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- imbecile1
Equal parts designated beat maker, competent sound design tool, and live performance drum machine — Visco is a VST/AU plugin that can model and manipulate any sample you supply, freeing you from the usual limitations of working with recorded audio.
MEET THE BLOB
Visco is centered around the blob — a malleable representation of your sound on a 2D grid. With tools similar to modern UI design software, including a hand, magnet, eraser tool, plus a crossfader, you can grab, pull, push, and blend your sound however you please.Without a valid license, Visco operates in demo mode. The demo version provides full functionality, albeit with periodic prompts encouraging users to upgrade.
The manual can be found here.
https://forever89.studio/docs/vi…- Synplant 2 has the same kind of sample modeling technology and it has become one of my favorite synths. Looking forward to trying this.mort_
- futurefood2
Etienne de Crecy made these really great little tutorial vids on YouTube. There is a whole playlist of these
- I always find it easier to play notes on a keyboard instead of sequencing.
I'll give it a try.
Thanks for the link.ApeRobot - I had the Mobius, that's the only way you can input notes, by using two buttons. Its great for 1-16 steps, once you go beyond that, very tedious.futurefood
- I always find it easier to play notes on a keyboard instead of sequencing.
- futurefood3
I don't know why I thought I could post a YT playlist here.
Here are a few other of EDC's quick tutorials
- mantrakid4
Anyone here using/used Maschine?
I have been using Maschine+ a bit more in standalone mode lately (ive used Maschine mk2, then mk3, then plus, connected to the computer / via software for like almost a decade now!)
I gotta say.... i feel stupid for not learning it sooner, it really does seem to be answering a lot of my needs and as i get deeper im realizing how much it can actually do in terms of being a dedicated sampler + looper + effects unit.
Ive been following the SP-404 updates and its hard to not feel the GAS for it but then i take a sec and think about Maschine+ and it does so much of it already.
This was just a stream of consciousness blog post... a little precursor to the fact that...
I JUST DROPPED A NEW SINGLE FROM THE UPCOMING ALBUM!!!!
Check the track @ https://songwhip.com/ghostcartri…
Presave the album @ https://ffm.to/ghostcartridge.EO…Thanks for the support homies
- i own 2 maschine licenses, a mikro, mk2, and a jam. The softeware is powerful and sounds great. Their sequencing workflow always threw me compared to ableton.imbecile
- that said, i don't use any of that hardware, nor do i use the 88 key controller on any of my analog gear. Lately, I just want to sell it all and own an MPC One+imbecile
- dope beat(s)imbecile
- Thx imbecile! Yeah it took me a bit to get into the zone when making stuff on maschine but i feel like i should have learned the hardware better cuz it feels...mantrakid
- totally different to focus entirely on the hardware / even go in standalone mode so im not even looking at a computer screen.mantrakid
- i've had those moments of effortless usage on the mk2 to edit samples w/ the tiny screen & bust out beats. i don't want to be dependent on my computer, though.imbecile
- Agreed on: "i feel like i should have learned the hardware better" Maybe a Maschine plus would be good but i'd rather save money on more hardware i can't use :Dimbecile
- I had a Micro many moons ago. Ended up winning a Maschine full size for designing a faceplate. Didnt really use it but did buy loads of their librariesmicrokorg
- and instruments that i'd pull into ableton live. never gelled with the maschine way of working either. Still got it sitting in a box.microkorg
- Have a Push2 too and thats only ever really been used as a keyboard not to its full editing/programming potential. I never RTFM.microkorg
- @mikrokorg - Does the maschine you have also have the faceplate you designed? Id love to see it!!!mantrakid
- autoflavour4
well Fuck techno I guess
- Minister of Culture bans artforms... nice work!prophetone
- Shameful oppression.Maybe 'limitation fosters creativity' will be fruitful.mort_
- local police stations have to set up a
BPM Task Forcested - Eminem hates this!utopian
- What do you expect from KadrovytesNBQ00
- *KadyrovitesNBQ00
- how do you even ban specific music? It exists in our mindsIanbolton
- mantrakid0
I dont want to let this get missed from the notes but @mikrokorg - Does the maschine you have also have the faceplate you designed? Id love to see it!!!
- !raffleimbecile
- hahah yupmantrakid
- Sadly no. Was so long ago I cant remember what the comp setup was, or who it was even ran by! Not sure if a winner got made into a faceplate...microkorg
- ..or it was just a kinda fantasy faceplate design and best designs won maschines.microkorg
- Was like 10-12 years ago wowmicrokorg
- The design was a kinda rip-off of the big wave by Hokusai. Print was like a gloss varnish on the surface rather than ink/paintmicrokorg
- Sick sounds rad. Ive been wanting to do some kinda customization on my maschine, but i keep chickening out cuz i imagine itll look trash haha.mantrakid
- mantrakid5
New Single!
- mantrakid2
New single is out!!!
- imbecile0
They've made some updates...
Hi,
Thank you very much for the support on Amigo,
We have been hard at work getting the first update ready.
For a full list of new features, see the website.https://www.potenzadsp.com/amigo…
Feel free to download the new version here and install exactly the same as before :)
With love from ilchef and Stekker.
- Updated it todayprophetone
- Ah man. Used to have a bit fun on these sequencers when I was a kid but as they were pirated versions really had no idea what i was doing.microkorg
- Did have 'Stereo Master' which i saved up my pocket money for and did get some samples into the Amiga tho.microkorg
- so sick - i kinda wish you could get a FT2.exe vst now hahamantrakid
- they dropped another update todayprophetone
- mantrakid7
Been really hard finding the 'audience' for this track. I have got a lot of kind words for it on SubmitHub but no one wants to add it to playlists cuz it just doesnt 'fit' with most normal hip hop songs... despite it... honestly... being one of the dopest raps / rap styles ive ever heard. This dude deserves so much more love than he gets.
Anyways all this to say im very fucking proud of this song.
- Sorry that im posting it again - i didnt realize i already did that above. Fuck...mantrakid
- That's awesome. If people can't fit it into a tidy category, you know you're onto something good ;)mort_
- Yeah thats honestly how ive been feeling about it too hahamantrakid
- Submithub seems to be a joke.jagara
- ❤️d_gitale
- to be fair we did get a very nice boost from our last single on submit hub cuz it got picked up by a bunch of playlists and i think started spreading outwards..mantrakid
- so like while it was only added to say like 50 playlists on submit hub, it was actually added to about 170 playlists in total at this point. which is nice!mantrakid
- futurefood1
- Haha brilliant!mort_
- Lol idk exactly what modules hes hooked up to, but it sounds dope!futurefood
- It does! The reveal of the big hand holding the little hand had me in tears!mort_
- haha samefuturefood
- Ianbolton5
Finished a new track...
https://soundcloud.com/ianpaulbo…
- sted0
- lodef6
https://www.instagram.com/lodefl…
new short demo and audio visualizer. ive been developing a look and feel for my music videos. full length versions eventually.
- mantrakid3
NEW SINGLE!!!
Maybe sounds a bit oversaturated in isolation - it was mastered in teh context of the album so sounds a bit more 'in the world' once it plays on the album... something i need to think about in the future (wasnt me mixing/mastering, it was a good homie @ Up In Arms Recordings in Edmonton who i think did an amazing job on the album as a whole!!)
- Love this! Plus the rest of the tracks you've posted.haga
- This is ace. I'll check out the album :-) How long did the whole album take to put together?Ianbolton
- i dig the 'keep dancing' track. reminds me of el-p style hiphop.lodef
- 'uprising'lodef
- Thanks dudes!! Ian, the album was actually a few years in the making but all in/compressed was probably maybe a month of full time style work..mantrakid
- we just kept chipping away over the years between work hahamantrakid
- keep up the good work. Loving this stuff. I wanna get lyrics into my stuff, rather than just samples, but it's taking me 6 months to get even a track finishedIanbolton
- Thanks man, yeah lyrics always adds so much time for me too. Writing / practicing / etc takes sooo longmantrakid
- autoflavour1
been a flurry of acquisition lately.. it all started with a new interface.. MOTU 828.. first brand new interface I have purchased since 1998.. total game changer.. USB3.1 so fast compared to Firewire.
Then picked up a cheap single Genelec 8030 off marketplace.. super nice as a AB Alt monitor..
Then fell down Roland 500 modular after picking up 2 modules cheap.. and got suckered into then picking up a 572 ..
not like i have any time to do any music lately
- oh and picked up a grandmother a couple of weeks back.. you know, because cheap synths are cheapautoflavour
- i still use the 828 firewire... no way i can justify dropping 1k on something that's slightly faster.hans_glib
- i was using a digi003, and it was totally doing everything i needed, except i was stuck in Mojave.. but make no mistake, its not just slightly faster..autoflavour
- latency is under 1ms .. for the first time ever i can run external hardware and audio from sessions with basically no latency.. its a total game changerautoflavour
- not to mention somehow it sounds different.. might just be a perception thing, but honestly things I was working on the 003 sound different now
in a good way.autoflavour
- autoflavour0
also how underwhelming is the new digitakt 2.. sure more ram and storage is nice, but never really hit the edges of either of those with my digitakt.. and having 2 digitakt, the 16 sounds vs 8 is mute also..
- Much more minimal faceplate too isnt it.
that I likemicrokorg - eventually they will release an OS update for the mk1 and most of the software features will be on both.. now if they could just fix the melting buttonsautoflavour
- Much more minimal faceplate too isnt it.