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- prophetone1
This is gonna be so sick, standalone Amigo jungle breaks sampler, he’s one of the devs of the plug-in
- Nairn2
@longcopylover - I just saw this on reddit, which might be of interest? The manufacturer's website's offline, which is a bit ominous, but apparently they're available on aliexpress/temu..
- prophetone0
- dont really understand what is happeningautoflavour
- Pretty sure it runs local, you dragon drop a sample or a drum break, then start mutating it with AI driven prompts, updating specs liveprophetone
- Anyone who uses Ai to make music can piss offcanoe
- Agreed, not sure what this is, more like a chaos filter that mutates your dropped sample using your local sample library? Like an Ableton plugin at some point?prophetone
- Could be Max for Live basedprophetone
- https://github.com/l…prophetone
- I see now it’s Stable Audio bas3d, it’s AIprophetone
- Longcopylover1
I am looking for a simple entry level synth or beatmachine for my son (9 years).
I have a teenage engineering PO 12, but that thing is too complicated and the display doesn't make sense for a kid.Any suggestions other than the blipblox after dark?
- Maybe a Bullfrog?
https://www.youtube.…prophetone - Roland made a Groove Box, or somebody made it, pretty easy to make an entire track on that at that age.canoe
- novation circuitkingsteven
- A Volca sample can be grabbed cheap. Very easy & immediate. Approachable. Perfect for a 9YO exploring beats and sequencing IMOletterhead
- yeah a Volca .. the bullfrog is amazing if you have the casholaautoflavour
- Thanks everyone, will check them out.Longcopylover
- I always suggest the Novation Circuit, I still use mine all the time even after my elektron rabbit holebig-papes
- Rolan j6. Amazing little devicecruddlebub
- yep papes. circuit is an absolute wonder. intuative, powerful and super cheap.kingsteven
- This
https://www.instagra…prophetone
- Maybe a Bullfrog?
- ShenanigansTV6
I know I posted this in the AI thread but it makes more sense here.
- Very Coolbig-papes
- Well that's not any fun or anything.mg33
- very cool.. all i would say is Roland is notoriously litigious and protective of their IP.. even for free things.autoflavour
- cloning the 909 is fine, calling it Roland TR909 is likely to get you a cease and desistautoflavour
- talk to me about the emulation tho? are they samples or actual engine?autoflavour
- They are web audio api. You're right about the label. I'm not selling it so... But it's an easy change.ShenanigansTV
- not sure not selling it has ever stopped them ;)autoflavour
- big-papes12
I just released a new house single today, check it out here if thats your thing : https://push.fm/fl/lovitz
- Love that clap-like percussion and all the 'human' touches in it... has a kind of "Latch" appeal in the vocal. +1!canoe
- thanks!big-papes
- Loving it too. Tight production bro.mort_
- thanks! thats awesomebig-papes
- Damn, so good! Like a lot of your other stuffshapeaspect
- Anywhere we can hear the full thing? :)jagara
- nice, bit of a departure from your other tracks..autoflavour
- funky - music to make changes totimeless
- ShenanigansTV12
Hey friends. Here's a T-303 bass I made. Everything you like about the 303 without everything you don't. Pairs so sexy with the T-909
- Funcanoe
- Love thisbig-papes
- <3ShenanigansTV
- the slide control is inside the mod window.ShenanigansTV
- Super cool!stoplying
- That's fun! stack another and an 808!ayport
- ❤️❤️❤️falcadia
- microkorg0
Longcopylover
I had some of the Roland Aira Compacts that my kids 7&9 loved fiddling with and tweaking. They could do basic stuff with presets and tweak to their hearts content. Programming synth patterns was way over their heads but they could program beats on the T-8.Roland 101 grooveboxes can be pretty complicated and menu-dive-tastic.
Would the older TE OP-1 be a good shout? Pricey but real simple and all synths etc have illustrations to show parameter changes.
if you have an iPad then there's plenty of good grooveboxes to be had cheaply - also good ol' ReBirth! (2x 303 1x808 1x909).
The sampler app Koala is something my kids grasped pretty fast.
The beauty of apps is they dont cost much, they can try many things, synths, samplers, granular sampling and see what floats their boat.Me and the kids did a 1 song gig last year, it was a song we composed together in Logic on iPad. My 9yo daughter was starting to understand Logic. I think knowing about DAWs and how to 'build' songs is a pretty decent thing for them to be learning if they like making music.
- I second Rebirth, that's fun no matter what agecanoe
- https://rumpshaker-f…ShenanigansTV
- my t-909 is pretty easy and free.ShenanigansTV
- Thank you, plenty of stuff to check out. I would prefer something off the iPad. (Just to keep him away from this thing.)Longcopylover
- And I would love something he can really play songs/build tracks and not just be overwhelmed with the options without any result after.Longcopylover
- Or worse: total overstimulation and then frustration. (That's also my personal experience.)Longcopylover
- would just a simple sampler do? Akai Sample or new casio scx-1microkorg
- My kids have fun with koala. So maybe a simple sampler is a good solution, satisfying and can make full tracksmicrokorg
- without being over complicated.
With a groovebox you need to learn about drums, synth, samples.microkorg - The 909 is pretty straight forward. I've also been working on a friendly t-303. Together they are really fun.ShenanigansTV
- autoflavour1
so picked up a second sub yesterday.. was second hand but first owner and barely used..
i now have 2x 15inch subs and 2x 15inch top boxes..
- Watch yer bass bins, I'm tellin' ya!prophetone
- yeah i tested it before i picked it up.. the yamaha dxs have built in limiters tho, so not as easy to blowautoflavour
- did a frequency sweep across their entire range.. had their guys apartment shakingautoflavour
- niceprophetone
- Bust out Jamie XX's Oh My Goshprophetone
- Where are you putting them in your room, in front and behind?canoe
- lol.. they arent for my studio.. they are huge. its a PA.. this photo is of the 12inch, and i have the 15inch
https://au.yamaha.co…autoflavour - i had a small studio sub and my entire room shook, 2 of these bad boys i would legit break the house..autoflavour
- https://au.yamaha.co…autoflavour
- canoe1
- fancyprophetone
- I heard if you don't go fancy, they don't really workcanoe
- canoe2
I have this little itty-bitty Universal Audio Arrow... the model before the Apollo... and then I run an analog mixer into.
I was thinking of getting this to replace the interface and mixer... although I really like UA products... it's just that the Apollo is not cheap, but I don't have a ton of gear, just a synth, a drum machine and some old fx I don't use anymore.
- and obv a mic - It's time to kill the algorithmcanoe
- We use a model24 for BEATRETREAT.. just multitrack constantly and then edit later. Not as an interface thoautoflavour
- Sounds like you're happy with itcanoe
- its not mine, we just borrow it.. but as a standalone multitrack recording device its amazing.autoflavour
- microkorg0
Been wanting to get myself a set of decent wee desktop monitors. Reviews and recommendations were saying the Kanto Ora's or the Adam Audio D3V's.
Took advantage of Amazon no-hassle returns and bought both.
The Ora's are tiny but incredibly capable speakers, it is insane what they are able to pump out. I think they are more 'hifi' than the 'reference' speakers they call themselves. Pronounced bass and quite muddy in the middle, I thought it almost sounded like they were playing through a tube.
Had read that getting the matching sub opens them up a bit but it was the detail in hihats or percussion that I felt was just lacking.
The ora's are beautifully minimal speakers.
I do however think I was a little spoiled because I'd already spend a few hours with the D3V's which are hands down the clearest audio I have ever heard. Those ribbon tweeters are incredible.
The sound is beautifully flat like a monitor/reference speaker should be. They bass is punchy and accurate - each speaker has a 3.5" woofer and 2x3" passive radiators that thump in and out.
I would not hesitate to recommend these to anyone.
They arent the prettiest of speakers, look more like sh*tty computer speakers from the 90s. But here performance wins over looks.
Next on the list is probably a 8" sub to take away some of the really low duties away from these speakers, not that they are not capable, just want some floor movement.
- On one hand nobody really gets to see them, but on the other hand you got to look at them all the time. Too bad they're ug, I need.canoe
- What do you have in your music studio?canoe
- Only have my laptop with ableton + decades of collected VSTs etc. iPad with Logic Pro and other apps.microkorg
- And hardware only a OP-XY now.
Sold a crap ton of toys about 9 years ago when first kid was born as had to give up 'studio' to be a bedroom.microkorg
- autoflavour1
started porting across to iPad over the weekend.. a few considerations to be found, but generally its been pretty smooth so far.. and somehow way more fun..
long way off release, but you know, gotta do something- Think i have a solid footing for the ipad release, now just need to go into the meatgrinder of getting it on the app store.autoflavour
- Stream of users - Instagram... for $100 you can get decent exposure.canoe
- autoflavour0
- gah, tried, yet failed.. Y U NO IMGUR VID EMBEDautoflavour
- URL gotta end with .png .jpg .gifkingsteven
- use haasie insteadhans_glib
- utopian2
- cant sit still, cant complete tasks = adult ADHD manifestationkingsteven
- always so much positive energy from the kingcanoe
- Reminds me of the D-Beam that Roland had on some stuff from the late 90s.
Cool that he's built this but don't think it's a mainstream productmicrokorg - more of a personal tailored product to how he makes/constructs/per... his music.microkorg
- (performs)microkorg
- @canoe dude, you reply to every sidenote i make with negativity - all because i pointed out you did the same thing with the last guy you imagined beef withkingsteven
- Psht, yeah, you mean the guy that was RIPPED from here for being a troll, all that was imaginary?canoe
- what is troll? - anyway, you wont get an argument from me. and the last two things i've said on here that you've bizarely taken umbrage to - 'fuck you candy'kingsteven
- is an ancient NT meme, and I have ADHD (which doesn't licence me to diagnose it) but i can joke - really have no idea why you're gunning for me lolkingsteven
- autoflavour4
Getting a solid stream of new users .. a few a day..
Also just did a huge push over the weekend, have bumped it up to 1.1.0 release. Vst is now persistent across saves in your DAW, has orphan relinking, and even saves slices Incase the relinked file is gone foreverAlso did a bunch of cubase specific fixes ..
Side note, fucking cubase is a ballache.
Build a vst which works everywhere, no issue.. cubase tho.. oh no, we have to have special carve outs specifically for cubase- I know it’s only a few a day.. but for something with barely any promo at the moment .. Im chuffedautoflavour
- Fuck Cubase bro, what is this, the 90s? :-)
Congrats on the momentumcanoe - Yeah not to hate, but cubase is worse than protools at this point.autoflavour
- yet amazingly, Cubase INVENTED the VST format.. like how can you be so broken..autoflavour
- Cubase always seemed to have a kink in it from what I remember from 27 years agocanoe
- futurefood1
- HoLy shit that sounds amazing
Looks bonkers too.cruddlebub
- HoLy shit that sounds amazing
