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    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

    in General Banter

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    Still sorta trudging through Hyper Light Drifter. I was really anticipating it before it came out for PS4, and it looks gorgeous, but imo it's hobbled by its decision to not explain any mechanics or story or anything with text. I thought it would be interesting to try and understand and hunt down all the story and such but it's just pretty fucking boring and more confusing than secretive or anything. Maybe I'm just not playing it enough or something, I dunno. Game is gorgeous though. Combat is meh, unfortunately. Was expecting more nuance.

     

     

    I think its actually my game of the year. I love games that don't hold your hand. I thought the graphics + sound were amazing, and the combat was tighter than Dark Souls.

    Machinedrum User Appreciation

    in EKT General Discussion

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    No i tend to make kits from scratch. But often times I don't really know ahead of time if i want to use the FM kick or the TX kick etc, and I feel creatively it would be better if I didn't really know what I was going to get.

     

    Like if I want a hip hop groove I think my brain naturally reaches for the sp12 machines, and I'd like to avoid that sort of thinking if possible.

     

    I started looking into building some software to do this for me before I went out of town and seems like I can backwards engineer this a tad:

    https://github.com/adsr/inkfish/blob/master/src-plugin/ElektronMachinedrumObject.java

    Machinedrum User Appreciation

    in EKT General Discussion

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    Hey guys,

     

    I bought one of these guys years ago, used it for one album in 2009 (most likely the wrong way), then basically put it on storage. The other week I decided to bust it out again.

     

    I can't for the life of me find the TM-1 that goes with it.

     

    The first thing I did was decide to upgrade the OS. I downloaded the C6 software and tried to update the firmware with a 1x speed but i couldn't get it to do anything. After flailing about for 20 min, I download Sysex Librarian on OSX and was able to update the firmware VERY FUCKING SLOWLY.

     

    I'm having a great time with the MD, learning new things I didn't know about before, but I hate the shit factory samples they give you in the rom slots. I'd like to load it up some breaks and some synth tones for musical stuff.

     

    AFAIK I can't load samples onto the thing through Sysex Librarian, so am I stuck repurchasing a TM-1?

     

     

     

    TL;DR - I lost my TM-1, how do I get samples onto this thing?

    APHEX TWIN - SYRO

    in Aphex Twin

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    I have been listening to Syro daily since release. Usually multiple times straight through. It keeps getting better and better each time. It makes me want to stop whatever i'm doing and just LISTEN. Not enough music compels me this way.

    I feel like it's a totally different experience based on however i end up listening, be it vinyl on headphones vs speakers, or various qualities of digital on headphone or speakers. Every configuration is unique. This album fascinates me as both an obsessive fan of music and compulsive maker of music.

    QFT

    APHEX TWIN - SYRO

    in Aphex Twin

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    I'm never going to link another anthony fanto review again. This guy has used the following negatives against it:

    • His style sounds like Aphex which is vintage apparently
    • Too many notes, and didn't feel the need to understand it
    • Minipops isn't as good as the other songs
    • His DnB isn't Come To Daddy
    • His album might make other artists release music who haven't in a while

    Well done. I agree its not good.

    APHEX TWIN - SYRO

    in Aphex Twin

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    Syro does have some out-standing moments. Apart from the superb first track, there is the truly excellent produk 29 [101] which builds very nicely indeed with a majestic, melodic chord sequence that is exactly what Aphex Twin does best. Another very good piece is PAPAT4 [155][pineal mix] with Paul McCartney pads in evidence and some nice ethereal synth work in the background.

     

    So that’s 3 tracks you really like but want the chapter ended, hmm your a bit of a confused fellow are you not?

    Thy-re not pads either, pads are more sustained.

    And for me, that’s it basically. The rest is mostly devoid of any real melody, lots of random bleeps and noises,

     

    Things sound random when you can’t spot the patterns .
    SOSW was much simpler, so you spot the patterns much easier.

    My dad often says the music I Iisten to is random noise.
    I find you have to invest more time in albums like Drukqs or Syro but its ultimately more rewarding imo .

    clever programming and yet cold and emotionless.

     

    Couldn’t be further from the truth, its choc full of emotion, my guess is you feel so unfulfilled with your life as an english teacher that your not receptive enough to get it, quit teaching now!
    Sell that house of yours, tell the missus or whoever to do one, buy loads of weed with the money, get a rented flat and you will fall in love with Syro, I promise!

    However, if you prefer his early 1990s output, you may listen to Syro and wonder where all the melodies went.

     

    Im a big fan of SOSW and can see WAY more melodies in SYRO.

    Personally, I liked the stripped back beauty between 1992 and 1996 (minus the Drum & Bass stuff). It was music where simpler drum patterns were complimented by beautiful and haunting melodies. With Syro, the need to cram as much sound into every single moment makes for little more than a sprawling mess. I lost count of the times when I thought: There's a lot going on but it's doing nothing for me.

     

    Just load it into Traktor (it's dj software for computer) loop 4 bars at a time for a minute or so and then move the loop forward and repeat.

    By that point, Aphex Twin had become a brand

     

    The day he released his first record he became a brand.

    He could have released an album of modulated feedback and people would have bought into it if marketed correctly with just the right controversial video.

     

    Whats wrong with modulated feedback?

    The kids today, call that bloody music!
    Which people? how many of them? What kind of controversial video would make that work?

    Id like to see that.

    This kind of thing is best left to a minimalist like Harold Budd -

     

    move on!
    Ha ok, yeah note to every artist in the world , don’t make any music on a piano, leave it to old Harold.
    My friend just told me how he broke down in tears to that last track, he is having a hard time right now…actually he just got kicked out of his rented accommodation, no joke!

    A composer who can invest emotion in practically every note. Richard D James is a fantastic programmer but his piano work is forgettable.

     

    Composer/programmer, people compose on computers these days sir.

    Playing it live (with a real grand piano swinging back and forth like a pendulum) doesn’t turn it into a work of genius. Aphex fans will disagree again, I’m sure.

     

    I loved that , inspired, and I thought it sounded and looked unfriggin believable and I like harold B.

    I think we should swing you from the Barbican roof and make you listen to Syro all day while shining all those lasers in your eyes!

    +get aphex to control you with max patch

     

    For Aphex Twin with his reputation and rabid fan base, it must be difficult to please everyone. It's the old conundrum. Do I give them the early style stuff or the later periods of work? As an artist, I admire his ability to avoid falling into that trap - he simply creates whatever he wants, which is exactly what any artist should do. As a composer, the work exists for you first, everyone else comes later.

     

    agreed.

    Hell, what do I know? I'm an English teacher - not a musician.

     

    Well you just told us a whole load of stuff you thought you knew, so now you saying you don’t know anything coz your a teacher?
    or is that just a trick to make us think your very humble? but actually your not?
    Yeah but english teachers are well clever, everyone knows that, so don’t belittle yourself so easily old bean.

     

     

     

     

    Sup Richard! :D

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