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- mg330
How many of you intentionally use different musical scales when coming up with new ideas? I use the app Xynthesizer on my iPhone for random ideas to/from work on the train and it’s usually set to a minor pentatonic scale. Started changing a pattern to other scales and found that the Hirajoshi scale was particularly interesting.
Is a scale a thing you consciously choose when making tunes?
- totally, but find its a bit of rabbit hole starting like that... when you're quantised in it's hard for your ear to adjust after a while.kingsteven
- if i write on the guitar, stack a bunch of parts and figure out where the chords and melody lie, i find i'm shifting all over the show.kingsteven
- extreme example: https://is.gd/bIAELP… seemingly simple melody but the underlying scale changes every 2/3 notes.kingsteven
- I pick a scale, write a melody, and harmonize the melody. Sometimes, I'll swap in arpeggios in place of scale notes though.section_014
- Ianbolton0
So after getting the SE-02 and feeling a little underwhelmed by the fact that the USB connection didn't work properly, Ableton just wouldn't connect to it, I took it back and the guy in the music shop said this was a common problem.
I've today ordered one these instead:
Just want more outboard gear to help moving towards a more live set up. Anyone played with the Neutron before?
- May seem a silly question but did you try other USB cables? I have had a similar issue with the TB03 and Logic, it works just about but with some major bugsfadein11
- I was told it is potentially a cable issue which didn't seem like a valid reason, you'd expect it to work or not work at all if a cable issue surely.fadein11
- huh - my se02 is connected thru midi and phones into an audio interface and works really well.hans_glib
- I tried loads of different cables. No joy! Could've used midi, but didn't really want to buy an external midi connection for my laptop.Ianbolton
- Saying that though, it was an amazing synth :-)Ianbolton
- let me know what you think of that nuetron, been thinking of adding one to my model dimbecile
- i like the patch bay. i want to try itfuturefood
- I know that usb is a thing and should work, but really, it wasnt a deal breaker for meautoflavour
- prophetone2
- The crave is the only thing I’m interested in.. the rest, mehautoflavour
- sted-1
- kingsteven1
- hadn't seen this, full session of the instagram prophet posted. real nice.kingsteven
- It's pretty cool, def for live stuff, price point is good - for me prob not a buy as already have similar toys, but kinda winning me over w/ its tweakabilityprophetone
- good demoprophetone
- Cool for live stuff, for sure. Was really hoping this way a new Machinedrum though.section_014
- would be funnier if chicken feet used instead of human hands.shapesalad
- mort_2
Quality royalty-free samples for free.
- maquito0
TLDR Warning.
Blah. Just wanted to express something that I find hard to analyze, and takes part in almost every moment of my life: I find myself thinking too much about music careers; specially about the fact of not having finished a music career in the past. Most of the times, I end up rambling around the idea that a music career would have been much more precise in vocational matters than my actual profession as a designer.
Does anyone here have "perfect pitch, aka "absolute pitch"? I discovered I had this special ability to recognize tones and to remember chords in specific tones quite some time after learning to play instruments by ear. I remember learning some beatles and creedence songs in guitar with 6 years old, without having a clue that the "correct" method was learning by sheet, and obviously ignoring there was something like "the perfect pitch".
In fact, my ability to learn by ear was a double-edged blade, simply because it ended up giving me a very hard time learning music theory and studying music the "traditional" way. It wasn't until I turned 13 that a teacher found out I had a special musical ear, and in fact could remember tones.
I begun with guitar solfa, then with drums, and finally with trombone when I turned 18. Never finished any, was simply too boring for me. I "felt" the music so intensely as not to give a fuck to theory, chords, music history, methods and all that shit.
A clear sign that this is an unresolved issue, is the fact that I do not have ANY instrument at home. My drums are in a friend's house, and I do not even have a toy guitar. Every time I play a guitar, an incontrollable feeling of "you suck, and you could've been sssoooo much better" invades me and I choose to pass it over.
- easy to get fixated on not being as good a player as the next... it takes all sorts to make good music. a good ear, taste and tact are more valuable traits.kingsteven
- the most motivated folks i work with don't even know what chords they're playing. and while perfect pitch is party trick territory. being able to identify whatskingsteven
- out in an arrangement and knowing how to fix it quickly (within your abilities as a player or directing others) in a better direction. that's the good shit!kingsteven
- i've had offers to play for established bands with good pay but side-musician never seemed like a career path. often think about going full time as producerkingsteven
- but know it would involve working on music i don't like + selling out as a designer is far easier on the soul!kingsteven
- Buy a drum machineautoflavour
- And ableton. Make mindless techno and be happy with the process and not productautoflavour
- These are really, really cool suggestions, thank you very much kingsteven & automaquito
- Dont make music if its not fun to do so.microkorg
- Seriously tho, get ableton and just start messing around. Drum machines are great if u got budgetautoflavour
- Or a nice sampler .. elektron digitakt are hella funautoflavour
- shapesalad1
Not sure if these have been posted here, but yeah... BEHRINGER ftw
- kingsteven2
Good Roland VP330/ Behringer VP340 comparison in this vid... Don't think I've ever heard a clone so close to the original...
- Isn't it because the patents /copyright to the original circuit boards has expired, guessing 30+ years, so..shapesalad
- behringer are able to simple remake the original circuits, with modern components, and add in midi+ extras that we'd expect.shapesalad
- hence they can get super close to the original circuitry and sound.shapesalad
- The Midas lads are amazing, really putting to bed the idea that SMD components can't capture the warmth of vintage.kingsteven
- Wanted the VP330 for ages. Glad they dropped an octave and made it a bit more compact.futurefood
- It baffles me why Roland didn’t just rerelease all these things themselves. Fan boys would buy Roland over behringer any dayautoflavour
- mort_0
Picked up this bad boy at the weekend. Actually no, it was last Tuesday, my bad! It has 54 black and white polyamorous keys with integrated button pressing.
- And a wire that you can plug in to the wall, but you don't have to.mort_
- 35 pre setsmort_
- Made my first 9 albums on this and a Radio Shack thermal 2-trak family tape studio.mort_
- And then I sadly passed away from not being able to sound like Joy Division. Which is an actual disease if you look it up, wanker.mort_
- duckseason0
gonna double post this here for you non-game nerds...
- prophetone3
- https://www.elf-audi…prophetone
- I love gear. but stoked on app life tooooBrokenHD
- imbecile0
- Do people not organize their samples already?section_014
- interface don't excite uu?BrokenHD
- imbecile1
looked interesting, link to related article seems to be 404
