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- prophetone1
- just ordered, been out of stock for at least a year... could have snagged a used one sooner I guess but stoked nonethelessprophetone
- the reviews are all super positive, all the demos I've seen are on point, 909 owners praise it as worthy substitute with great additional featuresprophetone
- and saved about $4000?prophetone
- +1 for the live overdub triggering, looks great for quick beat build ups as fast as you can tap it out https://www.youtube.…prophetone
- looks like it has up to 3 midi trigger outs(?) for external boxes... looking forward to casually live jamming, triggering the Akai S612 for gritty house stuffprophetone
- I bought the RD-8 mkII on a whim not expecting much. I was so surprised by how good it is. build quality, sounds, functions, all of it.futurefood
- I will be getting the RD-9 soonfuturefood
- Niceprophetone
- i'd love one of these for a few days just to stick it on the floor in the garage and pretend i'm jeff millskingsteven
- i had the RD-8 mk 1 and RD-6 and they were amazing but didn't get much use... bit big for my setupkingsteven
- eyeing up the Roland TR-6s atm to compliment the 707 very cheap on the second hand marketkingsteven
- Yea these full size units are a lot of fun. But in a modern setup, having smaller kit has been easier to managefuturefood
- indeed it’s too big BUT I kinda want that 909 hugeness for this as lots of button smashing, but yeah will need to make room for beastprophetone
- nocomply4
I know it's off topic for Making Beats, but I've posted here before and you guys inspire me to pursue the weird sounds in my brain.
Here's a demo of a song I've been sitting on for about a year now. It's called Working Vacation. I figured it's better out there in the world that sitting on my phone.
I want to literally make some beats for this song, but programming in drums is not my specialty. Maybe one day, or maybe it'll never get done...
- imbecile0
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- imbecile-1
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- supercool. couldn't think of many more uses for it than D&B tho ;)microkorg
- microkorg1
Started messing with Koala app again a while back.
Friend recommended AUM for bringing in other instruments, effects etc but didnt really gel with it. It's just a mixer really.Just seen that Logic Pro is available as an app now!
Been watching vids on YouTube. Holy shit!Can see me selling Ableton, Push2 and a whole lot of VSTs as I NEVER sit down at a desk in front of a computer to make music these days, I absolutely despise it.
- imbecile-1
- imbecile-1
- fadein1112
New one from me and my partner in
https://soundcloud.com/les-yeux-…
"BUY LINK: fieldofdreamsmusic.bandcamp.com...
Label: Field Of Dreams Music (@fieldofdreams)
www.facebook.com/fieldofdreamsmu…...Field of Dreams is Al Mackenzie, a part-time pop star with D:Ream & full-time DJ and musician who also runs his own Retroforward nights, and graphic designer Chris Kentish from Field Theory, who has released on Futureboogie and Secret Life. They have worked together since 2017 on the likes of Pleasure Unit & Tici Taci and received big plaudits for their remix of Les Crocodiles' classic 'La Nuit Des Tropiques', including from the late Andrew Weatherall who went on to remix the pair. Following support on Radio 6 Music and a hiatus during the pandemic, they are now back with a deeper and edgier sound than previous outings. "Perhaps a sign of things to come, perhaps not," say the ever-evolving pair who like to keep fans guessing.
Opener 'Into The Sun' is a scintillating mix of deep rolling house grooves and authentic machine soul. The far-sighted chords and twinkling pads make for a reverential mood that draws you in for an emotional ride. The title track is a slow-motion workout with elastic bass and subtle acid lines under muttered vocals. It's hazy and lo-fi like all the best Detroit house.
The magnificent 'Mind Over Matter' is another timeless deep house sound with layer upon layer of synth warmth, cosmic radiance and perfectly dusty analogue grooves that work both body and mind. 'Into The Night' builds towards the peak of the party with more driving drums and pulsing acid that keeps you on edge and 'Mind Field' then cuts loose on more ramshackle and percussive house grooves with plenty of lush signature synth work from Field Of Dreams.
This emotive and immersive EP is a perfect return for this masterful pair."
- This is absolutely awesome stuff.
I'm a believer!Continuity - ^ what he said!!dee-dubs
- ^^ I'd upvote 11 times if I could. Magic.MrT
- This is great!
Pre-ordered.palimpsest - Yummy! I love it.falcadia
- This is absolutely awesome stuff.
- caterpus2
decent and free
- mg332
A while back I was almost going to buy a sub for my KRK speakers, but decided against it.
Instead, I bought the AIAIAI TMA-2 Wireless headphones and they're probably the best thing I've bought for recording in ages. I've had two of their wired headphones over the years, and didn't use them that much when recording because they'd get in the way of my guitar and just get tangled.
It's liberating to have wireless ones now. I'm recording way more and feel like the quality is better due to the intimacy of headphones as opposed to speakers in an untreated room.
If you're not familiar with these, they're not just bluetooth, they have a transceiver that plugs into the headphones output of your interface, and uses a low latency connection far better than bluetooth. No lag or latency at all. They've totally changed my enjoyment of working on music. https://aiaiai.audio/stories/pro…
https://aiaiai.audio/headphones/…
- I have a regular wired set and I really like them. I ended up buying a few of the different speaker options to see what I preferred and sold the others.microkorg
- have been tempted to grab the wireless ones on black Friday or similar sales.microkorg
- These sound good too, I assume?letterhead
- what drivers are they? literally just got the TMA2 DJ yesterday and they are bass heavy, but I thought they sounded ok.. but then I have had people totallyautoflavour
- shit on them for being muddy. like sure compared to my HD25 and DT990 they are heavy on the low end, but kind of what it says on the boxautoflavour
- I had one of the bassier ones, maybe S02. But settled on the S01 for a more 'real' sound.microkorg
- Have the S01 with the E08 alcantara over ear. The pads make a difference to the sound too. Auto, the DJ ones come with the small pads. Try the larger asmicrokorg
- it may help to ease the bass a little.microkorg
- ben986
- Just buy Pete Namlock's library?canoe
- It does sound Namlookish... I need to revisit my definitive ambient collection cdprophetone
- prophetone1
- That first video. Holy f*cking fuck!
Who needs to go crate digging now?
Looking into this massively.
Thank You!microkorg
- That first video. Holy f*cking fuck!
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- microkorg2
Prophetone,
Thanks so much for posting those AI music vids. The first one is hugely inspiring!Have you heard of https://www.aiva.ai/
You can feed it midi songs and it'll create new songs for you based on that's inspiration.I believe Ableton can convert any audio into midi files.
Theoretically...
In Ableton, take a song from a favourite artist, convert to Midi.
Take into Aiva, let it create a new song for you based on this inspiration.
Use AI from that first vid to create some breaks.
Sample and chop the breaks.
Assign VST instruments to the midi channels of the new song created.
Use Sumo for some lyrics.Hey presto..... You got a song!
- Did not know about Aiva but seems to be the perfect example of an ai tool geared specifically for doing one thing well, like game dev music, this is greatprophetone
- imbecile-1
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