It would be fun to build a new weekly beats anyways :) I wrote the guy back in jan and he never responded. :p We could host it for really cheap on s3. I could build it in a week probably.
I had ideas for improvements anyways as discoverability kinda sucked on there...
Any takers?
agreed! I spend a good while chasing around an optimal setup with a patchbay, midi router etc, and in the end I just end up ripping shit out and reconfiguring things anyways :p
I think the horizontal thing is more likely to be a creative-person attribute. We creatives have tiny working memory, and it takes a lot more effort for us to categorize and organize than it does for more linear-minded people. For me, also I tend to be very associative in the moment, and seeing things will often trigger new ideas. If everything were to be perfectly organized in drawers, or whatever it would really be a hinderance in that process.
@audiobysk I'm totally in the same boat. I can't imagine the tedium of clicking out entire songs anymore. The prospects sounds awful. I used to do it and never minded it, but now... meh.
I don't know. Honestly my productivity has suffered so badly in the past due to too much focus on sound design and not enough on composition and actually development of musical ideas, that I've almost removed mixing from my workflow completely haha.
These days I perform all arrangement on the fly, and just record a stereo audio track out. Then simple EQing and maybe compression makes that into a final track. If it still doesn't sound decent then I just record it again.
For me these days music has become extremely ephemeral, and I really lose interest in dumping hours and hours into polishing something that will be listened to by 4 people on the internet.
Done and out there > perfect and rotting on a hard drive. I just see it all as process, and by making each output super precious it can really distort the pathways you're willing to explore.
I don't know why people get so hung up on monitors for production. Monitor position is important for mixing, but makes fuck all difference for writing and arranging music.
Current setup in the synth cave.
And yes that's floor trim propping up some machines. :D
The ESX and QY70 actually make a great pair. You can use the pattern set triggers on the ESX to jam, while also using the pattern mode on the QY. The QY is fun but fiddly. I kind of like that right now though.
I found out how to change the patterns on the QY remotely with sysex and I was so pumped. Shame the stoopid korg microkontrol can't send out sysex messages. That would be so awesome. Trigger patterns from the pads there or something.
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