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after barely looking at my digitakt for months i suddenly discovered that elektron dropped a song mode out of nowhere?! was thinking about selling the digitakt but now I’m more in love than ever and looking for a companion digitone.
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nah it sucks, you better sell the digitakt to me for super cheap
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Oct 19, 2022 19:11
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the best thing about this socialist hellhole are the abdunant $400 digitakts
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Kernel Sanders posted:the best thing about this socialist hellhole are the abdunant $400 digitakts please tell me more. i apologize if i am missing a joke but im down to import from wherever assuming it's not crazy expensive and i can figure out how to use whatever non-english marketplace you're referring to
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ill probably end up getting a digitakt some day in the future when its no longer cool for now i should keep learning my mpc 1000, which i keep mostly using as a midi controller and not so much as a dawless production center this may be a sign that i just prefer working with a computer, but lets choose to ignore this for the time being
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Achmed Jones posted:please tell me more. i apologize if i am missing a joke but im down to import from wherever assuming it's not crazy expensive and i can figure out how to use whatever non-english marketplace you're referring to its on local (nordic) musician craiglist websites. you need to be local to be able to pay and pick them up, unfortunately. even if you found someone willing to accept say, paypal, shipping and customs would eat up the profit
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Kernel Sanders posted:its on local (nordic) musician craiglist websites. you need to be local to be able to pay and pick them up, unfortunately. even if you found someone willing to accept say, paypal, shipping and customs would eat up the profit ahh, gotcha. thanks for the explanation at least 
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i declare wednesdays music days. they are the days I do music after work
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Anyone utilizing Ableton Note? I just got it and from what I can tell, this will be really helpful for me.
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JNCO BILOBA posted:Anyone utilizing Ableton Note? I just got it and from what I can tell, this will be really helpful for me. looks interesting, but would it be useful to someone who doesn't use ableton anywhere else? it'd be cool to have a mobile music app to mess around in, but cooler if i could export projects to my home studio
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ever since i was a little boy ive wanted an amen break sample pack now-- ancient secrets have been revealed to me https://soundcloud.com/splatahouse/sketchbook-oct-19
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Lotron posted:ever since i was a little boy ive wanted an amen break sample pack that sounds good. i have had an mpc 1000 for close to a year now and i still havent tried playing around with chopping beats. should give it a shot
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oh we posting amens https://soundcloud.com/jonny290/judgement this track is older than hbag
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https://soundcloud.com/kohlbern-jary/brap1025-a303ineveryhome Finally got the right goddamn 3.5mm to 5 pin MIDI adapters for the Electribe so I threw a couple patterns in and tweaked away at the knobs on the 03 for a bit. Drums are pretty simplistic because I ran into issues actually triggering my drum machine with polyphony from the Electribe, should be able to spice it up once I get some samples loaded in here.
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posting in here instead of making music, which i should be doing also we did our weekly livestream yesterday and i remember parts of it being good https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-livestream-75
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I got a new midi controller that came with a license for Xpand 2 and I am like a tiny child again twiddling knobs and breaking poo poo every ninety seconds because my mappings are hosed and it’s great fun. https://voca.ro/1Osm4fXEpXJa
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c music s: putzing around with sequencing methods https://on.soundcloud.com/iPS9BYyG4Pt6C12r6 p fun as for the snippet, i think it sounds good on its own, but is not a freestanding independent thing. would love to see it elevated in a larger context
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got this guy for my birthday this year also been remixing another track from a buddy bc that's all i do lately
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two knob SGs are objectively superior. i cannot stand 4knob gibsons there is no point arghhhh and it makes them look so busy
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tbh i've never really bothered with the knobs on any guitar i've owned, if i want to adjust the tone i can do it in fx/amp/DAW 
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i dont like having a lot of knobs but i use pull pots heavily one of my basses is wired to the hilt - neck volume is a series/parallel pull pot, bridge volume is a phase switch pull pot, and i replaced the tone knob with a homebrew varitone circuit that works awesome.  i think it looks pretty cool too with the chicken head knob on the varitone
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i haven't bought any music gear since september and it's been really good to me by making me focus on getting more out of my gear. also saved a bunch of money and then i noticed that soundcloud pro unlimited has been costing 99 eurobucks per year and i have dropped a decent synth's price on just being able to post unlimited tracks on soundcloud (that nobody ends up listening to)
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so i finally sat down and forced myself to complete something that was nebulous and unstructured and this is what came out https://soundcloud.com/killhamster/arthur-for-grandma-rbm-remix i keep taking my buddies' poo poo and remixing it but i'm gonna run out of source material soon and then i have to go back to trying to write things for myself
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Trying to take the step from doing 4-bar loops I dig to structuring whole songs, does anyone have any good resources on like, how to come up with that structure? Like, I can build up say a chorus part pretty well at this point, but then when it comes time to transition I'm not really sure what to do to make something that feels cohesive with the previous part but changes the energy. I realize the answer is probably just "actively listen to music you like more", but if there's some guidelines I can use it would definitely help for me.
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InternetOfTwinks posted:Trying to take the step from doing 4-bar loops I dig to structuring whole songs, does anyone have any good resources on like, how to come up with that structure? Like, I can build up say a chorus part pretty well at this point, but then when it comes time to transition I'm not really sure what to do to make something that feels cohesive with the previous part but changes the energy. I realize the answer is probably just "actively listen to music you like more", but if there's some guidelines I can use it would definitely help for me. there is a life hack where you take a track that is in the style you want to make, and then overlay your loops on that track and kind of copy the structure this could be a start?
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InternetOfTwinks posted:Trying to take the step from doing 4-bar loops I dig to structuring whole songs, does anyone have any good resources on like, how to come up with that structure? Like, I can build up say a chorus part pretty well at this point, but then when it comes time to transition I'm not really sure what to do to make something that feels cohesive with the previous part but changes the energy. I realize the answer is probably just "actively listen to music you like more", but if there's some guidelines I can use it would definitely help for me. this isn't exactly what you're talking about but I watched it the other day and I think it might give you some ideas about how to turn 4 bars into a song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpWsy-f2eRg&t=331s if the 4 bar phrases sound enough like they're building internally (and not just being looped verbatim over and over again) I bet the transitions will feel more natural. also throw in a drum fill maybe? if the instrumentation is totally different between your verse and chorus or whatever you might could allude to the other phrase with lil teases of its instruments
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also according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_structure#Variation_on_the_basic_structure bob dylan made a song that was just AAA so you can just keep hammering that 4 bars if you want and dont even transition to anything, gently caress it
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Yeah, that's definitely going to be some stuff I try to integrate. Adding some automation, working with longer patterns and adding fills and stuff. Going for like an early NIN/Skinny Puppy kind of thing too so building up a good library of samples will let me add some color to things. Is there a good way to downsample wav files in the way early digital samplers did? I know that's really important to get that low fidelity crunch on things, electribe wants it's samples in 16 or 24 bit though so I'll have to fake it.
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InternetOfTwinks posted:Trying to take the step from doing 4-bar loops I dig to structuring whole songs, does anyone have any good resources on like, how to come up with that structure? Like, I can build up say a chorus part pretty well at this point, but then when it comes time to transition I'm not really sure what to do to make something that feels cohesive with the previous part but changes the energy. I realize the answer is probably just "actively listen to music you like more", but if there's some guidelines I can use it would definitely help for me. literally and unironically just copy what a song or track you like does uniqueness is for the weak, we’re here to fail
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also don’t worry about adding the right structure. just add any structure at all. 32 bars are better than 4 bars. bad transitions are better than no transitions
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you may say, “but pollyanna, I have no idea what to fill those 32 bars with other than what I already have!”. and I say yes, that’s fine. you may say, “but pollyanna, won’t I make something bad or something repetitive?”. and I say yes, no one’s listening so it doesn’t matter.
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take pride in being a thief
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You know what I wanna do? I want to make an album that is centered entirely around sounds, ideas, loops, progressions, rhythms, patches, and other unique garbage from people more successful than me. Chopped up poo poo I like and obvious Xerox copies of real, better songs and tracks. Minimal adjustment just to sound good to my ears. Bitch, imma steal. I’m sick of trying to be unique and pure and independently valuable and have a justified existence. Anyone who says they are is a loving liar. I ain’t gonna sell it or let anyone make money off of it, so don’t loving sue me you RIAA-bootlicking pricks. Not like anyone’s listening anyway. Timbaland can suck my teeny weeny peeny gently caress u.
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InternetOfTwinks posted:Yeah, that's definitely going to be some stuff I try to integrate. Adding some automation, working with longer patterns and adding fills and stuff. Going for like an early NIN/Skinny Puppy kind of thing too so building up a good library of samples will let me add some color to things. Is there a good way to downsample wav files in the way early digital samplers did? I know that's really important to get that low fidelity crunch on things, electribe wants it's samples in 16 or 24 bit though so I'll have to fake it Bitcrusher plugins are your friend here. Reduce the sample rate on the plugin to 12 and either record that to a new track or bounce/render the sound before it goes onto your electribe. Playing stuff back at the wrong pitch is also a great way of getting this sort of vibe, particularly stuff like tambourines. A tambourine 2 octaves down is a sound you've probably heard a hundred times but it's not immediately obvious what the source is. One of the most important and best scores of all time was based on this principle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnpYowxlwsU For more general NINny Puppy sounds, you'll be after sounds from the older sample based drum machines, search for the Vintage Drum Machine archive, it's been floating around forever, is just over a Gb in size and has every drum machine you could ever want in there, as well as a bunch of other sounds from synths and samplers to use. The Arturia EMU and Fairlight are excellent if you have V Collection, not just for the sounds but the instant fuckup the sound engines can impart on your own- I think a lot of Pretty Hate Machine was an EMU, or similar
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just having the samples isn’t enough. you also gotta process then. and then just processing them isn’t enough, you gotta know what DSP to apply. and knowing what DSP to apply isn’t enough, you gotta know how to use the sound you get which is to say: don’t worry about doing that right, either. it’s all luck. go nuts making insane bullshit industrial sounding samples because it does not matter
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Yeah, been messing around with some DR 550 samples, got a really nice early sample drum machine sound to them. Not as tricky as I expected getting them suitably processed, though I imagine I'll be tinkering around with it quite a bit over time.
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Pollyanna posted:You know what I wanna do? I want to make an album that is centered entirely around sounds, ideas, loops, progressions, rhythms, patches, and other unique garbage from people more successful than me. Chopped up poo poo I like and obvious Xerox copies of real, better songs and tracks. Minimal adjustment just to sound good to my ears. Bitch, imma steal. I’m sick of trying to be unique and pure and independently valuable and have a justified existence. Anyone who says they are is a loving liar. this you
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NonzeroCircle posted:Bitcrusher plugins are your friend here. Reduce the sample rate on the plugin to 12 and either record that to a new track or bounce/render the sound before it goes onto your electribe. all this but also research which gear you're trying to emulate and its limitations, and also fiddle with the sample rate. e.g. 8 bit 27kHz for an e-mu emulator, or 12 bit 40kHz for typical MPC60 type sounds. this is a decent enough rundown of the basics
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baaaaaack in the day i was running cubase 3.5 on a pentium 133, and i had to run 32khz sample rate for four mono tracks to play skip-less. god how far we've come
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