making beats
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- prophetone1
Big news - more sound design goodies, probability, MPE
- ...getting heat on the socials though b/c this is a $$$ upgrade for all Live users and apparently Live 10 will not run on new M1 Macs?prophetone
- for me, this is a good excuse to take advantage of the 20% upgrade to 10 Suite, getting the full set of effects and instruments + a free upgrade to 11 in 2021prophetone
- Probability would be cool. Love that on the Digitakt.mort_
- cool thing with the upgrade, if you commit now, you don't pay until its released.. not a huge thing, but still, nice gesture.autoflavour
- Comping!keewee
- futurefood9
Around this past summer a guy named Rich Devine contacted me through a mutual friend about buying some gear. He asked me to meet him in San Francisco while he flies in from Georgia. So I drive up to SF from LA and we met at a studio. We hang out for like 4-5 hours talking about music, gear, live shows. He played me a few tracks he was currently working on and they were pretty amazing. We talk a bit more about his ideas for modifying the cyclone he was buying from me and then we ended the night. He is just truly a nice guy. He even suggested that I crash at the studio for the night because of the long drive back home, but I ended up staying at some shitty motel outside of the city.
Last night he sent me this link which has an image of the cyclone i sold to him.
https://articles.roland.com/rich…
- well that oughta be enough for a tuneprophetone
- here i am sweating bullets over should i pick up a microfreakprophetone
- ^ do it... i'm thinking of buying another.kingsteven
- did you know of richard devine before? pretty sure he's been shared in this thread a few times over the years...kingsteven
- i'm embarrassed to say i didn't know of him before. I was streaming his music the whole ride up to SF, haha.futurefood
- I have a few other stories selling and buying gear to musicians in la, like discussing serpent dreams with two dudes from Passion Pit...futurefood
- and sharing a joint and laughing about gravity with the keyboardist for Kamasi Washington.futurefood
- Whatever a cyclone is, the stuff looks amazing!SimonFFM
- @simon - it's the tb-303 clone top right next to the "tone" boxhans_glib
- Lol, you didn't know of him? That guy is like Jesus in the eurorack scene.section_014
- haha well, I'm not into eurorack and I loathe jesus so it makes sense. ;)futurefood
- wow, richard devine. great story.ben_
- Great story. He builds some monster systems.mort_
- richard is kind of a legend in the modular synth circles. he builds lots of presets for top notch synth makers.epic_rim
- Sexy.ideaist
- wow richard IS a legend in the modular world, he has one crazy setup! you shouldve went to his studio, its like a starship!microkorg
- I've been following him on instagram for at least 3 years. His music I don't really enjoy to listen to, but his craft and skill I really admire and am drawn to.shapesalad
- Yeah his music is a bit whack, but his studio is nutsautoflavour
- Wow!instrmntl
- This is very cool. I haven't heard about Richard Devine in a long time but he worked with Autechre and Aphex Twin.CyBrainX
- Bennn3
I'Ve made shitty beats
- Bennn0
more shitty beats
- Bennn0
no beats, just shitty sounds
- microkorg0
Clearout of a load of gear is about to happen to help fund a new car.
We've budget for a sensible model but I want to get the '0-60 in 5s' model as I've always had 'fun' cars. Trouble is it's a good few K more.
I only ever have time to play with gear once in a blue moon whereas I'd get a buzz every day from a new car.
- Then pay the extra K to get something you like since you’ll be sitting in it more than a few yearsfuturefood
- I once went with the sensible car, big mistake, but luckily it was a leasefuturefood
- I always kicked myself for not just shelling out a few extra thousandfuturefood
- Ok last note, even the best gear today will be cheap in a few years as long as you’re patientfuturefood
- It can go the other way, I bought a drum machine for $250 five years ago and now it's $4000 lol, ridiculousprophetone
- What gear?autoflavour
- Everything in the mobile setup that I posted previously.microkorg
- I got this stuff thinking a mobile setup would be handy and I could play any time. But in reality its all stumbling blocks. as have to learn stuff, setup etc...microkorg
- ..rather than just making music. Going back to ITB and going to keep away from music gear forums and spend that time making music.microkorg
- a cleansing. ;)microkorg
- say yass to the GASprophetone
- mg330
What is your favorite type of keypad for a controller? I have a Nektar LX49 That I bought in a jam several years ago when my old keyboard broke. It’s OK, but the keys are about as cheap and basic as it gets. A lot of what I’m doing these days is more piano oriented, and while I don’t want to spend a fortune to buy a weighted controller that mimics an actual piano.
Went to a store yesterday to compare the Komplete Kontrol 49 and the Arturia Keylab Essential 49. Both are in my price range.
I already have all the Arturia software but not using much of it these days. I only have a Spitfire Audio Native Instruments plugin and don’t use anything else they make.
The Arturia keys feel a little cheap and wobbly. The Kontakt keys felt nice and solid. Leaning towards that but wondering what you guys think. Who makes the best keys in a 49 key controller in the $200-$250 price range?
- i use a roland a-49. but then i'm a roland fan so i would. https://www.roland.c…hans_glib
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- Bluejam2
Yamaha CS-5 with Selected Ambient Works II Liner Notes Etched by Richard James, 1993
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1845292…- via https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
- $15k+ and still below reserve price???hans_glib
- It's a steal at that price! hahaIanbolton
- Bennn0
What do you think? Made this one today. The bass are a bit over the top with the Youtube compression tho. My mix doesnt have that much bass.
- oey_oey0
I like to review these time to time
- Bennn0
What do you think? I didnt manage to put higher melodies scattered throughout and arpeggiated lead parts like mg33 suggested because iam not a musician and i suck at this lol. I just have fun.
- if you're enjoying it that's all that matters. as for baeing a muso, just experiment and don't be afraid to fail, that's how you learnhans_glib
- what works and what doesn't.hans_glib
- :DBennn
- what's a musician?autoflavour
- sounding good.. advice is break out of the 2 bar loop..autoflavour
- i dont understand autoflavour?Bennn
- lodef1
https://soundcloud.com/lodef/cel…
a remix for a friend's track 'Cell Phone'. Groovy bass beat disintegrates into noise jam.
- imbecile0
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- ideaist0
K,
Ready to get back into music; looking to:
I. Get a reasonable keyboard; i have an old Toshiba from piano playing days, BUT feel I can get something that takes up less space.
II. Get a reasonable mic; vocal only more than likely. I've looked at a Blue Yeti as an entry level deal, any thoughts!?
III. Get a reasonable piece of software. Should I start in Garage Band and work my way towards Ableton or Login?
Thanks in advance for all relevant AND irrelevant side notes.
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- I mean it's a budget thing but then also a where do you see yourself with it in a year thing? Last thing you want is spend $$ only to re-spend $$ on better gearprophetone
- I mean if it were me I'd bite the bullet on the DAW as time investment for learning it well is valuable and it's more of a long run thing - so Live or Logic imoprophetone
- Then get a decent keyboard controller either used, or a small one with lots of features, knobs, drum pads like the Novation Launchkey Mini ?prophetone
- And the Yeti mic looks cool, gets good reviews for all round entry level, usb ease of use etcprophetone
- And investing in Live or Logic means suddenly you have tonnes of included instruments, effects, audio samples to do everything in the box - good value imoprophetone
- BUT there is the cheaper route w free apps, Garageband, iOS apps - depends on what you're trying to do - if just guitar/vocal then maybe simple is good enoughprophetone
- But if something as simple as guitar/vocal then probably the priority investment should be a really good micprophetone
- Sweet @prophetone; yeah noodling around with sound and vocals. Been holding off too long and need it back for my spirits...ideaist
- ...I feel a new mic or controller might force me to perform / generate something.
: )ideaist - If just noodling stage doesn't hurt to keep an eye on CL for used equip deals or eBay to keep it on-budget, use GarageBand to track stuff and mess aroundprophetone
- Good time to be buying if you got a wad of cash ready. Everyone has sales at Black Friday. Esp aoftware or VSTs you can usually get half price!microkorg
- Bite bullet, get Ableton Live and learn it. Get a Keyboard controller as others have said. If you are a keys player then NI Komplete or Arturia collections?microkorg
- Sweet; I dabbled in LIVE BUT never fully immersed myself. Should have moved to Berlin pre kids and gone all time!
Thanks @microkorg!!!ideaist
- Nairn0
I had a job spec come in, measurements stated in 'hp' and I'm like wtf? Asked for clarification and apparently I need to work to 52.832cm, so that's much better.
- autoflavour0
Gah.. after almost 6 months of 2 jobs taking my whole week, as well as the last 8 weeks been taken building a kitchen, I was so looking forward to semester to be over and me reclaiming 2 days a week in which I could perhaps make some music.
2 days ago I get a text "are you free on Friday to have a chat, I have some more work for you"
its one thing to not look for work to fill in those 2 days.. my 3 day a week pays well and its not like we are broke..
but its another thing altogether to turn down work..I literally have 3-4 new hardware acquisitions in the studio that I am yet to set up, let alone read the manuals for.
blah blah.. woe is me, I have work and can't just spend time making music that no one ever hears.
