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- prophetone3
- so many toyscanoe
- Wow on the intro!cruddlebub
- sold out in 12 hours.refunktion
- No waycruddlebub
- cruddlebub2
We're in an age where synths/pedals and other musical things are so aesthetically pleasing.
- And almost looks like, they're deliberate in their beauty, to get your attention before you even hear/use the thing, or even know what it does.cruddlebub
- I’ve become a reverb/delay pedal collector lol will probably get thisfuturefood
- I'm seriously eyeing it up. It's a toss up between that and the evil pet.cruddlebub
- aestheticautoflavour
- Poser machinerobthelad
- That's a really well done spot for a pedal! And the pedal is cool toostoplying
- It sounds really amazing. Would love to see some real demos.cruddlebub
- Ianbolton2
- Love the look of thiscruddlebub
- love the way they have built it too. great handle/stand etc fitting into the railmicrokorg
- PhanLo1
- That Evil Pets gonna send cruddlebub over the top lolmantrakid
- Hahahahaha I'm BUYING ONEcruddlebub
- Sold my dirtywave M8 for £440! Can't wait to get the EP orderedcruddlebub
- Woo nice! thats hilarious i just picked up a M8 Model01 and am trying to get into it. It feels more premium than the polyend tracker but also more memorizationmantrakid
- Muscle memory is amazing on the M8 once you get it tied down. Only issue is battery life. I just don't use it now. Their discord is amazing toocruddlebub
- mantrakid3
Genuinely curious if this is too many tracks for an album or if the album itself is too dense or 'samey'. I’m going for something akin to Ilkae: Pistachio Island (many short tracks with diverse sounds) but with weirdo beats.
https://samply.app/p/uh93YyVAxEi…
Any feedback is incredibly welcome. Especially critical feedback!
- Ooh let's have a listen.cruddlebub
- What's with the multiple versions? Am I tripping or.....?cruddlebub
- oops, i had versions enabled so i could listen to old tweaks, i disabled for now, but the latest version should be default. should all be 'final' vers now!mantrakid
- Ah cool. I'll have a full listen In tut morningcruddlebub
- This sound amazing. Production is dope. Listening on Dynaudios with a Sub.mort_
- Not really my genre so dunno about the number of tracks. It seems a lot. Maybe presented as a double album is an option?mort_
- mantrakid1
you hate it dont you..
- mg331
mantrakid,
Listening now while I work on a project around 12am.
There's some really cool stuff in here, but 35 tracks is a lot. Are you familiar with Prefuse 73? Some of his best albums like Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian (amazing album name and cover art), Extinguished, and Preparations, have around 23 - 29 tracks. I love putting these albums on while I'm working and I never really pay attention to how many tracks there are. Honestly, I didn't realize until just know that those albums have that many tracks.
But on albums like Sacrifices and Fudge Beats, that track list is smaller, but the songs feel consistently longer, and the songs change gears a bit more; I always describe Prefuse 73 as like listening to someone just constantly changing a radio dial. There's so much variety, but it's cohesive. It's got similarities to Aphex Twin's slower stuff, nothing like Syro which is something altogether from another planet.
Also, on something like Ampexian, pretty much every track blends into the next. Go listen to that album, listen to the last 15 seconds of a track and the first 15 of the next one. It all flows wonderfully and despite all the variety, it just works.
I think that's what this needs. It needs to feel like a giant song, and every track blends into the next. You've got some good transitions here and there, like Grubby Unit > Ballerina Shoes, and Mermaid Theme > Airship (on this one, I'd cut Mermaid Theme at 2:12, remove that fade out, and sync that final beat in Mermaid Theme to be the first beat in Airship.
A few other ideas as I skip around:
If you're up for changing the track order... put Simple Syrup before Syncope. That fade out in Simple Syrup is nice but it doesn't sound right going into Moments After Death. Moments After Death needs to be a smooth, calm track that's faded into after something with more of a beat.
Another suggestion - take out NighCrawler and transition from Take Notes to Past the Garden. Nightcrawler feels too fast and aggressive; so much of everything else is just really chill. Past the Garden is a nice ender and the most ambient thing on here. I love it and Supplant.
I'll give it another listen next time I'm working on my project for a few hours straight. Since you're looking for critical feedback, I hope this is helpful. Once I've got my print shop fully up I'm getting back to my album, which I put on hold early in 2025 to focus on art. Different style of music altogether, but I'm neurotic for song transitions and how the mood ebbs and flows and doesn't feel disjointed.
Questions: how did you record this? Master it? Any plugins you used in the final mix / master chain? I feel like I've got a good ear for when things are mastered the "right" way and when they're just exported out of a DAW. I'm on good speakers so the, eh, how to say... rawness of this stands out. Putting it through something that adds saturation, maybe something with light warped vinyl effect / super minimal tape warble to it, I bet that would enhance it a ton.
- ADHDs will love it!mort_
- Holy smokes this is awesome feedback and exactly what i needed to hear!!! Thank you so much!mantrakid
- ALL tracks were recorded dawless basically straight off the OP1 and OPXY into my phone. I did that deliberately because they are all basically live performed...mantrakid
- And i have a little performance video to accompany each one. That said, i have definitely been feeling like the cohesive WHOLE needed work.mantrakid
- So having some sort of final form = mixtape / mix session would actually be 100% on point and still part of the same aesthetic. ie. live mix them all...mantrakid
- Into the final album, run through SP404 mk2 compressor / saturation / tape, could add just the final glue it needs (and give me ability to do one more layer...mantrakid
- of variation to tie it all together! Dude. this was massively helpful and inspiring, thank you so freaking much!!!mantrakid
- You're so welcome, man. Are you on IG? Connect with me at @mg33_art and/or @theagelesssea.mg33
- autoflavour0
mantra.. brah.. 35 tracks.. my ADHD is in over drive..
a mixtape perhaps?
sounds good from what i have listened so far.. far be it from me to critique peoples work.. i make music that i never finish or release..
- Fuck yeah i gotta make a live mix/mixtape out of it... 100%. Thanks for checking it out auto! huge love bromantrakid
- autoflavour3
so after leaving it dormant for 10 months.. i finally got back to my vibe coding project i teased last year.
basically i pushed it to the point where I realised i had to rebuilt the entire thing.. i had built it using swift and the AVFOUNDATION engine to handle all the audio, but the major limitation was i could ONLY use the default system audio, so couldnt for example set an external core audio interface for input and output..
needless to say that was majorly demoralising as i just spent 3 months fighting chatgpt every step of the way to vibe code.
in the meantime, gpt 5.2 has been released, but more importantly codex.. which i am yet to finish using, but legit seems to be rewriting my entire swift project into C++ one part at a time..
will keep you updated.. but yep.. CODEX at the moment is saving my project.
- did a solid 13 hours on it yesterday. ported ALL of the backend stuff, and now am moving on to the UI.. feels like did 2 months wrestling with gpt in 1 day.autoflavour
- Im in a similar boat - i made a tool for OP-1 sample exporting, and was asked by the community if i can make it so you can choose your audio output but :(mantrakid
- What are you building it in? I was using swift but am rebuilding with JUCE at its core..autoflavour
- microkorg0
Pioneer/AlphaTheta release the RMX-Ignite.
Something that has been on a lot of people wish list for more than a decade!Product designers could have carte blanche to design something cool but come up with this vanilla box.
- microkorg1
Another NAMM release.
RANE standalone. £2.5k tho.- Dang! These things make turntables affordable... minus the $10 wax that goes with that.canoe
- Depends what turntables you are after. If you want decent ones to scratch/juggle with you are talking at least £400 each...microkorg
- And the Pioneer S11 Mixer which is the equivalent of what the RaneSystemOne is and has is about £1800.microkorg
- autoflavour3
just had 5 days off.. went to bed 3am each night.. made significant progress on app..
- cruddlebub0
Two amazing bits of kit. Jack said he's staring to feel old now, tech is advancing so quickly...
- An MPC for $3k tho? You make beats with it and stitch together tracks with sequencing, so many early MPC options that are infinitely cheaperprophetone
- I also look at that price and think I could get my hands on the og goat 3000 or an SP1200 box, S2400 etcprophetone
- I mean, I get this is like the Rolls-Royce of drum machines but only because it’s like a laptop wrapped in a midi controller basically with a bunch of softwareprophetone
- for me it’s like where’s the soul of it, the grit, converters and lower bit rates adding crunch and magic, it’s just way too clean and tidy, some will love itprophetone
- The Rane is def sick tooprophetone
- The Rane is sickprophetone
- glitching comments whoopsprophetone
- The other thing too, that truly defines a classic drum machine, all of the early MPC’s, and the E-mu’s, Yamaha’s, Boss’s, Rolands...prophetone
- You can put them in the closet for five or 10 years, or even 20 years, and when you pull it out to use it, it’s still 100% ready to goprophetone
- Any of these newer standalone units nowadays are so reliant on $$ software updates and connectivity to Internet, How happy is this unit gonna be in 15 years?prophetone
- I compare it to what I see with modern cars, especially Teslas, like if the Internet goes down or battery’s dead you can’t even unlock the car or drive it etcprophetone
- Imagine pulling out this MPCXL in a year or two of being in closet, being hit with you can’t make a beat right now until you update os, renew subscriptionprophetone
- Anyway...prophetone
- https://www.instagra…prophetone
- Rane is bonkers!! The MPC is like you say, their rolls Royce, all in one, does absolutely everything machine. It's mega money yeah... Andy Mac is a wizardcruddlebub
- autoflavour2
FUCK..
I keep almost pulling this trigger.$1000 tho..
- gah.. trigger pulledautoflavour
- Your sacrifice for the techno godsprophetone
- Woahcruddlebub
- canoe0
Only 12 U$D
- mantrakid1
@auto - heres my stack for the OP1 app im working on. Using cursor (Opus 4.5)
Language & Runtime: Python 3.13 - Main language
Core Libraries
- PySide6 (≥6.8) - Qt bindings for GUI (windows, widgets, buttons, etc.)
- PyQtGraph (≥0.14) - Fast waveform visualization/plotting
- NumPy (≥2.0) - Audio array manipulation
- SoundFile (≥0.12) - Reading/writing WAV & AIFF filesAudio Playback
- Qt Multimedia (via PySide6) - QAudioSink, QMediaDevices for real-time audio output
- Uses FFmpeg libs bundled with Qt for codec supportBuild & Packaging
- PyInstaller - Bundles Python + dependencies into standalone executables
- .spec files define build configs (separate for macOS dev, App Store, Windows)macOS Distribution
- Separate builds for ARM64 (Apple Silicon) and x86_64 (Intel)
- Universal binary created via lipo (combines both architectures)
- Code signing with Developer ID certificate
- Notarization via notarytool (Apple requirement for distribution)
- DMG creation via hdiutil for direct downloads
- App Store pkg via productbuild for Mac App Store submissionWindows Distribution
- Has a windows.spec file (PyInstaller)GitHub Actions - Automated builds on tag push
Builds macOS on both macos-latest (ARM) and macos-15-intel (x86)
Auto-creates GitHub Releases with DMG attached- i wish i knew what any of that meant :)autoflavour
- problem with vibe coding..autoflavour