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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Thats unfortunate but very understandable. Thanks for your effort!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I worked on my dnb ep. All made from scratch including live instruments band ana synths no loops or patches etc.

First two seem worthwile listening. Have to think a little about arrangements as I find the buildups a bit annoying these days. Heard a dj set recently where they just put one buildup and drop right to the one of the next song. So its a constant break and drop :D This is shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pigments is pretty nice even alongside vital. Haven't used it much but the additive stuff and granular was fun. Filter and effect section is nice too.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its not that bad but the most time you spend on installation is opting out of services. This takes up like 75% of the install time :D

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Joplin works well for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thats a cool path for sure.

I havent even considered working for other projects except the last few years. Made a jingle for a podcast and some advertisment tracks, some for me, some for clients in other directions.

Fun experience to bring something on point along guidelines but I rather prefer the musician as an artist kind of thing where I just put out albums. When we released our album over 10 years ago we werent aware of all the sales channel that exist today. We hoped for some label that picks us up or something. We didnt even make CDs or vinyl I thin despite many people seem to like it and the forbidden and wild live impro recordings even more :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Allright,

I´ve been making for 25 years now. Began with 16 and drumming on Dejmbes in tunnels broughtme initially in before I continued with Reason were I just mixed loops together and than began diving deeper into music after a friend tought me the first pieces of music theory.

After some training years I tramed up with local MCees and we had a first band called Quintesense with pretty smart story based texts and all. We had a few live perfomrances and its was huge fun.

Most of the time I spent with the next Group called Spruchpiloten and we released an Album and had a few hits like "Zurück zu Hause" ind Bombe. We had plenty of local club appearances sometimes completely improvised into electro or Drum n Bass territory comibined with rap vocals. A concept that later on Deickind started to make popular :D https://knsm.cc/kpmp3-015-spruchpiloten-starke-turbulenzen/

Maybe two hours a week is for producing if at all currently but thats fine as I prepare a massive solo comeback if all goes well.

  1. Primary listening genres are HipHop, Drum n Bass, Electro, Deep House as well as Jazz and classic indian music or anythin that has rhytm.

  2. Artists: Tribe called quest, Bad Company, Noisia, Misanthrop etc but also Khruangbin, Laufey, Lianne La Havas, Michael Kiwanuka on the softer side.

  3. Random stuff, sometimes, music theory for weeks than a little mixing or stranjah for DnB stuff as I never had much ressources along the way except try and error and friends here and there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are some commercial soultions as well. I had to compare the results a little and then made an EQ+ preset in Bitwig that was plausible and fitted one of the measured curves as there are newer models from my headphones that are different in response. (AKG K240 Studio)

Parametric EQ worked better than convolution IR.

 

Just found this website where you can select your heaphones from the database and automtically generate different outputs for various EQs to adjust for linearity to help you with mixing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just made a EQ preset in Bitwig for thr master channel with a proper correction for my akg k240 studio. This helps immensily with mixing. Or at least it sounds more balanced now. Cant verify if this is super correct but you may want to check out this page and throw the data in a eq. Found yours listed in the app too.

https://autoeq.app

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes thats definitely a point. I think I was there at some point and deliverd a few hits locally and that was a pretty long period that had just that one goal. Not as extreme though as that wasn´t necessary at that time :D

I agree that the core motivation is how you identify with your music and if you live in it and know not much else that pushes you into the extremes. What I also noticed yesterday was definetly inspiration. Not only tutorials and books for knowledge but real live, non music drama and moments that act as a unimagined source for it. Like emotional material and soul battery power that gets the spark lit again. I forgot that a little and thought you can make great art while living in a white room with nothing else happening. You cant. Music is transformed energy from somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see, I think 24 years of producing should be kinda enough to find your musical purpose but it got worse over time. I used to make just short loops for my mcees and we went from there but they are are older and much busier. So now Iḿ pretty much standing there and thinking about solo takeoffs like a really good Drum n Bass album or electro ish kinda deep house groove loaded stuff with real instruments or sthg. But Iḿ really lakcing in patience, I mostly start stuff, got a solid core but struggle to get it going from there despite plenty of knowledge. I just enjoy plain loops, I dont need a story to tell, the loop it self is the story.

Also. there is so much stuff out there and I rarely find anything new that impresses me so I dont really see my own stuff as impressive either and got the feel it doesnt have anything of worth after the initial novelty effect.

Best thing is to just keep it as a day in the skatepark kind of thing. Go in there, pull some tricks, sweat a little, have fun and then let it go.

Just freeflow thoughts

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Interesting, I don´t really think people will understand what Iḿ trying to say in my music. Or lets put it that way, I couldnt even express it. All I do is start somewhere and have fun along the way. Its not me, its a self establishing organism that is shaped through my perception. Its an adventure but without any target really.

The other thing is just writing a song that works as x or y.

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Good stuff (www.youtube.com)
 

Best mix I´ve found in a long time. Found a few of his tracks years ago and already found them excellent.

 

Might be a good idea, what do you think?

 

I just wondered how you guys light your studio. I´ve been thinking of adding more colored light when jamming to have a bit of a vibe going.

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I recently centered my hardware around the Electribe2 (hacktribe) as a central sequencing device. This beacme even more a thing since hacktribe implemented MIDI soft trough. Whats especially nice about this is the internal exporting wave function of it. Any synth connected and and sequenced via midi and of course audio via mixer in gets recorded to SD to have seperate stems. Sure thats nothing special when compared to an MPC one or Smpltrek but it seems to be something compared to a digitakt.

Downside seems to be that it only records the incoming audio with the same gate notes have despite the envelope settings on the synth. So if ou trigger long notes with short notes they will get cut. I think setting the deacy to max on the e2 changes this but its still faded out or a little different from what you played.

Maybe someone has more experience with the export function collecting erxternal synths. Originally I recorded the complete 4 bars of the external synth into one sample and let that play but its quite a bit of extra work per track and export is automatic sequential export.

 

Sounds pretty suspicious to me.

 

After a delightful information gathering period of mulitple weeks I decided to go for an Argon8. The primary reasons were:

  • Contrast to the analog gear possibilities in oscillation
  • Usable 8bar sequencer with realtime non step recording
  • Solid build quality including nice keys.
  • Many on top controlls

It was intended as starting point for chord progressions and melody ideas. For that it works quite well. The sequence can be easily deleted and rerecorded or entered stepwise. THis works well on the minilogue xD too with the advantage that you can directly access the steps for editing within 1 bar 16 steps.

Soundwise it fits in pretty well. The waveform banks are not overly exciting but there is enough modulation with the OSCmod and wavemod possible. Serves well for HipHop Melodys and man DNB leads and pads so far. Epianoesque keys are achieavable as well of course.

Iḿ not sure why modal does this but they seem to like shift functions this time in the wrong place. Currently you have to switch one encoder with shift between scanning trough the wavetable and the bank selection. Not sure about you but on a wavetable synth I like these seperate to scan through stuff quickly. Having the OSC pitch on shift would have been wiser. As I usually set this once or at least it is not set in combination with another parameter frequently. Same with spread/ glide, its in the main OSC section and I can´t remember twisting spread constantly during sound design, this could have been a shift thing and been used for the wavemodes instead fe.

The menu! While it has a clean structure I often find myself thinking of what I have to push and thats why my sequences are only named with a single letter :D There are supportive modes where it shows actually tweaked stuff and I tried to set it so that I have the menu encoder as the wavetable bank selector but its gone as soon as you turn something else and you have to go back to the menu page manually. Could have been a fix.

Effects- I like them, al pretty useful and interesting. Extra digi distortion always handy.

Mod - assignment - Fast and easy, never ran out so far.

Envelopes - easy to use and direct access.

Secondary settings are all nicely presented within the 16 buttons. Quite memorable.

Input Output is nice too.

I still have the LCD protector on, that worrys me a little and Iḿ not too sure where the journey goes with it. NIce piece of hardware but the OSC thing bothers me as I spend a lot of time there.

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Should we move to KBIN? (waveform.social)
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It seems everything is doomed these days: https://raddle.me/f/lobby/155371/warning-lemmy-doesn-t-care-about-your-privacy-everything-is

EDIT: Looks like lemmy is totally fine and we can feel like home without worrying too much.

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Woohoo! (waveform.social)
 

Hope this blossoms into a beautiful and interesting community.

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