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I've almost certainly spent more on computer music stuff this past year than the decade before (partially cos I want everything legit, partially cos there's been some crazy sales but still, I reckon its nosing towards 1000 when I factor in new midi controllers and the annual Cubase upgrade). Spending out big on this stuff is fairly new for me even though I've been doing computery music for a loooong time now. I've found if I paid for everything I use it and learn to use it. The other day, In an attempt to build my confidence a bit I shared a video of me playing guitar along to a full cover/interpretation (a more guitar centred version of KI Theory's cover of Enjoy The Silence) I did which was well received by people on Facebook. Not brave enough for youtube yet. HTFU, I know. I had a channel for a bit but at the time I was over sensitive and annoyed that the only comments were people missing the point. IE 'techno track track made in 30 mins using only 3 instances of retrologue' got poo poo like 'u need to work on your sounds--get omnisphere!' Sharing that song/vid was huge for me cos a) I dont think much of my singing voice, super nasal and needs a ton of eq and b) video actually had my face in it instead of just being my guitar in frame. Many of my friends are far more "successful" in my eyes than I am, being in multiple bands, having toured, bunch of releases, t shirts/merch (although I do a lot of their design work) but even though I'm doing something different to them they were really supportive. They're convinced I'm better than them in the same way I feel they are better than me. Do what feels right for you Echi, as said, most important thing is to enjoy yourself and get something out of it. Comparison to others is OK to a point but you aren't others, you're you. (and you've always been really helpful when I dip into the blender thread) E/N over, here's to a better 2021
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My Alesis SR16 should arrive today, can't wait to make some dodgy 90s industrial beats running it through my pedals and monotron delay!
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UPS are dicking me around (no surprise there) but will post plastic thuds when I get it
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Made a Godfleshy thing with my SR16 https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/xLvqL (how do I get this embedded/playable from thread?)
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Ah OK, when I see other posts with soundcloud links I have the little waveform thingy but mine isn't showing like that for me. I reallllly want to play this drum machine through a big PA, it thumps. Guitars and bass on that are all Native Instruments guitar rig 6, Metalzone on the guitars and a Rat on the bass
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Jonny 290 posted:oh i didnt know embeds were possible at all. It's the "dirty studio bass" preset in GR 6 then I put a "Cat" distortion after the first compressor but before the amp. Just cheapy ibanez gio 5 string bass and gio 7 string NonzeroCircle fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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Thanks! I don't thing the guitar playing on that is anywhere near my best but I was going for a vibe more than anything. I've had that bass rhythm stuck in my head all day so I think I'm gonna finesse it into a whole track with more than just that one beat. Working my way through that SR16 video manual, so much thought went into this thing, even though more often than not I've been programming beats from Cubase and got my Maschine Mikro talking to it yesterday. The beat on that tune is all SR16 though. It's so weird that when I click on this page everyone else's stuff has soundcloud widget thing and mine is just a clicky link.
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Hello again, here's a dodgy phone recording of me dicking around with my Maschine Mikro 3, SR16 etc. The main beat is off the SR16 and was programmed in Cubase, the Maschine is loaded with a few jungly beats I made with one shots and the pads are in 'pattern' mode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Sxot98GfA NonzeroCircle fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Mar 10, 2021 |
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Thanks! I make a few trashy scribbles like this a week, really struggle with deciding if anything/a direction is worth pursuing or 'good' so most of it gets exported as an approx 1 min wav and then I don't save the project. Its... Not the most efficient working practice! Edit: today's trashy scribble Bit less droney. Help me I have listened to Pitchshifter's Submit EP 6 times today. https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/cgD3g NonzeroCircle fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Mar 12, 2021 |
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Mar 11, 2021 21:12
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I really like that Echi, I'm far too much of a wuss to post my naked guitar playing! What did you use on GR6, that sounds really er... Guitarry? I know people slag it for high gain but since becoming legit and not a dirty little  with musoc software it's all I've used for 6 months and I'm pleased with the sounds I get, but if you hadn't said that was guitar rig I wouldn't have guessed it wasn't a real amp and pedals, it's so organic sounding!Ive got super into Reaktor Blocks recently making weird sequency things and am pissing off all 5 other musicians I know by harassing them with it, especially as the basic version is free
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Puppy eater One of my patients accused me of eating puppies yesterday, so here's a song in the style of Ministry about eating dogs to get high. Also feat L'il Jon samples I had for some reason.
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(xpost from synth thread in ML) https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/zqqLf Had a go recording my new Microfreak, I'm enjoying it a lot. Drums are just the stock maschine 909 distorted to hell and some tacky one shots
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Solid state guitar amps are cool, as are bass tube amps. I think I will probably die before my grey stripe Bandit does, that thing is solid AF and sounds great.
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My 'grown up' amp head is a Blackstar tvp 100 which is 250 solid state Watts but has their wacky faux tube modelling stuff. I haven't really been able to use it much the past year cos I don't have a cabinet at home (which would be overkill anyway) and also the built in cab sim is kinda wank and it's faff setting it up to bypass that and load a whatever after when Guitar Rig 6 is right there ready to go. Which is a shame. I wish it was easier to bypass or even load a different IR into the Blackstar rather than use its lovely software over USB that doesn't let it work as 'an interface' to swap the emulated out into being the fx loop which bypasses the poo poo cab but wrecks the gain staging, but is also the only way to get just the sound of the head. When used with a cabinet this head is real good. It's louder than you'd ever really need, and QOL stuff like saving presets and 6 amp models that are all useable is cool. I pretty much had it to the point where all I'd need to do in different venues was adjust the master out, resonance and presence if needed and that was it. Soooo much easier than my bamdmates Dual Recto was, even though that sounded better lol NonzeroCircle fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Apr 22, 2021 |
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I think those might want a preamp rather than DI. Could be wrong. Does the bass have an active preamp in it where you have to put in a battery? I'd try a new one if it sounds weak.
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My interace (Steinberg UR22 mk2) is odd about gain too, I pretty much have to memorise what each guitar likes as its input level. All are passive except my bass but it can range from 8 to 12 o clock on the input gain
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Apr 27, 2021 20:45
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Thanks, I'm Sorry https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/xxBWn Final version which will be released on a compilation next week (it's for Wateraid, got artists from everywhere on it, I clearly will be the last track as I am on all compilations as I destroy the flow otherwise  )Now to make my 9th soundcloud as alice DARC is too good an artist name to pass up NonzeroCircle fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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How weird, might be cos the new upload overwrote it maybe? I thought I'd named them differently  Soundcloud is criminally user unfriendly sometimes. I have started a new one under the name alice DARC for more of this synthier stuff, final version of the track is nearly done, just doing my half-assed master through Ozone. Album deadline is tomorrow so I have no choice but to call it  finished Edit; final mix, tweaked some levels, added some sawtooths and extended the stompy bit at the end https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/JVB4v NonzeroCircle fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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My buddy runs a little electronic label and does a radio show, that's where my song from upthread is going. He does charity Bandcamp compilations semifrequently so if you want in on one of those let me know and I can forward details. This lost recent one has a couple artists from South America on it which is real cool when you consider this is a guy in a village in Cornwall putting it together
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https://threeeyedcatrecords.bandcamp.com/ Here's the bandcamp I mentioned earlier, you can contact the Three -Eyed Cat via this to express interest in the next one. I ironically completely spaced on the submission date for the first album, Whorl Clock which had the concept as 'time'
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Although it feels strange loading it on non-guitar tracks, I really appreciate how Guitar Rig hosts a bunch of stuff I don't have separately/otherwise in my version of Komplete. The RC reverbs and Supercharger GT for example. Also, n'thing Raum, I picked it up when it was free and although it can get really weird it's also a great normal reverb. Having said that, I've been using the smallest shittiest version of Roomworks (Cubase stock verb) a lot on drums because its crispy and gross. Wet all the way up, smallest possible reverb time sounds great on percussion
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echinopsis posted:if you have guitar rig, the gratifier amp, set to clean, with the gain set on the lower third or so is in my opinion the best amp across the whole thing for only-just breakup and it sounds good with guitar of course but if you want to put something on drums for a bit of overdrive or saturation can i suggest you try that amp and channel Ooh good idea! When I had my first drum machine way back when I only had either my bass or guitar amps to play it back through so I got acclimatised to the gnarl and weird voicing off the speakers and the first time I tried it with headphones it was like a totally different instrument hearing the whole frequency range. My Drumbrute Impact arrived today (and a little behringer line mixer as I have only 2 inputs on my interface too many things I want to hear at once) so I guess brace yourselves for more distorted stuff soon.
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Distortion sends are the secret weapon for percussion, vocals, everything. Izotope Trash 2 is so Boss (no pun), I think everyone should have it, it's frequently on sale or included in bundles. Share Bear you just got "crossfader dominator" playing in my head, as probably last heard by anyone ever on Thrasher: Skate and Destroy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DibYSBpg1wk Quick n dirty phone video of jamming out Come To Daddy on my Microfreak and new Drumbrute Impact NonzeroCircle fucked around with this message at 19:12 on May 15, 2021 |
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https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/4pfzT Mucking around in drop c with wonky time sigs. It's somewhere between Resident Evil movie soundtrack and periphery but not as good as either lol Edit: Residjent Evil NonzeroCircle fucked around with this message at 19:53 on May 24, 2021 |
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As long as you don't expect electronic drums to feel like real drums they are cool. The snares/toms aren't so bad but I struggle without a kick pad and especially the unmoving cymbals. Someone I used to support had an Alesis Ion drumkit and a huge set of powered PA speakers to go with it. He broke it (sheared off half the pieces) because he beat the poo poo out of it one day "why'd you do that bud? That was silly" "I wanted it to be louder because I'm angry about *whatever*" "Why didn't you just turn up the monitors?" "... Oh yeah. Whoops." My main gripe was the 808 kick sounded sick but it was the same "Rap Kick Hi" from the SR16 and you couldn't tune it so it tickled your nips rather than rumbled your tum
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Jonny 290 posted:this kinda motivates me to see exactly how many fuckin reverbs and delays i can stack up in renoise now on the ryzen. i havent even thought about it Man, I need to open renoise again. It's so lightweight and optimised it's almost offensive. I tend to use it piped into Cubase via rewire but it'd probably do my soul good just to mess around with it solo. Having said that, I got a lovely 1st gen behringer digital delay and the equivalent reverb for £20 each and they have literally doubled my perceived value of my Microfreak. I know they're like, the worst free 2006 KVR vsts jammed into a crappy plastic case, but it's so much more inspirational than using say, Replika and Raum on my DAW channel.
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Machine Head is kinda groove/nu metal up til The Blackening when they became what everyone wants from Metallica. Devildriver perhaps- Dez was in Coal Chamber who were Nu-est of the Nu. I'd also say Chimaira's Resurrection album. And Otep, when she isn't doing weird poems. Otep rule.
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Renoise Rewires into Cubase really well I've found. I'll tend to make nonsense choppy beats in Renoise then record them into Cubase as audio and go from there.
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Does anyone here use Renoise at all? If so, what for (like, just fucky beats, whole tunes)? I get into it for like, an afternoon then shelve it for a couple months until its weird allure calls to me again in hex Maybe I should use it for its own project, but I'm scared the Winstons will have me arrested for flagrant Amen abuse cos that's how it always ends up
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For me it's like Blender really where I'll have a phase and learn a bunch of stuff and commit it to short term memory but then drop it for a few months and when I come back its normally a little while to reremember. Its actually not dissimilar to how I use Maschine I guess, great idea pad but ffffuck sequencing a whole tune in it. I'll record anything cool to timeline in Cubase.
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killhamster posted:the electronic music thread there died long ago and that was the only one i liked to post in/read. idk if there's another one like it now It's all pretty much rolled into the VST and synth threads now, it's mostly the same posters in each one. VST thread rolls more towards software as you'd expect but there's a lot of crossover
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Just in case anyone missed it, Plugin Alliance, NI and Izotope are now under the same umbrella and are offering freebies, including a $600 Plugin Alliance bundle for free https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/pa-soundwide-bundle.html The Black Box HG2 distortion is a monster on basses
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I'm working on some old school Metalheadz style DnB at the moment and automating the triode and pentode knobs over time whilst slamming everything else is great fun for evolving sounds
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What old plugins would people like to see updated for modern quality of life use without losing their sound? For me I would love to see both Izotope Trash 2 and NI Absynth 5 with bigger, more friendly GUIs. Both sound amazing but the user interfaces are so fiddly now
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Jonny 290 posted:synths never get di/'amp simulation' unless you're like pretending you're atari teenage riot, who used marshall 800 stacks as a PA to be edgelords I like ATR a lot when I'm in the mood for something dumb and angry. Alec Empire's solo stuff shows a huge breadth (he is actually aware of things that aren't the Amen break or distorted 909) but in the past few months after years of silence he, or whoever runs his social media, is going whole hog on NFTs. Low On Ice and Generation Star Wars are both incredible albums NDSP Gojira is so good though. I'll run synths through amps but turn off the cab, whereas drums I quite like with a bit of impulses/cabs blended in. A touch of the Convolver in Trash 2 can be magic
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2 methods are -air drum which keeps parts realistic as you only have 4 limbs. Or less maybe. Not more. -set a metronome notes so it goes BEEP boop boop boop Then build up your parts drum by drum. I often do closed hi hats first, but if you're fresh to drums then it can't hurt to have your snare on the 2 and the 4 ie BEEP boop(snare) boop boop(snare)
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toiletbrush posted:I find it easiest to start with a simple accented kick and snare pattern to give a 'structure' and then gradually adding decorations around that, eg hats, toms, different velocites/ghost notes, rolls, fills, chokes etc...its dead easy to experiment by just randomly hitting notes while the loop is playing and adding hits that sound good. soon enough you'll have an intuition to guide you and it won't be so random. I love chopping Amens so much! its so zen no matter whether it's midi for a sampler, raw audio on the timeline or just hex chaos in Renoise.
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I like finding dumb scales, yester I had an accordion loaded up in Halion and thought "I wonder what that French sounding scale is" so a quick Google later I can't remember the name of it but in C the notes are C D Eb Gb G A Bb And its so dang French sounding
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