Bubba69

It's been a while since I looked at better sequencing workflows. I have been using my octatrack for a while but feeling a little uninspired on the midi/melody side of it. I've got bitwig studio but I think I want to stick to hardware sequencing for midi, I don't really like the piano roll in bitwig. I do love it for mixing and sound design stuff though. The polyend play seems cool and might even replace the sampler part of the octatrack for me, but the midi sequencing seems like it might be kind of limited and it doesn't do CV. The Hapax seems like a powerhouse, but I'm not 100% sure thats what I want or need. The Oxi one also seems like a powerhouse as well. The generative and scale stuff doesn't matter as much to me as having a really solid core workflow that doesn't get in my way. I want to be able to very quickly build up really intricate and constantly copy/paste/evolving and arranging things, without feeling constrained by pages, parts, step resolution. I'm probably going to go through and read the manuals on some of these but I'm curious what others have been getting into

I think it was maybe the noizelab interview or one of those. He talked about how luke vibert didn't believe him that it wasn't a vocoder. Yeah thats where it was https://web.archive.org/web/20141103131334/http://noyzelab.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/syrobonkers-part1.html He also posted the earlier version of it.

Ever since hearing aphex describe how he made Fenix Funk 5, using parallel bandpass filter section on a fenix modular to simulate vocal formants, I've been obsessed with finding an analog monosynth that has parallel multi-mode filters (via a switch or otherwise). You would think with the oversaturation of analog monosynths there would be SOMETHING capable of doing this by now. Even most of these huge flagship monos cannot do it. Modular could do it, but I don't feel like diving into that. Theres a lot of synths that come close, but I haven't found one. Some have a formant filter mode, some have one parallel high/low pass filters, but nothing quite like that sound. I Just found out about the SER-2020, which seems to be a clone of the Synton Sryinx (which are incredibly rare and way out of my price range). And holy shit this seems amazing? Kind of the exact filter sound I've been looking to incorporate into my setup. Synton style formants for a reasonable price, not to mention it just sounds good, I love character synths. Somehow this completely flew past my radar a couple years ago.

Really hard for me to decide which of the tracks out of the 4 I like best. Wavering quite a bit between zin2, in a room, and parallex. BBLR might even be the best one but I burnt myself out on the single in comparison to the other 3.

Glad someone posted this. I loved his last album Rusted Silicon, this one seems potentially good, but I've only listened a couple times. His style is super unique, hard to pin down but very clean and distinct.

Regardless of lack of this particular release being an LP, think of all the great tracks we have, he's released so much stuff. We can make multiple full length LPs out of a lot of tracks over the last few years, the fact that he/warp didn't release imprinted to multiple LPs out of these tracks means he just has a different way of releasing music, because he certainly could have released multiple really cool full length LPs curated from this set of tracks. Collapse EP, BBLR, Korg 1b, field day LP tracks, soundlab20, many soundcloud stuff, tuss bonus tracks, bblr.

I love how every aphex release isn't just an aphex release he always ends up uploading some extra shit for the fans. Anyways, great album. All of the tracks are super nice.

clearly a play on black box flight recorder. Not sure if it's actually talking about gear. but also this exists and I know is quite popular amongst hardware folks https://1010music.com/product/blackbox EDIT: ok it definitely is cirklon, because the sticker inside the album is a picture of cirklon lcd screen

I am thinking of this EP as is sort of a cheetah-like EP or something, where rich is like, "yeah, sorry WARP, LP is still not quite ready, these tracks don't quite work on the album I'm building but kind of work together and have a level of polish where they are worth releasing to the public as a nice self-contained EP. Here ya go." Which overall I think is great, personally. I would rather hear them than not hear them, but I can see how folks might get disappointed because they put a lot of hype into them and it's like, ok these aren't really what I was hoping the last few years of creative effort culminated in.

barker is cool, so this should be good. Also, New OPN? first time I'm hearing of that

Minipops... really pops on nice monitors. But I like the collapse EP mastering I try to use them as reference tracks.

update the firmware for sure. Some good quality of life updates like being able to copy/paste/edit multiple trigs. I would say, don't try to learn every feature at once, just try to figure out what you want to do and then learn what is needed to do that efficiently. Theres still stuff I've barely learned how to use. I've mostly just stuck to sequencing breaks and midi and don't really use scenes that much. i just p lock effects and copy paste patterns and pages and futher edit them and have fun basically. I usually have to look up how to actually sample into it, but I do that sometimes too. Some will recommend merlins guide, but for some reason that never really clicked with my mental model of the thing. So if merlin's guide isn't answering your question, try the manual, it's not as incomprehensible as people say it is.

Too long to fit on it I think. Unless they lying about the track lengths. Another track I would love to hear that I haven't heard anyone mention yet is this one. Wonder if it's on the EP:

not digging this region locked aspect tbh. Is there somewhere I can hear this besides soundcloud?

kinda swingy like minipops

I think it's kind of ridiculous too. Feels very unstructured and random how they are hyping things, doesn't feel like a real ARG, having the wrong dates revealed in the source code at first, having a countdown "percentage" on the website of the developer rather than a dedicated URL on the site, leaking a qr code early that leads to an empty google drive, exclusive stuff only at one festival but not the other ones. Feels very much like they hired this company to generate hype but then have been super messy on execution. That being said I'll be happy as hell to be blessed with some new tracks one way or another

quick quick, what is the unique code?

I still feel like something is up with this WAP480 thing, I don't think we've ever seen exactly "WAP480" from any official source. We've only seen WAPP480, yes, remove one of the Ps and you get WAP480, but swap out a P for an R and you get WARP480, which is the album catalog naming scheme. I still hold that the "APP" part of "WAPP480" is simply a catalog number for apps, and that this might end up being WARP480. I'm thinking there will be a few singles released throughout the summer and then in September at the end of the festival dates, an album. Speculation on my part for sure, and I'm probably wrong, but based on the percentages thing on that website, it's only at 7% currently (or maybe it's higher, I can't figure out where the website is anymore). Wouldn't we have seen that percentage climb up further by now if it is supposed to lead up to a release this month? EDIT: That being said, 3 out of 9 tour dates completed is 33% not 7%. Still whats up with that 7% what does it mean

So much unreleased stuff was played over those 3 shows that theres got to be at least a few tracks coming? (15 tracks if we are to believe the curator of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkALc6iUd9I )

this is such a great set of unreleased tracks. Catchy melodic lines and beats. I hope the released version of the box teaser track includes the argument between the dancing dude and the guy that wants him to stand completely still, at this point feels like part of the track

This, I'm not buying warp would budget this kind of promotional app, plus stage design for a black box/cube in the same theme, just for a 4 min single. I can buy that a single is coming but not that it's standalone.

Not totally sure if this one is better or not, feels stitched together or something, but you hear a lot of the track (the beginning sounds like live noodling on a 303, not sure if it's part of the same track) Actually this version might be even a better recording of it

makes sense that he's playing g jones and eprom tracks. I personally feel like those guys are the most innovative electronic music rn.

This recording is pretty bad, but this part of the set sounds like it could be him? (starting around 1:15:40 ending 1:19ish)

always good