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- imbecile3
Addendum... Looking for advice, input, experience... conversation if you will.
I had to admit to myself that I'm not a musician. I enjoy making noises that sometimes have melody. Programming drum beats is fun. But, as far as recording and mixing, mastering, being able to sing, or play an instrument with any natural ability? No, it doesn't exist.
That's why I never finished my conversation autoflavour. He wanted to discuss what my goals were. Frankly, the few times I tried to write him, I realized I had no goals, so I was essentially throwing money up in the air.
That said, I have Maschine and Ableton both legally installed. I prefer Ableton, so if I even keep one Maschine license at this point is a question. I have two licenses.
I bought a NI Mikro MK1 years ago, a used Maschine MK1 w/ new stand years ago, and a used Maschine Jam last year. Go figure, none of these controllers help me use Maschine any more effectively. Maybe I've used Ableton too long.
Yes, you read that correctly, I have three Maschine controllers and two NI software licenses that all go unused. To accompany them, I also have controllers in the form of...
M-Audio Keystation 88es
M-Audio Axiom 25
Akai APC Mini
Korg nano kontrol
Numark Orbit
Behringer CMD Micro
Mixtrack Pro 3 (used three times, four years ago)
M-Audio M-Track (forgot I had)I had an APC40 that I traded for my Mackie studio monitors.
My Onyx 820i digital mixer is still awesome.
I sometimes miss my microKorg, but it was cool sounds on a keyboard I couldn't play.
There's a monotron and a pocket operator around here somewhere too, I think.-
I wonder if I should put most of this stuff on reverb, etc to try to sell, or just a trip to Guitar Center to get it out of my hair and a little cash to buy an analog drum. That stuff takes up space and I'm not using it.
Anyone need a controller or Maschine license?
My new path is analog, free from the computer. I want to do more with the Model D than send MIDI to it, hence the SQ-1 and a desire for analog drums. The less expensive I make this the better.
- Sell and simplify! Sounds like you've already made up your mind ;)microkorg
- that part is definitely going to happen. i'm hoping for some analog drum inputimbecile
- Couldnt go much wrong with the new behringer RD clonesmicrokorg
- they look great for the cost. and... I can't find my monotron, but the pocket operator I have is the PO-12 rhythm.imbecile
- Recently got the Moog DFAM. It's incredibly fun. But not a bread an butter drum machine.mort_
- Some other things I'm looking at:
The Division Department 01/iv
Vermona drm1 mkiii
MFB Tanzbar (original one)
RD-9 (coming soon)mort_ - https://youtu.be/UpR…mort_
- I'm at a similar place, i sold all my drum machines, bought an MPC1000 for cheap, all sounds i use created with minimoogfuturefood
- bought an 8 track digi recorder so i can get away from the computerfuturefood
- that sounds dope, future. love the single device sampling approachimbecile
- i keep thinking about the MPC you mentioned, future. I had briefly thought of one but that is a whole new direction i hadn't considered. maybe later. cheersimbecile
- imbecile4
fun, surprised no one suggested these when i was thinking about buying their other repro synths to add to my model d
- i've been ignoring them because i DIY built a system 100 clone about 5 years ago and these work out cheaper than the parts :=|kingsteven
- please clarify.. are you saying one could buy these cheaper now, than you built them then? each piece is ~$99imbecile
- as you dohans_glib
- no he's saying the opposite - it cost him more to build one himself.hans_glib
- read again, that is what i wrote.imbecile
- i have read again, and by some witchcraft i can now see that it is indeed my badhans_glib
- high five! thanks for the clarificationimbecile
- Yep. Panel and pcb for each DIY module was 30 - 45 each and while components are cheap as chips... all those knobs, switches and sockets add up.kingsteven
- I have frequency central ones and they have a few tweaks from the originals but some of the behringer modules are doubles (vca, adsr)... much cheaper for a systkingsteven
- system + DIY modules have no resale value!kingsteven
- i see, thanks for the additional info.imbecile
- Miguex1
here's one of mine:
available for free download at www.soundcloud.com/miguex
- nice 1 dudesublocked
- nice.sea_sea
- What monitors are those, Mig ?mikotondria3
- LOL.. MC303.. god i havent seen one of those since.. well.. since i sold mine about 8 years agoautoflavour
- NICE!Raybandana
- yeah, that was the only thing I didn't get rid of from my old setup, I don't really use it anymore..Miguex
- the monitors are HS80m from yamaha, I guess the new version of the ns10s minus the magical woodMiguex
- ah of course, yes. Spent many hours trying to coax exciting sound from NS10ms...Failed. Fucking things :) Useful, tho..mikotondria3
- dib dub dib dib ?i_was
- autoflavour3
some of the weirdest fucking plugins I have seen..
their promotional material makes absolutely no sense.- Nuts! Looks like they took all the drugs.mort_
- lo-fi plugin weirdnessprophetone
- all the youtube i've seen for these plugs are from the trap music angleprophetone
- playing with this plugin you feel like you took all the drugs.. especially the fucked up ones.. not sure if its useful or not yet.. seriously weird tho..autoflavour
- Love it... awesome site and branding
like how the internet used to be :)woowahesque
- hans_glib5
good news: it's arrived :D
bad news: i have no time right now to try it out :(- nor do i have any time to clean the camera...hans_glib
- Ooooooh lustautoflavour
- moldero5
"Marc Rebillet Is The Only Musician On Tour In America Right Now And I Wouldn't Want It To Be Anyone Else"
https://www.barstoolsports.com/b…
- first time i've seen him was here on QBN a while ago. he's excellent, one of my new favorites.renderedred
- know him from a gaming msg board, before he became world famous! I'm really glad of the deserved success he's gettingernexbcn
- he's an a class entertainer on all fronts.renderedred
- microkorg4
My new "Portable & Battery-Powered Sample'n'Scratch setup"
- niiceprophetone
- Looks fun!futurefood
- Will get some videos online when I get some spare time to actually play with these new toys :Pmicrokorg
- BTW I opted for the Presonus Atom as pad controller as it also doubles as a great controller for Ableton Live. More portable than my Push2 too!microkorg
- kingsteven4
Bizarre Teenage Engineering / IKEA collaboration rumoured a couple of years ago coming to stores next month... speakers and LED lights with lots of hacking potential.
Here's me:
- want!ApeRobot
- FREKVENS,.... lolApeRobot
- https://newatlas.com…shapesalad
- Buybuybuy, these will be sold out in days, and on eBay at x10 price.shapesalad
- ^ yep, ikea is like 5 mins away from me. goin down on saturday.kingsteven
- ^ went to ikea, checked it all out. speaker with sub sounds great, the LED lights are amazing for 29 quid... ended up buying new bedside tables :D fmlkingsteven
- microkorg4
50 off at Waves.com
https://www.waves.com/r/x108r4
use this link to get an additional 10% off!- you can only use one code per order apparently, cheers for the heads up though picked up smack attack transient designer!kingsteven
- no probs, some amazing deals. i got the Abbey Road vinyl and the OneKnob Bundle.microkorg
- the api2500 is my favorite software compressor. Don't think it's been updated in ages, but still great.section_014
- ahh, after buying smackattack i realised i was still running some hacked v9 plugins so went back and splashed out on legal versions, code came in handy cheers!kingsteven
- kingsteven2
- It's like the same format as the old monomachine keys rather than the Analog Keys which is interesting.
What's next? Digitakt with 16 pressure sensitive pads?microkorg - The back is nuts, 10 balanced outputs! https://www.elektron…kingsteven
- it's definitely a beautprophetone
- 8voice poly? sweet!futurefood
- The five percent nation of Casiotone.PublicVoice
- It's like the same format as the old monomachine keys rather than the Analog Keys which is interesting.
- prophetone4
- SS EE XX YYshapesalad
- Very very sexy, but to fill it up with modules is gonna be north of $1500 usd? Haven’t done the math on itprophetone
- never mind, looks like 499 usd for the whole kit and all the 16 modules which is gonna fly this off shelves i'm thinkingprophetone
- I love this company.inteliboy
- yeah they kinda do every rightprophetone
- "everything right" pffft can't typeprophetone
- autoflavour3
Behringer with the clones..
- First off, I’m very excited. Secondly, I think it’s clear that the RD-909 text needs to be bigger.prophetone
- would love to see a linndrum or dmx clone...inteliboy
- rd-909 text bigger? It needs nudging to the right a bit more to align with the left side of the grey 'accent' text box.shapesalad
- i was only j/k'ing as it's already hideously humongousprophetone
- Ah, the good old 909. I chose it as the number for my number plate...SimonFFM
- TheMagicSheep0
- i'd slap someone if i saw them acting like that on BART or Caltrainsublocked
- but this is lightyears ahead of nanoloop for gameboysublocked
- KORG iKaossilator remadealbums
- looks cool, but you can NOT save and of the music that you create!utopian
- guess have to have audio out and record it somewhere else.pango
- should be able to save and share - make it a social synthinteliboy
- cant save? lame...cruddlebub
- YOU CAN SAVE.BrokenHD
- yah mon!akrok
- autoflavour4
So this is random happy accident. That broken Vermona retroverb I was sold by eBay scammer.. he of course flaked out and eBay eventually just refunded me the money.
so I got a free, albeit broken, retroverb
Already speaking with the manufacturer to see what they can help with.. cause at the moment, anything to make it work and I'm happy..
- kingsteven1
analog with proper jacks
- this will sell like crazyinteliboy
- I don’t care, I need thisautoflavour
- stupid thing is, I think 808's are totally overrated.. but still, I am a gear whore and this must be ownedautoflavour
- Behringer are making all the gear we want other manufacturers to re-release. It's genius!microkorg
- i mean all this synth stuff is designed by Midas in England right? almost a shame Uli loves slapping his name on synths.kingsteven
- oh mannnn, behringer you're killing me! haha... I was seriously considering the tr-08 but looks like I will be patiently waiting for this beastprophetone
- Ugghh I was gonna get a Nava 909 clone, but now it looks like I might have to wait for the RD 909ltjohnrambo
- its not where its designed, its where its made.. and sadly Behringer has a terrible track record of using budget manufacturers in China for everythingautoflavour
- i totally agree about the unreliability but when i've looked in to failures in rack units it's been down to circuit design... nothing physically wrong...kingsteven
- i imagine the midas designed circuits wouldn't be subject to the same cost-cutting. so if they do turn out to be more reliable it's a shame they have to usekingsteven
- a brand synonymous with cheap but unreliable gear.kingsteven
- prophetone1
...but not an AU/VST :(
- HOLD THE PRESSES!!!! https://www.mathieud…prophetone
- I was initially checking this out via Propellerheads insta feed so u duh, prob gonna snag this hmmmprophetone
- still got my s950ApeRobot
- nice. will get this.fadein11
- i've got my 950 as well haha... bought i bought this anyway, nice sound, the filter is really decentprophetone
- side note, i paid more for this plugin than i did for my s950prophetone
- I have an s900 somewhere. Worst gear purchase I ever made. 4 hours to chop up a drum loop. No thanks.section_014
- S950 club member checking in. I've never heard any plugin come even close. I'd be interested to hear this if it was in AU.ltjohnrambo
- loving this. has a shit ton of nice gritty noise. PS - it's also in au and vst.inteliboy
- autoflavour0
Roland Release TR-8 S .. like it’s some sort of fucking iPhone or something. Here is an idea .. just add these fucking features on the first drum machine.. nothing u have added is ground breaking technology.. u could have release all of this the first time.. instead of instantly junking the value of existing hardware.Although very appreciative that it not longer looks like some bad prop from Tron movies
Also, blue platting bag girl is cute
- Plastic bagautoflavour
- "bogie"... interesting lyricsshapesalad
- daft, but three roland boxes for the price of an elektron unit and on the same release schedule... they know what they're doing.kingsteven
- I don't get how you properly compose music on these sorts of things. It's like making a website using squarespace, effectively stuck to a template.shapesalad
- once you have something good, do you then mute each part and record it into a DAW and then mix it? etc. seems quicker/more flexible to go straight to the daw.shapesalad
- For live it’s fun..autoflavour
- Another Black&Green Tandy/RadioShack 90s Mixer style monstrosity!microkorg
- Shapesalad, audio via USB into DAW gives you each output channel as a channel in Daw. This is a LIVE PERFORMANCE / JAMMING drum machine rather than ...microkorg
- .. more of a composing thing like Push + Ableton Live. I can see it being great fun to jam with as it has lots of hands-on controls.microkorg
- SD Total REcall is nice idea. But ANOTHER XOXO 606707808909 box. Really?!microkorg
- meh. Wave Alchemy Revolution and a midi controller (or two) is better, imo.section_014
- pocky.... pocky... pocky... oohaaah... pocky... pocky... pocky... oohaaah... pocky.... pocky... pocky... pocky... pocky...colab
- pushin' and slidin' buttons and shitutopian
- kingsteven3
I've been fucking around with effecting youtube for a few weeks (working on a live show based around the idea) this video from the vid of the day thread a few days back was a blessing!
- that's cool!SunSunSun_
- is this automated/coded effects or done manually?microkorg
- all automated but super simple... pitches are extracted from the clicks and mapped to trigger a synth and vocoder fed by the original signal.kingsteven
- quality stuff :)microkorg
- Nice workstoplying
- futurefood2
gerald makes it look so easy!
- @ 1:45 is he controlling the tempo of the synced 101 sequence with the tap tempo of the 808? never used either of these pieces, just curiousfuturefood
- think he's talking about either tapping or programming in steps on the 808 to trigger the 101's sequencer...kingsteven
- that is dope, didnt know it had that feature. wonder if the 606 did the same.futurefood
- superb. thanks for sharingfadein11
- @futurefood yes, you can trigger the 101 with the high or low toms on the 606.emphor
- I love triggering my 101 with the drum machines.. its such a quick fun way to bash out some music..autoflavour
- great for techno etc.. anything where loops are goodautoflavour
- microkorg0
Talk me IN or OUT of buying an MPC1000!
I've got the chance of getting a really clean Black Mk2 (better pads) that's been well taken care of with no mods done apart from JJOS2XL installed and 128mb RAM upgrade.
For £400 it's a pretty decent deal for a clean machine with the full JJOS. There's some shitheaps of mis-treated 1000's going for like 350 on ebay with no upgrades.Why SHOULD I get one?
Well, I've lusted over the 1000's (and the 2500 and older machines) for years now and just really want one. I'd like to pimp it a little as these machines look the SEX with a little pimping.
I want to use it for fingerdrumming and sampling loops and playing along with my Numark PT-01 Scratch turntable whilst scratching.
And it'd be nice to jam away from a computer too.Why SHOULDN'T I get one?
The wife will go ape.
I already have Maschine and Push AND the iMPC Pro App - maybe I could just get an Element or MPD218 for portable pads?Any of you guys got one?
Are they a pain in the ass to program etc?In a real tiswas here /
- solution: "what's that?... the what? no no, I've had it for ages..."prophetone
- regarding the gear you'll already have, you'll be disappointed. Don't buy, except if you have too much money.ApeRobot
- I've actually owned two of these via great local deals, in both cases just messed around with em, wound up selling them to buy rack gearprophetone
- Grab a cheap little Yamaha SU10 or Roland MS-1, I have both of them, limited but super fun for loopsprophetone
- I used to have a Yamaha SU200 back in the day when they were released. Decided to buy the MPC. If i dont gel with it then i can sell it for more easily.microkorg
- ... and ive lusted over one for years :Pmicrokorg
- give it a shot, they are cool, built like a tank and unlike machine/push doesn't need no stinkin laptop (produce beats in starbucks)prophetone
- go for it! these are so cheap now.
i buy and pimp these out, then sell them.
i kept one for myself which i use on the regular, very fun.futurefood - had a 2000XL for a bunch of years.. in the end was just so tedious to always load stuff up i sold it..autoflavour
- Picking it up monday. Whoop!microkorg
- The 2000XL look nice though. I was watching a fuct one on eBay. Went for £90. Nearly grabbed it for a nice shelf decoration. Nicer than a fuckin' vase ;)microkorg
- Shouldn't get one: Akai makes garbage products. Akai of the 80's & 90's isn't Akai of today.section_014
- Save your money, add $2-300 more and buy the MPC Live. Even with JJOS you'll find it lacking. Had one for years, sold it. Ableton is light years better.sublocked
- yassssss!!! a MPC live for $6-700??? tell me where!futurefood
