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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
lol good poo poo

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Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



nice!

does Live ever go on sale? the options seem to be insanely expensive (bc it seems kind of pointless to not get all the VSTs and stuff), educational (I'm not in the academy any more though) and piracy. Like, I want to throw a couple hundy their way and have a legit full copy, is that possible at all?

rchon
Feb 19, 2015

Achmed Jones posted:

nice!

does Live ever go on sale? the options seem to be insanely expensive (bc it seems kind of pointless to not get all the VSTs and stuff), educational (I'm not in the academy any more though) and piracy. Like, I want to throw a couple hundy their way and have a legit full copy, is that possible at all?

not in any meaningful way (as in, ni's black friday level discounts). i don't know how strict their educational checks are but an old uni id + edu email might be enough. when i was younger and broke i wouldn't have any qualms about pirating stuff but it's worth noting that there was a cracked version for macos that was found to have a cryptominer in it or something.

i just bought live 10 suite for ~$430 after using some lovely live 9 cracked pos forever-- the trick was to use kvr audio's marketplace. bookmark a search for ableton suite and check it every few days.

kaboofa
Sep 13, 2004
Kaboofa

rchon posted:

not in any meaningful way (as in, ni's black friday level discounts)

Back in 2012 (ugh that was 8 years ago) I got a 25% deal on Live 8, it came with a free upgrade to Live 9.
Highest discount I ever saw was 30%.

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
i got it three times, the lite version, with novation products and komplete audio 1

just pirate it tho you’re not making money and if you do pay for it then

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki
bitwig goes on sale for less AND it runs on linux to boot. this is good poo poo for me since i can hook up a basic USB keyboard to my linux laptop and write stuff in bed before expanding on it with my beefy windows desktop+reaktor. i had an easier time getting it to talk to reaktor too, and it supposedly supports MPE better, though seemingly nothing supports MPE /well/

i never used live enough to get really accustomed to its interface, and bitwig seems close enough. being able to use it away from my desk is huge for me actually doing poo poo, but on the other hand i imagine most people aren't idiot linux laptop users like me, even in yospos. still cheaper though!

in unrelated news https://mariateriaeva.bandcamp.com/album/conservatory-of-flowers i am excite for new russian buchla album. i also have no idea how anyone in russia affords a buchla

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



pirating stuff sucks though. like they'll just be missing convolution reverb or whatever and you'll end up having to gently caress with VMs or WINE because oh look your pirated version of osx software has a keygen that needs windows. and then you can't update. and then you have to worry about malware. pirating software is just a massive pain in the rear end that im all about avoiding if I can. but for $700 or whatever yeah, I guess qpiracy is probably worth my time

id much rather avoid messing with cracks and all that. heavily-discounted legitimate(-ish) serials though? now that's my jam

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



oh word thanks I'll check out bitwig too

well why not
Feb 10, 2009




Achmed Jones posted:

nice!

does Live ever go on sale? the options seem to be insanely expensive (bc it seems kind of pointless to not get all the VSTs and stuff), educational (I'm not in the academy any more though) and piracy. Like, I want to throw a couple hundy their way and have a legit full copy, is that possible at all?

it goes on sale very rarely. maybe once a year, I think? It’s full fat Professional Recording Software for Grownups despite its chill DJ aesthetics.

if I were to start from scratch I’d skip the packs. I never use them. just get serum instead if you want to do any synth poo poo. i have live suits and komplete 9 or 10 and most often reach for Serum.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
music is fun and i do it sometimes

https://youtu.be/SX6HbMdNFcM

https://youtu.be/DDmzbYV0d9M

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
yeah ppl post ur catalogs

heres the best thing ive done, an ep that was written 100% while actually riding on the 15L bus in east denver, then mixed and finished after i got home from work

https://soundcloud.com/jonny290/sets/untitled-ep

done 100% with renoise and probably some old poo poo like sound forge to trim samples

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


Achmed Jones posted:

nice!

does Live ever go on sale? the options seem to be insanely expensive (bc it seems kind of pointless to not get all the VSTs and stuff), educational (I'm not in the academy any more though) and piracy. Like, I want to throw a couple hundy their way and have a legit full copy, is that possible at all?

i got live 9 non-suite version and even though i miss M4L, everything else works nicely for me as i stick to free vsts and hardware stuff. i recall the price was around 300 euros or something?

edit: posting my soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins
i got pro unlimited this year so now making a point to post something every week

4lokos basilisk fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Mar 12, 2020

alexandriao
Jul 20, 2019


LuckySevens posted:

i settled on messing around with this new beta app cables.gl (which is compatible with blender!!!) and ableton, will report back

I tried to join the beta but uhhhhhh. I registered, and the confirmation code went through, but it bugged out and said I wasn't confirmed when I tried to login. Tried to re-register and it said I *was* confirmed, and could login. I sent a support request and they haven't answered yet, it's been two days :S

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


LuckySevens posted:

you're making a lot of sense here, but it'd still be cool to have a standalone device you can take with whatever music kit you have.

i'll see if anyone has any cool mods, maybe a light effect sync :rodtronics:

that's what i am saying - the pi requires intensive computer janitoring to be able to function as a standalone device, you're better off with an axoloti in that case

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


oh and if you want a pro-quality DAW to play around and record in, you can't go wrong with Reaper. there's a million free plugins. it's missing Live's session view though which makes live jamming not so comfortable

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
do u guys have a workflow? like start with a beat then do bass or what?

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
you know you struggled to write a 300 word essay in middle school but by the end of college you struggled to write anything but a 6,000 word essay? same thing

as you grow you learn how to write music, and way too much music. editing and liberal scrapping of bad ideas is most of the hard work

here's a demo of one of the songs i made above. this is the first thing i made. i started with the piano, and strings, then laid down some simple drums, and then just kept adding and removing stuff until i was really happy with it.

add more sections, add a breakdown, a bridge, add more bass, parts for the piece to build up. then take that and find the best 5 minutes in it.

https://u.teknik.io/lwETo.mp3

Convoolio
Oct 31, 2005

Jonny 290 posted:

yeah ppl post ur catalogs

heres the best thing ive done, an ep that was written 100% while actually riding on the 15L bus in east denver, then mixed and finished after i got home from work

https://soundcloud.com/jonny290/sets/untitled-ep

done 100% with renoise and probably some old poo poo like sound forge to trim samples

this is real good

content:

https://soundcloud.com/metacontext

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
kaosillator is free atm for ios and android

fun for some moments

relative_q
Sep 9, 2008

shame on a kitty who try to run game on a kitty

wu buck wild wit tha trigga


Jonny 290 posted:

yeah ppl post ur catalogs

here's my catalog. i've been doing this poo poo for like 25 years now.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/178583-Relative-Q
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1542060-RCMP

there's a bunch of poo poo i released in the tracker scene way back in the day that isn't listed there, but honestly it's not really worth a poo poo comparatively.

relative_q fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Mar 14, 2020

relative_q
Sep 9, 2008

shame on a kitty who try to run game on a kitty

wu buck wild wit tha trigga


echinopsis posted:

do u guys have a workflow? like start with a beat then do bass or what?

my workflow changes depending on weather patterns, the phase of the moon, and my diet

Zaxxon
Feb 14, 2004

Wir Tanzen Mekanik

Jonny 290 posted:

yeah ppl post ur catalogs

I got this soundcloud, but it's mostly fuckin around kinda stuff. That's all I really have recorded.

https://soundcloud.com/void-star-1

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
soundcloud.com/echinopsis

it’s mostly garbage and sound experimenting. can’t make a rhythm or bassline to save my life

making phat sounds.. within my sphere of influence

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



i have a soundcloud but it's empty

im working on it though!

also the Model D moog app is free. go get it, it's rad

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/566260654 i brought the twitch stream back here's an hour ish of drum and bass

traktor is fun

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


echinopsis posted:

do u guys have a workflow? like start with a beat then do bass or what?

sometimes its incredibly difficult to get started because i keep posting on forums or doing some ridiculous bullshit

but usually i start with just random noodling on any instrument until i accidentally end up on a loop that sound nice, then i record it and start building on that.

i try to change things around a bit, this week i have been messing around with the orca sequencer i linked before, but it's been hella busy so no results yet

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
I don't do a lot of blips and bloops but I use FL for everything I do:
https://soundcloud.com/atomd

I'm seriously considering writing a VST for something, though.
I want to take input from my MIDI keyboard, then split that to channels 1-16, with each of which should be togglable with MIDI CC commands. Like organ stops, you know.
This will sit between my KB and the main VST I use (which is ARIA player) for when I'm playing poo poo live, so I can switch instruments on an off using something my nano kontrol/ launch control / FL Fire

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



I just finished my first song. It is very not good! I learned a lot about using Ableton, though.

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


AtomD posted:

I don't do a lot of blips and bloops but I use FL for everything I do:
https://soundcloud.com/atomd

I'm seriously considering writing a VST for something, though.
I want to take input from my MIDI keyboard, then split that to channels 1-16, with each of which should be togglable with MIDI CC commands. Like organ stops, you know.
This will sit between my KB and the main VST I use (which is ARIA player) for when I'm playing poo poo live, so I can switch instruments on an off using something my nano kontrol/ launch control / FL Fire

not super familiar with FL and ARIA but here's how it should be possible:
assuming your MIDI keyboard transmits on channel 1, you need 16 tracks each listening to MIDI channel 1 to receive data from your keyboard
each channel should output to the channel where you have your ARIA VST (I assume it listens on many channels at the same time?).
now the trick is to configure each of those tracks so that it routes the MIDI to the correct instrument in ARIA and that should be somehow doable in FL

after you've done the routing, now you only need to map some keyboard or MIDI CCs for arming the 16 tracks so that you can toggle them on and off - ARIA will just receive incoming notes from the proper tracks and voila you can switch instruments on and off

another way is just to MIDI learn the toggle parameters in ARIA?

but definitely you dont need a VST just to do that, this is all basic DAW routing stuff, should be possible one way or the other

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Achmed Jones posted:

I just finished my first song. It is very not good! I learned a lot about using Ableton, though.

good poo poo brother

ableton live is good, and when you get ya head around modulation and automation you’ll make all sorts of dope beats


my ableton live lite suffers from a lack of inbuilt instruments. I used to use “analog” and “operator” for all sorts of poo poo

one thing i’d like to know how to do is how to send synth commands to the bass station ii over midi because I know it’s possible to program every parameter over midi and so you could not just send notes but everything but I don’t know how to create something akin to sending a txt file to the synth over midi.

I do know how to send patch changes to the synth so could pre program the synth patches and have live change patches and also how to record every parameter change on the synth to midi in ableton

also for some reason now my bass station ii won’t connect as midi over usb anymore. it runs off usb power wise so clearly the usb is working but no longer connects as midi 😖

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

Penisface posted:

not super familiar with FL and ARIA but here's how it should be possible:
assuming your MIDI keyboard transmits on channel 1, you need 16 tracks each listening to MIDI channel 1 to receive data from your keyboard
each channel should output to the channel where you have your ARIA VST (I assume it listens on many channels at the same time?).
now the trick is to configure each of those tracks so that it routes the MIDI to the correct instrument in ARIA and that should be somehow doable in FL

after you've done the routing, now you only need to map some keyboard or MIDI CCs for arming the 16 tracks so that you can toggle them on and off - ARIA will just receive incoming notes from the proper tracks and voila you can switch instruments on and off

another way is just to MIDI learn the toggle parameters in ARIA?

but definitely you dont need a VST just to do that, this is all basic DAW routing stuff, should be possible one way or the other

I think the right way to do this in FL is to use a Layer, which you set up to be connected to 16 MidiOuts, each with their output channel/port set to the corresponding instrument in the ARIA VST.
The rear end part of this is that I have two keyboards and a bass foot pedals. So I have to set up 3 layers and 48 midi outs. That's frustrating, but it would probably be the best thing to do.

AtomD fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Mar 14, 2020

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
midi is pretty sick tbf, is there any other standard that’s 30 odd years old and still just works.


my novation circuits midi ports were just 3.5mm audio ports with an adapter so it didn’t even take up much room


circuit was awesome. DAWless is cool

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


echinopsis posted:

good poo poo brother

ableton live is good, and when you get ya head around modulation and automation you’ll make all sorts of dope beats


my ableton live lite suffers from a lack of inbuilt instruments. I used to use “analog” and “operator” for all sorts of poo poo

one thing i’d like to know how to do is how to send synth commands to the bass station ii over midi because I know it’s possible to program every parameter over midi and so you could not just send notes but everything but I don’t know how to create something akin to sending a txt file to the synth over midi.

I do know how to send patch changes to the synth so could pre program the synth patches and have live change patches and also how to record every parameter change on the synth to midi in ableton

also for some reason now my bass station ii won’t connect as midi over usb anymore. it runs off usb power wise so clearly the usb is working but no longer connects as midi 😖

you can use Simpler as a wavetable synth, sky's the limit https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/free-wavetable-synth-using-simpler/

get some single cycle waveforms here and just drag em in a simpler https://www.adventurekid.se/akrt/waveforms/adventure-kid-waveforms/

Penguissimo
Apr 7, 2007

I made the idiotic decision to go to school for music

the primary output from this has been a handful of shakycam videos and iphone recordings of various musical genres

North Indian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs4_kOrZ0MI

https://soundcloud.com/wcicola/trust-imn-135/s-Ci7bX

Indian/Jazz fusion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym14T9v3b8I

South Indian
https://soundcloud.com/wcicola/thilana/s-4VOPX

Turkish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F41rWUsuoGA

Ashekenazi Jewish:
https://soundcloud.com/slivovitz-klezmer

Jazz (which you will see I suck at) as performed by an Indian group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzQOsXNQtxc

Classical (what I was ostensibly in school for but also suck at):
https://soundcloud.com/wcicola/brahms-sonata-no-1-in-f-minor-2/s-n78XU
https://soundcloud.com/wcicola/glazunov-saxophone-concerto/s-1YY2b

oh and the friend who got me the computer touching job I have now was someone I met originally because I was teaching his son music lessons, but I'm not sure if that exactly counts as "output" from that initial career attempt

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
This is attempt at playing the synth, as in, I send notes from Ableton and play the knobs.

It's not really a song but there are some cool moments.


One thing I should do, because there have been times I've recorded myself loving around, and I come up with cool bits but I can't recreate it, is also record the MIDI notes and the MIDI CC, because I've now learned ableton records both when you record MIDI, and this way could somewhat be able to recreate the sound perfectly later on.



https://soundcloud.com/user-987488156/fanterrible



that's the "song" lmao

toiletbrush
May 17, 2010

Penisface posted:

sometimes its incredibly difficult to get started because i keep posting on forums or doing some ridiculous bullshit

but usually i start with just random noodling on any instrument until i accidentally end up on a loop that sound nice, then i record it and start building on that.
Same. It's kinda funny that some famous musicians like Brian Eno are totally unapologetic about that being their way of making music, but I wonder how much of a track some artists have in their head before they start, or once they're going how much they need to experiment before they get something that's exactly right.

echinopsis posted:

midi is pretty sick tbf, is there any other standard that’s 30 odd years old and still just works.
It's amazingly good given its age, but kinda lacking if you want to do much automation, because most of it is global to a channel, not to individual notes, and messages like note-on only contain a single parameter (velocity) besides the note#. You can get around it, but it's annoying.

My ES-9 arrived and does exactly what I wanted, which is sort of great but now means I've got no excuses. A million acid tracks incoming.

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


toiletbrush posted:

Same. It's kinda funny that some famous musicians like Brian Eno are totally unapologetic about that being their way of making music, but I wonder how much of a track some artists have in their head before they start, or once they're going how much they need to experiment before they get something that's exactly right.

It's amazingly good given its age, but kinda lacking if you want to do much automation, because most of it is global to a channel, not to individual notes, and messages like note-on only contain a single parameter (velocity) besides the note#. You can get around it, but it's annoying.

My ES-9 arrived and does exactly what I wanted, which is sort of great but now means I've got no excuses. A million acid tracks incoming.

sequence CCs from your DAW as well as notes :)


sometimes i have an idea of a bassline or a tune in my head, but most often it's quite random and i am just trying to get good enough to focus it in some abstract direction

toiletbrush
May 17, 2010

Zaxxon posted:

I got this soundcloud, but it's mostly fuckin around kinda stuff. That's all I really have recorded.

https://soundcloud.com/void-star-1
I like these. How did you build your plate reverb?


AtomD posted:

I don't do a lot of blips and bloops but I use FL for everything I do:
https://soundcloud.com/atomd
I really like these also

Penisface posted:

sequence CCs from your DAW as well as notes :)
I don't really get how, though? Like, say I'm programming drums and I've got a CC for how open a filter is for the duration of the sample, independent of velocity - if I have a note-on for a long cymbal sample with the filter CC at 80, then a beat later a snare with the filter CC at 100, that opens the filter for both sounds. There's ways round it, but it will always be limited or awkward in ways that it wouldn't be if messages could have multiple parameters.

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


toiletbrush posted:

I don't really get how, though? Like, say I'm programming drums and I've got a CC for how open a filter is for the duration of the sample, independent of velocity - if I have a note-on for a long cymbal sample with the filter CC at 80, then a beat later a snare with the filter CC at 100, that opens the filter for both sounds. There's ways round it, but it will always be limited or awkward in ways that it wouldn't be if messages could have multiple parameters.

ahh right you only can automate one CC for one thing at a time.. I somehow thought you can send CC on different channels to the filters for snare and cymbal. in that case you can just record a loop of snare with one filter automation, then a loop of cymbal with another.

i guess that's one of the restrictions of modular - a lot of stuff is passing through the same modules or influencing each other so you can't really think of "snare track" and "cymbal track" but it's all a mish mash of percussion

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toiletbrush
May 17, 2010

Penisface posted:

ahh right you only can automate one CC for one thing at a time.. I somehow thought you can send CC on different channels to the filters for snare and cymbal. in that case you can just record a loop of snare with one filter automation, then a loop of cymbal with another.

i guess that's one of the restrictions of modular - a lot of stuff is passing through the same modules or influencing each other so you can't really think of "snare track" and "cymbal track" but it's all a mish mash of percussion
yeah you can do it that way, just put your different drums or whatever on different tracks/channels, its just annoying to have to.

modular actually makes it easier because you can just use sample-and-hold on stuff you want to 'stick' to a note. Also now I've got my es9 I can put every individual sound through it's own locally sourced artisanal processing chain in Logic which will mean even more fannying about with fx rather than doing something more productive.

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