoning
  22. I like cheesy when it's redeeming. Like that hoo hoo haha song from the new orbital album. That shit ruled so hard, that trumpet lead. I want more cheese like that.
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