the watmm GAS thread

huh crazy. Maybe I'll chuck an SSD in my old mbp and keep using it as a live laptop.

  On 9/14/2018 at 2:56 PM, Stickfigger said:

 

Just put it in . Holy shit that has got to be the most cost effective way to upgrade performance. This thing is flying now

  On 9/12/2018 at 9:19 AM, Stickfigger said:

Bought a SSD for my 2011 MBP - last ditch effort to save it before moving on . Wish me luck

 

i have the same comp with samsungs evo 850 ssd. it works like a new

http://spacecasetapeecho.com/

Most of the crop of cassette based things from the last few years have looked kind of gimmicky and overpriced for what they are, but this looks like it's going to be pretty amazing (and probably prohibitively expensive).

The thing that I'd be worried about is the fact that there is only one cassette transport mechanism in current production AFAIK, and by all accounts it's TERRIBLE.  So unless the whole transport is proprietary then that could be an issue.

Found out that the guy selling Live 10 on CL has a cracked version and says I will receive updates through his Google Drive. Oh boy let me get out my wallet right away, can't miss this awesome deal!

Really jonesing for a novation circuit. With all the updates, it seems like they’ve turned it into the groove box ive always wanted.

Almost seems like a digitakt killer with the current specs, especially at less than half the price.

Roland TB-303 Bassline Keyboard Synthesizer

$285.00 or best offer.

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This is a vintage 1981 unit that is highly sought out!

Looks legit!

Just bought a circuit for $213. For everything it does now with the updates, this has to be the best deal out there right now.

I guess most people don’t realize what VAs are capable of, but since I’ve been bunkered down these past few years, I do.

This guy is hilarious.

Should mention I’m getting this for live use. I played out with an em1 the other night along side a friend on an emx, plus a tr8 someone had hooked up. It was so fun.

The circuit as a cheap live box seems quite formidable.

Yeah I think I need to get a Circuit again. I sold it mostly because I needed the money, but also because nanoloop2 is pretty much my go-to portable music solution.. but man I miss it even though I only ever made inoffensive downtempo IDM with it lol.

These tracks are basically all I did with it, apart from a few other sketches that I didn't record (I kept my backups though).

I think I started getting into interesting territory with the single channel video. Definitely something I want to revisit if I get a Circuit again.

nice modey. more confirmation that it can sound really good.

it's laughable that circuit has sample slot functionality and digitakt does not. 

OP-Z starts shipping mid-october

https://teenage.engineering

"to develop new products can at times be quite hard and when you work on things that has never been done before, it's even harder."

Amazing insight from TE. Words we could all live by. Wow.

ull eat those words when it turns out this device can allow u to project anime girls irl and have a deep and insightful conversation with the projection about what parameters to hand out next n stuff

I mean, I think that's about what it can do actually. Music making was once just allow us connections and funds to procure anime tiddies, now we can bypass the middle man and just design our own.

future is now

  On 9/17/2018 at 5:52 PM, MIXL2 said:

OP-Z starts shipping mid-october

 

https://teenage.engineering

I just might get one. Seems like the ultimate portable music making device for me (I'm not a fan of the OP-1 style, I like the step sequencing, elektron style that the OP-Z has).

hmm, just in time for my europe trip.. might have to pick one up over there!

Nothing about the OP-Z makes me want to sell in my OP-1.

Being able to save multiple sequences appeals to me, as well as the possibility for actual sync connectivity beyond just USB and the half-baked sync pulse functionality of the OP-1.

HATERADE

- I always thought the Circuit sounded not good. My buddy has one and his house always had this funny kind of sweat/urine smell (you know, like when you air-dry your clothes indoors?), and he lent me his Circuit and it had absorbed that same smell and I couldn't even bring myself to turn it on. I don't know if it's an association thing but every time I see/hear the Circuit in action I just think of that smell. It always sounds to me like an indie video game soundtrack. Granted, some indie games have really good soundtracks but they almost all have this kind of detached, plasticky quality to them, and that's exactly what the Circuit is to me.

- I love my PO's but I was very disappointed in the OP-1 (which coincidentally same buddy lent me) and I have 0 interest in the OP-Z. Like, when I read the description of it, it seems like something I should get really excited about but the spark is just not there.

In other news...

I had a dream that I stumbled on a bucket full of Machinedrum UW's. I was somehow certain it wasn't a dream. Then I woke up and I was PISSED. I guess I still have latent MD-UW lust.

  On 9/18/2018 at 7:04 AM, sweepstakes said:

I always thought the Circuit sounded not good ... I couldn't even bring myself to turn it on.

lol

It's samples and an unusually deep subtractive synthesis engine. It's up to you to make it sound good. Sorry, I've had a hard time lately with people complaining about gear demos not sounding exactly the way they want them to sound (for example, tons of people saying the OP-Z is too "chiptune" just because there haven't been many demos showing otherwise yet). To me, that's like saying the monomachine sounds like shit because the default sound is a sine wave.

lol yeah, fair. I did play with it a bit at his house as well and it still had THAT sound. But I definitely could have given it more of a chance. There's just something repulsive about it to me. I know I'm being completely unfair and unreasonable.

I think it's that reverb... built-in reverb is always dicey. Novation has made some gorgeous VA's in the past though.

The reverb is lush as fuck imo, but yeah it does have a very specific sound. Not much in the way of shaping.

Pretty much made up my mind on this synth