Nick Blanc

This is a very underrated synth.

Oh bummer. Well that's the path I chose. I'm also on the 50% off sale trajectory, so I'm always behind. And I'm not buying NI products besides my Komplete upgrades to avoid doubles.

It depends on the project I think. When I edit my studio jams, the music is the centerpiece. So I make shure that is optimal. Render it out and then put it under my video in Davinci Resolve. There I do my video editing so I can match it somewhat to the music. If it was the other way around (video as the centerpiece) I think I would go the route of rendering out the video and using my DAW to match the music to the video. But that also depends of course. I did an unboxing short recently and I just made a generic upbeat tune which I put under the video in Resolve.

Thank you! To be fair, the Malevolent is a bit magical.

Is that how you spell it? Afterlifey? Afterlife-eske? Esque? Anyway, some may know the style. Big synths, pulsating rhythms and those loud stabs. The 2600 proved to be a perfect candidate. Please enjoy!

I was worried that the MS-20 and the Malevolent would have a lot of overlap, but although they have a similar purpose, they sound so different. I didn't regret getting either one.

Ah yes, that's the Korg MS-20 Mini. If you play with the decay you can get a snappy or more sustained sound. It's always a fun parameter to tweak.

I'm not sure which one you mean. Do you have a timestamp for me?

Thanks for the heads-up.

I see what you did there...

So, I'm having fun, I found some samples of dirty basslines, mainly dubstep. So I thougt, well hold on, I have a MS-20 mini and a Malevolent, I can do better! And boy did they deliver. That Malevolent is just a box of evil and grit. When you thought it couldn't get dirtier than a resonance filled patch on the MS-20 mini, you haven't had a go with the Malevolent. There is a very fine line between 'great' and 'oh my god what is this'. At one point I cut out almost everything audible, by accident. but the spectrum analyzer goes crazy. It was the difference of 1 mm on the position of the cutoff knob. Insane. Anyway, enjoy. It's maybe not what people on this forum are particularly interested in, but I like it. This is maybe more of a sounddesign showcase.

I like this! Very mellow. And the lyrics have some bite 😇

Thanks!

Thanks!

Exactly, pretty important distinction. Software gives me that finetuned 'precisely what I wanted' sound. Hardware gives me that "holy sh*t I didn't know that was an option' sound. Both great.

Ouch, that sounds expensive. Repair costs? Thanks!

Haha yes the knobs are a big plus. I believe that because of the physicality you can get to sounds you wouldn't have thought of using a VSTi.

I don't really care, I'm still getting Clarity Vx at some point. And I'm gonna keep using what I paid for.

Oh come on. This is getting out of hand. A trans panner? Is that a gain knob that identifies as a pan knob?

Sounds interesting, might make it on my wishlist for Black Friday.

I started with a schedule this year. If there's one thing I'm good at, is to adhere to a self set schedule. I can be very disciplined. This comes in handy with getting/staying fit, and now it flows over to my music. Sunday is livejamming and recording, monday is beatmaking, tuesday is learning/practising an instrument, wednesday is jamming/having fun/sounddesign, thursday is producing, friday is hardware day (synthesizers) and....here it comes....saturday is, amongst other, maintenance. I get up, get a cup of coffee and do all my update and install work.

I'm just a lowly hobbyist. So I'm the little kid at the carnival who doesn't know where to look and daddy AI takes my hand and points to stuff I hadn't noticed or didn't know was worth looking into. Then I run away and start stomping in a muddy puddle because "you're not the boss of me!".

For me it's the opposite. I haven't updated Waves Central (I even don't have it installed), but since this whole debacle I used more Waves plugins than in the months before. They entered my TOMA. 😅

Ok I know this is not in most of your wheelhouses, but here it goes. Some harder techno this time. Still very much Moog orientend. Live playing of the melody which is always exciting and frightening at the same time. Live arranging. Everything went pretty well. Some minor mistakes, but if I don't tell, no-one is the wiser 😜. I took a pretty big risk by playing with the pitch. On the Peak it gave a really great dissonant tone, so that worked out great. On the Matriarch it was an LFO pitch effect which I messed up a couple of times in preparation, but when it was recording time it worked!

I know, it was just the most funny juxtaposition I wanted to share and this seemed like the right topic. I get all my new from 9gag and Google 😝