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  4. Music Making

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    1 minute ago, Dusty Chalk said:

    I got an email from Brian Wampler apologizing to me -- personally! -- for selling out his new Germanium Tumnus before he even had a chance to advertise it to me.  Does that count?

    No, seriously, I damaged my hearing a couple weeks ago, and now I just want to throw everything in the river.  I went to a (someone else's) gig tonight, and half the time it sounded like there was a ring modulator over the whole mix.  Grating.  If I could cry, I would.  As it is, I mourn.

    Oh no, that is really shitty! Sorry you're dealing with that Dusty

  5. Music Making

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    Anyone enjoying new gear?

    I've been starting to jam techno type stuff with the Elektron boxes sequencing, and it's pretty great. And with the Digitone Keys controlling the Moog Matriarch, I've got 7 octaves of keyboard. Currently have it going through my Zoom multi-pedal for shimmer reverb, and it's sounding so good. I recently got the Drumbrute Impact, which I'm sequencing with the Digitakt. Pretty fun. I really need to practice more with this setup.

    I want to get some more effects, but I'm also trying not to shop much anymore, because that becomes its own hobby and distracts from creation.

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  6. World War 3 Thread

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    This whole situation is so incredibly sad and terrible. I don't feel qualified to offer commentary, besides hating the death and suffering on all sides. I do think that bombing the shit out of Gaza, besides being a humanitarian disaster, will prove to be a very effective recruitment drive for Hamas. What should Israel do instead? I have no fucking clue. But I don't think this is it. 

    For my own mental health, I've tried to limit my intake of the chaos of social media, and daily news. Not to say I'm ignoring the situation, just that I can't deal with it all at once.

    I've been listening to this podcast, Our Man in the Middle East, which takes a long-term regional view from a BBC Middle East correspondent at the end of his career. It was published in 2017 I think, and IMO it does a good job of showing how difficult peace in the Middle East is. 

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rmkcd/episodes/player?page=3

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  8. Music Making

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    I haven't released anything in way too long but thank you! I'm working on something that I like right now, and I hope I can crank it out soon, but time is difficult to find. 

    The Deluge sequencer is a piano roll, which works really well for my brain. I definitely don't use every capability it has though - I don't think many people do.

    I want to learn the Elektron way because I know it's better for spontaneous performance, so I'm not going to sell the Digitakt anytime soon unless it's to trade up to an Octatrack.

  9. Music Making

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    1 hour ago, Sherwood said:

    How do you like the 1.5 firmware update for the Digitakt?  BTW, I'm very jealous of that Digitone Keys.

    I'm having a hard time with figuring out where the Digitakt fits in my setup, honestly. I got it on a trade for an MPC. I love how it sounds, but the Elektron sequencer isn't coming easy to me, especially since the Deluge is perfect for composing the music that I do. It's tough to convince myself to put in the hours of practice that I need to. I also seem to have a lot more fun with synthesis than sampling. The Deluge doesn't sound as good as the Elektron gear though, so I'm generally programming all my beats and melodies into Deluge, and having it control all the other gear, which I then either tweak as the sequences play, or play live on the keyboards. I love the Digitone Keys - the 4-part multitimbrality, individual outputs, audio input, and chorus/delay/reverb - it's great. The keyboard feels nice too, and has aftertouch.  

    I'm getting the OLED upgrade for the Deluge next month, which should be neat.

  12. Music Making

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    This is what my living room looks like when Eleanor leaves home for 9 weeks to work.

    I got the K&M Omega 3-tier keyboard stand and it has improved my quality of life a lot. It's rock solid, very adjustable, and it stops me from buying more synths because I can't fit anything else on it. 😂 There's not much that a person can't do with this combination of synths and samplers.

    The Matriarch is a beast and I love it. I was able to get it last year after my cover band had a string of lucrative gigs.

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  15. The Live Music Thread

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    16 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said:

    Hey, did you ever see Voivod?  I have come to the realization in the last couple years that I love Voivod inordinately much (more than Opeth, more than Gojira, more than Within Temptation, more than Epica,...not sure if more than Katatonia, though), and I just found out they were at 70,000 Tons of Metal in 2018, did you go that year and did you catch them?  Just curious.

    Neat! I've heard of them of course, but they've never been on my radar. I didn't catch them on 70K.

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  16. Happy Birthday acidbasement!

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    11 hours ago, Voltron said:

    I might have to try them sometime.

    I tend not to wear them out and about in my small town, because People Would Talk, but for running around the house, they don't fall down or get in the way, and movement is unimpeded. Plus you can get fun colours and patterns. Highly recommended :) 

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