chim Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 albums? what are those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 30 minutes ago, yekker said: If you guys were to take some pills for your gassyness, do you think you'd be able to make consistently good albums with just a few pieces of gear? Aphex made Druqks with nothing but an 808 and a 303, so I guess it’s possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nil Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 (edited) Just backed this : https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/plasmonic-a-deeply-expressive-virtual-synthesizer--2#/ The Gong and Halloween vids are especially impressive. The textures are so organic yet dynamic, it should bd an incredible techno synth for a huge Gabor Lazar / Rrose / Egyptrixx fanboy like me. I bet it can also go effortlessly into Barker’s territories. And so much more. What an amazing time to make electronic music ! Edited January 23, 2020 by Nil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xox Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 12 hours ago, yekker said: If you guys were to take some pills for your gassyness, do you think you'd be able to make consistently good albums with just a few pieces of gear? Yes. I’ve made some pretty good tracks with only one synth, sometimes with only 2-3 channels. All you need is good enough synth, that speaks to you, that you feel as a psychological object, that you like to interact with. In that regard monomachine is no.1 to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thawkins Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Slowly working myself up (again) to go get Live 10 suite with m4l integration, so I can control my external hardware better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limo Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 13 hours ago, auxien said: Aphex made Druqks with nothing but an 808 and a 303, so I guess it’s possible He made it with trackers, prepared pianos and goodness knows what else. It's also by far his weakest album, though, so the point still stands. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 14 hours ago, yekker said: If you guys were to take some pills for your gassyness, do you think you'd be able to make consistently good albums with just a few pieces of gear? I've made some of my (imo) best stuff using cheap (or free) gear/software. I buy synths because they're fun to mess around with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 1 hour ago, rhmilo said: He made it with trackers, prepared pianos and goodness knows what else. It's also by far his weakest album, though, so the point still stands. lol it would be someone who thought it was his weakest album who didn't get that it was a joke. not a great joke, granted, but still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limo Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 7 hours ago, auxien said: lol it would be someone who thought it was his weakest album who didn't get that it was a joke. not a great joke, granted, but still. Yes. It turns out I can take three levels of meta in a joke just fine, but four or more becomes a problem. This was seven: way, way outta my league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nil Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 @Stickfigger eheh, I still don't regret selling it though. I'm still gobsmacked by what I can get out of Bazille though (yeah I know, blasphemy), this synth is so rewarding. It took me a while, but the thing is insanely deep, and now I have a wonderful, lush yet weird and temperamental sound palette at my disposal, and Baz provides 99% of it (Hive 2 is a stunning little beats too, I've been getting some properly amazing drums out of it lately). And thanks to it I've never been that productive / inspired. Feels goooooood. I can't wait to have Plasmonic thrown in the equation, it will handle all these dissonant metallic drone / stabs I love so much effortlessly I bet (according to the vids at least). A Serge modular (maybe going for Eurorack ones, don't know yet) is the only hardware I'm craving for really, that could add something super fun to my set-up. The tone is to die for (as time goes by, I'm more inspired by the sheer sonics rather than the features), and it must be delightful to live-code the shit out of it Might sell my boutiques to fund it. Still have a couple of EPs to finish before though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TubularCorporation Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 I really, REALLY want one of these for the old Wavestation SR, but € 230 is not even close to an option right now. He's just using it for the same old analog synth waveforms and playing soem stereotypical 80s chords, but there's so much potential here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 think i might buy a Peak this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psychotronic Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 I had a short instance of GAS for a roland mc 101, but then noticed that playing liveacts with that thing will not work, because of the scenes limitation. So fuck that, just bought a Elektron M:S instead as sampler for my beats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDEM Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Like if Wolfgang Voigt brought you here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 Just acquired severe gas for a Drumbrute. Its in my price bracket and i some some guy using one last night and it was RAD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweepstakes Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 YT recommended me a bunch of modular videos today and I actually tried to watch them and 2as just like fuckthisfuckthisfuckthis Loving the inappropriate things the Bastl Thyme I picked up in Dec does to my little PO posse. Trying to understand SC pattern sequencing for like the 5th time. Wish me luck. I hope it clicks because I can hardly fucking stand using other sequencers anymore and I can't be arsed with developing genuine musicianship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted February 7, 2020 Author Share Posted February 7, 2020 (edited) I think my modular experiments are coming to an end. I decided at some point last year that I should either keep expanding in order to be able to make full tracks in a modular environment, or downsize to maintain a concise, single voice and/or effects/filter rack. I decided on the second option. It's about half the size of what it was at its peak and now I'm considering downsizing even more, maybe even to just my Intellijel palette case. Dealing with MIDI to CV has been the bane of my existence the whole time as well, and I'm getting a bit sick of it tbh. I think I'm just generally more inspired by the potential to exploit fixed architecture synths. (I still want the Wavestate, but I've cooled off a little) Edited February 7, 2020 by modey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted February 7, 2020 Author Share Posted February 7, 2020 Yeah that's why I'm holding off for a while. I have a feeling that with a synth that deep, even with its extended interface compared to its predecessor, I'd probably end up relying on presets and/or my own patches wouldn't be very complex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweepstakes Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 On 2/6/2020 at 8:13 PM, sweepstakes said: Trying to understand SC pattern sequencing for like the 5th time. Wish me luck. I hope it clicks because I can hardly fucking stand using other sequencers anymore and I can't be arsed with developing genuine musicianship. I think it's finally starting to click this time. The P-syntax is a lot more verbose than Tidal, but I'm finding it easier to wrap my head around. Also abstracting, cross-referencing, and redefining streams live is much cleaner than I remember Tidal being. Already making some half-decent primitive techno. The source code is also much clearer so I can study those to make some of my own streamers (for e.g. reversing streams). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 On 2/6/2020 at 7:35 PM, Stickfigger said: Copped a Hydrasynth module ... selling some other stuff to fund On 2/7/2020 at 1:47 AM, Stickfigger said: Wavestate2 with a screen 4x the size and i'll be down. does one need both? obviously different machines but i'd think there's a lot of overlap in terms of sound and use-case between them this isn't fuckin' gearslutz mang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Just ordered an ex-demo Volca Drum for £109. I love ex-demo bargains. Can't justify a drumbrute or anything more substantial right now. I actually really miss my Volca Kick since selling it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted February 13, 2020 Author Share Posted February 13, 2020 I'm starting to miss having a fkn OP-1, argh. I sold it two years ago for around half the price of what they are now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acid1 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 On 2/12/2020 at 10:29 PM, modey said: I'm starting to miss having a fkn OP-1, argh. I sold it two years ago for around half the price of what they are now Its kinda the ultimate portable synth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 2 hours ago, acid1 said: Its kinda the ultimate portable synth. The only thing I don't like about them is you have to be good with a keyboard because of its lack of step sequencer; I've never actually used one though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted February 14, 2020 Author Share Posted February 14, 2020 It's got sequencers and an arpeggiator. Not quite a TR/Elektron style sequencer, but you can definitely make auto-playing patterns with it. That said, it's basically temporary pattern storage rather than something where you can store hundreds of patterns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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