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- mantrakid3
Im putting together an album with a handful of my fav. selections from my daily ambient / beat podcast:
Would love to know what you think!
Album Preview: https://samply.app/p/inrxxDkGwmk…
Podcast @ https://www.patreon.com/collecti…
Apple @ https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/po…
- microkorg14
My kids 7&9 do piano lessons and the teacher organises concerts through the year. A couple of times a year she organises 'fun concerts' where you can play anything.
Took place on sunday, was some great parent kid duets, my favourite was a (french?) father and son. Father playing a double bass and his kid playing some thrift-shop retro organ that sounded amazing.
I played a gig with my two. Daughter playing Kalimba with contact mic attached - through a Blackhole Revervb on a 'Sigur Ros' preset.
I was providing some simple drums, fingerdrumming on the 404Mk2. Son was manning the iPad running Logic Pro with Bleas Synth on 'Boards' preset (Boards of Canada sound) it was sequenced, he was controling the cutoff/resonance.
We used the 'Session Musician' AI based feature in Logic to write a good bass guitar and piano track.We chopped up the original interview with Rickie Lee Jones that The Orb sampled for 'Little Fluffy Clouds' and dispersed that through the song with a little delay.
The kids had a lot of input into building the track with me on the iPad but it ended up sounding pretty epic.
Imagine Primal Scream (screamadelica) vs Boards of Canada vs something like Massive Attack. But on a sketchy level.Piano teacher said tonight that she had a lot of people saying what we played was awesome. :)
- ideaist
- love this :) My kids both took piano lessons as well, and they did shows like this too :)
great memories :)exador1 - Love this too :)mort_
- WTF; my post was a "Cool Dad Alert" with emojis, BUT I guess QBN wasn't having it?!
Nice @microkorg!!!ideaist - That's awesome.zaq
- Its epic that your kids are into this style an also that you are able to facilitate it for them. Sounds like the sort of show I would go to.slappy
- Sounds really cool!stoplying
- autoflavour1
- lol nicemantrakid
- took me a second to check the dateautoflavour
- autoflavour2
- long hinted vaporwave is finally a thing.autoflavour
- vaporware even.. but im sure you can make vaporwave on itautoflavour
- autoflavour0
- still have about 6 or so of these to make.. but been frantically trying to finish the actual manual firstautoflavour
- i'm slow and old but those tips come so thick and fats. it'd help if the soundtrack mirrored what was going on visually, rather than the genero beats you have.hans_glib
- fast? phats? you choose....hans_glib
- classy site tho :)hans_glib
- yeah i had been thinking the same, was trying to smash them out fast.. but might need a revisitautoflavour
- the genero beats for what its worth are from chopgridautoflavour
- Amazing stuff congrats. Need to get this out to some of the music machine influencers on youtube get some hype.microkorg
- microkorg0
Im thinking of getting myself and my kids a couple of the Roland Aira Compacts for making beats.
In particular the T-8 drum machine and the J-6 Chord machine.Been watching tutorials on both and they look pretty much pick up and play, I reckon even my youngest at 7 could wrap his head around how to program some beats.
Anyone using them?
Will be selling my Sp404 to fund getting them.
Its a box I have used very basically, way too rtfm needed to get going with that thing.- Don’t feel bad.. have owned 2 404 in my time and keep failing to connect . Find a cheap second hand digitakt ..autoflavour
- Worth the price of admissionautoflavour
- only vaguely complex thing about the roland compacts is you need the settings menu for some sound options and its not immediately clear what the fuck they meankingsteven
- on the tiny screen, like this on the T8:
https://i.haasie.com…kingsteven - Had a Digitakt in the past. Fun but way too complex for my kids to get their head around. Top level functions of the Compacts will keep them happy...microkorg
- ..whilst I can dig deeper when i get a shot. The Sampler one has a granular engine!!microkorg
- I had a j6 for a while! Great little machine. Part exchanged it when I grabbed the evil pet.cruddlebub
- autoflavour0
Hans.. and for anyone else interested.. I updated the website today with audio samples demonstrating each module and its sound..
Next step is reworking the videos tho.. only so much time in the day
- ideaist0
I got one of these for my bike-packing trip(s) so I can make my elusive R&B album as "whitedangelo" whilst spirit questing across Ontario AND Canada.
: )
- lol @ whitedangelo hahamantrakid
- Arturia make nice feeling keys.
If you want super portable with expression then the keithmcmillen/muse kinetics k-board or Qunexus(with seq) are great.microkorg - Dude, these look great!
https://www.musekine…ideaist
- Ianbolton3
Finally uploaded a new track
https://soundcloud.com/ianpaulbo…- Fun!skinny_puppy
- It’s fun creating them. Maybe I need to promote it more. Keep trying to work out how I’d play any of it live too.Ianbolton
- Ianbolton5
Sorry for the repost but i felt the last one was lazy. New playful ambient tune out now!! Have several new things to release, which I'll obviously go on about some more when i do.
Thaaaanks
- cruddlebub0
Omg... And coming in under €500... Wowsers
- why have one when you can have three? https://www.youtube.…hans_glib
- Haha you can swap out the faces! $50 per faceplatecruddlebub
- autoflavour2
- after missing the last round, I pulled this pin this time.. now just gotta wait until my birthday next month before my wife will let me have it.autoflavour
- autoflavour2
also managed to actually start getting customers.. havent really promoted CHOPGRID, but have about 10 so far..
its like a actual product now.
which comes with needing tech support..
totally overlooked that part.- remind me of the link? congrats!mantrakid
- NICE!! I keep seeing this bob up on my Insta feed. Looks amazing. Knew id seen it here first. How much is it as i'll grab it when i get paid?Ianbolton
- oh $29. Looks like a proper bargain.Ianbolton
- im an idiot - totally missed it, sorry man! chopgrid.com baby!mantrakid
- very cool autocanoe
- thanks.. yep still trying to port the vst3 version.. just time .. and my lack of it at the momentautoflavour
