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    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    29 minutes ago, dcom said:

    I've collected way more hardware sequencers than I need because there's usually no way to try out something unless you buy it. I've currently got (in order of acquisition) Squarp Pyramid MK3, Torso T-1, Twisted Electrons Crazy8 + Crazy8 Beats, Pioneer Toraiz Squid, and OXI One. I've also got a Polyend Tracker, which can be used as an 8-track monophonic sequencer. There are sequencers in many of my other devices, like the 1010music Blackbox.

    I'd still like to try out Synthstrom Deluge, Squarp Hapax, Polyend Play, and of course a Sequentix Cirklon, but high-end means high price. Some more exotic ones are Spektro Audio's NGEN, and Sixty Four Pixels' Noodlebox. There are plenty of odd-and-not eurorack sequencers out ther, but I'm most probably not going that way. I'll maybe get an SQ-64 to try out at some point.

     

    What do you like working with the most? Any of those feel like the ones you want to keep? I'm sort of thinking of just getting a hapax and seeing what I gel with the workflow.

    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    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

    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    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.
     

     

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    WAPP480

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    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.

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    WAPP480

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    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.

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    WAPP480

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    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.

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    WAPP480

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted · Edited by Bubba69

    12 hours ago, cern said:

    Is the "Blackbox" confirmed to be the Cirklon seq? 

    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

    WAPP480

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Qeta said:

    I like where Zin2 Test5 and In A Room7 F760 are going, then they just sort of end prematurely.  If he'd fleshed them out a bit more would have been fully onboard.  Still pretty good tracks though.  Hopefully more to come.

    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.

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    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    On 7/2/2023 at 2:56 PM, Danny O Flannagin said:

    Just jumped on a good deal for an Octatrack MK1.

    Any tips on how to approach this thing. I've used the Digitone so I know how the sequencing and parameter lock stuff works.

    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.

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    WAPP480

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    32 minutes ago, diatoms said:

                                                              hope this is on there

     

     

    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: 

     

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    WAPP480

    in Aphex Twin

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    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

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    WAPP480

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted · Edited by Bubba69

    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

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    Tour Dates 2023

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    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

    New countdown, new release? [Aphex Twin Warp Store]

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    1 minute ago, d-a-m-o said:

    If I remember correctly minipops67 was released as a digital single before the release of Syro ?

    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. 

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    Tour Dates 2023

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted · Edited by Bubba69

    3 hours ago, cern said:

    Yees thank you At least a minute! 

    Omg all the swedes like "hey let's go 20 seconds recordings!" 

    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

     

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