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offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-03-04 14:25 [#02596231]
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regular minilogue, not xd, the difference is £200 and the
minilogue original version has an update for microtuning
available.

my volca setup is gonna look like this:
korg volca drum
korg volca keys
korg volca nubass
korg monologue
korg minilogue

should be a nice setup, will take it down my grandmother's
house and have a second studio for a while.


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-03-04 14:30 [#02596232]
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btw my idea is to sequence the korgs with supercollider


 

offline Portnoy on 2020-03-04 14:31 [#02596233]
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the xd sounds like it has more grit. cool about the
microcunting update...

over here the difference is much smaller at the moment...

https://www.takealot.com/korg-minilogue-xd-pw-synthesizer/P
LID65656989

https://www.takealot.com/korg-minilogue-polyphonic-synthesi
zer/PLID49012080

can't afford either though


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-08 14:14 [#02599215]
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bought any good shite boys?



 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2020-04-08 20:36 [#02599264]
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No, I'm out of work and bricking it that my Cirklon is
finally going to be ready and I'm not going to have enough
money to pay it and I'll have to go back to waiting close to
three years; so I'm having to forego any spending at the
moment.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2020-04-11 18:09 [#02599466]
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Yeah I know what you mean, it's going to be a lean few
months (at least).

BUT I have 'finished' my 208hp rack. It now has 4 voices
with a quad sequencer and decent options for mixing cv/gates
so I'm happy. the 0-Coast made it a lot easier and it's all
in a lovely suitcase with removable lid!

LAZY_TITLE


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-04-11 18:27 [#02599471]
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Sweet dude


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-16 15:45 [#02601717]
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Bought an emu ESI 2000 for 112 pounds. It has formant
filters which is what sold me on it. 64 voice polyphony. Ram
can be upgraded from 4mb to 128mb


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-17 02:40 [#02601746]
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i feel like i'm going to cave and buy something new soon


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-17 10:22 [#02601751]
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Bought a boss dr 660 drum machine for 80 quid


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2020-05-17 15:39 [#02601759]
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Looks like all bases covered there, good collection of
modules. Looking enviously at your Qu-bit Pulsar. I have to
use my Rampage to make a burst generator in my rack, which
is workable, but not very good and limited to one channel of
bursts.

Umbroman, that ESI2000 sounds like a steal. You need to make
some bad house music with cheesy piano chords to truly
honour that.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-17 15:40 [#02601760]
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i was just looking at old emu e64 kinda ones, how does
ESI2000 compare?

really might just get an mpc 1000 again. i'm not happy
trying to sequence the hardware from cubase


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-17 16:13 [#02601766]
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Ceri JC i have a yamaha ys 100 that has a wicked fm piano
preset. Might use it soon.

Epics esi2000 has fewer features than the e64 but costs
less

Cheapest samplers ive seen are emu esi 32, akai s3000xl, and
yamaha a3000. But they are unreliable. Look out for an esi
4000 because that has on board fx.

Yamaha qy 300 on sequencing duties for my next album, it’s
pretty good, look out for qy 70, qy 100, or qy 700.
Just buy whats cheapest and unfashionable near to you lol.



 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-17 16:15 [#02601767]
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Mpc are great but they cost a bit
Akai mpc 500 are cheapest if you look around


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-17 16:19 [#02601768]
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oh i did all my stuff on a mpc1000 with jjos2 for ages
if i were getting an mpc again it'd be that or why bother


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-17 16:22 [#02601770]
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i was looking at the e64 because one of the chemical
brothers was talking about how setting sun's main noise was
essentially via flooding an e64 with different sample-start
points midi signals and yeah, never really mussed with those
old rack jobs, seems worth a look. then of course the s950
timestretch


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-17 16:23 [#02601771]
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btw my idea is to sesuper the quence with corgikollider


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-17 16:25 [#02601772]
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Akai s6000 is the boss of all rack synths.


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-17 16:26 [#02601773]
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I meant samplers


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-17 16:33 [#02601774]
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if you fire midi fast enough it starts to be a bit synth-y,
i bet


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-17 16:36 [#02601775]
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but, no, if i were to get a rack sampler i'd want a simpler
one just to mess with sample start and get odd noises out of
it. if i want something modern with more memory, again, mpc


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-17 16:39 [#02601777]
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brutal

so, like, yeah, something like an e64 with 8 meg, seems
easier to care for


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-17 16:42 [#02601778]
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Yeah :)


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-17 16:50 [#02601779]
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i'd connect this with the discussion of sample start in
trackers in thred "miles per pattern." i've puzzled over
"how did the chemical brothers get that noise" for many
noises for many years, and come up with theories that i now
realize are probably wrong. so that comment about the e64,
ohhhh, damn, that's it. i hear it now. and that's really
what i want to, well, simply try it for myself, because that
sounds like a lot of fun. using an mpc to generate
rapid-fire midi to torture a sample on an e64, use it like a
synth, meanwhile just use the mpc for normal unfucked
sampling

but it might make sense to get monitors before any of that


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-17 16:51 [#02601780]
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I havent got monitors either


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-17 16:55 [#02601781]
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my living room "monitors" are actually the first thing i
ever bought off ebay, i shit you not, twenty years ago. i
was not over 18 and i lied in my ebay signup

best $12 + shipping i ever spent on the site, in retrospect


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-17 16:56 [#02601782]
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i mailed them a check to pay lol


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-17 17:48 [#02601784]
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Hehe yeah

Roland dj 70 keyboard has a sampler and sequencer built in
Might get one, they look lush and are unfashionably cheap


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2020-05-17 19:59 [#02601785]
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I don't know, I sort of wrote off looking at a lot of the
E-Mu samplers, as the prices were high for a long time,
because all the drum and bass guy venerated them for years
after most people abandoned hardware samplers because of the
filters, but now they look much more affordable. Although I
don't think either the ESI2000, or the E64 have the Planar
filters that the DnB heads loved.


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-17 20:13 [#02601787]
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Ill have to do a track demoing the filters
No idea if they’re good or bad


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-17 23:29 [#02601790]
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inspired,
i just spent five or six hours in milkytracker,
liberally using sample start.
now i have one minutes of music,
about 0:50 of which is finished
and it's a good 0:50 but i have work tomorrow
and who knows if it'll make sense by the time next weekends


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-18 20:28 [#02601808]
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Thats good man


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-18 21:46 [#02601816]
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Yamaha su 700 for 200 quid


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-18 22:13 [#02601823]
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Now im out of money/credit
Time to sell shit on ebay


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2020-05-19 00:04 [#02601830]
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bought an 4ms ensemble osc


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-19 00:28 [#02601835]
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how has your synthesizer habit been impacted by the
pandemic?


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-19 00:35 [#02601836]
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i think what i actually need to buy first is furniture


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-19 00:43 [#02601837]
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i could get back the mixer had to sell for the price i sold
it at, tempting
but i don't have the furniture for it
and buying a mixer off ebay feels iffy


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-19 01:35 [#02601840]
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hmmm


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2020-05-19 02:05 [#02601841]
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ikea


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-19 02:39 [#02601843]
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i actually checked them first. for my bedroom, perhaps, but
for my pile of music hardware this actually looks like the
best fit so far


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-19 02:40 [#02601844]
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i realized i was trying to collage bits of ikea together
around how i like my music gear set up and it dawned on me
that they probably, like, design stuff for that. so i found
this, and the price is certainly right


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-19 02:45 [#02601845]
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i miss my old desk. it was so perfect for how i roll ~
LAZY_TITLE


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-19 02:57 [#02601846]
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if you click over into the reviews of the rolly rack unit,
the ugly i suspected squinting at the pictures comes out:
the rack unit can't handle weight, and rack units are heavy,
do the math. so, meh, probably not...

i was never the sort of person who liked having rack units
by the floor. i don't have banks of compressors; i have
synths i want to actively knob. i'd want the floor rack unit
for my computer, which is a beast of cold-rolled steel, some
power conditioners, but the computer alone would probably
break that thing. i could leave it in its existing rack but
then what am going to use that stupid floor rack for


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-20 13:03 [#02601880]
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hah the emu esi 2000 arrived today
it has 128mb of ram installed already
in the ad it said 4mb
saved me £20-£30 on ram hehe
the interface doesnt seem that intuitive to me
will stick with it anyway


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-21 01:57 [#02601918]
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and it's a good 0:50 but i have work tomorrow
and who knows if it'll make sense by the time next weekends


well i fired it up after a smoke and immediately i'm finding
lots to do, quite like this so far. not sure what i'm going
to call this track yet. i was trying to find another i was
going to call "what days is it?" and i realized actually
have two tracks i quite like i need to finish, quilt twrip
and slow tiger. i think i should finish these before i let
myself buy stuff


 

offline mermaidman on 2020-05-21 08:03 [#02601923]
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it’s cause you fired it up after a smoke try firing it up
after pissing a kidney stone and see how THAT turns out


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2020-05-21 23:02 [#02601946]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-21 23:12 [#02601949]
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The boss dr 660 guy gave me an unexpected refund and i sold
some ps4 games and bought a korg volca beats

Lol


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2020-05-22 15:07 [#02601988]
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https://ibb.co/HgYCfNr

Yamaha su 700

Heavy machine

No idea how to use it

Too busy with my korg album

Looks lush tho


 


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