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    afx nft

    in Aphex Twin

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    I could be wrong but my understanding of the energy usage thing is: Ok yes this is a shocking amount of energy being used for the proof-of-work or whatever but also the miners are using this energy no matter what. At any given time they are either minting new currency or minting it against the hash of the digital artwork? To me it seems like, well if crypto is not going away might as well have it do something interesting. But the energy used isn't any more than the amount of producing new coins or whatever(?)

     

    Again also willing to admit I don't understand and may have read some pro-crypto propaganda so again please let me know if I'm misunderstanding the algorithmic impact of these things and making an ass of myself... ?. It's a bit hard to find articles that aren't editorialized and dumbed down....

     

    I just thinks it's silly people went from "crypto bad but /shrug" to "NFT ruining the planet artists are horrible planet ruining assholes". I mean, Yeah your complacent in an already bad system, like many things in life, but it's not really like NFTs are making crypto an exponentially worse thing right? I mean it's making etherium more popular which = more reason to mine it even more but it's not going to align our climate trajectory even worse from what I understand

    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

    in Aphex Twin

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    On 3/3/2021 at 3:14 PM, DucksOpinion said:

    Damn! would love to get hold of the edit...

    I have the physical copy (CD) I got off ebay. At the time I didn't know it was an edit, and then was blown away years later to find out there was a longer version. The short version is essentially just the longer one with a section cut out, or maybe the whole ending cut off. Can't remember but the long version is nicer.

    The Syro progress

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    1 hour ago, cern said:

    It always facinates me when it comes to Richards gear because he have so much equipment but do you think he really use everything so much for his tracks?

    Is he really this hardcore? Is he so hardcore that he must have a technical genuis to help him out with patching his machines? Sounds like space mission!

    Would love to see a documentary behind the scenes of him working in one of these studios, see how it's all hooked up.

    Board Games Thread

    in General Banter

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    As a couple we have playing a lot of patchwork (or cottage garden in a similar vein), wingspan, codenames duet, azul and chess.

     

    My true love is the heavy euros, but due to pandemic I haven't been able to play much of Brass Birmingham or Pax Pamir 2nd ed. Both of which are my newest favorites. (TTS anyone?)

     

    Been toying about with solo games too, but not very much, just played pax pamir that way to learn. Mage knight looks way way complex, I tried to learn on TTS and got overwhelmed, but I've heard it's an amazing solo experience.

     

    I've been listening to board gaming podcasts incessantly to pass the time and there's so many interesting games and so many interesting aspect to design. Some day I'd love to try designing a game.

    What are those???!!?!

    in Aphex Twin

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    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. 

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    Elektron Octatrack MKII

    in EKT General Discussion

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    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.

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    Junkie XL selling off his synth collection

    in Music Discussion

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    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

     

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    Album of the year 2020

    in Music Discussion

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    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

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    A few albums recently listened.

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    On 9/20/2020 at 7:56 AM, viscosity said:

    Was rummaging through some old computer games and other miscellaneous disks and found this which was given to me over a decade ago. Still holds up. Decided to upload it:

     

    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?

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    Organelle

    in EKT General Discussion

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    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.

    Mouse on Mars - AAI

    in New & Upcoming Releases

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    On 11/13/2020 at 6:31 PM, joseph said:

    oooh that's bold, respect.

    personally i haven't gotten into glam despite many tries.

    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. 

     

    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

    in General Banter

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    On 11/2/2020 at 10:57 AM, Silent Member said:

    I believe there was a dedicated thread and possibly a watmm centric server going back in the day. Never played the thing , didn't follow the discussion.

    Found the thread

     

    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.

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    Elektron Octatrack MKII

    in EKT General Discussion

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    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.

     

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