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- kingsteven1
Bouncing stems for a daft 20th anniversary thing, I have all the backups but turns out i started it in Cakewalk 8 on Win 98 and Logic 4 on OS9 and finished it in Logic 5.5 (i think on Windows NT) and Protools on my G4 Powerbook.
After about a week of figuring out what's what and ripping drives, CDs, zip disks and floppies (which i've been putting off for years) I now have Logic 4 running on OS9 emulated on SheepShaver (on a Windows 10 PC)
and Logic 5.5 and Cakewalk 8 running on UTM Windows 98 emulating x86 (on my M1)
Using Arturias CZ and RetroSynth to emulate my Yamaha An1x and CZ3000, pumping midi back in to the same system over an Opcode interface.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
- Wow, fine effort. Sounds like a lot of fucking about?Ianbolton
- it is, but i like the idea of having all the files as hard drive images in the cloud along with the OS and applications - i've had a horde of data for yearskingsteven
- I've just put freehand and flash on the 98 machine too, so it's just like booting up my old Pentium III PC from 2000 with all my files - just in an emulatorkingsteven
- no, this just kills you. no strength gainedautoflavour
- it is mostly pain. but better than buying old computers just to bounce stems. i forget how much these old os's are dependant on 3rd party hardware and driverskingsteven
- had to use an old emagic and opcode interface just to get sound and midi out of os9. job done and i now have stems exported, and os + files in an imagekingsteven
- in the cloud so it dies with mekingsteven
- futurefood2
- weird mashup of those cheesy 80s casio keyboards and a standard synthhans_glib
- canoe0
Any Black Friday deals you're looking at?
- autoflavour1
gah, after selling my OP-1 a couple of years ago, I am currently trying to talk myself out buying another one..
- one of my big regrets in life is selling my op-1 too.microkorg
- ok_not_ok0
- The suite of Eventide iOS apps is £25. very good value!microkorg
- wanted to get a H9 for the longest time to replace my pitchfactor and space but hated the pricing model. this is really nicekingsteven
- €1200 - ouch!mort_
- mort_2
Moog reissuing the Model D for $5000. Would be a lovely thing to own.
https://www.moogmusic.com/produc…
- love that walnut case. would trade the voyager for this any day.futurefood
- Wondering if I really need my car. ;)mort_
- I had such lust.. until I found out its like $9k AUD.. you can buy a Moog One for 11 ..
sadly the lust diedautoflavour
- imbecile0
- wut lolfuturefood
- https://www.reddit.c…imbecile
- I wish they’d hire a designer who has some basic skills in type aesthetics. Thing is ugly as fuck.mort_
- in honor of this guy https://www.sequenti… they give him some credit for MIDIimbecile
- Yep, well aware.mort_
- fadein110
Best budget standalone groove box please?
Something very portable to sit on sofa or take with me.
I've noticed with age the desire to enter my works/studio space of an eve has declined.
I could use my macbook and do on occasion but I fancy a new standalone for making beats and loops to use in full tracks.
And yes, I am not a hardware person as stated before, done some research and nearly bought the MC-101.
Thoughts and advice please, don't want to spend a lot as may end up rarely used like all the other bits I've bought.- integraudio.com/6-be...imbecile
- https://integraudio.…imbecile
- Get a used Octatrack or Digitaktprophetone
- maschine +
https://imgur.com/ga…imbecile - Loving the Syntakt so far. It has its limitations, which is no bad thing.mort_
- thanks allfadein11
- OP-1 are flooding the market at the moment as everyone is trying to offload now the new OP-1 Field is outautoflavour
- imbecile0
Black Friday
https://unison.audio/black-frida…- also BF toyboxaudio.comimbecile
- Fors.fm is 30% offprophetone
- https://cymatics.fm up to 80% offimbecile
- Ableton sale 20% off packs and pushprophetone
- autoflavour0
so after selling it like 3 years ago and always feeling beaten down by a piece of hardware, i caved and picked one up again.
the new op-1 field has meant the market is flooded with cheap op-1 at the moment.
the one I got is only like 2 years old.. so not too shabby for $500
- well, $500 and 2 modules I was kind of using but also kind of not..autoflavour
- I just hate being bettered by hardware.. I WILL DOMINATE YOU OP-1autoflavour
- $500?! I’d def pick it up too at that price point if I could, always wanted one, cheapest p.p. seen locally is like $900prophetone
- I did swap 2 modules .. but even with that factored it was still cheap. that said they were both divkid modules so im sadautoflavour
- Ahhh ok fair enough, then about $1k ish in 'value'... I have so many other noise boxes here I just can't defend picking one up lolprophetone
- yeah ballpark 1k.. but as the cash was already spent on the modules, I don't count it :)autoflavour
- completely unnecessary purchase for sure.. but hey, im all about itautoflavour
- my middle name is unnecessary purchaseprophetone
- prophetone2
- The OBEGRÄNSAD collection hit local IKEA today... bought six small stands, two large ones - I put them together in the pic for refprophetone
- Could have larger drum machine or mixer up top, two small ones in from side-by-side, do this on left/right of a computer setup etcprophetone
- Cheap as dirt, will work well esp for drum machines, controllers, maybe effects pedals, just gets it all elevated and tilted, buys some desk spaceprophetone
- peep the paper mache Push 2prophetone
- I got two of the tablet/drum machine stands the other week. Pretty decent. Only been using one. Figure the other one might fetch twice its price on ebay latermicrokorg
- all great gear, this just came along as my office was relegated to the box room and i cleared them out haha https://imgur.com/Yf…kingsteven
- got a couple of the stands. spotted my local ikea has a little stash of the teenage engineering stuff left (going for 3x the price) so may 'invest' in thatkingsteven
- @kingsteven how is that audient evo 16 box? Is a good purchase? Mac is happy? I am real interested in one, love how tidy it is.prophetone
- That's a nice set up KingstevenIanbolton
- the evo is really tidy, took a while to get used to one knob (esp. for headphones and monitor level) the interface is genius. have my focusrite 18i20 on a 10mkingsteven
- ADAT cable going in to one of the optical ins, and using that for synths at the other side of the room. I have one small issue with EM interference due to thekingsteven
- proximity with my left monitor (assuming LEDs on the front panel emitting a faint whine when dimmed) i may just need to isolate the power (or just move the unitkingsteven
- a foot) i'm sure i'll work it out. i think i'm just sus because of how cheap this was. i was considering a £2.4k UAD Apollo, so this is mindblowing for 400 quidkingsteven
- I need disscarabin
- Just the shelf unit thoughscarabin
- FYI prophet, got on to Audient support about the tone and they got back this morning with a new firmware that fixes it. Definitely sold 100% on this unit nowkingsteven
- Thanks for the heads up! I am seriously considering it, this is good to know.prophetone
- imbecile3
The Morphagene music synthesizer module is a next generation tape and microsound music module that uses Reels, Splices and Genes to create new sounds from those that already exist. Search between the notes to find the unfound sounds.
- microkorg1
Spent between around £100 on ios apps in black Friday sales filling up my new iPad Pro with music making apps. Already had a lot from older iPad.
But with apps like AUM and Drambo I'm questioning the need to sit in front of a computer to make music.
Really thinking about selling my Push, Maschine, Arturia and Komplete suites as the iPad and associated apps completely cover all these.
Use iPad for creating songs/stems/ideas then take into Ableton Live to polish if need be.
- futurefood5
I've been growing more and more obsessed (maybe even rabid) with the Mellotron and was looking to expand the sample options. I ordered these sound cards which came in a cool little custom metal case.
This also gave me a chance to communicate with the mastermind behind this project, Markus Resch. He made the M4000D possible and is a truly humble and kind man.
These cards contain almost all samples available across the many early machines including the Mellotron Mk1/Mk2 and Chamberlin Music Master. Around 528 unique samples.
These should keep me busy for a long while :)
Below are some great examples of compositions made only using the Mellotron and sound cards.
Mellotron Variations - band that includes Pat Sansone of Wilco
They Might Be Giants - John Flansburgh uses the Mellotron often throughout many TMBG records and created this little composition for their Dial-A-Song service.
Short and sweetly quirky..
- I really love the idea of the Mellotron, so cool, a neat weirdo concept for sound creation, would love to have one but I could see myself using in limited waysprophetone
- And the price point is the real barrier of course, so very expensive, but prob worth it if you will use it in ways like that amazing TMBG TDCprophetone
- That being said the Micro version is not out of reach price wise, but no expansions... one day maybeprophetone
- Maybe I can start a Residents type of one man band, all spooky spacey and ambient with loads of fx sounding like a 1930s halloween cartoon acid tripprophetone
- ^my true aim! lolfuturefood
- The Micro is fucking dope! I highly recommend. Yea, no expansions, sadly. Though, the internal sounds are so good.futurefood
- You should check out the M-Tron Pro. It is seriously one the best Mellotron emulators and works great as a VST.futurefood
- It also gives you access to the coveted Streetly samples through purchased packs. Amazing sounds.futurefood
- thumbs up emojiprophetone
- I've been using the Arturia Mellotron plug in and it's amazing. You tried that?Ianbolton
- wagshaft0
These guys make all there tracks with CZ-5000s.
Really great albums.