Bubba69

I'd love to see a new developer come in an try to refresh the tracker space. I think the M8 tracker is pretty innovative but it's tied to a specific control scheme and hardware architecture. I think theres a lot of cool things that could be done. Radium tracker looks interesting, not sure if thats what I mean though

I slept on this. But daaaaamn wtf this is so good

This album sounds especially better and engaging on speakers than headphones. Something about how it's mixed I think. On headphones I think it the stereo field doesn't translate well or something like that. At least for me I dunno about others.

Really liking the track "Maybe" - reminds me of some happier squarepusher tracks. Turn it up loud.

Out now: https://gjonesbass.bandcamp.com/album/paths Anyone else into this guy's stuff? This one has some of the singles from earlier this year on it. Didn't realize those would ultimately be on an album so I was pleasantly surprised to see this release. Also, he's been touring w/ Luke Vibert in the US which I thought was pretty cool. At least at a couple shows.

thats the nazi number

This was amazing.

Anyone else have their GAS shift partially back to plugins? Maybe it's just from getting more into DAW-based work again to mix my tracks but, I bought so many plugins over the past year or two. I feel like I'm rediscovering what is trendy in the industry right now and what people use, trying to pick and choose what fits with my workflow. With the leaps made by some modern EDM/bass music I've gotten to the point where I have no idea how certain sounds are made anymore. People love using huge complex chains of effects, gated verbs, OTT and inflator, hard clipping shit on purpose, lots of distortion. Feeling kind of behind the times, but also very inspired by what the young folks are doing, slowly figuring out how to apply what I like about it to my own music.

Lmao I mean he did say he liked oasis earlier in the same interview

Well, we do know he was involved in nine inch nails stuff around that time. Not really pop though, but maybe something adjacent to that?

I'm guessing there is some ralph lundsten recording that has a reese-like bass sound in it and richard made the connection. No idea what song though because I'm not familiar with anything ralph lundsten did except that he was an early electronic pioneer.

I've listened to this album a lot. It kind of hits a nostalgic, comforting spot for me, it's borderline vaporwave in that way. Hits me in the same kind of spot as this album.

There are successful artists that also collect tons of gear, and successful artists that have very minimal workflows ITB, or with, say just, an MPC or roland SP-series and hone in (four tet, autechre). I think collecting many different mediums and esoteric tools is a valid approach as an artist, it's harder to dive deep on technique when you're spread across gear, sure, but it can be done (aphex, tycho). Early on, when I was starting to make music, trying many many different free vst plugins was sort of something I got really into. Maybe this could be considered GAS, or not. But I think there was merit in exploring different things all the time. I also changed DAW many times, this often transformitively changed my perspective and approach and overall made me stronger at making music. Switching to hardware was a huge, huge setback in productivity at first, but it set me on a path that actually made me very happy. To me, sitting with the same tools for album after album feels unfulfilling, I like changing it up. I hit a wall of interest and say, ok, time to spice it up, it's just who I am, I can't not explore or try new ideas, as often new ideas creates a drive to find the right tool to achieve it. I'm not happy just getting good at one kind of music and polishing it to the extreme for too long, perfect music is boring, I need new to shake things up, I need to hear something new.

Liking this one a bit more the more I listen. Memories of music still gives me a lot of brain tingles so I keep going back to it, but the rest is good too. I think I have a hard time with it on headphones due to how it's mixed.

really having trouble forming an opinion on this for some reason, might need more time. I LOVE the proggy jazz-rock influences but it overall feels very random and blurry to me. Nothing has quite caught on or been memorable to me sound-wise to me, in the same way Age Of or Magic OPN caught me. Maybe I just like the more pop bent melodies. Sometimes it takes me a while to like certain music, I've always had a hard time w/ OPN's but something keeps me coming back.

https://www.patreon.com/colugomusic/about New experimental DAW. Seems to have a lot of unique features that would be interesting/useful to some of you.

I like Memories of Music

I would love to just borrow a monomachine for a few weeks to see what all the fuss is about. I've never had a chance to use one.

me too. my most prized vinyl is that album.

bold statement, but I respect it! The original topic on this album got closed. Do I remember correctly that some longer threads got closed after a forum upgrade?

Dude, same. I was thinking that as well. I also was looking back at some albums like damogen furies and realizing in retrospect how good they are. Really excited to hear whatever is next.

I feel like the last post I made in this thread was cringe and wanted to apologize for it. I was in a really negative mood.

I feel like GAS for me all stems from having a certain artistic vision in my head, along with a set of sounds and tools I know, and a set of sounds and tools I would like to start using without making my life a headache. Part of this is also a desire to encorporate hardware into my setup, which I successfully did, but it took years to get comfortable with. I've sold almost as many things as I've purchased after realizing something isn't helping what I thought it would be helping. I'm still trying to sell a couple things but it's seemingly hard to do in this market, so I might keep it and make it work for me. Doesn't help that the market is inflated in price and choice, nobody wants anything like slightly imperfect gear from a few years ago, too much other shiny new shit. When I can reduce my gear, it often feels like a win. Right now my interface can fit all of my devices, and it's quite a nice feeling and ends up being sort of the filter that stops me from expanding (or mixer channels as I've been doing live mixed jams up until recently). I do lust after certain analog and digital sounds, I bought quite a few plugins in the last year or so. I still feel like the character of the ms-20 and the ob-6 are hard to match in a plugin so it's easy for me to justify keeping those as they make up a huge core of my sound that I identify with currently as an artist. I think thats what is important. I see so many demos for new gear and I'm like, this sounds like every other boutique analog thing I've ever heard, why would I want this? Oh it has it's own unique take on a sequencer? Who gives a shit, I don't use internal sequencers on most gear. And everyone demoing things sounds like shit, like the same basic four chord pattern with basic beat loops arps and synthwave stabs or some shit like I thought this was supposed to be about art and innovating and not trying to recreate the same sound we've already been able to make for the last 20 years in a slightly different way. I have no idea what a piece of gear will even do until I spend weeks with it and really get to know it. I've only seen a handful of people do anything remotely interesting with say, the analog 4, cirklon, or octatrack on these youtube "influencer" or content-creator pages (yet I continue to watch them). Theres been a few exceptions, but for example, I had to buy the Hapax pretty much based on the manual because all of the demo videos sound like basic grooves or ambient jams and like something I could do on any basic techno sequencer, but where it actually shines is it's great piano roll implementation and ability to quickly expand tracks and select columns of notes and copy paste them around and transpose selections and make these super long and elaborate patterns and zoom in super far past the typical 64 steps/4 bars. and it's instrument definition system which makes it super easy to plug in an automate hardware with templated parameters that just work, and automation system. People touch on things and then don't go into depth really doing something that would be hard to do on other pieces of gear.

not really a documentary more of an interview but I liked it

Theres also plugdata, which is puredata vst3 wrapper. This guy has some videos using it in bitwig