Nick Blanc

Perhaps a little late to the party, but I searched a long time for extra I/O. Finally I found the RME Digiface. It has 4 ADAT I/O so 32 channels in, 34 channels out (32 ADAT, 2 on the Digiface itself). So I use 4x Behringer ADA8200 and it works. Sometimes I have to adjust some latency stuff in the DAW. As noted, your 'gargling noise' (or weird underwater thingie) is a synchronisation issue. Could be a samplerate mismatch or just a 'lost' handshake. Changing samplerates and back again can fix this. I believe RME is like the super saiyan of interfaces. And Totalmix (their software, similar to the Focusrite one) is insanely powerful. Too powerful. I'm constantly bothering their support with questions. But they are great. Maybe I should pay them a visit at Superbooth this May. It's in Munich, so pretty close by.

I've read this now several times, and it seems like a logical plan. Especially the splitting off with a Y cable. I'm a bit of a control freak for mixing and editing so I like my signals seperated. That's why I chose the 4x8 pre-amps solution over a mixer. But in reality, recording a wet signal in my workflow is 90% of the times all I need. I mainly do weekly livejams so there is no time for mixing it for weeks. Hours tops. I think I'll order a second patchbay, a whole bunch of cables, a week off work and a bottle of Jack. And RME support on standby 😅

As another topic of mine hinted at, I'm going the pedal route. This was my first try with de Edge going through a fuzz pedal. Well, that was awesome! As we say in Dutch, "mokerharde" kicks. Which translates to something like "sledgehammer-hard". I have other pedals (coming up), and this one (Walrus Audio Eons Five-state Fuzz) seemed to be the 'lesser' one between things like the Microcosm, Nightsky etc. Was I wrong. It's absolutely great. This will not be for everyone, but it is for me, so there! 😜

Same deal as the intro price. From $69.99, now for $49.99. https://mixland.io/products/subloom

Yeah I figured as much that labeling would be one of the first things to do. At least with an Excel sheet.

Awesome info. There's definitely more to it than just 'let me patch this thing in'. So I have to put a lot of thought in setting things up and thinking about how I want that and what my end result should be. Thanks!

Oooh right. Thanks for taking the time to be this elaborate. That second patchbay in de-normalled mode makes sense for FX. Indeed a pedal would be in the signal path (with mix control). I'm a complete newbie to this, so would this also allow me to use it as a send? So sending a (or multiple, in case I wanted to do this with more) daw output signal to a patchbay (as I would with a synth) and patching that signal to a pedal. That way I could use the pedals also for vst. My brain hurts. But just a bit less thanks to you.

I haven't asked there. There seems to be plenty of expertise here and I haven't had a real sense of that when I browsed around there some time ago.

As does Ableton. So it's not the software side I'm unsure about. I have that working already. I'm still a bit on the fence on how I would wany my setup to be and if I'm overlooking or misunderstanding some aspects of working with a patchbay.

So, I have the following (luxury) situation: I have a nice homestudio with lots of synths. My setup is 4xADA8200 (=8 inputs and 8 outputs per unit) connected to an RME Digiface via ADAT. Recently I decided to lose the last remaining money I have left and get into pedals (at least I'm not doing modular). I'm using 22 inputs at the moment, all synths and drummachines. Add some spare inputs I like to keep free for occational inputs like guitars, microphones, portable synths, etc. Let's say 5-6. That's 27. Which leaves me with 4-5 inputs left. I bought 6 pedals, 4 of which are stereo. That's 10 inputs. I don't have those left, so I thought I'd get a patchbay. I liked the idea of quickly patching a synth to a pedal. Now I'm breaking my brain on how to do this. In my mind, I can do 2 things: 1 Connect (almost) everything to the patchbay and then to the ADA's. Use the patchbay to route the signals through the pedals. 2 Connect everything to the ADA's and use the ADA outputs as sends for the pedals which loop back to an ADA input. In scenario 1 I can freely route, but I cannot route every piece of gear I have to the pedals and I think (!! I don't understand patchbays that well) I can't use multiple synths to 1 pedal. Which is fine because that would merge the audio of those synths together and I like to keep them recorded separately. In scenario 2 I can route max 30 outputs (I already use 2 for a headphone amp and I use the RME out to my monitors). So I could connect a maximum of 28 outputs from the ADA's to the patchbay. Then I could use every pedal as an external send fx or external insert fx (I use Ableton). With much room to spare. Then I could route the pedal outputs back into the patchbay and back into my open inputs on the ADA's. And I could route pedals into eachother, I think? But how should I connect this (to a half-normalled patchbay)? I think scenario 2 gives me the most options. Am I missing something here?

Thanks! I can't do short 😅 Although I do post shorts, but these are just excerpts from the long one.

But in all seriousness, I'm always a bit sceptical of filter plugins. Especially when they are $70. Not knocking Denise in particular, Acustica Audio did the same for example. So maybe I'm totally mistaken, but what does this do that my stock Ableton plugins cannot? Ok, fair enough, I might have to combine an LFO tool with a filter, but still...

There's the secret boys. Y'all want to be rockstars and mixgods, just do your stuff quickly with confidence. Because...and get this...you will be faster! Faster, harder, Scooter!!

This is more like the now popular melodic techno. So at times a bit empty, but that gives some room for individual sounds. I'm (again 😮‍💨) having some technical weirdness at the moment, so I wasn't able to record something this weekend. Yet. Hopefully I can sort everything out. Anyway, I ramble on. Enjoy!

Ok this thing sounds (d)awesome. I read something about 700 presets and here's just a taste: Price is still high though. I might hold on for a better deal than 30%. That being said, I do have faith this is worth the money if you don't have something like this. Edit: sorry, same video has been posted above by locrian but I can't delete this on my mobile 😵‍💫

Unfiltered Audio is good stuff. So I wanted to F29 it, when I realised I didn't reveive my code last month. Or I totally missed it somehow. I submitted a ticket.

Thanks! That's very kind of you. It all just came together and during the sounddesign I thought..."hey this is beginning to sound like 90s trance...let's go!".

A bit late on the sunday, but I was away for the whole weekend to Dublin. So here it is, the latest jam. This time the sounddesign stage took me into the 90s trance era, so I went with it. Flashy visuals in the thumbnail, perhaps a bit slower tempo than what was customary at that time, but it's not an exact copy. Enjoy!

Thank you for the listen and the comment. I'm learning to utilize the stereofield more.

Well not yet, but I found a temporary solution. Haven't had the time to fix it. On the homefront it's a bit better luckily. Thanks for the comment.

A bit of a crossover between techno and trance. I decided to do the main melody line live so I could improvise a little. And by a little I mean everything. Luckily it came out well. Enjoy!

Stop hurting me! I just shelled out over €500 for a hardware reverb of which I'm pretty shure I could replicated it to a degree if I actually used 25% of my reverb and granular plugins.

I actually did use it! But not remembering in which project and on which sound says something...

I found myself living in Sweden there for a short while 😇

Yes it was insane. My little town was 'world news' for a moment.