Nick Blanc

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 ?

In The Netherlands we have a couple of those as well. When those articles are suggested to me in some kind of feed (like the Google on on your phone), I actively try to click somewhere along the lines of "this is not interesting to me". When I'm on the train to work, I have 25 minutes of time to kill. And I will not kill them by dodging subscriptions, half articles or payment plans. The amount of times I have wasted my time on 'you', warrants me to send you a payment plan. For just €10 a month, I will allow you to send me your half-***** content with a payment link for when I want te read further.

Oh the irony...

I'm gonna be wild and not buy them. I already bought a couple of Behringer ADA8200's this month and the Behringer Edge is due any moment now. Better save my money. I will however bite on that Mastering the Mix deal, seems interesting.

Oh why do they have to do this to me?! I've had my eye on some of those Big Fish libraries for some time now.

I use a lot of loops, phrases less so? If there's any difference. Well yes there is, but it's in the nuance. I think it has to do with volume. I make (amongst other things) beats. That in of itself is a heavy loop based genre. So what I like to do is listen to loops and phrases, try to see if I can play it myself on the keyboard. Or something similar. I record that and then chop it up or loop it. Sometimes with a 'hard cut' at the end to give it that oldschool loop feel. Back to 'volume'. I make somewhere between 3-5 beats a week. I'm not laying down an original drumtrack, basstrack, guitartrack, pianotrack, etc. every new project. Loops and phrases are there for my convenience. I get the feeling that something doesn't feel like your own, I have that same issue with presets. And the statisfaction is indeed much higher when you created everything yourself. I just can't do it. I can't play guitar besides Smoke on the Water type of riffs. I can't play drums apart from some shakers in my mic. I can't sing, so I use a vocoder and autotune. I'm a mediocre piano player at best. * Liam Neeson mode on: what I do have, is a particular set of skills. */off. I can create and arrange pretty well if I say so myself. Long answer short: I use these kind of libraries, sometimes as a centerpiece in beats/loop oriented styles or in the background as a stand-in for my musical shortcomings. And besides all of this, when you play a track of yours for your friends (or even peers) where you used a loop or a phrase, there is absolutely no-one who will judge you and say "hey hold on a minute, that's just an EQ-ed and compressed and slightly altered version of a phrase from Session Bassist by NI, you big fraud!" Even Arcade has so much stuff that you can use almost everything freely. Even the 1000 Youtube video's warning you about using vocals from Splice are nonsense as far as I'm concerned. Yeah so what that anyone else can use that vocal? Listen to the current EDM charts, it's full of re-used samples from 10-20 years ago.

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Thanks! This could be very useful for me. I use a lot of synths and I have a oldschool pen/paper notebook to take notes of patches or I take photo's with my phone. Then I have to remember when I took the picture and look for it. There are other notation tools out there, but when I have to jot down 12 parameters, it gets cumbersum.

You have to sign up I think, and this is what I got: "There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later."

Looks like an ok tool for the job. But I'm missing a free range rate (in hz) which you could modulate with an LFO or envelope. The modulation part doesn't necessarily have to be in the plugin (since it's a freebie), there are tools for that too. But it would have been nice.