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Lol that sounds a lot better than the mentally challenged furby sound I managed to produce.

honestly wondered if you might be him, heh. are you trying to do a similar setup? and/or were you inspired by him?

Trackballs 4 lyfe

  On 8/2/2017 at 6:56 PM, juiceciuj said:

honestly wondered if you might be him, heh. are you trying to do a similar setup? and/or were you inspired by him?

I'd never heard of him before, but my approach was quite different anyhow. I was actually processing the sound of the drums, not using them as triggers. Basically I set up a little delay line/waveguide with a vocal filter, and some envelope followers at different frequency bands to tweak the parameters.

This is what it sounds like:

https://soundcloud.com/th555/the-expected-time-of-the-suns-demise

  On 8/3/2017 at 12:26 AM, th555 said:

 

  On 8/2/2017 at 6:56 PM, juiceciuj said:

honestly wondered if you might be him, heh. are you trying to do a similar setup? and/or were you inspired by him?

I'd never heard of him before, but my approach was quite different anyhow. I was actually processing the sound of the drums, not using them as triggers. Basically I set up a little delay line/waveguide with a vocal filter, and some envelope followers at different frequency bands to tweak the parameters.

This is what it sounds like:

https://soundcloud.com/th555/the-expected-time-of-the-suns-demise

 

sounds absolutely horrible, I love it :D

Sadly Duracell quit music a while ago due to hearing related issues. Really made me realise that the same thing could happen to me, so from then on I started wearing earplugs at most shows!

  On 8/3/2017 at 5:23 AM, modey said:

 

  On 8/3/2017 at 12:26 AM, th555 said:

https://soundcloud.com/th555/the-expected-time-of-the-suns-demise

sounds absolutely horrible, I love it :D

 

  On 8/3/2017 at 5:23 AM, modey said:

 

  On 8/3/2017 at 12:26 AM, th555 said:

 

  On 8/2/2017 at 6:56 PM, juiceciuj said:

honestly wondered if you might be him, heh. are you trying to do a similar setup? and/or were you inspired by him?

I'd never heard of him before, but my approach was quite different anyhow. I was actually processing the sound of the drums, not using them as triggers. Basically I set up a little delay line/waveguide with a vocal filter, and some envelope followers at different frequency bands to tweak the parameters.

This is what it sounds like:

https://soundcloud.com/th555/the-expected-time-of-the-suns-demise

 

sounds absolutely horrible, I love it :D

 

 

Sadly Duracell quit music a while ago due to hearing related issues. Really made me realise that the same thing could happen to me, so from then on I started wearing earplugs at most shows!

yikes that sucks. i bought a nice pair of etymotics a while back but always forget to take them to shows -_-

Going deaf would be really bad.

If you're in the UK and work in music then please go here and get yourself some cheap, custom-moulded plugs.

Look after dem lugs.

I'm not buying anything for a while. Though a Machinedrum or RYTM is tempting.

  On 8/4/2017 at 1:37 PM, paranerd said:

I'm not buying anything for a while. Though a Machinedrum or RYTM is tempting.

 

 

What's the microwave thing to the left?

That's a Roland S-760 sampler that I haven't hooked up in my setup yet, so I'm not sure how well it works.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/clouzeau/s760/

It came with that monitor with no casing, a mouse, a SCSI hard drive, and a bunch of ripped sample CDs. The terminologies and workflow seems archaic and unique, but I'm eager to get it going. I traded a Midiverb to a friend for it.

Still a lot to do but I'm at the point where I can mix ITB again.

Ended up not using the speaker stands I traded for and just going for the not-ideal-bu-passable monitors beside the screen approach.   The layout of the room makes spreading them apart any wider kind of a pain.  So far I'm not finding that I need to toe them in at all because they're so close together, but once I'm done setting up I'll experiment a bit.

Nice! RS-09 or a saturn on top?

  On 8/16/2017 at 12:53 PM, Chesney said:

Nice! RS-09 or a saturn on top?

RS-09

I traded my old MG-1 to a friend for it last year (probably an unfair trade by current prices but I got the MG-1 for $25 and I had been after a string synth for years but couldn't justify the size of most of them) and he just traded the MG-1 for a Mother 32 so everyone is happy.

Looks like a great space RSP!

  On 8/16/2017 at 3:32 PM, auxien said:

Looks like a great space RSP!

Yeah, I'm really excited.  Just need to get a few outlets fixed and a couple old mouse holes plugged under the sink (I'm the first non-cat-owner in the building in a lot of years) and do a lot more unpacking but it's already the best place I've had in a long time.  I realized the other night that it's been over a decade since my stereo has actually been in a room big enough for it to sound good,

  On 8/4/2017 at 4:06 PM, paranerd said:

That's a Roland S-760 sampler that I haven't hooked up in my setup yet, so I'm not sure how well it works.

 

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/clouzeau/s760/

 

It came with that monitor with no casing, a mouse, a SCSI hard drive, and a bunch of ripped sample CDs. The terminologies and workflow seems archaic and unique, but I'm eager to get it going. I traded a Midiverb to a friend for it.

That monitor is cyberpunk af

  On 8/16/2017 at 4:09 PM, RSP said:

 

  On 8/4/2017 at 4:06 PM, paranerd said:

That's a Roland S-760 sampler that I haven't hooked up in my setup yet, so I'm not sure how well it works.

 

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/clouzeau/s760/

 

It came with that monitor with no casing, a mouse, a SCSI hard drive, and a bunch of ripped sample CDs. The terminologies and workflow seems archaic and unique, but I'm eager to get it going. I traded a Midiverb to a friend for it.

 

 

That monitor is cyberpunk af

 

Yah, seriously.  Looks badass, but I wouldn't want to touch it when it's on...

  On 8/4/2017 at 4:06 PM, paranerd said:

That's a Roland S-760 sampler that I haven't hooked up in my setup yet, so I'm not sure how well it works.

 

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/clouzeau/s760/

 

It came with that monitor with no casing, a mouse, a SCSI hard drive, and a bunch of ripped sample CDs. The terminologies and workflow seems archaic and unique, but I'm eager to get it going. I traded a Midiverb to a friend for it.

i used to help a pop producer who had s760 in his rack and he used it a ton. he was fast on it.. had the mouse, monitor etc.. i'd recommend starting to use it w/drums. put a bunch of drum sounds in it. it'll sound huge. it's  a beauty. lush sounding... but punchy as fuck too. it's a nice sounding instrument. 

  On 8/17/2017 at 5:50 AM, ignatius said:

 

  On 8/4/2017 at 4:06 PM, paranerd said:

That's a Roland S-760 sampler that I haven't hooked up in my setup yet, so I'm not sure how well it works.

 

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/clouzeau/s760/

 

It came with that monitor with no casing, a mouse, a SCSI hard drive, and a bunch of ripped sample CDs. The terminologies and workflow seems archaic and unique, but I'm eager to get it going. I traded a Midiverb to a friend for it.

i used to help a pop producer who had s760 in his rack and he used it a ton. he was fast on it.. had the mouse, monitor etc.. i'd recommend starting to use it w/drums. put a bunch of drum sounds in it. it'll sound huge. it's  a beauty. lush sounding... but punchy as fuck too. it's a nice sounding instrument. 

I used to have an S550. I don't think rack samplers are my bag anymore but damn, what a nice sounding machine. Really balanced, just a bit of crunch but it can be buttery smooth. If the S760 is anything like it, I concur, you're in for a treat. Good call on the drums. Also just looping short waves, like mine came with some cheesy trumpet samples and I just truncated those to make warbly pads... it just has a way of making things sound pretty. 

The S550 also shared the sample table amongst all the voices which sounds kind of annoying, but I thought it was really cool and got a fair amount of happy accident mileage out of that. It was kind of ahead of its time because it's basically the same deal as sample chains on the Octatrack.

  On 8/17/2017 at 5:50 AM, ignatius said:

 

  On 8/4/2017 at 4:06 PM, paranerd said:

That's a Roland S-760 sampler that I haven't hooked up in my setup yet, so I'm not sure how well it works.

 

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/clouzeau/s760/

 

It came with that monitor with no casing, a mouse, a SCSI hard drive, and a bunch of ripped sample CDs. The terminologies and workflow seems archaic and unique, but I'm eager to get it going. I traded a Midiverb to a friend for it.

 

 

i used to help a pop producer who had s760 in his rack and he used it a ton. he was fast on it.. had the mouse, monitor etc.. i'd recommend starting to use it w/drums. put a bunch of drum sounds in it. it'll sound huge. it's  a beauty. lush sounding... but punchy as fuck too. it's a nice sounding instrument. 

 

Cool, thanks for the insight! I'm not familiar with it at all. I was looking for a rack sampler for drum breaks, my friend had this in a bin for years and never used it.

More or less done.  most of the stuff in the tall rack isn't hooked up yet and I have one more old keyboard (Alesis QS7.1, nothing exciting but I still like it) waiting until I have the money to get another two tier stand, but it's basically finished.  Already way more productive - I've recorded about 90 minutes of material with my neighbor in the last week alone -  and it's a good space to mix in.  First time I've ever been able to really set things up the way I want them.

Incidentally, the utility cart I have the Octatrack and CZ-101 and stuff on was pretty cheap, around $60 (plus another $5 for the cabinet door I bolted on top to make it into a table), and makes a fantastic floating work space for table top synths. I forget who makes them but if you search "utility cart" on Amazon they show up, and if you're in the market for that sort of thing I can't imagine what would be better. You could always put a bigger piece of wood on top if you needed more space.

Cozy!

I like that mousepad.